Lightnings raid across Italy hit Foggia and surrounding targets
Allied planes struck southern Italy including Foggia near Naples and the Adriatic coast in three waves. Reports say 26 enemy planes were shot down and several were destroyed on the ground. RAF and Canadian Wellington crews also attacked freight yards before dawn, observing fires and smoke despite a screen.
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Italy
Foggia
Naples
Adriatic
Lave
Plota
Confaont
RAF
Ceradian
Gonners
Five Tubercular Convicts Escape From Hospital
Five tubercular inmates armed with meat cleavers overpowered two guards at the Mate prison tuberculosis hospital early today and fled. Police, bloodhounds on the trail, pursued along the main highway. The five men, all with prior escape records, include Les Hudgens Daniel Russell Robert Lee Flanigan Aaron Lee Lynn and Robert Owen Narramore, sentenced for robbery burglary murder and related offenses.
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Montgomery
Desperadoux
Mate
Aiuca
Curtla Flowers
Misoy
Weapes
Les Hudgens
Elmore
Daniel Russell
Jeffer' Mm
Robert Lee Flanigan
Law- Mace
Aaron Lee Lynn
Walker
Robert Owen Narramore
Towers
Tara
World Today war updates and air raid reports
The article summarizes Allied and Axis actions across regions. It notes a surprise raid destroying 11 airfields near Foggia, rail lines, and 20 plus enemy planes downed, plus ongoing nighttime bomber and fighter activity in Europe and Asia, with Mountbatten appointed Allied commander and further bombardment campaigns in Burma China and the Pacific.
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Associated Press
Ttalfem
Foggia
STERN
Europe
Berlin
Barling Atting
Stern Asia
Lord Mountbatten
Ameo
Burma
China
Liberators
Wiehelts
Hlap
Washan
Hongkong
Pacific
Aled Mt
Salamaua
New Guinee
Red
FDR Churchill To Resume Talks In Washington
President Roosevelt heads home from Canada after Quebec talks with Churchill. Mountbatten named supreme Allied commander in southeastern Asia, as rohone elements of the strategy against Japan and China are outlined in allied statements.
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FDR
Churchill
Washington
Asia
Quebec
Douglas B. Cornell
Ottawa
Canada
Ccapital
Roosevelt
United States
Mister Courebitt
Louis Mountbatten
George VI
Chins
Japan
Mountbatten
Britain
RAF Mosquitoes Kept Berlin on Edge in Night Raid
London AP reports RAF Mosquitoes struck Berlin for a third night in a row as one raider went missing. Concurrent raids hit enemy waters while Stockholm dispatches noted the Berlin death toll would be enormous if evacuees had not left. Transmitters faded and broadcasts blackout across Europe as German reinforcements fought fires and rescue efforts. Western France power station and airfields were hit by American and British medium bombers with no losses.
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London
Berlin
Stockholm
Tidningen
Axis
Europe
BBC
France
U S Fears Of Oil Shortage Prompt Study Of Resources
U S officials push a coordinated oil supply program led by PAW and PRC to stretch postwar resources. Interior Secretary Ickes creates a division under Stewart Coleman to align supply for UN military and civilian needs. PRC charter sets high authorized capital with borrowing powers to influence oil production and distribution globally.
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Charles Moloney
Washington
United Nations
Petroleum Administration For War
PAW
Petroleum Reserve Corporation
PRC
United States
Ickes
Stewart P. Coleman
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Sparks Address Slated At Ozark
A delegation of farm officials and business leaders from Dothan and Houston County will travel to Ozark tomorrow to hear Governor Chauncey Sparks speak on the farm labor situation and the upcoming peanut harvest. Also set to address are P. C. Davis of Aubere and Frank Broadway, with the Ozark meeting slated for 10 am.
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Dothan
Houston County
Ozark
Chauncey Sparks
Menting Axe
P. C. Davis
Aubere
Frank Broadway
Navy Pushed to Mass Produce Martin Mara Flying Boat
Washington AP report says Navy and WPB should expand cargo aircraft programs. Grover C. Loening and Donald M. Nelson back a larger contract for the Martin Mara air freighter, while Kaiser and Howard Hughes push a vastly larger all plywood flying boat under OWI notes.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
War Production Board
WEB
Grover C. Loening
Navy
Glenn I. Martin Company
Baltimore
Loen
Ing
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Army
Merc
Henry J. Kaiser
Nelson
Kaiser
Howard Hughes
Office of War Information
OWI
Police Lack Details In Soldier Robbery Case
Police headquarters reported minimal information on a robbery involving a transient man from Tennessee who was assaulted last night by two Camp Rucker soldiers. The suspects were taken for questioning after being detained at a bus station. The victim, en route from Panama City, Florida, was robbed of money and suffered facial injuries before being left on the roadside. He was taken to a Dothan hospital.
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Tennessee
Camp Rucker
Eddie Tindell
Panam City
Fie
Dothan
Railroad Avenue
Mountbatten Arrives to Lead Asia Command in Southeast Asia
Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten arrives as supreme commander in Southeast Asia and attends a conference with Admiral Ernest J. King at Washington National Airport. He is greeted by British officers including Captain Humphrey D Tollemache and Major R A Williams, while Brigadier General A C Wedemeyer heads the American delegation.
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Washington
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Ernest J. King
Fieer
Mountbatten
National
Humphrey D., Tollemathe
Royal Navy
R. A. Wilamy
Erith
A. C. Wedermeyer
Roosevelt
Capital Guessing On Lewis Moves Sparks Urge Individual Freedom
Governor Chauncey Sparks of Alabama outlined a postwar vision of American democracy stressing individual freedom and private enterprise amid government expansion. Speaking at the Aero Club in Birmingham, he linked aviation growth to the private enterprise system and warned against clingy slogans, urging balance between reform and liberty. He called government a teacher and director, not just an umpire, and emphasized preserving initiative and the citizen’s spirit for future national strength.
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Birmingham
Chauncey Sparks
Alabame
America
Sparke
Sparks
Union Leader Faces Two WLB Rebuffs In Short Order
AP report notes aggressive John L. Lewis on the defensive as the War Labor Board rejects 53 mines returning to owners and blocks portal-to-portal pay for miners. Lewis’s associates hint at possible policy committee action, while UMW stresses no immediate strike is planned. Board argues underground travel pay resembles a hidden wage increase.
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WLB
Joseph A. Loftus
UMW
Policy Committee
Lewin
United Mine Workers
Tinois
Asan
Elation
William H Davis
Labor Supply Determines When Workers Essential
American draft-age men face a new policy from War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt regarding deferments after October 1. Deferments will depend on how closely a worker’s job is tied to the war, with non-deferrable occupations prioritized for induction. The rule applies even to fathers with children born before September 15, and earlier bans on drafting such men are lifted.
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James Maelow
George Zlelee
Washington
Futhera
Paul McNutt
McNutt
Unt
Striking Vultee Aircraft Workers Return to Jobs in Nashville
Workers at the Consolidated Vultee plant in Nashville returned to their jobs under an agreement to arbitrate their dispute over two supervisory appointments after Governor Prentice Cooper intervened to end draft deferments for striking employees. Union leaders claimed the governor’s action nearly caused a full plant walkout, while officials moved to remove names from replacement schedules and reclassify those who stayed away for immediate induction.
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Nashville
Aero Lodge
Army Air Forces
Cooper
Thomas A. Frazier
Selective Service
Consolidated
Vultee
State Planning Commission Meets in Alabama
Alabama's new State Planning Commission, appointed last week by Gov Chauncey Sparks, will meet on Sept 2 to select a director and map long range projects. W A Steadman was elected chair. The commission will continue cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority for North Alabama planning. members include C J Bettes, Birmingham. J M Donnelly Jr, Birmingham. Wallace D Malone, Dothan. Mayor Lucien Burns, Helena. Barrett Shelton, Decatur.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Chauncey Sparks
W. A Steadman
Telephone Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
North Alabama
W. Mobina Jr
Atale Planning Board
Wan Alno
Bealden Aparka
Steadman
C J Bettes
Birmingham
J. M. Donnelly, Jr
Wallare D
Malone
Dothan
Lucien Burns
Helma
Barrett Shelon
Decatur
Fireworks Ready Is Blackout Called
Use of fireworks deemed effective in the practice blackout in Dothan on July 21 will be used again in case of surprise feats. Wallace D. Malons, chairman of the civil protection section of the unnamed committee, notes the plan.
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Dothan
Wallace D. Malons
Civil Protection
The
Army and Civilian Courts Clash in Hawaii Martial Law Case
In Honolulu a federal judge faced Army restrictions on enforcing a $5,000 contempt fine against Lt Gen Robert C Richardson Jr commander of Hawaii's Army. The judge upheld habeas corpus for two German nationals held incommunicado, prompting martial law and a direct clash over civil versus military authority under wartime status.
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Honolulu
Army
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Acrog Jn Heweal
Metzgar
Richarson
Richardson
Metzger
Martin
Two Nazi Prisoners Die In Escape Moves
ALICEVILLE Ala IAP Two German prisoners of war died in escape attempts at the camp here Camp commandant Col Price said the two men were fatally wounded in separate escapes after not being released Both were given military funerals and no prisoner had been shot while obeying Geneva Convention regulations Our men prevented escapes and many Germans have been released to work in harvesting crops.
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Aliceville
Ala
F. A. Prince
Price
Geneva
Col Prince
Atteeville
Starmera
University of Alabama ends long football program
The University of Alabama, long a powerhouse in college football, announced with regret today that it will abandon intercollegiate gridiron competition. The terse bulletin notes a decisive shift away from football despite decades of history and success.
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Turcalogha
Ale
University of Alabama
Soviets Smash Through Heart Of Ukraine
Soviet forces push toward the Dnieper from Kharkov area after capturing Zenkov and nearby villages. Red Army advances threaten Poltava and Lotovaya while German counterattacks fail to halt the surge in the Donets basin and Kharkov region.
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SY Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Mea
Ukraine
Kharkov
Kiev
Zenkay
Red Star Maid
Tals
Kisy
Pitava
Pesrel
Kiley
Dnieper
Zankov
Senkov
Red Army
Red Btar
Zenkov
Goostnya
Che Wert
Poltava
Akhtyrka
Éankov
London
Steadiy
Ried
Poltave
Lotovaya
Brynnak
Unecha
Novozyhkov
Gomel
Donets
Izyum
Voroshiiovgrad
Khrakov
Zenkow
Zenkova
Lebedin
Swedish Boats Sunk by German Destroyers
Stockholm AP reports two Swedish vessels were sunk by three German destroyers in the North Sea off the northwest Danish coast. Sweden’s foreign office warned the attack would be treated as an extremely serious incident in a developing string of tacit actions.
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Stockholm
North Sea
Denmark
Gothenburg
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