Americans Push Toward Paris Amid Brittany Breakthrough
Allied forces press from Brittany toward Paris with armor and infantry overrunning towns including Mayenne Laval and Chateau Gontier as 84 000 prisoners taken since D day push total near 100 000. U S bombers hit Lorient U boat pens as Gen George P Hays commands the American Second Infantry in France.
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London
Lorient
Brittany
Air Ministry
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
George P. Hays
France
Champagne-Marne
Paris
Mayenne
Laval
Chateau Gontier
Brest
Rennes
Normandy
Barentan
Angers
Loire River
St. Malo
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Dunekerque
la Glacilla
Redon
Gourin
St. Sever Forest
St. Michael de Montjoi
Reds Capture Polish Oil Center
On the broad Soviet push into occupied Poland forces seized Drohobycz the region’s key oil center and a gateway to the Carpathian passes. The Fourth Ukraine army under Col Gen Ivan Petrov reported storming the city while other Soviet units pressed toward Krakow and the Vistula San triangle.
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London
Russia
Germany
Drohobycz
Poland
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Krakow
San Vistula River
German East Prussia
Dubissa River
Joseph Stalin
Fourth Ukraine
Ivan Petrov
Sevastopol
Galicia
Petrov
Finland
Feodor I. Tol
Marines Advance on Guam Reach Western Anchor Point
U S forces on Guam pushed more than two miles Saturday under Admiral Nimitz. Marines seized Ukudu and Liguan, destroyed nine field guns and two tanks, and established a western anchor near Haputo point five miles from the island’s northwest tip as Fourth Marine Aircraft wing began operating from Orote air field.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U.P
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Army
Navy
Wake
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing
Orote Peninsula
Nimitz
United States
Haputo Point
Lumuna Point
Ukudu
Liguan
Montana Weather Outlook for Monday
Partly cloudy with occasional scattered thunderstorms. Cooler conditions expected in the western areas.
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Montana
Dies Formally Requests Action On PAC Interference
Rep. Dies of Texas asks Attorney General Biddle to act against alleged CIA PAC political abuses. He cites evidence of PAC meddling in primaries and spending to influence outcomes. Dies warns of congressional action if no action by September 1 and urges investigation of officials active in PAC activities.
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Washington
Dies
D.-Texas
Biddle
House Committee On un-American Activities
P. A.C
P. A
Production Efforts Must Not Falter Say Gen Hershey
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey national selective service director urged continued home front effort in production. He spoke in Butte after touring the Leonard copper mine with local officials and mine manager James J. Carrigan, noting the war in Europe is not over and urging steadfast industrial output.
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Gen. Hershey
America
France
Europe
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Hershey
Butte
Helena
Selective Service
Leonard
James J. Carrigan
Missouri River States Committee Adopts Basin Development Plan
The Missouri River States Committee unanimously approved an eight point program for basin development, calling on the President and Congress to authorize a coordinated plan by the Army engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. Colorado and six other states supported the measure. Missouri voted against, Iowa absent. The group urged a single comprehensive plan and framework from the omnibus flood control bill to guide future legislation.
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Missouri River States
Omaha
Missouri River States Committee
Missouri River Basin
Congress
U. S. Army Engineers
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau of Reclamation
97Th Meridian
Colorado
Kansas
Montana
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Wyoming
Missouri
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Federal Power Commission
Bureau of the Budget
Missouri River
Congress of
United States
Senate
Sioux City
Bulgaria seeks peace terms amid Balkan withdrawal proposal
Ankara reports Bulgaria, led by Premier Ivan Bagrianov, seeks Allied guarantees of independence within prewar borders in exchange for withdrawing troops from Greece and Yugoslavia. Turkey is to sound out the Allies on these terms, with Bulgaria citing existing territorial adjustments in Dobruja and Macedonia as context.
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Ankara
U.P
Bulgaria
Turkey
Ivan Bagrianov
Greece
Yugoslavia
Bagrianov
Nikola Balabanov
Caiova
Romania
Dobruja
Austria
Danube
Black Sea
Mangalia
Durostor
Caliaora
Yugoslav Macedonia
Thrace
Macedonia
Florina
Castoria
General DeWitt Assigned to Succeed McNair
The War department announced on Sunday that Lt. Gen. John L. De Witt will succeed Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair in an undisclosed high command in Europe.
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DeWitt
McNair
Washington
John L. de Witt
Lesley J. McNair
Europe
War Department
Nazi Artillery Shells Florence as Florence Falls to War
German shelling hits Florence as British Eighth Army presses along the Arno. Allied radio reports Florence nearly in British hands with pontoon bridges across the Arno replacing destroyed crossings. Germans hold lines south of the river while fighting continues in the city.
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Rome
Florence
Tuscan
Eighth Army
London Radio
Arno
Ponte
Striking Transit Workers Return as Army Sets Deadline
Philadelphia transit workers end a week long strike and return to trolley subway and bus routes after accepting a U.S. Army ultimatum to resume work by 12:01 a.m. Monday or lose pay and positions. By Sunday afternoon lines operated at about half normal capacity as the city tries to resume wartime operations.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Philadelphia Transportation Co
U.S. Army
38 Jap Ships Are Sunk or Damaged in Pacific Raids
Admiral Nimitz reported a two day armada raid within 600 miles of Tokyo sank or damaged 38 Japanese ships and nine barges. Operations hit Muko Jima Ani Jima Haha Jima and Chichi Jima in the Bonins and Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands. Surface ships shelled shipping and shore installations and several enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged.
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Pearl Harbor
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Chester M. Nimitz
Omura
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Muko Jima
Ani Jima
Haha Jima
Iwo Jima
Enemy Supply Route Is Cut in New Guinea Front
American troops in British New Guinea have severed the main enemy supply route toward Driniu mor front as Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports a threat to isolate forces near Afua village. Japanese dead total 5,935 since July 12 in the Wewak Aitape sector. Prisoners say Sansapor landings surprised Japanese and Manokwari attack was anticipated. Allied bombers sink a 1,000 ton freighter near Amboina and strike Yap island, with 73 tons of bombs dropped over two days.
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Southwest Pacific
British New Guinea
Driniumor Front
Douglas MacArthur
Afua Village
Driniumor River
Aitape
Wewak-Aitape
Sansapor
Dutch New Guinea
Manokwari
Geelvink Bay
Amboina
Netherlands East Indies
Yap Island
Carolines
Navy to launch destroyer tender Klondike at Los Angeles yard
The Navy announced the destroyer tender U S S Klondike will be launched at the Los Angeles Ship Building and Drydock company on Saturday August 12. Named for Alaska's gold rush district the vessel is scheduled for the public ceremony in San Pedro California.
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San Pedro
Calif
U.P
Navy Sunday
Navy
U. S. S. Klondike
Alaska
Goldrush
Los Angeles Ship Building and Drydock Company
David O'Connor Dies at 84 in Butte Memorials Stir Old Timers
David Patrick O'Connor, 84, longtime Butte resident, died Sunday in his room at 132 West Granite Street. Born “in the shadow of Bunker Hill” he moved to Butte in 1880 and served two years as cashier for Bonnet Mercantile. He later formed a close friendship with Marcus Daly and acted as a private secretary to Daly.
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David Patrick O'Connor
Butte
Old Bonnet Mercantile Company
German Convoy Sunk in Brittany Escape Attempt
British and Canadian naval forces destroyed seven ships in a Brittany evacuation convoy and forced another back into St Nazaire. The admiralty reported no survivors from the first fleet, while Germans admitted damage but denied losses.
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Brittany
London
Dunkerque
St. Nazaire
Bordeau
Atlantic
United States Steel
Admiralty
United States
Nazi Submarine Pens Blasted By Allied Air Power
American heavy bombers over England and Italy struck Berlin and German targets including submarine pens at Toulon and rail lines in the Rhone valley. U.S. Fortresses and Liberators faced heavy flak with 21 bombers and nine fighters reported lost.
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London
England
Italy
Berlin
Germany
Toulon
Rhone
France
U. S
Pas-de-Calas
Reich
Eighth Air Force
Turkish refugee ship sinks in Black Sea near Costanta
The Turkish vessel Mefkure carrying 250 Jewish refugees from Constanta Romania to Turkey sank early Sunday in the Black Sea. Reports say only four passengers survived with no further details available.
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Ankara
Mefkure
Turkey
Costanta
Romania
Black Sea
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
By James M. Long
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C. P. McAtee
Denver
C. M. Small
R. D. Reeder
Department of Mines
Division of Safety
Salt Lake City
Col
S. H. Mitchell
Montana Selective Service Board
W. H. Schulke
Mitchell
Schulke
Reds
San Vistula
W. W. Hercher
A. C. M. Company
By Noland Norgaard
By Frank Tremaine
David O'Connor
Marcus Daly
David P. O'Connor
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