Canadians Battle Around Caen and American Push Down Coast
Allied forces surged at Caen as Canadians captured Carpiquet air field and pressed the Cherbourg peninsula offensive. American columns converged on La Haye du Puits area while Bradley’s troops advanced toward Carentan amid heavy rain and limited air support.
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Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Carpiquet
U. S
Cherbourg
la Haye du Puits
Cana
Wooton Elected Pacific Coast Law Enforcement President
R H Wooton Salt Lake City director of the state bureau of criminal investigation was elected president of the Pacific Coast International association of law enforcement officials Saturday in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Press
R. H. Wooton
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Salt Lake City
Pacific Coast International Association of Law Enforcement Officials
Holiday Toll Climbs With Weekend Deaths Across West
Associated Press reports the Independence Day period pushed the U S fatali ties to 317 from a Arizona train wreck to Idaho and Utah totals. Traffic crashes led with 138 deaths, drowning accounted for 85, other causes 94. Idaho saw five violent deaths, Utah three, including two traffic deaths and one miscellaneous.
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Associated Press
Arizona
National Council of Safety
Idaho
Utah
Terror Rises in Paris as Nazis Tighten Repression
Paris endures intensified terror as German forces and Vichy militia resume house to house searches, anti Jewish roundups, and arrests of men for work service in Germany. Refugees describe Paris as panicked and crowded with Jews and partisans amid district by district seizures. Unrest and resistance rise across France, with garrisoned forces confronting partisan attacks on the Mediterranean coast.
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Madrid
Paris
Gestapo
Vichy
Germany
Mediterranean
Armour Returns To Report On Argentine Crisis
Ambassador Norman Armour arrived at Washington airport from Buenos Aires to brief Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt on the tense Argentine situation. He said he had no information on a permanent recall or plans to head the Office of American Republics Affairs, and he carried no memorandum for Hull.
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Washington
Norman Armour
Buenos Aires
Hull
Roosevelt
Argentina
State Department
Armour
Office of American Republics Affairs
Lawrence Duggan
Edelmire Farrell
United Nations
Series of Window Breakings Target Denver Resident
Opal Ritter reported multiple acts of vandalism at her Denver home including bricks thrown through a front window and through French doors. A hose was damaged, and interiors suffered. a later phone call taunted her asking how she liked it.
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Denver
Opal Ritter
Powder Blast Rocks Area for 70 Miles
A blast of seven and a half tons of dynamite at a Bedford warehouse caused a massive explosion with windows shattered across a 70 mile radius. Injuries included 10 people at a Bedford dance hall. Damage topped $25,000 in Manchester and cracks reached Nashua and Fitchburg with fear of an air base bombing. Investigators from the FBI were on scene to determine the cause.
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Bedford
N. H
George E. McClintock
John B. Varreck Company
Boston
Federal Bureau of Investigation
McClintock
Dupont Company
Varreck Organization
Manchester
James F. O'Neil
Nashua
Fitchburg
Mass
Worcester
Grenier Field
New England
Sales Near Goal in Fifth War Loan Drive
Washington reports the fifth war loan drive reached 92 percent of the $16 billion quota through Saturday. Corporate and nonbanking investor sales totaled 11.078 billion, surpassing their target, while individual sales reached 3.607 billion. The total increased by 0.957 billion from the prior day as the drive nears closing on Saturday.
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Washington
Treasury
Bac
Beatrice Sweet Dies. Wife of Candy Company Founder
Mrs Beatrice W Sweet wife of Leon Sweet founder and chairman of Sweet Candy Company died yesterday afternoon Born in Mississippi she married Sweet in Alabama and moved to Salt Lake City in 1904 He had founded the candy company four years earlier
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Salt Lake. City
Beatrice W. Sweet
Leon Sweet
Sweet Candy Company
Mississippi
Sweet
Alabama
Salt Lake City
Soviet Forces Move West In Fast Drive Toward Warsaw
Soviet armies pushed west from Minsk toward Warsaw and Fast Prussia as they cleared Polotsk and breached German defenses. Russian vanguards reportedly advanced up to 40 miles from Minsk. The Finnish command noted a new general offensive on the Karelian isthmus with heavy artillery and air support. Captured German generals rose to 21 in three weeks, with prisoners in the Minsk offensive anticipated to reach about 125000 to 135000.
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Moscow
Minsk
Warsaw
Prussia
Polotsk
Latvia
Lithuania
Baltic
Slutsk
Karelian
Suomenvedenpohja
Karisalmi
Russia
Massachusetts
France
Mimnsk
Red Army
Weather Aids Air Attack Continues Over Europe
London reports up to 500 American heavy bombers from Italy struck Romanian oil targets for a second day. British forces hit German airfields in France while weather allowed operations through cloud. Fortresses bombed Brasov oil facilities and Pitesti rail facilities as Liberators targeted transport hubs and interceptor losses occurred.
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London
Italy
Britain
France
USAAF
Brasov
Bucharest
Pitesti
Ploesti
Germans Predict Roosevelt to Raise Flag at Cherbourg
A German Transocean broadcast quoted by Reuters says President Roosevelt will arrive at Cherbourg within days to attend the hoisting of an American flag on Cherbourg citadel. It adds he will then travel to Scotland to meet Mr. Churchill, then likely proceed to Rome to meet Stalin, though unconfirmed by Allies.
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London
Reuters
Roosevelt
Cherbourg
Scotland
Churchill
Rome
Stalin
Family Cow Sets Calf Record at Stockton Farm
Emil Flood’s cow at Stockton Missouri has produced 17 calves in 10 years including two sets of triplets and three sets of twins.
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Stockton
Emil Flood
Belly Attack Fatal To German Tanks
An American Thunderbolt unit in Normandy uses a raking approach on tanks to strike through thin belly armor. Lt. Col. Harold Holt of Philadelphia says six to eight 50 caliber bullets punch through and damage crew, with less risk from rear defenses.
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Normandy
Thunderbolt
Harold Holt
Philadelphia
Holt
Fall of Minsk Opens Way For Russians
The Red Army stormed Minsk from a German defense estimated at over 200000 troops, marking a decisive victory in the Hitler war. Moscow stresses that this fall reshapes the eastern front and accelerates Allied goals, as Red forces push toward Cherbourg and the threatened German line weakens on a 300 mile Minsk sector with over a million troops advancing 150 miles in 12 days.
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Red Army
Minsk
Normandy
Cherbourg
Hitler
Germany
Russia
Poland
Warsaw
Berlin
Connally Pushes Strong Foreign Plank for Democrats
Senator Connally of Texas urges a clear foreign policy plank to authorize military forces to end aggression if needed. He chairs the senate foreign relations committee and notes the platform debate ahead of the Chicago convention. The piece contrasts Democratic aims with the Republican call for international peace forces and Willkie criticisms.
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Washington
Connally
Texas
Chicago
Senate
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
War production lags. fishing trips postponed until victory
Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell announced that war production remains below desired levels and called for delaying fishing trips until victory is secured. He noted production declines since November.
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Columbus
Ohio
Brehon Somervell
Bonin Islands Invasion Push Reported By Tokyo
Allied forces mounted a major effort across the Pacific as MacArthur’s troops seized Noemfoor in New Guinea, advancing toward the Philippines. Reports say Saipan’s fall nears as fighting intensifies at Iwo Jima Chichi Jima and other targets. Allied air and naval strikes hit Palau Yap Bougainville and additional targets while Japanese defenses stiffen at Imphal Hengyang and in the Kuriles.
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Pacific
Dutch East Indies
Kuriles
Noemfoor
Saipan
Bonin Islands
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Chichi Jima
Aetna
Sixth Army
Kamiri
Biak
MacArthur
New Far Eastern Air Force
Manokwari
Timor
Palau
Yap
Wewak
Rabaul
Kavieng
Bougainville
Garapan
Ikhrul
Imphal
India
Hengyang Key
Hankow-Canton
Fourth Quiet In Idaho
Intermountain communities celebrated the 168th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with speeches and wartime campaign notes. People attended picnics, games, and dances while veterans fished and motorists took short trips with rationed gasoline. The mood reflected the United States' ongoing wartime offensive in its second great war.
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Intermountain
Idaho
United States
Allies Surge Forward on Italian Front
Allied forces push across Italy with Americans within 15 miles of Livorno and eight miles of Arezzo as the Gothic defense line comes under pressure. Fifth Army reports 40 000 prisoners taken since Salerno landing. Cascia d Elsa falls, Siena linked to Arezzo path, and French columns secure routes east of Siena.
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Rome
Italy
Livorno
Leghorn
Eighth Army
Arezzo
Pisa
Rimini
Adriatic
Lake
Trasimeno
34Th Infantry Division
Cecina
Fifth Army
Salerno
Fifth
Cascia d’Elsa
Siena
Driving Lesson In Helena Ends In A Walk For Gas
Sailor Will Anderegg, living on a hill in Helena, Montana, rolled his car for nine blocks to town after discovering it was low on gas. He forgot the ignition key at home, so he trudged back up the hill and returned downtown for a total of 18 blocks.
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Helena
Mont
Will Anderegg
Anderegg
White and Keynes clash over postwar finance at UN conference
At Bretton Woods Harry D White heads a commission to draft a global currency stabilization fund while John Maynard Keynes leads a group to blueprint a world reconstruction bank. They debate gold versus clearing unions and postwar lending, with Keynes praising U S foundations and outlining selective lending for a few nations.
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America
Harry D. White
Britain
Lord Keynes
United Nations Monetary Conference
White
Keynes
World Reconstruction Bank
Fund Commission
Juan Tena
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