Russians Reach Warsaw Front as Soviets Overrun Baltic
Soviet forces devastate German defenses in a sweeping push toward Germany. Lwow and five other strongholds fall, with 1 635 towns and villages seized. Daugavpils Rezekne Siauliai captured, cutting Baltic escape routes. Vistula defenses pierced near Warsaw.
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London
Warsaw
Lwow
San River
Germany
Bialystok
Stanislawow
Moscow
Daugavpils
Rezekne
Latvia
Siauliai
Lithuania
Baltic States
Oder River
Vistula
Poland
Berlin
Ober
Silesia
Yankees Drive German Line Back in Normandy Breakthrough
Supreme Headquarters reports a major Allied armored assault in western Normandy breaking the German line. Uprising tank columns forced a chaotic retreat toward Coutances, with Lessay and Periers fallen and Canisy potentially outflanked. About 2,600 prisoners taken by noon as the drive tightens around Coutances.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
I-P
U. S
Normandy
Coutances
84Th Corps
Seacoast
Lessay
Periers
Canisy
France
Wheeler proposes United States of Europe federation
Senator Burton Wheeler urged a European federation, calling it a practical solution to ensure lasting peace. He spoke to Helena businessmen noting the idea would guard the United States from future European involvement, while acknowledging no concrete wartime governance plan exists and urging unity of purpose.
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Helena
Burton K. Wheeler
D-Mont
Europe
United States of Europe
Wheeler
United States
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Russia
England
Loaders Needed for Paper Pickup Sunday
The salvageable waste paper campaign seeks at least 100 more volunteers to load trucks for a city wide curb pickup Sunday. With about 150 already, officials say 250 helpers are needed to load and unload at the Milwaukee depot. Volunteers may call 6580 and meet at 9 am Sunday at the Butte Chamber of Commerce for assignments. 81 trucks have been donated, 19 more needed.
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F. W. Strandberg
Transportation
Milwaukee
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Dutch Believe Robot Bombs Launched From Hook of Holland
London dispatch reports Dutch circles in London suspect Nazi installations on the Hook of Holland serve as launching sites for larger bombs aimed at England. German flying bombs flew over southern England again at night in a shorter raid, killing five in villas and causing additional casualties in the London area.
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Hook of Holland
London
U.P
England
Hook of
Holland
Current Point Values on Rationed Meats and Dairy
Washington reports continued point values on rationed meats and dairy will last at least until August 13. The War Food administration and Office of Price Administration clash over beef rationing, delaying August charts. OPA plans minor canned food changes and adds three 10-point red stamps A-5 B-5 C-5 to ration book four.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
OPA
WFA
Fred M. Vinson
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Carrier Force Destroys 10 Jap Ships
U P reports U S carrier task force hit Palau Yap and Ulithi in the Carolines destroying at least 10 Japanese vessels and 26 planes. Marines on Tinian now control the island's northern third as U S forces suffer light losses in the campaign that began Sunday.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U.P
U. S
Palau
Yap
Ulithi
Carolines
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tinian
Marianas
Nimitz
Arakabesan
Peleliu
Angaur
Malakal
Bombers Blast 9 Jap Vessels
Allied forces in New Guinea repulsed a new Japanese attack along the Driniumor river. MacArthur announced bombers likely sank or damaged five Japanese ships while long range Navy planes hit a five ship convoy near Truk, with another freighter damaged off Sorong as Allied air and sea forces press strikes across Woleai, New Guinea, and the East Indies.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Driniumor
Douglas MacArthur
Navy
Caroline Islands
Truk Atoll
Kavieng
Rabaul
Bismarck Archipelago
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Woleai
Carolines
East Indies
MacArthur
Afua
Manokwari
Geelvink Bay
Noemfoor
Biak Islands
Mansiman Island
Montana Fallout Weather Forecast Fair With Mountain Thunder Showers
Montana forecast calls for fair conditions Friday with scattered thundershowers in the mountains late Friday. Continued warm temperatures expected statewide.
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Montana
Eighth Army closes in on Florence front advances
On a 100 mile Pisa to Citta di Castello front the British Eighth Army presses toward Florence amid stiff German counterattacks while Gen Clark’s Fifth Army clears the lower Arno valley for Pisa assault. Polish troops reach Misa near Ancona as Adriatic resistance wanes.
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Rome
U.P
Pisa
Citta di Castello
Eighth Army
Florence
Mark Clark
Fifth
Arno
Italian
Misa
Ancona
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Tyrrhenian
la Spezia
Genoa
New Zealand
Let’s Pray History Repeats With Better Success
London reports Berlin cut off from the outside world on Thursday night following the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. The Daily Mail dispatch from Stockholm notes no immediate explanation for the communications blackout. Nearby Mosquito raids had not caused similar isolation.
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London
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
The
Daily Mail
Stockholm
C I O Plans to Raise 5 Million for Roosevelt Ticket
The Congress of Industrial Organization faces a goal of collecting one dollar from each of its 5 million members to back President Roosevelt and elect a friendly Congress. CIO's Political Action Committee will control the funds with half used nationally and half locally, despite earlier plans to funnel money through the separate NC PAC.
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Hillman
Philip Murray
Mr. Hillman
Dies Says C. I. O. ties Threaten Government, Dies Says
Jasper Texas July 27 Chairman Martin Dies of the House unAmerican activities committee said he proposed sending a report on close collaboration between high ranking government officials and leaders of the C I O political action committee to Attorney General Biddle and the President for immediate prosecution. He cited telegrams letters and telephone calls as evidence of collaboration and said officials could be prosecuted under the Hatch Act and the CIO PAC under Smith Connally amendments. He noted the report was sent in confidence to other committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper
Texas
Martin Dies
House Committee On unAmerican
C. I. O. Political Action Committee
Biddle
Dies
Government to Seize Surplus War Goods at War End
A Senate small business subcommittee estimates the government will own 103.828 billion dollars in surplus war goods after the war. The panel urges private industry be assured full production and jobs, with small business representation on advisory panels and restraints on monopolistic actions. The proposed surplus property administration would be led by a presidential appointee and seek public comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
Tom Stewart
D-Tenn
War Plants Corporation
Yugoslavs Claim 5000 Germans Wiped Out in Berame Area
Free Yugoslav radio reported by Tito that 5,000 German troops were eliminated in the Berame area. Partisans under Lt. Gen. Peko Dapcevic routed a force trying to cut Tito’s lines in the Lim valley ahead of a Bonia drive. Two hundred Germans were captured.
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London
Free Yugoslav Radio
Marshal Tito
Berame
Peko Dapsevic
Tito
Lim Valley
Bonia
Two Montanans Killed in Action in World War II
The War department reports First Lt. Leroy F. Bone of Sav age Montana and Tech. Sgt. Harry L. Northey of Darby Montana were killed in action. Their families are listed as Mrs. Carrie B. Wolf and Mrs. Mary Wentworth. The notices confirm their deaths and honor their service.
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Washington
War Department
Leroy F. Bone
Carrie B. Wolf
Savage, Mont
Tech
Harry L. Northey
Mary Wentworth
Darby
Mont
Oil drilling tests planned on three Roundup tracts
Billings reports Osborn Drilling plans to begin test drilling on three tracts north of Roundup this week. Carter Oil crews near Yellowstone County prepare to test drill the Ten Sleep and the Mifflin dome.
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Billings
Roundup
Osborn Drilling Company
Yellowstone County
Here
Carter Oil Company
Mifflin Dome
Fighter Bombers Plaster Enemy Fronts Across Europe
Allied air forces conducted extensive fighter bomber operations across Germany and occupied Europe. Mosquitos bombed Stuttgart, American fighters supported U S troops against frontline positions, Typhoons and Spitfires aided in Normandy, Liberators hit a German air force supply center at Brussels and Ghent. More than 750 aircraft reportedly strafed enemy troops and guns on the western front.
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London
U. S
Normandy
Brussels
Ghent
Historic Battle Rages in West Normandy
U S Army dispatch reports a major German setback in Normandy as American armor advances 12 miles toward the sea. Towns like Lessay and Periers fall, Coutances rail hub in danger, and over 2 000 German soldiers are captured after heavy Allied air and ground pressure.
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U.P
Normandy
Cherbourg
Lessay
Periers
Coutances
U. S
84Th Nazi
Hauser
der Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Yanks Knock Off 193 Nazi Planes in Balkan Forays
In three days Allied air forces pound Manfred Weiss works in Budapest and other targets across Europe. American heavy bombers and fighters report heavy losses for the Axis with 64 enemy planes shot down and multiple ground missions amid widespread operations from Ploesti to Vienna and Savona.
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Balkan
Rome
Manfred Weiss Steel Works
Budapest
Hungary
Mediterranean
Liberator
Fortress
Weiss Works
Europe
Ploesti-Bucharest
Russia
Poland
European
U. S
Wiener Neudorf
Vienna
Austria
Alebania
Savona
Gulf of Genoa
Yugoslavia
Ploesti
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St. Lo
Chhaotic
By James M. Long
Cerisy la Salle
Camprond
U.S. of Europe
Butte Volunteers
Marines
By Frank Tremaine
Reynolds Packard
C.I.O
Chicago
Political Action Committee
Congress of Industrial Organization
Congress
Sidney Hillman
National Citizens’ Political Action Committee
Stuttgart
West
Henry T. Gorrell
U. S. Army Headquarters
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