Massed Red Tanks Threaten Krakow Frontline Breakthrough
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet forces under Marshal Konev breaking out from the Vistula bridgehead driving toward Krakow. Nowy Korczyn and Stopnice fell as 1st Ukrainian Army advances 23 miles through German defenses amid heavy counterattacks and looming encirclement.
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Moscow
U.P
Krakow
Germany
Vistula
Ivan S. Konev
Nowy Korczyn
Stopnice
Judge Denies SP Tax Cut Petition In Arizona Ruling
Phoenix August 5 Superior Judge M T Phelps denied Southern Pacifics petition to force the state tax commission to cut the 1944 45 property tax levy by about 20 cents per 100 valuation by deducting social security sales tax revenues. The ruling said the commission lacks authority to estimate revenues for the levy and noted protests were upheld in several courts.
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Phoenix
M. T. Phelps
Southern Pacific Company
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
State Board of Social Security and Welfare
Phelps
Social Security Board
Railroad
Commission
No Indication Of Fixed Fortifications Short Of Maginot Line
Allied aerial observations show no coherent German fixed fortifications short of the Maginot and Siegfried lines. Rommel or Rundstedt may still mount a mobile defense in the Seine Loir triangle near Paris, with no inland wall comparable to the D-Day fortifications. American armored success continues as Brest and St Nazaire come under pressure.
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London
Normandy
Siete
Germany
France
Hitler
von Rundstedt
Rommel
Seine-Loire
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Rudolf Karl von Rundstedt
Russians Cross Border Hopes Stir War News From Europe
Berlin reported Russian forces breached German lines north of Virbalis near the East Prussian frontier signaling a potential move into German soil. Cherniakhovsky’s units drove forward on a wide front while British and American troops pressed across occupied France and Brittany advancing toward key towns and ports.
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London
U.P
Berlin
Virbalis
Germany
Ivan D. Cherniakhovskoy
East Prussia
Kaunas
Koenigsberg
Transocean
United Press
Moscow
Cherniakhovsky
Yanks Prepare For Final Drive To Take Guam
American Marines and Army troops on Guam plan a final push to crush remaining Japanese forces. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger’s units hold Mount Barrigada and nearby road junctions, aided by carrier aircraft, as Nimitz reports some gains on the east and center fronts.
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Pearl Harbor
Guam
Mount Barrigada
Roy S. Geiger
Finegayan
Chester W. Nimitz
Police Raid Newsstand Nets Coppola in Bookie Case
Captain Joe Weinzapfel led a raid on the Post Office newsstand with Capt Kenneth Yeazell and Detective Louis Robbins arresting Samuel Coppola 41 proprietor on a warrant alleging possession of horse race forms betting slips money and envelopes. Coppola released on 300 dollar bond and to be arraigned Monday in Celia police court.
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Joe Weinzapfel
Post Office
Samuel Coppola
Kenneth Yeazell
Louis Robbins
Paul M. Cella
Coppola
Celia
Allied Air Bombing Attacks Sweep Central Germany
A 2000-plane Allied raid of heavy bombers and escorts struck central and northern Germany targets today. Oil refineries and storage plants at Dollbergen and Nienburg. aircraft components at Hallersleben. rail yards, airfields, and armament workers at Magdeburg, Hannover, Langenhange, and Halberstadt. undetermined targets near Brunswick Magdeburg. Coast watchers report formations over the Channel. RAF and American forces also hit depots and oil depots in France and near Lille with several bombers missing.
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Walter Cronkite
London
Germany
Dollbergen
Nienburg
Hallersleben
Magdeburg
Hannover
Langerhange
Halberstadt
Brunswick-Magdeburg
Berlin
RAF
L’isle Adam
Trossy
St. Maximin
Air Ministry
Lille
Etaples
Pas de Calais
Pauillac
Bec D’ambres
Montfort
Beauvais
Epernon
Aunay
France
Bordeaux
Supreme Headquarters, Aef
Continued Dry Weather Threatens Tucson Range Lands
Reports from range men around Tucson say the hot dry summer is drying range grasses and shrubs, reducing feed for cattle. They urge moisture or rain soon to revive desert growth, noting last year’s vegetation boomed after rains.
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Tucson
Japs in Full Flight From New Guinea
Allied reports indicate about 30 000 Japanese troops retreating across Vogelkop peninsula in western Dutch New Guinea. General MacArthur calls the maneuver an evacuation as Allied forces tightened a noose with Sansapor Biak and Noemfoor in Allied hands. Air and naval actions inflicted minimal Allied losses while sinking several small enemy craft and striking Nabire and other targets in the area.
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William B. Dickinson
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Vogelkop Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Fusataro Toshim
John Hing
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Manokwari
Nabire
Geelvink Bay
Sorong
Sansapor
Biak
Noemfoor
MacArthur
Vogelkop
Carolines
Yap Island
Woleai
Sorol
Ulithin Islands
Navy sinks U-boat after fierce convoy battle
The Navy disclosed that a German U-boat attacked a convoy off the Atlantic coast and, after an hour and a half of furious fighting, was sunk by three destroyer escorts. About a dozen raider crew, including the commander, were taken prisoner.
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Washington
Atlantic
Polish Patriots Capture Warsaw Strongpoints
London reports General Bors says Polish underground fighters captured the Staromiasto district of Warsaw as 25 000 partisans seized key positions in heavy street battles with German forces across the capital.
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London
Bors
Staromiasto
Old City
Warsaw
Stilwell Wept Over Mistake Of His Orders
Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell ordered investigation found ill advised promises and hospital errors caused morale breakdown in Brig Gen Merrill's Marauders during the Myitkyina siege. Several hundred convalescents were sent back to duty, misunderstandings prompted manpower scrapes, no blame assigned to medical or combat leaders.
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Joseph W. Stilwell
India
Frank Merrill
Myitkyina
Burma
Inspector General
Merrill
Solomons
Stilwell
Manville Announces Eighth and Last Marriage Plans
New York, Aug 5 Tommy Manville said he will marry Collette Francis a 30 year old former Earl Carroll show girl by Sept 1. She will be the eighth Mrs Manville. He said it will last and joked about Reno tickets and lack of reservations.
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New York
Tommy Manville
Collette Francis
Earl Carroll
Suburbs Of Florence In Allied Hands
Eight army troops have occupied the suburbs of Florence south of the Arno and push along a 25 mile sector to drive the enemy back along both river banks. Allied headquarters said the enemy blew up all bridges except the Ponte Vecchio after retreating south of the city. Paratroops are along the Arno’s northern bank within Florence. No fighting reported in areas reached by eighth army forces.
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Niemen
Niemen River
Ivan S. Bagramian
Cherniakhovsky
Betygala
Tilsit
Baltic
Warsaw
Praga
Konev
Vistula
Krakow
Russia
Raymond Norgaard
Rome
Florence
Arno
Harold Alexander
Ponte Vecchio
Eighth Army
Feeble Resistance By Americans In Brittany Reported
American forces spread across Brittany advancing rapidly with little opposition toward St Nazaire and Nantes and nearing Brest. Russian push toward Silesia threatened Krakow as Warsaw fights continued. British forces in Italy took Florence south of the Arno as German positions around the city retreated.
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Brittany
Morbihan
Bay of Biscay
Bocage
Vire
Orne River
Avranches
Peninsula
Fougeres
Rennes
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Brest
Vistula
German Silesia
Krakow
East Prussia
Warsaw
Eighth Army
Italy
Florence
Arno River
High Command
Loudeac
Pontivy
Lorient
Pipriac
Derval
Chateaubriant
St. Malo
Department
Japan to Arm Entire Nation for Total War
The Japanese cabinet decided to arm the entire people at the earliest moment to complete a total war structure. A new supreme war council was created to manage crises from Allied advances in the Marianas New Guinea India and Burma, with plans for practical steps from military and civilian ministries.
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Associated Press
Domei
Supreme War Council
Marianas
Japan
New Guinea
India
Burma
Kuniaki Koiso
United States
Army
Navy
German Vatican Envoy Denies Rift Report
Vatican City Aug 5 A well informed Vatican source said a report abroad that Baron Ernst von Weizsacker the German ambassador to the Holy See repudiated the Nazi government was baseless The ambassador himself was astonished after reading the Italian press New York dateline The German embassy issued a denial
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Vatican City
Vatican
Holy See
Baron Ernst von Weizsacker
New York
Hollywood Stars Engage In Fights With No Pay
Hollywood reporters describe a televised brawl featuring stars such as Jon Hall Frances Langford Edward Norris Tommy Dorsey Pat Dane Charles Bickford Barney Oldfield and Mike Romanoff. The melee drew press attention as actors claimed no payment for their staged punches amid wartime stress and publicity.
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Hollywood
U.P
Jon Hall
Frances Langford
Bob Hope
Hall
Edward Norris
Heman
Tommy Dorsey
Horn Teotler
Pat Dane
Charles Bickford
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Nida
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Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
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Suwalki Triangle
Second Armored Force
That City
Yanks
By James M. Long
Supreme Headquarters
AEF
Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionary Force
Breton
Odon-Orne
Caen
Seine River
Joseph W. Grigg
Villers-Bocage
Nevers
Esquay
Evrecy
Odon
Orne
Omar N. Bradley
Frank Tremaine
Pressens Bild
Adolf Hitler
Walter Scherff
London Radio
CBS
Manville
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