Brazil Sinks Five Ships in Axis War At Sea
Axis submarine attacks off Brazil draw strong anti Axis reactions as five Brazilian ships are sunk with 836 people aboard including 274 soldiers. President Vargas calls the sinkings piracy while Uruguay and Brazilian officials report survivor arrivals and disputed troop losses.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
el Tiempo
America
Rio DE Janeiro
Exchange Bage
Cuyaba
Europe
Bracoast
Getulio Vargas
Journal
Diario de Noticias
Brazil
Alfredo Baldomir
Vargas
South America
Strong U S Foothold In Solomons Reported
United States forces gained a solid foothold in the Solomon Islands as shore bases were developed and key positions seized. Navy dispatches said enemy warships were driven off and at least 36 Japanese planes destroyed in the engagement with details of August 7 and 8 actions.
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United States Naval
Solomon Islands
Navy
United States
Solomons
Sie Sas Sootears
Java Sea
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Solomon
U. S
Axis Submarine Campaign Shifts to South American Waters
AP reports continued Axis submarine activity moving from the Caribbean toward South America. A British merchant vessel was sunk off northern South America in July with three lives lost. Survivors from other sinkings include 18 rescued from a 69 crew ship 750 miles off Newfoundland. Additional details confirm two earlier sinkings: a Norwegian ship on June 8 with six lives lost and a small British vessel torpedoed in the Caribbean on July 21 with five lives lost.
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Associated Press
Caribbean
South America
Dublin
Newfoundland
Yankee Doodle Honors Prompt Allied Bomber Raid
Air Marshal Arthur Harris praised General Ira C. Baker for leading the first all American raid on France. Harris stated Yankee Doodle can still add another feather to his cap, noting the success of the mission by Baker’s bomber command in Britain.
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London
Arthur T. Harris
R.A. Bomber Command
Ira C. Baker
United States Bomber Command
Britain
France
Bomber Command
Eaker
Roosevelt to seize Woods Plant if union contract not signed
President Roosevelt moves to take over the S. A. Woods Machine Company shell plant in Boston if it fails to sign a CIO union contract by Tuesday. About 650 workers are involved as the War Labor Board claims the company defies its orders during wartime.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
S. A. Woods Machine Company
Shell Manufacturers
Boston
CIO
WLB
Army
Navy
H. C. Dodge
United Electrical Workers
Dodge
General Cable Corporation
Bayonne
N. J
Woods
Wayne L. Morse
OES Se
Boeing plans to segregate women workers in production
Boeing Airplane Company plans to segregate women on sub assembly lines due to time lost when male workers glance at them. H Oliver West says women do well in war production but cause disturbances and hair and jewelry create safety issues. Three months ago no women on lines. now 26 percent of employees are women.
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Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Company
H. Oliver West
Boeing
Riderless Blimp Crashes In Daly City Mystery Deepens
In Daly City the riderless Navy blimp crashed with its craft reported in perfect order. Comdr. Donald M. Mackey refused to confirm crew deaths as search for Lieut Ernest DeWitt and Ensign Charles Adams continued. Theories arose about possible sea rescue or loss of altitude.
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San Francisco
Navy
Daly City
Donald M. Mackey
Moffett Field
Ernest DeWitt
Charles Adams
Yankee Medium Bombers Enter Egyptian Battle
US army bombers attacked an Axis merchant ship in the Mediterranean convoy raid and struck the Matruh air base in a night bombardment. The Wednesday night raid marked the first joint action with heavy bombers and fighters on the Egyptian front.
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Cairo
Matruh
United States
Alamein Battlefront
el Alamein
Middle East Command
Royal Air Force
Malta
Norton port traffic section report from Washington
Traffic section of the Norton port under the division of railway transport in the Office of Defense Transportation reports its status from Washington.
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Washington
Norton Port
Division of Railway Transport
Office of Defense Transportation
Alexander Takes Over Desert Job
London AP reports Gen Harold Alexander named British commander in chief in the Middle East replacing Sir Claude Auchinleck who had led the British Eighth Army in the desert since 1941. Montgomery to command Eighth Army in Egypt succeeding Neil Ritchie retired.
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London
Harold
Burma
Middle East
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
War Office
Auchin- Auchinleck
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Eighth Army
Alexander
Auchinleck
British Isles
B. L. Montgomery
Britain
Egypt
Neil M. Ritchie
Charges Plot to Retard Lighting Development
A Justice Department official testified that Westinghouse and General Electric conspired with utility companies to slow fluorescent lighting development. He claimed a scheme to dominate the industry by promoting higher consumption lamps, with independent Hygrade Sylvania as a key factor in hindering progress.
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Washington
Justice Department
Westinghouse
General Electric
Senate Patents Committee
John W. Walker
Anti-Trust Division
Walker
Hygrade Sylvania Corporation
Stalin's Son Heads Pursuit Air Group on Front
Col. Vassily Stalin, son of the Soviet premier, was named to command a pursuit aviation unit on the southern front. An article in Red Star said he supervised fighter operations over a river crossing recently. On June 21 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in frontline combat.
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Moscow
Vassily Stalin
Red Star
Stalin
Order of the Red Banner
Walker Whiteside Dies Noted Actor at 73
Walker Whiteside aged 73 and famed since age 15 as the boy Hamlet in touring Shakespearean troupes died Monday night in Hastings on Hudson New York. His career lasted forty seven years as a stage actor.
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Hastings-On-Hudson
N. Y
Walker Whiteside
Hamlet
Ponder Three Point Plan To Avert Meat Rationing
Washington rumors say the Office of Price Administration weighs a three point meat distribution plan to avoid shortages. It would strict price control on livestock, nationwide meat allocation, and livestock readjustment for market crops, with rationing avoided using an education push to shift demand toward seasonal meats and substitutes.
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Ponder
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture Department
OPA
American Bombers Strike Rouen and Open European Offensive
A major U S air offensive in Europe began with a daylight raid on Rouen rail yards by 12 B 17s led by Gen Ira C Eaker backed by RAF and US fighters. Six more bombers attacked Dunkirk and Cherbourg while 18 returned safely. Two fighters were lost and one enemy plane was shot down by Sgt Kent L West. Major Gen Carl Spaatz announced the start of an intensified bombing campaign as American crews praised the mission and looked to future targets.
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Britain
Germany
Europe
R.A.F
Rouen
France
Ira C. Eaker
Dunkirk
Cherbourg
United States
Sergt
Kent L. West
West Brockton
Ala
Baker
Paris
Johnny Reb
Birmingham
Berlin
Paul Tibbet
Miami
Fla
George A. Pucilowski
Detroit
James Sammons
Louisa
Will Ray
New Sormion
Conn
Harry Nuessle
Landsdowne
William B. Musselwhite
Jackson
Miss
George Ludolph
St. Paul
Minn
Spaatz
Ludolph
Collins Radio Co Reaches Bond Goal in War Effort
Cedar Rapids officials said Collins Radio Co with 1,300 employees pushed the city into the 10 percent war bond pledge list. The Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce listed 13 more firms qualifying, with a forthcoming complete report announced by B. T. Perrine.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Collins Radio Company
Cedar Rapids War Bond
Collins
Young Men's Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Howell Beverage Company
Hogan Brothers
Grain Belt Distributing Company
Ehrke Roofing Company
Kolarik Bookbinding Company
Commonwealth Super
Goldsteiney
Keith Strait
Shaws D-X
Nassif Master Food Market
Triangle Tavern
Benner Tea Company
Market Oil and Gas Company
Progusal Tele Tae Ee
B. T. Perrine
Letters from sons believed saved from sunken ship reach Cedar Rapids families
Washington dispatch says two Cedar Rapids families received letters from sons missing in action in the Philippines. Capt G H Cockburn Jr and Lieut George R Hennessey wrote before Bataan and Corregidor fell. both letters recovered from a freighter torpedoed by an Axis submarine. Lieut Hennessey later earned a Distinguished Service Cross and was wounded January 14. No stamps or postmarks on either letter.
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Cedar Rapids
Philippines
Washington
War Department
George H. Cockburn
Twenty-seventh Street
G. H. Cockburn
George F. Hennessey
Avenue
George R. Hennessey
Bataan
Corregidor
Wiest
Hennessey
Cman
Nab Indian Youths for Auto Thefts and Breakins
Sheriff Harry Sharp reported confessions from three Tama Indians, including 21 year old Willard Sanache and two juveniles, tied to eight auto thefts and four filling station breakins across Tama, Chelsea, Marengo and Belle Plaine on Aug 16 17. Tama County Attorney to file larceny charges. arrests made by Indian reservation deputies and railroad detectives. last car turned into a jeep.
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Tama
Harry Sharp
Iowa
Willard Sanache
Sanache
Sharp
Camp Claiborne
Chelsea
Marengo
Belle Plaine
Farm Bureau
Standard
Tama County
Walter Willett
Warns of Letting Price Control Be Another Dry Law
Omaha AP reports warnings that price control in 1942 could become a new dry law. John C. Weigel of the Chicago OPA urges citizens to resist bootlegging tires or sugar and to stay loyal to country during wartime.
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Omaha
John C. Weigel
Chicago
OPA
Sakis Aerosnedi
Nazis Fall Back Near Stalingrad
Soviet forces counter-attacked southwest of Stalingrad pushing Germans into retreat and regaining ground along the Don bend while defending positions above Kotelnikovski. In the Caucasus and Krasnodar region, Red Army actions reportedly halted enemy crossings and inflicted heavy losses, with more than 1,500 Germans killed and 32 tanks knocked out in the past two days.
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Moscow
Red
Stalingrad
Don Bend
Keban
Krasnodar
Kotelnikovski
Stalingrad-Novorossisk
Volga
Semeon Timoshenko
Don
Red Star
Lower Volga
Caucasus
Tostov-Baku
Ozny
Steppes
Kletskaya
Fedor von Bock
Information
Russian forces strike west of Moscow again amid heavy losses
Berlin dispatch says German high command reports Russian attacks west of Moscow while claiming 1,068 Russian armored vehicles destroyed since July 30 in hard defensive battles. It also notes 11 Soviet aircraft shot down by Finnish forces and several enemy vessels and munitions ships destroyed in western sea ports.
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Berlin
Moscow
Vyazma
Stalingrad
High Command
Japs Launch Drive To Close Rail Gap
Japanese forces press a three month effort to seal a Chinese held rail gap near Chekiang as Chinese troops defend the area with determination. The clash marks a significant battlefront effort in Chungking reports.
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Chungking
Film actor wed concert pianist in Los Angeles ceremony
Count Aldo Solito de Solis and Hollyw film actor Gale Page were married Monday in Los Angeles. The event linked two prominent figures from cinema and music, drawing attention from the entertainment community.
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Gale Page
Hollyw
Aldo Solito de Solis
Los Angeles
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U.S
Yank
Govt
Shell
Paul Mallon
Henry McLemore
Gen
Carl Spaatz
United States Air Forces
Collins Radio Co
Grozny
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