New England Poll Shows Roosevelt Leading in Most States
A Gallup poll in four of six New England states shows Franklin D. Roosevelt ahead of Thomas E. Dewey by small margins in Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire and Massachusetts while Dewey leads Maine and Vermont. The race remains very close with shifts from 1940 small. Foreign policy popularity helps Roosevelt in the region.
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George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton
N. J
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New England
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Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Thomas E. Dewey
Maine
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Midwest
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Fuehrer Faces Possible Retreat As Normandy Battle Rages
The article portrays Hitler's dwindling forces after the Normandy Brittany assault and Patton's rapid advance. Allies target the Seine to trap retreating German troops while air power blocks bridges. With 65 divisions initially, only about 30 remain in western Europe, forcing a likely German retreat toward Germany.
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Seine
England
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France
Europe
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1944 Wool Crop Shrinking to 1936 Low
Washington August 18 1944 wool crop estimates from the agriculture department place shorn and to be shorn wool at 355,129,000 pounds the smallest since 1936. Production is about 29,239,000 pounds lower than last year and roughly 4 off the 1932 41 ten year average. The drop stems mainly from fewer sheep shorn with a small fall in fleece weight. the total sheep shorn this year is 45,254,000 head down 3,319,000 from 1943.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Aviation Subcommittee To View Arizona Training Fields
Arizona visits by the aviation subcommittee of the House Interstate Commerce Committee are set for August 23 to 24. Governor Osborn was notified by Rep Richard F. Harless of the plan led by Alfred B. Bulwinkle of North Carolina.
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Phoenix
Arizona
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
Sidney P. Osborn
Richard F. Harless
Alfred Bulwinkle
Commandos Open Door To Invasion
George Tucker recaps the Allied invasion of southern France with naval gun support, coast batteries silenced and troops scaling cliffs to reach beaches. Lt. Gilbert Reid leads a torpedo boat flotilla guiding landing craft as floatplanes bomb and destroyer actions light up the dawn. Admiral Davidson paces the bridge, finally relaxing as waves of troops push ashore.
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Levant
Port Cros
Gilbert Reid
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mark
Davidson
Predictions For U S Television Stations And FM Growth
In San Francisco on August 18 General Electric officials forecast about 100 television stations will operate in the U.S. within five years after the war. They also projected 500 frequency modulation stations will be established, enabling high fidelity radio reception, compared with 53 at present. A new magnetic wire recorder, 4/1000 inch steel, can store 66 minutes of data and is already used by reconnaissance observers dropping reports by parachute for rapid analysis.
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San Francisco
U.P
General Electric Co
America
James PD. McLean
W. R. David
Rabbits Stamp Ground as Danger Signal
When frightened rabbits stamp the ground with their hind feet making a loud sound that travels far, serving as a warning signal to other rabbits who flee to safety.
Senator Bankhead urges cotton growers to hold crop for parity
Senator Bankhead of Alabama called on cotton producers to withhold their crop until parity is reached, with telegrams sent to governors, commissioners, and farm bureau presidents. He cited cooperation from War Mobilization Director James Byrnes and discussed specific actions to lift prices, including parity loan adjustments and restricting market sales.
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Washington
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Farm Bureau
Bankhead
James F. Byrnes
Justice Byrnes
Yuma Names McCallum To House Nomination
The Yuma county Democratic central committee certifies N. S. McCallum a Yuma druggist as nominee for the southern district house of representatives. He fills the vacancy caused by Ray C. Bennett’s death after Bennett won the July primary contest.
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Yuma
Yuma County
Democratic Central Committee
N. S. McCallum
Phoenix
House of Representatives
McCallum
Ray C. Bennett
House
William Wisener
Police Chiefs Back Civil Defense Postwar Plan
The nation's police chiefs endorsed retaining civilian defense groups to help maintain order during postwar readjustment. They approved a resolution at the 51st annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police opposing immediate demobilization and commending the program.
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Cleveland
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Police Chiefs Declare Postwar Challenges Loom Large
Civilian defense workers praised for aiding police and public safety at a convention. T P Sullivan, director of the Illinois department of safety, warned that every police department in the country is completely unprepared to meet the immense postwar police problems.
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T. P. Sullivan
Illinois Department of Safety
Nazi decree unites German army and Gestapo commands in occupied Belgium
Nazi radio in occupied Belgium reported that Hitler issued a decree uniting the supreme command of the German army and the Gestapo in occupied Belgium and northern France and appointed Gen. Richard Jungklaus as commander in chief of the German army in the area.
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New York
Belgium
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
France
Richard Jungklaus
Grounds Of Buckingham Palace Hit By Robots
Robot bombs damaged the grounds of Buckingham Palace, residence of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The palace itself was hit at least twice during the 1940 41 blitz. London saw a second consecutive night without flying bombs, though some fell in southern England as the assault resumed in daylight.
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Buckingham Palace
George
Elizabeth
England
Wartime Nursing Cadet Corps Programs Remain Broad
In 1944 there were 1 965 nursing schools in the United States offering wartime nursing courses to cadet nurse corps candidates, according to the U S public health service report.
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United States
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
U. S. Public Health Service
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