Nazis Seek Civil Court Trial in Supreme Court Plea
Eight Nazis who entered the United States by submarine with explosives and incendiaries face a Supreme Court review after a military commission paused to allow final arguments. The central issue is whether they are entitled to civil court protection, or must remain under military jurisdiction. The case tests Roosevelt's proclamation denying civil courts and designating seven generals to try the prisoners.
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Washington
Military Commission
America
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Biddle
Kenneth C. Royall
Royall
Douglas
Oregon
Murphy
Diverting Incomes to War Bonds Proposed in Senate
Senator Brown of Michigan proposed directing all individual incomes above 25000 yearly into government bonds for the war. The plan would raise about 6.271 billion dollars for national war needs. He cited it as a workable way to meet President Roosevelt’s request to limit net incomes for tax purposes. Union representatives, led by Nathan Ewan, urged Congress to enact the President’s proposal, which the House had not acted on.
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Washington
Nator Brown
D-Mich
Senate Finance Comittee
Brown
Sec
Roosevelt
Nathan Ewan
Congress
Hich
Jouse
Aid to Allies Accelerating Amid Lend-Lease Update
Washington officials said lend-lease aid has accelerated with transfers of weapons to the United Nations reaching substantial levels. The Office of War Information noted that total materiel sent abroad, including machinery metals oils and agricultural products, amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars through June 30.
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Washington
America
Office of War Formation
Gram
United Navis
T. WI
Washington Street 132 House for Rent
Four bedroom home on Washington Street at 132 with modern kitchen and bathroom, furnace, offered at $20 a month. Inquiries to Dr. Goldsberry. Includes a low six day cancellation privilege rate.
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Washington Street
Goldsberry
Second Hand Machinery Makes Plant Leader
Middletown reports a plant using second-hand machinery, some once scrap heap material, now a top U.S. producer of alloy steel for airplane propellers. H Leroy Whitney, wartime production head, dedicated the American Rolling Mill Co factory calling it a major blade steel producer.
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Middletown
H. Leroy Whitney
War Production Board
New American Rolling Mill Co
Posse Hounds Escaped Fairfield Jail Prisoner
A posse of nearly 200 men searched a wooded area near the western city limits for Thomas Frizzell 22 of Columbus one of three prisoners who overpowered Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Greenow and escaped from the Fairfield County Jail Frizzell accomplices Orville J. Wilson 42 and Charles L. Condon 23 both of Columbus were captured alive last night.
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Lancaster
Thomas Frizzell
Columbus
Kenneth Greenow
Fairfield County
Frizzell
Orville J. Wilson
Charles L. Condon
Vandenberg Seeks Repeal Of Delay In Allowances
Senator Vandenberg proposes a Senate measure to remove a provision delaying dependents payments under the soldiers family allowance bill until after November 1 1942. He says the timing near the election is improper and notes current deductions from armed forces pay fund wife and children allowances, with government matching to reach $50 per month for a wife.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
Congress
Study Of Manpower Nears Completion At White House
The White House announced the six month study on mobilizing the nation's manpower and possibly women power for war duties was nearly finished. President Roosevelt ordered the review through War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt and pressed cataloguing manpower to free others for combat.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Early
250 Called Back To Work After Moraine Plant Dispute
The AFL Trades Council ordered 250 workers at General Motors Frigidaire Division Moraine City plant to return to work. The dispute between the council and the CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers over who should handle certain construction work was resolved.
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Dayton
AFL Building ‘Trades Council
Moraine City
General Motors Frigidaire Division
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
CIO
Fremont Coal Company Suspends Operations
Cadiz report shows the Freemont Coal Company halting operations after production costs rose to 2.37 dollars per ton, 17 cents above the ceiling price. The mine employed workers and faced rising expenses prompting the shutdown.
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Freemont Coal Company
Cadiz
Freemont Ceal Co
Coa
Great Damage Is Reported in Saarbruecken
British bomber force struck Saarbruecken, the German steel center near the French border, causing great damage in a seventh raid in 10 nights. Nine planes were lost, with Saarbruecken described as a key railway junction and industrial city.
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London
Germany
Saarbruecken
Air Ministry
Britain
Greater
Midlands
East Anglia
Birmingham
Ministries of Air and Home Security
Boulogne
Calais
Channel
Dover Strait
Tron
Saar Valley
Berlin
Hamburg
Duisburg
Rhine
Ruhr
Mines Closed As Men Strike In Coshocton County
In Coshocton County about 300 miners were affected as 60 workers at the Coshocton Mining Co struck over union scale wages. CIO UMW organizers R A Nelson and John Graham attended mass meetings urging a regional strike for union recognition. Elsewhere in Columbus the Federal Government obtained title to Mohawk Dam and 64 tracts in the Muskingum Conservancy District.
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Coshocton
Coshocton County
UMW
Columbus
Mohawk Dam
Muskingum Conservancy District
Ickes Rules Out Nation Wide Gas Rationing
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes told reporters that national gasoline rationing is not needed now to secure larger petroleum deliveries for the eastern states. He warned of possible thermostat limits next winter and noted 1,250,000 East homes may face heat cuts. he also cited 200,000 tons annually of butadiene capacity without pledging rubber gains for civilian use.
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Washington
Ickes
Joel Dean
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Leon Henderson
Roosevelt
Logan businessman dies suddenly at 65
Logan veteran Lawrence Hack, 65, a prominent local business figure and co owner of the Logan Bulk Filling Station, died of a heart attack near Noah Robey Farm after returning from berry picking. Survived by wife Maude and brothers Ford and Gene. Funeral plans pending.
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Logan
Lawrence Hack
Noah Robey
Here
Hack
Robey Farm
Athens
Ford Hack Auto Supply Co
Columbus
Maude
Ford
Gene
Dayton
Factory Wins Secrecy Fight
In Dallas Texas the National Labor Relations Board may inspect a firm's labor practices but military secrecy must be protected. Judge T Whitfield Davidson granted a declaratory judgment for American Manufacturing Company of Fort Worth in a case about secrecy in war and naval contracts.
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Dallas
Tex
National Labor Relations Board
T. Whitfield Davidson
American Manufecturing Company of
Fort Worth
Anglo American air fleet seen as war turning factor
Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes British Air Marshal Harris remarks about a large allied air fleet targeting German cities. He warns this would not quickly resolve the war and could shift Nazi resources from Moscow front, aiding Germany’s war economy and morale despite heavy bombings.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Harris
Claims German Oil Supply Law
New York report from Oil Weekly notes Axis oil reserves are dwindling. It says Germany faces grave oil deficiency as major Russian campaign uses about 12.5 million tons in 23 weeks, with an estimated 2 million tons left for the current push.
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New York
Oil Weekly
Trade Journal
Russia
Germany
U S Mexico Pact Promotes Rubber Production Growth
The United States and Mexico sign an eight year plan to boost natural rubber output. An immediate step creates five 750 acre demonstration plantations in Mexico with Washington supplying technicians and an $890000 grant. A separate action designates Mount Vernon area as a defense rental zone with a 60 day rent cut deadline.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Washington
Mount Vernon
Knox County
Leon Henderson
Reds Repel German Probes Near Stalingrad and Caucasus
Soviet forces reported repelling German wedges above Stalingrad while German advances cut the Don bend and targeted Caucasus oil fields. British officials hinted at a second front. Cripps refused to reveal plans, and chatter named Marshall as possible Allied commander.
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Europe
Stafford Cripps
London
Stafford
Churchill
House of Commons
George C. Marshall
U. S
Grew Refuses Talks With Japanese at Port
United States ambassador Joseph Clark Grew in port for a mission to Japan declined to speak with Japanese Ambassador Admiral Nomura and Special Envoy Kurusu. Nomura had sought conversation, but Grew limited contact. The report notes diplomatic friction amid broader war dispatches from Eastern Europe and Germany.
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Laltrenco
Soviet and German Forces Clash Across Fronts From Stalingrad to Caspian
Soviet dispatches say Marshal Semeon Timoshenko rushes reserves as Germans shift troops toward the Don front. Kretskaya near Stalingrad sees 40 to 50 tank waves with limited gains, while Proletarskaya 100 miles below the Lower Don falls to German forces. On the Caucasus flank heavy fighting continues around Rostov and Bataisk as Caspian oil routes remain in play. In Egypt, British ops are minor amid dust storms with air raids hitting Cairo and Suez area.
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Adolf Hitler
Caspian Sea
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Rostov
Semeor Timoshenko
Don River
Kretskaya
Fedor von Bock
Bataisk
Rostov-on- Don
Proletarsnaya
Lower
Don
Astrakhan
Volga
Proletarskaya
Caspian
Steppes
Egypt
Cairo
Suez Canal
Logan Coach Appointed Shelby Gridiron Mentor
Shelby High School officials announced the appointment of Thomas E.B. Bender of Logan as football coach and Lawrence Swackhamer of Mount Vernon as basketball coach, succeeding William Query who resigned. Bender is a graduate of Ashland College and Swackhamer from Ohio University.
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Shelby
Shelby High School
Thomas EB. Bender
Logan
Lawrence Swackhamer
Mount Vernon
William Query
Bender
Ashland College
Swackhamer
Ohio University
LSO Drive Receives $25 Donation From Local 648
John King secretary of Local Union 648 UMWA donated 25 dollars to Mayor Williams Jr. of Trimble area USO drive. The gift equals one dollar per employee of Mine 255 at Drydock, largest single contribution to date. In Moscow report Yugoslav guerrillas killed 500 Italian officers and men and wounded 200 this past week.
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Glouster
USO
Trimble
North Dover
John King
Thomas Williams
London
Moscow
Two Subs Sink Merchantman Near East Coast
Survivors say a small American merchantman was attacked by two submarines about 150 miles off the east coast on July 24. Explosions on both sides followed torpedo hits, killing 18 including the captain and a passenger from another vessel. Fourteen others were rescued after a Navy patrol plane directed a fishing boat to their location.
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Washington
Navy
Associated Press
Atlantic
Furloughs Endanger U.S. Military Power
Secretary Stimson declared that all furloughs of armed forces must stop to protect combat readiness. Exceptions would be limited to extreme emergencies, with excessive leaves risking the growth of military power.
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Washington
Stimson
Nye
N.D
Ohio Father and Two Boys Drown in Separate Incidents
Three fatalities reported in Ohio as a man and two boys drown during recreation. Russell Vanaty eight fell from a raft at a Clevee land sand pit. Harland J. Chidsey thirty five of Roswell a Massillon steel worker drowned at Atwood Dam lake near New Philadelphia. James Marvin Griffi ten waded to death in the Mad River at Springfield.
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Columbus
Ohio
Russell Vanaty
Cleveeland
Harland J. Chidsey
Roswell
Massillon
Atwood Dam
New Philadelphia
James Marvin Griffi
Springfield
OPA Sets Ohio August Car Quota
Ohio's new passenger car quota for August was set at LITS by the Office of Trice Administration yesterday. The state also has a carryover of 350 automobiles on previous allocations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Office of Trice
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Grew
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Pravda
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