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July 10, 1944

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Red Army Opens Baltic Push, Wins the Vital Lida Rail Hub; SOVIET GAINS MENACE GERMANS' WHOLE BALTIC POSITION RUSSIANS CAPTURE LIDA RAIL JUNCTION

By the United Press

Russians reach Latvian border in new offensive toward Dvinsk, Riga and Baltic Sea; take Druya and Braslav; Vilna st fighting continues; Moscow repts Gers ordered to defend city to last man; Gers last escape routes cut by USSR capture of Ponary and Lida; 2 armies take Novogrudok, Dyatlovo and Naguyevichi; other forces take Dobromysl; thrust toward Luninets reaches Kozhangrudek; map

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JAPANESE CRUSHED; Americans Are Rapidly Mopping Up Scattered Remnants on Saipan JAPAN NOW PERILED New Base Plants Our Sea and Air Power Near Her Front Door ANOTHER MILESTONE IS PASSED ON THE LONG ROAD TO TOKYO Japanese Are Crushed on Saipan; Americans Overrun Entire Isle

By George F. Horneby Telephone To the New York Times

Adm Nimitz repts organized Jap resistance has ceased, Saipan; US troops reptd mopping up scattered Jap remnants; campaign described; strategic potentialities of Saipan noted; US carrier task force led by Rear Adm Mitscher reptd to have raided Guam and Rota; US planes down 9 Jap fighters trying apparently to reach Yap Is from Guam airfield; US raid destroyed 6 grounded Jap planes, damaged 2, near Agana on Guam; 2 US planes lost; map

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Notable Births

Mick Grant

1944Mick Grant, English motorcycle racer[†]

Mick Grant is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki, he is a seven-time winner of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race on various makes, including 'Slippery Sam', a three-cylinder Triumph Trident. The son of a coal miner, the soft-spoken, down-to-earth Yorkshireman from Wakefield, was a sharp contrast to the brash, playboy image presented by Londoner Barry Sheene during the 1970s.

1944Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic[†]

Norman Hammond is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.