U S Severs Finnish Relations After Nazi Alliance
Washington June 30 The United States cuts diplomatic ties with Finland after Finland and Germany announce a hard and fast military partnership to fight the Allies. Secretary Hull notes warnings were ignored and declares further relations impossible at this decisive war stage.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Finland
Cordell Huil
Germany
Hull
United Nations
Grand Canyon Airmen Rescued After Fatal Plunge?
Three Army airmen trapped on a Grand Canyon plateau since June 21 were guided to safety by two canyon climbers and rescuers after an accidental bomber bailout. The group, led by Majors from Kingman, left a high table land and traveled down a deep crevasse to reach the north rim. The men, Second Lt. Charles Goldblum Flight Officer Maurice J Cruickshank Jr and Roy W Embanks, were transported by automobile to Grand Canyon village before airlift to Kingman Army air field.
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Great Chasm
Colorado River
Charles Goldblum
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Cruickshank, Jr
Lawrence
Mass
Roy W. Embanks
Kalispell
Ont
Harold C. Bryant
Grand Canyon National Park
Gamma
Ed Laws
National Park Service
Canyon
A. A. McRae
Wilmington, del
Bryant
North Rim
Grand Canyon Village
South Rim
Kingman
Ariz
Army Air Field
U.S. Park Service
Donald B. Phillips
Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Off In Drive To Overwhelm Caen
The Office of Price Administration ordered removal of inner tube rationing and announced July August tire quotas totaling 3,900,000 with a 1,900,000 base plus 300,000 added in June. Inner tubes no longer require rationing certificates as inventories are ample. In Normandy, British forces repelled a German salient between the Odon and Orne rivers. Rommel’s fresh reserves arrived, but German counterattacks inflicted heavy casualties.
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Caen
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Odon
Orne
Rommel
Normandy
Supreme Command
Berlin
St. Lo
Cherbourg
Transocean
Seine Bay
le Havre
CBS
Channel Island
DNB
Guernsey
Alderney
CNB
U S To Keep Old Pledges Made Indians
Washington reports that on July 1 the United States will begin its new fiscal year by continuing payments to New York Indians under the 1794 peace and friendship treaty. Each of 5,200 individuals receives 1.52 yards of percale at 34 cents per yard, plus a blacksmith’s salary for Choctaw Indians.
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Washington
Sam
United States
New York
Mother Had Threatened To Throw Baby In River
Mrs Mildred Skelton a 19 year old on trial for murder threatened to cast her 10 month old daughter Mildred Louise into the Colorado River. Corp Robert Mell testified that she denied refusing to marry him and that she sometimes claimed he was the father or claimed ignorance. Mell said he believed she did not intend the act.
Overoptimism Now Threat To Home Front
Washington dispatch reports that military leaders warn against overconfidence at home. Generals Marshall and Arnold and Admiral King say slackening production could delay victory and urge continuous effort as Allied forces strike across the English Channel. They visited London and Paris after the Channel breakthrough.
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Howard Flieger
Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
London
English Channel
Weygand Reported To Have Escaped Nazis
Madrid reports circulates unconfirmed that General Maxime Weygand, former French commander, escaped German imprisonment and assists in organizing French resistance. Weygand disappeared after the 1940 German conquest of France, with few definite updates since.
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Madrid
Maxime Weygand
France
Weygand
North
Africa
Reuters
Switzerland
Maurice Gustav Gamelin
Brownell Named GOP National Chairman for Dewey Campaign
Herbert Brownell Jr., age forty, elected chairman of the Republican National Committee to direct Dewey’s presidential bid. He succeeds Harrison E. Spangler and helped lead the pre convention draft Dewey effort as the party vows unity against Roosevelt-era division. Dewey praised unanimous support and noted close alignment with Vice President nominee John Bricker.
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Republican
Chicago
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican National Committee
Brownell
Dewey
Republic
Spangler Brownell
Harrison E. Spangler
Iowa
New Yorker
Roosevelt
National Committee
John W. Bricker
Reds Crossing Last Natural Barrier Near Minsk
Soviet Red Army forces push across the Berezina river northeast of Minsk as engineers rush pontoons for mass crossings of the last natural barrier to the White Russian capital. Stiff German resistance on the west bank diminishes, while Luftwaffe losses climb as Rokossovsky’s White Russian army advances near Minsk from multiple axes.
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Moscow
Berezina
Minsk
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Rokossovsky
Riga
White Russia
Lithuania
Lithuanian Republic
Latvian Republic
Kaunas
White
Russia
Organized Jap Fight Over In South Saipan
Allied forces push north on Saipan after breaking a pocket on the southeast tip. MacArthur’s bombers strike Yap for the fifth time in a week, with over 50 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged. Navy reports total Japanese planes destroyed exceeding 12,000 since Pearl Harbor.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Rota
Mariana
Douglas MacArthur
Yap
Washington
Navy Department
Chester W. Nimitz
Saipan Casualties Reach 9,752 With 1,474 Killed
Washington June 30 The Navy reports US casualties on Saipan in the Western Pacific total 9,752 since the landings announced June 15. Of these 1,474 are killed, 7,400 wounded, and 878 missing after bitter ground fighting up to Wednesday.
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Washington
Saipan Island
Pacific
Marianas
Navy
Italian Bombers Hit Vienna Area In Second Strike
Berlin reports American bombers from Italy struck the Vienna area for the second time in 12 hours while British task forces attacked northern France and Belgium. Marauder fighters and U S air force Thunderbolts targeted railroad and highway junctions across France as Italy based bombers also attacked Yugoslavia. RAF and German raids over Vienna continued as weather hindered European invasion air operations and rocket attacks against southern England persisted.
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London
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Britain
France
Belgium
U. S. Air Force
Continent
England
State Group of Federal Employees Cancels Convention
The Arizona state federation of federal employees cancels its convention set for Phoenix July 6-7 as a wartime travel conservation move, announced by the executive committee.
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Phoenix
Arizona State Federation of Federal Employes
Japs Turn Double Trick In Drive On Hengyang
Japanese forces press toward Hengyang by rebuilding the Hankow to Canton rail line and closing access to air bases in Hongkong. The move links two fronts, threatens American air fields, and may complicate supply routes from Shanghai to Hongkong. Potential shift affects Kunming base and coastal shipping lanes.
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Hengyang
Preston Grover
Associated Press
China
Hankow
Canton
Hongkong
Myitkyina
Kunming
British and Allied Forces Advancing Near Caen and Orne
Allied forces widened their Caen spearhead along the Odon to near three miles and closed to about a half mile from a Caen airfield as British and Canadian units land east of the Orne estuary and seize Cobourg. Roosevelt approves one year extension of price control acts and rebukes Congress for relaxing penalties.
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Virgil Pinkley
London
U.P
Odon River
Caen
Radio
Paris
Orne
Cobourg
Berlin
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allies Press Toward Siena and Livorno Fronts
Allied forces push inland to within seven miles of Siena and ten miles from Castiglion Del Lago near Lake Trasimeno as German resistance weakens on Italy's western front. American armor nears Cecina south of Livorno while Castiglion Del Lago, a Nazi seaplane base, falls to British and French units.
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Italy
Cecina
Livorno
Leghorn
Siena
Florence
Lake Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
the Knights of Malta
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