Army Moves To Ease Rail Transport Strain In Wartime
The War Department announced steps to relieve railroad congestion from troop movements. It will shift 25 000 troops monthly via commercial airlines using 70 047 transports and 260 former pilots, and speed up discharge of high point soldiers with railroad experience. Additional engineers will return from Europe to the United States as demobilization proceeds. Senator Johnson warns of potential postwar unemployment if demobilization slows.
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Colo
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
Lewis Hershey
Selective Service
War Department
Army
Europe
United States
Parole Hearing Set for 62 Ohio Lifers
COLUMBUS Ohio 0 The parole board will hear 62 first degree lifers as mid October approaches Supt William F Amrine of London Prison Farm backs releasing inmates after 20 years serving under new legislation requiring hearings by the state pardon and parole commission Amrine praises the policy as good work and a step toward societal reintegration
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Columbus
Hope For Freedom
Ohio
William F. Amrine
London
Amrine
Sevciety
Jiast General Assembly
Storage Vault Study Planned By Anderson
Kansas City dispatch reports Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson will personally inspect the War Food Administration’s 32,000,000 cubic foot underground refrigerator vault at Atchison before deciding whether to abandon it. A House committee had recommended closing the cavern after completion of refrigeration facilities. Anderson must assess if enough food stocks exist to justify use of the cave, which was leased by the WFA and built by the Defengze Plant Corp.
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Kansas City
Clinton P. Anderson
War Food Administration
Atchison, Kahn
Anderson
Archieson
House of Representatives
WFA
de Fengze Plant Corporation
16 Ships Hit Off Coast In Battle Of Atlantic
Charleston dispatch reports 16 U S ships struck by pedoes off the coasts of the Carolinas Georgia and the St Johns River Florida during the Battle of the Atlantic Rear Adm Ves James says anti submarine patrols were mixed so well by May 1942 that only three ships were spotted off the Carolinas and Georgia after that month
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Charleston
D.C
I T
U.S
Colinas
Georgia
St. Yhns River
Fla
Ves James
S James
Larleston Navy Yard
Howrer
Carolinas
Discharged Veterans To Get Extra Gasoline
S Washington OPA announced that from Friday all servicemen discharged from the armed forces will be eligible for up to 30 gallons of gasoline. A separate note reports Nora Gibson, 17, of Columbus, drowned yesterday in a water-filled gravel pit.
Hollywood Columbus Honor Rick Today
Hollywood and Columbus honor Capt Eddie Rick, hailed as Ole Miss, with a ceremony today at Lockbourne Army Air Base and a planned appearance at the premiere of Captain Eddie. The battleship Mississippi, nicknamed Ole Miss, is praised for resilience after Lingayen Gulf attack that killed 22 sailors.
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Washington
Mississippi
Navy
Lingayen Gulf
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Columbus
Hollywood
Eddie Rick
Ole Miss
Ohio
Frank J. Lawsche
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Roosevelt denies aiding son business
Brig. Gen. Roosevelt denounces claims that the late President Roosevelt promoted or assisted his son's business affairs. He says such statements are lies, following a sharply worded statement in which the younger Roosevelt says he is leaving the air force to avoid being an arm chair general.
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Washington
Uiott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Air Force
Price May Be Raised On Strip Mine Coal
The Office of Price Administration announces district four owners of soft coal strip mines or blends may apply to remove price differentials. The ruling, effective today, follows unprofitability concerns in the area. In the fourth district, strip mine prices run 26 cents per ton lower than deep mine prices.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
OPA
Truman to Meet King George on Trip Home
President Truman will fly to Plymouth to meet King George VI aboard HMS Renown before returning to the United States. The London-announced plan aims to follow the Big Three talks with a joint communique and another meeting among leaders in London and Washington.
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King George
Potsdam
Plymouth
George VI
United States
Gland
London
Stalin
Washington
Jana Macenar
U. S
James F.roosevelt
Yalta
Byrnes
Legations Aso
Augusta
Waging War Strikes Japan as U S Powers Sweep Sea and Air
United States air and sea power record sweeping gains against Japan with 1 546 ships reported sunk and over 1 330 planes destroyed in July. Tokyo counters with lower Allied losses as Kanji Suzuki informs the Emperor of state affairs amid invasion prep.
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U. S
Tokyo
Kantaro Suzuki
Hirohito
Associated Press
New Jet Plane Ready to Hit Japs
Washington reports the air force unveiled the F30 jet plane capable of speeds over 550 miles per hour and service ceiling above 45,000 feet. Captain Wallace A. Lien of Wright Field stated some jets had overseas deployment but none yet in combat. Far East air forces claim extensive Japanese losses and rapid carrier operations near Okinawa as Admiral Nimitz and Halsey’s fleets push air strikes.
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Washington
Air Force
Wallace A. Lien
Wright Field
Ohio
Germans Sentenced to Hang for Killing U S Airmen
In Darmstadt, seven Germans especially two women were condemned to death and three others given long terms after a six day military trial for the killing of six captured American airmen last August. An American investigator labeled the killings brutal describing the mob beating as they were moved through Russell-Hein to trains.
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Germany
Margarite Witzler
Kathe Reinhardt
Johannes Seipel
Joseph Hartgen
Friedrich Wust
Johann Opper
Philippe George Daum
August Wolf
Heinrich Bartel
Karl Fugmiann
Russell-Hein
Coal Crisis Forecast to Slash Factory Output
Senate War Investigating Committee heard Dr C J Potter warn a 37 million ton coal deficit could slash winter output across industries including mills and el trains. Only two fixes could avert this: 30,000 miners furloughed by Oct 1 or a rapid end to the war with Japan. Interior secretary Ickes added next winter may be the coolest of the war unless miners are released.
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TN Ston
Mills
C. J. Potter
Senate War Investigating Committee
Japan
Interior
Ickes
War Production Board lifts most civilian gun restrictions
Washington announces release of all small arms to civilians except 12 gauge shotguns and 38 special revolvers for law enforcement. 16 gauge shotguns and automatic pistols and rifles will be sold now. Farmers may still buy only 12 gauge shotguns for predatory animal control. Rudolph Kamm, 2, dies after a fall from a second story porch in Cleveland.
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Washington
War Production Board
Laval Heads to France as Guards Stiffen Around Paris
Paris reports fears of violence as Laval returns from Innsbruck to France with four airfields and Fresnes Prison ringed by mobile guards. Americans of the 5th Division handed Laval over last night after landing yesterday in Austria, using the same plane and crew that ferried him to Barcelona on May 2 to seek refuge. Laval claimed he left Spain at authorities’ request.
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Paris
Naxi
Pierre Laval
Laval
Innsbruck
Fresnes
Austria
Barcelona
Spain
Jersey Pier Shipping Center for Munitions
New York reports that a secret pier in Jersey City was the major munitions shipping point for World War Two. The pier, described as the largest installation of its kind, loaded 2,696,811 measurement tons of bombs and ammunition ranging from six ton block Dusters to small arms and powder.
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New York Port of
Jersey City
N. 3
Kidnaping Sought in Buffalo Bicycle Abduction
Police hunt nine year old Marjorie Wick and a grayhaired man seen on a bicycle handlebar Thursday after a Wednesday disappearance. Det. Thomas Riordan says the man had frequented the Wick home and promised a $110000 legacy from an uncle in Utica. The family delayed reporting missing and trusted the suspect.
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Buffalo
Marjorie Wick
Thomas Riordan
John Wick
Marjorie
Utica
Riordan
Leahy Defends Petain at Treason Trial in Paris
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman, defends Marshal Petain in a treason trial letter read in Paris. The letter praises Petain and notes Leahy could not testify due to his Potsdam duties. Petain’s former ally Laval expected to be summoned as a witness.
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Wiliam D. Leahy
Truman
Marshal Petain
France
Leahy
Potsdam
Petain
U.S
North Africa
Pierre Laval
Warship Toll Tops 100 As Audiences List Varying Ship Losses
The tally spans battleships to midget subs and PT boats, with many ships and planes damaged and to be hit again. Not included are tolls off Asia and China. MacArthur’s forces sunk 11 craft off Malay coast and Borneo not in the 250 East Force total. Halsey’s sector adds 68 ships and 227 planes at Majuru, while Tokyo notes a submarine shelling Tomakomai.
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China
Southwest Pacific
Southeast Asia
MacArthur
Malay
Borneo
Theji Fer East Force Command
Admiral Halsey
Ajr
Majuru
Honshu Island
Tokyo
Two New Air Forces Move Up In Asia War Fronts
Two allied air forces push toward Japan as the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces join in China and Burma while the 13th relocates to the Northern Philippines. General Wurtsmith boasts of future successes as pilots anticipate bases near Tokyo.
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Japan
Tenth Air Force
Burma
China
13Th
Philippines
Paul B. Wurtsmith
James O. Guthry
13Th Fighter Command
Tokyo
TAC Seeks Annulment Of Marriage To Captain
Kan ella Koulouvaris visited Zehrendorf city hall to explore annulling her marriage to Capt. Carla Schultz. A Chicago woman claims Schultz is her husband and father of her two children. German law allows annulment if perjury occurred in obtaining a license. service members must hold a valid military certificate to wed.
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Berlin
WAC
Kanella Koulouvaris
Zehrendorf
Carla Schultz
Chicago
State GAR Commander Qryille Wright Celebrates 100th Birthday
Alliance hosts a centennial celebration as John H Grote state GAR commander marks his 100th birthday with local veterans honoring the John C. Fremont Post. Orville Wright attends Wright Field open house for the 38th anniversary of the US Army Air Force. a review of 10,900 troops is planned in the afternoon.
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GAR
Qryille Wright
John H Grote
Grand Army of the Republic
John C. Fremont
Dayton
Orville Wight
Woeht Field
United States Army Air Force
Wright
Wilbur
Wright and Patterson Fields
Promised Greater Superfort Attacks on Japs’ Homeland
General Giles proclaimed intensified B 29 raids on Nippon marking the 38th Army Air Forces anniversary. He promised soon double the number of B 29s and double the bomb tonnage, with more than 28 long range missions already carried out and 50 cities bombed.
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Giles
Harcity
Veruaey
Army Air Force
Army Air
un-Force
Barney M. Giles
U. S
Army Strategic Air Forces
Japan
Nippon
Alexander Named Canada's 17th Governor General
London reports Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander has been appointed Canada’s 17th governor general by King George VI. The veteran commander who led Allied forces from Dunkirk to El Alamein succeeds Lord Athlone, whose term ended last June.
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Harold Alexander
Dunkerque
Burma
Eb Alamein
Canada
Aled Camemander
Medierranean Theater
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Lord Athlone
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