Allied Offensives Strike Truk and Manus In Pacific and Burma
Allied air and sea forces launch a trio of major operations. Liberator bombers hit Truk in the Caroline Islands while land based attacks target naval and air facilities. American troops invade Manus Island in the Admiralty group, pushing toward Lorengau after storming Los Negros.
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Burma
Truk
Central Pacific
Manus Island
Bismarck Sea
Japan
Hukawng
Joseph Stilwell
China
Caroline Islands
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshal Islands
Carolines
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty Group
Los Negros Island
MacArthur
First Cavalry
Lorengau
Lagos Mission
Manus
Rabaul
New Britain
Wewak
New Guinea
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Oroluk
Ponape
Marshalls
800 Germans Victims of Italian Saboteurs
Allied headquarters said German prisoner papers reveal a train wreck about 100 miles north of Rome caused 800 German casualties and was believed to be the work of Italian saboteurs.
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Naples
Rome
Political Candidates To Get Extra Gas In Campaigns
The District Office of Price Administration announced special gasoline rations for candidates to run campaigns when no other transport is available. Rations are not issued for campaign managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
District Office of Price Administration
OPA
Blimp K-68 Salvaged and Returns to Patrol Duty
The Navy reports blimp K-68 forced down on a Caribbean island due to fuel loss, then damaged by wind. The entire crew led by Lt. Wallace A. Wydeen was rescued, and the craft has been salvaged and returned to anti submarine patrol duty.
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Washington
Caribbean
Navy
Wallace A. Wydeen
Army Seizes Young Arms Workers Shrinking Civilian Munitions
The War Production Board announces the Army will draft 250000 physically fit youths under 26, deferring their civilian work. Donald M. Nelson says essential munitions will be met though production may drop. Hershey warns industry not to be dismayed by the manpower shift as steel firms report a net loss of 42000 workers.
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Donald M. Nelson
Army
Navy
War Production Board
WPB
Hershey
Loss of 22 Planes and 410 Paratroops in Sicily
The War Department confirms 410 American paratroopers were killed when Allied gunners mistook 23 U S S Transport planes for enemy ships over Sicily on July 10 11 1943. The incident involved 2 500 troops of the 82nd Airborne Division at Gela, with night bombing and low altitude contributing factors.
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Washington
War Department
Sicily
U. S S
Jack Fossie
Army
Stars and Stripes
San Francisco
82Nd Airborne Division
Gela
WMC Blamed For Dad Draft
Col. Francis V. Keesling Jr. blamed the manpower replacement program for forcing thousands of pre war fathers into induction. He testified before a House military sub committee and sought an immediate investigation of the War Manpower Commission led program. He said 160,000 pre war fathers would have stayed out of uniform if replacements had met schedules.
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Washington
Francis V. Keesling, Jr
Keesling
House
Costello
Calif
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Lancaster Man Held For Federal Theft
George C. Blackford, 43, of Lancaster, was placed in city prison by U. S. Marshal Ralph Quelette after being charged with stealing federal property from the Curtiss-Wright Airplane plant where he worked. He was arrested in Lancaster and is on probation from a five year federal sentence for forging a government check.
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Columbus
George C. Blackford
Lancaster
U. S
Ralph Quelette
Quelette
Blackford
Ford Rouge Plant engine production falls behind schedule
After recent work stoppages at Ford Motor Co. army air forces spokesmen said production of vital aircraft engines at the Rouge Plant's aircraft building had fallen behind schedule.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Army Air Forces
Rouge
Farm Boom Seen as Peril in Farm Real Estate
The Federal Reserve Board warns against a new farm land boom that could bring hardship to farmers. The alert notes farm real estate trends since 1939 mirror 1914–18, with rising prices and growing mortgage activity, and suggests stronger legal controls may be considered as the risks grow.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Monthly Bulletin
E. C. Johnson
Farm Credit Administration
WPB Drops Civilian Production Plan for Small Plants
Washington officials said the War Production Board has laid aside the test tube plan allowing small plants in Cleveland Kansas City and Philadelphia regions to resume civilian production due to manpower shortages.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Cleveland
Kansas City
Philadelphia
Tragic Amphibious Accident Cost Eleven Camp Robinson Soldiers
Eleven Camp Robinson soldiers drowned when two assault boats collided during amphibious maneuvers at a large artificial lake near Little Rock. All bodies were recovered. Most victims were from Company M of the 264th Infantry in the 66th Division. The incident followed assault boat training and river crossings prior to supper.
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Little Rock
Ark
Camp Robinson
66Th
264Th Infantry
92 Year Old Meigs County Woman Dies
Mrs. Sirena Torrence age 92 longtime Meigs County resident died at her Bashan home. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 PM at Long Bottom with interment in Sand Hill Cemetery. She leaves sons James Torrence Bashan and Charles Torrence Delaware and daughters Mrs Pearl Baum Bremen and Mrs Emma Tucker Delaware.
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Bashan
Sirena Torrence
Meigs County
Long Bottom
Sand Hill Cemetery
Robert E. Torrence
James Torrence
Charles Torrence
Delaware
Pearl Baum
Bremen
Emma Tucker
James H. Maurer Dies At 79 After Long Socialist Career
Reading Pa James H Maurer longtime Socialist Party leader dies at home aged 79 after 34 years of party service and twice its vice presidential nominee his obituary notes the extended political commitment and career.
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Reading
James H. Maurer
Socialist Party
O Leary Death Lowers Democrat House to 215 Members
The death today in New York of Representative James A. O Leary reduced the Democratic House to 215 members and narrowed the margin to five seats, the lowest since Roosevelt’s era.
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Washington
New York
James A. O'Leary
Roosevelt
Wage Ceiling Hike Denied by Administration
A high government official said the administration will not alter the Little Steel formula by executive action. Congress must act if wage ceilings are lifted, as the War Labor Board's request for a 17 cent hourly rise for CIO United Steel Workers faces opposition. WLB Chairman Davis will address the Senate banking committee to oppose changes. The aim is to keep wages and prices at September 15, 1942 levels.
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Washington
Congress
War Labor Board
CIO
United Steelworkers
Roosevelt
WLB
William H. Davis
Senate Banking Committee
Electrician Killed Testing Coil at Wright Plant
Carl S. Zink a 57 year old electrician at the Wright Aeronautical Corp plant was electrocuted yesterday while touching an arc coil on a specimen tograph during a test. The accident occurred in Cincinnati and prompted an investigation by plant safety officials.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Carl S. Zink
Body of Rich Recluse Found in Old Barn
ERIE Pa The charred body of Fred H Sheldon 83 year old recluse living in an old barn loft was found early today. District Attorney Burton Laub said Sheldon had been slain and carried large sums of money in the loft.
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Erie
Fred H. Sheldon
Burton Laubi
Sheldon
Red Army Reaches Dniester River as German Push toward Bessarabia Intensifies
British Reuters reports advancing Red Army troops crossing the Dniester at multiple points while German forces stream into Bessarabia via Mogilev Podolski. Moscow notes Russian units near Odessa and around Nikolaev, with fierce battles along the Odessa Lwow railway as divisions near Bereznegovatoye-Snigirevka are trapped.
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Dniester River
Reuters
Bessarabia
Mogliev Podolsk
Dniester
Russia
Rumania
Mogilev Podolski
Vinnitsa
Polesti
Moscow
Odessa
Nikolaev
Ukraine
Nstein
Proskurov
Czechoslovakia
Red Army
Odessa-Lwow
Slobodzeya
Bereznegovatoye-Snigirevka
Bombers From Italian Bases Raid Germany
Allied air forces report heavy daylight raids against Germany from positions in Italy with launches toward Ulm and Friedrichshafen. American communiques note 125 enemy planes downed, 12 US planes lost, as RAF raids hit Clermont-Ferrand Amiens rail yards and Stuttgart targets while Mosquitos strike Western Germany. Seven American bombers reportedly landed on Swiss soil with one crew member killed.
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Britain
Adolf Hitler
Ulm
Friedrichshafen
Germany
U. S
RAF
France
Michelin
Clermont-Ferrand
Vichy
Amiens
Hitler
Stuttgart
Air Ministry
Paris
Channel
Europe
Bern
Lake Zoug
President of Marietta Dies in Point Pleasant
Charles Oliver Weissenburger, president of the Marietta Manufacturing Company, ship builders, died at his home in Point Pleasant after a heart attack. He had led the firm since 1929, previously serving as vice president and general manager after joining in 1916. He served a term in the state senate and is survived by his wife, son Jason T. Weissenburger, and daughter Mrs. Harold Sayre.
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Point Pleasant
Charles Oliver Weissenburger
Marietta Manufacturing Company
Weissenburger
Shipbuilding Company
Walter A. Windsor
State Senate
Jason T. Weissenburger
Harold Sayre
Pt. Pleasant
Father’s Fate Repeats as Son Dies in Italy War
Orange N J Lieut Otis Webb Davey a World War I casualty in France was killed in the fighting at Anzio before he could see his newborn son born last December The piece notes the son never met his father and connects the family tragedy across wars.
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Orange
N. J
Otis Webb Davey
France
Anzio
MacArthur On Road Back Two Years After Philippines Exit
Two years after arriving in Australia from the Philippines Gen Douglas MacArthur returns to the region with his Allied command. He notes progress from defense to offense as Darwin remains a key base while Wewak Kavieng and Rabaul are pressed, Admiralty Islands closer to the Philippines.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Phillipines
United States
Corregidor
Japan
Philippines
Southwest
MacArthur
Darwin
Admiralty Islands
Rabaul
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
New Guinea
Bismarck Sea
Allies Press Into Cassino After Heavy Bombardment
Fifth Army reports fighters pushing through bombed Cassino to its southwestern edge and capturing key heights overlooking the ruined town. New Zealand troops drive Germans from most of the ruins after Wednesday’s 2,500 ton raid, while Abbey and Hill positions remain contested as artillery targets the Benedictine site. Simultaneous strikes target Sofia rail lines as four motor Halifaxes join Mediterranean air operations.
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Fifth Army
Cassino
New Zealand
Casilina
Liri
Rome
Monte Cassino
Benedictine
Monastery Hill
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Sofia
Bulgaria
RAF
Mediterranean
Strategic Air Force
Counterattacks Repulsed Near Cassino and Rome Beachhead
Allied forces repelled German counterattacks on the beachhead below Rome and near Carano east of Carroceto while engineers cleared tank routes in Cassino. Eighteen Germans were captured after New Zealanders entered Cassino as two German tanks were knocked out west of town. Mediterraninan air forces flew 1,144 sorties with losses of four planes. Sofia raid and Leghorn docks strikes reported. Finland weighs Roosevelt note urging withdrawal from Germany pact amid Helsinki and Stockholm reactions.
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Cassino
New Zealand
Mediterranean
Sofia
Leghorn
Italy
Eighth Army
Foreign Office
Helsinki
Roosevelt
Finland
Germany
Sweden
Berlin
Stockholm
Feed Program Criticized Over Livestock and Feed Supplies
Washington reports top War Production Board officials sharply criticized the War Food Administration livestock and feed program. They urged requisitioning corn stocks held by elevators to avert a corn feed shortage threatening manufacture of food and industrial goods.
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Washington
War Food Administration
War Production Board
WFA
Farmers Protest AAA Gasoline Requirement
Representative Clarence J. Brown reports farmers complain the Agriculture Adjustment Administration ties gas and oil allotments to farm program cooperation. Richard Harrison of the OPA says steps will be taken to correct the situation.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Richard Harrison
OPA
Brown
Suburban High School Students Strike Over Tutor Bradford
In Cincinnati Reading high schools more than 300 juniors and seniors walked out after a mass meeting of parents and pupils decided to petition for reinstatement of Donald Bradford, a 30 year old mathematics instructor. The walkout followed his dismissal which students allege was for AFL related activity.
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Cincinnati
Reading
Donald Bradford
Bradford
American Federation of Teachers
AFL
Motorists Urged to Remove Front License Plates
Ohio motorists with 1942 front plates are not breaking state law but may violate local rules, says C. W. Wallace registrar of motor vehicles. Drivers keeping 1942 front plates while using 1944 rear plates risk confusion. remove the front plate to comply.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. W. Wallace
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
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