Air Offensive Advances in Asia Amid Chekiang-Kiangsi News
AP reports U S air forces strike Hankow Canton and Yangtze area oil stores as Japan pushes in southeastern Chekiang while Chinese forces deny losing the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway. Submarine attacks near Kiska claim another Japanese destroyer sunk with three more destroyed or burning.
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United States
China
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Shanghai
Singapore
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hankow
Canton
Yangtze
White Clouds
Chekiang Province
Hailowshih
Lishui
Wu River
Aleutians
Navy
Kiska Island
Red Submarine Cripples Huge Nazi Warship
An AP report notes a Soviet submarine crippled the German battleship Tirpitz on an Arctic supply route amid large scale fighting on the Don front. German high command denies full damage while claiming momentum against Soviet lines and a widening Don corridor as tanks and air power press the Russian front near Voronezh.
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Clyde Farnsworth
Russia
Germany
Upper
Don
Vichy
Bobrov
Voronezh
Tirpitz
Arctic
RAF
Wilhelmshaven
Wesermaende
Red Army
Staryi Oskol
Hitler pressuring Russians with a second front hope
The War Today column argues Hitler leverages a weak Soviet supply line as the Allies debate a possible invasion of Europe to open a second front. It notes Allied materiel from Britain and the United States and warns that volume of supplies to Russia remains vital while Nazi strategy aims to sever Soviet sources and secure fresh German supplies.
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Hitler
Europe
England
United States
Russia
Caucasus
Middle East
rHdlers
Leaders Consult With Free French
The State Department named Admiral Jiarold R Starr and Brigadier General Charles L Bolte as U S representatives to consult with the Free French in London. The move signals a military purpose and does not change policy toward Free France. A memorandum to General de Gaulle described the Free French committee as a symbol of French resistance.
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Washington
State Department
Jiarold R Starr
Charles L. Bolte
United States
Free French National Committee
London
Charles de Gaulle
Stark
Bolte
Free French National
WPB reorganizes to speed war material supply
Washington July 9 Donald M Nelson realigned the War Production Board to sharpen policy and speed raw material flows into factories. He appointed two vice chairmen and a director general of operations to ease his load and keep civilian economy moving while prioritizing army and navy needs. The three appointees, drawn from private industry, include William L Batt as deputy and James S Knowlson overseeing programs.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
America
War Production Board
Nelson
Army
Navy
WPB
William L. Batt
Batt
SKF Ball Bearing Company
James S. Knowlson
Ireland Troops Finish Gruelling Battle Practice
In Northern Ireland US Canadian and British troops completed eight days of joint battle practice. Maj. Gen. Hartle directed US forces with Maj. Gen. Majendie leading British troops. The exercise ended with a massive tank attack as US armor joined Hartle. High officers praised the cooperation and initiative shown by both nations.
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AEF
Northern Ireland
IUP
United States
Ulster
Russel P. Hartle
Iseland
W. H. B.majendie
H. E. Franklyn
Hartle
Franklyn
Miner’s Return Brings War Note to Gold Town
Charles Hall, isolated above the Feather River since October 12, returns to Quincy to find a startling message from his draft board. The town learns America is at war as he reenters society after months alone.
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Quincy
Calif
Charles Hall
Feather River
America
National Lefit Prices and MacArthur Debate Rages
Washington backs Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower for eventual Allied command while debating a possible shift of General Douglas MacArthur from the Pacific to Europe. The article notes public enthusiasm for a bold war figure and recalls earlier wartime psychology as leaders vie for morale boosters amid limited victories.
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War Department
Douglas AL. MacArthur
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bataan
Eisenhower
United Nations
MacArthur
England
Ground Troops Destroy German Cannon in Western Desert
British night and day raids in the western desert claim destruction of German cannon and enemy casualties, with Rommel retreating to avoid flanking. Air forces report stronger Allied position, losses of 110 Allied pilots versus higher Axis aircraft losses, and continued vigil to block Axis reinforcements toward the Nile Valley.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Alexandria
Erwin Rommel
el Daba
E] Alamein
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Nile Valley
Rommel
RAF
Axis
Larry Allen
Britain
Mediterranean
RAF Assaults Wilhelmshaven
Royal Air Force bombers attacked Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s naval base and submarine hub, in the first German raid since July 2. Four bombers were missing. Canadian crews reported carrying extra large bombs. Germans claimed fires and damaged facilities at Wilhelmshaven Wesermuende. Fighter Command also hit targets in occupied France and reported two German bombers destroyed.
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London
Royal Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Air Ministry
Royal Canadian Aiforce
Wesermuende
Weser River
de Mules
Fighter Command
France
Bremen
FDR Pushes Quick Farm Bill To End Deadlock
President Roosevelt urged Congress to break the Senate House dispute over Agriculture Department operations saying wartime needs require abundant production. He signed a July stopgap bill funding the department for the month while Congress wrangles over the full year appropriation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Agriculture Department
Senate
House
Agricultural Department
Predict Early Resumption For Tanker Oil Deliveries
Senate Commerce Chairman Bailey predicts earlier tanker oil deliveries to Atlantic coast ports as motorists register for new rationing cards. He says air and surface patrols could allow about five tankers daily, each 84 000 barrels, with 200 000 more barrels included in transport estimates as pipeline readjustment nears completion.
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Washington
Atlantic Coast
Bailey
D-Nc
Senate Commerce Committee
J. R. Parten
Parten
Atlantic Seaboard States
FBI rounds up 84 more Bund members in metro area
In a rapid sweep U S FBI agents arrested 84 additional German American Bund members in the metropolitan area raising total Bundist arrests to 143 nationwide in two days. The detainees were treated as dangerous enemy aliens and sent to Ellis Island for hearings that could lead to internment for the war's duration.
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Nation
Ellis Island
New York
FBI
Bund
Selective Service
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
National Bund
Mexico
Hartford
Conn
Wilbur V. Keegan
Teaneck
N. 4
Gustav Elmer
Bund National
Sweeney
Survivors Detail Abduction Of Leader By German Sub
Survivors from a Latvian craft recount the abduction of their skipper by a German U boat after it sank their ship with a time blow placed below decks. The commander also kept prisoner a Spanish seafarer who jumped overboard. No lives were lost on their craft. The Dutch and Canadian ships were also sunk in recent weeks with several crews saved or killed.
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Associated Press
United
Neutral Nations
Atlantic
Caribbean
South America
Seven Killed in Army Bomber Crash Near Smithfield
Smithfield July 9 Army authorities fixed seven fatalities from a two motor bomber crash south of town yesterday identified bodies not released names. The plane plunged into a farmhouse near A D Stephenson's field causing a massive explosion and scattered wreckage. Local responders including Cpl J W Carter aided until officers arrived. the disaster ranks as the worst NC air crash in years and recalls a March munition truck explosion nearby.
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Smithfield
Here
Presons
Columbia
S. C
A. D. Stephenson
Cpl
J. W. Carter
Berlin
Wilmington, N. C
Raleigh
Carter
North Carolina
Elton Beasles
Sat. J. R. Mallard
State Highway Patrol
W. L. Rose
Johnston County
British Occupy Mayotte Island in Mozambique Channel
British forces occupied the French island of Mayotte on July 2 with no resistance or casualties. Mayotte is part of the Comoro Islands, a small rum and perfume producing province with strategic position in the Mozambique channel. Dispatches from Portugues East Africa note allied merchant ships sunk and submarine activity nearby.
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London
Mayotte
Mozambique Channel
War Office
Comor Islands
Grand Comoro
Anjouan
Moheili
Comoros
Madagascar
Portugues
East Africa
Portugues East Africa
Study Request To Use School Buses
Raleigh July 9 A recommendation of Governor Broughton the state school commission appointed a committee to study a request from the offices of defense transportation that North Carolina school buses be used to transport war workers to and from their work. Lieut Gov Harris a chairman, the committee will consult with the commissioners labor agriculture and motor vehicles to determine whether there is a shortage of transportation in this state and whether school buses would be the only remedy for war worker transportation.
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Raleigh
Broughton
State School Commission
Offices of Defense Transportation
North Carolina
R. L. Harris
Commissioners , Labor, Agriculture and Motor Vehicles
Sckhoe
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