U S Forces Hit Japanese Bases Across China and Pacific
U S forces rack up strikes on Japanese airfields at Hankow Anking and Canton as China resists invasion attempts while MacArthur reports Allied bombers batter invasion bases in New Guinea Timor and the Solomon Islands The article notes Japanese raids and Allied countermeasures in the Pacific theater with updates from Washington and Allied fronts.
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Kiangsi
Kiangsi-Cheng
China
Genlang
Archill
Britain
Australia
Genugias MacArthur
New Guinea
Timor
Ilomon Islands
Port Mores
BBC
WORK Promises Allied Victory to Chinese
President Roosevelt cabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the people of China on the anniversary of Japan's attack. He expressed confidence the United Nations would fight on to victory and that arms and people would push back the enemy to establish peace justice and freedom worldwide.
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Ashington
Sevelt
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ple of
China
Japan
United
Nans
Ina
United Navis
Modern rebuilt cars promise long life and value
Modern auto engineering and reconditioning innovations extend a rebuilt late model to about 50 000 miles with potential of 150 000 more miles. Athens County auto users can renew and rebuild cars, selling guaranteed late models or reconditioning current vehicles.
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Athens County
Evacuate Natives from Western Aleutians and Pribilofs
The native population and a small number of whites from the western Aleutian Islands and the Pribilof Islands have been evacuated to Juneau, Alaska, under the Indian Bureau after Navy transport. Attu native evacuation hindered by Japanese landing. no natives remained at Kiska. Army bombers and Navy planes continued shore attacks when visibility allowed.
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Washington
Aleutian Islands
Pribilof Islands
Bering Sea
Dutch Harbor
William Zimmerman, Jr
Navy
Juneau
Alaska
Indian Bureau
Attu
Dimond
Kiska
Holiday Death Toll Drops to 317 for Fourth of July Weekend
Violent death over the two day Fourth of July weekend totaled 317, down from 628 a year earlier. Gasoline rationing on the eastern seaboard, war plants operating nationwide, and fireworks restrictions cut fatalities. AP survey counts 159 traffic, 83 drowning, 75 miscellaneous. no fireworks casualties reported.
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Associated Press
Army Opens Commando School at Lockbourne
The Army opened at Lockbourne air base near Columbus one of three national Commando schools for air force glider pilots. Trainees will learn glider operation towed by planes after preliminary motor-propelled ship handling and dead stick landings.
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Columbus
Commandos of the Air
Lockbourne Air Base
Army Air Force
Here
Woman Dies After Accidental Shooting In Lancaster
Mrs. E. Bernice Dutton 40, widow of former Fairfield County prosecutor, died yesterday after a neighbor’s 12 year old daughter Joanne Blatz fired a gun placed in her hands by Patrolman Lester Cook in Mrs. Dutton’s home.
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Lancaster
E. Bernice
Dutton
Lester Cook
Joanne Blatz
Three Drown As Lake Vessels Collide In St. Clair River
ALGONAC Mich. The Great Lakes freighter James Watt and a 42 foot cabin cruiser collided in the St. Clair River today. Three aboard the cruiser drowned and three were injured. Twelve persons were rescued by nearby boats.
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Algonac
Mich
Great Lakes
James Watt
St. Clair River
Anti Axis Feeling in Costa Rica After Ship Sunk
Anti Axis sentiment rose in San Jose after the torpedoing of the US freighter San Pablo at Puerto Limón Harbor. Demonstrations damaged 83 German and Italian owned businesses as police dispersed crowds. Twenty three Costa Rican stevedores were killed when the ship was sunk at its dock by a submarine.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
United States
San Pablo
Puerto Limon
Ohio Sales Tax Below Figures of Last Year
Ohio's three cent sales tax, a major revenue source, will show a loss of about 3.34 million dollars for the first six months of the year versus the 1941 period. State treasurer Don H. Ebright said receipts for the last ten days of June totalled 26.34 million, compared with 29.68 million for the first half of last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
Ebright
Lord Halifax Returns to Confer With Eden
British ambassador to Washington Lord Halifax returned to London and was to confer with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today, the foreign office said. He flew from the United States and was expected to remain in Britain for a month.
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London
Lord Halifax
Washington
Anthony Eden
Foreign Office
United States
War Manpower Commission Moves to Stabilize War Wages
The War Manpower Commission plans wage standardization in war plants. It may deny labor priorities to shops with sub standard pay, forcing wage alignment. McNutt directs rosters of skills and plants to protect vital work and curb skilled worker drain. A wage stabilization branch seeks zone based agreements between workers and employers.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Commission
Paul V. McNutt
U. S. Employment Service
McNutt
Manpower Commission
Employment Service
War Production Board
Refusal To Buy Bonds Sparks Strike At Miami Factory
A strike broke out at a small defense plant after two workers refused to sign regular war bond purchases. Joe Parker of Metal Trades Corp. cited one employee unable to afford stamps and another not interested. In Norwalk a 62 year old farmer, William E Swabley, died of shock and heart trouble after a well incident at his home as his son attempted a rescue.
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Miami
Norwalk
William E. Swabley
Here
Edward
J. D. Bradish
Wallace and Wickard split over farm loan plan
Vice President Wallace and Agriculture Secretary Wickard were reported to oppose each other on a Senate bill directing parity loans of 1.34 per bushel for 1942 wheat and 97 cents per bushel for corn. Wickard reportedly approved the measure while Wallace voiced a vigorous stance against it as Senate unfinished business.
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Washington
Wallace
Wickard
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Atlantic Toll Mounts to 340
The AP tally adds three new Western Atlantic sinkings to the war toll, bringing total United and neutral merchant ship losses to 340 since Pearl Harbor. Survivors from two torpedoed ships were rescued as one American merchantman sank off South America and another off the Dominican Republic. Nineteen UN sailors were landed in Canada with uncertain losses still aboard.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
United and
Neutral Nations
Pearl Harbor
South America
Dominican Republic
United Nations
War Today: Axis Tests Strength on Eastern Front
Dewitt Mackenzie reports the Axis and Allies in a decisive test as Nazi forces press in Russia and push toward Voronezh while Rommel rebuilds in Africa. Allied momentum is unclear with conflicting Soviet and German claims amid heavy losses and cautious optimism.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Herr Hitler
Rommel
Egypt
Red Front
Kursk-Kharkov
Voronezh
Moscow- Rostov
Nelson Opposes Grain Based Synthetic Rubber Plan
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson opposed a bill to create a rubber supply agency to manufacture synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. He warned distillery needs would consume copper and steel vital to the war effort and argued the plan would remove presidential control over material priorities. Senator Norris pressed a response as the committee paused action for Nelson to testify again.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Senate Agriculture
Gillette
D-Iowa
Norris
Ind-Neb
War Production Board
U S Ready for Air Offensive
London reports military experts say the United States Air Force will rapidly expand its offensive against Germany now that American air power operates over occupied Europe. They note the July Fourth air start marked half the ground work completed for active service and expect a broader assault beginning with a daylight sweep over Dutch German held targets.
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London
Germany
Europe
Holland
VFW Subscriptions Fund 15 Training Planes
The Ohio Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars closes its encampment by pledging full wartime cooperation and voting to buy 15 training planes through member subscriptions. Emerson Woolf of Akron becomes department commander succeeding L. O. Kurtis of Cleveland, and Mrs. Miriam Hocker of Akron leads the WWF Auxiliary.
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Columbus
Ohio Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Emerson Woolf
Akron
L. O. Kurtis
Cleveland
Miriam Hocker
WWF
99 U S Service Men Imprisoned by Japs
The War Department released names of 99 U S service members held by Japan. Most were in Shanghai with 92 Marines, five Army personnel listed as missing at sea, and one soldier plus a Wake Island senior also named.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Shanghai
Marine Corps
China
Wake Island
Gandhi Offers New Plan for India Freedom
In Harijan Gandhi argues India should be freed and United Nations troops kept to defend against Japan. He calls for removal of British taxes and obligations to enable a non violent national life with ambassadors to Axis nations.
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Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
United Nations
Harijan
China
Good Employment Records Save Taxes
Columbus officials announced that Ohio firms with strong employment records will save nearly 43 million dollars in unemployment compensation taxes this year. Herschel C. Atkinson said merit ratings reduce contributions to as low as seven tenths of one percent of payrolls, down from the previous 2.7 percent.
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Columbus
Ohio
Herschel C. Atkinson
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
British Losses and U Boat War Efficiency Report
Washington says less than one of 200 convoyed British ships lost in the war. Lt Gen Gordon Nevil MacReady, head of the British Army Staff in Washington, announced the figure and that the British Navy has sunk five and one fourth million tons of enemy merchant ships in a Smithsonian Institute weapons exhibit address.
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Washington
Gordon Nevil MacReady
MacReady
Smithsonian Institute
800 Yugoslav Peasants Executed by Italians
A Yugoslav government spokesman said 800 Croat and Slovene peasants were executed by Italian forces in the Yugoslav region near Fiume. Six villages were razed for aiding guerrillas. 12 were shot and 20 houses burned near Split on the Dalmatian coast.
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London
Yugoslavia
Fiume
Italy
Split
Dalmatian
Big Push by Nawis Starts In Ukraine
British army reports and German dispatches mark a renewed fighting phase on multiple fronts. In Egypt the British say Rommel’s forces are under pressure as El Alamein fortifications hold, while in Russia the Don campaign signals a potential major Nazi advance toward Moscow Rostov and the Caucasus.
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Claude Auchinleck
River
Don
Imperial Ghq
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Russia
Berlin
Hitler
Orel
Moscow
North Africa
el Alamein
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Cairo
Auchinieck
RAF
Rommel
Don River
Adolf Hitler
Moscow-Rostov
Kursk- Kharkov
Voronezh
Rostov-on-Don
Kursk
Red Army
Belgorod
Kharkov
Volchaysk
Krsk
Rostov
Caucasus
London
Suez Canal
Auchinleck
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Canton
Jang Kai-Shek
Averos
Londonderry
U. S
Northern Ireland
Aleutians
Army
Commando
Lockbourne
Eden
NEA Radiophoto
U.S
VFW
Gandhi
Nawis
Ukraine
Roger D. Greene
Rochester
Minn
Fred Allen
Mayy
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