Cherbourg Celebrates Liberation With Music And Quiet Streets
Cherbourg residents and Allied soldiers enjoy a peaceful afternoon after heavy fighting ends. An American sergeant plays accordion while doughboys and a French guitarist perform as flags fly and cleanup of debris begins.
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Cherbourg
Place de la Republique
United States
Ivan Broten
Isanti
Minn
Charles Horvatich
Pittsburgh
Arsenal
OPA Plans No Rationing Of Used Cars
District OPA head Chester Bowles says no directive from the War Production Board calls for used car rationing and no plan is in place. He notes it would take months to implement any such program and warns motorists not to heed classified ads urging immediate sales.
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District Office of Price Administration
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Bowles
OPA
Les
MIT Abandons Research Amid War Effort
MIT President Karl T. Compton announced the institute has halted some research activities due to the accelerated war program. He said about 20 percent of the faculty were working on war projects.
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Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl T. Compton
Bus Slams Street Car. Eleven Injured in Los Angeles
Five persons were seriously injured and 12 others slightly injured when a bus slid into a street car in Los Angeles on June 28. Police reports say faulty brakes on a downgrade caused the collision as the bus moved about half a block into the front of the street car.
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Los Angeles
R. A. Wardlow
New Zealand Shifts Troops to Boost Food Output
New Zealand plans to taper its armed forces and release thousands of troops from the third division to boost production of food and war supplies. Butter and cheese output fell about ten percent as meat and wool export goals remained unmet. Despite downsizing, New Zealand will keep a large fighting force relative to its population of 1.6 million.
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South Pacific
New Zealand
Third
Vella Lavella
Treasuries
Green Island
Solomons
Australia
United Nations
Nazis To Leave Paris Heavily Mined Report
The British radio quoted frontier reports that German garrison troops plan to evacuate Paris. Paris is said to be heavily mined with delayed action bombs in tunnels sewers and abandoned underground railway sections.
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Paris
New York
CBS
Two Infantry Divisions Face Reorganization in Europe
One division remains stationed in Italy while the other near home could be reduced in size barring unforeseen replacements. The potential downsizing signals strategic adjustments for European and continental defense.
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Italy
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