Soviet Troops Overwhelm and Capture Mogilev in White Russian Drive
Soviet forces crushed Mogilev and pressed toward Minsk as part of a White Russian offensive. Russian troops advanced toward Baranovichi and Brest Litovsk while 1,150 towns fell under the Soviet advance, and the Twelfth German division at Mogilev was wiped out with heavy losses and captives.
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London
U.P
Mogilev
Minskow
Warsaw
Berlin
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Ostritsa
Sarisov
Minsk
Konstantin K
Lepel
Baranovichi
Brest Litovsk
Petrozavodsk
Karelian Soviet Republic
White Russia
Bobruisk
Red Army
Bricker Chosen as Dewey's Running Mate
Dewey formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination at Chicago Stadium and warns that peace making is not for old quarrelsome leaders. Bricker as running mate joins a convention scene watched by thousands, with final adjournment after 8:42 p.m. remarks.
Choice Lamb Cuts Again Rationed
The Office of Price Administration announced new ration changes effective Sunday. Choice lamb cuts and some cheeses return to rationing, beef point values rise due to a 12 percent drop in civilian rationed beef. Butter remains 12 points per pound. cheddar 10. perishable cheeses at four. canned milk increases 2 to 3 points. All other meat except lamb and beef stays point free.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Price
Chester Bowles
OPA Ex
British Tanks Open New Clear Paths in Normandy Mines
The British army on the Normandy front uses Sherman tanks with long chained cylinders to beat minefields. As tanks move the cylinders spin and whip the chains, triggering anti mine and anti personnel devices to clear paths for troops and airmen.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Dewey Acceptance Speech Text From Republican Convention
Governor Thomas E. Dewey delivers acceptance remarks at the Republican national convention in Chicago Stadium on June 28 with praise for Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, noting Bricker’s nationwide campaign on party issues and government reform. Dewey expresses deep sense of responsibility at this grave historic hour.
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Chicago Stadium
Dewey
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Ohio
John W. Bricker
John Bricker
United States
Montana Thursday Weather Update
Partly cloudy conditions with a few light showers expected west of the continental divide Thursday afternoon. Temperatures warm up for Thursday across the region.
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Montana
Continental Divide
Fleet Again Shells the Kuriles
U S fleet shells the Kuriles and strikes Tinian Guam and Rota as marines and Army troops push north on Saipan. Nimitz ends a one day silence to report bombardment at Kurabu Zaki and says forces made gains on Saipan’s east coast and Garapan area.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
U.P
United States
Kuriles
Tinian
Guam
Rota Islands
Marianas
Pacific Ocean
Saipan
Japan
U. S
Far Eastern
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Frank J. Fletcher
Ninth Fleet
Kurabu Zaki
Paramushiro
Nimitz
Donnay
Hashigoru
Garap Anh
Garapan
Nafutan
Gallagher Named War Bond Drive Director for Silver Bow
Charles H. Gallagher, Butte business leader, elected war finance chairman for Silver Bow county and director of the Fifth War Loan drive. He urged ongoing public support to supply fighting dollars, succeeding R. L. Ruhle who died last week. Gallagher promises active guidance to finish the campaign and stresses war bonds as a patriotic duty for all residents.
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Charles H. Gallagher
Butte
Silver Bow County
Asu Vey Beim
Mr. Gallagher
R. L. Ruhle
War Finance Committee
Gallagher
Ruhle
Three Railroads Are Awarded Medals
Three railroads were awarded Harriman medals for 1943 safety records. Union Pacific received the gold medal while Duluth Massabe and Iron Range railway earned the silver and Charleston and Western Carolina railway took the bronze at a New York ceremony.
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New York
Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Duluth, Massabe & Iron Range Railway
Charleston & Western Carolina Railway
Japs Encircle Hengyang
Hengyang in Hunan province, a junction on major rail lines, has been encircled by Japanese forces. The Chinese high command warned of a possible southward push to complete the Canton-Hankow route, threatening China’s unity and supply lines. American air forces report heavy losses but continued operations against Japanese concentrations in Hunan and Yunnan.
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Chungking
Hengyang
Canton- Hankow
Hunan
Kwangsi
Canton-Hankow
Kwangsi Province
China
Yunnan
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States Fourteenth Air Force
Changsha
Kunming
Liang Han Chao
Butte to Greet Heroes Today
Butte will welcome two American war heroes Lt. Ernest Childers and Sgt. Charles E Kelly arriving at 2 55 PM at the local airport. They will appeal for support of the Fifth War Loan Drive at an 8 PM Friday war bond show in the Fox theater, with a 20 car cavalcade greeting the heroes at the airport.
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Butte
America
Ernest Childers
Charles E
Commando) Kelly
Victory Labor Management Committee
Fox Theater
Labor Management Committee
German Casualties Reach 200000 Since Invasion
A German broadcast heard in London reports more than 200000 Allied front casualties for Germany since the invasion of France. Normandy losses total 75000 with 32000 prisoners, Italy six weeks losses 80000 to 100000, and Vitebsk battle 30000 with 20000 killed.
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France
London
Normandy
Italy
Vitebsk
Yankees Advance Toward Leghorn
Fifth Army Americans punched through stiff German resistance and moved toward Leghorn in Italy. The line pressed inland to 43 miles from Florence as the British Eighth Army seized heights near Perugia and advanced around Chiusi.
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RCME
U.P
Fifth Army
Leghorn
Florence
Eighth Army
Perugia
Italy
San Vicenzo
Sassetta
Siena
Monte Rotonda
Travale
Chiusdino
Montieri
Chiusi
Lake Trasimeno
Chienti
Ancona
Adriatic
2000 Planes Hit Enemy Targets
Allied air forces launched a massive multi theater bombing campaign with over 2000 U S bombers and fighters hit targets in France Germany Bulgaria and Romania as part of a broader round the clock assault by about 7000 Allied aircraft. Weather cleared in the west allowing raids on air dromes industrial centers and communications lines behind the lines. The bombing triangle enclosing Axis Europe was reportedly completed with American Fortresses linking bases from Berlin to Italy and then to Russian airfields.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U. S
Nazi Europe
France
Germany
Bulgaria
Romania
Britain
Italy
Axis Europe
Berlin
Russia
Drohobycz
Lwow
Poland
Saarbrucken
James H. Doolittle
French Patriots Kill Vichy Minister in Paris
French underground operatives killed Philippe Henriot, Vichy propaganda minister, in his Paris home early Wednesday. Reported by Axis radios, 15 to 20 uniformed patriots carried out the shooting. no arrests were reported by Axis broadcasts or Laval. Transocean said the attackers escaped.
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London
Paris
Philippe Henriot
Vichy
Goebbels
France
Axis
Pierre Laval
Transocean
Nine German Attacks Are Smashed
British tanks routed the main German armored force in western France near Caen and Odon. Cromwell advance pushed beyond the river, after persistent counter attacks by Rommel’s Panzer divisions failed to halt the breakthrough.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
Miss Mary Brady Pioneer Telegrapher Dies at 92
Miss Mary Brady 92 longtime Montana Western Union telegraph operator died Wednesday in Missoula where she lived with relatives. Born in New York City she left at 16 to work as telegraph operator after answering an ad in Buffalo. She earned status as the oldest woman telegrapher in the United States.
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Mary Brady
Montana
Western Union
Missoula
Pennsylvania
United States
Miss Brady
New York City
Abraham Lincoln
Buffalo
Union Pacific
Plains
Central Pacific
Promontory
Utah
American Advances Open Direct Attacks on Japanese Mainland
Secretary Forrestal said Pacific gains after Saipan will allow large scale air and sea offensives against Japan Philippines and East Indies. A map illustrated shifting tides of war showing B-29 reach and coverage across southern Japan and surrounding areas. He noted Japanese fleet aircraft were largely neutralized enabling westward operations.
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Pacific
Washington
U?p
Saipan
James V. Forrestal
Marianas Islands
New Guinea
Marianans
Japan
Philippines
East Indies
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Forrestal
Marianas
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By Douglas B. Cornell
Saipan Island
International Soundphoto
U.S
Rota
William F. Tyree
C. H. Gallagher
Cc. H. Gallagher
Childers
Kelly
United Press
By Walter Cronkite
Caen
By Joseph Grigg
Erwin Rommel
Orne Canal
Caene
Odon
Esquay
Evrecy
Orne
Cap de Hague
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