Allied Bombers Attack Airfields as Japs Retreat in New Guinea
Allied air forces raid Foggia and 11 other airfields in Italy while bombers and fighters disrupt rail lines and troop moves. MacArthur leads air strikes along the New Guinea coast against Japanese supply barges as U S, Australian forces close on Salamaua. FBI arrests espionage ring tied to Grace Dineen amid wartime security push. Civilians to receive 75 percent of the coming food supply with army and lend-lease shares outlined. Wage board rejects underground travel pay but approves other gains for coal miners.
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New Guinea
Europe
Foggia
Naples
Douglas MacArthur
Salamaua
U. S
Tokyo
FBI
Grace Buchanan Dineen
Germany
United States
Drive for Coal and Iron in Russia Amid Red Offensive
Soviet forces push near Kharkov and Zenkov in the Donetz basin as Germans retreat under Russian artillery and armor. Roosevelt voices support for collective security at Ottawa, urging progress toward broader freedoms. A Hawaii court clash over habeas corpus pits Judge Metzger against Gen. Richardson over two German‑born detainees. Eberhart defends War Relocation Authority amid criticism of Japanese detainee conditions and costs.
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Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Russia
Donetz
Zenkov
Bryansk
U. S
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Delbert Metzger
Richardson
Metzger
War Relocation Authority
Herman P. Eberharter
Eberhart
History of Roosevelt Churchill conference revealed in Quebec
Washington correspondent Baukhage reports from Quebec on the Roosevelt Churchill talks with U S and British officials, noting absence of Litvinov and the Kremlin links. The piece describes the press crowd, security at Chateau Frontenac, and the mix of speculation and guarded information as history was written in invisible ink.
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Baukhage
Quebec
Western
Union
Roosevelt & Churchill
Edgar Mowrer
Michael Barkway
British Broadcasting Company
Wilson Woodside
Canadian Broadcasting System
Ambassador Litvinov
Washington
Ottawa
Maisky
Stalin
London
Woodside
Tass
Kremlin
Germany
Moscow
Free Germany Committee
Russia
America
Gibraltar
Stephen Early
Litvinov
Clarendon Hotel
Chateau Frontenac
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Churchill
Bracken
Foreign Office
Alexander Cadogan
Secretary Early
Hull
Eden
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Pacific
T. V. Soong
Burma
Loss of Jews in Axis Europe Cited in AJ Congress Report
American Jewish Congress says Jewish population in Axis Europe fell from 8,300,000 to about 3,300,000. Of five million disappeared, about three million are dead, 1,800,000 moved to Soviet Russia, and 180,000 emigrated to various places.
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Axis Controlled
Europe
American Jewish Congress
Soviet Russia
FRENCH Liberation Committee Recognized as Administrative Agency
The French Committee of National Liberation based in Algiers will be treated as an administrative body of the parts of the French empire it controls until France can choose a government. Backed by De Gaulle and Giraud factions, the committee’s authority must follow Allied military command in North Africa and the Near East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
French Committee of National Liberation
Algiers
North Africa
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Darlan
Dwight Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Giraud
Liberation Committee
Near East
Fiji grants reciprocal aid to U S forces valued at three million
Briefs report Fiji the British colony will provide nearly three million dollars annually in reciprocal aid to U S forces stationed there. Women prove equal or superior in making diamond dies as WPB research highlights. A heavy bomber at 250 mph consumes about 3 1/2 gallons of gasoline each minute. The army needs 7 500 more physicians and surgeons in three months and 2 500 more by January to sustain its health standards.
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Fiji
U. S
U. S. Army
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Western Newspaper Union
Congress
Africa
Middle East
Mediterranean
China
India
Australia
New Zealand
South Pacific
Commodity Credit Corporation
Canada
Dakotas
Pacific Northwest
War Labor Board
Illinois
United Mine Workers
Matthew Woll
American Federation of Labor
WLB
Owen Monahan
41St Division
U.S
FDR
Co-Operative Action of Nations
Mackenzie King
Washington Digest
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Dieppe
Britain
WPB
U. S. N. Boat Work
K. C
Structural Steel
24Th & Strong Ave
Kansas City
Kansas
Robert Bulmer
Central Pontiac, Inc
McGee Street
Chase Bag CO
Delaware, Kansas City, MO
Chord Ranch
Guymon
Oklahoma
Charlie Ryan
Coleman
Coleman Lamp & Stove Co
North St. Francis St
Wichita
I. C
Farrow
Kingman
Cecil Dodge and Son
Penalesa
Kans
Nurses ‘Training School
Chicago
Schoo OF Nursing
CW-9
Baldwin Combines
Shaw Motor CO
Grainfield, Kansas
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Harlingen
San Juan
Thomas
Mercedes
Tex
Carload
A. Hafer
Altaras, Calif
S. E
Allison
Tramway
Denver 2
Colo
Charley Gordon
Shreveport
Louisiana
Feathers
Resting Feather Company
N. Broadway
St. Louis
Missouri
Pike
Econar
Lydia E.ham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Doan
Doans
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