Jap drive to recapture Solomons escalates in heavy fighting
Washington reports a grand-scale Japanese attempt to retake the Solomons with do-or-die fury. Marines hold positions on Guadalcanal as naval and aerial exchanges intensify from New Britain to the Tanimbar Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Japan
Solomon Island
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Southwest Pacific
Allied Air Forces
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Guadaicanal Island
New Britain
Tanimbar Islands
Darwin
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Kennedy
Kennedy
France
George H. Brett
United States
Brett
U. S
Ralph Royce
U. S. Army Air Corps
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
John H. Towers
Naval Aeronautics
Air Command
Towers
Nimitz
The
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Rubber czar takes helm in federal rubber program
William M. Jeffers, a 66 year old Union Pacific veteran, named by Don Nelson to run the government rubber program. He will oversee the rubber reserve, funds, and Baruch committee recommendations, aiming to raise butadiene output and boost synthetic rubber production to ease civilian driving restrictions. He pledged action over talk and will wield broad authority in rubber affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Needham
Washington
William M
Bill” Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad
Donald M. Nelson
Jeffers
Nelson
Blunt
Ones Rubber Committee
Bernard M. Baruch
Federal Loan Agency
Baruch Committee
Stolen Buffalo Bill Knife From museum in Cody
Thieves have taken the famous knife used by Col William F Buffalo Bill Cody to scalp Chief Yellow Hand after a gun duel on July 17 1876 The blade is missing from the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody Wyoming. Cody described the historic fight in his autobiography and recounted the five second scalp scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cody
Woo
William F
Buffalo Bills
Yellow Hand
Buffalo Bill
Wyoming-Nebraska
U S Warns Vichy on Manpower Exports and Deportations
Secretary Hull warned Pierre Laval’s government that sending French workers to Germany’s war factories would be aid to the enemy and violate international law. He also condemned mass deportations of Jews from unoccupied France as revolting and fiendish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Germany
United States
France
Hull
Three Area Fliers Reported Missing in Action
Missing in action reports reach Ada through war department notices. Lt Donald L Bonham and Lt Laverne Collins are listed as missing in the war in Europe and the southwest Pacific. Bonham is a co pilot of a Flying Fortress bomber and a Seminole HS and Oklahoma A and M graduate. Collins is from Calgate. The note also recalls Jim Rutledge of U S naval aviation, missing in the Pacific after a water landing and raft escape. AOPA announces the first all purpose ration book due by Christmas to aid wartime rationing.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
England
OPA
Jim Rutledge
Lieut Bonham
Pacific
Lieut
Collins
Coalgate
Europe
Big Jim Rutledge
U. S. Naval Aviation
War Department Today
Donald L. Bonham
North Beard
Ada
Laverne Collins
Calgate
Bonham
Southwest Pacific
Barbara Jean Foster
Seminole High School
East Central College
Oklahoma A
M. College
Jefferson
Okla
Rutledge
Ben Rutledge
Denison
Texas
Ada High School
War Department
U. S
Pacific Fleet
James
Shawnee Editor Enlists After Volunteering for Officers Training
Shawnee Oklahoma September 16 1940 Tom Steed editor of the Shawnee Star and News and a draft board member volunteers for the army and expects to be called within a week. He says service is preferable to remaining on the draft board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee, Okla
Tom Steed
T He
Shawnee
Sub Chaser Donated to Norwegian Navy in Lend-Lease Exchange
President Roosevelt handed over a 173 foot submarine chaser to Norway at the Washington navy yard. Crown Princess Martha accepted the ship as a symbol of U S war production and pledged that the vessel may sail home with the Norwegian flag when Norway is free.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Martha
America
Washington Navy Yard
Mr. Roosevelt
Norway
Sam Gorum Granted 60 Day Leave From Penitentiary
Sam Gorum, once a Seminole county bootlegger known as a king bee, is granted a 60 day leave by Acting Governor James E. Berry after showing employment has been secured. Convicted of armed robbery for entering a north Ada home stealing liquor and a gun, he began serving a 15 year sentence in 1937 and has completed almost five years since final admission to prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Gorum
King Bee
Seminole County
State
James E. Berry
Associated Press
Gorum
Ada
Oklahoma school children form scrap collectors army drive
Oklahoma City September 16 P A L Crable state school superintendent will lead a junior army of scrap collectors as colonels and lieutenants from county and city superintendents to mobilize 600000 pupils to seek scrap iron and rubber. The campaign runs Oct 5 two weeks after the publishers drive opens and offers 4000 in war bonds as prizes. Executives Crable Eddy Meyerson and Sanford, all aides to Welty, outlined the plan as Welty prepares to lead until October 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
A. L. Crable
State Doo
Oklahoma
Crable
H. L. Eddy
WPB Salvage Division
J. I. Meyerson
Vernon Sanford
N. D. Welty
Bartlesville
Welty
AP Correspondent Missing After Plane Crash Near New Guinea
AP reports verification searches for Vern Haugland and the missing navigator have ended though some hope remains. Ed ward Widdis says a boat search along a New Guinea river found friendly natives aiding white men. Pilot Lieut Duncan Seffern and two crew members reached Port Moresby after jungle treks.
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General MacArthur
Australia
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
U. S
South Central New Guinea
Haugland
Edward Widdis
New Guinea
Widdis
Duncan Seffern
Port Moresby
Germans Inch Nearer City
Moscow reports the Soviet defense at Stalingrad holding after a heavy German dive bombing offensive. Red Army gains near Voronezh and Rzhev are noted, with Russian forces recapturing heights and repelling attacks. The Black Sea front sees naval action and Nalchik prepares for potential attack as winter nears.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga
Red Army
Red Star
Russia
Voronezh
Rzhev
Don
Red Navy
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Central
Caucasus
Nalchik
Prokhladnenski
Germans Missed It On Allen Capture
London dispatch reports German propagandists twisted Larry Allen story to claim a female correspondent Mary Allen was captured at Tobruk. German radio boasted that no news would reach American papers and linked the event to Dieppe defeat, noting the Anglo American press had only one woman present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Tobruk
America
Larry
Berlin
Mary
Portugal
United States
Mary Allen
Dieppe
Brazil in General Mobilization Now
RIO DE JANEIRO Sept 16 President Getulio Vargas ordered general mobilization throughout Brazil. Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy on Aug 22 after Axis attacks on merchant shipping. Since then Brazilian sea and air forces have aided the Allies. Mobilization steps have put the nation on a military footing with potential to field 250 000 trained infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Brazil
Germany
Italy
County Attorney Conway to resign after Army entrance
Enid Oklahoma reports that County Attorney Hugh Conway passed his physical for army service and will resign September 26. He did not seek re election this year.
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Enid, Okla
Hugh Conway
French Armistice Request After Madagascar Landing
British East Africa command reports a new landing in northwest Madagascar led to the surrender of remaining French forces in the area. Radio from Vichy authorities says Governor General Armand Annet seeks cease fire terms, though no official British notice confirms this. The advance toward the capital continues with the lagoon areas under pressure.
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London
Madagascar
British East Africa Command
Armand Annet
British Comunique
Ambanja
Maramandia
Diego
Suarez
Feft
Annet
Tananarive Radio
Women Sign For Red Cross Dressing Program
Two afternoons of registration produce 175 women volunteering for the Red Cross Surgical Dressings program. 125 registered Monday and 50 more Tuesday. Start planned for the first week of October with women urged to enroll by contacting Mrs. W. H. Mundy or Mrs. W. F. Dean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
W. H. Mundy
W. F. Dean
Jim Crow Free on Bond in Wallet Theft Case
Jim Crow is free on bond for a district court appearance on charges of taking a wallet and money from the Whiteway Laundry in early August. He posted bond after a preliminary hearing and turned himself in at police headquarters. He claims no wallet was on him and he had only 1.50 in cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Crow
District Court
Whiteway
Crow
Justice of the Peace
British Lose Destroyers Sikh and Zulu at Tobruk
The British admiralty announced the loss of two destroyers Sikh and Zulu in operations off Tobruk. Most of Zulu’s crew were saved, with hope that many Sikhs crew members reached land safely.
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London
Tobruk
Admiralty
Skh
War Expenditures Rise 8.1 Percent to $5.18 Billion
Washington reports US war costs for the last month at 5.182 billion dollars, up from 4.794 billion in July, an 8.1 percent increase according to the War Production Board.
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Washington
United States
War Production Board
Yorktown Sunk At Midway After Bombs And Torpedoes
The U S navy announced the aircraft carrier Yorktown was sunk after the Midway battle from Japanese bombs and torpedoes with minimal casualties. The loss leaves the United States with two carriers from the Midway battle and marks a pivotal turn in the South Pacific campaign.
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Washington
United States
Yorktown
Department
South Pacific
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Hammann
Navy Department
Comunique
United Strica
Midway
Lexington
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