Allies in south captured resort city of Nice
German Army reels northward on Lyon
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer
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With fair share of breaks –
Allies can win in Europe in 35 days, experts say
After five years, even London Conservatives believe Hitler will be crushed in few weeks
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer
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Government due to seize struck mines
WLB hands district disputes to President
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Truman opens campaign tonight
Lamar, Missouri (UP) –
The Democratic Party launches its active campaign for a fourth term tonight when its vice-presidential candidate, Senator Harry S. Truman, broadcasts to the nation from this little town of his birth.
All of Pittsburgh’s radio stations will carry the address at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Senator Truman said his address would be filled with “facts – which include plenty of reasons why the Democrats should be reelected.”
The occasion was Senator Truman’s official acceptance of his nomination as President Roosevelt’s running mate.
After 10 years of ‘white lie’ –
Columbo’s mother dies still believing him alive
Brothers of bandleader read parent letters ‘from son;’ $398 a month keeps coming in
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Army casualties rise to 284,838
Late July’s heavy fighting in northern France caused a sharp increase in U.S. Army casualties, Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson disclosed today, swelling the total for all theaters to 283,838 through Aug. 13.
This represented an increase of 23,249 over the total reported a week ago, and Mr. Patterson said the increase was “largely reflected in the period of heaviest fighting in northern France near the end of July.”
Secretary Patterson’s announcement brought to 349,523 the number of casualties thus far announced for all services since Pearl Harbor, as tabulated below.
| Army | Navy | |
|---|---|---|
| Killed | 53,101 | 23,544 |
| Wounded | 142,686 | 20,701 |
| Prisoners | 44,408 | 4,466 |
| Missing | 44,643 | 9,642 |
| — | — | — |
| TOTAL | 284,838 | 58,353 |
Mr. Patterson also disclosed that the fighting in southern France, from the landings Aug. 15 through Aug. 24, had cost the Americans 1,242 killed or missing and 5,090 wounded – relatively light losses.
In Southeast Asia operations since January, more than 50,000 Japs have been killed, Mr. Patterson said. Jap dead counted in Central and South Pacific operations now total more than 115,000, he said.
Astaire in London
London, England –
Fred Astaire, movie star, arrived here yesterday “to do a little hoofing and sing a few songs” for U.S. troops in the European Theater.
Montgomery, Bradley get equal status
Eisenhower reveals change in command
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Robert Murphy given new diplomatic post
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Anchor of Nazi Gothic Line captured by Allies in Italy
Polish troops take Pesaro on Adriatic coast; Nazis begin withdrawal to defense positions
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Nazis abandon robot bases in North France
Fire flying bombs from Belgium
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U.S. mediums hit ammunition dump
Bad weather cuts Allied air attacks
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Perkins: Murray aide may end labor unrest in area
Golden to devote full time to union here
By Fred W. Perkins
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Foster: ‘Sweet’ films on the way
Sentiment will reign after war
By Ernest Foster
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Young actor finds kissing scene a tough ordeal
All hands on movie set join in handing him a ribbing
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Films’ ‘Lone Ranger’ killed in action
Long Beach, California (UP) –
Marine Sgt. Lee Powell, the red-masked Long Ranger of the movies who galloped through rip-roaring serials on a white stallion named “Silver,” has been killed in action in the South Pacific, the Navy announced yesterday.
The 35-year-old cowboy had been stationed in the South Pacific since November 1942 and had fought his way ashore with the Marines at Tarawa and Saipan.
His widow, Mrs. Norma Powell of Long Beach, said she had not been informed where her husband was killed.
Simms: Europe’s old Triple Entente to be revived
Britain-France-Russia union to guard peace
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Bridges attacks parley secrecy
Washington (UP) –
The closed nature of the Dumbarton Oaks world security conference drew new Republican fire today as Senatore Styles Bridges (R-NH) denounced the policy of “Oriental secrecy” and said he may discuss it next week with Governor Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential nominee.
In his second blast of the week against the confidential character of the American, British and Russian conversations, Mr. Bridges belittled the press conference held at Dumbarton Oaks Tuesday to report, in general terms, the progress made toward outlining a new world peace organization.
Styling it “a so-called press conference,” Senator Bridges said that reporters came away “shaking their heads despairingly,” and that “one reported voiced the true sentiment when he said they got ‘a diplomatic brushoff.’”
Another Republican, Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R-MA), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said she would confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull today on the progress of the conference because “I believe Congress should be better informed on our foreign relations.”