New Guinea Japs Turned Back In Major Allied Counteroffensive
General MacArthur reports Allied forces repelled a 45 000 strong Japanese force near Aitape in New Guinea. Navy and air action sank a merchant vessel and damaged four near Halmahera and Yap Island while 65 tons of bombs were dropped and two bombers were lost. Chinese forces halt Japanese push on Hengyang with U S medium bombers igniting 75 fires in Changsha.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Aitape
MacArthur
Halma
Hera
Big Island
Philippines
Yap Island
Hengyang
China
U. S
Changsha
Police recover Maryland car and identify Plymouth coupe theft suspects
Cumberland police told Chief C. W. Hollis the Maryland car stolen by two service men is found and stored at Hancock. Mrs. H Miriam Culler identifies the 1937 Plymouth coupe the men tried to take. the suspects are Arthur Bittinger in the merchant marine and John Reep a sailor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
C. W. Hollis
Maryland
Hancock
H. Miriam Culler
N. Stewart Street
Arthur Bittinger
Merchant Marine
John Reep
Humston of Clarke County Dies After Long Career
John L Humston a Clarke County landowner and progressive farmer who ran the family farm until his death died after illness He was a 33 year bank official director vice president and president of First National Bank He also served on the Clarke County Board of Supervisors and was active in the First Baptist Church He is survived by four children and three grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thursday at the late home with burial in Mt Hebron Cemetery
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Roanoke College
The
Lacie Davis Humston
Lacie
Humston
First National Bank
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
First Baptist Churh
Berryville
Mary Humston
N. S. Humston
Clyde B. Levi
Annual Home Coming at Rock Enon July 30
The Rock Enon Christian church holds its annual home coming and memorial on Sunday July 30 with an all day open church and afternoon services. Former residents and current community members are invited and ministers are urged to participate. The old hotel property is now used by local Scouts enhancing the event for families with Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Enon Christian Church
Warren County Woman Dies 119 Survivors Left
Funeral services for Mrs. Lelia Lucinda Athey 73 will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. at Maddox Funeral Home Front Royal. She died yesterday at her Reform home in Warren County native of Rappahannock County and daughter of the late Alexander Anderson and Mrs Lavenia Anderson. Her husband William E Athey died 31 years ago. She leaves 11 sons and daughters 6 brothers and sisters 63 grandchildren and 39 great grandchildren for 119 survivors. The children listed include Edwin T Athey C G Athey Irvin W Athey Charles Town Paul M Athey C M Athey Mrs Carlie Derflinger LT George B Athey US Army Medical Corps Fitzsimmons General Hospital Denver Colorado Mrs John Pumphrey Clifton Station Mrs Frank Chapman Boyce Mrs Russell Derlinger Front Royal Remount Depot and Miss Evelyn Athey Winchester.
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Maddox Funeral Home
Front Royal
Lelia Lucinda Athey
Reform
Warren County
Rappahannock County
Alexander Anderson
Lavenia Hackley Anderson
William E. Athey
Edwin T. Athey
C. G. Athey
Irvin W. Athey
Charles Town
W. Va
Paul M. Athey
Rockville
C. M. Athey
Carlie Derflinger
George B. Athey
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Fitzsimmons
General Hospital
Denver Corp
John Pumphrey
Clifton Station
Frank Chapman
Boyce
Russell Derflinger
Front Royal Remount
Evelyn Athey
Winchester
Drunk and Disorderly Cases Settled in Civil and Police Court
Judge John Rice presided as John Sherman of Woodstock paid $5 and costs for drunkenness. Willard Davis Cheely of Knoxville Tennessee was fined $100 and costs, received 30 days suspended, and was also found guilty of disorderly conduct destroying city property and abusive language toward an officer with 60 days suspended and probation for one year. Luther Baker of 414 S Kent pleaded drunk and disorderly fighting, fined $10 with $6.75 costs.
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John Rice
John Sherman
Woodstock
Willard Davis Cheely
Knoxville
Tenn
Luther Baker
Kent
Time Not Ripe For Armistice Terms
London July 18. Sir John Anderson told Commons it is not yet time to publish any armistice terms agreed by the Allies for Axis fee. Bevan demanded publication and assailed the phrase unconditional surrender agreed by Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca.
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London
John Anderson
Exchequer
Commons Y
Aneurin Bevan
Laborite M.P
Bevan
Roosevelt
Churchill
Casablanca
Capt Pingley Reported Missing After Normandy Landing
Capt Pingley, promoted to captain in 1943 and commanding Company K, 116th Infantry in England and France, was reported missing two days after the invasion. His wife Mrs Pauline Duncan Pingley and their daughter Dorothy reside in Riverton where she is postmistress. He had earlier served at Fort Meade and with Virginia Woolen Company before active duty.
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Fort Meade
116Th Infantry
England
France
Company K
Pauline Duncan
Joe Duncan
Dorothy
Pingley
Riverton
Capt. Pingley
Virginia Woolen Company
Massive Allied air assault targets Germany and rail hubs
Allied air forces dispatched 500 to 750 Flying Fortresses with hundreds of fighters against targets across northwest Germany and the Baltic coast. Bombing focused on Peenemunde Zinnowitz Friedrichshafen Memmingen and Anklam with additional raids near Berlin and Bavaria as weather finally allowed full operations. More than 3 000 sorties flown with twenty four Allied planes reported shot down and ten Allied aircraft lost.
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Peenemunde
Zinnowitz
Baltic
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Baden Sea
Switzerland
Memmingen
Aeas
New Commander Appointed For Japs' Army Staff
General Yoshijiro Umezu was named chief of the Japanese army staff replacing Hideki Tojo, amid Tokyo announcements linking the move with a navy minister replacement as Japan faces a grave crisis after Saipan losses. Tojo retained premier and war minister roles.
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New York
Hideki Tojo
Army General Staff
Tojo
Saipan
Yoshijiro Umezu
Japan
Ie Ae Ria
Ampasador Anca
Hader
Domei
Naokuni Nomura
High Command
Sugiyama
Umezu
Tokyo
Imperial
Chuichi Nagumo
Yoshitsugo Saito
Takahisa Tsujimura
Nagumo
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Britain
Marianas
Europe
Nimitz
Brazilian Expeditionary Force Arrives in Naples to Join Italy Front
The War Department announced that a Brazilian expeditionary force arrived in Naples on July 16 to join Allied armies in joint operations on the Italian front. It has been training for an extensive period, with no further details released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Naples
War Department
Italy
Son in German Prison Camp Describes Treatment in Letter
Staff Sgt. Marshall Feltner reports from a German prisoner of war camp that he is well clothed not wounded and in good spirits in a letter dated April 30 received July 16. He notes Red Cross food cigarettes and playing cards are welcome and that he can send two letters and four post cards monthly. Feltner was captured April 13 after going missing on a bombing mission over Hungary where he served as a waist gunner after earning his wings September 13, 1943 and leaving for overseas duty March 6, 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
O.K
Marshall Feltner
Rice Feltner
Briggs
Clarke County
Red Cross
Farmer Gifts Milk To U S 9th Airforce In France
A wealthy French farmer refuses to sell to Germans and voluntarily supplies free milk and cream to American officers on the invasion front. He says he earned money selling to the Germans and now chooses to aid the Allied forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. 9Th Airforce
France
Byrd Delegates Push for States Rights Segregation Planks
Byrd platform committee advances planks allowing states to handle racial segregation and Negro voting. Roose velt expected to be renominated while concessions sought. About 50 delegates from eight southern states push for southern strategy to restore two thirds nominating rule and white supremacy planks. Virginia Mississippi and others attend preparatory meeting to map out southern plan for renomination and strategy.
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Roosevelt
Mississippi
E. B. Germany
Dallas
Virginia
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Carolin
Florida
Texas
Wallace Urged To Take Charge At Convention Fight
The article describes pressure on Wallace as Roosevelt era aides shift in support. Leo Crowley and Harold Ickes move within delegate circles for Byrnes, while Byrd gains southern backing. Barkley forces foresee Barkley nominating Roosevelt with Roosevelts language seen as potentially harmful to Wallace. President Roosevelt says he would vote for Wallace personally but leaves the convention choice to delegates.
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Leo Crowley
Roosevelt
Board of Economic Warfare
Wallace
Crowley
Byrnes
Harold Ickes
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
John Dempsey
New Mexico
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Barkley
Big City
Barkley Yaad
National Ciniman
Robert E. Han
Harold D. Young
Diologue
Convention
Yanks Smash German Lines
American forces broke German lines after a night of heavy fighting as enemy counter-attacks pushed from the city outskirts.
Allied push closes on St Lo in decisive Normandy drive
Allied forces press the St Lo sector advancing from the northeast and west while German lines crack under heavy bombardment. American columns push toward Le Mesnil Vigot as U S Army engineers seal the Vire river locks, trapping retreating German forces.
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U. S. Army
Vire
St. Lo
Allies advance along Cotentin coast amid heavy river flooding
Supreme headquarters reported Allied gains from Lessay to Noyers as floodwaters inundated the Vire river valley and delayed progress around Carentan. No late reports on progress at Lessay, the coastal anchor of the German line, which would force a German retreat of about 12 miles if captured.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
St. Lo
Don Whitehead
Ste. Croix
Periers
Whitehead
Berlin
Orne
Caen
Odon
Lessay
Second Army
Villers-Bocage
Evrecy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Vendes
Noyers
Orne River
Vire
Carentan
Supreme Headquarters
Geman
More Buzz Bombs Fall On Britain
Flying bombs struck southern England as Eden announced no secret session on robot attacks. Home Security will not separate bombing casualty totals, citing enemy risk. Three killed and nine injured in a London shelter amid claims London is being reduced to dust. Transocean notes robot weapons may hinder Cherbourg port restoration.
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London
England
Anthony Eden
Commons
War Cabinet
House
Ministry of Home Security
Eden
Transocean
Cherbourg
Wheeler Denies Presidential Candidacy Amid Party Resolution
Senator Burton K. Wheeler issued a flat denial of any presidential bid and rejected a party resolution backing him. He said Gerald Smith does not represent him and that he is not a candidate for president or any office, while visiting Butte for no Montana primary election today.
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Butte
Mont
Burton K. Wheeler
America First Party
Gerald Smith
Wheeler
Montana
Sixteen New Poliomyelitis Cases Reported in Virginia
Sixteen new cases of poliomyelitis were reported to the State Health Department, bringing Virginia's year to date total to 60. Roanoke led with five cases, followed by Wythe County with three and Roanoke, Franklin, Albemarle, Grayson, Halifax and Wythe counties with single cases each. Health officials attributed the surge partly to delayed reporting from the prior week.
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Richmond
State Health Department
Virginia
Roanoke
Wythe County
Roanoke County
Franklin County
Albemarle
Grayson
Halifax
Wyse
Lieut Hammond Receives Promotion in War Dept List
The War Department announced seven Virginia officers received temporary rank promotions and three were ordered to active duty. Promoted included Second Lieutenant Olga Dorosch of Falls Church and Emma V. Hammond of Winchester, among others, with addresses provided.
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Washington
Virginia
War Department
Olga Dorosch
A.N.C
Idylwood Road
Falls Church
A. Elizabeth Wynne
Hampton
Emma V. Hammond
East
Picadilly Street
Winchester
David Edward Ambrose
A.C
Muhlenberg Street
Woodstock
Fire damages Douglas Air Plant in Park Ridge blaze
Fire destroyed the administration building of the 33 million dollar Douglas Air craft plant in Park Ridge suburban Chicago. Firefighters from suburban departments and Chicago fought the two hour blaze, with three firemen slightly injured. Damages to the building and its communications system were estimated at 1.5 million dollars. Cause was not immediately determined.
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Chicago
Douglas Aiircraft
Park Ridge
John C. Buckwalter
President Roosevelt to Visit Rome Reported by Germans
Berlin radio, citing American circles in Rome, said President Roosevelt would visit Rome and that Myron C. Taylor, Roosevelt’s Vatican representative, had arranged with the Vatican. The report has no corroboration from other sources.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Roosevelt
Rome
Arangements
Vatican
Myron C. Taylor
Stockholm
Taylor
Rites Tomorrow For Pfc Hibbard in Berryville
Funeral services are set for Pfc Wilson Hibbard at 2:30 PM in Berryville. He died in a canoe accident while on a camp pass with two companions. one fellow serviceman Arthur Lewis of North Carolina drowned. Hibbard had been at the Tacoma Motor Base about four weeks. pallbearers will be Virginia State Guard members from Company 114.
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H. Ender
Berryville
Wilson Hibbard
Set
W. F Phillips
Knoxville
Tenn
Phillips
Young Hibbard
Holmes R. Hibbard
C¢ County
Ips
Arthur Lewis
North Carolina
Pfc
Hibbad
Tacoma
W.morrow
Copany 114
Virginia State Guard
William Dodson
Charles Shipe Russell Kaplan
Lynwood Lanaham
John Payne
Walter Feagans
Trial Justice Court Disposes Case in Durham
The Court of Trial Justice W. Erle Edwards disposed of a case involving James E. Wilson of Durham North Carolina with a liability of $5 and costs $5.25. The record notes the disposition and assessed costs.
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Court of Trial
W. Erle Edwards
James E. Wilson
Durham
If We'll Buy The Bonds They'll Drop The Bombs
A terse political cartoon caption argues that funding bonds will lead to aggressive military action. The line contrasts fiscal support with wartime consequences, reflecting public anxiety over defense spending and foreign policy.
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Rock Enon
Canada
Civil & Police Court
Son
Sgt
Hitler
Byrd
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Command
Periers-St. Lo
le Mesnil
Bury
Hal Boyle
Boyle
Lieut. Hammond
the Star
B. F. Goodrich
B.F. Goedrich
Silvertowns
Tees Ac
Goodrich Silverteuwn Stores
E. Piccadilly St
Douglas
Hibbard
Trial Justice Court
Lee
Baltimore & Ohio
B&o
Baltimore
Ohio Railroad
Rae Aun Sone Eee
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