Bombers strike three theaters in three-way shuttle raid
American and Allied air forces launched a three-way shuttle assault hitting targets in France Romania and Bulgaria from bases in Britain and Italy. More than 750 bombers attacked air dromes near Laon Paris and Saarbrucken while 1000 RAF bombers hit CaJais rail centers and oil rail hubs. From Italy 500 bombers struck Bucharest outskirts and Chitila rail yards with German claims of hits on Bucharest and Ploesti.
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London
France
Romania
Bulgaria
Britain
Italy
Germany
Laon
Paris
Saarbrucken
Calais
Bucharest
Chitila
Ploesti
Karlovo
Sofia
Titan
Berlin
America
Russia
Drohobyc
Lwow
Poland
Hoover Attacks Roosevelt at GOP Convention
Former President Herbert Hoover, 69, delivered a fierce antiliberal speech at the Republican National Convention. He condemned the New Deal as shackling liberties and warned of power politics in foreign affairs. He urged a world organization split into regional divisions with local peace responsibilities.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Roosevelt
General Assembly
Europe
Asia
Western Hemisphere
Central Council
Red Army closes on Minsk with massive air support
Soviet forces push toward Minsk as three-pronged assault led by Gen. Ivan Bagramian and Gen. Cherniakhovsky advance from Orsha and surrounding areas. Stor moviks and Yak fighters hammer German tanks, with Cherniakhovsky near Minsk and Borisov, threatening a northwest outflank from forested lake country.
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Moscow
Red Army
Minsk
White Russia
Warsaw
Germany
Ivan Bagramian
Ivan Chernakhovsky
Stormoviks
N. P. Papivin
Bagramian
Borisov
Allied casualty totals in early European invasion action
The supreme command reported two week Normandy losses from June 6 to 20 totaling 24 162 Americans 13 572 British 2 815 Canadians with 32 000 German prisoners held. US 3 082 killed 13 121 wounded 7 959 missing. British 1 842 killed 8 599 wounded 3 131 missing. Canadian 363 killed 1 359 wounded 1 093 missing.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Supreme Command
Cherbourg
Caen
Normandy
United States
WLB Approves Idaho Stores Holiday for July 3 4
The Denver regional war labor board authorized many Idaho retail businesses to close July 3 and 4 without pay deductions. Authorization applies only to stores or groups that apply through the regional WLB office. War industries are excluded. Gov. Bottolfsen and Atty. Gen. Miller were informed.
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Denver
Regional
War Labor Board
Idaho
J. Glenn Donaldson
Donaldson
WLB
C. A. Bottolfsen
Bert H. Miller
Fire Damages Old Residence in Poca
Fire damaged the N. G. Franklin residence at Bonneville and Garfield, causing about 4000 dollars in losses. The attic apartments fed the blaze, which was brought under control by crews using a new extension ladder. Fire Chief Girard cited smoker carelessness as the probable cause. the three story brick home, built forty years ago, housed Mrs Emma Ainsworth and Horace Ainsworth renting furnished rooms, with ownership by Mrs N G Franklin.
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N. G. Franklin
Bonneville and
Garfield
Pocatello
West Side Company
A. A. Girard
Franklin
Emma Ainsworth
Horace Ainsworth
Elks to Hold Rites for Local Airman Major Mann
Local Elks plan full military honors for Major Ernest Mann at 2 p.m. Thursday services in the Pocatello Elks lodge temple and Mountainview cemetery. The Laughlin Field, Texas death in a P-38 takeoff accident is noted with involvement by Air Field band, color guard, firing squad, and Catholic and Elks officials conducting rites.
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Ernest Mann
Pocatello
Catherine Leute
Marine Pvt
Robert Leute
Laughlin Field
del Rio
Texas
Major Mann
Elks Temple
J. P. Halliwell
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Milton Zener
Air Field Glee Club
Crockett Baxter
Air Field Band
Finland Now Fully Allied With Germany War Effort
Stockholm reports Finland agreed to German military aid after pressure from Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. Helsinki celebrated with German troops and SS officers parading through the capital as Finnish leaders pledged cooperation and a unified front against Russia.
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Stockholm
Finland
Germany
Russia
Helsinki
Risto Ryti
Edwin Linkomies
Vaino Tanner
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Eduard Diet
von Ribbentrop
United States
Assassination of Vichy Propaganda Minister Henriot Stuns Paris
The Paris killing of Philippe Henriot, Vichy information and propaganda minister, is reported by axis radios. Simultaneous broadcasts quote Laval praising Henriot as a patriot while Trans Ocean notes uncertainty over killers' uniforms. Henriot, named minister in January 1944, led efforts to suppress French guerrilla activity.
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London
Philippe Henriot
Vichy
Paris
Axis
Henriot
Berlin
Pierre Laval
Trans
Ocean
Laval
DNB
As of France
Magus
Japs Surround Hengyang in Critical Hunan Rail Junction
The Chinese high command reports Japanese forces have surrounded Hengyang a vital railway center in Hunan province. A Chungking communique says severe fighting is underway but the city remains in Chinese hands.
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Hengyang
China Rail Junction
Hunan
China
Canton
Hankow
Chungking
Allies Strike Oil Sources
Allied air chiefs say Germany faces an acute oil shortage as Britain reports German production cut to one third its max. Allied bombing has targeted oil facilities, with the aim of starving Germany of fuel to hasten surrender.
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London
Tunisia
Germany
Britain
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Deer Buck Trespasses Into Oakland Home
Katherine Gray awoke to a buck standing on her living room rug in Oakland California. The intrusion shattered a window and the deer exited through a kitchen window before local pound workers captured it and returned it to a nearby garden.
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Oakland
Calif
Katherine Gray
Poundmen
GOP Adopts Plank for World Peace
Chicago report notes the GOP platform favors American cooperation to prevent wars with peace forces and rejects a world state. It pledges liberty at home, private enterprise, and cooperation between federal, state, and local governments with civil groups. It warns of four more years of New Deal policy concentrating power and endorses no communist or fascist methods. The plan targets labor reform, maintains an American market price for farmers via loans and crop supports, and promises aid to handle surpluses while eliminating subsidies as price support.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
McCammon Cadet Receives Cadet Honors at Marfa
Ervin L. Anderson of McCammon won best soldier honors in his cadet class at the Marfa Army Air Field advanced two-engine pilot school of the AAF training command. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ervin L Anderson of McCammon and received his silver pilot award.
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Marfa, Texas
Ervin L. Anderson
McCammon
Marfa Army Air Field
AAF Training Command
Anderson
Dewey Is Nominated Republican Presidential Candidate
The 1944 Republican convention in Chicago nominated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president with Gov. John W. Bricker as running mate. A lone Wisconsin delegate backed Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, while Bricker withdrew his own presidential bid after Dewey’s nomination. Dewey announced plans to fly to Chicago and address the convention.
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Chicago Stadium
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Dewey
Bricker
Wisconsin
Grant Ritter
Beloit
Gen
Douglas A. MacArthur
Albany
Chicago
M.W.T
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Wendell L. Willkie
New York
Associated Press
Comvention Hall
Livorno Falls to Fifth Army in Italian Campaign
In a house-to-house battle near Livorno, the Fifth Army wrested the port area from German control. San Vincenzo and nearby towns faced fierce fighting as American armored units pressed forward toward Siena and Florence with Italian partisans aiding operations. Sasseta was surrounded and captured with other villages secured along the advance.
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Miles C. Dempsey
13Th Corps
Eighth Army
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Caen
Bernard L. Montgomery
Peninsular
Odon
Esquay
Evrecy
Montgomery
Britain
Rome
San Vincenzo
Livorno
Fifth Army
Chiusdino
Travale
Siena
Florence
Sasseta
Heavy Rain Sets Record in Idaho Falls Month
In June 1944 Idaho Falls saw near five inches of rainfall with 2.41 inches in the past 24 hours, totaling 4.96 inches for the month and 8.37 inches since January. Weather records cited benefits to crops as county beef and crop conditions faced storm impacts.
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Idaho Falls
CAA
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Kunmiang
14Th Airforce
Joseph W. Stilwell
Yunnan
Guam
Rota
Saipan
Tokyo
Deer
GOP
M’ Arthur
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