Japanese Premier Warns of National Difficulties
Premier Koiso declares Japan faces unprecedented difficulties as New Guinea and Guam near loss and Americans threaten homeland. He urges arming and cites Marianas advance, while Tokyo notes Hengyang seizure and ongoing battles in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Guinea
Marianas
Guam
Japan
Kuniaki Koiso
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Koiso
SCIOTO SOLDIER KILLED IN FRANCE
Pfc. Jonas W. Fannin fifty 30 son of Walter Fannin of Dayton was killed in action in France on July 8 while serving in the infantry. He enlisted March 1941 trained at Camp Wolters Benning Gordon Jackson and Dix and sailed for overseas in February. He wrote July 4 that he had landed in France. Born April 14 1914 in Ellioteco Ky he is survived by wife Estell his father five brothers Chauncey Ray Paul John and two sisters Beulah and Opal. Cpl. Carl Ackerman 27 missing in France after serving in medical corps. Staff Sgt Dennie Medley 29 missing over Germany since July 20. last heard July 27 after reporting Air Medal and raids over the continent.
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Jonas W. Fannin
Walter Fannin
Dayton
France
War Department
Camp Wolters
Tex
Ft. Benning
Camp Gordon
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Ft. Dix
Dian
England
Chauncey Fannin
Harrisonville
New Boston
Pfe. Fannin
Ellioteco
Ard Caudill
Wheelersburg
Estell Fannin
17Th St
W. C. Fannin
Ray Fannin
Sandy Hook
Paul Fannin
Knoxville
Tenn
John C. Fannin
Baltimore
Beulah Lewis
Opal May
Dogwood Ridge
Carl Ackerman
Ruth Clark Ackerman
Fourth St
Selby’s Shoe Co
Goering Wounded In New Outbreak Against Nazis Report
British report from France cites a captured German officer claiming Heinrich Himmler is dead and Hermann Goering wounded in a fresh attack on the Nazi leadership. Nine Austrian captives corroborate, while Rommel is said to be wounded though recovering. Reported with caution as unconfirmed.
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Goering
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
France
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering
Marshal Erwin) Rommel
Normandy
Himmater
Himmler
Hitler
German Shell Wounds Soldier in Portsmouth Home
Sgt. William De Amicis 29 of Seciotoville rt 2 was wounded at the John M. Marlowe home 2107 Eighth St when a .37-millimeter shell he was reassembling exploded in the hallway. He escaped further injury after a hospital X-ray failed to locate the metal fragment. the blast damaged walls, cut the telephone, radio and porch brick, and drew a large crowd. Police reported the shell was a souvenir from a battlefront and that De Amicis forgot to remove the cap before the blast.
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Portsmouth
William de Amicis
Seciotoville Rt 2
John M. Marlowe
Eighth St
DeAmicis
Lee Startz
E Marlowe
Portsmouth General Hospital
A. P. Hunt
Marlowe
Soviets Renew Heavy Attacks Inside Poland
Soviet forces push from the Vistula bridgehead threatening Krakow and Kielce as they seize 60 communities beyond Poland's defenses. Bagramian's Baltic army drives toward Memel and Tilsit while heavy air strikes hit East Prussian towns. Izvestia proclaims the hour of revenge has come.
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Poland
Moscow
Vistula
Krakow
Warsaw
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Szydlow
Kielce
Red Army
Silesia
Boryslaw
Carpathians
Sambor
Czecho-Slovakia
London
Ploesti
Romania
German East Prussia
Ivan C. Bagramian
Lithuania
Memel
Tilsit
Bagramian
Baltic
Riga
Andrusakai
Izvestia
DIVE INTO CREEK COSTS LIFE OF BOY
A 16 year old boy Billy Joe Selby of Allentown Wheelersburg drowned after diving from a high bank into Pine creek. He suffered a severed spinal cord and paralysis, died at White Cross hospital Columbus. He was born January 5 1928 in Portsmouth and survived by parents siblings a France stationed brother and grandmother. Funeral arrangements are by Gill Funeral Home.
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Billy Joe Selby
Lace Selby
Allentown
Wheelersburg
Rt 2
Pine Creek
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Portsmouth
Wheelersburg High School
Pvt
Harold Selby
France
Ruth Thompson
Kathleen
Marie
Pauline
Lucille
Jackie Ray
William Jackson
Wayneco
W. Va
Gill Funeral Home
Eight German officers hanged in Hitler plot case
London reports Nazi radio announced the execution of Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and seven other expelled German officers after a trial linked to a plot to kill Hitler and surrender Germany to the Allies. The broadcasts cited confessed plans and hinted at further actions involving Claus von Stauffenberg and Himmler.
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Associated Press
London
Erwin von Witzleben
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
DNB
Count Claus von Stauffenberg
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
von Witzleben
Ludwig Beck
Beck
Stieff
People’s Court
Fuhrer
Germans Virtually Quit Atlantic Wall
Reports from France say Hitler's Atlantic wall spanning over 100 miles from the Spanish frontier to Bordeaux has been abandoned. German forces in southwestern France are evacuating, with only a handful of over-aged railroad troops remaining to guard the French Spanish frontier amid strained communications.
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Iron
Spain
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic
Bordeaux
France
Springfield Child Needs Blood To Battle Leukemia
In Springfield on August 8 Jackie Krumholtz, four, shows no sign of illness while in the city hospital ward. Doctors say he will die without a donated blood transfusion from a matched donor as his family continues to seek a lymphatic leukemia cure.
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Springfield
Jackie Krumholtz
Springfield City Hospital
Jackie
Arthur Krumholtz
Portsmouth High school annual delay prompts board probe
Portsmouth city school board opened an investigation Monday night into the two month overdue annual and a $1500 yearbook debt. The board also approved retirements and resignations at Wilson and commercial teaching staff, while noting two key positions remain filled. The cause of the overrun is linked to a school strike and ensuing controversy, with funds unavailable from public school accounts so class funds may cover last year’s yearbook deficit.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth City School Board
Nellie Goddard
Wilson School
Blanche Evans Johnson
State Department of Education
P. H. S. Summer School
W. Dennis
Harold Wilhelm
Key
German foothold in Italian hills near Arno river
Allied and German forces clash in a rugged sector south of the Arno as heavy shelling and counterattacks mark the ongoing Florence front. RAF and American heavy bombers strike in multiple targets while weather hampers operations. both sides report substantial casualties and air losses amid shifting positions north of the Arno and near Arezzo.
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Klee Associated Press
Rome
Florermm
Florence
Harold Ale
Xander Sex
Eighth Army
Patro
Arno
Arezzo
Highwy
Indiana
San Vinito
Lqrow
Geserman
Xathern
Stoombathely
Vienna
Bel
Silesia
Weather summary for Ohio alley on Wednesday
Weather notes report warm trend with partly cloudy conditions and a higher daytime temperature. Observer Schirrmea2 records show today’s low around 66 and yesterday’s high near 92, with a typical day compared to last year’s similar date.
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Ohio
Stowell Tours Rome Visit Amid Sardinia Front Line Notes
The Times sports editor Cpl George Stowell describes a Rome publicity trip during his 19 months overseas in Africa Sicily and Sardinia. He details orderly daily duties and a four minute recorded interview script with American troops praised, noting travel by official orders and a modest sea voyage hitchhiking experience.
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Cpl
George Stowell
the Times
North
Africa
Sicily
Sardinia
Rome
Allied Drive Near Paris Pushes 110 Miles. Britons and Americans Advance
Allied troops surged along a 130 mile front driving toward Paris with Canadian forces penetrating near Caen and American units pushing toward Le Mans about 110 miles from the capital. Canadian-British troops stormed over the Orne and seized village strongpoints while U S forces fought around St Malo Brest Lorient and Guingamp. Allied air fleets pounded German armor and supply lines in support of Eisenhower’s advancing armies.
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Gladwin Hill
Associated Press
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
France
Caen
le Mans
Mortain
U. S
Orne River
Breton
St. Malo
Brest
Lorient
Berlin
Gathemo
Vire
Allian
Tilly-la-Campagne
Omar N. Bradley
St. Malo Cape
Guingamp
St. Brieuc
Brittany
Eisenhower
Avranches
Hitler Likely Retreat to Reich Frontiers for Last Stand
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie argues Hitler plans a phased retirement to the Reich borders, delaying Allied advances. A southern Rhone invasion could occur, but the main defense hinges on Paris and the English Channel coast as Hitler seeks a final stand while using defensive, delaying actions to safeguard retreat.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Hitler
Reich
Rhone
France
Caen
Spain
Atlantic
Normandy
Brittany
Avranches
Paris
Channel
42 000 Japs Killed in Burma Battles
Allied sources report 42 000 Japanese dead and four of nine Burma divisions eliminated in the drive into northeast India and Gen Stilwell's jungle campaign. Japanese may retreat toward Mandalay as patrols push beyond Tamu and Yu River toward Tiddim on the Imphal highway.
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Charles A. Brumich
Associated Press
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mandalay
Tamu
Yu River
Tiddim
Imphal
Manipur
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Marianas Islands
Hengyang
Chungking
Pearl Harbor
Yap
Uam An Alau
Aitape
British New Guinea
Wewak
Philippines
Davao
Mindanao
George C. Kenney
Far Eastern Air Force
Australia- New Guinea
Corregidor
Bonin
Kazan Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz Previousy
PFC
Scioto
Daniel DE Luce
Billy Selby
Atlantic Wall
Foothol
Stormy Wveather
Mls Allied Operations
Stowell
Island OF
Rorme
Luc Malts
Falaise
First Army
May-sur-Orne
St. Martin-de-Fontenay
Orne
MacKenzie
Joe Stilwell
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