RAF Bombers Carry Assault Into Poland
London report details twin RAF raids on Kassel in Germany and Gdynia in former Poland. About 60 bombers hit Kassel with 30 lost. two Hurricane escorts downed over occupied France. British flights extended over 1,500 miles round trip as part of support to Soviet Russia and efforts to cripple German war industry and U-boat bases.
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Gdynia
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France
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Ruhr
Rhineland
Hitler
Atlantic
Volga
Arctic
Mediterranean
U. S. Official Warns Against Claiming Major Victory
A high U S official cautions that operations in the Solomon Islands are not a decisive UN victory. He cites two phases since American footholds formed in the southeastern Pacific, noting Guadalcanal landings and a limited reconnaissance in force. Allied actions near Milne Bay are also reported with enemy losses.
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Washington
Solomon Islands
United Nations
Pacific
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Solomons
Desert War Stalemate Holds As Rommel Faces Alexander
The Libyan front remains fixed as both sides dig in from Qattara to El Alamein. Air power could tilt the balance with Anglo American superiority, while Rommel faces supply limitations and heavy Russian front losses complicating Hitler’s warplane reserves.
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Egypt
Captain Taken By Nazis After Ship Is Sunk
Captain Christian Evenson was captured by a German submarine after his Norwegian merchantman was torpedoed in the Atlantic late in July. Survivors totaled 24 crew members with a Brazilian messboy lost. all others reached shore. Seaman Joseph Russell described the surfaced U boat and the youths aboard.
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Christian Evenson
Atlantic Ocean
Navy
Joseph Russell
South 100Th Street
Newark
Evenson
Norway
Russell
Treasury OKays Over-All Limit On Tax Burden
Washington Aug 28 Senator Connally said the treasury proposed an over all limit on corporate levies capping taxes at 80 cents per 31 of net income. He added a post war rebate and debt deduction of 20 percent of taxes due from corporations. The plan replaces an earlier 15 percent reserve fund idea and seeks to lift total corporate levy to 55 percent while keeping the 90 percent excess profits tax.
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Connally
D-Tex
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Randolph Paul
Connally Defends Community Property Rights In Tax Debate
Senator Connally vows to strike from the revenue bill the joint filing provision that would cancel community property rights for estate taxes. He argues halving jointly held property under current law can keep estates below exemptions, and that only half of a spouse’s property should count toward the estate.
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Connaily
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Nevada
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Treasury
Milne Bay tug of war opens in New Guinea clash
Gen MacArthur’s headquarters reported no details on the Japanese landing at Milne Bay as Allied airmen pound convoys and barges. Observers noted the operation aims for jungle terrain and shock troops, with no large pitched battle yet evident.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Buna
Milne Bay
Japs Beat Publisher Mills Recalls Shanghai Assault
Hal P. Mills, Shanghai newspaper publisher who survived three bombings of his plant, disembarked the Gripsholm in Jersey City and told reporters of his treatment by Japanese guards in Shanghai. He described being beaten on the neck with a bamboo pole after a toothpick was found on him.
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Hal P. Mills
Shanghai
Gripsholm
Jersey City
Mills
Chinese Take Control of Vital Airport
Chinese dispatches report forces reentered Chuhsien in Chekiang and recaptured the vital airfield just outside the city, a major East China base from which Japan could be bombed. Lishui also entered, with fierce street fighting as Chinese armies press advances across Chekiang and Kiangsi, reclaiming railway lines and expanding their recovered territory.
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Chuhsein
Chekiang
East China
Japan
High Command
Lishui
Chuhsien
Kiangsi
Finish Battle Is Predicted In Solomons
MELBOURNE Aug 28 Gen Sir Thomas Blamey said the Solomon islands campaign is a battle not a single action with both sides drawing tremendous resources. He expressed optimism about Milne Bay operations and praised Allied air force for contesting the Japanese landings amid heavy clouds and rain. ground units fight in knee deep mud.
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Melbourne
Solomon Islands
Thomas Blamey
Milne Bay
New Guinea
South Pacific
Kokoda
Blamey
Anta n Cra TIRLions Anta n Cra TIRLions Subbing for Ray Tucker
The government studies German and Japanese broadcasts for direct and indirect information. Reports from Tokyo and Berlin have provided partial confirmations of events such as the Solomons engagement and Churchill's Stalin visit. Certain Japanese civilians favor peace, reportedly under guard, while a spokesman named Hori continues speaking on the air.
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Ray Tucker
War and Navy Departments
Atlantic
Pacific
Solomons
Tokyo
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Joseph Stalin
Berlin
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Toshi Go
Japan Times and
Hori
Japan
Jap Army
Navy
Shortage of trained men for Army service warned
General Somervell told educators that shortages of trained Army specialists are serious and worsening. He urged schools to adjust peace time curricula, noting 63 of every 100 inductees require specialized skills such as electricity, automotive mechanics, radios, or carburetor work. He warned the situation could undermine modern mechanized warfare.
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Washington
Brehon B. Somervell
Fowler Harper
War Manpower Commission
Armed Services
Harper
American Institute On Education and the War
Army
Services of Supply
Roosevelt hints at meatless day for U S
President Roosevelt indicated the United States might adopt a meatless day each week to free 30 or 40 cargo ships now used for meat transport. He spoke at a press conference saying the timing would depend on further study of transportation impacts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Destroyer Ingraham Reported Lost In Atlantic
Fog shrouded waters of the Atlantic claimed the U S destroyer Ingraham built at Charleston. The Navy gave no details beyond a collision in fog as per communique 113. The ship, named for Captain Duncan W Ingraham, had a normal crew of 175.
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Atlantic
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Ingraham
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S. C., Navy Yard
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Pine Ridge Inn
Duncan W. Ingraham
South Carolina
San Francisco
Battle for Stalingrad Grim as German Drive Reaches City
Moscow dispatches report Nazi spearhead encircled northwest of Stalingrad while heavy fighting rages in the city’s outskirts. Red Army reports claim local counterattacks recaptured three settlements as the defense tightens amid escalating offensive in the Caucasus.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Ukraine
Volga
Stalingrad
Red Army
Stalin
Rzhev
Red Star
Spatches
Pravda
Caucasus
Ezein
RAF Joins U. S. In U-Boat Defense
Washington news reports that British RAF Coastal Command aircraft and crews have joined U S forces in anti-submarine operations in the western Atlantic. The move includes planes and personnel sent from Britain to aid intensified efforts against German U-boats, a campaign officials say has grown successful in recent months.
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Washington
Atlantic
Royal Air Force Coastal Command
United States Naval
Navy
British Isles
United States
Six of Seven Aluminum Plants Reject By Vote
Pittsburgh dispatch reports six of seven Aluminium Company of America plants voted to reject the War Labor Board wage increase ruling. Plants named New Kensington Pennsylvania Detroit Tennessee Maryville Connecticut Badin North Carolina Edgewater New Jersey did not report. Union head Nick A. Zonarich sought a work disruption if needed and aimed to resolve the issue without interruption of work. Minimum pay cited as 65 to 73 cents per hour. company argued a 15.8 percent rise Jan-May 1941.
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Aluminium Company of America
War Labor Board
CIO Aluminum Workers of America
New Kensington
Zonarich
AON
Aluminum Company
Northern Mills
Southern Mills
WLB
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