Allied Assault On Axis Bases Yields Results
Allied forces pound Axis bases as Soviet and Red army offensives press toward Stalingrad and Rzhev. German resistance remains firm at Stalingrad while Soviet gains signal potential shifts on the northern front. US tanks and Allied air power join the fight as Mediterranean operations target Axis supply hubs near Matruh Tobruk and Danzig Berlin air alerts highlight intensified bombing over Eastern Europe.
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Stalingrad
Red Army
Russia
Volga
Soviet Information Bureau
Germany
Rzhev
Caucasus
Henry Cassidy
Associated Press
Moscow
United States
Baltic
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Stettin
Danzig
Berlin
Pearl Harbor Time Clock Display Planned in Reading
In Reading Pennsylvania clockmakers will display clocks set to 7 55 the moment the first shot at Pearl Harbor was fired on December 7 1941 Delegates at the Pennsylvania Horological Association convention voted to place stopped clock faces in shop windows as a memorial to the attack.
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Reading
Pearl Harbor
Pennsylvania Horological Association
U S Envoy Urges Total Defeat of Japan in War
Joseph C. Grew, longtime U S ambassador to Tokyo, urged a war strategy aimed at complete defeat in battle. He warned Japan’s morale would not break from economic or military setbacks and cited atrocity reports and harsh treatment of captives as evidence of their resolve.
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Washington
Japan
Joseph C. Grew
United States
Tokyo
Grew
Gripsholm
America
Admiral King Seeks More Tools To Battle Axis
Admiral Ernest J. King toured Lorain and Cleveland urging a 60 day drive to recruit 10,000 sailors for the Navy. He warned the war would be long and difficult, saying the country is still amateur compared to its foes and promising a stronger, expanded effort across eight fronts.
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Cleveland
United States
Ernest J. King
Lorain
The
Solomon Islands
Tank Cars Burn After Derailment in Maryland
Eight or more tank cars burned after a 60 car Baltimore and Ohio oil train derailed near Harve De Grace Maryland. The train bound from Chicago to Twin Oaks Florida derailed on U S Route 40 as oil spilled and flames spread for a time. Sixteen cars derailed according to the railroad public relations office.
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Harve DE Grace
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Twin Oaks
Doughboys Harvest Duty In British Fields
United States soldiers on leave in Britain volunteer to help with harvest. They are expected to assist farmers as preparations are made to send more troops to gather crops amid a shortage of agricultural labor.
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London
United States
Middle West Drilling For Oil Is Authorized
Washington says the War Production Board authorized more drilling of oil wells in Illinois Southwestern Indiana and Northwestern Kentucky to boost East Coast petroleum supply. The Office of Petroleum Coordinator recommended a temporary relaxation of federal well spacing rules.
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Washington
War Production Board
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Office of Petroleum Coordinator
V. PB
Cracksmen Convert Beef to Hamburger in Malden Heist
In Malden Massachusetts thieves blew a heavy safe in the public market during the night and fled with over 1000 dollars. Police found the safe wheeled into a large ice chest and surrounded by beef to muffle the blast. The explosion smashed about half a ton of meat into hamburger.
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Malden
Mass
Study Ohio To Identify Idle Draw Benefits
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation and the U.S. Employment Service launched a four city study to learn why able bodied men and women draw benefit checks instead of working when industry employment is strong. Officials Atkinson and Hammond say a lag between construction jobs and elderly workers re entering the labor force may be to blame and four war industry centers Akron Dayton Warren and Sandusky will be surveyed. Each claimant will have unemployment causes re examined and be asked about efforts to find work or training.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
U.S. Employment Service
BUC
Herschel C. Atkinson
Wade Hammond
Akron
Dayton
Warren
Sandusky
Callas Siblings Die In Auto Truck Crash Near Weirton
Lieut Nicholas Callas 26 and his sister in law Mrs Anthony Callas 28 were fatally injured when their car collided with a truck east of Weirton West Virginia. Callas had been commissioned last week at the Carlisle Army Medical School in Pennsylvania.
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Steubenville
Nicholas Callas
Carlisle
Army Medical School
Anthony Callas
Weirton
W. Va
War Today Axis Showing Signs of Strain
The War Today column explains Allied and Axis strain in the European and Pacific theaters. It notes Germany and Japan facing mounting fatigue, logistical problems, and material shortages while Allied operations gain momentum with successes at Milne Bay and in Solomon Islands. Chinese forces advance in Kiangsi and Chekiang, capturing Chuhsien, a major airport, signaling pressure on Tokyo.
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Sians
Orient
MacArthur
Milne Bay
Solomons
Kiangsi
Chekiang
Chuhsien
China
Japan
Tokyo
OPA Rules on Coal Transport Costs Across Ohio and Kanawha Rivers
OPA ruled that coal delivered along the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers via facilities owned or controlled by the producer or distributor may be sold at a price including transportation costs. The seller may add to the maximum price a charge for transportation equal to the average October 1941 cost for the same service.
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Washington
Kanawha
Ohio
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Meat Production Reaches Record August High
The Meat Institute reports August production the largest for the month in history, over 10 percent above August last year. Lambs and cattle marketed set a record for August, while hogs marketed rank third greatest for any August on record.
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Chicago
Caetion Meat Institute
Tony
Institute
Evans Named Director of Ohio Rationing Office
Pi C. A. Evans of Hillsboro is appointed director of Ohio rationing for the Office of Price Administration. His selection was announced in Columbus as part of the national manpower to regulate wartime controls.
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Columbus
C. A. Evans
Hillsboro
Ohio
Office of Price Administration
Want Ad Tips Boost Reach and Savings
Mail It Messenger classifieds draw strong reader attention and fuel savings by using the Want Ad page form. Reach over 45,000 readers at low cost and consider a Wanted To Buy ad if you cannot find what you seek.
Call of Youth Seen by Taft
Senator Taft predicts Congress will lower the draft age to 18 or 19 and overhaul the selective service. He calls for a uniform national induction system prioritizing eligible unmarried men before married men with children are drafted.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Army
Slaying in Columbus Claims Two Black Lives in Early Hours
A 4 inch shotgun killed Addie Wynn aged 38 and Ophelia Sadler aged 39 in Columbus early today. Four other persons were wounded. All victims identified as Negro. Police investigating motive and assailant(s).
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Columbus
Addie Wynn
Ophelia Sadler
Allied Air and Ground Strikes Smash Japanese in Pacific
Allied forces threaten the Japanese across New Guinea Burma and China fronts. Milne Bay landings miscue leads to rapid reduction of the enemy. Australian and U.S. forces report heavy losses, with Japanese equipment and heavy supplies largely captured or destroyed. Marines consolidate in the Solomon Islands as air and sea attacks dim the Japanese counteroffensive.
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Milne Bay
New Guinea
China
Burma
Malaya
MacArthur
Port Moresby
Cyril Albert Clowes
United States
Solomon Islands
Japan
Far East struggle expands as US airpower aids Chinese drive
Allied actions widen the war role in Asia with General Chiang Kai-shek reporting Chinese ground advances into Japanese positions and airstrikes by American bombers hitting key bases in Burma and French Indo China. Operations targeted Lashio and Myitkyina areas with planes returning safely.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
China
United States Army Air Force
Tokyo
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Chekiang Province
Lungyu
Chuhsien
Roosevelt To Dedicate Naval Medical Center
President Roosevelt will dedicate the new naval medical center at Bethesda Maryland with a ten minute speech marking the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery centennial. He helped design the building with White House physician Rear Admiral Ross T McIntire who is chief medical officer and surgeon general.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
White House
Ross T. McIntire
Medical Bureau
Labor Board's Reds Assailed
Akron rubber executive William O'Neil attacked the War Labor Board as a detriment to production. He criticized its four management, four labor, and four public members, saying public representatives are often radical professors out of touch with business and production.
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Akron
William O'Neil
Akron Rubber
War Labor Board
General Tire & Rubber Co
U-Boat Sinkings Reduced by Allied Convoys
New York report notes Allied and neutral merchant losses totaled 449 ships with 3,000 lives in eight months. July and August show a drop in sinkings, nine victims last week, while June was the worst month with 109 sinkings. British and American escorts, along with patrols, aided by insurance rate cuts, signal a shift, though full submarine losses remain kept secret.
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New York
Associated Press
Western Atlantic
United Nations
Berlin
Atlantic
American Marine Insurance
Caribbean
United States
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Tobruk
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Armored Corps
Malta
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U. S
Guadalcanal
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Sherman Montrose
U. S. Navy
Admiral
Maryland
Middle West
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Allies, Inc
Warforr
Messenger
Fied
Far East
Myitkyina
Eurema
Labor Board
Reds
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