Hitler's Kursk Offensive Threatens Caucasus Oil Routes
The article warns that Nazi forces push toward the Don River in a massive push against Soviet lines, risking a split of Red armies. It notes one million German troops in action, potential Russian reverses, and goals to sever Moscow's links to the Caucasus and Middle East oil fields, with Voronezh and Stalingrad as pivotal targets.
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Kursk-Kharkov
Don River
Caucasus
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Germany
Middle East
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Russia
Caucasian Isthmus
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Voronezh
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Rostov
Stalingrad
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Astrakhan
Henry C. Cassidy
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Paris
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Red Star
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Upper Don
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Spaatz to lead U.S. Air Forces in Europe
General Carl Spaatz, famed for the Question Mark flight, is named commander in chief of the U S Army Air Forces in the European theater. He awards Distinguished Flying Crosses to three air crew members of the first American air raid on German-held Western Europe.
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London
Carl Spaatz
United States Army Air Forces
Spaatz
United States
Europe
St. Mihiel
Los Angeles
England
Germany
Boyertown
Britain
Air Forces
Randall M. Dorton, Jr
Long Beach
Calif
James W. Wright
Stockton, Calif
Robert
German push toward Voronezh amid heavy fighting
German mechanized divisions pressed toward Voronezh linking central and southern Russian fronts amid stiff Red Army resistance. Moscow reports say Russians abandoned forward positions to blunt a German flanking maneuver while Soviet forces retaliated with tank and air attacks.
Caribbean Sea Toll Mounting
The sinking of another U.S. merchant vessel in the Caribbean raises the AP tally of western Atlantic ship losses since Pearl Harbor to 341. The sunken ship was attacked in daylight, seven minutes long, with 29 survivors eventually reaching a Caribbean port after seven days at sea aboard lifeboats and rafts.
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Associated Press
U. S
Caribbean
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Shb
Navy perfects light diesel for fast chaser craft
The Navy announced after 23 years of effort a new lightweight diesel engine and variable pitch propeller, manufactured at General Motors Electro Motive in La Grange, HI. Mass production of the coastal chaser power plant was hailed as a major advance in the anti submarine campaign. The engine is described as possibly the lightest ocean duty diesel, occupying about one third the space of earlier engines and enabling longer range, more armament, or higher speed.
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Washington
Navy
Electro- Motive Division
General Motors Corporation
la Grange
Navy Department
Federal Agents Strike Bund Crushing Blow
Federal agents, acting on newly returned indictments, charged 37 top German American Bund members with conspiracy to evade national defense laws. Thirty-six faced counts including Selective Service violations and aiding band members to resist the armed forces. Denaturalization proceedings were begun against leaders as U S Attorney Correa vowed to shut the group down. Fritz Kuhn and Gerhard Kunze were implicated. Kunze bailed at fifty thousand dollars and sought in Hartford for espionage act violations. Bund leaders denied operating publicly but indictments allege underground activity.
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New York
Bund
United States
United
States
Mathias Correa
Fritz Kohn
Gerhard William Kunze
Mexico
Kuhn
Kunze
Hartford
Conn
German claim sinks American cruiser in arctic convoy
Berlin reported that German forces sank a heavy American cruiser and 19 merchant ships totaling 122 000 tons in Arctic waters near Spitsbergen and the North Cape as part of a convoy bound for Archangel. The claim noted submarines and air units, with continued combat and some sailors rescued by German Red Cross planes.
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Arctic
Spitsbergen
Norwegian
North Cape
Hitler
Archangel
War debt of pride fuels Army Navy aviation feud
Congressional leaders warn Army and Navy aviation chiefs to quit squabbling or face consequences. Feud, ongoing since Pearl Harbor, grew after Coral Sea and Midway. Each side claims credit for victories, harming morale and public image. Behind the scenes, civilian leaders Knox and Stimson with Marshall Arnold and Towers may seek a peace conference. otherwise the issue could go to the White House.
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Pearl Harbor
Coral Sea
Midway
Hollywood
Chapel Hill
Knox
Stimson
Marshall
General Arnold
Admiral Towers
White House
Britain Reveals Wire-Trailing Rocket Defense
London July 7. Wire trailing rockets disclosed as a new British defense against aerial raiders. Already used to shield merchant ships for over a year, the system fires a projectile that opens into a parachute with long wires hanging below. When planes dive, rockets rise and aim to entangle wires, forcing attackers off course or risking entanglement.
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London
Britain
Retired Bishop Dies Suddenly in Asheville
Bishop William N Ainsworth seventy died of a heart attack in his Asheville hotel room shortly after noon today He arrived yesterday from Macon Georgia with his wife and son Malcolm secretary of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce He was a native of Camilla Georgia and served churches there before becoming a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church South later part of the Methodist Church Funeral plans were not yet completed but burial will be in Macon where he had lived for years.
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William N. Ainsworth
Methodist Church
Ainsworth
Macon
Malcolm
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
The
Five Year War Toll Given By Chinese Spokesman
Chungking July 7 A Chinese army spokesman reported five years of fighting in China have cost Japan about 1,000,000 dead and 1,300,000 wounded with 29,924 Japanese prisoners taken. He said about 900,000 Japanese troops were on duty in China and up to 1,000 planes could be used. Tokyo claimed over 35,000,000 Chinese casualties and 113,111 Japanese deaths in the period, as mass meetings and price cuts marked the sixth year launch. Chiang Kai-shek declared China would not stand alone and victory over Japan would come soon.
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Chungking
China
United States
Tokyo
Imperial
Jap Made Canes Stir Controversy At Army War Show
Rep. Samuel A. Weiss planned a congressional resolution to probe Army War Show Inc and its contracts nationwide after Japanese made canes were sold at the Pittsburgh event drawing protests from 65,000 spectators and leading to the dismissal of 11 civilian hawkers. Police burned the canes inscribed Army Air Show as Weiss questioned contractor profits and a Bell Telephone program donation.
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Pittsburgh
Samuel A. Weiss
D-Pa
Army War Show, Inc
Weiss
Army War Show
Army Air Show
Japan
Army
Army Air Show, Inc
Bell Telephone Company
Army Relief
China Urges Allies to Open Second Front in Pacific
Washington dispatch reports Major General Chu Shih-Ming, military attaché for Chungking, urging the United States to focus full power on the Pacific to crush Japan this year. He argues 3,500 warplanes could enable a Chinese offensive, with bases and fuel still available, and warns a delayed European second front endangers China’s survival.
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China
Pacific
Washington
Europe
United Nations
Chungking
Chu Shih- Ming
United States
Japan
Russia
Axis Columns Subjected To Air Attacks Near Alamein
British and American air forces struck Axis positions in Egypt and Libya as Rommel’s force withdrew on the southern flank near El Alamein. Allied daylight bombing hit shipping at a Libyan port while raids behind lines created fires and confusion. Ground fighting centered on heavy artillery and a night assault between El Alamein and a southern ridge.
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Egypt
E. Alamein
Bengali
Libya
London
Rommel
Nile Delta
Fi Daba
Matruh
Tobruk
Alexandria
el Alamein
Claude J. F. Auchinneck
AFL Declines to Recognize Soviet Labor Movement
Washington July 7 AFL executive council refused to recognize the Russian labor movement as free labor while CIO regards it on equal terms. British efforts to foster Anglo American Soviet labor collaboration for the war effort failed to win AFL approval. Sir Walter Citrine presented the proposal last May. Daniel Tobin disclosed the AFL stance. The CIO claims unity talks are progress. AFL says government control over unions persists.
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American Federation of Labor
CIO
AFL Executive Council
AFL
Walter Citrine
British Trades Union Congress
Daniel J. Tobin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL Council
International Tramster
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