*Stars and Stripes Aug 7 1944 - Drive for Paris - Mustang KOs 6 Myitkyina - DFC

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This is an original August 7,1944 issue of Stars and Stripes London Edition from the Archives of Wartime Press.  We are releasing for sale some of our newspapers from our private holdings.
Vol. 4 No. 237         Monday,
August 7
, 1944                 8 pages
Article headlines in this issue are:
Yanks Open Drive for Paris - One Column 50 Mi. East of Avranches; Tanks Reach Brest
Philly Tie-Up Partially Over
Nazi Officials Quit Paris
The War Today
Reds 40 Miles From Cracow; Menace Silesia - Tighten Vise on Warsaw;  Russians Still at Edge Of East Prussia
Berlin Bombed By U.S. Heavies
47 Lose Lives In Train Crash  ( Doctortown, Ga. )
Luxury Train Derailed  ( Lane, S.C. )
U.S. Toll in France Is 70,009;  116,148 Total Allied Casualties
Bond Campaign Of 8th AF Past Halfway Mark - ,068,489 Is Subscribed, 51 Pct. of Goal; Drive Concludes Sept. 2
Bitter Battling On at Florence
He Knows Now (  Arnold Ernst )
Bubbles From The Political Pot
Truman Quits Committee (  Senate War Investigating Committee )
Dewey Ends Conferences
McMahon Is Nominated
Tennessee Nominates
Russian Widow Becomes 'Hero of the Soviet Union' (  Guards Sgt. Maria Oktyabrskaya )
Mustang Pilot KOs 6 Nazis For New Mark on Fighters (  Maj. George E. Freddy )
Key Rail Line Destroyed By Partisans, Tito Says (  Kraljevo-Skoplje railway )
Haile Selassie Gets Plane
British Reach Burma in Push Past India Line -  Seize Tamu, Win Control  Of Valley; Myitkyina Japanese Mopped Up
Byrnes  Orders  Drastic  New Manpower Controls - OKs Sanctions To Insure Full Output for War -  Priorities to Be Revised  To Net 200,000 More Workers in 'Stretch'
U.S. Distillers Start Work On 40,000,000 Gallons
Wrecked Ship Proves Handy
Hotter'n Hell; Even Satan Keeled Over -  Rain Floods Washington; Rest Of U.S. Wet Down by Sweat
Better Stay in the Army, Bub - Bleak Future for Office-Boy Colonels
U.S. Is Warned Of Land Boom - Wiekard Decries Rush To Buy Farms at Prices Inflated by the War
26 Japanese-American Internees Cleared Of Draft Charges
Navy Cruiser Commander Killed in Plane Crash (  Rear-Adm. Charles P. Cecil )
Briefs From Home  - Emphasis - Army Takes Over Hotels - Hope It Comes Soon - 'Dunk,' Men, 'Dunk' - Aluminum Output Faces Cut - The Not So Almighty Dollar
Deny Coddling Of Prisoners
Jon Hall Slashed
New Faces Due On N.Y. Skyline - 32-Million Building Plan Will See Skyscrapers  Erected
U.S. Curtails Sub Building
Zinc Pennies Will Remain Until They Are Worn Out
Navy Refuses to Free Cooper To Police in 'Wild-Party' Case
Bill Would Give U.S. War-Time Rule in Peace - Republicans Fight Senate Measure to Continue Controls 2 Years
Shoddy (  Mrs. Vera Perry )
Hash Marks
An Allied Success
Don't Write It
Chance to Study
Straight From the Front /  By Ernie Pyle (  Normandy Mosquitoes )
Army Poets  ( T/5 Peter Alfano )
Notes from the Air Force
This Is The Army
Ordnance Men Put Booty Back On Job for U.S. - Enemy Material, Damaged Allied Equipment Are Restored in France / By Joe Fleming
Piano Makers Out of Tune
Help Wanted
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And Given
Stars & Stripes Map Saves Launch Lost In a Channel Fog  ( S/Sgt. Alpha M. Chase )
DSCs Go To 7 In 4th Division  ( Decorated were: Lt. Cols. Carlton O. MacNeely, of Columbus, Ga., and Arthur S. Teague, of Philadelphia; Maj. George L. Mabry Jr., of Hagood, S.C.; Capts. Charles A. Earnest III, of Toano, Va., and Gail B. Lee, of Mt. Herman, La.; T/Sgt. Erwin F. Mitman, of Scranton, Pa., and S/Sgt. Donald L. Chase, of Newcomb, N.Y. )
GI Ingenuity Licks Problem of Slicing French Hedgerows
5 WAC Looeys Replace Air-Unit Cryptographers  ( The WACs are: Lts. Mary K. Edinger, of Woodstock, Ill.; Anne W. Tinges, of Towson, Md.; Maxine E. Teetsel, of Sayre, Pa.; Anita A. Kretemann, of Orange, N.J. and Aileen Lohrke, of Nashua,. Ia. )
Say Bulgaria Balks at Aid in War on Turkey - Ankara Hears Nazis Told Borders Will Be Closed To Passage of Troops
French Drive Saves Dough
That 9 Francs an Hour Helps - Yanks, French Get On Fine; Natives Pitch In at Odd Jobs
Aerial Hookup Gets Allies Information, Informer, to Boot
Crippled P47 Flies Home In Circles,Lands at 200 Per  ( Lt. Col. Harold N. Holt )
Study Airplane Gas Stations
Goldbrickers  Dig  Down For Cash to Aid Prisoners
Radio Highlights
Lane Held in Bail After Franklin Death
Montgomery Loses to Jack - War Bond Tiff at Garden Nets ,864,900 for Largest 'Gate'
Wright Entries Sweep Princess Pat Stakes - Duplicate Feat Of '41 Futurity; Earnings Zoom -  Good Blood, Twosy and  Thine Add ,840 to Calumet Total
'Red' Button Will Boss National Ice Loop Again
Minor League Results
Brewer Slump Against Hens Fails to Open up A A Chase
Junior Net Title To Falkenburg
Strong Mound Staff Bolsters Oriole Bid
Yankees Give Cooney Unconditional Release
Loughran Gels Discharge
Behind The Sports Headlines
Ivory Hunters Foil Ott Attempt to Keep Kids Under Wraps
Southern and Big Ten Players Dominate All Star Grid Squad
ETO Sports Mirror
Sampson Notches 20th Victory
Bucky Walters Stops Redbirds To Gain No. 16 -  Chapman Joins Dodgers  Brooks Whip Braves Twice, 9-4, 8-7
Title to Legless Golfer  ( Charles Blake )
Masterson Backs Down, Signs to Play for Tigers
Major League Results
Haegg Lowers 2-Mile Record
Cubs Pound Bucs, 4-3,7-2; Brownies Hold Margin - Red Sox Miss Chance to Gain; Yanks Mar Fete -  Blank A's, 1-0 After Mack  Celebration;  Chisox' Bid for 4th Fails
Jules Sikes to Coach St. Mary's Pre-Flight
Yanks Sweep Ahead, Cut Off Brittany Peninsula
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