Government files civil suit against Associated Press
The government seeks a federal order compelling AP to serve any newspaper willing to pay costs, naming Chicago Sun and Washington Times-Herald as examples. It challenges by laws restricting competitors, monopolization of local news, and the 1941 Wide World Photos stock acquisition. 25 defendants include the AP, its board, member publishers, and about 1,300 members.
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New York
Federal District Court
Chicago Sun
Washington Times-Herald
Tegal
Wide World Photos, Inc
New York Times
Wide World
The
Association
United States
Resuscitator Demonstration At Island Park Club House
The Island Park Recreation Club will display a new resuscitator and rescue gear bought for Devils and Round lakes resorts. Norman McKenzie of Adrian Fire Department and Michigan State Police will demo usage at Island Park Club House tomorrow from 3 to 5 PM. Over 500 was raised for the equipment.
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Devils and Round Lakes
Island Park
Axis warplanes raid Cairo and Alexandria
Cairo reports four deaths from last night raid while Alexandria escaped casualties. Egypt seeks 50,000 volunteers for civil defense. RAF strikes on Axis motor vehicles continue in central Egyptian front with no halt to the inland fighting. British patrols operate by night along the front, skirmishing with enemy units and harassing work parties. minor artillery exchanges occur in the southern sector.
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Cairo
Alexandria
Italian speed boats raid Lake Ladoga amid Baltic fronts
Italian dispatches report speed boats operating on Lake Ladoga breaking the Soviet front near Leningrad. They say a 1,300 ton Russian gunboat was sunk north of Leningrad. The origin and transport of the Italian boats remain unexplained. Auction notices follow, including Hinsdale and publicly listed sales near Sept 1.
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Rome
Lake Ladoge
Leningrad
High Command
Lake Ladoga
Finland
Voters increase ahead of September primary in Adrian
Adrian city records show 7,383 residents eligible to vote in the September 15 primary, up from 6,844 two years ago. Precinct eight declines and precincts two and three rise, with the fifth precinct gaining most from 639 to 812 while some residents expect to register before election day.
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Adrian
E. A. Baltenberger
Elevator Operator Now Running Crane
Kathryn Robinson a 19 year old, after lifting 100 pounds as a passenger elevator operator in Kansas City, now runs a 2 five ton monorail crane at a war industry plant in Huntington Park California. Placed by the United States Employment Service, she took a three week course to refine her crane technique and compared it to balloon rides.
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Huntington Park
Calif
Kathryn Robinson
Kansas City
Miss Robinson
United States Employment Service
Kath Tym
Sfter & Tide
Funeral of the Duke of Kent at Windsor Chapel
A royal funeral in Windsor marks the Duke of Kent's burial. King George VI Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Mary attend along with Haakon VII of Norway and other royals. The coffin bore the Duke’s colors as mourners, including his widow, send him to the vaults with wreaths and prayers. RAF rites follow in the Order of the Garter chapel.
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London
George VI
England
Haakon VII
Norway
George II
Greece
Peter I
Yugoslavia
Wilhelmina
Holland
Duke of Kent
Ss George's Chapel
Windsor Tuage
Duchess of Kent
Elizabeth
Mary
Windsor
Order of the Garter
Scotland
Iceland
Italians Report Foe's Attack Fails
Axis forces repelled a motorized attack in the central Egyptian front. Italian high command says numerous enemy vehicles were set on fire or immobilized and five British planes were destroyed in Egypt. Italian communique notes continued Malta raids and Italian air losses.
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Rome
High Command
Egypt
Malta
Sicily
Price-Support Plan Approved for Oil-Seed Crops
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced presidential approval for a price-support program covering oil-seed crops including soybeans. The Commodity Credit Corporation will buy and resell vegetable oil seeds and products via contracts with processors, refiners, and bleachers who will pay growers no less than the government support. Farmers were promised support at favorable levels if production rose to meet war needs, despite protests from the Chicago Board of Trade and the National Grain Trade Council that it would aid processors more than growers and cap prices paid to farmers.
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Washington
Wickard
Commeodity Credit Corporation
Agriculture Department
Chicago Board of Trade
National Grain Trade Council
Theater Bond Drive Parade Opens War Effort in Adrian
Moving picture theaters in the United States join Uncle Sam to sell one billion dollars in war bonds and stamps next month. In Adrian a parade and Croswell Family Theater program launch the drive with the Adrian band Boy Scouts Ladies Fife and Drum Corps and local troops expected to participate. The parade starts at 7 30 at the armory and winds through Maumee Winter Church Main Toledo Broad streets back to Maumee. Squire Chase will speak at the Family Theater at 8 30 and at the Croswell at 4. The Amer can Legion color guard will present colors on stage and James Gerity will discuss the theaters role in the drive. Civilians defense groups will display metal helmets and armor for auxiliary police and raid wardens.
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Moving Picture
United States
Uncle Sam
Adrian
Michigan State Troops
Armory
Maumee Street
Winter Street
Church Street
Eest
Main Street
Toledo Street
Broad Street
Croswell
Squire Chase
County
Civilian Defense Corps
Family
American Legion Color Guard
James Gerity
Gerity-Adrian Corporation
Urges Immediate Mobilization of 18 and 19 Year Olds
Max Singer of Boston, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged immediate mobilization of 18 and 19 year olds at the 43rd national encampment in Cincinnati. He argued two years of training now would yield more fit, able-bodied veterans who can return home as men and be available for future service.
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Cincinnati
UWP
America
Max Singer
Boston
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Singer
British Bombers Start Big Fire On German Cities
British bombers attacked Nuremberg and Saarbruecken leaving large fires. Nuremberg, a key tank factory and railway center, faced the heaviest raid with about 30 bombers missing. Saarbruecken is a coal and iron center near Metz with large steel works.
Russian Attacks vs Nazis Across Fronts Reported
Across the Stalingrad line to Lake Ladoga, Soviet assaults were claimed repulsed in stiff fighting as German forces pressed fortifications near Stalingrad. The German high command said Russians broke into lines near Kaluga southwest of Moscow but were repulsed in counterattacks. Axis gains were claimed in the Caucasus with heavy Russian casualties and losses of tanks and ships. Near Rzhev Soviet assaults were halted by German counterstrikes. In the north near Lake Ladoga, Russian attacks were checked after counterattacks. in air actions two tankers and cargo ships were damaged along the Volga. Elections were ordered later for Penn Iron Mining and related plants with CIO and AFL unions contesting ballots.
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Berlin
Stalingrad
Lake
Ladoga
Kaluga
Moscow
High Command
Caucasus
Volga
Lake Ladoga
Allies Battle Japs on Muddy Shores of New Guinea
Milne Bay front in New Guinea sees intensified fighting as Australian Imperial troops, supported by American airpower, press against Japanese positions along the Milne Bay coast. Allied bombers and P-40 fighters harry beachheads while jungle combat persists amid improving weather and heavy mud. Japanese losses claim multiple Zero fighters and bombers earlier in the week, with few Allied aircraft down.
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New Guinea
Associated Press
MacArthur
Milne Bay
United States Service
Mansgrove
Darwin
Australia
Receives Letter From Husband Missing in Action
Mrs. Arthur Wermuth, wife of Batigan's one man army, reports a March 18 letter from her husband dated before the Philippines fall. He describes atrocities and battles as American and Filipino troops fought bravely. he notes Japanese fear of strong fighters and calls himself the best man. Mrs. Wermuth, a Ferndale hospital nurse, is vacationing at the family summer home near Traverse City.
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Traverse City
Arthur Wermuth
Batigan
Philippines
War Department
Wermuth
Here
Ferndale
Gun Wreck by Alling Gun Kills Zero at Milne Bay
Melbourne Herald war correspondent reports a U S bomber gun fell from the aircraft near Milne Bay, wrecking a Japanese Zero. Gunner Papp and others confirm the incident and near collision with another plane. The machine gun wrench caused the fall, but no collision occurred.
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Melbourne
FIA
Milne Bay
Melbourne Herald
CG Folkard
3. P. Papp
Papp
J. Pepp
Map hints at Allied invasion routes across Europe
Fragmentary telegraph note describes aerial combats and potential Allied thrusts toward France. Mentions a falling gun, a Zero fighter, and a map reference to the Channel Coast. Text is incomplete but implies planned invasion timing and routes in the early stage of European operations.
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Europe
France
Togayie Telegraca
Germans Claim 2195 Prisoners From Dieppe Raid
German high command released a communiqué claiming 2,195 Allied prisoners were captured in the Dieppe commando raid of August 19. It said Allied losses included 600 dead as well as 127 planes and multiple ships, while German losses totaled 351 planes and one submarine chaser.
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Berlin
Dieppe
France
England
British Broadcasting Corp
Senators restudy Ruml tax plan amid committee debates
Washington August 29 Senator George said the Senate Finance Committee will probably reconsider Beardsley Ruml's pay as you go plan for current year taxes before voting on a House approved 5 percent levy on wages interest and dividends. Byrd said Ruml would testify next week if votes are reconsidered while Taft predicted another look at the Ruml plan after action on corporate tax rates. The Treasury proposed an 80 percent net income cap for firms and a postwar debt retirement credit, with the committee already discarding the capital stock tax and related excess profits tax.
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Washington
George
Senate Finance Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Clark
D-Mo
Beardsley Ruml
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Rum
House
Taft
Ohio
Treasury
Chinese tighten hold on Chuhsien airdrome and city
Chinese troops reinforced control of the recaptured Chuhsien airdrome by occupying the walled city of Chuhsien and Chang Shutan five miles east. Field dispatches say Bains men won the gain at cost to weakened garrisons amid Japanese withdrawals. The recapture gives Chiang Kai-shek forces access to about 220 miles of the Chekiang Kiangsi rail line.
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Chrungking
Chuhsien
United Nations
Japan
Chang- Shutan
Chekiang Province
Soviet Counter Attacks Push Back German Forces At Stalingrad
Soviet troops launched vigorous counter moves around Stalingrad driving Germans from areas above and below the city while enemy tanks and infantry wedged into western Stalingrad. Reports from Izvestia and Red Star say heavy losses reported, with German offensives stalled and Soviet advances west of the town. Russian forces also struck Axis columns toward the Caucasus and recaptured 13 villages near the upper Volga bogs.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Stalingrad
Wazt
Izveshie
Isis
Dan Bend
Volga
Red Army
Caucasus
Upper Volga
Rzhev
Pravda
Red Navy
Black Sea
Baltic
Barents Sea
Red Star
Model
Navi
Ninth Army
British Submarines Sinker Tanker and Supply Ship in Mediterranean
British submarines in the Mediterranean attacked German and Italian shipping, sinking a large tanker and a large supply ship and torpedoing three other supply vessels. Four submarines were credited with the new successes. Commander J. W. Linton led one attack against a convoy of two large supply ships escorted by three destroyers.
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London
Admiralty
3. W. Linton
War At A Glance War At A Glance
EUROPE RAF makes a third big assault of the week with bombers perhaps 600 strong striking Nuremberg and Saarbruecken leaving 30 planes lost. WNasi lists 2 195 prisoners at Dieppe and claims Britons left with over 400 dead. RUSSIA Red armies try to crush the German wedge at Stalingrad as incendiaries set fires in the city. Soviets report 2 800 Nazis Romanians and Italians killed in Steppes trench fighting. MEDITERRANEAN British subs sink Axis tanker and supply ship. AFRICA Italians say Axis troops repelled a British motor attack at El Alamein. FAR PACIFIC MacArthur says Australian troops with U S reinforcements in close contact with invaders on Milne Bay shores. Fighting intensifies despite rains. Solomons developments officially silent. CHINA Japan continues retreat from East China. claims occupation of Chobaen and Changshutan near end.
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Associated Press
Europe
RAF
Nuremberg
Saarbruecken
Wnasis Clair
Dieppe
Russia
Stalingrad
Mediterranean
Africa
el Alamein
Far Pacific
MacArthur
U.S
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Solomons
China
Japan
East China Provinces
Chobaen
Changshutan
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