► DIARY OF
NEWSY 1944
By RICHARD TOMPKINS,
AP Newsfeatures Writer
(Continued from Monday)
AUGUST 1944 I
s M T W T F s
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Americans break through Nazi
line in Normandy, drive fast and
hard through Brittany . . . Rus
sians enter East Prussia, home of
the Junkers generals . . . Stars
and Stripes raised again on,
Guam . . . Manuel Quezon, ex
iled Philippine president, dies!. . .
Eight German army officers
hanged for plotting to kill Hit
ler .. . CIO-PAC plea- “A buck
t for the New Deal” . . . Dewey de_
nounces Ham Fish for anti
Semitism . . . Last of the first
women senators: Hattie Caraway
loses primary in Arkansas, tan
tamount to defeat . . . Rep. Ful
bright sponsors resolution which,
puts the House on record for in
ternational freedom of the
press . . . Diligenti quintuplets
of Buenos Ares celebrate com_
pletion of their first normal year
. . . Second invasion of France,
from Marseille to Cannes and
Nice . . . Mare than 225,000 Axis
prisoners of war in U. C. camps
. . . Berlin cautions homeland:
‘‘A very great trial of strength”
at hand . . . Fire: At Palisades
Park, N. J. . and Luna Park,
Coney Island . . . Heat: New
York 96 degrees; Blythe, Calif.,
117 degrees . . . Transit strike in
Philadelphia . . . President re
turns from Hawaiian conference,
with MacArthur, Nimitz, Halsey
. . . U-boats sunk exceed U-boat ;
victims . . . Russian press- First j
eye-witness description of a Na- j
zi extermination camp . . Rep
resentatives of United Nations
meet at Dumbarton Oaks to plan
lasting peace . . . Reds drive into
Romania . . . Allies overman
France . . . Florence occupied by j
Eighth Army . . . After 500 years
plebians may enter Eton, Har_
row, other exclusive English
schools . . . Motion picture
‘‘Wilson” production cost, $5,
200,000.
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Allies in Netherlands, Bel
gium, Luxembourg . . . Sen.
George W. Norris, champion of
popular rights, dies . . . Dewey
opens campaign in Philadelphia
. . . The rumor that a destroy
er was sent a thousand miles to
fetch Fala, left in the Aleutians,
is denied . . . Red Army in
Bucharest . . . Russia declares
war on Bulgaria, calls it off four
days later when Bulgaria joins
Allies . . . Germany invaded
(Sept. 11) . . . Russia’s war with
Finland ends . . . Roosevelt and
Churchill confer in Quebec —
their eighth meeting of the war
. . . United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation conference in
Montreal . . . Planes bomb Min
danao . . . Hurricane hits East,
em seaboard; tens of thousands
of trees downed ... Of 9,000
German defenders of Praga only
one in 20 is taken alive . . . U.
S. bans American ships from Ar
gentine portg • • • First lady of
flhe ti<rf, Mrs. Payne Whitney,
dies at 68 . . . Attorney General
Biddle rules CIO-PAC violates
no election laws . . . Roosevelt:
‘‘I shall not campaign—in the
usual sense” . . . Brereton’s air
borne landings at Arnheim iso
lated . . . Few escape . . . Man
ila’s puppet regime declares war
on U„ S. . . . Vice President Wal
lace: “Some people say President
Roosevelt is a tired old man—
the great fear of certain reac_
tionaries is that his mind is aw
fully good.” . . . GOP wins in
Maine . . . Canadians in Dieppe
. . . King Mihal overthrows An
tonescu, proclaims Romania’s
surrender to Allies . . . Discov
ery: Roosevelt and Dewey have
common ancestors; they’re sev
enth cousins, once removed . . .
Bulgarian edict: All cooks who
spoil food in cooking will be
shot . . . R<eno record. 58 di_
vorce actions filed in one day
. . . Secretary Stimson: ‘‘I hope
I live long enough to see V-day.”
Calais falls . . . A1 Smith dies
in Manhattan . . . British com
mandos invade three Greek is
lands . . . Army Air Transport
Command establishes direct air
service between New York and
Paris . . . Frank Sinatra has tea
at the White House . . . Reds
advance across Yugoslavia . . .
British take Greece . . . Wendell
Willkie dies from overtaxed
heart . . . Nazis cave before
massive Red assault in Lithuania
... In Toronto, divorces are
granted in appeals of Rows vs,
Rows and Loveless vs. Loveless
... Barbara Hutton and Cary
Grant reunited after seven weeks
of separation . . . Corinth falls
to Greeks and British . . . Riga
falls ... St. Louis Cardinals
beat Browns in hometown world
series . . . Cuba’s new president:
Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin . . .
Reds and Tito partisans smash
into Belgrade . . . MacArthur re
turns to the Philippines, with
the invasion of Leyte . . 1 Aachen
falls to Americans on seventh
day of siege . . . Died: Richard
Bennett, 72, stage idol, father of
Constance, Joan and Barbara . . .
U. S., Great Britain, Russia,
China recognizes De Gaulle gov
ernment . . . Gen. Eisenhower’s
Christmas wish—a package of
hominy grits—is granted . . .
Churchill - Stalin conference on
peace problems . . . Russians in_
vade Norway . . . Japanese lose
58 ships in clash with U. S. fleets
off Philippines . . . Four score
and five; John Dewey, grand old
man of philosophy . . . Navy dis
charges since Pearl Harbor. 10,
936, undesirable; 15,479, bad con
duct; 2,007, dishonorable . ., . Re
publicans: ‘‘Why do Communists
and Pinkos like the New Deal so
muafc?” . . . Gas tanks explode
in Cleveland with death toll over
100. . . Berlin announces death
in France of Erwin Rommel, the
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