First US forest bombing may mark aerial attack
A foot-deep crater and bomb fragments with Japanese ideographs near Mount Emily in Southern Oregon signaling what may be the first aerial strike on the continental United States. A small seaplane was seen, and an Army patrol later bombed a submarine off the Oregon coast.
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San Francisco
United States
Oregon
Forest Service
Army
Mount Emily
California
Seaside
Ore
Continental
Howard “Razz” Gardner
Brookings
H. R. Dewart
Curry County
John L. DeWitt
Fourth Army
Western Defense Command
No Votes for Navy as Knox Rejects Ballots Abroad
Secretary of the Navy Knox dismissed plans to mail ballots to Navy and Marine Corps personnel overseas this fall. He cited security risks from revealing unit designations and the shortage of ship and air cargo space needed for equipment, saying the idea is utterly impractical.
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Washington
Knox
Navy
Marine Corps
Chemical Fertilizer Use Ordered Reduced
The War Production Board limits delivery and use of chemical fertilizers to conserve nitrogen for war production. Restrictions include prohibiting nitrogen fertilizer on golf courses cemeteries lawns roadsides and non commercial planting of trees shrubs and flowers with further limits on other uses. Newsman Captured in Tobruk Raid
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Advertise Your Livestock Today in the Messenger
The Messenger classifieds urge farmers to advertise livestock and farm produce now as listings are selling quickly. The notice promotes rapid sale of farm goods and emphasizes this as a money making opportunity for farmers.
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Messenger
Columbus
Ohio
Five Vessels Added to U Boats Toll
The Canadian Navy reports five ships sunk by a German U‑boat action on a convoy off Canada and South America while the U S Navy notes a Panamanian vessel lost in the Atlantic late last month. The German radio claims 19 ships sunk 122000 tons with two destroyers and a corvette in the North Atlantic as battle raged September 9 to 14.
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United Nations
Canada
South America
Associated Press
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Navy
North Atlantic
England
Congress Eyes Roosevelts Price Control Plan
Congress moves to empower the President with authority to stabilize prices wages and other elements of the cost of living. The Banking Committee will hear from federal price labor and agriculture officials on a broad resolution authorizing such action as Senate and House sides seek a common path.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Banking
Federal Price, Labor and Agriculture
English miners must work if able to ease coal shortage
The Labor Ministry decreed that miners who stay away without good excuse or who are persistently late will be prosecuted. The order, effective September 17, aims to bolster dwindling output after a warning by Gwilym Lloyd George that Britain's coal situation is severe.
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London
Labor Ministry
Gwilym Lloyd George
Fuel and Power
Britain
Canadian Dieppe Casualties Hit 3350 Total
Ottawa AP reports the department of national defense released a 134 page casualty list showing 3350 Canadian dead wounded and missing from the Dieppe raid last month.
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Ottawa
Dieppe
Department of National Defense
Cleveland transit union seeks wage rise after city council approval
AFL unionists who run Cleveland's municipally owned street cars and buses seek a wage increase totaling about 352000 dollars annually plus a 10 cent hourly raise amounting to 880000 dollars yearly. The city council had approved the latter on July 10.
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Cleveland
AFL
U S gains edge as Pacific fight continues
Rear Admiral Blandy declared the United States holds naval and military advantage over Japan in the far Pacific while reports say American forces near halfway in destroying Japan's carrier fleet. Dispatches note a probable sinking of a 7,500 ton carrier near the Solomon Islands and MacArthur says Japanese push toward Port Moresby has stalled for a fifth day.
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United States
Japan
Far Pacific
W. H. Blandy
Washington
Aaqm Miral Pianay
F Mom
Blandy
Clark Lee
Associated Press
Pacific
Solomon Islands
Pearl Harbor
Lee
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
World Series to Open in Late September
The World Series will start September 30 in either St Louis or Brooklyn after the regular season ends. Kenesaw Mountain Landis presided over the meeting deciding the schedule. In San Diego California Rear Adm Holmes presented a Navy Cross to Lt Conrad Paul H Ramsey of Springfield Ohio for heroism against Japanese forces.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
San Diego
Calif
Adm
R. S. Holmes
Eleventh Naval District
Conradr. Paul H. Ramsey
Springfield
Saws Inferior Planes Hinder fighters
Washington. Chairman Truman of the Senate Defense Investigating Committee said pilots were supplied with inferior fighting planes and called for a stronger effort on war production. Senator Wallgren supported the charge, noting our boys have shown superiority as pilots despite inferior aircraft.
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Washington
Truman
D-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
United States
Wallgren
D-Wash
Senate
Johnson
D-Cole
Lucas
Japan
Tank Cars Released To Aid East Coast Operations
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana announced it had released about 5 350 tank cars to carry petroleum products to the rationed East Coast and was using less than 35 percent of the number it used a year ago in the Middle West.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Middle West
Beauty Parlor Under Construction for WAACs at Camp Atterbury
In Columbus AP report the beauty parlor at Camp Atterbury is being built to serve a WAAC unit arriving in December to handle clerical and service duties at the camp.
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Camp
WAACS
Columbus
Camp Atterbury
WAAC
Tax bill set for draftsmen after Senate review
A record revenue measure targeting wartime funding moves to technical draftsmen with mixed Senate Finance Committee support. It projects over 25.5 billion annually from 23 million new taxpayers, 20 million existing filers, and corporations. The plan cuts exemptions, raises rates, and adds credits and new excise taxes, with a postwar rebate option.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Republicans Sweep Maine in Post Pearl Harbor Election
Maine Republicans won all major offices in the first state election since Pearl Harbor. U S Senator Wallace H White Jr secured a third term, Gov Sumner Sewall was reelected, and Margaret C Smith held the Second District seat. Robert Hall won the First District by about 10 000 votes over Louis J Brann, with James C Oliver vacating the seat.
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Portland
Maine
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Wallace H. White, Jr
Sumner Sewall
Margaret C. Smith
Robert Hall
Louis J. Brann
James C. Oliver
Ernest Bishop Killed in Route 75 Crash
Ernest Bishop 47 died when his car plunged off Route 75 last night. Authorities investigated the fatal road accident and released few details.
Forced labor decree shocks French as Nazi drive intensifies
The Laval government in Vichy imposes compulsory labor for French men and women, seen by Free French sources in London as part of Hitler’s bid to enlarge slave labor. Laval aimed for 350,000 volunteers but failed as French citizens refuse to sell birthright. The Reich already holds about 3 million workers inside Germany plus 1.6 million POWs, with Russian peasants moved by boxcar to sustain production and replace army losses.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
Laval
Vichy
London
Hitler
Germany
Reich
Midnight curfew on liquor adopted by Columbus council
The Columbus city council voted five to two to enact a midnight curfew on liquor sales including high powered and 3.2 beer after a two hour public hearing. The action fulfills an Army demand to clean up the city with both wet and dry partisans in attendance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Chamors
Share Ride Drivers Liability Court Issue in Ohio
Cleveland case tests whether share the ride drivers owe guests for injuries. Under Ohio law a driver is liable for injuries to guest passengers unless wantonly and wilfully negligent, but a driver is liable for passengers for hire regardless of negligence.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Ohio
Victory Tax Added to War Revenue Bill for Joe Blow
Senate finance committee adds a new Victory Tax to the revenue bill to fund war costs. Averages show Joe Blow earning 2496 yearly with deductions, credits, and surtaxes leading to about 194.56 in income plus victory tax, while other levies like gasoline and movie admissions remain hidden costs.
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Treasury
House
Washington
Young Joe Blow
Hamburger Drive-In
Uncle Sam
Senate Finance Committee
Young Joe
Joe
Red Cross
Civil Service Transfers Authorized to Reassign Federal Workers
The Civil Service Commission will gain power to transfer any of the 2,300,000 federal workers between agencies starting Sept. 27 to boost war efforts. Transfers can occur without employee or supervisor consent and may move workers to private war industry jobs with consent if in a critical occupation. Spotters already monitor potential reassignments across departments.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Civil Service
Arthur Fleming
Triplets Born To Young Cleveland Couple
Cleveland AP reports Mrs. Chester Giera and her husband welcomed three sons born within 13 minutes. The parents are 24 and 23, the father a maker at Aluminum Co. of America. The triplets are the first ever born at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital.
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Cleveland
Chester Giera
Giera
The
Aluminum Co. of America
Evangelical Deaconess Hospital
Red Cross Seeks More Volunteer Dressers
The Red Cross Athens chapter says more women are needed to sew surgical dressings for units meeting on Monday and Tuesday. Executive secretary Miss Ellen Biddle notes enough volunteers exist to continue the project but additional workers are required, especially for early week units. Interested individuals should contact the Red Cross office immediately.
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Red Cross
Ellen Biddle
Athens
Bomb hits British War Relief quarters on Commonwealth Ave
Explosion believed to be caused by a bomb rocked the British War Relief Society quarters at Commonwealth Ave and Berkeley St. Police expert linked the blast to a bomb. Suburban reports note surrounding property damage and no immediate injuries.
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Boston
British War Relief Society
Commonwealth Ave
Berkeley St
Fighting Rages as Nazis Press in Stalingrad
German military quarters report intensified street fighting as troops thrust deeper into Stalingrad. Nazi agency claims city main railway station captured and spokesman says battle is entering its final phase.
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Stalingrad
Transocean
Volga
U S fliers aid in Tobruk attack
Allied air forces backed British operations at Tobruk with a large American bombing raid in the Middle East. The London and Moscow fronts reported heavy fighting, with German losses claimed in Stalingrad and central fronts, while Rommel’s supply base at Tobruk was struck by British ships and air forces.
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United States Army Air Forces IN the
Middle East
United States
Tobruk
U. S. Air Force Command
British
Air Ministry
Wilhelmshaven
North Sea
Berlin
Britain
RAF
Charles Portal
London Admiralty
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
G.H.Q
Cairo
Farmers Retire Debts at Record Rate, Says Credit Committee
CHICAGO RP The National Agricultural Credit Committee reports farmers are paying down farm mortgage debts at an unprecedented rate due to wartime incomes. The panel also notes little land speculation and that farm real estate prices have leveled off in recent months.
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Chicago
National Agricultural Credit Committee
2000 Tons of Scrap Metal Found in Ohio
The WPA reported collecting 10,000,000 pounds of scrap metal and 105,000 pounds of rubber from Ohio farms. WPA acts as collecting agent for the War Production Board salvage division. William M Summers, Washington County prosecutor and Ohio Prosecutors Association president, was commissioned a first lieutenant in Army intelligence.
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Ohio
Columbus
WPA
War Production Board
Marietta
William M. Summers
Washington County
Ohio Prosecutors’ Association
U. S. Army Intelligence
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Ed Marshall
Chetco
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NEA
Hindustan
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Buna
Frank B. Bender
Bender
Senate Committee
Sam
British Relief Society
Moscow
Red Star
Fedor von Bock
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