Conquest of Saipan Ends in Pacific War Bloodiest Battle
The conquest of Saipan Island closes the Pacific drive on the Philippines and China coast. Allied forces including the Second and Fourth Marines and the 27th Infantry Division incur heavy losses, with Japanese dead estimated up to 20,500. Saipan’s airfields and harbor facilities promise extended reach for American submarines and bombers from a base 1,500 miles from Tokyo.
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Saipan
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Philippines
China Coast
Army
27Th Infantry
New York National Guard
105Th Regiment
Troy
Pacific
Tokyo
Japan
Death Toll at 32 in Troop Train Wreck near Jestico
Identified dead in Thursday night troop train wreck in a gorge of Clear River rose to 32. Among the deceased are 30 soldiers and the engineer and fireman of the train.
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Jestico
Tenn
Clear River
Disordered Germans Flee Before Advancing Soviets
Soviet forces swept westward toward Kaunds in Lithuania as German resistance crumbled. Red Army captained Byelorussian and Polish fronts, seizing Lita and over 1,200 towns on the central front. Unconfirmed British reports claimed Wilno fallen, while Berlin acknowledged heavy losses.
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London
Wilno
Vilna
Red Army
Kaunds
Rovno
Wino
Germany
Bsthwania
Poland
Lita
Wilco
Sod
Preas
Berlin
Guards Chapel Demolished By Robot Bombs
British reporting confirms three major London landmarks hit as robot bombs devastated Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks Fleet Street Bankruptcy Court and the Regent Palace Hotel. Casualties tallied with 1 killed at the hotel and three at the court as guardsmen and civilians sought shelter underground.
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London
Guards Chapel
Royal Military Chapel
Wellington Barracks
Lord Bay
Grenadier Guards
Gandhi Would Split India Into Hindu and Moslem States
Mohandas K. Gandhi suggests partitioning India into separate Hindu and Moslem states to break the independence deadlock with Yadin’s plan. Jinnah asks Rajagopalachari to present the proposal to the Moslem League directly, bypassing intermediaries. Cripps’ 1932 plan failed partly due to Moslem insistence on a guaranteed independent state.
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Gandhi
India
Associated Press
Bombay
Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Yadin
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
All-India
Moslem League
Chakavarthi Ra
Jagopalachari
All-India Congress
Jinnah
Rajagopalachari
Willkie Manager Predicts Dewey Victory in 1940
Samuel F. Pryor of Connecticut, Wendell J. Willkie's eastern campaign manager, yesterday gave an unqualified endorsement to Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican ticket in the forthcoming 1940 presidential contest.
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New York
Samuel F. Pryor
Wendell J. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Sports Scoreboard Roundup From Williamsport to Chicago
Eastern standings show Williamsport at 15 Albany 6 and Binghamton 7 Scranton 4 followed by Elmira 3 Hartford 1 and Wilkes Barre 5 Utica 4. National notes list Chicago 6 New York 2 and Boston 0 with St Louis 3, American League reports New York 4 Detroit 3 and Philadelphia 8 Chicago 2.
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Williamsport
Albany
Albane
Binghamton
Scranton
Elmira
Hartford
Wilkes Paire
Utica
Wilkes-Barre
National
Chicago
New York
Ay Aewport
Brooklyn
Louis
Boston
St. Louis
York
Detroit
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Inis
Washington
Lenis
American Troops Sweep Biak Islands for Stragglers
Allied forces on Biak Island pressure remaining Japanese in no quarter mop up. In the first week of July, 213 enemy dead were counted, bringing Biak campaign casualties since May 27 to 3 26 percent. Three Japanese airfields on Biak have been captured, with at least one reportedly in use.
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New Guinea
Biak Island
Mounted
Schouten
Philippines
German U Boat Losses In June Exceed Sinkings
Washington report shows joint Roose velt and Churchill briefing that German submarine battles in June 1944 failed across the board. No exact figures, but the anti submarine campaign monthly report claims merchant losses were at their war low while for every UN vessel sunk many boats were sent to the bottom.
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Washington Tp
Roosevelt
Churchill
Wither
Ohdersea
United Nations
Stalin Honors Son London And Cites War Feats
Stalin praised his son Vasily Stalin in a war communique amid reports that Soviet forces captured Lida station and nearby airport. The Baltic front pushed into 700 towns northeast of Wilno, with rail hubs at Daugavpils and Lentupy cited as key gains as German forces suffered heavy losses.
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Stalin
London
Joseph Stalin
Lida
Cok Wassily Stalin
Ivan D
Cherniakohhovsky
Moscow
Wilno
Braslas
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Druga
Lentupy
Wiing
Fifth Army Seizes Key To Livorno
Fifth Army reports capture of Volterra, last mountain hub guarding Livorno approaches. Allied vanguards fought within ten miles of Leghorn as fires rage in the port. German counterattacks slowed progress toward the Gothic Line above Pisa while Italian and Polish forces teamed with the British Eighth Army to take Filottrano near Ancona.
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Rome
Volterra
Livorno
Leghorn
Pisa
Florence
Rimini
Faterra
Fifth
Livorno, But It Managed To Make Sight-Gaims
Rosigneng
Eighth Army
Filottrano
Adriatic
Anona
Caen Front: Rubble Hides Nazi Snipers Amid Devastation
Allied forces report complete control of Caen's north bank of the Orne after heavy bombardment and fierce rubble fighting. German defenders, trapped among cratered streets and debris, are said to have fled or been killed, with only a few civilians remaining in the ghostly city as evacuees.
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Caen
Orne
Bauberg de Vanceltes
St Tne
Sui Sre Les
Caes
The
Beld
Oficer
Cassino
Tialian
Caenan
Bersnard L. Montgomery
Wu Aus
Ceen
Julien
Bort
Martle
Peter and Tito Agree To Plebiscite
London UPI reports Allied sources say King Peter of the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile and Marshal Tito signed a pact to back a postwar plebiscite. Tito would hold complete command of Yugoslav military forces with no return to the country until Germans are defeated. A Yugoslav federation would include Slovenia Croatia Serbia Montenegro Macedonia Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nazi collaborator property would be confiscated.
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London
UPI
Morocco
Algiers
Peter
Tito
Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Croatia
Serbia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Bosnia and Hérzegovina
Albany Lawyer Joins Attorney General's Staff
Pau l C. Reuss, 38, of Albany, was appointed as an assistant attorney general assigned to the state department of audit and control. A Albany native, he studied at Albany Law School and began practice there before joining the BI in 1992. He previously led alien venemy cartrel in New Jersey until a resignation on December 15, 1942.
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Albans GP
Paul C. Reuss
Albany
State Department of Audit
Ani
Reiss
Albany Law School
Venemy Cartrel
New Jersey
Churches Hold Services for Circus Dead
Hartford churches prayed for victims of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire as eight unidentified bodies lay at Hartford Hospital morgue. Names added to the death list include Doris Schinkel and Laura Travers, with mourners in tears across city churches. Authorities prepared for funeral services and vowed to preserve data to aid identification.
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Hartford, Conn
Hartford
Ringling Brothers
Barnus
Doris Schinkel
Manchester
Sally” Lapuk
Laura Travers
Bloomfield
Poigmant Grief
Hartford Hospital
Broderick
Boyajian
Alice
Song
William Mortensen
Walter Weissenborn
De Gaulle Concludes Conferences With Roosevelt the Washington visit ends without a formal accord
General Charles De Gaulle wraps talks with President Roosevelt after meetings that yielded no formal agreement yet fostered a spirit of mutual understanding. French and American officials expect a concrete pact later. De Gaulle visits a Washington church, then Blair House, and plans a press conference before travel to New York, Canada, and back to Algiers.
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Washington
Blair House
Roosevelt
White House
Atlantic
Tuals
de Gaullet
New York
Canada
Algiers
Army Always Ready Declared by Mexican General
Mexico City's Gen. Cristobal Guzman Cárdenas, chief of staff of the defense ministry, said the Mexican army has always been ready to fight. He noted that Mexico now has a similar level of prepared troops as Brazil sent to aid the Allies and commented on Padilla’s statement that troops would be sent only if asked.
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Mexico City
Cristobal Guz
Cardenas
Defense Ministry
Brazil
Padilla
Russians Tighten Divorce Laws and Birth Subsidies
The Supreme Soviet ordered harder divorce rules and broad family support. Financial aid rises with each child, including a 400 ruble birth grant and monthly stipends up to 3900 rubles, plus special allowances for the fourth and subsequent children. Tax boosts target families with fewer than three children and exemptions protect soldiers, students, and disabled individuals. Pregnant women gain extended leave, better rations, and access to nurseries and kindergartens.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
America
Russia
Grim Fighting Continues In China
Chinese high command reported little change along the Canton Hankow railway with units that broke the siege of Heiyang 200 miles north of the Japanese held line still locked in battle. The communiqué said defenders held their own despite heavy casualties on both sides and noted Chinese units on Hengyang tightened the noose while enemy counterattacks at several points were repelled.
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Chungking
Canton Hankow
Heigyang
Hengyang
Caen Falls to Allied Drive in Normandy Front
U S troops batter Nazis in Caen as British and Canadian forces push from Caen toward Paris. The fall ends German resistance in the area while holdouts are trapped NW of the city. Caen’s capture opens the route to the Seine as Allied forces consolidate bridgehead gains and press toward the next objective.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied
Caen
Normandy
la Haye du Paris
Paris
el Alamein
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
North Africa
3 Division
Dewey Family Attends Quiet Quaker Hill Church
Gov Thomas E Dewey and family attend Christ Church at Quaker Hill in a quiet worship by a nonsectarian congregation. The group sat apart, joined in hymns, and listened as pastor Ralph Lankler urged religion to be positive practical and productive.
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Dewey
Quaker Hill Chapel
Pawling CP
Thomas E. Dewey
Christ Church
Quaker Hill
Former Williams College Teacher Shot in Bolivia
Jose Antono Arge, 43, Bolivian Leftist Revolutionary Party leader and former Williams College professor, was shot in La Paz by an unidentified assailant and was near death. He had served as deputy for La Paz and senator for Potosi, with a history as exile, educator, and library director in Chile.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Jose Antono Arge
Revolutionary Party
Arze
Arzehewre
Potosi
Lefis
Volsionary
E Thi
Wes Hams Colege
Chilean Congress Library
Democrats Call for Strong Foreign Plank
Two Senators Truman and Timnell urged a strong plainly worded foreign policy for the 1944 Democratic platform. They join 22 other Democrats in Chicago two days before the National Convention to draft material for a platform focusing on international affairs after the war.
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America
Truman
D-Mo
Timnell
Chicago
Veterans Hospitals Call for About 1000 Nurses
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines announces nearly 1,000 registered nurses are needed across 83 veterans hospitals nationwide. The recruitment targets positions in general medical and surgical units, tuberculosis wards, and neuropsychiatric services with shifts up to eight hours daily for six days weekly.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ ‘Affairs Ae
Hines
Reverse Lend-Lease Benefits U S Shipping
UPI reports reverse lend lease has supplied 345,100,003 in repairs fuel stores and services for American prefettant ships in UK and British Empire ports, aiding estimates and war shipping administration by the British Ministry of War Transport.
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Washington
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