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Vol. 4 No. 219 – Monday, July 17, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: … Grodno Falls; Reds Stand at E. Prussia – Hinge of Two Lines Now in Soviet Hands – Big Russian Drive For Lwow Is On, Berlin Says ….. Yanks Battling Way Into Lessay on Coast – Duel of Heavy Guns Features Bitter St. Lo Fight ….. Buzz-Bombs Boomerang On Senders – Several Robots Headed For U.K. Get Snafued, Explode in Nazi Lines ….. B29 Raiders Put to Death; Fate in Store for All, Japs Say ….. The War Today ….. GI Amazons Join Warriors In Normandy / By Barbara Wace ….. Munich Area Pounded Again ….. Laval Wants Paris Made Open City, Madrid Hears ….. Aid to CBI Detailed ….. Reporter Bullitt in Algiers ….. ‘Open Season’ On Wallace’s Job ….. Eighth Seizes Arezzo in Italy ….. General Dies in Crash ( Maj. Gen. Paul W. Newgarden ) ….. What’s a Fire Extinguisher For? To Land a Plane, of Course – Its Fluid Refills Brakes, Fort Rigs’ Chutes to Boot And Comes In Safely ….. The War Has Altered Things For Old Maids in the States ….. Magazines’ Ban For Servicemen Denied by Army – War Dept. Asserts GI’s Preference Determines Which Are Sold ….. All Clear ….. Guinea Japs Set For New Attack ….. British Sub Destroys 7 Vessels in 18 Mins. ….. Navy Reaches 3,650,000 Goal ….. Convinced at Last ….. ‘Open Season’ On Wallace’s Job Declared – Democratic,Field for No.2 Spot on Ticket Is Full as Convention Nears ….. Orders Nurse Commissions To Carry Full Authority ….. It Was Cooler Outside, All but the Customers’ Temperature – Intermittent Rains Fail To Break Heat Wave In the States ….. They’re Sewing for a GI Harvest – Tailors Pant to Sell Us Suits, But Risk No Cuffs With Brown ….. Two Prophecies-Take Your Pick – Will the GI Hep Cat Become Fireside Tabby, Come Peace? ….. Quick Renewal Of Auto Output Held Dubious – Industry Pricks WPB’s Hopes of Reconversion Right After Victory ….. 26 Left on Trial In Treason Case ….. Post-War Job Hopes Studied ….. Kin of U.S. Fighters Want Bad News Along With Good ….. Army to Gobble ‘Em All ….. Court Rules Better Half To Be at Least as Good ….. Pearl Harbor Probe to Start ….. Joan Blondell, Told To Get the Hell Out, Does, With Divorce ….. Demobilization Planned as the Troops Want It – Byrnes Tells Congress GI’s Views Were Followed in Settling Priorities ….. Musician Denies Draft Violation ….. Sailors on Landing Craft To Wear Special Insignia ….. Fly Bomb’s Return ….. Fighting Orphans ….. Grand Canyon Rescue ….. No Rifle for a Correspondent, But He Moves Up With Infantry / By Ernie Pyle ….. This is The Army ….. Ordnance Men Help to Erase A Nazi Pillbox ….. Notes from the Air Force ….. 3 Miss Abandon-Ship Order, Rescued After a Count of Noses ….. Money Quotas In World Fund OKd at Parley – U.S. to Put In the Biggest Share; U.K. Second; Soviet Agrees to $1,200,000,000 ….. Yank Engineers ‘Eliminate’ Mines In Cherbourg Area ….. Air War on the Ground – Four Men on a Walkie Talkie Direct Fire From Nazi Rear / By Robert Miller ….. A Hunter of Salvage Becomes the Hunted ….. Treatment Irks Returned GIs ….. Naval Chief Given Medal For Tug Work in Invasion ….. Skeezix, Nina Wed In ‘Gasoline Alley’ ….. Troop Carrier Group Gets D-Day Medals ….. U.S. Population Shifting To the South and West ….. Chindits Slash Ahead in Burma ….. Water Driller Strikes Home-Made Power Plant ….. Insult to Injury, the Latter Enough to Stop the Clock ….. Goebbels Asks Allies to Ease Peace Terms – U.S. Sees in the Appeal An Indication of Possible Sudden Nazi Crackup ….. Smiths Can Claim They Forged a Big Part in the Victory ….. Flung Out of Super-Fort, He Parachutes to Safety ….. Radio Highlights ….. Yanks Closing In on Browns; Walters Gets No. 15 – Bucky Subdues Cardinals, 3-0; Bucs Lose Two – Rejuvenated Cubs Whip Pirates,”ll-5, 4-3, to Add To Redbird Margin ….. Winn Back in Gotham Turf Picture ….. Wakefield’s Slugging Presages Easy Switchover for Ex-Stars ….. Double Setback Drops Red Sox To Third Place – Tribe Scalps St. Louis, 3-2, 13-2, to Narrow Lead to 1-1/2 Games ….. It’s an Oldster’s Game; Crosetti’s Coming Back ….. Volk Outpoints ‘King Tut’ Tabor ….. Senators’ Latins Get Draft Order: ‘Sign Up or Get Out’ ….. Millers’ Mike Kelley Starts 51st Year as Diamondman ….. Booth. Former Eli Star, Named to Yale Grid Post ….. HOW THEY STAND ….. Bagby, Rejected by Army, On Way to Rejoin Tribe ….. Busy Bucky By Pap ….. An Open Letter to Mike Jacobs ….. Bomber, Conn Almost Came In on a Prayer ….. Andersson’s Stretch Sprint Bests Haegg in 1,500-Meter Duel ….. Bickel Talbert Matched In River Forest Net Final ….. ETO SPORTS MIRROR ….. Minor League Results ….. Atherton Attempts to Ban Officials From Pro Loop ….. Nittany Lions Drop Six Intercollegiate Sports ….. Lou Novikoff Hospitalized ….. Giants Send Polli to Jerseys ….. Free For All Cops Futurity; Sir Bim Next – March Mount Has Easy Time Beating Ameche’s Entry at Arlington ….. Nova Beaten By Lee Oma ….. VIVE L’AMERIQUE! – French Welcome Yanks ….. Russians Pace Allied Thrusts