Allies demand Italian surrender or face invasion
Roosevelt and Churchill issue a joint ultimatum to Italy from Algiers, declaring the choice: capitulate to Allied forces or endure further destruction as skies over Italy are dominated by Allied armadas and sea power. They warn that continuing Mussolini’s regime will bring harsher consequences.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tme
Churchill
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
United States
Great Britain
White House
London
United Nations
Roosevelt Shuts Board of Economic Warfare Abruptly
President Roosevelt ousts Wallace and Jones from key war agencies in a sweeping order. He abolishes the Board of Economic Warfare, shifts four Agency units to new control, and creates a new Office of Economic Warfare led by Leo Crowley. Officials are warned to resign if they publicly disagree. Both Wallace and Jones accept the move.
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Washington
Wallace
Commerce
Jesse Ones
Roosevelt
Aren
Jones
Athor
Board of Economic Warfare
Jones’ Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Leo T. Crowley
Truman Says Solution Near
President Truman says war production is nearly solved though some plants run below capacity. He notes many production lines need fixes and the Senate War Investigating Committee will soon study the transportation situation, which he calls serious, as capacity approaches potential overbuild in some fields.
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Washington
Truman
D-Mo
Senate War Investigating Committee
Detroit Bus Drivers Quit in Wage Protest
About 259 Great Lakes Greyhound Lines drivers halted service in a wage protest. Morning shifts disrupted as routes to Pontiac Birmingham Royal Oak and other North Woodward Avenue cities and down river communities faced stoppage.
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Detroit
Great Lakes
Greyhound Lines, Inc
Pontiac
Birmingham
Royal Oak
Woodward Avenue
Ecorse
River Rouge
Wyandotte
Trenton
Grosse Ile
Miss Katie Hamm 72 Dies in Pomeroy Home
Miss Katie Hamm age 72 died Thursday night at her home on Naylor's in Pomeroy. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 PM at Finsterwald Chapel with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Katie Hamm
Naylor
Finsterwald Chapel
Beech Grove
Retired Coal Miner Found Dead at Home in Condor Street
Richard Davis aged 53 a retired coal miner was found dead at his home in Condor Street. He had been in ill health for years after a mine accident. He leaves a wife and two sons Richard in the Army and Harold in this city. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
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Pomeroy
Richard Davis
Condor St
Richard
Harold
Buses and Street Cars Idle as Akron Strike Persists
Akron transit remains at a standstill as a CIO Transport Workers Union strike of more than 400 operators continues. The union’s executive committee called a meeting for this afternoon and International President Michael J. Quill planned a personal appeal to workers to end the stoppage.
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Akron
CIO
CIO Transport Workers Union
International
Michael J. Quill
Workman Killed by High Tension Wire
Charles Howard fifty an employee of Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co died instantly when he touched a high tension wire during line repair at Bailey Run. He worked with William Allman and is survived by his wife and daughter Thelma. Funeral arrangements not set.
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Pomeroy
Charles Howard
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Bailey Run
William Allman
Howard
Thelma
Drive to recruit 100000 nurses launched by PHS and Bolton
The Public Health Service and Congress opened a drive to recruit 100,000 young women for nursing service at home and abroad led by Frances Bolton a leading nursing advocate from Ohio.
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Washington
The
Public Health Service
Congress
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Columbus sales tax receipts rise in first half of year
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced that Columbus 4 sales tax collections totaled 27,164,808 for the first six months of this year, up 415,717 from the same period in 1942.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Run Tests on New Pipeline test runs start in east
Cincinnati report notes crude oil pumped through the 1341 mile 24 inch continental pipeline from Norris City to Phoenixville Pennsylvania. Secretary Harold Ickes will witness welding of the last section as the line nears completion. Pumping began Wednesday with oil moving eastward 3344 miles daily and engineers checking for leaks.
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Cincinnati
Norris City
Phoenixville
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
The
Petroleum Administration For War and War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Grant Time for Auto License Tag Painting
Ohio motorists may remove 1942 license plates after July 21 for cleaning and repainting. After that date officials will issue seven day rear single tag permits for tag removal to recondition plates. Plates must be repainted with green letters and numerals on a white background.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hal Sours
Sours
Marietta Times Faces Federal Court Action
The Times Co., publisher of the Marietta newspaper, was ordered by Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood to show cause by July 30 why its books should not be inspected by the U S Labor Department wage hour division. The suit claims the firm refused access claiming it was not engaged in interstate commerce.
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Columbus
the Times Co
Marietta
Mell G. Underwood
U. S. Labor Department
L. M. Walling
Four Yankees Capture 52 Italian Officers at Gela
Allied headquarters in North Africa reports that four American Rangers charged a mined beach at Gela and captured 52 Italian officers in a single building after a brief engagement.
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Allied
North Africa
Gela
Willkie Seeks 1944 GOP Nomination If McCormick Runs
Wendell L. Willkie says he will be a candidate for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination if Col. Robert R. McCormick enters the Illinois preferred primary next April. Willkie challenged McCormick to a campaign for Illinois and expressed hope his entry would sharpen the issue of American relations and domestic policy.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Illinois
GOP
McCormick
Willkie
Colonel McCormick
Synthetic Tires Tested on New Jersey Busses
The U.S. Rubber Co reports a successful year of testing synthetic tread tires on New Jersey public service buses. Each tire reached up to 37,000 miles on the harshest section of a four section tire using Buna-S compounds from government synthetic rubber plants.
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New Jersey
New York
U.S. Rubber Co
Public Service Coordinated Transport
Medwick Sold to Giants for Waiver Price
Brooklyn outfielder Joe Medwick was sold to the New York Giants today for the waiver price of 7560 dollars. The transaction transfers Medwick from Brooklyn to the Giants under waiver rules.
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New York
Joe Medwick
Brooklyn
New York Giants
Youth Dies of Broken Neck in Pool Accident
William H. Denny, 18, son of Mrs. Edith Denny of Grove City, died at Holzer Hospital after injuring a broken neck from a dive into a shallow Raccoon Creek pool on June 20. He lived with his uncle Burr Denny in Wilkesville and is survived by a brother in Africa. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wilkesville Presbyterian Church.
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Gallipolis
William H. Denny
Edith Denny
Grove City
Holzer Hospital
Raccoon Creek
Denny
Burr Denny
Wilkesville
Africa
Strong Funeral Home
Ickes Says Mines Cant Be Returned at Present
Interior Secretary Ickes said it is not practicable to return the nation’s coal mines to private ownership now as production nears normal and 97 to 98 percent of coal miners are back at work. He argued government operation benefits private owners by securing miners and protecting investments.
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Washington
Ickes
Government To Supply Tents for Farm Help
The War Department said Army tents and equipment will shelter and care for agricultural laborers in the Agriculture Department's harvest program. Existing camps will be used where possible, but about 75 camps are to be set up nationwide to house roughly 10,000 workers.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
War Department
Department
Dads' Draft Unlikely Before Fall Amid War Demands
AP reports draft officials estimate many fathers will remain in civilian jobs through fall as only those with dependents born before Sept 15 hold deferments. About 6.5 million qualify, 1.566 million single and childless marry likely available for July to September, with 40 percent rejected to 4-F.
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Washington
Armed Forces
Selective Service
Emmett Solomon
Wartime Marriages in Ohio Decline Amid War Strain
Columbus reports a drop in wartime marriages as many young men serve in the armed forces. Health director Dr. R. H. Markwith notes the decline follows Pearl Harbor and predicts birth rates will adjust downward. Ohio's 1942 birth total reached about 140,000 with October the peak month.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Wealth Department
R. H. Markwith
Pearl Harbor
Markwith
Church of Nazarene Districts Vote to Split Ohio Area
Delegates to the Ohio district of the Church of the Nazarene voted to divide the area into Western and Central Districts effective next June. They reelected Dr. Charles A. Gibson of Columbus as district superintendent for his 19th straight year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Church of the Nazarene
Charles A. Gibson
Regional WLB Panel Meets at Cincinnati
Four newly appointed public representatives to the Regional War Labor Board tri partite panels met in Cincinnati to discuss policies of the federal agency. Rev. Edwin A. Brown pastor of the First Methodist Church Ath ens is a member of the panel.
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Cincinnati
War Labor Board
Tripartite
Federal Agency
Edwin A. Brown
First Methodist Church
Athens
Allied forces drive deep into Sicily near Catania
Allied reports say the British Eighth Army breached toward Catania as Montgomery’s veterans smashed German armored divisions north of Lentini. American forces under Patton seized towns, claiming nearly 16,000 prisoners. Air power bombarded Naples and Messina, with sustained Allied naval and air pressure aiding advances along the Sicilian coast.
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North Africa
Eighth Army
Catania
Sicilian
Bernard L. Montgomery
Hermann Goering
Seventh Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Montgomery
Lentini
Sicily
Allies Take Mubo in New Guinea Operation
American and Australian troops under General Douglas MacArthur seized the Mubo gateway to Salamaua in New Guinea by routing about 950 defending Japanese. The Nasau Bay landing enabled a stealth march inland along the Bitoi River rear of Mubo while heavy bombs collapsed observation hill defenses. Meanwhile in the Central Solomons Allied aircraft claimed 45 enemy planes down with 3 American losses, across losses under 50 for the Solomons campaign.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Salamaua
New Guinea
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Mubo
Pacific
Munda
Nassau Bay
Bitoi River
Solomons
Reds Drive Germans Back in Orel Counter Offensive
Soviet dispatches say a two pronged drive north and east of Orel, 200 miles south of Moscow, pushed 28 miles, retook 110 towns, and claimed 12 000 German dead with 109 tanks and 294 planes destroyed. Belgorod fighting repulsed as Nazis push again.
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Moscow
Orel
Belgorod
Pravda
Communist Party
Truck Kills Boy on Route 76 Near Coshocton
An eight year old boy, James Karr, son of Charles A. Karr, was struck and killed by a truck while coasting in a wagon on Route 76 between Coshocton and Clark. Homer Johnson of Gallipolis was arrested Thursday night around 8 p.m. by the State Highway Patrol on reckless operation charges. The hearing was set for Friday noon.
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Coshocton
James Karr
Charles A. Karr
Coshocton and
Clark
Gallipolis
Homer Johnson
State Highway Patrol
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Algiers
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Signal Corps
Nea
Workman
Marietta Times
Medwick
Giants
Church of Nazarene
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Dantel DE Luce
Vizzini
Rome Radio
Patton
Iblei Mountains
Augusta
Naples
Messina
Italan
Palermo
Paterno
Middle East
Foggia
Messinia
Sardinia
Reds
Russia
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