Defense Investigations Board Memo Sparks Hearings Clash
Admiral Stanford C. Hooper, retired, faces charges from the Cox committee over defense communications policy. Roosevelt ruling barred Army and Navy officers from testifying. The memo criticized the Defense Communications Commission as failing wartime needs and questioned loyalty checks and wire tapping.
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Stanford C. Hooper
Naval Intelligence
Hooper
Fly
Defense New Wars Communications Board
Bows
Navy
Knox
Eugena L. Garey
Robert Ho Jackem
Congress
Pearl Arbor
Army
Ag Wilmeesen
Roosevelt
Jamef Hooper
Defense Communications Commission
Xx x
Navy Department
Hag
O Ut
CIO
AFL
Ater
FCC
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Defense
C. ©. Communications Union
Fry
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Garey
War Department
Mrs Sara E Brown Dies At Home Here
Mrs Sara Elizabeth Brown, seventy nine, died at her home 410 South Seas yesterday noon after long illness. Funeral services were held at Ward Wilson Chapel with Rev W O Philips officiating. Burial in city cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs B A Lennett Atlanta, Ga. two sons J L Brown and S S M Brown Dothan. twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Mra
Elizabeth Brown
South Seas
Ward-Wilson Chapel
W. O. Philips
Lafayrus Street
Burns
W. Duncan
Grover Peacock
R.W. Vaughn
C. E Garrison
Mre B. A Lenkett
Atlanta, Ga
J. L. Brown
S&s M. Brown
Dothan
Wright Aeronautics engines faced government fraud suits
The government filed damage suits in Trenton against Wright Aeronautics and eight officers, alleging sale of faulty airplane motor materials from the Lockland plant. If proven, defendants face fines up to 2000 per transaction for false claims against the government. Vaughan defended the engines, citing improvements and a strong wartime record, and noted Army board support for thorough inspection.
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Trenton
N. J
Wright Aeronautics
Lockland
Charles D. Hyman
Vaughan
Tokyo
Midway
North Africa
Truman
Lockheed
Army
William Knudwan
Allied forces begin Sicily invasion on D Day
Amid heavy naval bombardment and air cover Allied troops land along Sicily's southeastern coast and near Taormina, est costing officials say the operation proceeds on plan. Eyewitness pilots and officers describe landing beaches crowded with invasion barges and rising smoke as ships push ashore.
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Edward Gilling
Algiers
sUrope
Johnny Doughboy
James Armstrong
Muscogee
Oklo
Sic Han
Samuel J. Gormley, Jr
Alhambra
Calif
Werral
Sicily
Tunis
San Francisco
Joseph Thomas
Pomona
Roscoe Johnson
Chicago
Donald Justler
Bt Albans
N. Y
Tunkja
Libya
Russians Halt Axis Drive In Belgorod Orel Area
Wartime dispatches report Soviet forces halting the German advance around Belgorod and Orel as tanks and artillery push in the sixth day of Hitler’s offensive. Russian air and artillery activity intensifies with claims of substantial German losses, while Moscow readers consider Allied Sicily strikes a further blow to the Axis.
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London
Balgorod
Bergorod
Hitler
Moscow
Orel Kurak
Bel
Agen
Belgorod-Kursk-Orel
Sicily
Red Army
Berlin
Belgorod
Orel
Allied raids press Japanese at Munda and New Georgia
Allied headquarters report Japanese naval units bombed near New Georgia Island as American air forces hit enemy ships in pre-dawn strikes. US troops pressed the Munda air base with a roadblock, killing defenders and dropping 67 tons of bombs on supply areas amid light American casualties. Romeo the proboscis monkey is noted for his long nose.
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Italy
Ricily
Wation G
Roose
Vatican City
Ruarantea
Coata
Southwest Pacific
New Georgia Island
Douglas MacArthur
Munda
New Georgie
Balroko Harbor
Salamaua
New Guinea
Solomons
New Georgia
Balroko
It Payne Dies At Headland Home
It. C. Payne dies at his Headland home after a short illness Friday night. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 30 pm at the Headland Baptist Church with Rev Joby J Lee officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife and son Willis Payne of Pensacola Florida and two brothers J R Payne of Ozark and J W Payne of Cordele Georgia.
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C. Adams
Ben Brantley
W. S Sconyers
Griffin Gibbolomon
W. B. Ostes
M. W. Expy
Chester Sanders
Alford Douglas
Dudley Bush
Willis Payne
Pensacola
Flo
J. R. Payne
Ozark
J. W. Payne Cordele Ga
Allied Armies Stretched Across Regions Amid Sicily Invasion
The British Eighth Army rests while the American First Army stays in Algeria and the British Ninth and Tenth Armies in Iran and Iraq. Analysts say Hed forces not in Sicily outnumber the assault force and remain a threat elsewhere. News of invasion eased tension in Britain, but not among American troops abroad.
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Abgeria
Iran
Iraq
Sicily
Mediterranean
Dunkergus
Roosevelt hails Sicilian invasion as turning point in Europe
At a state dinner Roosevelt and Giraud praised Allied planning and cross allied cooperation as the first attack on Sicily began. Marshall Leahy King Hulll and others listened as the president noted the soft underbelly of Europe had been struck and that news would unfold in coming hours.
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Italy
Giraud
George C Marshall
Ins
Hulll
Wiliam J. Leahy
Ernest J. King
Feet
Roosevelt
Europe
North
Africa
War Bond drive sets ShangriLa goal and monthly groups
The town chairman will be appointed and the commission chairmen will form groups to work toward a monthly War Bond goal. The Shangri-La campaign targets a total of 131,669,275 dollars, with all War Stamps purchased between June 25 and August 24 dedicated to Shangri-La.
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Lovern Anid
Shangri-La
Lovern
Allied air report on Caen Abbeville patrol encounter
Returning air crews report meeting unexpected enemy opposition near Caen and Abbeville, with swarms of Reichsmarshall Goering’s Yellow Nose Focke Wulfs. No enemy formation engaged near Abbeville.
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Ters
Caen
Abbeville
Reichmarshall Goering
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