Eight Missing After Linoleum Plant Blast in Newark Area
A wall of rubble at the Congoleum-Nairn plant near the Passaic river hid at least eight missing workers after a blast that killed three and injured ten. Fire crews used steamshovels to search the debris as authorities reviewed causes and the plant resumed normal production within 48 hours.
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Kearny
N. J
Tony
Congoleum-Nairn
Charles Burnett
Ewark
Newersey
Passaic River
Ich
U. S
Ibert W. Dlawkes
R-Nj
Asirman
Board of
Direct
L. Ie
Newark
Cork
Army Ordnance Department
Ew York
Ant
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cnts
Army
Navy
Andrew McArthur
Dollar Bill Theft Shocks Theboro Community
In Sheboro on August 20 a break-in at F J Phillips CPA office on the nd floor of the First National Building occurred between 6 and 7:30 PM. Small change postage stamps and possibly valuable two dollar bills were destroyed and the cab with the office ransacked. J C C Stoker of the High Point detective bureau was called in to take fingerprints, which were scarce.
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Sheboro
F. J. Phil
First National
Phillips
J. C. C. Stoker
Tive Bureau
High Point Department
Bombing Sweep Hits Burma Town in Night Raid
Air Force Mohawks conducted a major sweep along the Chind river in Burma targeting the Japanese held town of Kyauk on Ramree island. While the first pass reported no buildings hit, a second run damaged mortar installations and harbor targets, with several sampans damaged and a 50 foot steamer sunk by RAF night patrols on the river.
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Delhi
Air Force
Burma
Aik
Kalane
Tangel
Kyaukon Ramree
Thinegun
Anr
Polish Armies Prepare to Strike Axis In Europe
London dispatch says two Polish armies aided by the United States and Britain will attack the axis when invasion begins. Led by Lieut General Wladyslaw Anders, one force of about eighty thousand men is in the Middle East, with another sizable force in Britain. The units include trained girls and Boy Scouts ready for ordnance and signaling work.
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London
Great Britain
Europe
Poland
Wladyslaw Anders
Middle East
Britain
Rome Raps Bombing of Italian Towns
The Rome radio accused the Allies of indiscriminately bombing Italian towns and noted no official reply to Badoglio's declaration of Rome as an open city. The broadcast claimed British American propaganda mocks the action and cites noble reasons behind it.
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London
Rome
Badoglio
Associated Press
Ministry of Information
Italy
New York Parties Brace For November Lieutenant Governor Vote
Albany reports say New York parties focus on the November 2 lieutenant governor election following a Court of Appeals ruling that a successor must be chosen this year. If a Democrat wins, Dewey’s presidential prospects could shift. Republicans defend a solidified post in a bid to maintain control.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Court of Appeals
Democratic State Committee
Thomas W. Wallace
Republians
Thomas E
Dewey
New Chemicals Found That Damage Malignant Cancer
Memorial Hospital’s annual report reveals three chemicals that can damage malignant cancer more than healthy tissue in rats, with potential to be developed into targeted cancer treatments. A vitamin C salt may reduce cancer in animals, and the report notes many more chemicals that could cause cancer in humans. The search is slow and costly at about four thousand dollars per patient.
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New York
Memorial Hospital
Nylon hose goes on sale in Washington amid long lines
In Washington on August 20 nylon hose appeared at a storefront sale with 50 pairs available at ceiling price. About 150 people waited since 5 pm, two sold at a time under police supervision, as shoppers included women, schoolgirls, soldiers, sailors, government workers and housewives. The store said the weekly event drew no violence and required only a single clerk.
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Washington
Fulmer Predicts Food Shortage This Winter
Washington August 20 The House Agriculture Committee chairman Fulmer predicts a serious winter food shortage and argues for a compulsory furlough of farm labor from the army during harvest. He cites rotting vegetables and a 12,000,000 bale cotton crop with 75 percent middling or lower quality.
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Washington
Fulmer
D-Sc
House Agriculture Committee
How Pullman Cars Get Their Names
Chicago report explains how Pullman sleeping cars earned Greek and city based names after Wagner Co. merger. It notes the naming shift from numbers to names, the Greek myth origin, and the system of series like Mt mountains and Lake for quick car identification.
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Pullman
Chicago
INS
Diogenes
Sophocles
Pullman Co
Wagner Sleeping Car Co
Wagner
Richard Dean
Chicago Public Library
Mountain
Lake
Point Hope
Memphis War Conversion: Small Firms Turn to Skilled Industry
Memphis undertakes a broad conversion to skilled manufacturing to aid war effort. Graves & Steuner retooled a watch shop into a chronometer parts factory led by W. E. Van Hoesen. The plan spreads to lens grinding, dies for cartridges, and aircraft component production.
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Graves & Steuner
van Hoesen
Navy
Memphis
Arthur Field
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Caine Steel Co
International Harvester Company
Ford Automobile Assembly
Fisher Company
Fathers In War Work May Escape Draft
Washington officials said only nondeferrable fathers in war jobs could face induction in October. No change to the goal of 10,800,000 armed forces by 1943 end. Navy figures suggest 2,861,000 in uniform by Jan. 1 and Army aims at 8,200,000. Congress set to debate bills to bar induction of fathers this year and possibly discharge those already in uniform.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
Coast Guard
Marines
Army
Congress
Wheeler
D-Mont
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Rudy Vallee Announces Engagement To Singer
Hollywood reports Lt. Rudy Vallee of the Coast Guard has announced engagement to singer Bette Jane Greer under contract to Howard Hughes. The wedding date is not set. Vallee's prior marriages included Fay Webb in 1921 and Leonia Cauchers in 1928.
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Hollywood
Rudy Vallee
Coast Guard
Bette Jane Greer
Howard Hughes
Vallee
Miss Greer
Washington, D. C
Fay Webb
Leonia Cauchers
Gasly Affair Ends With Gas Woes After Wreck
Coroner W. F. Bell arrived at a single car crash in SOUTHPORT as a vehicle rolled over. A man, seemingly trapped, whispered that no one was dead but lamented losing all his gas. The scene prompted emergency rescue efforts and a tense, grim exchange.
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Southport
W. FE. Bell
Thomasville Boy Held Prisoner By Japs In Philippines
Me and Mrs. Roscoe R. Webb of Thomasville report their son Royce T. Webb a U S Navy machinist first class is interned in Philippine Military Prison number one, prisoner of the Japanese. He is in excellent health and hopes to be home soon. he had been missing after the Luzon sinking and was captured after seven months. Webb, a 2 year Navy veteran and local high school graduate, had seen action in the Pacific.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Roscoe R. Webb
Warner Street
Royce T. Webb
U.S. Navy
Philippine Military
Webb
Luzon
Pacific
Navy
Turnabout at Princeton University Students Target Sleep
Princeton University students in the army specialist training program begin breakfast early while civilian students move to 7 am meals, soldiers get 8 am dining time. A fleet of more than 40 U.S. owned tankers operates on the Great Lakes.
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Princeton
N. J
Army
Great Lakes
Memphis Drives Postwar Industrial Revival
A prime contract to produce portable electric generators for the Army Signal Corps signals a push by Memphis and the southern states to boost their national economic standing. The effort aims to prevent a return to past industrial inferiority after the war and to strengthen regional industry.
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Army Signal Corps
Memphis
South
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George L. Piana
Harvard
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
George LA Piana
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Musolini
Winston Churchill
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Genoa
Civitavecchia
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Parvenus
By S. Burton Heatil
A. Graves & Steuner Co
W. E. van Hoesen
ISE
Graves & Steuner Jewelry
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Binswanger
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Lewis Supply Company
Lewis
Philippines
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