Fire destroys Ringling Bros. menagerie killing 39 animals
A major fire wiped out the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey tent, killing or shooting 39 animals from the menagerie while 50 others survived. Fire chief suspects a tossed cigarette started the blaze. Circus head John Ringling North estimates $100,000 in damages with no insurance due to high hazard rates.
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Cleveland
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Louis P. Fritsch
Fire Prevention Bureau
John Ringling North
Frank Braden
Gargantua
Toto
Ringling Brothers
Barnum Bailey Circus
Plan Proposed As Means of Saving Tires
The War Production Board weighs a tire preserving plan using periodic speedometer mileage checks for non rationed areas to limit driving and assign certificates of necessity. President Roosevelt, eyeing petroleum and rubber, may address Congress and veto a grain alcohol synthetic rubber agency.
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Washington
War Production Board
Roosevelt
WPB
East
Congress
Price
Leon Henderson
Mississippi
Atlantic Seaboard
Hartley
R-Nj
Grain Alcohol Agency
Ohio CIO Orders Suspension of 17 509 UMW Members
COLUMBUS Ohio CIO Council President Jack Kroll ordered the suspension of 17 509 State members of the United Mine Workers for non payment of dues. The move marks a break with the UMW and follows six weeks after District 6 President John Owens resigned as council president. Adolph Pacifico of Bellaire was declared vacant as council vice president.
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Columbus
Jack Kroll
Ohio Cio Council
United Mine _ Workers of America
CIO
UMW
John Owens
United Mine Workers
Kroll
Adolph Pacifico
Bellaire
Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Roosevelt
Philip Murray
Local Boards Urged To Fill Draft Calls
Columbus report says deferment of married registrants should not delay local boards in filling inductee calls while new selective service regulations take effect. Ohio office cites federal memo stating local boards will strive to meet calls on schedule during the amended dependency policy rollout.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Selective Service
Land Went Missing After Tax Sale in Salisbury
Six years after Col. Phillips bought a land plot at a tax sale in Salisbury Maryland the property remains unfound. County officials refunded the purchase price and now search, hoping a messenger style lost and found ad could help locate the land. A canine tie in shows such an ad can yield quick results as a Red Irish Setter is sought to be turned loose. Pred Jos ten Athens.
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Col. Phillips
Salisbury
Roosevelt to review evidence in Nazi saboteurs trial
President Roosevelt will likely finish reviewing the extensive evidence gathered by the military commission in the eight Nazi saboteurs trial. He plans to consult with others on certain aspects while declining to discuss trial specifics. He follows the Nazis’ capture after landing from submarines.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Woodstock Typewriter Plant to Halt Most Production
Washington reports the Woodstock Typewriter Corporation will stop Manu facture of typewriters by October 31 except for a maximum output of 1,600 units per month at Woodstock, Alabama.
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Washington
Woodstock Typewriter Corporation
Woodstock
Four States Renominate Congressmen in Primary Tests
The Associated Press reports renomination successes in Virginia Kansas Missouri and West Virginia. Virginia’s two incumbents faced Democratic opposition as Senator Arthur Capper won in Kansas and Governor Matthew Neely topped H G Kump in West Virginia. Howard W. Smith secured Democratic renomination in Virginia’s Eighth District, defeating Emmett Davison. Funkhouser led in the West Virginia Republican Senate race over Chapman Revercomb.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Kansas
Missouri
West Virginia
Arthur Capper
Matthew M. Neely
H. G. Kump
U. S. Senate
Howard W. Smith
Emmett C. Davison
International Association of Machinists
AFL
Alexandria
Raymond J. Funkhouser
Shepardstown
Chapman Revercomb
Telephone Workers Strike Over Wages in Ohio
In Cleveland and about 20 other northeastern Ohio cities an estimated 2100 maintenance installation and repair workers with Ohio Bell Telephone Co struck over a wage dispute. In Washington the War Production Board barred iron and steel uses in mattresses after Sept 1 and in studio couches sofa beds and lounges after Nov 1.
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Cleveland
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio
Washington
War Production Board
Hitlerites Press On In Lower Don Front Near Rostov
Mackenzie notes continued German gains in the Tsimlyansk and Belaya Glina sectors south of Rostov as Soviet lines hold with orderly retirements. He warns of possible renewed Nazi thrust toward the Caucasus while praising Soviet resilience and leadership amid heavy fighting.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Tsimlyansk
Lower
Don
Belaya Glina
Rostov
Speeders Lose Tire Rights Under 40 MPH Rule
Ohio motorists face a 40 miles per hour speed limit enforcement starting next Monday. Gov. John W. Bricker said the State Highway Patrol will check all vehicles and report violators to OPA officials. Offenders’ applications for new tires or re-treads will be denied based on these records.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
State Highway Patrol
OPA
Price Ceilings Stop Wage Increase in CIO Westinghouse Talks
In Pittsburgh union leader John A. Metcalfe says Local 601 stewards voted to protest interference by Price Administrator Leon Henderson in wage negot iations with Westinghouse. The company refused a 5 cent wage raise claiming the OPA would not approve any raise tied to payroll costs.
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Pittsburgh
John A. Metcalfe
CIO
United Electric, Radio and Machine Workers Union
Leon Henderson
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Couny
Metcalfe
OPA
Halted Japanese advance in New Guinea near Kokoda
Allied and Japanese forces hold near The Gap as the Kokoda front stabilizes two weeks after Buna Gona landings. Allied air and ground units contest the Owen Stanley Range approaches while coastal fronts remain contested between Gora Buna and Kokoda. Bombers in China report satisfactory strikes on Hankow docks and Yangtze shipping. Japanese air losses noted near Kweilin.
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General MacArthur
Australia
Kokoda
New Guinea
Owen Stanley Range
Buna-Gona
Tatad
AOE
OL Stpveld
Aleu Lm Loe
Port Moresby
No Man’s Land
Gora
Buna
Hankow
Yangtze River
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Kweilin
Canton
Case Against Pelley May Go to Jury Today
The government’s sedition case against William Dudley Pelley may go to the jury today. Charles A. Lindbergh testified that most Americans opposed entering war before the attack.
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Pelley
Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts of America
Charles A. Lindbergh
The
America First Committee
Commons Votes Short Summer Recess While Pending Front Decision
The House of Commons approved a brief summer recess with MPs told they would be recalled if any unexpected situation arose, a reassurance given by Sir Stafford Cripps amid ongoing speculation about a possible second front decision.
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London
House of Commons
Stafford Cripps
Study Plan To Ease Income Tax Payment
A debt credit plan of tax relief may be proposed for individuals paying mortgage installments and for proprietors of civilian businesses facing higher taxes. The Senate Finance Committee debates a revenue bill calling for 6.271 billion dollars in new taxes with potential deductions for investment debts contracted before 1942. The plan would allow a deduction limited to a percentage of income similar to charitable limits and likely capped between 300 and 500 dollars, with a parallel aid scheme for debt-burdened businesses.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Train Catches Fire After Truck Collision Near Hartwell
A Columbus bound passenger train rear collided with a heavily fuel laden truck at a Hartwell crossing. The truck driver Joseph Welbrock of Northern Kentucky was killed. Fire erupted as coaches ignited, investigation expected.
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Cincinnati
Hartwell
Joseph Welbrock
Kentucky
Nazis Drop Parachute Troops Behind Soviet Lines In Caucasus
Nazi troops reportedly parachuted into the Caucasus behind Soviet defenses with light tanks. German dispatches claim captures at Kropotkin and advances toward the Kuban River as Red forces report naval shelling in the Sea of Azov and withdrawals along a 300 mile front.
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Caucasus
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Kropotkin
Rostov
Caspian Sea
Kuban
Red Fleet
Sea of Azov
Red Navy
Red Star
Nazi Gains Reported In Caucasus Oil Field Position
A mid day Soviet bulletin says German forces broke through near Belaya Glina and near Amavir advancing toward Rostov and the Caucasus oil fields. Pravda urges firmer defense as Luftwaffe and ground forces pour reserves into the front. British bombers target Ruhr while Axis shipping is hit in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Belaya Glina
Salsk
Rostov
Amavir
Maikop
Baku
Voroshilovsk
Caucasus
Middle East
Moscow
Pravda
Semeon Timoshenko
Trans-Caucasus
Kushchevka
RAF
Ruhr
Swansea
Wales
Britain
Egypt
Mediterranean
Claude J. E. Auche Inleck
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Third of OPA Boards Remain
Columbus H Beckmann Ohio's rationing boards have been cut from 650 to 216 with all but one staffed and operating. New boards reuse former unit members and some county coordinators remain as chairmen. Each board has a paid staff in permanent quarters handling rationing records price reports complaints and information distribution.
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Columbus
H. T. Beckmann
OPA
Ohio
Beckmann
Parachute Landings Reported Erroneous
The Third Service Command cautioned that thus far every parachute landing report in Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia had proven erroneous. Residents were urged to stay alert but avoid hysteria.
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Baltimore
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Nationwide plan seeks women's war work registry
A proposed nationwide occupational registration of women aged 18 to 44 may join war service legislation. Manpower chief Paul McNutt cites 5 million more women needed by end of 1943, with a Detroit area registration as a possible model. WPA reports show 13.9 million of 53.3 million workers are women. 700,000 of 1.7 million newly employed May to June were women.
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Washington
Congress
Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Works Projects Administration
WPA
Detroit
War Production Board
United States Employment Service
McNutt
India Debates New Proposal on Independence Stance
In Bombay the All-India Congress working committee considers a draft vow that if India gains independence it will fully support the United Nations and resist aggressors with armed force. Gandhi backs negotiations with Japan but denies supporting a Japan and Germany victory.
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Bombay
India
All-India Congress Party
United Nations
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Japan
Gandhi
Germany
Pacific Coast To Dim Lights Starting Aug 20
A vast military dim out will go into effect August 20 along the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico. Lights will be blacked out on shorelines and as far as 150 miles inland to protect shipping and coastal installations.
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Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Pacific
Canada
Mexico
Elyria Board Lifts Rule On Married Women Teachers
Elyria school board suspends its policy banning married women from teaching for the duration of the wartime period due to difficulty in securing competent unmarried teachers.
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Elyria
Elyria School Board
Liza Granted Front Page Publicity in Ripley Centennial
The Ripley Bee marks its centennial by publishing Liza the slave who crossed the ice to freedom. Her photo graces the front page with an explanation that she received no coverage at the time, making her tale the centennial town’s biggest story.
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Ripley
Liza
Ripley Bee
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