GOP Platform Issues At Convention Clear Up Tonight
The Republican resolutions committee approved a foreign policy plank favoring a cooperative world order to prevent wars and a domestic program pledging liberty at home. It opposes U.S. participation in any world state and the full platform may be presented to the convention late tonight or tomorrow. Dewey holds 792 votes for a first ballot and Earl Warren is poised for vice president amid party leadership changes at the Stevens Hotel.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Chicago Stadium
U.P
Republican National Convention
Resolutions Committee
United States
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Earl Warren
California
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
Martin
Free Society
Platform Committee
Stevens Hotel
Warren
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
House of Representatives
P Martin
Willkie
Herbert Hoover
John W. Bricker
Ohioan
Hoover
Chicago
GOP
Warren Asked to Say If He Will Run on Dewey Ticket
At the Republican convention in Chicago Warren's position on joining Dewey as vice president is pending. Dewey plans to accept the nomination possibly soon as several leaders push for the pairing. Hoover arrives and speaks as Willkie's stance remains uncertain amid platform debates and Bricker supporters push for alternative paths.
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Warren
Hee
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Dewey
Red Army closes on three bulge cities in White Russia
From Moscow and Helsinki reports the Soviet forces push toward Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk as the German White Russian front buckles. Red air fleets attack bridges and reserves while ground forces tighten their grip along the Minsk gateway to Warsaw. Generals Vershinin Cherniakhovsky and Rokossovsky lead converging fronts as the 100 mile salient nears collapse.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Germany
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Redmite
Minsk
Warsaw
Hitler
Reich
Great Bulge
Red Army
Bulge
CBS
Vitebsk
Vershinin
Sevastopol
Timofey Kruikin
Sergei I. Rudenko
N. P. Papivin
Stormovik
Ivan Bagramian
Baltic Front
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
White Russia
Cherniakhovsky
Soviet Union
G. F. Zakyarov
Konstantin Rokossovky
Drut
Berezina
Russia
Germans Again Driven Out Of Chiusi Italy
Allied forces report the Eighth Army retook Chiusi nine miles southwest of Lake Trasimeno and pressed northwest to Castiglione Del Lago, capturing 200 Germans and rescuing fifteen South Africans. Casualties heavy on highway 71 near Perugia as fighting continues toward Siena. 55 enemy planes destroyed by Mediterranean Army air force with 44 Allied losses.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Eighth Army
Chiusi
Fifth
Italy
Piombino
Livorno
Pisa
Lake Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
Lake
Trasimeno
Vitellino
Perugia
Siena
Florence
Mediterranean Army Air Force
Vienna
Saipan battle intensifies as Japanese stiffen defense and Garapan fights on
On Saipan June 27 Japanese infantry resistance tightens along the island front as Marines reach Mt Tanotchau sector. Five pockets bypassed with Japs defending caves near Garapan and Donnay. American speed and mechanization pressure house-to-house fighting while island defense lines bend from Tapotchau toward Garapan and Donnay. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS estimates Germans have lost at least 70,000 men since D-day.
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Joint Expeditionary Force
Saipan
Marine
Mt. Tanotchau
Tapotchau
Garapan
Donnay
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Governors Take Hand In Platform Job
The 26 Republican governors wield unusual influence in shaping the party platform as a committee of their representatives reviews plank by plank. The shift signals a top level reorganization ahead of Dewey’s nomination and speech to accept. The behind the scenes jockeying among leaders, factions, and aspirants underscores a hard task to unite the party for a coherent campaign.
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David Lawrence
Chicago
House
Senate
Dewey
Republican Party
Rescue Effort Presses North Rim For Airmen In Canyon
June 27 KINGMAN A military convoy moves to the Grand Canyon north rim to speed rescue of Army fliers stranded on a plateau after a bomber emergency. Col Donald B Phillips at Kingman Army air field leads the attempt as rangers on the south rim face impracticable terrain. A boat party from the south rim proceeds with gear to span the swollen Colorado river.
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Kingman
Grand Canyon
Donald B. Phillips
Kingman Army Air Field
National Park Rangers
Phillips
Colorado River
Churchill cites Allied casualties in Europe through June
In a House of Commons address, Prime Minister Churchill reports British losses from the Italian landings to Rome totaling 73,122 with 14,331 killed, 7,966 wounded, and 10,825 missing. He places four year British totals at 667,159 and notes U.S. Army casualties at 178,677 and Navy at 46,705 through mid June and June 22 respectively.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Italy
Rome
United States
Crucial Events Shaping In Russia As Cherbourg Falls
The Allied breakthrough at Cherbourg advances as German delays fail to stop the assault. In Russia the Red Army moves quickly with a Baltic offensive in view. Three fronts push toward Minsk via Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk while a northern anvil forms to crush Germans southeast of Minsk. A new front map shows lines extending toward Brest Litovsk and a Mogilev Vitebsk bulge aiding future operations.
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Russia
Cherbourg
J. M. Roberts, JR
Associated Press
Baltics
Lithuania
Latvia
Polotsk
Minsk
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Baltic
Gomel-Wowel
Red Army
Brest-Litovsk
Kowel
Warsaw
Dnepr
Gomel
Mogilev-Vitebsk
Railway Wins Restitution Of Disputed Taxes
ST. JOHNS June 27 Superior Judge Levi Udall ordered restitution of personal property taxes paid under protest by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad in six counties. The 1943 44 rate of 1 per 100 valuation was ruled illegal. Counties refunded include Apache Mohave Coconino Navajo Yavapai and Yuma with amounts listed. Southern Pacific won a similar case and Arizona Edison awaits action. many firms and individuals plan further refunds.
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ST. Johns
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Levi S. Udall
State Tax Commission
Board of Social Security and Welfare
Mohave
Coconino
Yuma
Southern Pacific Company
Cochise Superior Court
Arizona Edison Company
Yuma County
Allied forces seize Cherbourg as British push expands gains
American troops complete the conquest of Cherbourg port while a heavy British offensive clears La Gaulle Cheux and St Manvieu. Lt Gen Von Schlieben is captured as Montgomery's forces press toward Caen, signaling a shift to a broader phase in Normandy operations.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Normandy
Caen
Doughbors
Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben
Adm
Hennecke
Europe
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tilly Sur Soulles
Dus
la Gaulle
Cheux
St. Manvieu
Tilly
Montgomery
Omar N. Bradley
France
Germany
Maupertus Aire Field
Cap de la Hague
Bradley
Erwin Rommel
Schlieben
Cherbourg falls large German prize capture drives
Thousands of German prisoners stream into American cages as Cherbourg falls to U S forces. Lt Gen Von Schlieben and Rear Adm Hennecke surrender with 800 men after a hard drive. About 9 000 prisoners surrendered yesterday as U S troops seized the port and its stores.
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Cronel
Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben
Cherbourg
Adm
Hennecke
U. S
Army to Abandon WASP Training Plans
The Army plans to end the women air service pilot WASP program as student fliers finish their courses. WASP numbers are 721 pilots on active ferrying duty, rising to 1,019 by September with those in training. General Arnold cites House rejection of commissioned status for WASP members as the trigger. The WASP began June 28, 1943, under Jacqueline Cochran.
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Washington
Air Service
Army
WASP
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
House
Jacqueline Cochran
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