Allied Forces Press Toward Messina as Pacific War Rages On
General Douglas MacArthur declared Japan has exhausted its resources in the Pacific and is now defensive. He cited decisive Allied victories, including a Kolombangara bombing raid and a fleet action in Vella Gulf, while Halsey praised the fleet crew for sinking a Japanese cruiser and two destroyers. Bad weather grounded Fifth Air Force aircraft yesterday.
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Southwest Pacifi
Douglas Macrthur
Japan
Pacific
Ats
South
Southwest
McArthur
Mmand
MacArthur
Guadalcanal
Morley
Munda
Jamaua
Kolombangara Island
New Georgia
Solomons
Vila
Kepe Harbor
William F. Halsey, Jr
South Pacific
Vella Gulf
Kolombangara
United States
Fifth Air Force
Close Call for U.S. Officers
Three top American leaders Gen Millard Harmon and Admirals Turner and Wilkinson narrowly escaped a torpedo attack off Endova Island near New Georgia as their ship was hit by a Japanese submarine. The destroyer rescued them before the vessel sank with no injuries reported.
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U.S
South Pacific
U. S
Solomons
Ster
Millard F. Harmon
U. S. Army
R. K. Turner
T. S. Wilkinson
Southacific
Bomber Crashes Near W end Over Train Wreck
An Army bomber crashed seven miles east of Wendover Utah early today tearing up Western Pacific tracks and derailing a freight train. One airman died ten others were injured some critically. The train crew escaped injury as cars piled up an estimated loss around 100000 dollars.
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Wendover
Utah
Here
Western Pacific
Mier
Re - Estimat
App
Ack Hill salesman Clyde Whitlatch dies at 52
A heart attack at his home in Columbus up here caused the death of Clyde C. Whitlatch 52 year old salesman for the Etna Brick Co at Oak Hill.
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AK Hill
Columbus
Ack
Clyde C. Whitlatch
Etna Brick Co
Oak Hill
Four Japanese Warships Sunk in Saturday Battle
Aboard the flagship of a naval task force the four Japanese vessels were sunk in Vella Gulf near the Solomons during a bold night strike reported by a war correspondent. The action, which began just before midnight on Aug 6, left no U.S. losses and confirmed the sinking of one cruiser and two destroyers with a fourth vessel likely sunk.
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Jack the Giant Killers
United States
Vella Gulf
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Munda
New Georgia Island
Meigs County Bells Man Dies in South Meigs
Charles Ebersbach age 73 died after a stroke in Tampa Florida where he had been manager of Ebersbach Construction Co for 12 years. He is survived by his wife two daughters Esther and Dorothy one sister Sophie Fisher and one brother Theodore of Pomeroy. Funeral plans not set. He previously managed the Pomeroy Foundry now Parkersburg Rig and Reel Co before moving to Florida to build roads and airfields.
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Pomeroy
Charles Ebersbach
Tampa Fla
Ebersbach Construction Co
Esther
Dorothy
Sophie Fisher
Theodore
Ebershach
Parkersburg Rig and Reel Co
Florida
Nelson Warns Against Free Civilian Goods Manufacture
War Production Board chair Donald M. Nelson said unrestricted civilian product output will not resume while materials remain tight. He stressed continued production of essential items like cook stoves and farm machinery to sustain civilian health and welfare, noting both home front workers and soldiers must be protected.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Relatives Sought in Portsmouth Gun Slaying
Sheriff Earl Brandel sought a relative of Charles Pendleton 38 after Pendleton was shot in a scuffle over a revolver Saturday night. Pendleton died of wounds and his sister in law Mrs Carl Pendleton was wounded in the arm as she watched the incident.
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Portsmouth
Earl Brandel
Charles Pendleton
Brandel
Pendleton
Carl Pendleton
Linemen Electrocuted In Lawrence County
Clarence R. King 55 died after touching a high voltage line at North Kenova. William Phillips 55 was burned by a hanging wire. Both men worked for the Ohio Power Company and lived in Canton.
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Ironton
Clarence R. King
North Kenova
William Phillips
Ohio Power Company
Canton
Powder Type Triggers Willow Grove Mine Walkout
Adolph Paciofico of United Mine Workers says Willow Grove Mine closed after workers feared a new explosive type in two shaft points could cause a blast like the 72 fatalities three years ago. About 200 men quit on Friday as other shifts reported for duty. Columbus notes Frank Harvey Eno, OSU engineering professor since 1902, has died at 78.
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Bellaire
Adolph Pacifico
United Mine Workers of America
Willow Grove
Columbus
Frank Harvey Eno
Ohio State University
Possibility of More Liquor In Ohio Seen
Ohioans received hope for more liquor as the Office of Price Administration set markups for wholesalers and retailers in non monopoly states effective August 29 and predicted lower retail prices for spirits. An Ohio Liquor Control official noted the move could increase available merchandise in monopoly states, though the regulation does not directly apply to Ohio.
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Columbus
OPA
Ohio
Factories Return to Normal Work After War Peak
Cincinnati report quotes Charles R. Hook president of the American Rolling Mill Co as he predicts a gradual shift from war to peacetime production. He says after another peak year armies and Allies will be fully equipped and only replacements needed enabling partial conversions across industries to peacetime work and easing unemployment.
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Cincinnati
Charles R. Hook
American Rolling Mill Co
Middleton Steel
Ohio Department of the American Legion
Hook
18 Year Voting Age Proposal Moves to Congress
Senator Hatch announces a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will begin early consideration of a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18. He notes Georgia’s recent move to 18 as a prompting factor and Chairman Van Nuys expects full committee approval and early action.
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Washington
Congress
Hatch
D-Nm
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Georgia
Judiciary Committee
van Nuys
D-Ind
Senate
Pomeroy Street Repair Program Started Today
Work began on Second Street under supervision of Mont Osborn Meigs County highway superintendent. Traffic routed to alternate streets as crews proceed with the long awaited project.
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Pomeroy
Mont Osborn
Meigs County
Second St
Russians Drive Toward Kharkov as German Losses Mount
Soviet forces push toward Kharkov from the north with fresh German reserves delaying the advance. Bogodukhov Dolzhik and Tarasovka fall, severing rail links. Germans suffer heavy losses including 77 tanks and 125 planes, while 48 German tanks are captured. Red army air units hit supply trains and convoys and sank a 3000 ton transport and two barges in the Black Sea.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Dolzhik
Ukraine
Bogodukhov
Bolshaya Pisarevki
Tarasovka
Vorskla
Bryansk
Orel
Red Army
Chuguyev
Izyum
Black Sea
Hoover Laments Civil Violence Amid Wartime Strains
FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover praised law enforcement for keeping the home front secure despite wartime handicaps while warning that dangerous days lie ahead He cited civil violence race riots and campaigns against minorities as a nationwide threat and urged Americans to address this rising problem at the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention.
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Detroit
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Translator Held on Espionage Charge in Washington
Roberto Lanas Vallecilla a 35 year old foreign language translator in the office of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs was charged with espionage. Bond of 50000 dollars was set and he was returned to await removal to New York after being arrested by FBI agents following the New York filing.
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Washington
Roberto Lanas Vallecilla
Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs
Vallecilla
FBI
New York
Goering and Nazi Leaders Expand Power in Germany
Madrid dispatches report Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and top Nazi chiefs received wide powers after a Berlin meeting at Hitler’s headquarters. The talks fueled speculation that the army would run German affairs in a coming long defensive war under Hitler remaining as figurehead.
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Madrid
Spain
Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Sweden Questions Hitler’s Fate in Germany Power Shift
In Stockholm observers doubt Hitler is out as Germany’s leader while Reichsmarshal Goering, Wilhelm Keitel, and Karl Doenitz are seen as real rulers. Reports say the army controls core state functions and keeps the Nazi party as a facade to preserve order and seek favorable terms as defeat looms.
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Stockholm
Germany
Reichmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Goering
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Karl Doenitz
Spain
Nazi Party
Italy
Fascist Party
Pietro Badoglio
Benito Mussolini
London
Hitler
Hermann Goering
Soft Coal Production Declines During July
Washington reports Bituminous coal output for the week ended July 31 at 12.1 million tons versus 12.15 million the prior week. Anthracite production for the same period stands at 1.377 million tons, up from 1.326 million the week before, despite a general slow climb toward normal.
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Washington
Ickes
President Roosevelt Returns From Canada Vacation
The White House announced that President Roosevelt has returned to the capital from a brief vacation on the north shore of Lake Huron in Canada.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Capitol
Canada
Lake Huron
Limited service men not exempted from draft
War Department clarifies that the removal of the limited service label does not end induction for men with minor defects. Reexaminations will discharge those not meeting minimum standards. those with special skills or qualifications may stay. Mechanics and those with extra qualifications face continued drafting.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Agdebhe Army
Churches Aid in Finding War Workers
The War Production Board urged churches to help recruit workers for war plants. WPB Vice Chairman Joseph Keenan announced a religious broadside to urge current workers to stay in or return to war jobs and asked pastors and rabbis to organize outreach across Catholic Protestant and Jewish communities. He urged action to reduce labor turnover and mayors consider day nurseries to relieve mothers’ childcare concerns.
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Washington
WPB
Joseph Dr. Keenan
America
Keenan
Honorable Conclusion Said Badoglio's Aim
Italian premier Badoglio faces questions as Rome government debates how to conduct the war to an honorable conclusion. Rome papers cite Allied Sicily breakthrough and renewed air raids on Northern Italy as context for the statement.
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Bern
Pietro Badoglio
Rome
Tribune de Geneve
Sicily
Italy
Timken Produces 6000 Gun Barrels Monthly
Timken Rollerbearing Co announces a new seamless tubing process allowing a single production line to exceed 6000 heavy gun barrels per month. The 75 and 40 millimeter tubes are used on tanks, aircraft, and ships, in a statement approved by military authorities.
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Canton
Timken Rollerbearing Co
Timken
Yanks Flank German Line from the North
Allied forces in Sicily pierced German lines around the bridgehead with seaborne flanks from the Tyrrhenian Sea as San Fratello San Agata and Cesaro fell. The British Eighth Army pressed toward Messina and Mount Etna's western foothills as surface and aerial strikes disrupted German supply routes.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Sicilian
Messina
U. S. Seventh Army
Sicily
San Fratello
San Agata
Cesaro
Troina
Eighth Army
Acireale
Catania
San Maria de Licadia
Mount Etna
Italy
Randazzo
Messina Strait
Tyrrhenian Sea
Biancavilla
Adrano
Bronte
Etna
Troina-Randazzo
U. S
Bernard L. Montgomery
Noland Norgaard
Associated Press
Berlin
Strait of
Private plane crashes after takeoff at Crabill airport
A private aircraft crashed from about 50 feet after takeoff at Crabill airport in Springfield. The pilot, Russell Pier, 45, was killed in the crash.
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Springfield
Crabill
Russell Pier
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