Dewey Nominated for President at Republican Convention
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey won the nomination by a 1 056 to 1 vote at the Republican convention as Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio agreed to run as his partner. A Wisconsin delegate supported Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur. Bricker withdrew his own presidential bid to back Dewey.
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Paul Miller
Chicago
Stadium
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Wisconsin
Grant Ritter
Beloit
Douglas A. MacArthur
Dewey
Albany
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Wendell L. Wilkie
New York
Associated Press
Bricker
Chicago Stadium
Japanese surround Hengyang in pivotal China battle
Chinese high command reports Japanese forces encircling Hengyang a vital railway hub in Hunan province. The loss would be China’s gravest setback since 1938, with severe fighting around the city as Japanese aim to push toward Kunming.
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China
Saipan
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Hengyang
Hankow- Canton
Kwelin
Kunming
Rembert James
Central Pacific
Guam
Rota
Tokyo
US. Navy
Marianas
Japan
Guam- Rota
Yap
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Palau
Carolines
Chungking
Hunan
Canton
Hanken
Dewey To Accept GOP Nomination Speech In Chicago
Gov Thomas E Dewey plans a chartered flight from Albany to Chicago this evening to accept the Republican nomination for president. The trip is about four hours long with no immediate comment from Dewey. The mood at the executive mansion is tense as he prepares.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago
Dewey
Executive Mansion
Red Army closes in on Minsk after great air offensive
Soviet forces drive toward Minsk from three directions aided by one of the war’s largest air offensives. Stormoviks blast German armor as the Red Army converges in a semicircular push toward the capital of White Russia. Troops under Bagramian Cherniakhovsky Patvin Kruikin spearhead the northern thrust with air command from Moscow.
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Red Army
Minsk
White
Russia
London
Mogilev
Stalin
Dnepr
White Russia
Moscow
Shklov
Bykhov
Reich
Fatherland
Orsha
Vitebsk
Bohr
Bobruisk
Warsaw
Germany
Ivan Bagramian
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Stormoviks
N. P. Patvin
Bagramian
Timofey Kruikin
Cherniakhovsky
Finland's Path to Ruin Acknowledges Nazi Alignment
A political essay argues Finland has chosen a ruinous path by aligning with Nazi Germany. It blames Field Marshal Mannerheim for steering Finland toward collaboration, likening him to a betrayer and noting the United States' rejection of Finland's stance.
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Finland
Gustav Mannerheim
George Washington
DeWitt MacKenzie
Italy
United States
Balkans
Gustav Mannnerheim
Mussolini
Hujter
der Fuehrer
Mannerheim
Gusto
Norway
Denmark
Belgium
Britain
Manneheim
Manerheim
von Goltz
Soviet Russia
Germany
Fifth Army Slugging Its Way Forward
Rome dispatch reports San Vincenzo fell after a house to house fight and the Fifth Army pressed inland. American armor rolled back resistance capturing Chiusdino Travale and Sasseta, aided by Italian partisans. French forces also advanced in the sector.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
San Vincenzo
Livorno
Fifth Army
Chiusdino
Travale
Siena
Florence
Sasseta
17Th SS
U S Bombers Hit Nazis Hard On Wide Front
London reports massive Allied air offensive across France Romania and Bulgaria with American heavy bombers joining a shuttle mission from Britain Italy and Russia. Targets include Laon Paris Starbrucken Bucharest Chitila and Ploesti with refineries and rail yards attacked and Nazi interceptors downed.
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London
France
Romania
Bulgaria
Britain
Italy
Germany
Laon
Paris
Starbrucken
Calais
Bucharest
Chitila
Ploesti
Karlovo
Sofia
Titan
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
Russia
America
Drohobycz
Lwow
Poland
Great Battle Near Caen May Decide Fate of German Armies
Allied forces hammering toward Caen in eastern Normandy drive breaching the Odon line and threatening routes into Caen from the south and southeast. British and American units press a major armored clash as tens of thousands of prisoners are reported.
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Normandy
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Foras
Caen
Cherbourg
Paris
Odon
Cap de la Hague
Maupertus
Miles C. Dempsey
13Th Corps
Eighth Army
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Esquay
Evrecy
Montgomery
Britain
Monsery
Midway
Associated Press
Roger Greene
Vichy
Montghery
Robert Stattler
Horns Peninsula
Tourville
Erwin Rommel
Tilly-Caes
Final Break With Finland Snow In Offing
Stockholm reports a likely severing of U S Finland ties amid a Berlin Helsinki solidarity declaration. Finnish leaders, under Nazi pressure, sought German military aid as troops paraded through Helsinki and a German force strengthened the eastern front.
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Stockholm
United States
Finland
Helsinki
Berlin
Washington
Germany
Weinland
Russia
Risto Ryti
Edwin Linkomies
Viano Tanner
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Eduard Dietl
von Ribbentrop
Georgia and Northwest Florida Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy and hot tonight and Thursday with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly in the south. Northwest Florida expects cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with thundershowers on Thursday.
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Georgia
South
Florida
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