Americans on Guam Inch Ahead Slowly
U S Pacific Fleet reports slow gains on Guam as American forces seize Mount Barrigada and key road junctions in the heavily jungled north. Admiral Nimitz notes slight progress on the right and center while carrier planes pound Japanese positions. Marines continue hunting scattered enemy on Tinian and Saipan. civilian internments rise on Tinian. Ventura planes bomb Nauru and Catalinas hit Marshalls targets.
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Frank Tremaine
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Hursday
Mount Barrigada
U. S
Chester W. Nimitz
Finegayan
Mt. Barrigade
Tumon Bay
Sassayan Point
South Pacific Islands
Tinian
Saipan
Central Pacific
Ventura
Nauru Island
Carolines
Catalinas
Marshalls
Butte Corporal Wounded on Biak Island in World War II
Corporal Elmer Holton of Butte was wounded by shrapnel on Biak island June 8. He serves in the Pacific theater after enlisting in February 1941 and has two years in combat. His brother Bill Holton fights elsewhere in Africa, Sicily, and Italy and has been wounded twice.
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Elmer Holton
E. L. Holton
Warren
Biak Island
New Guinea
Corp
Holton
Butte
Emerson Grade
Butte High School
Northern Pacific Railway
Bill Holton
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Montana Saturday Weather Outlook Skies Cloudy Afternoon
Montana forecasts a fair Saturday with afternoon cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms. Warmer daytime temperatures are expected with mild weather lingering into the evening.
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Montana
German Ambassador at Vatican repudiates Nazis
Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, German ambassador to the Vatican, repudiates the Nazi government after a staff revolt. First Secretary Karl Gustav Woolemweber led the dissent, amid the July 20 assassination attempt and plans to overthrow Nazism. Vatican officials await official clarification from Berlin.
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Rome
U.P
Baron Ernst von Weizsacker
Vatican
Karl Gustav Woolemweber
Weizsacker
Hitler
Pius II
Polish Forces Enlarge Hold on Warsaw
25,000 Polish underground troops drive Germans from the old city district in Warsaw and seize the general post office power station gas works and more with Polish flags raised. General Borg reports the situation well in hand as fighting continues and civilians are used as shields by German forces.
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London
U.P
Warsaw
Stare Miastro
Old City
Bor
Borg
Poland
World Wheat Production May Be Above Last Year
Washington reports the Agriculture department sees world wheat production for 1944-45 possibly higher than 1943-44. North America shows a large rise that offsets declines elsewhere. Surpluses from the United States Canada Australia and Argentina could meet most world import needs unless Europe ships unusually large amounts.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
North America
United States
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Department
Europe
Soviets Smash Southward in Major Vistula Push
Soviet forces driven by a dramatic 27 mile break through along the Vistula surged 37 miles from Krakow with tank spearheads widening a 40 mile bridgehead. Goryslawice and New Korczyn fell as Moscow reported 30 more towns seized in a broad advance threatening German retreat east of the Vistula.
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London
Vistula River
Krakow
Poland
Germany
German
Silesia
Goryslawice
Moscow
Stasoe
Vistula
Warsaw
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Berlin
Nowy Korczyn
Goryslaw
Restow-Krakow
Sechsozow
Tarnow
Suwalki Triangle
Kaunas-Konigsberg
Lithuania
Dewey Sees Unity After Governors Conference
Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Republican unity after a two day meeting with 26 state governors. He said friction between local and federal governments is solved for the party and predicted his November election victory regardless of war news. The governors issued a 14 point policy statement and urged personal talks with the President to avoid misunderstandings. Dewey emphasized GOP solutions to New Deal causes and noted Democratic governors could share the conference findings.
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ST. Louis
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Tam
Pawling
N. Y
Missouri
New Jersey
Walter Edge
Albany
John W., Bricker
Ohio
Senate panel approves plan for postwar reconversion agency
The Senate military committee approved a bill to create a central agency governing postwar reconversion and setting national unemployment pay standards. It also approved an Office of War Mobilization and Adjustment with broad powers over production, manpower, and regulations, drawing strong Republican opposition. The measure faces floor action with joint labor management councils proposed to advise on production and war terminations.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Military Committee
Austin
Vermont
NRA
R-Vt
Labor, Agriculture and Industry
Japanese Forces retreat across Vogelkop in Dutch New Guinea
Allied reports say Japanese forces are in full retreat across the Vogelkop peninsula as U.S. landings at Sansapor bypass 30,000 troops. Gen. MacArthur notes the second Japanese army under Gen. Teshima nears collapse amid difficult terrain and Allied pursuit. Manokwari and Nabire hosts about 15,000 Japanese cut off near Sansapor.
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Dutch New Guinea
Allied
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Vogelkop Peninsula
Sansapor
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Teshima
Manokwari
Nabire
Geelvink Bay
35Th Division
Ideka
Sorong
Peninsula
San Sapor
Russians Propose 12 Day Window for Finland Peace Talks
London radio reports Russia offers Finland a 12 day period to consider peace negotiations before resuming the offensive on the Karelian isthmus. Stockholm dispatches say Field Marshal Mannerheim became Finland's president as Premier Linkomies’ government resigned.
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New York
London Radio
Finland
Karelian
Stockholm
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Edwin Linkomies
Marine Pfc Harold Bonawitz Wounded in Action
The Navy department announced that Pfc Harold G Bonawitz U S Marine Corps nephew of Joseph Bonawitz of Billings has been wounded in action in an unspecified war theater.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pfc
Harold G. Bonawitz
U. S. Marine Corps
Joseph Bonawitz
Billings
Eighth Army Breaks into Florence Amid Repairing Bridges
Eighth Army troops entered southern Florence after driving Germans from hill positions near the city. South African forces and British guardsmen crossed near the Ema river, taking the village of Galuzzo and pushing back German defenses. Bridges over the Arno were destroyed except Ponte Vecchio, while Allied air power limited by architecture. Hundreds of German casualties and prisoners were reported as heavy fighting continued in Italy.
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Florence
Eighth Army
Arno
Rome
Ema
Greve
Galuzzo
Fifth Army
Pisa
Ponte Vecchio
American tanks push toward Paris from Brittany Front
Allied tank columns racing across Brittany neared St. Nazaire and Brest as U S forces pressed toward Paris. Reports said units 38 miles from St. Nazaire and 40 miles from the base were advancing rapidly, with Brest within 75 miles.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Brittany
St. Nazaire
Brest
Paris
Loire River
Nantes
Derval
Cha
Chinese Hold Hengyang Defenders Spark New Hope
Chinese troops at Hengyang, after 40 days of fierce defense, repelled waves of Japanese attacks. Relief columns press the encircled city, signaling a potential fracture of the Canton-Hankow railway and a broader aim to sever China’s transport link from Manchuria to the South China Sea.
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Chungking
Hengyang
Canton-Hankow
Hunan
China
Manchuria
South China Sea
Strike Leaders Defy Army Efforts to Restore Service
Philadelphia transit remains largely halted as four day strike continues against Army takeover. James McMenamin says the strike committee will stay status quo and return at noon with more news. Washington warns arrests for obstructive tactics while pledging strict fair employment policy enforcement.
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Philadelphia
United States
James McMenamin
Market Street
Washington
James P. McGranery
McGranery
Fair Employment Practices Committee
U. S. Employment Service
Heavy Bombers Strike Nazi Secret Labs in Baltic Raid
More than 1,200 American heavy bombers aided by 1,000 fighters attacked the Pennemunde laboratories on the Baltic coast, targeting flying bombs rockets and jet planes. Additional raids hit Anklan Rostock Kiel Bremen Hamburg Pas de Calais and Paris area depots while weather allowed broad coverage.
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London
Pennemunde
Baltic
Berlin
Germany
Anklan
Stettin
Rostock
Kiel
Bremen
Hamburg
Harburg
Elbe River
Pas de Calais
France
L'Isle Adam
Trossy St. Maximin
Paris
Europe
Hitler
Infantile Paralysis Near Epidemic in Three States
The U S public health service said the disease is near epidemic in New York North Carolina and Kentucky and has occurred in 37 states with 3060 cases reported by July 29 this year. For the week ended July 29 there were 738 new cases nationwide the highest weekly total since 1916.
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Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
Health Service
New York
North Carolina
Kentucky
Actress Jennifer Holt Wins Interlocutory Divorce in Hollywood
Hollywood reports that 23 year old actress Jennifer Holt won an interlocutory divorce from Maj. William M Ritchey a 24 year old Marine flyer and Guadalcanal hero. Holt charged Ritchey expected her to emulate the fortitude of Guadalcanal fighters while she was ill and nervous.
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Hollywood
U.pr
Jennifer Holt
William M. Ritchey
Guadalcanal
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Butte Corporal
John A. Parris
Iction of
City of
W. W. Hercher
Vleet
By Douglas B. Cornell
Ernest B. Vaccaro
8Th Army
Arno River
Reynolds Packard
Pontedera
Adriatic
la Spica
Genoa
Vichy
Ministry of Information
By James M. Long
teau-Briant
Edward D. Ball
Associated Press
Fourgeres
Avranches
Rennes
St. Malo
Omar N. Bradley
Normandy
Orne River
Nazi
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