Allied convoy aided by air cover in Atlantic run
Carrier and land based planes provided continuous air protection across the Atlantic as a convoy crossed safely with one U boat destroyed and others likely sunk. Archer and Keppel escorted the convoy with Hudson Ventura Liberator Catalina and Martlet aircraft aiding the effort.
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Atlantic
Admiralty
Air Ministry
H. M. S Archer
Britain
M. J. Evans
H. M. S. Keppel
Keppel
Russia
Malta
U. S
Bismarck
Hudson
Ventura
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Catalina
Royal Canadian Air Force
Eastern Air Command
Sunderland
Halifax
Royal Air Force
Coastal Command
H. M. S. Archer
Archer
Fleet Air Arm
Liberty Ship Named for Cohan to Be Launched Tomorrow
In Baltimore a Liberty ship honoring George M. Cohan will be launched tomorrow at Bethlehem Fairfield yards with Eddie Cantor and Cantor’s wife Ida Cantor present. The ceremony will feature "Over There" and "It's a Grand Old Flag" as workers pause, with Cantor’s daughter Marjorie to sponsor the vessel.
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Baltimore
George M. Cohan
Eddie Cantor
Ida Cantor
Eddie
Bethlehem Fairfield
Cantor
Cohan
Marjorie
Strong RAF Fleet Heads For New Raid
A large force of RAF bombers departed from the southeast coast for an operation in Occupied France. Earlier raids by RAF light bombers and fighters hit targets across France, Holland, and Belgium, including locomotives, oil tanks, factories, and a bus full of German soldiers, with several aircraft engaging multiple targets and report of a barge explosion near Courtrai.
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London
Royal Air Force
France
RAF
Cologne
Hamburg
Holland
Belgium
Air Ministry
Abbeville-Amiens
Courtrai
High School Draft Deferment Bill Sent to White House
Washington July 3 04 The House accepted Senate amendments sending to the White House a bill permitting high school students to obtain draft deferment the end of their current academic year if they are called for induction during the second half of the year.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Coal Picture Brightens As Work Sentiment Grows
A multi item dispatch reports improving conditions in the coal fields with back‑to‑work sentiment spreading in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Virginia, and Tennessee. It notes 100,000 miners idle nationwide but rising coal production as local unions vote to return to work, amid talks on contract status and retroactive wage increases. General Henri Giraud travels through Natal en route to the United States for a Washington visit possibly via Martinique, with naval officials discussing Martinique’s status and potential leadership conversations with the French colonial authorities.
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Pittsburgh
Westernennsylvania
Republic Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Virginia
Tennessee
United Mine Workers
UMW
Western
John P. Busarello
Vesta No
Ickes
City-Wide Vice Raid Nets Only One Couple Today
Ninety officers from High Point joined 18 military police in a dawn raid on five rooming houses aiming to curb vice. Only two suspects, Gladys Yarbrough and Frank Weaver, were taken into custody. Chief Friddle called the operation a failure vs last year’s 28 arrests.
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High Point
Police Department
Piedmont
North Main Street
Gladys Yarbrough
Cotton Grove Road
Lexington
Frank Weaver
North State Street
W. G. Friddle
Friddle
Brazil-U S cooperation aids quick campaign, says ambassador
Rio de Janeiro July 31 Jefferson Caffery U S ambassador said the early triumph of the American campaign was made possible by cooperation with Brazil in establishing and using air and naval bases in the northeast. He praised Brazil’s rapidly growing army training as a first class striking force in a message to Americans celebrating Independence Day.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Jefferson Caffery
U. S
United States
Caffer
Baruch Assists BEW RFC Clash Amid Policy Row
Bernard Baruch, adviser to the administration, has stepped in to ease policy differences between the Board of Economic Warfare and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Milo Perkins said Baruch helped break log jams as BEW and RFC clashed over purchases of vital war materials abroad. Perkins did not say if Baruch’s intervention continues after recent exchanges between Wallace and Jones.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
Administration
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Wallace
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Baruch
Milo Perkins
Joint Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Perkins
War Industries Board
James F. Byrnes
Jones
State Peach Crop Complete Failure
Raleigh July 3. North Carolina's peach crop, once estimated at 15 percent of last year, is now declared a complete failure by M. E. Gardner, principal horticulturist for the State College Extension Service. The June estimate of 360000 bushels will not exceed half that, with picking limited to a few scattered orchards of early peaches still underway.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
M. E. Gardner
N. C. State College Extension Service
Raids Hit New Peak Of Fury On Italians
Allied air and naval strikes on Sicily and mainland Italy reached a new peak of intensity as heavy bombers from North Africa and the Middle East attacked Lecce Grottaglie and San Pancrazio, with Palermo Catania and Cagliari also pummeled. Nearly 100 Liberators joined the assault, destroying or damaging airfields amid aerial combat. Axis losses included 12 aircraft.
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North Africa
Middle East
Sicily
Palermo
Catania
Cagliari
Sardinia
U. S
Lecce
Grottaglie
San Pancrazio
Taranto
Allied Forces Join Lines in South Pacific Skirmish
American warships ambushed a Japanese force attempting to shell Rendova Island last night. Three light cruisers and four destroyers engaged, driving off the attackers with heavy gunfire. The clash likely marks the first in a string of sea actions as the Japanese bolster their units to counter the Allied advance.
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Washington
Rendova Island
Solomons
U. S
Nazi Thrust Frustrated By Red Guns
Soviet and German actions on multiple fronts are summarized with Soviet artillery and infantry repelling a German advance toward Smolensk, plus naval and air combat around the Black Sea and Solomons theater. Reports note German forces suffering losses, minefield setbacks, and continued Allied pressure near Munda, Rendova, and Salamaua with U.S. and Australian units advancing in New Guinea.
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London
Smolensk
Moscow
Moscow Radio
Soviet Monitor
Berlin
Hungry Martinique Awaits Outcome of Official Talks
San Juan Puerto Rico July 3 food to relieve hungry natives of Martinique and Guadeloupe awaits the outcome of talks between Vice Admiral John H Hoover commander of the 10th naval district and Admiral Georges Robert French high commissioner for the Antilles on the future political status of French insular possessions in the West Indies. A special envoy Hoppenot from the National Committee of Liberation may visit Martinique to discuss entry of the Antilles into the anti Vichy French Empire. If Robert remains unyielding the food ships may be diverted to other West Indian islands.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Henri Giraud
Natal
United States
O Globo
French Committee of National Liberation
Washington
Roosevelt
South Atlantic
Africa
Giraud
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Martinique
Guadeloupe
John H. Hoover
10Th
Georges Robert
Antilles
West Indies
Hoppenot
Robert
Navy
New York
Caribbean
Hoover
West Indian Isle
Senate Group Seeks Broad Oil Authority for Ickes
A Senate committee urged tighter gasoline controls in the Midwest to ship more motor fuel east and called for centralized oil oversight under Secretary Ickes with the Office of Defense Transportation remaining in control of transportation. The group warned shortages could worsen and stressed war demands would absorb any extra oil, urging the OPA to act as a rationing service under PAW guidance.
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Mid-West
Senate
Ickes
Maloney
D-Conn
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United States
Middle West
Far West
Eastern Seaboard
Pacific
Northwest
New England
Near East
Petroleum Administration For War
PAW
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Armed Forces Casualty List Totals 91,644
Washington reports total armed forces casualties since the war began at 91,644. The breakdown lists 16,696 dead, 21,828 wounded, 31,579 missing, and 21,541 prisoners of war, with detailed by service figures for Army Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
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Washington
Office of War Information
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Marine Corps
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