Chennault's Fliers Wind Up Year of Thrilling Victories
The 14th Air Force marks its first year of operations with bold offensives in China Burma and Indo China. Under Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault the force flew 2,869 missions and 5,325 sorties destroying 206 enemy planes in the air and 22 on the ground while suffering 38 American aircraft losses and eight pilots killed or missing. The celebration on July 4 includes an address by Chennault and fireworks as morale and cooperation with Chinese forces are highlighted.
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Fourteenth Air Force
United States Army
14Th Air Force
China
Burma
Indo-China
14Th
Claire L. Chennault
Chennault
Ichang
United States
AVG
China Air Task Force
10Th Air Force
Ickes' Appeal To Coal Miners Goes Unheeded
Pittsburgh July 1 Secretary Ickes urged coal miners to keep working on the eve of a major military campaign. About 130000 men ignored the appeal with 5200 Pennsylvania miners also refusing to work last night. UMW district presidents said the situation was in hand and expected an end to stoppages by next Tuesday. The coal halt is estimated to have cost the war effort 170000 tons of steel according to Iron Age.
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Ickes
United
UMW
Monogahela River
Pennsylvania
Solid Fuels
John P. Busarello
John Hynes
Uniontown
Iron Age
Busarello
Hynes
Server Electrolux Refrigerator Endures Without Parts
The speaker expresses confidence in the Electrolux refrigerator’s longevity despite scarce appliance parts. It emphasizes the unit’s lack of moving parts in the freezing system, implying minimal wear and maintenance needs.
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Electrolux
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Help Constipated People
Ohio doctor Dr F M Edwards popularized Olive Tablets a vegetable tonic laxative. The product claims to soothe sluggish bile flow and improve digestion without griping, with dosages 15 30 or 60 cents available at all drugstores.
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F. M. Edwards
Ohio
Dr. Edwards
Navy Trainees Assigned Today
Ten Texas colleges will receive about 9,100 Navy V-12 trainees from thirty district schools in uniform. They may participate in college athletics if duty hours and courses allow, with sports representing the school not the Navy. Training covers future Navy Marine and medical officers across Louisiana Mississippi Arkansas Alabama Tennessee Oklahoma and Texas.
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New Orleans
Texas
Navy
Harry D. Power
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Mikhailovitch Brother Critical in Hollywood Hospital
Harry Mikhailovitch, 48, brother of Gen Draja Mikhailovitch, heir to a Serbian resistance, is critically ill in Hollywood California. He arrived in the United States in 1911 and kept up correspondence with his famous brother until three years ago.
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Hollywood. Cal
Harry Mikhailovitch
Draja Mikhailovitch
Serbia
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