170 Jap Planes Destroyed On Ground In New Guinea Defeat
Allied bombers hit Wewak area with 10,000 bombs destroying 120 Japanese aircraft and severely damaging 50 more. About 1,500 air personnel were killed as only seven enemy planes got airborne. MacArthur hailed the ground success while Whitehead called it the opening battle for air supremacy in central New Guinea.
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Yates McDaniel
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Associated Press
Vern Haugland
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Mitchell
Douglas MacArthur
Central New Guinea
Ennis C. Whitehead
Pacific
Salamaua
Borum
Vila
Solomons
Japan
Kolombangara
Dauntless
Group Confident Paper Scarcity Can Be Solved
In Quebec Canadian newsprint makers met a congressional subcommittee studying pulp wood areas. Chairman Lyle H. Boren urged that the free press in Canada and the United States be sustained and that adequate capacity exists to meet U.S. needs, which import 70 percent of its newsprint from Canada. The visit toured major Canadian mills.
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Quebec
Que
Lyle H. Boren
Free Press
Canada
United States
Boren
Saguenay River
Confusion over Escort at Boys Town Grounds
The guide at Father Flanagan's Boys Town mistook a guest from Houston for the founder, Rev. Edward J. Flanagan, and had to confirm the person he escorted around the grounds was Rev. Edward F. rather than the Rev. Flanagan.
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Omaha
Ned
Boys Town
Father Flanagan
School For Boys
Edward J. Flanagan
Edward F
Houston
Tex
Allied Push Near Bairoko Harbor Reported
Allied forces report new ground successes within three miles of the trapped Japanese garrison at Bairoko harbor across the Kula gulf from Vella Lavella, as U S troops occupy Vella Lavella island.
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United States
Vella Lavella Island
Kula Gulf
New Georgia
Bairoko Harbor
War workers can resign for better pay under new WMC rulings
Washington August 18 war job workers can quit chiseling bosses under revised War Manpower Commission rules aimed at aiding war production. Previously a worker in essential industry needed a statement of availability from the old boss for a move. Now moves to higher pay are allowed if wages or conditions fall below legal standards or below War Labor Board approved levels and the employer failed to adjust. U.S. Employment Service approval remains required for moves to new regions or to occupations on a 149 critical list.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
U. S. Employment Service
U.S.E.S
War Labor Board
WLB
Soldiers resume Chestnut Street marches to salute widows
The Indigent Widows and Single Women's Society Home residents cheered as an army training unit returned to march down Chestnut Street, opposite their home, after a three week route change to Sansom Street. Col. Ernest Godding announced the men will continue marching down Chestnut Street every Tuesday noon, with traffic or no traffic.
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Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Drexel Institute
Army
Ernest ©. Godding
GOP and Demo Oppose Draft of Fathers in Peacetime
Washington August 18. Republican Rep. Dewey and Democrat Rep. Cannon predicted swift passage of legislation to prevent drafting of pre Pearl Harbor dads. They returned from home districts and said Congress will act after Sept. 14 recess. Dewey cited agitation in Chicago and family disruption concerns. Cannon warned violent upheaval, stressing manpower needs. Ramspeck, House Democratic whip, proposed re studying the entire manpower situation.
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Washington
Rep
Dewey
R-Nl
Cannon
D-Fla
Congress
Chicago
Ramspeck
House
Official Group On Inspection Trip In Pacific
Official group on inspection trip arrives in Hawaii led by Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson. Lt Gen William S Knudsen and Maj Gen Leroy Lutis among the party, with Lt Gen Robert C Richardson Jr hosting. Delegates to the 53rd annual state convention of the Junior Order United American Mechanics plan to elect officers and set the 1944 convention site.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Robert P Patterson
War Department
William S. Knudsen
Department
Army
Robert C. Richardson Jr
Julius H. Arberg
Stimson
Leroy Lutis
Headquarters
Army Service Forces
Washington
Boyken C. Wright
War Secretary's Office
Shelby
United American Mechanics
Workers urged to consult offices before seeking new jobs
WMC Director Paul V. McNutt warns that workers moving from farms to war plants or between regions risk ineligibility. He urges workers to check with local employment offices before leaving to ensure their eligibility upon arrival.
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WMC
Paul V. McNutt
Bloom predicts Russia to aid in postwar peace talks
Washington August 18 chairman Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says Russia has been accepted as a respected colleague in war and will remain a participant in seeking permanent peace. He notes nations admire Russia's wartime effort and fears of a separate peace are unfounded. He urges banning rearmament for Germany Japan and Italy to sustain peace.
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Washington
Bloom
D-Ny
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Russia
United Nations
Congress
Germany
Germans Can't Stop Yankees Says General
London August 18 Brig Gen Robert C Williams of Albany Texas who manned the nose gun in a Flying Fortress raid on Schweinfurt says Germans threw everything into breaking up the attack but so far Jerry hasn't anything that can stop our formations Lieut Gen Jacob L Devers commander of US forces in Europe was among returning fliers Major Thomas P Beckett of Blue Mound Illinois led the formation Numerous claims of fighters shot down were made by the group Those who brought down Nazi planes included Staff Sgt Jack H Daniel of Durham North Carolina
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London
Robert C. Williams
Albany
Tex
Schweinfurt
Jacob L. Devers
U. S
Thomas P. Beckett
Blue Mound
Jack H. Daniel
Durham
N. C
Air Show Closes Drive For Cadets
Savnnah Ga Aug 18 Army Air Forces fighting ships from five states line up at Chatham Field for military demonstrations ending a Civil Air Patrol recruiting drive for aviation cadets. Planes range from four engine Flying Fortresses to fleet pursuits and small civilian stunt ships brought from bases in Alabama Florida Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina. Gov Olin D Johnston of South Carolina planned to attend flying to Savannah with Maj Dexter Martin wing commander of the CAP for S Carolina.
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Savannah
Army Air Forces
Chattam Field
Civil Air Patrol
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Olin D. Johnston
Dexter Martin
Badoglio To Speak To Italians Tonight
London August 18 The Rome radio said Marshal Pietro Badoglio Italian premier would speak to Sicily tonight at 8 15 p m after an address by former premier Vittorio Eman Orlando Orlando a Sicilian and one of the Versailles four was in seclusion since breaking with Mussolini in 1925 He is 83 and reputed to be a great orator Also Nicaragua sent 2 500 000 pounds of raw rubber to the U S in 1942 43 to help the rubber situation.
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London
Rome Radio
Associated Press
Pietro Badoglio
Sicily
Badoglio
Vittorio Eman
Orlando
Versailles
Snce
Benito Mussolini
Italy
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