Navy chief eyes Japs in decisive Pacific clash soon
Admiral King said the sooner Japan fights the better for the outcome as U S forces engage in action between Luzon and Saipan. Nimitz reports carrier planes struck Japanese fleet near the Marianas while Saipan ground fighting progresses with 20,000 enemy troops facing American forces.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
Navy
Western
Pacific
King
Forrestal
Leif Erickson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Luzon
Saipan
Nimitz
Fifth Fleet
Adm
Raymond A. Spruance
Santa Cruz
Marianas
Philippines
U. S
Magicienne Bay
Nafutan
Associated Press
United States
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Nippon
Berlin
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Nimita
Garapan
Tihian
Veteran Fights Home Loss Over Conversion in Tucson
Herbert L. Howe a medically discharged U S merchant marine veteran and Tucson Rapid Transit driver protests the planned conversion of his five room home at 711 North Sixth Avenue into defense workers apartments. Officials cite surplus units and rising housing supply as the program ends with a $5000 government expenditure and 97 of 118 units converted before cancellation.
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Tucson
Herbert L. Howe
U. S. Merchant Marine
Tucson Rapid Transit Company
H. C. Torren
San Francisco
Homer D. Lininger
National Housing Center
North Sixth Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
War Housing Committee
Howe
War Administration
Biak Island Airbases Are In Yank Hands
Allied forces seized two more Japanese airfields on Biak island forming four Schouten airfields. Yank troops with tanks and artillery pushed Japanese from ridges and occupied Sorido and Borokoe airstrips near Mokmer. Boston planes attacked Manokwari shipping sinking a freighter and several vessels.
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New Guinea
Biak Island
Schouten Islands
Dutch New Guinea
Philippines
Sorido
Borokoe
Biak
Mokmer
Owi Island
Yap
Carolines
Celebes
Borneo
Timor
Netherlands East Indies
Darwin
Australia
Boston
Owi
Manokwari
Ters
Admiralty
Isla
Fran
Thunderbolts damage Italian carrier Regola near Genoa
Thunderbolts of the first tactical air force severely damaged a 20 000 ton carrier in Genoa harbor. The ship, believed to be the Italian carrier Regola, had not been in service since earlier damage. Five direct hits were counted as returning pilots reported heavy damage amid antiaircraft fire.
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Rome
Thunderbolts
First Tactical Air Force
Genoa
Regola
Eighth Is Now Four Miles North Of Perugia
Allied forces report the Eighth Army has driven Nazis from Perugia and advanced about four miles north. Fifth Army fights seven German divisions on the right flank while taking prisoners from the 19th Luftwaffe division and others. Tactical air sorties totaled 750 as battles spread toward Chiusi Cetona and highway 71 north of Lake Chiusi.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Eighth Army
Perugia
Fifth Army
Belgium
France
Western
Italy
Denmark
Balkans
Chiusi
Cetona
Publishing Of Alfalfa Bill's Book Disputed
In Tishomingo Oklahoma aging Alfalfa Bill Murray argues a 1907 constitution allows state funds to back printing costs for his Oklahoma history. A lower court blocked using $18,000 from Gov Kerr's contingency fund, sending the dispute to the Oklahoma supreme court. Murray, age 75, reflects on his constitutional role and the $4,000 of personal loans backing the project.
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Tishomingo
Okla
Murray
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Robert S. Kerr
Cherbourg Falls Closer as American Troops Reach Waterfront
American forces smashed within 1500 yards of Cherbourg's docks driving between Fort Du Roule and Fort Octeville amid heavy bombardment. Allied troops progressed on Acqueville and Valognes while destroying Nazi tanks. widespread house to house fighting looms as Cherbourg defense tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Fort du Roule
Fort Octeville
Normandy
Acqueville
Cape de la Hague
Valognes
Supreme Headquarters
France
Tourbheville-Hague
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
St. Lo
St. Martin le Greard
Supreme Allied Command
Senate applauds liquor release but seeks tighter controls
Investigators on the senate liquor shortage committee welcomed the War Production Board plan to resume whisky production for August and urged stricter distribution controls to curb bootleggers and the black market. The WPB said 40 to 50 million gallons of 86 90 proof whisky will be made, easing the industrial alcohol shortage. Rep Bryson criticized the move as shocking during wartime food needs. Kenneth S Baxter noted the policy mostly affects black market and bootlegger concerns.
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Washington
Senate
WPB
War Production Board
Bryson
D-Sc
New York
Kenneth S. Baxter
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries
Reds Push Finns After Viipuri Victory
Soviet forces capture Viipuri and advance toward Helsinki in a rapid campaign through Karelia. Govorov’s Lenningrad army reaches Viipuri fortress and disrupts Finnish retreat while bombers and fighters widen the path for ground troops.
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Moscow
Red Army
Viipuri
Helsinki
BBC
Karelia
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Finland
Karelian
Stockholm
Baron Karl Mannerheim
Stormoviak
GOP Aspirants Strive for Votes at National Convention
Chicago dispatch reports Republicans draft an anti war platform while Dewey Bricker and Stassen factions battle for early ballots. Delegates from California Illinois Pennsylvania hold pivotal 50 59 and 70 votes as Taft likely to head the platform panel.
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Robert Taft R
Ohio
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
California
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Earl Warren
Dwight Green
Central Area
Edward Martin
Bricker
Robert Burroughs
New Hampshire
Wendel L. Willkiebe
British blunder provoked war claim shocks U S officials
U S Secretary Cordell Hull denounces a British statement that the United States provoked Japan into war. Lord Halifax and Prime Minister Churchill expected to press for apologies after Oliver Lyttelton’s remarks. Hull, Lyttelton, and Congress react with anger. a formal correction is anticipated.
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R. H. Shackford
Washington
U.P
Cordell Hull
United States
Japan
Lord Halifax
Hull
Oliver Lyttelton
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Lyttelton
State Department
Pearl Harbor
Berlin Attacked in Major Allied Bomber Sweep
More than 2,000 American bombers and fighters struck Berlin in one of the war’s heaviest raids, with 1,000 plus heavy bombers of Doolittle’s air force joining the attack. The raid also hit Basdorf on Berlin’s outskirts, concentrating force on the capital and its suburbs.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Berlin
U. S
Walter Cronkite
London
Europe
James H. Doolittle
Sth
United States
Germany
Basdorf
Reich
Poland
Dewey silent on GOP draft push after Chicago talks
Governor Dewey said he had telephoned New York Republican leaders in Chicago but would not comment on their request that he accept the GOP nomination if drafted. He spoke with Herbert Brownell, J. Russel Sprague and Edwin F. Jaeckle, who are operating draft Dewey headquarters and said he would go to Chicago to deliver an acceptance speech if drafted.
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Albany
N. Y
Dewey
New York
Chicago
Herbert Brownell
J. Russel Sprague
Edwin F
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M. S. Handler
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