Hitler Appeals to Loyal German Army amid Revolt Claims
London reports martial law in Konigsberg East Prussia and fighting near the Masurian lakes as Nazi troops rush in. Hitler calls for loyalty to quell the revolt while rumors of a rival regime and purges swirl around the leadership amid a widening information blackout.
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Hitler
London
Moscow
Konigsberg
East Prussia
Stockholm
Aftentidingen
Masurian Lakes
Aftontidningen
OWI
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Jones Leads In Montana State Golf Championship
Gene Jones of the Butte Country club shot four under par 136 to pace the 27th annual Montana state golf tournament as final round play looms. Mrs. George R. Miller of Helena leads the women's field with 166 after two days, while Dave Fitzgerald and others chase Jones in the men’s standings.
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Gene Jones
Butte Country Club
George R. Miller
Helena
Montana
Jones
Dave Fitzgerald
Livingston
J. J. Kirby
Steve Leman
Butte
Dick Lyman
Bozeman
Tom Mulholland
Nels Rolfsness
Lewistown
Ed Chinske
Missoula
Bill Quigley
Bombers Hit Ploesti Oil Fields In Major Raid
Allied air forces pounded the Ploesti oil complex in Romania with around 1500 Italian based American bombers and fighters aided by long range Mustangs and Lightnings. German defenses, including heavy flak, contest the raid as crews report instrument bombing amid smoke screens. The operation followed a deep strike on Brux in Czechoslovakia and synchronized U S Eighth Air Force attacks on Schweinfurt bearing plants, with extensive damage claimed to multiple targets.
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Berlin
Ploesti
Romania
Axis Europe
Brux
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Schweinfurt
Germany
Golf tournament final-round pairings listed for Sunday
The state golf tournament final-round pairings are shown with starting times from 7:30 a m to 10:38 a m. Teams include McGlone Jones Shi ner and many others with pairs such as Gene Jones and Dave Fitzgerald Lyman Kirby and Leaman Mulholland Rolfsness Chinske Quigley Worden McCaffery San Filipo Fred Murphy Kane Dempsey Wenham Gill Fitzgerald Abel Pothamus Joyner Ackerman Stewart Barnett Swanson Merhar Yerkich Crosby O Kelly Rotering Muir Percival Cathrall Rose Chouinard Ellis Murphy Stew Kall Daniels Donnelly Keenan Tremblay Owen Amdahl Joe Yerkich Wallace Hunthausen Knight Fanning Porchevina Venable Madison Jones Lasswell Merchant Patterson Art Peterson Hannah Wilkinson Walker Smith Foutz Roark Shaw.
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McGlone
Fred Jones
Shiner
Pete Yerkich
J. O. Peterson
Crosby
O’kelly
Rotering
Muir
Percival
Cathrall
Rose
Chouinard
Ellis
J. D. Murphy
Stew
Kall
Daniels
Donnelly
Keenan
Tremblay
Owen
Amdahl
Joe Yerkich
Wallace
Hunthausen
Knight
Fanning
Porchevina
Venable
Madison Jones
Lasswell
Merchant
Patterson
Art Peterson
Hannah
Wilkinson
Walker
Smith
Foutz
Roark
Shaw
Man With 100 Aliases Gets 20 Year Term
INDIANAPOLIS July 22 John Kenneth Meredith aged 54 known by the FBI as the man with 100 aliases was sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C Baltzell to concurrent terms of 20 and 10 years and fined 15000 dollars after pleading guilty to issuing fraudulent checks in interstate commerce and to two indictments charging interstate transport of stolen automobiles.
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Indianapolis
John Kenneth Meredith
FBI
Robert C. Baltzell
Meredith
Montana
British Gunners Down Nazi Attackers near Caen
Allied dispatch reports a brutal skirmish southwest of Caen as German tanks and infantry pressed amid a soaking downpour. British machine gunners slowed and destroyed several tanks, with additional clashes near St. Martin de Fontenay and on the Periers St Lo road. The fronts show movement minimal as Montgomery presses toward Paris while Rommel cannot launch a major response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Normandy
Associated Press
Rogert D. Greene
St. Martin de Fontenay
Periers-St. Lo
Democrats Announce Members of New National Committee
The new Democratic national committee was confirmed by the party convention and made public after a Saturday committee meeting in Chicago. Arkansas did not name members yet. its slate will be named July 25. The committee includes Montana members O. S. Warden and Mrs. W. W. Hamilton.
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Chicago
New Democratic National Committee
Arkansas
Yanks Aim to Cut Off Port at Guam Action on Port Apra and Surrounding Areas
American forces on Guam reported progress around Port Apra after repelling two Japanese counterattacks. Mount Alifan fell overlooking Agat, and a five mile road northward between Pitt town and Agana came under Allied control. Cabras Island was secured, with U S Marines and Army units landing to push inland as bombardments aided the assault. The operation involved the Third Marine Division, the First Provisional Marine Brigade, and the 77th Infantry Division, with naval and air support helping blunt pre dawn attacks.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Port Apra
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Alifan
Agat Town
Pitt Town
Agana
Cabras Island
Third Marine Division
First
Provisional Marine Brigade
Army
77Th Infantry Division
Orote Peninsula
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr
la Jolla
Calif
Allen H. Turnage
Widewater
Third Marines
A. D. Bruce
Temple
Texas
Solomons
Evans F. Carlson
Merritt Edson
Harry Liversedge
New Japanese Cabinet Meets for First Session
Japan formed a new war cabinet under Premier Gen Koiso and vowed to finish the fight as Allied forces close in from all sides. Ex Premier Tojo was placed on the emperor's retired list while Mamoru Shigemitsu retained the foreign portfolio and added greater East Asia responsibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Kuniaki Koiso
Lord
Pearl Harbor
Tojo
Saipan
Guam
Tokyo
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Greater East Asia
Allied Columns Near Florence
Rome July 22 Allied columns pressed toward Florence with one force within 14 miles as patrols probed near Pisa and the leaning tower. Fresh German divisions faced them while the Fifth army consolidated checkpoints south of the Arno. British Eighth Army moved up the Arno valley while U.S. doughboys near Castel Fiorentino sought north toward the river.
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Rome
Florence
Pisa
Tavernelle
Eighth Army
Arno
Sangiovanni
Castel Fiorentino
Fifth Army
Legion Sessions Open Today
Delegates to the Montana American Legion convention begin sessions in Helena with state commander Chauncey P. Biffle in charge. The Legion auxiliary meets Sunday with Mrs. Lawrence Smith of Racine, Wisconsin. FBI official Lee Pennington will speak early in the week. Memorial services for World Wars I and II veterans precede an open meeting for war veterans.
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Helena
Montana
Washington, D. C
Legion
James R. Wilson, Jr
Americanism Committee
C. M. Wilson
Zeros Downed Over Yap As Guam Invasion Support
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports eight Japanese Zeros shot down over Yap in a new push supporting the Guam invasion. Liberator bombers dropped 30 tons of bombs on Yap air base, according to Sunday's communique from New Guinea.
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New Guinea
Yap
Guam
Far Eastern Air Force
Governor Ford Sees Bright Montana Future for Resources
Gov Sam C Ford told northwest Montanans at a Kalispell Chamber of Commerce meeting that Montana's future is bright if vision and courage guide use of natural resources He urged definite plans to utilize arid lands in the Columbia and Missouri basins and noted plans by the state water conservation board to prepare irrigation projects with federal reclamation cooperation Plans also aim to expand soil and grass conservation with more districts forming across the state
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Kalispell
Sam C. Ford
Northwestern
Ford
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Congress
Naval Strength to Be Boosted by 383000 Men
Washington July 22 U P Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal announced plans to raise the Navy's authorized strength by 383000 to 3406000 by July 1945 to keep pace with accelerating operations against Japan. He warned the war is not nearing an end but hinted big operations may be near. The expansion covers only enlisted personnel for the Navy. no changes in Marine or Coast Guard forces.
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Washington
U.P
U.S. Navy
Japan
James Forrestal
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Forrestal
OPA Boosts Ration Value of Creamery Butter
Washington July 22 U P Price Administrator Chester Bowles boosted the ration value of creamery butter from 12 to 16 red points a pound effective at midnight Saturday. He said civilian consumption was running 20 percent over the July allocation of 100 million pounds. Farm butter stays at eight red points and processed butter at four points.
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Washington
U.P
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Montana highway survey chief to attend Portland meeting
M J Steere head of the Montana Highway Department will attend a planning survey meeting in Portland Oregon on August 2 and 3. Howard W Holmes state highway engineer will discuss development problems and highway traffic during the session.
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Helena
M. J. Steere
Montana Highway Department
Portland
Ore
Howard W. Holmes
Paper Pickup Day Proclaimed By Two Montana Mayors
Butte and Walkerville leaders set July 30 as city wide paper and rag collection. Dr J C Shields of the Montana State Medical Association urged public backing, highlighting life saving uses of waste paper. Mayor Barry O Leary of Butte proclaims residents should bundle and place waste paper for volunteer pickup, to Milwaukee depot for reprocessing.
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Butte
Walkerville
Silver Bow County
J. C. Shields
Montana State Medical Association
Barry O'Leary
Milwaukee
Soviet Drive Seizes Panevezys in Baltic Trap Advance
Gen. Ivan Bagramian’s First Baltic army pushes toward Riga and East Prussia by capturing Panevezys, 85 miles south of Riga. Stalin calls Panevezys an important stronghold guarding the Baltic to East Russia road as Soviet forces threaten 300,000 German troops and a key rail junction at Siaulai. Meanwhile Russian advances reach Pskov and the Finnish border, with Chelm and other Polish targets falling in a broad offensive across 800 miles of front.
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London
U.P
Ivan C. Bagramian
Lithuania
Baltic
Panevezys
Latvia
Riga
Baltic Sea
Joseph Stalin
Russia
East Prussia
Siaulai
Estonia
Chelm
Lublin
Silesia
Poland
Stalin
Finland
Moscow
Pskov
Skopiskis
Bagramian
Daugavpils
Memel
Waresaw
Germany
Admirals Plan New Operations
Pacific Fleet leaders Admiral Ernest King and Admiral Chester Nimitz outlined future operations from Pearl Harbor after a Saipan visit. They described a 120 degree arc and 1,500 mile radius enabling broader strikes across Japan, China and the Philippines, with Saipan serving as a heavy bomber base for intensified campaigns.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Japan
Western Pacific
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
America
Saipan
Nimitz
Admiral King
China
Philippines
King
Policy to continue selective service inducts 18 to 26
Washington July 22 Selective Service said its policy of primarily inducting men aged 18 to 26 would continue contingent upon war progress. Col Francis V Keesling noted the armed forces reached 10,251,000 on July 1 and future draft calls would mainly maintain that total.
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Washington
U.P
Selective Service
House Military Affairs Committee
Francis V. Keesling
Keesling
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Japheld
By Alex Singleton
Europe
Junker
Atlantic
Generl Wilhelm Keitel
Walther von Brauchitsch
Franz Halder
Fedor von Bock
Fifth Army Group
von Brauchitsch
Halder
Marshal Goering
Karl Doentz
Air Force
Albert Kesselring
Walter von Model
Fritz von Rundstedt
Ernst Busch
Lindemann
Schoerner
Ring
George Miller
By Colin Raff
By Walter Cronkite
France
Br Gladwin Hill
Esquay
Hill 112
Odon-Orne River
le Bon Repos
Bernard L. Montgomery
Paris
Erwin Rommel
New National Committee
O. S. Warden
W. W. Hamilton
Eugene Burns
United Press
Hideki Tojo
Koiso
By Noland Norgaard
John Ward
W. W. Hercher
By Frank Tremaine
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