Hitler’s retreat strategy shapes war fronts across Europe
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes Hitler plans maximum retirement to inner fortresses, delaying Allied advance. He calculates defensive holds in France including Caen pivot and Rhone valley, aims to shield Paris and coast, and withdraws toward Belgium and the Maginot line as Allied pressure grows. On the Eastern front, Nazi forces defend the East Prussian border and seek to hold the Vistula line around Warsaw before retreat toward the Oder.
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Hitler
Thay S
Reith
France
Rhone
Caen
Fuehrer
Spain
Atlantic
Sucrandy
Brittany
Avranches
Paris
Poe Norheas
Pars
English Channel
Glank
Belgium
Siegfried Wall
Rhene
Belter
Police Intensify Search For Juvenile Fugitive
Police widen hunt for a juvenile runaway from the State Industrial School Manchester after escape early Sunday. He is suspected of stealing three cars including vehicles owned by Alfred A. Caron and Vincent J. Kipriang. A witness saw a pursued car speed away and reported the incident.
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State Industrial School
Manchester
Josep A. Stitt
North Mast
Goltstown
Miruis
Alfred A. Caron
Beegh Sirest
Vincent J.kiprbiang
West Hancock
Berlin Court Metes Just Punishment Top Army Officers
Berlin announced a people’s court had meted out just punishment to Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and seven other expelled officers tried for complicity in the July 20 plot to kill Hitler. In Nazi Germany just punishment typically meant death.
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London
Berlin
People’s Court
Erwin von Witzleben
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
Henrich - Himmler
Gestasio
Hitler
von Witzleben
Ludwig Beck
Beck
German officers hanged after failed plot against Hitler
Berlin radio reports eight former German army officers were executed after a war crimes trial. Claus von Stauffenberg allegedly carried explosives to Hitler twice. Ludwik Beck and Erwin von Witzleben were among the defendants. Five others faced capital punishment or suicide during the coup proceedings.
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London
Berlin
DNB
Hitler
Claus von Stauffenberg
Pfc Austin Hurt in France
Pfc. Austin hurt in France. Pfc. Russell Austin USA was seriously wounded in action. He attended Wilton Academy and moved to Kittery from East Wilton about a year ago when his father began work at the Portsmouth navy yard. He enlisted in March 1943 and had basic training at Fort Jackson before overseas duty. His brother, Sgt. Richard W. Austin, took part in the Sajan campaign.
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Richard Austine Jones
Kittery
Russell Austin
USA
Judy
France
Wilton Academy
Kiteery
East Wilton
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Fort Jackson
Richard Www
Austin
WSA
Saipan
Pvt Black Commended In France
Commendation signals meritorious service with the signal corps in Normandy France. Pvt Otto Black, 23, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert S Black of 388 Circuit Road, trained at Camp Atterbury and Camp Breckinridge before going overseas in January 1944. A brother and sister are also in ornear France with Army units and alternately live at Circuit Road.
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Signal Corps
Normandy
France
Tonga
Lewis Ly, Black
USA
Herbert S. Black
Gircult Road
Oziva
Pyi. Black
Rockland
Camp Aterburs
Field Artillery
Camp Breckinridge
Gester L. Black
Ordnance
Jes Crowell
Go2 Circuit Road
Injured Girl Gaining Strength After Boston Hospital Stay
Louise Wurm, four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Warren Wurm of 3 Water Street Kittery, was taken to Deaconess Hospital in Boston with serious skull injuries after an accident Tuesday. Hospital authorities said she is gaining strength and hopes for recovery within seven or ten days.
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Louise Wurm
Warren Wurm
Water Street
Kittery
Deaconess Hospital
Boston
State Police Seek Fugitives At Border
State police pursued two inmates who escaped Sunday night from the state prison. Paul Beauchesne of Concord and Paul Boucher of Manchester were believed headed toward Canada after vowing to flee there. A guard, Bobie Caldwell, was injured during the escape and underwent surgery for a skull fracture.
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Concord
Paul A. Beauchesne
Paul Boucher
Manchester
Sol
Ralph W. Caswell
Beauchesne
Canada
Piermont
Bobie Caldwell
Boucher
Two Casualties Reported to Local Area Kin
Local area residents receive word of war casualties. Margaret G Hausenl of Portsmouth learns her brother Pvt James Gothreau 34 husband of Mrs Mary Torick Gothreau Berlin was killed in action in France July 17. Bernadette McHard Kltery hears her brother Gp Ludger Cheba Jr 21 son of Ludger Chabot Whitek as died of wounds received in Normandy June 15. Corporal Chabot served in the paratroop infantry.
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Ens
Margaret G. Hausenl
USNC
Portsmouth
Pvt
James & Gothreau
Mary Torick Gothreau
Berlin
France
Bernadette McHard
Kltery
Ludger Cheba, Jr
Ludger Chabot
Jap Homeland Squirms Under War Difficulties
The Associated Press reports Japan warns of national difficulties of unprecedented seriousness as New Guinea and Guam near fall. Tokyo cites American advances and plans to strike the homeland, while Gen Douglas MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific domain is noted as a threat to Japanese lines of communication.
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Associated Press
New Guinea
Marianas Island
Guam
Japan
Cotice
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Gosse
Talarm
Rye Private Wounded in France
Rye private Morris Bromfield USA was wounded in action in France. He is in a hospital in England. Born August 22, 192? entered service November 1942. Trained at Camp Blanding Florida and Atterbury Indiana. Attended Rye schools and worked as a welder at Portsmouth Navy Yard before service. Went overseas last April.
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Lang's Corner
Rye
Shel’ Son
Morris Bromfield
USA
France
England
Camp Blanding
Fla
Atterbury
Ind
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Weider
Treason trial details in Jap sisters case
PW testified in the treason case against three California born Japanese sisters. Key witness Cpl. Heinrich Haider, former Afrika Korps, said he and Cpl. August Loescher were aided by the sisters after fleeing a Trinidad camp, receiving clothing maps and supplies before being driven to Wagon Mound. The Granada location in Amache, Colorado, was cited as their base. Haider claimed he planned the escape to oppose the Hitler regime.
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Denver
ANE
Cpl
Heinrich Haider
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
August Loescher
Trinidad
Golo
Wagon Mound
M. Haiter
Loescher
Granada
Black Day of the German Army Marked 26 Years Since Loss
The 26th anniversary of the August 8 1918 Allied offensive at Albert Montdidier in World War I is noted. Marshal Foch’s attack penetrated 20 miles clearing lines with 430 tanks and numerous prisoners. Field Marshal Ludendorff later called August the black day of the German army signaling the collapse of German power.
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Associated Press
Marshal Foch
Albert-Montdidier Salient
Sormme
Erich von Ludender
Ludendorff
Central Alliance
Geran
Germany
Confident Governors Back Republican Victory in November
Sov. Robert O. Blooh reported after the three conference sessions of 25 Republican governors in St. Louis last week that all attendees were confident of a Republican victory in November. He said Gov. Dewey will lean on the Republican State committee to carry New Hampshire for his running mate, Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio.
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Robert O. Blooh
Eack
Republica
Cape Cod Outfit Rule Prompts Public Dress Card
Cape Cod Mass August 2 ABE Police officers pass out cards warning summer visitors about conventional dress. Sgt Isaiah Kelley reports some visitors wear very little clothing and notes town ordinance requires conventional attire for all over 16. The cards urge public appearance in conventional dress to avoid stricter action.
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Aarwith
Mass
Abe
Coar
Isaiah Kelley
Cape Cod
Kelley
Xour Cooperaton
Ecard
Philadelphia Transit Strike Sparks FBI and Jury Probe
Philadelphia awaits federal agents and a grand jury amid a six day transit strike described as paralyzing and leaderless. The CIO Transport Workers union accuses company collusion as FBI data collection and grand jury hearing up to 35 people, including strikers and officials, proceed under guidance from Henry Schweinhaut. Armed troops patrol buses, trolleys, subways, and elevated trains as 181 of 6,004 workers failed to report.
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Phiadelphia
Aug
Philadelphia
FBI
Philadelphia Transportation Company
CIO Transport Workers Union
Government
War Agency
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Biddle
Ets Joos
Roosevelt
Finnish Cabinet Formation Expected to Seek Peace with Russia
Stockholm August 3 AP reports an announcement was expected today on forming a new Finnish cabinet. The cabinet would likely negotiate peace with Russia, guiding postwar policy and alliances.
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Stockholm
Russia
Allies Press Toward Paris From Two Sides in France
Allied forces pushed from the south and west to within about 100 miles of Paris as four miles of German lines fell below Caen. American units and Britons struck toward Le Mans and Maine while Russian offensives widened the eastern front. A heavy tank fight occurred near Cherence le Roussés as Mortain counterattacks were repelled.
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Paris
France
Caen
le Mans
Mortain
Pavis
Red Army
Germany
Vistula River
Moscow
Konev
Ukraine
Baryslaw
Carpathians
Samsor
Czechoslovakia
Brittany
Maine
Sourdevat
Normandy
Cherence-le-Roussés
Ten Injured In Salisbury Bus Crash
A Boston and Main bus carrying about forty passengers from Boston to Portland crashed into a used car in Salisbury Massachusetts injuring ten. Three injured were hospitalized at Anna Jacques in Newburyport though none suffered serious harm. driver Justin Hanscom Jr. blamed steering failure.
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Portland
Boston
Salisbury
Mass
Anna Jacques Hospital
Newburyport
John Mahoney
Cambridge
Friscilla Knox
Seabrook
Cadgala Buck
Smithtown
Helen Brooks
York Harbor
Justin M. Hanscom, Jr
Concord Way
Portsmouth
Bombers strike Caen hinge and raids on France
London reports a thousand American heavy bombers hit German lines below Caen then swept across France targeting air fields and missile sites. Air Vice Marshal Owen Tudo Boyd is killed on active service after a forced landing and capture before escaping last year with two other senior officers. Connecticut Republicans renominate Sen John A Danaher and Gov Raymond E Baldwin by acclamation.
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London
Caen
France
Owen Tudo Boyd
Boyd
Philip Neame
Richard O’connor
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
John A. Danaher
Raymond £. Baldwin
Ramspeck predicts 2 million jobless year after war ends
Washington August AB Ramspeck chairman of the House Civil Service Committee foresees a two million civilian layoff within a year after the war. The prediction follows the Civil Service Commission's order listing the sequence of discharge as reductions take effect, cited by H Ramspeck in the Georgia delegation.
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Washington
Aug
Joan Robert Annes
D-Ga
Houst Atvll
H —Ramspeck
Civil Service Commission
Portsmouth Chamber seeks postwar planners from new members
The Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce will form postwar planning committees from new members joining during a week long door to door campaign ending tomorrow night. Prospective members are surveyed by 17 two man teams for committees on industrial planning public works housing transportation and labor. Committees will be selected by chamber president with board approval based on the Portsmouth Committee for Economic Development findings.
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Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Nes W. Tucker
Tucker
Lst
Forrest M. Raton
Eugenie Whittemore
Harry Wine
Jaum
Frank ¥. Brooks
Fred FE. Cushman
BR. OC
Hay fever power could move ships and nations
New York reports a witty take on hay fever as a national force. The piece claims 19 percent of people take off the last two weeks of August to sneeze, exaggerating the impact on textiles and even naval speed. It playfully imagines sneeze energy driving ships across the Pacific in a day.
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New York
North Dakota
Pacific
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