MacArthur Directs Allied Push in Pacific Front
Allied forces under General MacArthur seized Vura Village on Vangunu Island and destroyed 21 Japanese planes over Rendova. American losses were light as 300 Japanese were killed and garrisons dispersed. MacArthur led the operations from the field with torpedo and dive bombers targeting Munda on New Georgia and surrounding objectives. Nine Allied raids hit Kiska Island as weather limited observation.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Vangunu Island
Rendova
MacArthur
Vura Island
Vura
Wickham Anchorage
Kiska
Washington
Navy
Kiska Island
North Pacific
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Buna
Congress Nears Summer Recess Faces Food Subsidy and War Bill Debates
Congress prepares to wind up work and take a seven week recess amid disputes over the food price roll back and war agencies funding. A compromise subsidy plan limits payments to processors to 525 million dollars in six months. Leaders expect swift passage despite farm opposition and key battles over war agency appointments and executive-vs-legislative power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
James F. Byrnes
Prentiss M. Brown
Jesse Jones
Wagner
Roosevelt
New Deal
National Youth Administration
NYA
National Resources Planning Board
NRPB
Farm Security Administration
FSA
van Nuys
D-Ind
Indiana
Pepper
D-Fla
Cochran Named Director Of Women Pilots In Air Force
War Department announces Jacqueline Cochran will direct women pilots in the Army Air Force and serve as special assistant to Maj. Gen. Barney M. Giles. Since September she has led women’s flying training with about 150 pilots graduated and hundreds more in training.
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Washington
Jacqueline Cochran
Army Air Force
Barney M. Giles
War Department
Soldiers Injured by Car During Maneuvers
At Fort Meade Maryland an automobile plowed through two companies of combat engineers during night maneuvers near Patapsco State Park injuring 15 soldiers. Several were said to be severely hurt and possibly dead. soldiers threw helmets and equipment at the fleeing car in an effort to halt it.
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Fort George G. Meade
Miners Return on Independence Day Breaks Long Coal Strike
On Independence Day miners return to work across the nation ending the prolonged wartime coal strike. More than 100000 workers in Pennsylvania Alabama Virginia and Tennessee shift back as locals vote to resume with pay in time and a half for holiday work.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Virginia
Tennessee
United Mine Workers
Ickes
John L. Lewis
UMW
Nanty Glo
Knox Sees U S Ships Sail Into Tokyo Harbor
Seattle reports Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox predicting the U S fleet will enter Tokyo harbor as a warning to Tojo and his regime. He cites Allied victories in the Solomons and New Guinea and says any Japanese air attack on the West Coast would likely fail to retreat.
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Seattle
Tokyo Harbor
Frank Knox
Morrison
Navy
Solomons
New Guinea
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Polish Army Chief Killed in Gibraltar Plane Crash
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier of the Polish government in exile and commander of its armed forces, died when the Liberator he rode crashed after takeoff from Gibraltar. His death comes as Polish forces prepare to join planned offensive operations after years of exile.
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London
Wladislaw Sikorski
Gibraltar
Air Ministry
Poland
Betty Grable Weds Band Leader Harry James in Las Vegas
Betty Grable, film star, married band leader Harry James in Las Vegas shortly after his arrival from New York. Grable had divorced Jackie Coogan in 1939, while James had a recent divorce from Louise Tobin in Juarez, Mexico.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Betty Grable
Harry James
James
New York
Miss Grable
Jackie Coogan
Juarez
Mex
Louise Tobin
U S Liberator Bombers Hit At Akyab In Burma
Four engine Liberator bombers of the U S Tenth Air Force were hit by a sudden incident at the jetty in Akyab and faced the Shweli Bridge in Northern Burma. Medium Mitchell bombers joined in Independence Day actions, dropping over ten tons of hazardous devices on the Shwebo railway yards in Central Burma.
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New Delhi
U. S
Tenth Air Force
Akyab
Shweli
Burma
Jrailway
Shwebo
Woodring calls for unity to restore America at Independence Day event
Former Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring urged voters from both parties to unite in a crusade to restore constitutional government and warned against state capitalism. He proposed a new commonwealth party and argued for a constitutional liberal conservatives bloc versus radicals seeking to remake America. Hollywood report notes Victor Moore, 67, and Shirley Paige, 22, have married.
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Neodesha
Kas
America
Harry H. Woodring
Kansas
Commonwealth Party
Woodring
Celebration World Wide Independence Day Observances
Americans celebrated the 167th anniversary of independence with global visible support. In London hosts and British guests attended a hayride in Hyde Park. Latin America showed solidarity with messages from capitals. In Rio 4000 Brazilian students demonstrated before the American Embassy and Mexico City aired tributes including the Star Spangled Banner.
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London
Hyde Park
England
Latin America
Rio de Janeiro
Mexcco City
Government
United States
EDR Opposes Aviation Bill
President Roosevelt opposes a bill to reorganize aviation agencies. The measure would move CAB and CAA out of the Commerce Department, place the board over the administration, and create an independent accident investigations director. Roosevelt says the current system works and reorganization is unwise amid wartime needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Commerce Department
Cleveland Man Elected Ohio VFW Commander
Russell D Gessner of Cleveland was elected commander of the Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars at the close of the organization's annual convention. Mrs Grace Krum of East Cleveland was named auxiliary president.
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Columbus
Russell D Gessner
Cleveland
Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars
Grace Krum
East Clepland
Lancaster widow Ella Main Wetzler dies after illness
Mrs. Ella Main Wetzler, 87, widow of Charles Wetzler former Lancaster Daily Eagle publisher, died at her home after a three weeks illness.
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Lancaster
Ella Main Wetzler
Charles Wetzler
Lancaster Daily Eagle
Early End of Dispute Seen
Vice Admiral John H. Hoover after meetings in Martinique says prospects for settling troubled relations between the United States and the islands look favorable. Hoover returned from talks with Admiral Georges Robert French high commissioner of Martinique and Guadeloupe who invited an envoy to discuss change of French authority. Gen Henri Giraud, co president of the French Committee of National Liberation, was expected to visit Hoover en route from Algiers to the United States.
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San Juan
Perto Rico
John H. Hoover
Martinque
United States
Georges Robert
Guadeloupe
Henri Giraud
French Committee of National Liberation
New Supply Route to China Open Via Iran
Chinese Minister Tseng Yeng fu announced a new route to China via Iran and the Turkestan Siberian Railway, with shipments expected to begin soon as China seeks vital war material. The declaration came two days before the war’s sixth anniversary. Returns to England. Queen Wilhelmina arrives from Ottawa to London after visiting Princess Juliana.
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China
Iran
Chungking
Tseng Yeng-Fu
Japan
England
London
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Ottawa
Canada
Princess Juliana
Elk River pilot fends off Zeros with propeller in Pacific combat
Lieutenant Jack Bade of Elk River Minnesota revived in the air after being shot in the head and gunless. He used his spinning propellers to attack six Japanese Zeros near Bougainville Ballale and saved Navy dive bombers from attack. His head wound was not serious.
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Washington
Jack Bade
Elk River
Minn
War Department
Bade
Navy
Bougainville Island
Southwest Pacific
Ballale
Allied air assaults intensify pre invasion strikes on Italy
Allied command in North Africa announced fierce Fourth of July air battles over Sicily and Sardinia destroying at least 43 Axis planes. They followed heavy raids on Pantelleria era airfields and harbor targets at Trapani and Ostia while squadrons hit Catania Gerbini Sciacca Comiso Milo and targets near Rome Fiumicino. Most Allied aircraft returned despite strong German Italian air defenses.
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Sicily
North Africa
Italy
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Trapani
Sicilian
Canton
Tunisia
Catania
Gerbinia
Sciacca
Comiso
Milo
Rome
Ostia
Nazi Air Raids Hit Cologne Hamburg and More In Daylight
Allied and German actions across Europe are described with daylight raids on Cologne and Hamburg by the Eighth Air Force and RAF. The report notes losses, strikes against rail targets, coastal artillery duels, and a claim of German setbacks near Belgorod and Le Mans.
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U. S
Whien
Cologne
Rhine
Hamburg
Ruhr
RAF
Hameburg
France
Belgium
Holland
Berlin
Strait of Dover
Eighth Air Force
le Mans
Nantes
Harvey H. Wallace
Carthage
Miss
Belgorod
Kharkov
Mediterranean
Europe
Moscow
Marseille
Mussolini
Fascist Party Council
Holiday Death Toll Lowest in Recent Years
Across the three day Fourth of July weekend the United States logged a total of 190 deaths from all causes. Traffic was down with 74 fatalities, drownings 55, and 61 from miscellaneous causes, aided by war restrictions and steady work in plants. Fireworks fatalities were not reported as bans and halts reduced production. The forecast had predicted 250 to 300 highway deaths. Last year’s toll was 320 and 500 in 1941.
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United States
Associated Press
National Safety Council
Wreckage Found of Twin Motor Plane in Meigs County
Five Army Air Forces trainees dead after a twin engine navigation plane crashed four miles south of Pine Valley. Among the dead are Second Lt. Floyd E. Koblentz of Chester Ohio and Second Lt. William J. Antoine of Toledo Ohio. Koblentz, 22, was a Chester High School graduate and former Navy man. Funeral plans set for Chester.
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San Marcos
Texas
Army Air Forces Navigation School
Pine Valley
Floyd Eugene Koblents
P. F. Koblentz
Chester
Ohio
Meigs County
William John Antoine
Lillian Antoine
Toledo
Lieut
Koblentz
Pearl Koblentz
Chester High School
Navy
Suspect in Wyoming Slayings Arrested After Manhunt
Howard William Pickell, 26, held in Cheyenne County Jail, faces murder charges for the shooting of Matt Katmo 44, at a mountain campground last Wednesday. Two days later the bodies of Mr Cota 44 and Mrs Cota were found near a ranch garage south of Laramie.
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Laramie
Wyo
Lenoir Bell
Howard William Pickell
Cheyenne County
Matt Katmo
Percy Cota
FCC Investigators Assailed as War Plant Fire Strikes Industry
Washington DC Cox committee accused by FCC Chairman James L Fly of colluding with radio and Wall Street interests to wreck the commission. In Galion Ohio a fire at Perfection Steel Body Company destroyed a wing, prompting an investigation into a $100000 blaze in a paint shop.
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FCC
Galion
Washington
Cox
Federal Communications Commission
James L. Fly
Radio
Wall Street
Commission
Fly
House
Rep
Harry Kile
Perfection Steel Body Company
Kile
Harry Cobey
Detroit youth dies in bridge crash near Columbus
Pvt. Leroy A. Clark aged 18 of Detroit was killed when his automobile struck a concrete bridge near South Woomfield. Authorities reported the crash details from the Columbus area scene.
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Columbus
Leroy A. Clark
Detroit
South Woomfield
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