Bombs Instead Of Fireworks On Fourth Of July
President Roosevelt marked the nation's 196th independence anniversary with war conferences and a message stressing the deadly seriousness of the global battle for freedom. Hull and Nelson issued statements urging UN nations to fight with Revolutionary spirit, as production and transportation for war materiel were reviewed. A strategy briefing with Marshall Arnold and Wilton summarized military and naval fronts, including the U.S. fleet's actions around Midway.
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America
Roosevelt
United Nations
Nelson Center
Cordell Hull
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
George C. Marshall
Army
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Navy High Command
United States
Midway Island
West Virginia observes safe and sane independence Day
West Virginia marked Independence Day with scattered public observances in Charleston Elkins Beckley and other cities while war production continued. Two violent deaths were reported Clyde Meadows 27 drowned after diving into Beaver Creek and Oliver Butler a Walkerton resident died in New River near Terry Raleigh County. The War Production Board urged plants to keep working as 100 naval recruits were sworn in at South Charleston. Representative Jennings Randolph and Lt Col A E M Walker of the Royal British engineers attended elkings observance.
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Charleston
Elkins
Beckley
Clyde Meadows
Raleigh County
Beaver Creek
Oliver Butler
Walkerton
New River
Terry
Corel Minex
War Production Board
West
Hartford factory bans women in slacks amid protest
A Hartford plant required female workers to wear slacks for safety. A group of overweight employees protested to the state labor department, whose investigator will seek a balance of aesthetics and safety at the plant.
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Conn
Hartford
State Labor Department
Labor Department
Deaths at Las Vegas crash blamed on lax aviation controls
A U.S. house sub committee blamed a reckless pilot, lax civil aviation regulation, and the TWA airline for the January 16 Las Vegas crash that killed Carole Lombard and 22 others. Findings cite overload, an improperly initiated flight plan, a re hired pilot, beacon light cutoffs, and missing safe flight operations. Names listed include Captain Wayne Williams, first officer Morgan Gillette, and hostess Alice Getz, with 15 more aboard.
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INSI
House
TWA
Carole Lombard
Las Vegas
Nev
Om. Ate Kee
Ime Ogee
Civil‘ Acconmtics Administration
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National Sapor Relations Board
Pearl Harbor
Wayne Williams
Reseda
Calif
Morgan A. Gillette
Los Angeles
Alice Getz
Glendale
Share Ride Plan Gains Statewide Support
West Virginia road officials report strong adoption of the share-the-ride transportation plan to address worker commutes. Ernest L. Bailey cites examples: Belle duPont plant cars average 3.8 passengers, Marietta Manufacturing and Point Pleasant boat plant workers share rides to move 1,800 people with 400 cars, and International Nickel in Huntington cuts auto use as Navy E production boosts.
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West Virginia
Ernest L. Bailey
Belle duPont
Marietta Manufacturing Company
Point Pleasant
International Nickel Plant
Huntington
Farm Stop Gap Help Proposed
Washington July 4 stop gap plan would finance the agriculture department at roughly 93 900 000 for July, using June levels, until the regular appropriation bill is resolved. Senate backing favors President Roosevelt policy on farm prices as the House bill remains unacceptable to Senate leaders.
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Agriculture Department
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House
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Bund Leader Put On Plane For U S
Bund leader Gerhardt Wilhelm Kunze, head of the German American Bund, was hustled onto a Pan American Airways plane in Mexico City to be flown to Hartford Connecticut for trial on spy charges. The flight departed at 1:50 p.m. CST bound for San Antonio, Texas for follow up arrangements.
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Wilhelm Kunze
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Hartford
Kunze
The
Ameri
Britons Drive Rommel Back Into Corridor
Cairo dispatch reports heavy artillery duels along Egypt's 45 mile bottleneck front as a large Axis transport column retreats westward. British forces say 600 German prisoners and several hundred captives captured yesterday. Allied air power pounds Axis rear, while Auchinleck's 8th Army presses the drive toward El Alamein.
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Egypt
el Alamein
Claude Auchinneck
8Th Army
Mediterranean
Quadtara
Tanks and Guns Move To Egyptian Front
American tanks BMS and other equipment move along the desert highway toward El Alamein 65 miles west of Alexandria. Egyptian martial law enables public security measures while police crackdown on rumors and profiteers. Public calm and heightened confidence rise under Allied command.
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Larry Allen
Alexandria
Egypt
el Alamein
Mediterranean
Field Marshal
Rommel
Claude J. £. Auchinleck
Army Answers Call For Bridegroom Dress Coat
The army sped a dress coat 18 miles from Boston to Holbrook to help Miss Helen Moran have her fiancé Pvt Raymond Valier of Camp Polk La look like a bridegroom for their wedding this afternoon after she reported he had no coat.
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Holbrook
Helen Moran
First Corps
Raymond Valier
Camp Polk
Reds Withdraw In Kursk Front Battle Expands
Moscow reports heavy fighting along the Kursk front as Soviet and German forces clash in a mobile campaign. Russians retreat to new positions while Nazi offensives press from Kursk toward Kharkov. Soviet air power halts large German units, with strains evident on supply lines as the battle continues.
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Kursk
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Io Kharkov
Caucasus
Phey
Fis -Com
Munique
Kalinin
Sevatopol
Si¢Ne
Kursk-Kharkov
Semyon Timoshenko
Severay
Greenbrier to reopen July 9 after internees depart
The Greenbrier hotel in the mountains announced it will reopen to the public on July 9 following the departure of the last group of Axis internees. Since December, around 2,000 Germans Japanese Malays Romanians Hungarians and others have been held there under State Department custody. The largest confinement peaked with about 600 Germans and Japanese. Japanese arrivals began last April from Hot Springs Virginia and many Romanians Hungarians and Italians were moved to Asheville to make room for new internees.
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Greenbrier
State Department
United States
Hot Springs
Asheville
N. C
Romania Refuses To Feed Europe
Bern July 4 Romania once a breadbasket of Europe says it will meet all its agricultural output and reserves for the year to feed its own people, refusing to export to Europe.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rumania
Labor Pledges Flow of Arms on Fourth of July rally
In Detroit on July 4 Lt Gen Brehon Somervell led a War Department pledge drive at a labor rally with CIO chief Philip Murray and AFL head William Green. They urged uniting labor and management to support total war and vowed to produce without limit while acknowledging the high costs of sacrifice and long hours.
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Brehon B. Somervell
War Department
AFL
CIO
Philip Murray
William Green
Union of the
United States of America
Axis
Murray Labor
Nippon Forces Said Hit Hard In Aleutians War Zone
Washington July 4 A flying general reported that army and navy air forces severely damaged Japanese ships and shore installations in the invaded Aleutians. General Laurence S. Kuter said aircraft were carrying the fight despite fog and rain, and navy planes attacked transports and convoys. He noted American airmen devise methods to reach targets from Aleutian bases as weather limits fuel use.
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North Pacific
Army
Navy
Alieutians
Hrig
Laurence S. Kuter
Army Air Staff
Ateulian
War Department
Aleutians
Kiska
Kuter
Pacific
Midway Island
Hawaii
Aleutian
Pet So Coteee
United States
Aleutian Islands
Navy Department
Malta Attacker Raid Defeated by RAF Fighters
Three Italian bombers tried to attack Malta but were shot down within seconds after crossing the coast. Two more enemy bombers fell during the night. No British planes were lost.
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Valelta
Malta
Surgeon Remov es Appendix Aboard Storm Tossed Destroyer
An Australian port report recalls Lt Paul Pickering, a Chicago and Jackson, Mississippi surgeon aboard a destroyer in the South Pacific, performing an emergency appendectomy on Seaman Lawrence Casey during a raging typhoon. With seas surging and port days away, the doctor operated amid tape and leather restraints to save the sailor before condition worsened.
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South Pacific
Paul Pickering
Chicago
Jackson
Miss
Lawrence Casey
Portland
Sheridan
Ore
Pickering
Casey
Two American Bombers Lost in Alaska and Holland Raids
International News Service reports two American bombers lost with one pilot decorated for airmanship. American forces hit Nazi bases in occupied Holland on Independence Day marking first Western Europe strike. In the Aleutians, U S airmen and Navy planes pound Jap positions on Athol and Kiska as fog limits operations.
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Adolf Hitler
American Air Corps
Holland
Europe
Berlin Bombing Described By Radio As Immaterial
Berlin radio described the first American air raid on Germany as lasting six minutes with 12 enemy planes dropping bombs on Dutch coastal air bases. It claimed four bombers were shot down and noted bases in the Aleutians were involved. The report said American fliers would soon join RAF crews in the Reich, with positive reactions to the attack.
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Berlin
Germany
CBS
Aleutians
Navy
Nant
Holland
Nasir
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Reich
Coaly
Scien
Front in France Harries Germans
British dispatches report French Front groups issue communiques from underground presses in Paris and London detailing sabotage and guerrilla actions against German targets. The sample communique describes factory shutdowns, arson of trucks and wagons, attacks on a barracks, and a damaged canal, with notes on prudence due to enemy vigilance.
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France
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