Americans Break Through Germans Near Coutances In Normandy
Allied reports say U S tank columns pierced the German western Normandy line driving to within five miles of Coutances. The breakthrough split toward Canisy and Cerisy tal Salle with dense armor and artillery, forcing chaotic German retreat and threatening encirclement of the 81st Corps.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied
United States
Normandy
Coutances
81Th Corps
George S. Patton
Searoast
Lessay
Periers
al Aiand
Canisy
France
Cerisy
Tal Salle
Camp Rond
St. Loe
Useless Cherbourg Slows Allied Landing Efforts
Secretary Stimson revealed Cherbourg, captured a month earlier, was so wrecked that it remains nearly useless to Allied supply lines. He noted D-Day beaches still required most men and matériel, and described hedged fields and deep ditches as a trench system mirroring World War I obstacles.
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Washington
GFI
Normandy
Mar Stimson
Cherbourg
Stimson
No Frolic for Fraus as War Demands All Women Work
In a sweeping wartime order the German regime bans leisure for women and directs front line troops to perform manual labor. The action assigns bridge building and road repair to the army, sidelining the Todt Speer labor organizations and central figures like Goebbels.
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Stockholm
Germany
Eastern League scoreboard and delayed games noted
The Eastern division shows Albany beating Wilkes Barre Bing ham ton 8 to 1, Elmira 0 in 13 innings, Gtica 20 Williamsport 5, Scranton at Hartford postponed by rain. National league Cincinnati 4 Boston 2, St Louis 8 Philadelphia 7, Pittsburgh at New York postponed by rain, Chicago at Brooklyn postponed by rain. American Cleveland 8 New York 1, Boonton 6, Detroit 0 Chicago 4, Washington 0, Philadelphia 7 St Louis 5.
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Albany
Wilkes Barre
Binghamton
Elmira
Gtica
Williamsport
Scranton
Hartford
National
Cincinnati
Boston
Louis
Philadelphia
Lewis
Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Boonton
Detroit
Washington
St. Louis
Argentines Reaffirm Policy Demonstration Near Embassy
A large orderly protest in Buenos Aires supporting Argentina's foreign policy ended with a noise bomb outside Le Nacion building causing minor damage. The crowd then moved toward the foreign ministry after a radio address by Foreign Minister Orlado Pefuffo defended the government line amid US criticism of pro Axis leanings.
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Buenos Aires
le Nacion
United States
Foreign Ministry
Orlando Pefuffo
Argentina
Six Mail Sacks Rifled for Cash
Six mail pouches were ripped open in a major theft in the East. Postal inspectors recovered torn sacks in a Solvay gravel pit. About 9 000 pieces of mail were dispersed as bags were opened, with 73 checks and seven money orders found among the remains. The victimized addresses spanned Auburn Geneva and Oswego.
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Syracuse
Solvay
G E. Doran
Auburn
Geneva
Oswego
Robert J. Demong
Suvay
Britain Hears Moscow Salvos At Victory Day Festivities
The Moscow broadcast marked a festive Moscow evening with five triumph orders and roaring victory guns. Radio reception in Britain was clear as 200 salvos from 22 inch guns sounded between songs and marches by Polish Ukrainian Lithuanian Latvian choirs.
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London
Moscow
Britain
Feminine Touch Award Won by Miss Wheatland
The Maritime Commission awarded Miss Mary F. Wheatland five dollars for her Philadelphia regional construction office registration. The award mirrors plans to move women’s lavatories away from wash basins. The award was among several for sea sessions citing tangible savings in time or materials.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Mary F. Wheatland
Commission
Philadelphia
Nazis Name Conspiring Generals in Plot
The German announcement identifies General Friedrich Olbricht and General Erich Hoepner as key conspirators alongside Maj. Gen. Ludwig Beck in the attempted coup against Hitler. Olbricht, described as leader, was said executed. Beck reportedly shot himself after the failed plot. Hoepner awaits sentence.
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London
UPI
Ludwig Beck
Adolf Hitler
Friedrich Olbricht
Jeader
Erich Hoepner
Berlin
Olbricht
Georeg Hoepner
Beck
Sete
General Beck
Bernisgard
Goebbels
Goehbels
Otte Ys
Splintors
Hoepner
Mikolajczyk Seeks Stalin Talks for Polish Unity
London premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk traveled to Moscow to confer with Premier Joseph Stalin about repairing Poland’s strained Soviet relations. A possible merger of his London government with the Polish National Liberation Committee looms under Russian pressure and British approval, with personnel reshuffles likely to ease hostility to Russia. A border alignment near the Curzon Line might be discussed.
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London
Stanislaw Mikola- Keyk
Poland
Moscow
Stalin
Mikolajczyk
Polish National Liberation Committee
Britain
Wold
Russia
Kazimierz Sosnikowski
Curzon Line
Tito's Partisans wipe out 5000 Germans in Berame area
Free Yugoslav radio quoted Marshal Tito announcing that 5,000 Germans were killed in the Berame area. Partisan forces led by Lieut. Peko Dapčević routed the German column attempting to cut Tito's communications in the Lim valley. About 200 Germans were captured.
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London
Free
Marshal Tito
Berame
Peko Dapsevic
Tito
Lim Valley
Bosnia
Prominent Greek Orthodox Layman Dies in Richmond
Constantine Stephano, 78, president of Stephano Brothers cigarette makers and noted Greek Orthodox lay leader, died unexpectedly in Richmond Washington during a trip devoted to church affairs. He traveled widely in Greek American affairs and claimed broad experience across towns in the United States and Europe.
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Philadelphia
Constantine Stephano
Stephano Brothers
Cigarette Manufacturecs
Richmond
Stephano
United
Europe
Ringling Circus Takes to Road Monday
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus will move from winter headquarters to Akron O on Monday to open at the Rubber Bowl on August 4. George Smith general manager said the circus train has been cut from seven to seven with tents poles and equipment no longer required.
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Serasote
Fla
Robots Bomb Barrage Hit Southern England. Fear of New Weapon
Aerial robot bombs intensified last night across southern England, wounding civilians, destroying homes and shops, and trapping a family. Officials denied reports of incendiaries or larger rotor-armed weapons, while Allied observers debated the existence of a ten ton secret device.
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London
England
Germany
Meiners
Ministry of Home Security
Children Electrocuted in New York After Storm
Maureen Zane and two year old Theodore Smith were killed when a high voltage wire on a waterlogged street snapped during a storm. A neighbor reported the girl stepped on the live wire while carrying the child.
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New York
Maureen Zanel
Theodore Smith
Beautiful but Dumb Says Rudy Wife Files for Divorce
Bettejane Vallee 22 years younger than Rudy Vallee testified yesterday that he called her beautiful but dumb. She sought a divorce after eight months of marriage, amid claims he wanted freedom and that she loved him and tried to make it work. Vallee described a troubled union with two separations and his recent Coast Guard Reserve retirement.
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Los Angeles
Bettejane
Greer Vallee
Rudy Vallee
Rudy
Vallee
Vailees
Coast Guard
Pelley Letter Ties Wheeler Ford Lindbergh to Sedition Trial
government later introduced letters in a sedition conspiracy case linking Ei liam Dudley Pelley to Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley Henry Ford Charles A Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler. The 1941 missive claimed a plan to alter U S history with Ford’s finances Lindbergh’s prestige and Wheeler’s Capitol Hill influence to execute their alleged act.
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Pelley
Wheeler
Ford
Lindbergh
Moseley
Washington UA
Eiliam Dudley Pelley
George van Horn Moseley
U.S Army
Sears
Peliey
Silver Shires
Colossa
Henry Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
Senator Wheeler
Montana
the Fetter
Lindergh
Capitol Hill
Japanese Destroyer Sunk and Tinian Advance Reported
Washington dispatch reports U S carrier based planes sinking a destroyer and escort ships in the western Caroline islands. Marines gain control of the southern third of Tinian including Mt Lasso with air support from Thunderbolt fighters. Casualties total 158 KIA 41 WIA 32 MIA and 62 prisoners. civilians 80. Truk attacked by Seventh Army Air Force Liberators. carrier planes claim several Japanese vessels sunk and 21 on ground. five enemy planes downed. Four U S pilots were lost but four saved.
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Washington Upi
Truk Siso
Seventh Army Air Force
Palew Group
Yap
Uiithi
Carolines
United States
Ration Point Changes Postponed in Food Rationing
Washington postpones changes to ration point values on meats and dairy until at least August 13. The Office of Price Administration extends the two week delay of WHA orders to remove most beef steaks and roasts from rationing by August 1, while restoring point values for pork loins and hams. Three new ten point stamps become valid Sunday in ration book four for meats fats and dairy products with no stated expiry.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
GPA
WHA
OPA
Collectivism Inevitable Says Cornell Professor
Dr. Carl L. Becker, Cornell University professor emeritus, told the New York Citizens Conference that collectivism is inevitable in modern society. He urged adoption of social democracy as a bargaining choice before drift makes it inescapable, noting that democracies have varied forms of collectivism in the last century.
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Hamilton
America
Carl L. Becker
Cornell University
New York
Becker
Dr. Becker
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Frankin Roosevelt
Nazis Honor Woman Who Rode Inside an Experimental Robot
London radio reported Mrs. Hanna Reisel received the Iron Cross First Class for firing inside an experimental robot during a 1932 test. She was seriously injured despite an emergency landing device. The radio praised Mia Reisckh as a biological phenomenon resistant to pressure who reached speeds over 500 miles per hour in glide maneuvers.
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London
Berlin
Hanna Reisel
Mia Reisckh
Giidera
General McNair Dead in World War II Battle Casualties
Gen McNair head of American air and ground war plans was killed by enemy fire in Normandy while on special assignment. War Department released casualty figures showing World War II toll rising higher than 1917 to 1948 conflicts. Marshall praised McNair as the brains behind the ground forces built into a powerful war machine. Secretar y Stimson also announced new battle casualty totals reflecting fierce fighting on distant fronts. Continued on Page Sixteen.
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Washington
Lesley J. McNair
War Department
George C. Marshall
McNair
U S Bombers Hit Front Lines and Budapest Factories
U S bomber formations pounded frontline German positions while 500 American heavies attacked the Manfred Weiss Works in Budapest, largest Hungarian plant. Allied fighter escorts and weather limited west front raids, with raids also hitting rail and air hub targets in Brussels Ghent and East Prussia reports.
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London
United States
Italy
Manfred Weiss
Budapest
Hungary
Wormandy
R Aafl
Brussels
Ghent
East Prussia
Serge
Maros
Kolezs
Belgrade
Montenezra
Dear Miss M M F You May Snore OPA Eviction Notice
A Chicago tenant identified as Miss M. F faces eviction after a noise dispute with her landlord. The OPA tent control office advised the woman to challenge the eviction, noting she had reportedly shared sleep and moaned for twenty years. The rent director urged she treat the eviction notice as legal.
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Chicago
OPA
Wnani
MS Ups
Chicago Defense Area
M. F
Parachute Chaplain Describes D-Day Invasion
Captain George B. Wood of Austin reports D-Day airborne work as a chaplain, saying about 39 chaplains jumped with their units four to six hours before the invasion. He recalls the invasion as far rougher than prior operations in Sicily and Italy.
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Iondon GR
George B. Wood
Austin
Mian
Norhandy
Ihe
Beachem
Russians Capture Five Enemy Bastions Across Vistula Front
The Associated Press reports a major Soviet offensive with rapid advances on multiple fronts. Five enemy bastions fell, including near Lwow and Stanis ignow, as Soviet forces crossed the San and pushed toward Germany, seizing rail junctions in Latvia and Lithuania and expanding a wide region north to Italy. Berlin claims Vistula defenses breached southeast of Warsaw and hints at potential Oder River retreat.
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Moscow
Vistula River
Warsaw
Deblin
Pulawy
Bialystok
London
Lwow
San River
Germany
Iself
Biairstox
Stanisignow
Daugavpus
Rezekne
Latvia
Siauliai
Lithuania
Baltc
Oder River
Poland
Berlin
Oder
Silesia
A L P Attacks Governor Dewey Over State Policy
The American Labor Party released its 1914 state program accusing Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of failing to maintain the Democratic tradition. It says a large state surplus funds social services cuts and schools, denies aid to poor cities, opposes the federal war ballot, and ignores racial and mixed-race discrimination concerns as their commission’s recommendations are ignored.
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New York
American Labor Party
Thomas £. Dewey
Dewey
Hywhan Blumberg
L. P
Poisoned Bread Incident Reported on Trolley
An FIA man claimed last night that he placed a loaf of bread on a trolley, laced with rat poison. Police and railcar conductors warned the public as investigators pursued the failing, hazardous lead late at night.
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Boson
Fia
Bereees Park
Andres Soarsing
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