Roosevelt Urges Total Victory Effort as War Looms
President Roosevelt urged Americans and allies to deliver a knockout blow to the Axis, insisting on total victory. He called for continued surrender, pursuit of Axis leaders, and stronger home front measures including veterans benefits, unemployment insurance, and food production. He praised Russia and warned against fascism, promising punishment for Mussolini and no tolerance for Fascism.
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Washington
Italy
Japan
Pacific
Roosey
United Nations
Benito Musso
Germany
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Mort Marine
Ces
Coffee Unlimited
U. S
South America
Hitler
United States
Uld
Russia
Liberators Sink Jap Ship Near Thailand
American Liberator bombers from India sank a 250 foot merchant ship off Tavoy Island near Thailand. Flights of B-24s also attacked a trapped vessel about 175 feet north of Pagoda in Burma, with unclear confirmation that the ship was an aircraft carrier.
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New Delhi
India
Tavoy Island
Qth
Thailand
U. S. Army Air Fore
Pagoda Int
Burma
Field Marshal Von Brauchitsch Confined by Nazi Regime
Reuters dispatch from London reports former German Army chief Walther von Brauchitsch confined in a fortress by the government. The figure known for clashes with Hitler has been subject to reporting on his status.
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London
Reuters
Walther von Brauchitsch
von Brauchitsch
Hitler
Stove Rationing Set to Begin August 23
Government announces stove rationing will start August 23 with the Office of Civilian Mobilization directing allocation. Details and eligibility to be issued by the administration as plans proceed.
Huge Airliner Crash Kills 20 Near Bowling Green
An American Airlines flight from Louisville to Nashville crashed near Trammel Kentucky last night killing 20 people. Only two occupants survived Lt Glenn W Fellows and S K Hoffman both injured. Among the dead are three crew members and a pilot acting as observer. the passengers include Mrs Lucy Frickel Beasley wife of Maj Lynn Beasley of Nashville and her infant.
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Bowling Green
American Airlines
Louisville
Nashville
Trammel
Here
Glenn W. Fellows
Love Field
Tex
Fellows
S. K. Hoffman
Williamsport
Hoffman
Lucy Frickel Beasley
Maj
Lynn Beasley
Nashville, Tenn
Study of Gas Needs Urged in Midwestern Farms
Joseph W. Fichter, head of the Ohio State Grange, asks the Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes to allow farm representatives to present rural transportation issues before any gasoline rationing reductions are decided. He warns cuts would be a serious handicap to farms lacking public transit.
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Columbus
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State Grange
Midwest
Harold Ickes
Fichter
Ban on Use of Fruits Will Close Wineries
A War Food Administration order bans 25 fruits and berries in making alcoholic beverages and is expected to force the closing of all wineries in Ohio. Apples apricots blackberries peaches blueberries cherries plums elderberries and huckleberries are among the restricted fruits.
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Chicago
War Food Administration
Ohio
Higgins Funeral to Be Held in Athens Friday
Warren Higgins who died at Fairport Harbor will have funeral services Friday at 2 PM in Jagers Funeral Home Athens with burial at Wellston. Mrs Higgins and daughter stay with Higgins' parents Mr and Mrs J C Atkinson Beaumont Ohio.
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Chauncey
Warren Higgins
Fairport Harbor
Jagers
Athens
Wellston
Higgins
J. C. ‘Atkinson
Beaumont
Japs Admit Shortage of Vital Ships
Roosevelt states Japan has lost more ships than it can replace in a warning broadcast from Tokyo. The report says Japan must focus on shipbuilding as transport limits hinder movement from Java Borneo Burma and other conquests. Allied air sea strikes hit a Japanese destroyer transport freighter and barges while Stilwell reports success against Japanese planes in Hong Kong and Hankow.
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Japan
Tokyo
Germany
Java
Borneo
Burma
Douglas MacArthur
Munda
Solomons
J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press
Lodge
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hankow
Hainan Island
Hongkong
Early Fall of Sicily Seen as Allied Pace Quickens
Washington reports the invasion of Sicily should finish in a few days as German resistance stiffens in the northeast. Acting War Secretary Patterson notes Benito Mussolini’s ouster is a political shift with unclear military impact and says no peace overtures have been received by the Allies. The Allies will press the war to end the Italian conflict and speed up its conclusion.
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Washington
Sicily
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Will Renew Effort To Obtain Maternity Care
Dr Richard A Bolt director of the Cleveland Child Health Association said he would ask Senator Harold H Burton to confer with state officials about federal maternity cases for service men's wives which State Health Director R H Markwith has refused to adopt The Republican senator a member of the congressional committee which allocated funds for the federal aid plan asserted here last night he favors the program as an aid which enlisted men and their families need badly.
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Cleveland
Richard A. Bolt
Cleveland Child Health Association
Harold H. Burton
R. H. Markwith
Congressional
Eighteen Die in Two Plane Crashes at Texas Field
Eighteen officers and enlisted men from Biggs Field and Fort Bliss were killed and one enlisted man wounded in two crashes. A four engined bomber crashed ten miles east of Biggs Field last night, the airfield public relations office announced.
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EL Paso
Tex
B'gs Field
Fort Bliss
Biggs Field
Kin Dies Cincinnati Grandson of Ohio First Governor
Charles G. Comegys, 87, grandson of Edward Tiffin Ohio’s first governor, died in Cincinnati. The death ends a line tracing back to early state leadership and reflects a long family presence in Ohio public life.
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Kin
Cincinnati
Charles G. Comegys
Edward Tiffin
Ohio
Canton Sets Birth Record With 2200 in Six Months
Canton records show 2,200 births in the first half of 1943, a new local birth record. The figure marks a notable rise in newborns for the period, reflecting demographic trends in the community.
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Canton
t—Canton
No Bread Lines for Vets Following War
President Roosevelt outlined a demobilization program to aid veterans after World War II. The plan includes mustering-out pay, unemployment insurance, government-funded education or training, credit for unemployment and Social Security, enhanced medical care and hospitalization, and sufficient disability pensions.
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FDR
United States Employment Service
Daylight Raiders Bomb Germany Deepest Airfield Strike
American Flying Fortresses flew unescorted to within 80 miles of Berlin to strike the Oschersleben aircraft plant and Kassel, tagging 60 Nazi fighters downed and 23 bombers lost in a 1,000 mile roundtrip. Thunderbolts added nine kills as Hamburg suffered massive damage from RAF and Allied bombing efforts.
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London
Hitler
Berlin
Oschersleben
Kassel
Germany
RAF
Hamburg
Death by Own Action of Il Giornale d Italia Editor
Virginio Gayda editor of Il Giornale d Italia in Rome is reported to have killed himself in what is described as an aftermath of the fall of the Mussolini regime. The report notes his death as a suicide tied to the regime's collapse.
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Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale d'Italia
Rome
Fas
Reds Close Pincers on Orel in Massive Soviet Drive
Soviet forces push toward Orel from the south with heavy tank and infantry assaults. Reports say 1,500 Germans killed and 29 German tanks knocked out in the Orel sector as Red Army advances 2 to 4 miles amid repulsed enemy counterattacks.
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Moscow
Orel
Hitler
Berlin
Associated Press
Lake Ladoga
Bricker Calls for Postwar Jobs for Veterans in Ohio
Gov John W Bricker urged finding jobs for veterans as the state develops postwar industry He said government should aid private sector expansion and he noted Ohio as a promising site for industrial growth ahead of a commission meeting The board scheduled a subsequent session August 26 and planned a Cincinnati conference with the National Farm Chemistry Council on September 30.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Bricker
H. H. Hampton
Ohio
New York
Buckeye
National Farm Chemurghc Council
Cincinnati
Crisis in Bulgaria Deepens Amid Axis Realignment
Istanbul dispatch reports a serious Bulgarian crisis linked to Mussolini's downfall as Bulgaria may become the first Balkan satellite to break from the Axis if Italy capitulates. Bulgarian and Balkan positions are said to have shifted rapidly, with a German partner collapse once deemed remote now seen as possible.
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Istanbul
Benito Mussolini
Bulgaria
Italy
Germany
Detroit Plant Shut Down by New Strike
Detroit Timken Detroit Axle Co plant halted operations as 3,000 CIO United Automobile Workers members walked out over overtime pay, with union officials confirming the strike began yesterday.
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Detroit
Timken- Detroit Axle Co
Cio-United Automobile Workers Union
Eisenhower speaks to Italians on peace and strategy
General Eisenhower announces to Italy that surrender will exchange prisoners and that victory over Germany requires Italian fighting. Roosevelt reframes alliance as temporary and cautions Italian and public reaction amid revolution and hardship. The plan faces obstacles as Italy weighs terms and political upheaval in wartime.
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J. M. Roberts
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jean Darlan
North Africa
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Italy
Yuetor
Emanuele
House of Savoy
Taft Denounces Smear Plot In Postwar Plans Clash
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio accused foes in Congress of planning a smear campaign to discredit the body. He warned that postwar planning could extend the New Deal, labeling such moves dangerous as the war effort continued.
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Washington
Congress
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Ohioan
FDR Jr’s Destroyer Attacked by Bombers
An Allied command post in Sicily reports the U.S. destroyer on which Lieut. Franklin Roosevelt Jr. serves as executive officer faced a severe attack by German Junkers 88 dive bombers off the Sicilian coast. The vessel repelled the raid without a direct hit and Roosevelt, now ashore, was uninjured.
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Sicily
Lieut
Franklin Roosevelt Jr
Sicilian
Roosevelt
Southern Ohio Suffers Loss in Heavy Rains
A heavy electrical and wind storm swept Southern Ohio causing floods, crop damage, and power line failures. Portsmouth endured its worst storm in years as rainfall reached 2.4 inches and streets were blocked by uprooted trees followed by several fires.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Portsmouth
Eisenhower Says Only Nazi Presence Blocks Peace in Italy
General Eisenhower announced that cessation of hostilities in Italy could happen immediately under honorable terms, with the sole barrier being German troops on Italian soil. Front reports described Italian and German movements around Fiume and Trieste as unrest grew in the northeast.
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Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italy
Fiume
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Istrian
Madrid
Milan
Turin
Hitler
France
Italy dissolves Fassel and Cooporations council
Premier Badoglio's government announced the dissolution of Fassel and Cooporations by order. The plan includes ending Italian aid to German forces as a peace prerequisite and returning Allied prisoners if Italian-held prisoners are treated safely. Eisenhower pledges mild, beneficent occupation.
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Italy
Fassel and Cooporations
Pietro Badoglio
Rome Radio
Germany
Eisenhower
Sicily
Vatican Talks Continue Amid Armistice Proposals
Reports say discussions in Vatican City persist toward a potential armistice despite denials. Marshal Badoglio seeks terms avoiding mainland occupation and aims to remove German troops from southern Italy, while Allies are urged to win release of forces from the Balkans. On Sicily, U S Seventh Army advances toward Messina with three towns seized and several more captured as Axis positions shrink.
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Vatican City
Pietro Badoglio
London
Badoglio
Italy
Balkans
Eisenhower
Seventh Army
Messina
San Stefano
Mt . Etna
Mt. Etna
Catania
Pollina
Tastelbuono
Gangi
Leon Forte
Nicosia
Leonforte
Jto
Cefalu
Castelhuano
Turmoil Rises as Italy Faces Civil Unrest and Riots
In turbulent Italy Premier Badoglio struggles to quell disorder as riots erupt in Milan Turin and Genoa. Civilian mobs assault fascists while communists demonstrate and peace parades spread amid threats of a broader civil conflict.
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Italy
Badoglio
Rome
Milan
Turin
Genoa
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Rome Center of War News Amid Bombardment and Possible Peace Talks
Rome faces intensified Allied bombardment threats after Mussolini’s resignation. The report notes Rome as a focal point for potential peace negotiations and maps show routes by which forces might reach the city.
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Rome
Mussolini
Burns Cause Death of Former School Queen
Columbus reports the death of Peggy Kauffman 20 former Worthington High School homecoming queen who died from burns from an explosion at Kilgore Manufacturing Co Westerville. She had been hospitalized at Doctors Hospital.
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Burns
Columbus
Peggy Kauffman
Worthington High School
Doctors Hospital
Kilgore Manufacturing Co
Westerville
Coffee Rationing Ends as U S Ships Increase
President Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing about seven months after it began. He cited expanded shipping capacity and anti submarine successes as reasons, noting expected sugar allowance increases and the impact of wartime logistics on daily breakfast staples.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Butter and Oil Ration Allocations Reduced for Civilians
The War Food Administration announced a one year allocation of edible fats and vegetable oils reducing civilian per capita supply by about five pounds or 10 percent from 1942 levels for the 12 month period ending next June 30. Butter lard shortening and margarine are rationed under the plan.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Mussolini Marked Sixtieth Birthday While A Prisoner
In Bern Switzerland Benito Mussolini turned 60 while largely confined, with the Corriere della Sera noting his fading influence and public perception that he may be effectively buried in the minds of Italians. The whereabouts of the once dominant leader remained unclear.
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Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Corriere Della Sera
Milan
Caesar
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