Dewey Poised For Nomination At War Time Republican Convention
At Chicago Stadium the 1944 Republican National Convention opens with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey leading in pledged and claimed votes, with 529 needed to nominate. State after state declares for Dewey as Bricker resists withdrawal and Warren’s name is floated for VP.
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Chicago
Stadium
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago Stadium
Harrison E. Spangler
Iowa
Republican Party
John W. Brickerse
Harold E. Stassen
Simeon S. Willis
Douglas MacArthur
Harrison E. Spanglers
Dwight Green
Tllingis
Earl Warren
California
Dewey
Bricker
New York
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Massachusetts
Spangler
Joseph Ball
Minnesota
Stassen
Wendell L. Willkie
Robert Taft
Ohio
Willkie
Taft
Warren Dewey
Warren
Towering Tapotchau Falls to US Forces in Saipan Campaign
Reports from Saipan describe American troops capturing Mt Tapotchau 1,554 feet high after a predawn counter attack. Marines and Army units cleared caves and ridges, destroying Japanese positions with artillery and flamethrowers. The success boosts confidence in seizing the Marianas and advancing toward Japan.
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Hovard Handleman
U. S. Press
Associated Press
Joint Expeditionary Force
Saipan
U. S
Navy
Mt. Tapotchau
Marianas
Tapotchau
Japan
Chain of Islands
Tepotchau
Kagman Peninsula
Nafutan Point
Tanapag Harbor
Marpi Point
Garapan
Tapoitchau
Middletown officer earns Bronze Medal for Normandy action
Lieut. Martin P. Alexander Jr. son of Mr and Mrs M P Alexander of Middle town West Main street earned a Bronze Medal for heroism during night patrols in Normandy. He led patrols to locate German machine guns and mortars and described cautious movement under flares and rifle fire. His unit the 29th Division has been overseas about two years and no word has reached his parents since the invasion began.
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Martin P. Alexander, Jr
M. P. Alexander
West Main Street
Middletown
Normandy
Alexander
Jir
National Guard
Nazis Establish Copenhagen Curfew
The Berlin radio announced a curfew in Copenhagen with no traffic on city streets from 8 p m to 5 a m and a ban on gatherings of more than five people for reasons of maintaining law and order. The report notes this as part of occupation measures by German authorities.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Berlin
Wal kersville Captain Named Control Officer
Capt Ezra Grantham of Walkersville has been appointed control officer of the 132nd Service Unit stationed at Fort Meade, with headquarters in Baltimore under the Third Service Command.
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Ezra Grantham
Walkersville
Third Service Command
Baltimore
132Nd Service Unit
Fort Meade
Beehive Truck Tipped Over Near Hebter Utah
Salt Lake Tribune correspondent Rich reported a truck loaded with beehives tipped near Hebter Utah. He did not identify the driver, saying he was too busy with the bees.
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Hebter
Utah
Rich
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Six Autoists Slightly Hurt in Jefferson Collision
Six persons sustained minor injuries in a Sunday night crash on Route 340 at Jefferson. Howard Smith of Frederick Route 5 faced reckless driving charges while James C. Pearl of Lander was charged with an improper left turn. The collision involved a Dodge sedan and a Buick, with front-end damage to both cars. Trooper R. Myers investigated. Rising inclinations generally prevailed in New York stocks as low priced performers led activity.
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Jefferson
Howard Smith
Frederick
Route 5
James C. Pearl
Lander
Smith
Pearl
Jefferson Smith
New York
Robot planes known in United States since last war
The U S Patent Office offers for a dime two sets of World War I era plans for self propelled aerial torpedoes similar to Nazi robot planes. The National Inventors Council says robot planes are not new or secret and have long existed in the United States. Inventor Charles K Kettering of General Motors Research Corp Detroit and Lawrence Burt Sperry of the Sperry Gyroscope Co New York are named.
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Washington
U. S
National Inventors Council
Office of War Information
United States
Charles K. Kettering
General Motors Research Corporation
Detroit
Inventors’ Council
Lawrence Burt Sperry
Sperry Gyroscope Company
New York
Allied Bombing Pressures Axis as Mosquitoes Hit Budapest
Allied air operations continue over Normandy and into Germany with Mosquitoes striking near Paris and in German targets. German radio reports clashes near Vienna while bombers hit Budapest and French rail and troop targets.
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London
Britain
Normandy
Italy
Budapest
Hungary
Vienna
Danube
Federal Communications Commission
France
Homberg
Duisberg
Bretonne
Seine
Evrecy
Caen
Laigle
Argentan
Supreme Headquarters
Cherbourg
Cite Gorfine For Contempt
Baltimore June 26 A contempt of court citation was issued against Emanuel Gorfine chairman of the Maryland Industrial Accident Commission for delaying and refusing to pay a $3 000 settlement to Joseph Ferrara a New Windsor stone mason The court reversed the commission and ordered Gorfine to show cause why he should not be held in contempt to authorize the lump sum payment after the judge ordered payment and to seek an opinion from the attorney general
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Baltimore
Emanuel Gorfine
Maryland Industrial Accident Commission
Industrial Accident Commission
Joseph Ferrara
New Windsor
Ferrera
Gorfine
Samuel K. Dennis
Survey of Garrett County tornado damage reports livestock loss
A weekend survey by State Police Sergt. Charles W. Magaha found about 50 cows dead and many pigs and other farm animals killed. He noted one demolished house had furniture blown 1,000 feet from its original location and three people died in the windstorm.
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Garrett County
Sergt
Charles W. Magaha
State Police
Sergt Magaha
Russians Cut Bridgehead At Vitebsk From Rear
Soviet dispatches report Red Army forces fighting through Vitebsk streets encircled five Nazi divisions and driving Germans across the western Dvina River. Moscow claims 16,000 German dead and 1,650 towns freed in a three day advance toward the Baltic and East Prussia.
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Moscow
Vitebsk
Dvina
Red Army
Russia
Alfred Teheran
Germany
Ostrov
Finland
Berlin
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Baltic Sea
German East Prussia
Forces storm Mogaung from three sides in Burma
Southeast Asia Command reports British and Chinese forces breached the Japanese base at Mogaung from three fronts as Chindits and Gurkhas push in from east and south. American troops press toward Myitkyina, 40 miles east, while British forces advance 20 to 30 miles north of Imphal pursuing retreating Japanese along the Kohima road.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Magaung
W. D. A. Lentaigne
India
Imphal
Kohima
Kohima-Imphal
Americans closing Cherbourg as port falls to U S forces
American troops hold one third of Cherbourg and have reached docks while armored and infantry units move through the city. More than 20 000 prisoners taken since the landings as fighting rages in rubble filled Cherbourg with German resistance still present in pillboxes and streets.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Supreme Command
France
Cap de la Hague
English Channel
Amiot Aircraft
London
PA Dnb
Berlin
Iommander
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Brooklyn
N.Y
Grumbine
Edward S. Delaplaine
Patrick M. Schnauffer
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Mannix
Lieut
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
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Pas-de-Calais
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