Nelson says tires scarce for civilian use during war
War Production Chairman Don ald M. Nelson told a Senate Agricultural Subcommittee that tires will be allocated to military needs and essential civilian use for the duration of the war. He outlined synthetic rubber projections for 1943 and 1944, stressing material shortages limit expansion and opposing a new civilian rubber agency.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Senate Agricultural Subcommittee
United States
McNary
R-Ore
United Nations
Fighting France rally as exiled De Gaulle followers honor Bastille Day
In London the Free French under General Charles de Gaulle celebrated Bastille Day as La France Combattante Fighting France joining Britons in support of expelling the Nazis. Gestapo threats warned of execution for saboteur relatives and hard labor or reform school for families and under 18 children. Ohio reports 152247 18 to 20 year olds signed in June 27 30 registration.
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London
Charles DeGaulle
Bastille
France
de Gaulle
Foreign Office
la France Combattante
Gestapo
Ohio
Columbus
State _ selective service
Modern rebuilt cars promise 50000 extra miles
Modern auto engineering and reconditioning innovations extend a rebuilt late model to about 50,000 additional miles. Athens County dealers offer complete renewal or reconditioning, with guaranteed late models for sale or service to fix existing cars. Shop Messenger Classified Automotive ads for options.
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Athens County
Messenger
RAF Strikes Duisburg in Fourth German Night Raid
The RAF targeted the Ruhr industrial city of Duisburg as part of a fourth raid on Germany this month. Five bombers were missing, and fires were reported as heavy industry including blast furnaces and an electric power station were hit amid poor flying conditions.
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German
Iron City
London
Ruhr
Germany
Air Ministry
High Command
Duisburg
Dusseldorf
Rhine
RAF
Danzig
Flensburg
Wilhelmshaven
Trial of Nazis In Sixth Day
The military trial of eight saboteurs shipped from Germany on submarines enters its sixth day with a faster pace. Civil proceedings against 14 aiding the eight Nazis loom, including the leader’s wife and the suspect’s family. Speculation holds that treason or espionage charges could carry the death penalty.
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Washington
Germany
Fight on Price Control Continues Second Day
Washington debates price policy as the Senate enters a second day of discussion on changes. Price Administrator Henderson says proposals would cripple the program while the House Agriculture Committee criticizes policies that allegedly disregard parity.
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Washington
Capitol
Senate
Henderson
House Agriculture Committee
First Ohio Women Are Accepted by WAAC
Eight Ohio women accepted in the Fifth Corps Area join the WAAC and depart Saturday for Des Moines Iowa training. Participants include Dorothy N. Benson of Frazersburg a Celina schools physical education instructor and Melvina A. Graff of Johnstown editor of The Weekly Johnstown Independent.
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Columbus
Ohio
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Des Moines
Dorothy N. Benson
Frazersburg
Celina
Melvina A. Graff
Johnstown
Johnstown Independent
Knisley Wins Davey Backing for Governor
Former Gov. Martin L. Davey endorses Clarence H. Knisley for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Columbus. The endorsement may shift interest to the August primary and could affect rural voter support for Ferguson and McSweeney.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Clarence H. Knisley
Davey
Knisley
Ray T. Miller
Cleveland
Miller
Cuyahoga County
Walter F. Heer
City Employes Plan Walkout in Dayton
Dayton city officials sought to avert a strike by unionized non police and fire employees. Local 101 AFL members voted to strike unless a 10 percent wage boost a 4 hour week overtime time and a half and union security were granted.
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Dayton
Fred ©. Eichelberger
American Federation of State
AFL
Coal based gasoline project opens at Pittsburgh plant
The newly authorized experimental plant at Pittsburgh will start the production study of gasoline and oil from bituminous coal. Congress approved an $83,000 plant, and Dr. R. R. Sayers said it will pursue practical and economical methods for motor fuels and lubricants from coal once built and equipped.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Bureau of Mines
Congress
R. R. Sayers
Bureau
Draft order calls married men last for WW II service
Draft headquarters directed local boards to call up married men last, with seven priority groups beginning with single men with no dependents and ending with married men living with wife and children who are engaged in war work. To qualify as married, a registrant must be married before December 8, 1941 and living with wife or children.
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Washington
Lodge Praises Yank Fighting in Libyan Desert
Senator Lodge reports on a tour with American troops in Africa. He praises soldiers for fighting like veterans on a ridge south of Tobruk. He notes a token tank detachment in M-3 tanks faced Axis forces with heavy fire and achieved direct hits, stopping German tanks.
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Washington
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Africa
Senate
Lodge
Tobruk
Russians Renew Appeals for Second Front in Europe
News from the front reports three German columns pushing into the North Caucasus near Migulinsk and Boguchar as Germany aims to sever the Caucasus from the Soviet rail system. Red Star says the move seeks a race for victory before a second European front opens.
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Europe
Red Star
Stalingrad
Volga
Boguchar
North Caucasian
Ukraine
Don
Migulinsk
Boguechar
Hitler
Moscow
Dollar a Day Wage Rise in Little Steel Expected Change
The labor board qna sources say the one dollar per day wage demand by Little Steel is out and a smaller fifty cent rise is favored. The public members hold power in split votes and a formula agreement is near. Congress may link military pay to steel wage changes, affecting 170000 Bethlehem Republic Inland Steel workers and 600000 steel workers overall.
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Washington
Congress
Rep
Rich
R-Pa
Labor Board
CIO
United Steelworkers
Bethlehem, Republic
Inland Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Briton Praises U S Shipbuilding and War Production
London reports Oliver Lyttleton telling the House of Commons Britain keeps a lead in air power and quality. He counters claims of lag in guns and tanks, notes no synthetic rubber shift. policy favors U S synthetic rubber and highlights the United States shipbuilding program as a remarkable industrial achievement.
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London
Oliver Lyttleton
House of Commons
Britain
Lyttleton
United States
Maple sugar industry may seek price guarantee
Dale Williams of the State Agricultural Adjustment Administration said the government might establish a price guarantee to save the maple sugar industry.
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Columbus
Dale Williams
State Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bastille Day Reflections On France Amid Nazi Occupation
Dewitt Mackenzie recalls Bastille Day as a symbol of liberty then contrasts it with Nazi occupation. He notes Laval’s regime in Vichy and the French public’s Pro Allied stance despite hunger and repression, predicting readiness to aid an Allied invasion when the time comes.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
France
Bastille
Flanders
Hundes
Vichy
Germany
Laval
Western
Europe
Frozen Retail Accounts Run Under Estimate
New York store executives report that charge accounts frozen due to non settlement were running under preliminary estimates of 25 percent. Payments followed Federal Reserve Board rules requiring settlement by the tenth of the second calendar month after purchase to avoid freezing.
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New York
Federal Reserve Board
Allied Bombers Hit Japanese Bases on Yangtze
Chungking reports Allied bombers struck numerous Japanese military establishments along the Yangtze River below Hankow on July 1. The date marks the first action by regular United States air forces in China, so Allied likely refers to American planes.
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Chungking
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Senator Foresees Mandatory Personal Savings Plan
Washington AP report cites Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee predicting Congress will act to require individuals to save a portion of their earnings to help curb inflation.
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Washington
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
German-born chemist Specht held by FBI in Cleveland case
Dr. 5S W Specht a 42 year old German born chemist from Youngstown was reported in FBI custody today on suspected subversive activity per The Plain Dealer.
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FBI
Cleveland
5S. W. Specht
Youngstown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The
Plain, Dealer
U S Anti Aircraft Downs Jop Fighter
SAN FRANCISCO United States anti aircraft guns downed one Japanese Zero fighter and damaged another. The battery landed at Port Moresby over twelve hours earlier and became the first U S land troops to take up duty in New Guinea according to a Sydney radio broadcast heard by CBS.
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San Francisco
United States
Port Moresby
Sydney
New Guinea
CBS
St Lawrence Ship Sinkings Reported by Allied Sources
The Gulf of St Lawrence faced a second submarine attack in two months as enemy subs sent three merchantmen to the bottom. Four sailors were killed or went missing and 99 were rescued, with reports raising total allied and neutral losses in the Western Atlantic since December 7 to 369. Additional sinkings included a U S vessel torpedoed off Cuba's north coast, per Cuban navy.
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Hitler
Trans-Don
Voronezh
Upper
Don
Moscow
Volkhovo
Leningrad
Vlassov
Egypt
el Alamein
Firc
el Daba
el Alamein Front
Alexandria
Palestine
English
Associated Press
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Angus MacDonald
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
U. S. Navy
United States
Havana
Cuban Navy General Staff
Cuba
Nazis Prepare For Invasion Across Western Europe
Reported moves by German occupation authorities put the Netherlands on invasion footing and tightened defences in Belgium and northern France as pressure for a second front grows. Dutch officials say key military offices moved inland after Rundstedt tour. Belgian government-in-exile notes halted construction except road widening to speed motorized divisions to the coast.
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London
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Russia
Hague
Holland
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Nazi Gestapo Murders 700 Croats in Reprisal
A Yugoslav government spokesman says 700 Croats were killed in reprisals by the German Gestapo after the assassination of Zagreb Gestapo chief Major Helm. The official said Helm was killed by a hand grenade attack while driving in Zagreb.
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Gestapo
London
Zagreb
Helm
OPA Abandons Plan To Prohibit Gas Sales
Washington AP reports the Office of Price Administration dropped a plan to ban gasoline sales to rationed motorists within a 50 mile twilight zone along the western border of the gasoline rationing area.
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OPA
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Standard Oil blast kills four at New Jersey plant
A thunderous explosion at the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey distributing plant in Waynesville North Carolina today killed at least four people and sent eight workers to hospitals in serious condition. The blast destroyed the plant and two nearby houses and damaged three others.
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Waynesville
N. C
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Assistant Gallia Co. School Head Resigns
Gallia County schools assistant superintendent J. D. McKinley has resigned to take a teaching job in Woodsfield. The move was reported today from Gallipolis.
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Gallia Co
Gallipolis
J. D. McKinley
Gallia County
Woodsfield
Five-Year Sentences Imposed on Objectors
U.S. District Judge Robert R. Nevin gave five-year federal sentences to five self-styled conscientious objectors for selective service violations. The group includes two Antioch College students, William L. Richards of West Chester Pennsylvania and Arthur A. Dole Jr. of Cambridge Massachusetts, plus Harold E. Miller and Floyd W. Clark of Dayton and Walter B. Karn of Versailles.
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Dayton
U.S
Robert R. Nevin
Antioch College
Ail
William L. Richards
West Chester
Arthur A. Dole, Jr
Cambridge
Mass
Antioch
Yellow Springs
Harold E. Miller
Floyd W. Clark
Walter B. Karn
Versailles
Columbus salvage drive funds 1250 aircraft fortresses
Columbus collectors from six local businesses have donated used tin shaving cream and toothpaste tubes since spring. The Ohio Office of War Information estimates the salvage effort provides solder for electrical connections in 1,250 flying fortresses.
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Columbus
Ohio Office of War Information
Author's husband held prisoner by Rommel in North Africa
Atlanta report that Lieut Anthony Maxtone-Graham husband of author Jan Struther captive of Rommel forces in North Africa. War and uncertainty surround the British army officer as news from the front reaches his wife. In Kentucky, Albert Hansen, 60, of Higginsport, drowns in the Ohio River after tripping over a towrope from a coal company boat last night.
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Atlanta
Jan Struther
Warsaw
Albert Hanse
Higginsport
Ohio River
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