Americans Bomb German Held Areas Open European Air Front
Associated Press reports rapid expansion of US air action in Europe after the July Fourth opening of an American air front. Ground preparation is key. initial daylight raids used Boston bombers with RAF cooperation, while heavier Liberator and Fortress bombers await deployment under Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
United States Air Force
Europe
Holland
Russia
Orient
Mediterranean
England
America
RAF
Henry H. Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Lenawee County Rubber Drive Surpasses State Averages
Rubber collection in Lenawee County through June 30 totaled 476,650 pounds, calculated by county collection chairman Ker Hoch. With a 36,000 population, per capita output reached 8.51 pounds, more than twice Michigan and national averages, as farmers continue turning in waste rubber from boots, arctics, and tires.
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Lenawee County
Ker B. Hoch
Michigan
Hoch
Nevada
Wake
New York State
Wallace Opposes Parity Loan Bill In Senate Row
Vice President Wallace and Agriculture Secretary Wickard reportedly split over a Senate plan to grant full parity government loans to farmers. The bill would set 1942 wheat loans at 134 bushels and corn at 97 cents per bushel, a move seen as key to unlocking the farm appropriation funding since July 1.
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Washington
Wallace
Wickard
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Congress
No Holiday Deaths Reported in County
The 1942 Fourth of July week in Lenawee county showed no fatalities from holiday traffic. Eight minor accidents were reported by sheriffs, Adrian police, and state police, with seven people injured but none seriously. Two cars were badly damaged in a crash at Crane's Corners at 7 am involving Leo J. Herman of Toledo and Franklin Grove of Toledo.
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Lenawee
Jalso
Adrian
Crane's Corners
Leo J. Herman
Toledo
Trent Road
Franklin Grove
Herman
Ship James Watt Hits Cabin Cruiser in St Clair River Tragedy
A Great Lakes steamship named James Watt collided with a 42 foot cabin cruiser on the St Clair River at 12 10 a m near Clays Landing. Twelve people were saved while three drown and three are injured. Casualties all aboard the cruiser. Bodies of three young Bagley girls remain missing. Owner Thomas Dwyer and his wife are hospitalized along with Mrs Helen Bagley. State police report survivors including C T Hamill and family, James Wiseman, Burton Stafford, Dorothy Holden, Frank Becker and George Bagley. Accident cause not yet established. Nearby rescue and hospital details listed. Also reported hog market price remains at 15 dollars per hundredweight, first time in 16 years.
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Algonac
Great Lakes
James Watt
St Clair River
Irene Wiseman
Highland Park
Barbara Bagley
Jacqueline Bagley
George Bagley
St Clair Shores
Thomas Dwyer
Roseville
St Joseph Hospital
Mt Clemens
Helen Bagley
St. Cisir River
Clays Landing
Bagley
St. Clair Shores
C T. Hamill
Birmingham
Pauline
William
Dolores
James Wiseman
Burton Stafford
Dorothy Holden
Royal Oak
Frank Becker
Berkley
Violent Death Toll Drops During Fourth of July Weekend
A nationwide AP survey shows Fourth of July holiday deaths fell to 320 from 628 last year. Traffic crashes accounted for 159 deaths, drowning 83, and other causes 78. No fireworks fatalities were reported. States tally included California 31, Ohio 26, Michigan 22, New York 15, Texas 8, and District of Columbia 1.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Diindis
Indiana
Town
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
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Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode
South Carolina
South Dakotas
Tennessee
Texas
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Virginia
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West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
District of Columbia
Southern Locals Leave the UMW in UMWA Split
Chattanooga July 6 Regional Director Bernard Borah of District 50 announced mass withdrawal of southern locals from the United Mine Workers of America CIO in protest of John L. Lewis policies. About 30 locals with 3,000 plus members will affiliate with CIO via the National Council of Coke Gas and Chemical Workers. Borah resigns along with five regional organizers citing interference with war effort and labor movement disruption.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
UMW
John L. Lewis
Bernard Borah
District 50
Upper South
Congress of Industrial Organizations
National Council of Coke, Gas and Chemical Workers
Borah
Tennessee
Kentucky
North ‘S
South Carolina
Virginia
Greenville
GWW
Daneburg
Richmond
Greensboro
N.C
Martin A. Watkins
Nashville
Army
Educator Dead at Western Ontario Former Dean Dr Mason
Toronto July 6 Dr Ruby E C Mason former dean of women at the University of Western Ontario died after a four year illness She graduated from Toronto Chicago and earned a Ph D at Oxford In 1923 she did educational research in Europe for the dominion government and she served as dean of women at Indiana Illinois before joining the Civil Staff of Western Ontario WasnivGion July 6 President Roosevelt vetoed legislation granting overtime pay to some War and Navy workers and penalizing false statements in government contracts He warned citizenship could be lost for a misdemeanor and called the measure a dangerous precedent and a threat to democratic punishment concepts.
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Toronto
Ruby E. C. Mason
University of Western Ontario
Mason
Chicago
University of Oxford
Europe
Dominion
University of Indiana
University of Illinois
Civl
Synthetic rubber speedup sought in wartime prioriti
Washington July 6 A Senate agriculture sub committee advanced measures to boost domestic synthetic rubber. Testimony from War Production Chief Donald M Nelson was planned to back a bill creating a separate rubber supply agency using agricultural alcohol processes. Citizens urged broader scrap rubber recovery and diverse supply sources, while officials warned scrap totals may fall short of optimistic estimates.
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Washington
Senate
Donald M. Nelson
Gillette
D-Ia
Ickes
New York
McNary
R-Ore
Bilk
Barkley
D-Ky
Nelson
Arthur B. Newhall
WPB
Gillette Committee
Newhall
Congress
Norris
Ind-Neb
Congressional
Henry B. Carstensen
Washington State
War Production Board
Workers Quit Jackson Protest Affects Four City Departments
About 115 employees across four municipal departments walked out in a protest against unfair treatment, not a full strike. Public Works Parks and Cemeteries halted work while Water Distribution staff kept pumping station operations and emergency calls going. Seventeen supervisory workers stayed at their posts. Sharp Park golf course and general operations continued.
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Jackson
Walter Hawkes
American Federation of State
Emploees
AFL
Hawkes
Water Distributing Service
Sharp Park
German Offensive Around Kursk Pushes Toward Rostov
London July 6 Germans throw more than a million troops into Kursk offensive led by Gen. Heinz Guderian with 1,500 first line aircraft. Bridgehead across the Don reported as fighting rages from Orel to Kharkov. Russians announce heavy losses as they defend Voronezh and Rostov rail corridor amid renewed battles near Belgorod and Volchansk.
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Associated Press
London
Kursk
Caucasus
Heinz Guderian
Don
Orel
Kharkov
Black Sea
Kerch
Rostov
Moscow
Russia
Don River
Voronezh
Roscow- Rostov
Kursk-Kherkov
Moscow-Rostov
Belgorod
Valchansk
Shoots Neighbor White Cloud Man in Debt Dispute
Mrs. Eleanor Sage 28 held in Newaygo County jail after admitting she shot Arthur Cole 30 over a 120 cent debt to her son. Sheriff Hart said Cole suffered minor injuries. Sage said she aimed to frighten him, and will face felonious assault charges.
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White Cloud
Mid
Eleanor Sage
Newaygo County
Robert Hart
Arthur Cole
Grant Township
Hart
Cole
German Military Circles Admit British Have Taken The Offensive In Egypt
Washington July 6 With fog and rain hampering operations Allied air forces persist in the Aleutian raids against Japan. Navy and Army air forces have damaged ships, installations and transports while keeping attention on Kiska and nearby seas. Brigadier General Laurence Kuter reports American airmen are preparing to strike Japanese forces from Aleutian bases despite weather limits. Alaska delegate Anthony Dimond warns against delay as Japan strengthens at Kiska and Attu raising naval threat to the North Pacific.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Aleutian Islands
Aleutian
Alaska
Japan
Kiska
United States Navy
Dutch Harbor
War Department
Laurence §. Kuter
Kuter
Pacific
Midway Island
Hawaii
Anthony J. Dimond
Yauniqué
Attu
North Pacific
Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Army of the Nile Growing in Power
Cairo dispatch reports the British army of the Nile increasing strength and confidence after forcing Axis Rommel forces to yield ground south of El Alamein. British air power disrupted supply lines, with raids destroying hundreds of trucks and damaging depots as Axis reserves remained insufficient for a major offensive.
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Sid
el Alamein
Alexandria
Barrani
Gambut
el Daba
Rommel
Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
Turkey
Ankara
Balkans
Athens
Mediterranean
North Africa
Nhow
Claude Auchinleck
Suez Canal
Malis
Texis
POWER OF CHINESE GROWING STEADILY CHUNGE KING
Steady Chinese ground resistance and rising US air power slowed Japanese advances at the five year mark of the Sino Japanese conflict. American volunteers and the new 23rd Air Force Pursuit Group joined Flying Tigers as they escorted bombers against Nanchang and Hankow. Ground forces retook Thwang in Kiangsi 30 miles south of Nanchang after a 24 hour Japanese hold, undermining their attempts to trap Chinese columns near the Chekiang Kiangsi railroad.
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Associated Press
Chunge King
United States
Hengyang
Hunan
Flying Tigers
China
United States Air Force
AVG
Kiangsi
Nanchang
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Eight alleged Nazi saboteurs held for military trial
Eight men captured after landing from Axis submarines on Long Island and in Florida are held in the district jail under heavy guard to face trial Wednesday morning by a special military commission. Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox and Major General Frank R. McCoy will oversee the proceedings.
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Washington
Jay
Long Island
Florida
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Albert L. Cox
Frank R. McCoy
Three More Ships Reported Sunk in Western Atlantic
The Associated Press tally shows 340 merchant ship losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor, with 20 sunk last week and three more confirmed. A U.S. merchantman with survivors went down off South America, another small U.S. vessel was sunk near the Dominican coast, and 19 survivors from a United Nations ship reached an eastern Canadian port.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
United and
Neutral Nations
Pearl Harbor
South America
Dominican Republic
United Nations
U. S
U.S
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
Nelson to visit Britain to coordinate war production
New York July 6 The New York Times reports Donald Nelson director of the War Production Board will go to Britain in August to confer with Oliver Lyttelton on coordinating Anglo American war production. He aims to learn Britain's production system and continue talks begun in Britain. The visit may allow Nelson to reorganize WPB machinery and enable the combined resources and planning board to start functioning.
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New York
New York Times
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Britain
Oliver Lyttelton
Nelson
the Times
Lyttelton
United States to Restrict Purchases Says Agriculture Secretary
United States Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard warned at the Inter-American Agriculture Conference that Americans will struggle to buy anything beyond essentials by year’s end. He acknowledged sacrifices by U S and other American nations as they strive through wartime shortages. In China the U S air force reportedly sunk two Japanese gunboats on the Yangtze and destroyed more than 25 planes at Hankow and Canton airfields in raids.
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Mexico
C&t
United States
Claude Kk. Wickerd
Wickerd
Chunghing
United States Air Force
China
Yangtze River
Chungking
Han Kow
Canton
Hankow
Nanchang
Ranks Established For Navy's Nurses
Washington July 6 President Roosevelt signed a bill establishing formal Navy nurse ranks from ensign to lieutenant commander The Navy Nurses Corps set up in 1908 gains relative rank for nurse superintendents as lieutenant commander and for assistant superintendents as lieutenants Chiefs become lieutenants junior grade and ordinary nurses receive ensigns
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Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Navy Nurses Corps
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