Survivors Reach Jungle After Burma Plane Crash
A transport plane with 19 aboard crashed in northern Burma. Survivors, including William L Stanton John Davies Jr and Eric Sevareid, bailed out and trekked into jungle 200 miles from the Allied base. Rescue teams and a doctor arrived to aid the group.
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Burma
New Delhi
Dly Ip
William L Stanton
Bxarch
John Davies, Jr
Chungking
Army
Don Fitckinger
Long Beach
Calif
God Corp
Vigilance drive to tighten vice law enforcement hits city offices
A 2-continued item notes a conference after Napier Field and Camp Rucker activation to tighten enforcement of vice laws. It mentions Cincinnati replacing vital materials with outdated wraps, and city offices adopting wooden or fiber filing cabinets and old forms.
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Napier Field
Camp Rucker
Cincinnati
Victory
Cotton Crop Outlook 1942 Between 1930 and 1941 Ten Year Averages
The report covers ginning and lint yields with 1942 outlook. It cites 10 year averages for bale production and area, notes a July 1 harvest area of 15,995,000 acres, and 79,308,000 bales across the ten-year span. It lists state by state acreage, yield estimates, and expected total production. Weather and pests, especially weevils, are discussed, with overall conditions suggesting yields near last year but below the 1942 peak.
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Missouri
Virginia
North
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Arizona
California
Crop Reporting Board Maid
Pacific War Update: MacArthur Cites Small but Vital Gains
General MacArthur notes limited resources yet cumulative successes in the Pacific campaign. He cites a major victory near Vella Gulf with a four-ship enemy convoy defeated, and a 63-ton bombing raid on Kolombangara Inland. US forces press Vila airfield targets while no enemy planes respond. Halsey pays tribute to the fleet that intercepted Japanese warships attempting to supply Vila.
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Sante Isabel Talanda
Olomons
Vella Gulf
Tie Aphere
MacArthur
Guadalcanal
Port Moresby
Munda
Salamaua
Kolombangara
New Georgia
Solomon
United States
Vila
Jute Gulf
New Georgina
President Roosevelt Enjoys Week of Canada Fishing on Manitou Islands
President Roosevelt spent a week fishing near Manitou Islands in Ontario. Attendees included Byrnes and Hopkins among others, with details sparse. The party traveled by private train from the United States through Ontario to Birch Island, then to the eighth Rayne, seeking quiet privacy and reports on catches followed as the outing continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Manitou
Wndsland
Birch Island
Rayne
Four Senators push postwar alliance resolution
At about the same time White Wallace had not decided on invitations while four Senators prepared a nationwide rally to spur support for a postwar international peace effort. The Hull backed plan urged United States participation in a peacetime alliance to preserve global security by force if needed. Senator Ball Burton Hatch Hill discussed the resolution with Vice President Wallace on two occasions, hoping he would back the effort even without a firm commitment.
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New York
White Wallace
United States
Hill
Thom Wallace
Wold
Navy Announces Limited Enlistment Quota for Pensacola
Navy sets limited August enlistment quota for Pensacola and the Colhas station. Chief Petty Officer J A Hutchins says the quota is restricted and applies only to seventeen year old boys. August enlistments include Delma Frank Dukes of 218 Grant Street, Dobas, and Macy Junior Corbitt of Sampo.
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Navy
Naval Air Base
Pensacola
Fie
Colhas Navy
J. A Hutchina
Pesascole
Delma Frank Dukes
Grant Street
Dotbas
Macy Junior Corbitt
Sampo
Burglars Take $85 In North Main Street Raid
Police report a burglary at 804 West Main Street by night intruders who escaped with about $85 in cash. Investigators noted no details of entry and offered no clues in the morning report. The home belonged to J H McDentel and two apartments within the house yielded $50 and $35 respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. McDentel
West Main Street
Caach
Russians Drive Toward Bryansk and Kharkov in Pincer Move
In the Bryansk and Kharkov sectors the Red Army reported sweeping into 60 populated places north and west of Kharkov. Bogodukhov and Dolshik fell, bringing the front within 14 miles of Kharkov on the northwest. German losses included 77 tanks and 125 planes in battle. Russians captured 48 German tanks, 15 of them Tigers.
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Bogodukhov
Kharkov
Cnte
Bryansk
Orel
Moscow
Bryanskia
Dolzhik
Red Army
Bryanak
Rationing Plan Aims Wider Brand Choice
A control administrator predicted consumers would have a wider brand choice under the rationing program. The plan sets a minimum pint per week per customer with potential larger distributions. Quarts may be purchased by punching cards for the current and following week, but ration points won't accumulate.
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Pare One
Cottle
County Board to appoint service commissioner from two posts
The Board of Revenue voted to make the office effective October 1, 1945 and the Mount plan will have two American Legion Posts in Houston County nominate three men for the post with the county board appointing one. Duties and salary to be set at the next session on September 13.
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Board of Revenue
Mount
American Legion
Houston County
Dothan
Ashford
Wil
County Board of Revenue
Revanur Board
County Road and Bridge Department
Houston County Civitan Tefense Council
Defense Council
Weekend Arrests Report Quiet for City and County
City police logged nine arrests in 24 hours with two for drunkenness and seven for disorderly conduct and late hours. The sheriff reported nine arrests including two drunkenness cases five vagrancy one non-support and one for mental observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheriff's Office
Bird
Allies push through Sicily amid German retreat threat
Allied forces press a northward advance in Sicily as British Eighth Army seizes Biancaville Adrana and Bronte and closes toward the Troina Randazzo highway. German resistance remains strong east of Troina while Berlin reports signal a German plan to disengage and evacuate by sea.
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Rome
Associated Press
Sicily
Calabria
Sicilian
Eighth Army
Biancaville
Adrana
Bronte
Eiba
Troina
Randazzo
U. S
Bernard L Montgomery
Noland Norgaard
Messina
Berlin
Ross Munro
General Montgomery
Cincinnati Goes Patriotic in War Material Shortage
Cincinnati adopts bakelite for sacr and bolts, plastic tubing for insulation, official badges of plastic, pressed plywood signs, and paper instead of burlap to support wartime needs. Citizens urged to slow down on curves to protect lives and families.
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CINCY
Cincinnati
Desperate German Move Quietly Reshapes Rule
A London dispatch reports that the German army seeks to keep the Nazi Party as a facade while seizing control over press production civil rationing foreign affairs and transportation. Goering is named as Nazi representative to solidify military backing as Hitler remains nominal head.
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Faro
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Goering
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Germany
London
London Sunday Dispatch
Naz Party
Registrant Sought John Thorpe in Houston County Draft Register
Officials issued a notice seeking help locating John Frank Thorpe an eighteen year old Negro registrant from Houston County Board Three. He listed Columbia Ala as his registration address in May 1943 with Bellcross NC as a later address. Also Scouts announce Girl Scout Troop No Two meeting at Theresa Arnold residence 407 E Burdeshaw St Wednesday at four.
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John Frank Thorpe
Houston County Selective Service Board
Board Three
Columbia
Ala
Bellcross
N. C
Girl Scout Troop No. Two
Misa Theresa Arnold
E. Burdeshaw St
Conserving metal uses concrete and wood makeshift meters
Dallas Texas adopts concrete mandola covers while San Diego California uses concrete pipes and South Heaven Michigan builds home made wood boxes to protect meters amid a conservation drive.
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Dallas
Tex
San Diego
Cali
South Heaven
Mich
Lost Planes Reported by Navy Friend of Goor’s Son
An unfamiliar note says ttten Goor's and his son lost planes were not reported with full details. George sailed the Renster way and was stationed at Bennett Field New York. An elder brother, George, is in the Army.
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Navy
George Saig
Tbs
Renster Wey
Bennett Field
George
Army
Hitler and the German political collapse discussed
The text debates Hitler's control and the Nazi leadership's fate as World War II pressures mount. It weighs Hitler's dependence on others like Goering, the shifting German political stance, and the prospect of internal disillusionment, while noting a rift within Germany and the peril of his authority.
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Stanley H. Gray
Seattle
Wash
NEA
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Willam D) Leahy
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Edwin M Watson
Ross McIntire
James Pyrnes
Harn
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Office of War Mobilization
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Chicago
Jaygee Taylor
Tae
Robert Taylor
Barbera Stanwyck Taylor
Goor
Contino
Pag Tay
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Ietamma
Ares
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Russia
Britain
Dmg
Unicons
Adolf Hither
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Adolf Hitler
America
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Manses
Herman
Dothan Savings & Loan
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