Von Kluge Armor Pulls Away From Normandy Front
Allied dispatches report Field Marshal von Kluge pulled most armor from the Normandy pocket as Allied forces close the Falaise escape gap to eight miles. Americans push toward Paris while southern France campaign gains momentum with swift inland advances and heavy air bombardment of retreating German columns.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Guenther von Kluge
Normandy
Falaise
High Command
Paris
Alencon
Chartres-Dreux
George S. Patton
Third
le Mans
Argentan
Dreux
Chartres
France
von Kluge
Seine-Loire
Seventh Army
Falaise- Argentan
Vassy
Tinchebray
Vire
Putanges
Orne River
French Underground Rises After Allies Land In South
Harvard faculty club cooks horsemeat and onion sandwiches as a favorite dish. Club manager says 100 pounds of horsemeat served each week at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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South
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University Faculty Club
British Eighth Clears Empoli as Allies Push North
British Eighth Army reports wiping out remaining German nests in Empoli near Florence after mopping up Montelupo. Polish patrols push west of Frontone in the Adriatic area as Allied forces plan a move along the Arno north of Florence.
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Empoli
Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Adriatic
Frontone
Montelup
Arno
Fifth Army
San Giovanni Alla Vena
Thousands Of Yanks And French Move In On 40 Mile Front
Allied forces reinforced with Americans and French breached the southern coast of France, driving eight miles inland on a 40 mile front from Cannes to Toulon. Airborne troops hit inland to block German reserves as initial objectives were secured with light casualties.
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Rome
U.P
France
Cannes
Toulon
Mediterranean
AFL Machinists Refuse Overtime Orders in San Francisco
In San Francisco, AFL machinists largely refused Navy overtime orders at five Navy seized shops. Rear Adm. Bowen said steps will be taken against noncompliant workers and deferments may be canceled. Reports from Pacific Gear & Tool Works and Link Belt company showed near universal refusal among machinists to work overtime.
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San Francisco
H. G. Bowen
Selective Service
OPA
War Manpower Commission
AFL
Navy
National War Labor Board
UP -Afl
Harold C. Bowen
James Forrestal
Roosevelt
Pacific Gear & Tool Works
Link Belt Company
Meeting on world security could end Versailles peace quest
Washington August 16. Officials say a postwar world security organization emerging from four power talks may negate the need for a general peace treaty like Versailles. The plan envisions a UN style body to settle disputes and maintain peace, with Dumbarton Oaks shaping procedures for a world assembly and council of major powers.
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Washington
World Security Organization
United Nations
Hull
Russia
Poland
Dumbarton Oaks
United States
Britain
Senate to Donald Nelson on postwar civilian output plans
Donald M. Nelson told a news conference that victory over Germany would trigger a return to 1939 civilian production levels, with about 30 percent more consumer goods than now. He warned a 40 percent cutback in munitions, proposed reconversion, but said durable goods would stay limited until Japan is defeated. The Senate War Investigating Committee asked for more details on current and future shortages.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Japan
Senate
War Production Board
Mead
D-Ny
War Investigating Committee
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Nelson
Germany
Dewey Criticizes Four-Power Proposals Ahead of Washington Talks
Gov Thomas E Dewey Republican presidential nominee says postwar plans for the United States Soviet Union Britain and China would amount to cynical power politics and would imply control of the world He voiced deep concern ahead of the four power conference in Washington scheduled for Monday in Albany New York.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Russia
Great Britain
China
Dewey
Washington
Reds Launch All Out Bid For Besieged Warsaw
Soviet forces under Rokossovsky press the Praga district across the Vistula from Warsaw as tension rises in the lake region near Lyck. Konev’s group reports 140000 German deaths and 32360 captured in a month through Aug 12, with total to date near 781886.
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Moscow
Red Army
Warsaw
Praga
Vistula
East Prussia
Lyck
Rokossovsky
Ivan S. Konev
Krakow
Sept 19 Trial Date Set For Jack Curtis
Jack D. Curtis faces a second degree murder trial for the death of 16 year old Richard Caffrey. Judge Eva De Concini will preside with a jury selected for Sept 19. Curtis fled in 1943, forfeiting a $1500 bond. bond now set at $10,000. Albert Moore, accused axe burglar, pleaded guilty to two counts of night burglary and received not less than five nor more than six years on each count, to run concurrently.
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Jack D. Curtis
Richard Caffrey
Eva de Concini
William G. Hall
Curtis
Hall
Albert Moore
State Penitentiary
Pateh Leads South France Invasion Force
Rome August 16 Allied headquarters announced Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Pateh commands the seventh army aiding the southern France invasion. The assault is led mainly by the U S Sixth Corps with French forces under Maj. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny. Naval operations are led by Vice Admiral H K Hewitt and Brig. Gen. Gordon P Saville heads the 12th Tactical Air Command.
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Rome
France
Seventh Army
Alexander M. Pateh
Guadalcanal
U. S
Sixth Corps
Anzio
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Iron Division
Rethel
H. K. Hewitt
Gordon P. Saville
12Th Tactical Air Command
Patch of Arizona Native Commands French Ground Forces
General Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr a native of Ft. Huachuca Arizona now commands ground forces in southern France Born November 23 1889 Patch previously served with the 18th infantry at Naco and Douglas Arizona This notice appears on page 7.
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Ft. Huachuca
Naco
Douglas
Phoenix
Alexander McCarrell Patch
France
Ariz
18Th Infantry
Patch
Officer Cadet Die In Williams Field Crash
A training plane crash 15 miles southeast of Williams Field killed Second Lt. Jack W. Stewart aged 28 from Los Angeles and Cadet William R. Germain aged 21 from LaGrange Illinois. Stewart's wife Blanche resides in Mesa and Germain is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Leslie R Germain of LaGrange.
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Williams Field
dAn
Here
Herbert L. Grills
Jack W. Stewart
Los Angeles
William R. Germain
LaGrange
Ill
Stewart
Blanche
Mesa
Germain
Leslie R. Germain
Supreme Hour Strikes as Allies Punch South France
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports Allied invasion of southern France gains momentum and the Maquis rise across France while Soviet forces prepare to punch toward East Prussia and Warsaw. Eisenhower warns German forces remain capable of resistance as catastrophe looms.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Moscow
France
Hitler
Normandy
East Prussia
Warsaw
Vistula
Reich
Eisenhower
Pescadores Hit First Blow By U S Liberators
In August 16 dispatches from Chungking American Liberators bombed the Japanese naval base at Mako in the Pescadores, the first strike on the islands between Formosa and China. Takao harbor near Formosa also targeted by U S 14th Air Force planes under Major General Claire L. Chennault. Roosevelt and Churchill vow to return the Pescadores to China after Nippon defeat.
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Chungking
Mako
Pescadores Islands
Formosa
China
Takao
Claire L. Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Tokyo
Philippines
Roosevelt
Churchill
Cairo
Pacific
Invasion Drives Inland in Southern France Front
Tens of thousands of American and French troops with tanks and mobile guns have captured at least five towns and moved inland on a 40 mile front between Cannes and Toulon. Reports say airfields being built, port facilities at Nice Cannes and St Tropez damaged, and air cover providing support for reinforcements.
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Eleanor Packard
Rome
U.P
Cannes
Toulon
France
Radio London
DNB
Theoule
CBS
St. Tropez
le Muy
Frejus
St. Raphael
Henry Maitland Wilson
Mediterranean
Great Naval
Valence
Pacific islands bombed at ends and center in new raids
U S Pacific Fleet reports fresh attacks on Japan's island perimeter with strikes at the Kuriles in the north Iwo Jima 700 miles south of Tokyo and further actions noted near the central zones as the war extends across the Pacific.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Pacific Islands
Kuriles
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Allied air armada strikes German targets in shift to heart of the Reich
London reports a fresh American air armada of about 2,000 planes focused on Leipzig and Magdeburg areas smashing aircraft plants oil facilities and airfields in central Germany while additional flights hit German troops and defenses in northern and southern French fronts. Berlin received heavy bombs last night as RAF Mosquitos disturbed the capital.
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Blialliouse Cals
Spain
Maquis
France
Auch
Agen
Montauban
Rodez
Periguex
Tulle
Aurillac
Limoges
Pau
Toulouse
Vichy
AFI
Independent French Agency
Bern
Rhone
Lyon
Paris
Valence
Toulon
London
Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Berlin
Italy
Alps
Tyrol
Bavaria
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Saxony
Hannover
Brunswick
Chicago Tempers Fall as Thunderstorms Cool Heat Spell
Chicago saw thundershowers that cut a record heat wave yesterday and were expected to lower temperatures today. New York and New England stayed hot through the week long heat wave. Maine woods faced tinder dry conditions with fires burning across thousands of acres.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Chicago
New York
New England
Boston
Maine Woods
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Daily Mail
Monte Carlo
Alexander M. Patch
By John M. Hightower
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Pescadores
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