Red Armies Strike Deep in Poland and Galicia
Soviet forces push from the Vistula bridgehead seizing 60 towns and threatening Krakow while advancing 30 miles west of the river. The drive nears Kielce and cuts key routes to Czechoslovakia, with Boryslaw and Sambor fall delivering 2,000 regained oil wells and leaving Ploesti as the sole major source. Far north, three Soviet Armies launch a 200 mile pincers move in East Prussia.
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Mosow
Red Army
Vistula
Krakow
Warsaw
Kovey
Ukraine
Szydlow
Kielce
Silesia
Moscow
Boryslaw
Carpathians
Sambor
Czechoslovakia
Ploesti
Rumania
East Prussia
Dewey denounced by Ger ald L. Smith foreshadows 1948 plan
The Washington Merry-Go-Round recalls Gerald L. Smith predicting a Dewey loss in 1944 and backing a future nationalist candidate in 1948. Smith spoke of leveraging war-time discontent, inflation, and business fears to propel a strong nationalist to power, while courting veterans and business groups and exploiting the red scare. Continued on Page Four.
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Washington
Dewey
Gerald L. K. Smith
Smith
Tom
Democrats Lead in Campaign Slogans Amid Party Rifts
Washington dispatch notes Democrats dominate slogan creation while quarreling within their ranks. Harold Ickes quips about Hannegan and Truman, with jokes about Dewey and Stalin. The piece explains the Democratic Party’s mixed regional base and labor ties, complicating consensus and often fueling rival camp lines.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Harold SI Ickes
Hannegan
Harry S. Truman
Robert Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
J. Melville Broughton
Joe Stalin
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Father and Son Die in Guam Battle Casualties
The War Department announces the deaths of Col. Douglas McNair, 37, and his father Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair’s son in Guam near Normandy. The exact circumstances are not disclosed.
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Washington
Guam
Douglas McNair
Lesley J.mcnair
Lt. Lo
Normandy
War Department
Clipper Crashes Over Cuba Near Antola Coast
A four engine Pan American Clipper with 28 passengers and five crew on the San Juan Puerto Rico to Miami route crashed in Nipe Bay during takeoff from Antola on Cuba's northeast coast. At least one dead, salvage teams search for bodies in the hull. Antone Strand, longtime resident of Sixth Street, is missing for 48 hours and his sister Mrs T J Jacobsen asks for any information.
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Havana
Aug
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Miami
Nipe Bay
Antola
Cuba
Antone Strand
Sixth Street
T. J. Jacobsen
Yanks Reach Guam Island. Pacific Fleet Reports Advance
Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor said Yanks pushed three miles in Guam’s center on Sunday to take the nineteenth island under American control. Admiral Nimitz noted the advance over a large new Japanese cemetery and reported air strikes on Truk Ponape and Nauru on August 4 and 6.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Aug
Guam
Chester Nimitz
Nimitz
Paelie
Truk
Ponape
Nauru
Hitler Plot Revealed At Court Trial
Berlin says Field Marshal Von Witzleben and seven ex army officers were hanged after a trial on the July 20 plot to kill Hitler. A Berlin radio broadcast described the convicts as having plotted since last summer and named Col. Count Claus von Stauffenberg as the assassin.
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London
Itsleben
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
People's Court
Erwin von Wiltzleben
Nazi Germany
DNB
Count Clause von Stauffenberg
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
von Witzleben
Ludwig Beck
Beck
Siee
York von Wartenburg
Claw von Stauf~ffenberg
von Wuartenbure
Erich Hoeppner
Helmut Stietf
Paul von Hase
Albrecht Vor Hagen
Robert Bernards
Friedrich Karl Klawaing
Alaska Steamship sale signals shift to Skinner, Eddy
Seattle firm Skinner Eddy Corp purchases Alaska Steamship Company fleet in a deal announced from New York. Kennecott Copper divested control as Alaska’s mining activity waned before the war. Fleet valued near 10 million. executives named include G W Skinner as President with Lawrence Bogle and L W Baker as VPs. Skinner plans new ships and to keep the current organization intact while expanding Alaska service.
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Seattle
Aug
Alaska Steamship Company
Skinner, Eddy Corporation of
Pres Dent G. W. Skinner
Steamship Company
Kennecott Copper
Skinner
Kennicott
Alaska
New York
F. T. Stannard
Kennecott
Mtteral
G. W. Skinner
Lawrence Bogle
L. W. Baker
Raymond Anderson
N. Mitchell
HGR
Shipping Administration
Samepany
Skinner, Eddy Corporation
Northlands Transportation Company
Adams
Horace
Arms
Leslie W. Baker
Baker
New York City
Alinghi
Tokyo Radio Warns Japs of Trouble
Premier Koiso addressed the nation in a Tokyo radio broadcast warning of US advances on the Marianas and New Guinea and the danger to homeland. He urged consolidation of total strength and a grand scale war effort under a Supreme Council for victory.
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Associated Press
Kelso
Tokyo
Marianas
Federal Communications Commission
Koiso
Supreme Council For
Kirsten Enroute Home After Juneau Wedding Note
Professor and Mrs. P. K. Kirsten travel south following their son Eugene Kirsten wedding to Betty Sharpe in Juneau. Kirsten also spoke at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon during the visit. Stock quotes included Alaska Juneau 6, American Can 90, Anaconda 25, Beech Aircraft 9, Bethlehem Steel 8044, Curtiss Wright 54, IH 174, Kennecott 31, US Steel 57, Dow Jones etc.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Beech Aircraft
Bethlehem Steel
Curties- Wright
International Harvester
Kennecott
North American Aviation
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Kirstens
P. K. Kirsten
Eugene
Betty Sharpe
Kirsten
Chamber of Commerce
Lew Williams Jr Now Paratrooper Ready for Duty
Lew Williams Jr son of Alaska’s secretary has completed extensive Fort Benning training and passed all exams. He is prepared for a successful parachute drop with his unit.
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Lew Williams, Jr
Alaska
Young Williams
Fort Benning
Georgia
Professor Escapes as Flying Bomb Strikes Hotel
London August 6 Professor Marcia Tuski, a noted British economist, awoke to a German flying bomb strike on a coast hotel. Her bed toppled five stories through a hole in the blast and landed upright. she was unhurt despite the dangerous impact.
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London
Marcia Tuski
Laski
Paris Front Surges Push Allied Advance On 130 Mile Front
Allied forces report two major surges along a 130 mile front driving from Paris toward Le Mans and Caen area. American and Canadian units advance through Orne River sector near Caen and Pierres ports while heavy fighting continues near St Malo and Brest. German reinforcements rush to blunt the attack.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Brest
Lorient
St. Malo
Paris
Iast
Caen
Lemans
Germany
Orne
Breton
Nazi Lines Struck Big Air Blows
London rumor report details heavy Allied air attacks on German positions below Caen and across France. About 1,800 tons dropped by American bombers before Canadian forces advance, with 6,700 tons in a prior raid by British heavies. Raids targeted airfields, bomb installations, and platforms used for robot bombs. Also notes Articles of Incorporation filed by Homer Cooperative Association in Alaska.
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London
Caen
France
Germaiines
First Army
Romilly
Sur Seine
Paris
le Perthe
England
Homer Cooperative Association
Homer
Alaska
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Col. Yappert
Alien
Army
United States
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Periers
Marigny
Samsy
St. Lo
Teddy” Roosevelt
South
Jersey City
Five Boroughs
Chicago
Eastern Front
Guam Island
Pacific Isle
Feuhrer
Alaska Steamship Co
Skinner, Eddy Corp
Rita Daigte
Lowell
Mass
Tokyo Radio
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