Germans Fight Way To Edges Of Stalingrad
News reports say German forces pushed toward the western suburbs of Stalingrad as Soviet dispatches describe fierce battles on the approaches to the city. Allied air power bombed targets in Egypt and the Mediterranean while Rommel’s offensive faces pressure as reinforcements flood the Soviet front.
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Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Stalingrad
Tass
Volga
Red Star
Fedor von Bock
Stalin
U.S
Rommel
Moscow
Mediterranean
Europe
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Germany
Saarbruecken
Karlsruhe
U S Subs Strike, Air Forces Hit Pacific Front
U S submarines sink ships across Japan's supply lines while American and Allied air forces press a major Pacific offensive. Stilwell reports direct hits on Nanchang headquarters and damage to trains and ships as Sky Dragons claim five Japanese planes. In the Southwest Pacific, Allied bombers ignite Salamaua and targets in the Kokoda area. Marines tighten grip on the Solomons. Guadalcanal airfield operations hit landing ships with unknown damage.
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Japan
China
Solomon Islands
South Seas
Joseph W. Stilwell
Nanchang
Aauervy
Stilwell
Kiukiang-Nanchang
U. S
Sky Dragons
Kweilin
Chekiang Province
Pacific
Salamaua
New Guinea
Faisi
Buka
Kieta
Upper Solomons
Kokoda
Lower Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Navy
Guadalcanal
Veterans Urge Military Training and Air Naval Power
Delegates at the Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment in Cincinnati concluded a six day meeting with a business session that approved numerous resolutions. A key proposal urged permanent compulsory military training for at least a million men and called for a superior air force and robust naval power to safeguard American rights on the high seas.
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Cincinnati
Veterans of Foreign Wars
America
Drafting of Younger Men To Be Referred To Army
Senate hearings consider lowering the draft age from 20 to 18 with a War Dept recommendation. Senator Reynolds will seek military guidance on the proposal by Senator Gurney to tap up to 2,000,000 younger men for training and possible combat against Germany. Senator Bilbo argues drafting married men may be wiser than sending tender youths.
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Washington
Reynolds
N. C
Senate Military Affairs Committee
War Department
Gurney
R-Sd
Bilbo
D-Miss
Congress
Mrs Ruth Brown Leonard Dies After Illness
Mrs Ruth Brown Leonard age 43 wife of Logan funeral director Walter A Leonard died at home after a lengthy illness. Funeral service set for Monday at 3 30 p m in First Methodist Church with Rev Stanley Wiant officiating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by husband mother daughter and son and several siblings. Friends may call after 4 p m Saturday.
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J. E. Brown
Brown
Logan
Ohio University
Leonard
Walter A. Leonard
Jennie Brown
Phyllis Leonard
Columbus
Albert Leonard
Ohio Wesleyan
U. S. Marine
Quantico
Glen Brown
Warns of Problems To Face Peace Time World
Dr. Walter Van Kirk, secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, told the Methodist Fellowship in Oxford that a world government and world wide new deal are needed to solve postwar political and economic issues. He urged distribution of raw materials and warned of a temporary fall in living standards to lift others.
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Oxford, O
Walter van Kirk
Federal Council of Churches
Methodist Fellowship
Wells High School Salvage Work After Parade Cancellation
Steubenville labor groups cancelled their Labor Day parade and instead logged two hours of labor to salvage materials from a burned section of Wells High School.
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Steubenville
Wells High School
Four Brothers in War Action from Hanford Family
Mrs. Robert H. Gagg tty reports four of her brothers have been killed in action. Three died in the Philippines, the fourth in a Pacific naval action. Her father J. C. Berquist serves in an infantry company and her husband is in the air force. At home are two young sons.
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Hanford
Calif
Robert H. Gagg
Philippines
Pacific
J. C. Berquist
Armored Unit Plan Revealed Expanded US Army Force
Secretary Stimson announced four new armored divisions to raise total to 14. He noted nine months after Pearl Harbor troop movements doubled threefold versus World War I. About 6.5 million men traveled by rail, versus 1.92 million in 1917-15, with June shipments reaching one million.
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Washington
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
Army Transportation Corps
Canton Debates Gas Supply Plan With East Ohio System
Canton city council committee weighs a proposal to buy East Ohio Gas Co. distribution and obtain wholesale gas from Standard Oil of New Jersey. Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered Standard Oil in matters connected to East Ohio, which serves many northeastern Ohio cities.
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Canton
East Ohio Gas Co
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Interstate Commerce Commission
East Ohio
Ohio
Early Mass Attendance Is Urged by Bishop
Bishop C. E. Byrne of Galveston urged Catholics to attend early Mass as parishes prepare for Sunday noon services. He asserted that young men entering the armed forces deserve the care of a priest, urging priests and assistants to adapt to the new schedule.
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Houston
Tex
C. E. Byrne
Galveston
Chi
Franco Cabinet Shakeup Prompts Mixed Reactions Abroad
The United Nations welcomed the ouster of Ramon Serrano Suner from Spain’s foreign ministry, while Axis sources urged restraint. Franco named Count Francisco Gomez Jordana foreign minister and Manuel Mora Figueroa as vice president of the Falangist Party. German and British observers noted a potential Axis softening but warned it is not a clear Allied victory.
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Ramon Serrano Suner
Generalissimo Franco
United Nations
Mediterranean
Franco
Transocean
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Spain
Manuel Mora Figueroa
Serrano Suner
Rome
Vatican City
AXIS
Gibraltar
France
Roosevelt
Madrid
Mexico City
Indalecio Prieto
Francisco Franco
Egypt
Alexander W. Wedell
U. S
Richmond
United States
Marietta Hero Honored at Fort Hayes Review
Corporal James W. Pryor of Marietta, 22, the first soldier honored at Fort Hayes after the war, received the Purple Heart for a singularly meritorious act during the December 7 Japanese raid on Hawaii in which he lost his right hand. He was honorably discharged in June and saluted with his left hand during the garrison review.
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Columbus
James W. Pryor
Marietta
Fort Hayes
Pryor
Hawaii
Ohio Colleges Will Accept American Born Japanese Evacuees
American born Japanese students evacuated from the west coast may continue studies as colleges in the Midwest and East agree to admit hundreds of the 1900 evacuees. Eligible students attending or about to enroll will face FBI surveillance. Ohio schools include Bluffton Bowling Green Case Oberlin Ohio State other listed colleges.
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Ohio
Washington
West Coast
War Relocation Board
Middlewest
East
War and Navy Departments
West
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Students Relocation Council
Bluffton College
Bowling Green State University
Case School of Applied Science
Dayton
Denison
Heidelberg
Oberlin College
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Ohio University
Ohio Wesleyan University
Wooster and Marietta Colleges
Newspapers To Undertake Big Salvage Drive
Washington Representatives of nationwide newspaper publishers agreed to launch a large scale scrap salvage campaign after WPB Chairman Donald Nelson urged better wartime effort. Lukens Steel President R W Wolcott warned only two weeks of steel scrap remain with mills. Walter M Dear of the American Newspaper Publishers Association proposed a committee to start a plan modeled on the Nebraska Plan, a three week drive that yielded 104 pounds per person in Nebraska.
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WPB
Donald Nelson
Nelson
R. W. Wolcott
Lukens Steel Company
Walter M. Dear
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Jersey Journal
Jersey City
N. J
Nebraska
The
Omaha World- Herald
Train Chaplains To Aid In Work on Battlefield
CAMBRIDGE Massachusetts Army trains a streamlined version of the World War I sky pilots chaplains who will be fingerprinting experts to reduce unknown soldiers graves on battlefields of this war.
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Cambridge
Mass
Franco Removes Suner From Spanish Government Power
War columnist Dewitt MacKenzie analyzes Franco’s dismissal of Ramon Serrano Suner as foreign minister and Falange leader, noting the shake-up may strengthen Spain’s neutrality and alter Axis-Allied calculations. He weighs potential shifts if Franco sides with the United Nations, hinting at Spain as a possible gateway to a second front.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Franco
Ramon Serrano Suner
Falange
Spain
Berlin
United Nations
Generalissimo
Suner
Hitler
Russia
Rommel
Africa
Spending Tax May Be Issue In War Financing Debate
Secretary Morgenthau urges bold non inflationary war financing as the Senate Finance Committee weighs treasury plans for a spending tax and a flat rate sales levy. Most members oppose the 6.5 billion revenue boost, signaling a showdown between the treasury plan and a sales tax. Senator Byrd says the panel may need to lift the revenue yield from 6.271 billion to meet funding needs.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Byrd
D.-Va
Nazi Flag Raisers Ordered to Pay Penalty
Judge Oscar O. Leiser ruled two 17 year old boys who raised a Nazi flag at a Middletown school must yearly place a wreath at the Soldiers and Sailors monument for three years and perform a series of penitential acts including a May 28 1943 1944 and 1945 pilgrimage to Woodside Cemetery to burn three hand sewn Nazi flags and report weekly to a probation officer for six months.
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Middletown
Oscar O. Leiser
Woodside
Need Students To Aid In Harvest of Apples
Stark County seeks a shorter school week for high school students through the apple season. John M. Hayne of the U S employment service asks the state education department to excuse students three days weekly so they can harvest the bumper crop and vegetables in the Hagtville farms.
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Canton
Stark County
John M. Hayne
U. S. Employment Service Office
State Education Department
Hagtville Syamps
Dies Ready To Fight an Issue Of Disloyalty
Washington AP Die s Committee clashed with Attorney General Biddle over government subversiveness. Dies accused Biddle of noncompliance and urged the House to reject a Justice Department report criticizing the FBI's 2095 probes. Only 36 workers were fired and 13 disciplined, leading Dies to say the findings equated to a license for subversive activity without public Communist Party membership.
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Washington
FBI
Dies Committee
Dies
D-Tex
Francis Biddle
House
Justice Department
Biddle
Communist Party
Midwest Lacks Tank Cars for Gasoline Supply
Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes announced the government requisitioned all remaining rail tank cars carrying gasoline in the Midwest and Southwest. He warned this could cause local oil shortages and may require rationing or other steps to reduce consumption.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Midwest
Columbus-Made Seagull Scout-Observation Plane Enters Service
The Seagull, a Columbus-made scout observation plane built by Curtiss-Wright, has gone into active service with the U S fleet. Known as the eyes of the fleet it can operate from land with wheels or by catapult from battleships and cruisers using floats for landing.
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Columbus
Curtiss-Wright Corp
Campaign presses for universal fingerprinting plan
Representative Hobbs announced plans to draft legislation to require fingerprinting of every man woman and child in the country as part of a renewed campaign. The move follows ongoing debates about security and identity verification during a period of national policy discussion.
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Washington
Hobbs
Meat Industry to Under Unified Licensing Control
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will license all meat packers wholesalers and custom slaughterers effective Sept 8 as a condition for selling meat subject to price regulation. Courts have begun injunction actions in 18 cities against about 115 firms for alleged price violations. The move aims to stop evasion of current and upcoming controls on dressed hogs beef veal lamb carcasses and most wholesale and retail cuts except mutton.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Plac
Exce
OPA
Entire Board Quits in Huff Texas Draft Board
Fisher County draft board resigns en masse after deferring all but seven of 42 registrants for Aug. 28 induction. W. W. Morton, George W. Riley, and A. B. Hilburn sign a statement alleging state selective headquarters arbitrarily deferred a farm and ranch hand and that reclassification fits 98 percent of county registrants. The board assigns most of the quota to Class 2-A and resigns. Adj. Gen. J. Watt Page in Austin withholds comment.
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Rotan
Tex
Fisher Co
Fisher County Board
W. W. Morton
George W. Riley
A. B. Hilburn
State Selective Headquarters
Austin
Adj
J. Watt Page
State Selective Service System
Hostesses Ordered Out of Ohio Taverns
The Ohio State Liquor Board ordered drinking on a voluntary basis, cracking down on taverns employing hostesses to boost liquor and beer sales. A two part order bans solicitation of drinks in Columbus area establishments.
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Columbus
State Liquor Board
Ohio
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Huff
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