Random Thoughts on Sailors Incident and Alaska Delegates
A columnist reflects that Monday’s sailors rampage caused anger and property damage but harmed innocent service members. The piece praises John E. Manders, Anchorage attorney and GOP Delegate candidate, for keeping campaign promises by sending ping pong balls to two telephone girls, enabling their game to continue.
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Petersburg
John E. Manders
Alaska
Congress
Manders
Anchorage
McNair Death Attributed To Own Bomb Explosion
Allied forces released a report from General Eisenhower stating that General McNair died when one of our bombs exploded. The investigation found no enemy action involved. General McNair had been a senior Allied commander.
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Allied Forces
Army
Eisenhower
McNair
Alaska Over Top in Fifth War Loan Drive
Alaska exceeded the largest quota in the Fifth War Loan Drive, message relayed to Carroll Clausen and Alaska bond sales chairmen praising the effort and totals across the territory.
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Alaska
Carroll Clausen
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Wee Ense
Sitka
Wrangell
Valdez Weer
Ad. iMingham Re
Churchill predicts war end may come sooner than expected
London August 3 Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that victory could come soon noting Allied gains in France and the Red Army’s advances. He said the interval between Nazi defeat and Japan’s defeat might be much shorter than previously believed and praised Allied airpower while reaffirming support for Turkey after its break with Germany.
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London
Churchill
France
Red
Hitler
Japan
House of Commons
Germany
England
Ankara
Turkey
Bulgaria
New Zealanders Near Florence Reach Ridge South Of City
New Zealand veterans of the North African campaign push within five miles of Florence from the southwest and seize a commanding ridge, gazing on Florence’s spires. The Eighth Army still must fight to breach German lines north of the city.
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Rome
New Zealand
Florence
Eighth Army
GOP Governors Achieve Unity Through Dewey Confronts Roosevelt
Twenty six Republican governors bid unity through Dewey and fault Roosevelt for not exchanging views with state executives. They warned costly misunderstandings in the past and called for post war tax cuts and simplification in a formal statement summarizing two days of conferences.
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ST. Louis
Dewey
Roosevelt
Budget Director Projects $90 Billion War Year
Budget Director Harold D. Smith forecast war spending for the current fiscal year at about 90 billion dollars, basing the plan on a German collapse before June 30 and a protracted conflict with Japan.
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Washington
Japan
Harold D. Smith
Outing Trip For Mary Allen and Companions Reported
Mary Allen Odlaug Otness and Dot Sutphen left Wednesday for a brief outing on Blind Slough Mountain. They stopped at Ernie Young's in Lake and plan to continue their excursion.
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Mary Allen
Odlaug Otness
Dot Sutphen
Blind
Slough Mountain
Ernie Young
Lake
Garp
Rommel Injured in Allied Air Attack in France
A Berlin dispatch confirms Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was injured in an Allied air raid in France on July 17. Reports say he escaped with a concussion but his condition was considered satisfactory and life not in danger.
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London
Berlin
Erwin Rommell
Alliedizair
France
Feel
Robot bombs devastate London in seven weeks
Minister Churchill disclosed that robot bombs killed 4,735 people from June 15 to July 31 and caused extensive destruction. About 14,000 seriously and many more slightly injured, 17,000 houses entirely destroyed, 800,000 damaged, and one million evacuated, including 225,000 mothers with children.
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London
Churchill
U S Troops Gain on Guam Amid New Japanese Resistance
United States Marines advance over a mile north on Guam as Navy reports rising resistance. Casualties tally 1 022 killed 4 946 wounded 346 missing with 7 419 Japanese dead in the assault. Towns Saucio Tot Timoneng and airfield Tian captured.
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United States
Guam
Navy
Saucio
Tot
Timoneng
Tian
Tinian Island
The
Department
Pacific
Aitape-Wewak
British New Guinea
Afua _ village
U. S
Philippines
Samsapor
Dutch New Guinea
Biak
Noemfoor
Yank Southwest Pacific
Hamagera
Sealane
Chungking
Japan
China
Hengyang
Hunan
Radio Tokyo
Koshiro Oikawa
Koiso
Shigenaro Shimada
Tojo
Tokyo
Drowning Ends Birthday Celebration Near Roberts Island
Ole Borseth, a guest at a birthday dinner for Mrs. Apple, drowned Sunday evening near Roberts Island while attempting to swim to a skiff after an axle weight was not set. Coast Guard and Wildlife agents searched. several residents witnessed the tragedy. Borseth, born 1883 in Norway, had lived in Petersburg since 1917 and belonged to local Masons and the Shrine. He is survived by relatives in Norway and Alaska.
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Ole Borseth
Roberts Island
Porter Apple
Borseth
Apple
Juneau
Alfred Tellesbo
Coast Guard
Alaska
Tellesbo
Local family records show Wednesday move from Oregon home
Fragmentary notes reference Mrs John Mills and two Mills with parents Mr and Mrs Berg er Wasvick and mention a left heir in Ketchikan with a home change occurring on Wednesday.
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John- Mills
tchil‘Mills
Berger Wasvick
Heir’ Ketchikan
Philadelphia Strikes Threaten Violence On Transit
Philadelphia dispatch reports bands of strikers threatening violence as operators attempt to resume service on the paralyzed transit system. The Army seized the lines after clashes and enemy sympathizers blocked a return to operation. Protection was promised for trolleys buses subways and elevated lines as hundreds of thousands stranded and wartime production affected.
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Philadelphia
Phillip Hayes
Third Service Command
Finland's President May Make Armistice Plan
AP dispatch from Stockholm reports talks on an armistice proposal to guarantee Finland's independence. The article notes discussions involve Finnish leadership and international mediation efforts.
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Finland
Pedce
Stockholm
Songlaes
Bradley's Forces Near Valuable Port Rennes Brest Advance
Supreme Headquarters reports Gen Bradley's units pushing rapidly against light opposition toward Rennes with another armored column moving toward Brest. The fall of Rennes would mark about a 45 mile advance since Avranches, as disorganized German defenses offer little resistance.
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Supreme
AEF
Bradley
Rennes
Breton
Brest
Supreme Headquarters
Avanches
Japs Desperate In Aitape Area
General Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific reports American jungle fighters have repelled Japanese death by own action attacks in the Aitape area of British New Guinea after 11 hours of fierce fighting. Japanese losses total 3,870 dead since July 12 with 602 more added in the latest engagement around the Driniumor River line.
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Southwest Pacific
Aitape
British New Guinea
Afua
Driniumor
Bouganville
MacArthur
U.S. Forces Cut Off Normandy Peninsula
U S armor and infantry push across Normandy reaching 43 miles from Namets and St. Nazaire on the Loire. The advance encircles Rennes and breaches Brittany to within 108 miles of Brest. Fighting in Rennes continues with a strong enemy garrison still holding. Nazi casualties since invasion estimated at 200,000. Berlin reports Americans engaging a German base garrison after Brittany breakthrough.
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AEF
United States Armor
Infantry
Normany
Namtes
St. Nazaire
Loire River
Rennes
Brittany
Brest
Berlin
Cafe Closed In Tribute To Quezon
A Philippine Islands cafe plans to remain closed in tribute to President Manuel Quezon. The cafe will reopen for business as usual the following day.
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Quezon
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Islands
Tome Oy
Russians Reach Border Towns of Prewar East Prussia
London reports Soviet forces seized Vistytis on the prewar East Prussia border, a frontier railway station 26 miles west of Marianpole. Vilkaviskis and Kalvarija fell to Soviet units 11 and 16 miles east of the line, with evacuations announced by German command.
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London
Vistytis
East Prussia
Moscow
Marianpole
Vilkaviskis
Kalvarija
U. S. Flag Raised Over Tinian
Pacific Fleet reports Guam advance into upper third of the island with key road junction control. Carrier air support bombarded targets as Marine forces flush out scattered garrison remnants in Tinian and Guam while enemy dead pass 22,000 and civilian figures reach 11,000.
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Guam
Marianas
Nimitz
Tinian
U S Chinese Forces Capture Vital Base in Burma
American and Imperial Chinese forces seized Mythyina in north Burma after a siege from May 17. About 3,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or captured, ending the battle that secured two important airfields for the Allies.
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East Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Mythyina
Burma
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