Holding Firmly Around Stalingrad U S Takes Hand In Stopping Rommel
Allied forces in North Africa faced a major Rommel offensive as British and U S air power bombed Axis positions around El Alamein and Ey Himeimat. Bombers and fighters destroyed enemy planes and transports while long range fighters hit coastal road traffic. Rommel aimed at a soft spot near Himeimat with 500 to 600 tanks, advancing through mine fields amid dust storms.
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Stalingrad
U. S
Rommel
Cairo
RAF
United States Army Air Force
Alexandria
Nile
Suez Canal
Rom
Himeimat
Alamein
el Himeimat
Discontent Flared After IRA Man Williams Hanged in Belfast
In Belfast on September 2, crowds of about 300 angry at US soldiers gathered after the execution of Thomas J. Williams an 18 year old IRA member for the police killing. Police charged rioters with batons and two demonstrators were jailed.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
United States
Thomas J. Williams
Irish Republican Army
Williams
C. Turner
U. S. Army
St. Patrick’s Procathedral
IRA
Ulster
Red Marines Crush Rumanian Cavalry Divisions
Soviet marines defeated the fifth and ninth Romanian cavalry divisions destroying 79 percent of their strength in a Black sea coast battle. The action likely occurred along the Caucasian coast near Novorossisk amid broader Nazi and Romanian movements.
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Moscow
Black Sea
Red Fleet
Caucasian
Novorossisk
Anapa
Knox Sees Submarine Menace Substantially Reduced
Secretary of the Navy Knox said at a Washington press conference that submarine threats could be reduced so they would not interfere with victory in the war. He noted a steady drop in ships sunk along shores and that submarines move to new targets when pressed. He cautioned the problem is not solved and may never be fully licked, though substantial reduction is possible.
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Washington
Knox
Stephan Traitor Conviction Appeal Extension Denied
Detroit Sept 2 A plea by attorneys for Max Stephan convicted traitor under sentence to hang Nov 13 for an extension of time to perfect their appeal to the circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati was denied today by Federal Judge Arthur J Tuttle.
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Detroit
Max Stephan
Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Arthur J. Tuttle
El Reno Beer Wagon Runaway Trashes Beer and Pride
In El Reno on Main Street two horses pulling a beer wagon bolted as pedestrians shouted whoa. They dodged traffic and ran a sharp turn, overturning the wagon and ending on the high school grounds. Driver John Lorenzen recovered the animals. only damage was to his pride and several spilled beers.
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EL Reno
Main Street
John Lorenzen
Lorenzen
Saarbruecken Bombing Raid Marked as Success
London dispatch reports a large RAF raid on Saarbruecken described by the air ministry as an outstanding success. The attack, the second on Saarbruecken in a week, left only three British bombers missing amid clear weather and strong target visibility.
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London
Air Ministry
Saarbruecken
RAF
Nuernberg
Germany
Berlin
Koenigsberg
Danzig
Sussex
Saarbrucken
Striking Freight Car Handlers Urge Drastic Action
A War Production Board regional rep urged immediate drastic measures to end a 300 to 400 strong strike by freight car handlers in Philadelphia. The walkout halted unloading at piers and stalled lumber flow to a shipyard and a housing project. Union official James Casey called the action illegal and a subversive move to disrupt munition transport. strike leaders sought wage gains from 75 to 95 cents per hour.
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Philadelphia
U?pa
War Production Board
Philalee
James P. Casey
Casey
Albert James
International Longshoremen’s Association Local Union
Japan Moves Troops Toward Siberia Amid Pacific Skirmishes
Reports from Chungking and Tokyo indicate Japan deployed about 100000 troops to the Siberian front and massed a northern fleet, while clashes escalate around Port Moresby and Kokoda. Tokyo denies policy shift as Togo resigns, with observers forecasting bold moves by the war army.
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Associated Press
Japan
Russia
Siberia
Vladivostok
Sea of Japan
Tokyo
Tokyo War Cabinet
Domei
Hideki Tojo
Foreign Ministry
Togo
Shikenori Togo
Chungking
China
Ta Kung Pao
China War Theater
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Milne Bay
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Oklahoma flyer to receive Distinguished Flying Cross Tuesday
Lieut. Harry McCool a Beaver county native who taught in Jackson county will be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Oklahoma City Tuesday for navigating a bomber that attacked Tokyo Col Earl H DeFord Will Rogers Field commander will present the medal McCool is on leave in Colorado Springs with parents nearby state county and city officials are invited to attend the ceremony
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Oklahoma City
Harry McCool
Beaver County
Jackson County
Tokyo
Earl H. DeFord
Will Rogers Field
McCool
Colorado Springs
Deferring Men With Children Might Be Extended
Representative May of Kentucky says married men with dependents should not be drafted for another 18 months. He cites a Selective Service survey and a meeting with director Hershey. He also notes the War Department may ask Congress by January 1 to lower the draft age from 20 to 18.
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Washington
UPI
May
D-Ky
Home Military Committee
Selective Service
Hershey
War Department
Congress
Death takes A. H. Roberts in Ada
A H Roberts longtime Ada resident and former Choctaw Cotton Oil mill superintendent died Wednesday morning at a local hospital after an extended illness he would have been 74 in October Funeral services were set for Thursday at 2 30 p m at Criswell Funeral Home with burial at Sherman He left North Wales in 1868 came to the United States at 18 settled in Sherman later moved to Ross then Ada He led the machine shop at the oil mill and trained many machinists Surviving are his wife a daughter Thelma Bowman and grandson John Frederick Bowman in Costa Rica Pallbearers were Ferguson Smith Skinner Parrish Emmons and Morton
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A. H. Roberts
Choctaw Cotton Oil Company
Criswell Funeral Home
Sherman
North Wales
Roberts
United States
Texas
Ross
Burch-Forbes Cotton Oil Company
Rofs Lodge
First Presbyterian Church of
Ada
West Sixteenth
East Ninth
Abe
Thelma Bowman
John Frederick Bowman
Costa Rica
Central America
Onie Ferguson
Hicks Smith
John Skinner
Jim Parrish
Orville Emmons
G. J. Morton
Sugar applications and allocations drop in August
During August sugar applications fell from 2,445 in July to 1,742. Issued sugar amounts declined from 49,443 pounds in July to 37,063 pounds in August.
Dickens’s Father Imprisoned at Marshalsea in London
Charles Dickens records his father’s confinement in Marshalsea Prison Southwark London. The ca 19th century facility was torn down later in the period after its closure.
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Charles Dickens
Marshalsea
Southwark
London
England
Livestock In Market Rush Across Major Markets
The agricultural department notes a surge in meat producing animals moving to markets in early September 1942, nearly doubling year earlier totals. Hogs cattle and sheep from Buffalo to Fort Worth show sharp gains, with sheep up 149 percent hogs 98 percent and cattle 46 percent.
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William Ferris
Chicago
Agricultural Department
Buffalo
Denver
Fort Worth
Public Executions In Bulgaria Reported by Berlin Radio
Berlin broadcasts relayed a Sofia report that three men were publicly executed and left hanging in a square until noon next day. It cited a new Bulgarian law allowing public executions and described the men as ring leaders in preparing a communist uprising in Struma.
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Berlin
Sofia
Bulgaria
Struma
Rommel's Attack Signals Big World War Show in Egypt
Wide World War Analyst De Witt Mackenzie argues Rommel’s desert offensive is a planned, large-scale push to seize Alexandria Port Said and the Suez Canal, thwart the British in the eastern Mediterranean as part of Hitler’s broader Caucasus strategy.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
Rommel
Egyptian
Egypt
Suez Canal
Hitler
Caucasus
Middle East
Russia
Si:ngrad
Fuercher
Alexandria
Port Said
Mediterranean
Stalingrad
Palestine
Syria
Iran
Qattara
Mediterranean Sea
War at a Glance spreads front line actions worldwide
War brief highlights U S tanks and planes pressing axis thrusts near Suez and the Nile with casualties in Cairo. German and Russian moves update battles around Stalingrad Grozny and Warsaw while air raids hit Saarbrucken and Prussia. Allied landings in Belgian Congo and Japanese actions in Milne Bay and Kokoda are noted along with Chinese claims in Chekiang.
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Associated Press
Cairo
U. S
Suez
Nile
Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga Steel City
Grozny
Black Sea
London
RAF
Saarbrucken
Warsaw
Belgian Congo
Pacific
Siberia
MacArthur
Milne Bay
Kokoda
Port Moresby
Chungking
Chekiang Province
New Radio Theory Class Planned By Government
A government sponsored radio theory class will organize Monday September 14 at Ada high school at 7 pm. Instructor Harral Allen says applicants have applied but room remains. Requirements include high school graduation two years of math and one year of physics. The first class ends Wednesday night and a Molloy led class is well along toward completion. Interested individuals should call Harral Allen at 1077. Men liable for induction who complete the course earn ratings if drafted.
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Ada High School
Harral Alan
Alien
M. B. Molloy
Harral Allen
Pontotoc County Given September Bicycle Quota
The Pontotoc county war price and rationing board has received the county quota for September. The county will be allowed 75 bicycles, the largest allocation since rationing began. Tires and tubes quotas are listed with 13 passenger car tires, 13 second grade tires, 44 tubes, and truck rubber reduced to 70 tires, 52 recaps, and 64 tubes.
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Pontotoc County
Pilot Bails Out Over Mountains Near Jenkin Jones
Army Lieut. R. M. Roberson, 22, of Fort Worth Texas, bailed out of a pursuit plane at 4500 feet after an oil line broke and the craft burned near Jenkin Jones in McDowell County West Virginia. He landed safely in his parachute with a minor facial cut.
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Gary
W. Va
McDowell County
Lieut
R. M. Roberson
Fort Worth
Texas
Jenkin Jones
Roberson
Washington, D. C
Russians Hold Stalingrad Against German Tank Attacks
Moscow dispatch reports fierce fighting as German tanks hammer Stalingrad defenses on day seven. Soviet counterattacks reclaim ground near Don and northwest of the city while Red air force bombards East Prussia and Poland.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga
Fedor von Bock
Red Army
Don
Red
Germany
Lower Volga
East Prussia
Poland
Warsaw
Black Sea
Anapa
Rzhevv
Students urged to bring war ration books to campus
Norman is told by J W Foster of the local rationing board that University of Oklahoma students must carry war ration books to hand to boarding houses, restaurants, cafeterias, and Greek houses for the new academic year.
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
J. W. Foster
Pessimist College Teaches Critics of Parental Wisdom
A fragment notes a school where children learn to critique their parents. The wording emphasizes a skeptical view of parental guidance and the school’s purpose.
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