Axis Feels Weight of Air Power
British counter attack near El Alamein, supported by air forces from Britain, the United States, and South Africa, checked Rommel's drive toward Alexandria. The commu nique reported hundreds of Axis prisoners and 40 guns captured, while German and Italian statements claimed continued fighting and repulsion of counter threats.
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Cairo
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Alexandria
Nile Valley
Rommel
el Alamein
London
Farewell Held For 32 Linn County Army Recruits
A Cedar Rapids sendoff drew over a thousand well wishers at Union Station as 32 Linn County selectees from Service Board No. 3 prepared to depart for the army. Mayor Frank Hahn spoke as civic groups organized the farewell amid music and patriotic sentiment.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Selectee
Union Station
Pearl Harbor
Selective Service Board No. 3
Union of
Sugar Bonus For All Ration Card Holders Announced
The Office of Price Administration announced a sugar bonus of two pounds per ration card holder usable July 10 to August 22 due to heavier shipments. Institutional users receive 75 percent and industrial 80 percent of normal consumption for upcoming months. Card 7 allows use of the existing cards 5 or 6 during the period, with card 8 starting August 22. Henderson calls the plan a conservative gamble to ease warehousing without committing to broader rations.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
OPA
Business Booming in Both Marriages and Divorces in Reno
Reno reports a surge in divorces and marriages in the first half of the war year. Divorce filings rose 30.4 percent to 1,307 from 1,002, while 12,204 marriage licenses were issued, up from 9,747. Attorneys note clients cite husbands going to service and greater incomes as factors.
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Reno
Nev
McNutt slams pirating of skilled workers in war plants
Faul V. McNutt, head of the War Manpower commission, condemned employers who lure skilled workers from other plants with higher pay as a piratical threat to total production. He urged war industries to train their own skilled workers or seek the U S employment service when short handed in a radio address.
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Washington
Faul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
United States Employment Service
Sevastopol Falls as Soviet Evacuation Underway
Russian counter attacks in the Kursk region push Germans back across a river as Sevastopol falls in Crimea. Berlin claims speedily advancing forces toward the Don while Soviet losses at Sevastopol total nearly 300,000 casualties with thousands killed wounded or missing.
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Moscow
Kursk
Sevastopol
Belgorod
Volchansk
Hitler
Don
Ukraine
Don River
Kharkov
Kursk - Belgorod
Volchansky
Voronezh
Caucasus
Rostov
Crimea
Russia
Crimean Peninsula
Germany
Rubber Problem Solution Sought in Amazon Jungles
U S officials report commercial battalions in South America search Amazon jungles for natural rubber to aid the war effort. Some 60 000 tappers operate in Brazil and Peru with machetes guns and gear to extract sap as tools and funding aim to boost wartime supply and build a postwar industry.
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Amazon Jungles
Washington
United Nations
Office of
Coordinator
Inter- American Affairs
Malaya
Java
South America
Amazon
Brazil
Western Hemisphere
United States
Peru
State Department
Colombia
inter-American Affairs Office
Flying Tigers Triumph in Final Battle Over Japanese Bombers
In Hengyang China American Volunteer Group pilots routed eight Japanese bombers during their last clash before joining the U S Army Air Force. Several enemy planes were crippled and could not return to base in the Yangtze valley. News reached Chungking at a banquet honoring Brig Gen Claire L Chennault, organizer of the group.
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Chungking
China
U.S. Army Air Force
Canton-Hankow
Hengyang
Yangtze River
Chiang Kai-shek
Claire L. Chennault
Army Air Force
United States
Girl Feared Dead Or Alive With Two Abductors
Margaret Rollie a 16 year old Hesper Iowa girl is missing after a Tuesday night abduction with two uniformed men. Orville Salveson a 30 year old farmer was forced from his car during the incident and $33 was taken. Authorities in Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota are searching across three states for the girl and the two kidnappers.
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Decorah
INS
Margaret Rollie
Hesper
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Orville Salveson
Near Hesper
Salveson
Rollie Girl
Roosevelt Urges Greater Effort On Independence Day
President Roosevelt marked the 166th anniversary of independence urging the nation to exert greater effort in the war effort. He described the Fourth of July 1942 as celebrated in the deadly reality of tanks planes guns and ships and called for continuous production and action without pause.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rout Japs from Mongolian Town Wuchen
Chinese communique says Japanese forces were driven from Wuchen in inner Mongolia with over 400 killed, three armored cars and 12 trucks lost. Japanese retreat eastward after 2,000 troops failed to hold the area north of the Yellow River, where they might threaten China’s supply line from Russia. Earlier, on the Hengkong highway, Japanese units on the Kwantung front were repulsed in a daylong battle.
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Chungking
Wuchen
Inner Mongolia
Yellow River
China
Russia
Soviet Union
Kwantung Front
Hengkong
Even Edsel Needs An Auto Permit
Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co, sought permission from the Macomb county rationing board to buy a new car on war work grounds. The request was filed Saturday in Mount Clemens Michigan.
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MT. Clemens
Mich
Macomb County
Navy offers $100 rewards for efficiency ideas
Washington AP reports the navy will pay $100 rewards to navy employees for meritorious suggestions that reduce unnecessary paper work as part of cutting red tape.
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Washington
Navy
Come On Out and Fight Chennault Challenges Enemy
Brig. Gen Claire L. Chennault, now in command of US air forces in China, taunts the Japanese air force to battle. He notes the Nippon fleet has fled the American Volunteer Group for two months as the 23rd pursuit group forms. The general vows a welcoming meeting if the Japanese venture within range.
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Chennault
Five Suspected Spies Reported Arrested in Mexico City
Five suspected spies were reported arrested Friday in Mexico City including four Germans and a 20 year old Italian girl. The report cites AP dispatches and notes the group was detained on espionage related charges.
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Mexico City
War Factories Hum as Nation Marks Fourth of July
United Press reports wartime July 4 1941 sees millions in war production while civilians face shortages and travel limits. Officials promise rapid output of bombers tanks ships and guns though warning against complacency remains.
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National Safety Council
Chicago
Robert P Patterson
Navy
James V. Forrestal
Tokio
Nese
United States
Black Eagle of Harlem Enlists in U S Army
Hubert Fauntleroy Julian a 44 year old self styled Black Eagle of Harlem enlisted Friday as a private in the United States army and was sent to Camp Upton. Born in Trinidad he is an alien but can volunteer under selective service. he describes himself as an aviator lecturer and parachutist.
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New York
Hubert Fauntleroy
Julian
Harlem
United States Army
Camp Upton
Filiopia
Haile Selassite
Trinidad
BWTI
U S Air Force in China Promises Foe Headaches
In Chungking the U S Army Air Force in China aims to support Chinese land troops and recapture eastern China air bases. Commanders Haynes and Scott lead a capable unit, building on AVG tactics to outthink and outmaneuver Japanese forces. The force expects to pressure Japanese naval air units and inflict heavy losses.
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U.S. Air Force
China
Chungking
Tokio
United States Army Air Force
Caleb V. Haynes
Robert L. Scott
Planes strike Dutch airfields in coordinated Allied raid
American bombers joined RAF in a July 4 attack on three German-occupied Dutch airfields. Six A-20 Havoc aircraft pressed a low level strike at Hamstede Alkmaar and Valkenburg amid heavy anti aircraft fire. Two American planes were reported missing.
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Holland
Britain
Belgium
France
Hamstede
Alkmaar
Valkenburg
Amsterdam
Hamsteden
Haarlem
New Yorks
Harlem
Amstersdam
Dover
Germany
United States Army Air Forces
Ino
Hotland
Hiampstede
Paris
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