Strike Mighty Blow For The Cause Of China
American B-29 Superfortresses hammered Anshan in Manchuria in the first daylight raid on that Japanese steel center. The blast hit key targets along the Chengsien railway yard and the Peiping-Henkow line, signaling a new phase in the seven year war as U S forces seek to cripple Japan through Asia. The War Department announced the raid, noting it was the third major in six weeks against vital military and industrial objectives.
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U. S
Bash
China
Anshan
Mukden
Majichuria
Chengsien
Peiping-Henkow
Manchuria
Marchine
Washington
Ems
Manchuri
W IP
Japan
East Asia
Kwantung Army
Manchucia
Betas
War Department
20Th Bomber Command
Remy
Imperial Steel Works
Yawata
Japa
Sasebo
Roosevelt
Henry 4. Wallace
Russia
Weather Summary for Ohio and Maumet Today
Partly cloudy and windy conditions expected in Ohio with cooler, drier air today. Sunday forecast shows fair skies with mild temperatures and light winds. Maumet notes indicate a local finding and unsettled mood in Farr area.
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Ohio
Feir
Thirteen Young Ladies to Receive Nursing Diplomas
Thirteen young ladies will receive nursing diplomas at the M. B. Johnson School of Nursing of Elyria Memorial Hospital. Commencement exercises are Tuesday evening August 1 at 4 03 p.m. at First Congregational church. The program includes processional, address by Dr Harry Lipset, vocal solo, and presentation of diplomas by Daniel A Hewitt. The names listed include Elizabeth Barris Amhurst Ruth Blodgett Columbia Station Rosemary Brown Castalia Dem Crumley West Salem Frances Leuse Dutel Elyria Bona Harnish Elyria Minunt Sanders Wellington Queena Mae Scott Elyria Elizabeth Stolz Monroeville Arlene Long Wellington Norma Shuster Elyria Florence Paswloski Lorain.
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Reey Cavether
M. B. Johnson School of Nursing
Elyria
Memorial Hospital
First Congregational Church
Clare Short
R F Vandermark
Lenore Lawson
Pts
Naomy Beery
Nuises
Daniel AS Hewitt
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Benedictoa
AL Leath
Eliss
Elizabeth Barris
Amhurst
Ruth Blodgett
Columbia Station
Rosemary Brown
Castalia
Dem Crumley
West Salem
Frances Leuse Dutel
Bounie Harnish
Ely
Airport Group To Meet Here On Wednesday
Announcement says Geral County Airport committee meets Wednesday August 2 at 7 p.m. in Elyria Council chambers. Seward Black serves as treasurer. The group will discuss plans to inform voters about the proposed airport and the ballot decision set for November.
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Geral County Airport Committee
Elyria
Paratrooper Cpl Ralph McGrew Killed In Action In France
Cpl Ralph M McGrew Jr 26 was killed in action in France June 10 according to War Department notice to his parents Mr and Mrs Ralph H McGrew 219 West avenue He entered the Army February 17 1942 and served in North African Sicilian campaigns before transfer to England six months before the invasion of France His brother Jagper serves in the Navy with the V-12 unit at Oberlin
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Cal Ralph M. McGrew, Jr
France
War Department
Ralph H. McGrew
West Avenue
Actin
Cpl
McGrew
England
Jagper
Oberlin
Pearl Harbor
Missing Lt McLaughlin Reported From Yugoslavia
Mrs. Buee McLaughlin of 130 Roosevelt reports First Lt Ray McLaughlin missing in action since July 15 over Yugoslavia. He served over three years with aviation forces, became 1st Lieutenant in July, saw service in South America Attica and Alaska, worked at Gener Industries before enlistment, and is a 1996 Elyving High School graduate. His sister is Mrs George Massive of 223 Roosevelt. Meanwhile New car stock in America stands at about 24 000 units, a five and a half day supply, with only 12 000 cars to be released for August per the Office of Price Administration.
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Buee
McLaughlin
Roosevelt
Ray McLaughlin
Yugoslavia
Aviation Fortes
Tle
South America
Attica
Alaska
Gener Industries
Elyving High School
George Massive
Washington
America
Mhoreeul
Office of Price Administrion
The Road To Berlin Report From Allied Lines
United Press reports the shortest routes to Berlin from Allied front lines. Russia shows 3,ay miles, Italy about 600 miles, France and Germany fronts near Ged miles. The field dispatch outlines distances and movement toward the decisive theater of war.
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United Press
Berlin
Russia
Italy
Dewey Defends States Rights in Presidential Campaign
Albany New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey pledges to end concentration of power in the federal government as a key domestic issue. He, with Governor John W. Bricker, calls for a halt to federal domination and plans to present a New Deal domestic program to Republican governors at a Saint Louis conference next week.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas EB. Dewey
Dewey
John W. Bricker
New York
Lt John Wyszynski Killed In Action headline
Mr and Mrs Chester Wyszyntski of 308 EB Fuver Street learned their son 2nd Lt John Wyszynski was killed in action in France four months after entering service on January 3 1941. He received a commission as a second lieutenant in December and had been stationed at Camp Benning Ga with overseas service since April 1944. Previously he worked for Harshaw Chemical Co.
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Chester Wyszyntski
Fuver Street
John Wryszynski
Frange
Camp Benning
Lh Woyraynski
Harshaw
South Amherst Board Elects Two Teachers
The South Amherst Board of Education elected Kenneth Lower of Grafton to a two year superintendent contract. Litsenberg, who had resigned, remains noted. Helen Ziegman of Lorain was named first grade teacher replacing a resigned position. Ziegman, a Kent State graduate, taught at Belden for three years.
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South Amherst
Long Distance Operators Return After War Labor Board Move
Long distance operators at the Elyria Telephone Company returned to their posts after a brief strike over 48 hour pay for a 58 hour week. The dispute, led by Arthur Bennett of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was referred to the War Labor Board. The company warned of penalties for noncompliance with national orders and planned to await a ruling. The strike prompted Army Intelligence inquiries and delayed wage form submissions.
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Eistia Telephone Co
Mrike
War Labor Board
IMB Tm
Arthur Bennett
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, A. F
Bennett
National War Labor
Wandabor
Rey W. Ammel
Manger
Thay
Fifth Regional War Labor Board
Unslon
Amimel
War Liber Board
Peny Wday
Unie
War Libue
Elyria Telephone Company
Bonney
Ievelork
National War Labor Board
United States Army Intelligence Service
Washington
D. C
Mer Benavedt
Clarksfield Boy Killed In Action In France
A Lamuly telegram confirms Pvt. Eugene Kinnel, 19, of Clarkfield township was killed in action in France on June 1. Inducted fall 1943 he graduated New London High School in May 1943. His father Charles Kinnel Sr lives in Cleveland and brother Kenneth in Lorain. another brother Charles serves in the US Navy. He is the third Clarksfield native killed in the war.
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Clarkrsfield
Bern
Lamuly Ad
Eugene Kinnel
France
Pet. Kinnel
Clarkshield Township
Hoe
New Lundoel
Charles Kinnel
Cleveland
Kenneth
Lorain
Charles
Navy
Pvt
Kinnel
Clarksfield
Schools Head At Grafton Resigns as Superintendent
Walter 4 Janta resigned today from a reliable source as superintendent of the Grafton village schools. No details were available. The notice mentions factory service and an unrelated advertisement.
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Grafton
Grapton
Walter 4
Janta
Frau Day
Grafton Village
Marines Seize Half of Tinian Amid Island Invasion
U S Marines pushed southward on Tinian nearing the southern half as a second airstrip's central area was secured. Reports say American forces killed thousands of Japanese and moved toward Orote Point while creating a new central sector along the Apra harbor line. SeaBees and Army engineers expanded the airstrip. Japanese defenses stiffened on the Orote peninsula.
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Tearl Harbor
U. S
Titian
Apa
Daval
Orote
Chester Wo Namitz
triest_ cammuj Minue
U.S
Asia Ushi Point
Ilind
Soult
Japan
iRichard W. Johnston
Tinian
Ishind
Johnston
Army
Fant - Aire
Tintin
Tohsa
Guaim
Apra Harbor
Aimere Ivans
Tenjo
Alutin
Chacha
Aga
Heaaland
Elections Board To Decide Case This Afternoon
The Lori County Board of Elections will meet at 3 am to rule on the validity of nominating petitions for Clift Lewis running as an independent candidate for sheriff. The attorney general’s opinion found a sponsoring committee not required, but the board must determine if signatures are valid and sufficient for placement on the ballot.
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Clitf Lewis
Lewin
Cashiaite
Lora
Stevens
Lewis
World’s Oldest Master Mason Dies at 102
Joseph D. Heage, claimed as the world’s oldest Master Mason, died at his Brathtavna home in Lancaster, Ohio, early today. The obituary notes his long service to Masonic orders and his 102 years.
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Lancaster
Joseph D. Heage
Powerful American Tank Column Traps Germans at Sea
Supreme Headquarters reports a major American armored breakout in western Normandy. Sherman units and others swept across the Sienne and Soulle rivers, trapping thousands of German forces against the sea. Patton style tactics helped a west coast breakthrough as forces pushed toward Avranches, amid a rapid German retreat along the front.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEK
Normandy
St. Lo
Toasy-Siur-Vire
Coutances
Brehal Rong
AEF
Coutinees
Norman
Insula
Unt
George S
Patton, Jr
Sleily
West Cot
Slenne
Soulle
Patten
Avranches
Abe Normandy
Brittany
British Drive Germans Back Near Florence Frontline Gains Reported
Allied forces push the German line toward Florence as British Eighth Army advances within two miles of Montelupo and near Florence while air and ground assaults tighten the southern flank. Polish and South African units push along the Adriatic coast and inland toward Senigallia and Arno river towns. Troops seize peaks in the Apennines and move toward Figline and Arezzo as the war east of Tuscany continues.
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Rome
Florence
Pisa
Ari
Pesa
Gallie Ine
Adriane
Senigallia
Misa
Ancona
Eighth Army
Montelupo
Eimpall
Greve River
Impryneta
San Giovanni
Arno
Cage del Franca
Fig- Line
Figline
Ine
Alfies
Gubbio
Sassoferrolo
Scojano
Arezzo
Navy Plane Crashes Killing Two Aboard
NORFPALE VA Navy officers and an enlisted man died when a Navy land plane crashed in water between Cape Charles and Fisherman’s Island. The victims were Lt. J.G. and J. Hara USNR and RC. Gmith ARNGC Englewood CA. Next of kin listed as Beatrice Baker Harris.
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Norfpale
Navy
Cape Charles
Fisherman's Island
Lins
J.g.i & J. Hara
USNR
Beatrice Baker Harris
Ee Hignwey
Martins Perry
RC. Gmith
ARNGC
Englewood
Cait
Big Lena refinery bombed as Allied air raid grinds on
London reports a night and day Allied air offensive against Germany with 1100 American heavy bombers and Liberators joining RAF strikes on Merseburg oil refinery near Leipzig and Bremen targets. Stuttgart is heavily damaged per neutral sources, while Hamburg and the port of Bremen also suffered raids. Sixty-two Allied aircraft were listed as missing.
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London
Lena
Merseburg
Germany
RAF
Hamburg
Stuttgart
Bremen
Merseberg
Leipzig
Eighth Air Force
Breymen
U.S. Second Tactical Air Force
Liberators
Glao
Juvincourt
Laon- Couvron
Paris
Leung
Snie
Air Ministry
Frankfurt
Geran
France
Waffen
Pas de Calais
Seemy
Storkholm
Konlidninges
Fall of Brest Litovsk opens gates to Warsaw assault
Soviet and Polish fronts push toward Warsaw as Rokossovsky concentrates the main assault on the capital along the Vistula. Reports say the Brest Litovsk by pass fell, freeing forces for the siege. Konev’s troops advance toward the Czechoslovak frontier and press across southern Poland toward Krakow and Silesia.
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Vistula
London
Expresa
Stockholm
Warsaw
Warsa
Konstantin
K. Rokossovaky
Vialula
Akiris
Minsk
Maxira
Sted ‘ Rokossovaky
T ‘Benk
River
Praga
Weat
Brest Litovakc
Warswa
Rokensoveky
Diet Stalin
Brest ‘Litovsk
Siedlce
Brest Litovsk
Ceglony
Poland
Krakow
Geren
Silesia
Praemysl
Jaroslaw
San River
Ivan ‘S. Konev
PO Konev
Perehiko
Vyshkov
Carepathian 3
Nation's Leading Fighting Pilot Missing In Action
Lt Col Francis Grabeski, celebrated as the nation’s top fighter pilot, is missing in action after an airfield attack in Europe. His family received notice from the War Department that he had been missing since July 20 after destroying his 28th plane on the ground. His planned August homecoming was canceled.
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City
Francis Gradeski
Wer
Grabeski
War Department
Col. Grabeski
Evreux
France
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Tuveestiay
W. A. Leath
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Alvin Bemis
Everett Palmer
Harry Lipset
Ralph McGrew
Dewey Strong
John Wyszynski
South Amherst Board
KOR
T. L. Moise
Sy Ummin
Lake Erie
Port Clinton
Charles Halim
Portage River Bridge
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