Nationals exchanged by US and Japan at port in Africa
At Lourenco Marques on July 23 the first diplomatic transfer of nationals between the United States and Japan since the Pacific war began was completed. More than 1,200 North and South Americans boarded the Gripsholm to take the places of Japanese diplomats and families, while Americans disembarked from Conte Verde and Asama Maru. The exchange, supervised by the Portuguese foreign office, included accounts of hunger and hardship from Japan and occupied territories. Four AP correspondents accompanied the group and contributed accounts of conditions in Japan and occupied areas. Some prisoners faced threats and mistreatment claims. reports from Hong Kong and Korea described food shortages and extreme cold. Additional dispatches described brutal interrogations of reporters by home office officials and injuries sustained.
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Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Attica
United States
Japan
Gripsholm
America
Orient
Associated Press
Washington
Ptroleum
Max Hill
Associated Pressl
Tokyo
Relman
Vaughn
O Meisling
Hongkong
Korea
Manchukuo
Walter
United Press
Robert Bellaire
Joseph Dynan
Dynan
Four Italian Brothers Arraigned Over Draft Examinations
Four Ianni brothers aged 31, 29, 26, and 22 faced U S District Judge Frank A Picard after failing to report for physical examinations under the selective service law. Bonds were raised from 5 000 to 10 000 dollars each. Their attorney said fear of war with their mother country Italy kept them from complying. Judge Picard questioned who had fed them for the past 12 years. The brothers live with their father Pietro Ianni.
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U.S
Detroit
U. S
Frank A. Picard
United States
Italy
Judge Picard
Gino Ianni
Guido
Antonio
Alleria
Fietro Ianni
Presidential Veto Likely On New Rubber Bill
Washington July 25 The veto appears likely as the government studies sharply shifting from petroleum as the base for synthetic rubber to greater use of farm products. The House passed a Senate backed bill creating an independent agency with authority and funds to contract with manufacturers for higher rubber supply for war and civilian needs.
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Ub Noor
War Patterson
House
Farm Bloc
Fulmer
D-Sc
Agriculture Committee
Rep. Cochran
D-Mo
Rep. Clark
DBNC
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Washington
UPA
Allied dive bombing halts Buna Gona supply drops
General MacArthur's headquarters reports 45,000 pounds of explosives dropped on troops in the Buna Gona area while invasion barges and stores fall back under naval escort. Japanese air attack on Port Moresby is ineffective with no casualties.
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Port Moresby
General MacArthur
Australia
Buna-Gona
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Papuan
Buns
U. S
Army
Bute
Bung
Kakoda
State Welfare Fight Shapes Michigan Campaign
Lansing July 25 Republican leaders praise Governor Van Wagoner for not reappointing Louis Miriani to the state social welfare commission. He is seen as boosting Secretary of State Kelly's bid and strengthening Wayne County support for the Democratic side. Miriani, a Detroit figure, vows to speak out on welfare, while Democrats hope to consolidate welfare functions amid election year tensions.
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Jack 1
Green
Lansing
van Wagoner
Louis
Miriani
Detroit
State Social Welfare Commission
Herry ¥. Kelly
Wayne County
Mirani
M. Clyde Stout
Peter P. Walkowiak
Hamtramck
Lawrence B. Blythe
State, County and Municipal Workers Union
Ci0
Mirlani
Kelly
John A. MacLellan
Michigan Welfare League
Michigan
Miriam
van Wagoner-Miriani
Detroit Street Railways
Detroit Legal Aid Bureau
Edward Jeffries
Charzin Ca Y
Melville
McPherson
Robert Kelso
University of Michigan
Kelso
Delance
Europe
Taft Forecasts Senate Plan to Kill Tax Installment Deductions
Senator Taft forecast the Senate Finance Committee would strike from the House approved tax bill the proposal to collect individual income taxes by paycheck installments. He said a majority of members likely opposes the 5 percent deduction with exemptions, affecting about 30 million workers, with credits offsetting eventual tax liability. The plan was pitched to curb inflation but faces strong opposition and possible revisions to estate taxes as well. The Army opens a nine day war show in Detroit, with Lum. Teneta.
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Washington
Taft
R-Ohla
Senate Finance Committee
Randolph Paul
Treasury
Senate Committee
House
The
Vandenberts
Mich
Paul
Vandenberg
George
D-Ga
Senate
Placed Under Arrest In Conspiracy Case New York
William Griffin editor publisher of the New York Enquirer has been placed under technical arrest at St Clare's hospital on a warrant for conspiracy to undermine the morale of America's armed forces. Federal authorities connected the warrant with Griffin's re admission to St Clare's for treatment of coronary thrombosis after a period of heart illness.
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New York
America
William Griffin
The
New York Enquirer
St. Clare's’ Hospital
Griffin
St Clare's
William Wagner
Enquirer
Mayor Hackett Rejects Aid From Conciliators in Labor Holiday Crisis
July 25 report from Washington and Jackson says Mayor Daniel J. Hackett spurned offers of federal and state aid to avert a anticipated citywide labor holiday. Conciliators Lomastiey and Gray said Hackett was civilly insulted and refused arbitration, while workers affiliated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees threaten a 146‑employee strike unless halted by midnight Monday.
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Jackson
Daniel J. Hacket
Robert E. Lomastiey
State Labor Board
Harry Gray
War Labor Board
Thea
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Emplr
Es A. Iniratatement
Vatter A. Cor
Hackett
Gray and
Lomasney
397th Ship Is Sunk In Submarine War
A brief war news item notes the 397th ship sunk by a U boat, with 400 drivers and warehousemen ending a strike after an appeal by the War Labor Board. Four men died, including the skipper, as a merchantman burned after torpedo strikes near the Caribbean. Survivors from another Norwegian vessel arrived in Cuba. details conflict with earlier reports.
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Grand Rapids
Assuuarba Press
Truck Lines, Inc
Navy
AFL Teamsters
War Labor Board
Atlantic
Caribbean
Cuba
Government Seizes 29 Axis Ships and Reclaims Victoria
Washington July 25. The government has confiscated 29 German and Italian merchant ships and requisitioned the Argentine Steamship Victoria to aid the United States merchant marine. The Axis ships include the Odinwald, a German vessel captured in 1941, and 23 other merchantmen damaged by their crews in American ports in March 1941. The Victoria transfer follows a long delay as the War Shipping Administration explains the ship’s former flag status and the wartime shift in control.
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Washington
United States
Caribbean
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
WPA
Congress
Fennica
WPA Seeks Jobs for 23000 Veterans After CCC Closure
The Works Progress Administration says it will seek employment for about 23,000 World War I veterans who recently lost their Civilian Conservation Corps work. A WPA spokesman notes the law creating WPA requires veteran preference in hiring.
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WPA
Washington
Works Projects Administrtion
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress
Navy Will Launch Wartime Carrier Essex at Newport News
Newport News Va July 25 The U S Essex first latteraft carrier built since the United States entered the war will be launched at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company plant Friday The sponsor Mrs Artemus L Gates will christen the Essex The ceremony will be minimalist due to wartime restrictions An $8500000000 naval expansion program approved by Congress emphasizes aircraft carrier construction to make the U S Navy superior in this category"}
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U.S.S. Essex
Newport News
Navy
U. S. Essex
United States
Newport News Shipbuilding
Dry Dock Company
Artemus L. Gates
Lorust Valley
Long Island
Air
James River
Fifth Naval District
Congress
United States Navy
Alaskan Casualties Listed by Army in World War II
The Army released its first Alaska casualty list for local publication, naming 41 U S soldiers killed in the June 3 Dutch Harbor raid or related Aleutian actions. Six officers and 35 enlisted men from 13 states are listed, part of 931 total U S deaths in Alaska. The broader war casualty review totals 4,302 dead and 3,218 wounded nationwide, with 36,124 missing. No Michigan names appear on this Alaska list.
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Washington
Alaskan
Dutch Harbor
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Office of War Information
United States
Department
Michigan
Convicts Hired to Fight Timber Fires Outside San Quentin
About 100 prisoners, many long-term inmates, were sent yesterday to battle brush and timber fires in the coast range near Coalinga. They will be paid 45 cents an hour under a plan by the State Board of Prison Directors and the State Forestry Division to ease civilian firefighter shortages. Lifers helped guard the workers to deter escapes, with three guards accompanying the convicts.
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San Quentin
Calif
San Quentin Prison
Coast Range
Coalinga
State Board of Prison Directors
State Forestry Division
Bridgehead Formed Near Tsimlyansk as Rostov Threat Grows
German forces screened by heavy bombardment established a fragile bridgehead across the Don at Tsimlyansk and pressed toward Rostov, where Red Star urged courage. Soviet dispatches report fierce fighting, losses on both sides, and German incursions expanding south of Rostov toward the Caucasus.
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Erdy Gmlore
Moscow
Don
Tsimlyansk
Rostov
Red Star
Lower
Caucasus
Van
Voroezh
Red Army
Bareau
trans-Caucasus
Oregon
Adolph Hitler
Axis Aircraft Damaged in Egypt
Cairo July 25 The RAF damaged more than 20 Axis aircraft on the ground and shot down three others in air fights during attacks on the El Daba landing field as part of the continued air offensive against Rommel’s forces. Torpedo aircraft struck an enemy merchant ship, which was ablaze at the end of the attack.
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Cairo
RAF
el Dabe
Erwin Rommel
Soe
el Daba
Rommel
Mediterranean
Ionian Sea
London
Africa
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Precinct Ten
Hazandous
Kumusi
U. S. Army
Salamand
Lae
Brisbane Courier Mail
George M. Pfeifer
Sangamon
Pfiefer
Dean
Pfeifer
Fisher Body
Lum
Teneta
Porat Asneg
Hoosevelt
Peeke
Roosevelt
Jackson Yosing
City Commission
Thomas Donahue
Ness
Congressional
Capitol Hill
Rayburn’ Oh
Sweut
City Power, Plant and
State
City and Municipal Workers Union
Birmingham
Als
AFL
Electricians
Tennessee Coal, ‘Iron and Railroad Company
NLRB
L. E. Brown
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
FBI
FSI
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
Egypt
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