Invasion News From Normandy and Allied Advances
The Allied forces report steady progress in Normandy with gains northeast of Cherbourg and along the Cherbourg peninsula while facing stiff German resistance. In the Pacific Saipan operations advance with B 29s striking base defenses as Japanese fortifications are attacked. Concurrently in Europe the Fifth and Eighth Armies push north from Rome, breaking German defenses and driving retreat along the Adriatic sector as prisoners are captured.
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Normandy
U.S
Cherbourg
Montebourg
Peinsula
Eisenhower
Carenten
Elle
Vire
St. Loe Keys
Seele
Eisler
Japan
Saipan
Marianas
Tokyo
Tarawa
Guadalcanal
or-Saipan 2
Chester W. Nimin
Astel
Seiphcams
Rome
Tyrrhenian
Lake Bolsenn
Teri
Adriatic
Eighth Army
5Th Army
Electrical device to detect diseased organs unveiled in Chicago
Highlights of the week report a demo of an electrical detector for diseased organs in unconscious patients at a Gastroenterological Association meeting in Chicago. Dr Lester Morrison of Philadelphia explained the machine works via a viscrop galvanic reaction. Factory wages rose to 1.057 dollars per hour in April while total earnings fell 0.7 percent due to shorter weeks, with an average work week of 45.2 hours.
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Gastro-enterological Association
Chicago
Lester Morrison
Philadelphia
National Industrial Conference
Parity for Farmers in OPA Price Control Bill
The House passed a bill extending OPA price controls to require parity pricing for farm commodities. Processors failing to pay parity could charge only 90 percent of the OPA ceiling for finished goods. The measure faced administration support and Senate-house conflicts over cotton ceiling provisions and potential veto risks due to court-legal testing of OPA rules.
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Jinder
House
Farny
Senate
Bil
OPA
WOUNDED YANKS Death rate out of battle
The surgeon general reports 97 of wounded American soldiers survive. World War I death rate 8 percent, now under 3 percent. Abdominal injuries fatal in 25 percent, chest wounds under 25 percent. Advances cut dead-wound deaths to 4 percent from 14 percent in prior wars.
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Norman Kirk
U. S. Army
Navy
Treasury reports strong start for Fifth War Loan drive
Treasury officials said in two days individual buyers purchased nearly 3.5 billion dollars in bonds, aiming for six billion dollars in the drive. Bond purchases would fund army and navy equipment, with heavy bombers halved in price and fighter planes cheaper than last year. A separate Pearl Harbor inquiry blamed Col Theodore Wyman Jr. and contractor Hans Wilhelm Rohl for delays in a planned warning system, while a census survey found 12 million families want more alarm clocks and various household goods, with demand strongest for sewing thread and weakest for wash boilers and lawn mowers.
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Treasury
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Congress
House
Col
Theodore Wyman Jr
Honolulu
Hans Wilhelm Rohl
California
U. S
Germany
Coleonel Wyman
Wyman
Rohl
Census Bureau
War Production Board
WPB
Why Take Harsh Laxatives No More
A reader suggests three gentle remedies for constipation. Start with lemon juice in water at once daily, claimed to aid digestion, boost vitamin C intake, curb appetite, and refresh the mouth. The note touts Sunkist lemons from California as a source.
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California Sunkist
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Western Newspaper Union
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Alan G. Kirk
Hames B. Dewey
New York
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Oklahoma
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Nee
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2 Tenert
Allied
Umberto
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
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Europe
Vatican
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Broughton
Ohio
J. Melville Broughton
North Carolina
Roosevelt
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Grand Canyon
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Colorado
J. Goedrich
America
Bevernment
Arst Uct
BF. Goedsich
San Blas
Panama
Mexsana
Dean
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