Japs Blasted From Wenchow Front In China War News
Chinese and Central News Agency reports say Japanese forces were driven from Wenchow in Chekiang, with Chinese troops reentering the city. Across fronts in Kiangsi, Fukien, and Henan, Japanese positions were attacked and repulsed, and several towns changed hands as Chinese forces claimed gains and heavy casualties for the invaders.
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Spencer Moosa Chungheing
Wenchow
Chekiang Province
Jaian
Chiang Kak-Shek
Foochow
Fukien
High Command
Chekiang
Kiangsi
Hangchow
Jalan
Kinki
Nanchang
Wiangsi
Kwangteng
Santou
Canton
Kwangtung
Yuantan
Canton-Hankaw
Central News
China
Siaoyi
Shansi
Kweiki
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Wultien
Sinyang
Japan
Henan
Kwangshui
Peking-Hankow
Hupeh Province
Seven Airmen Killed in Army Plane Crash Near Boston
At least seven airmen died when an Army plane crashed on the fringe of a Boston suburb on July 18 1967. The accident occurred during a reading event in the Mass area, with investigators detailing the fatal incident and first responders at the scene.
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Tortkmen
Reading
Mass
Wands
Boston
Senate subcommittee calls for war footing to curb waste
Washington July 18 A Senate appropriations subcommittee urged a federal overhaul and an investigation of the Budget Bureau and claims of overlapping duties. It proposed transferring Civilian Service Commission employees between departments to aid the war effort and warned officials at the National Resources Planning Board and Budget Bureau favored larger postwar deficits. The report names Dr Gerhard K Colm Alvin Hansen and Gardiner Means as leading deficit proponents.
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Washington
Senate
Bureau of the Budget
Tydings
D-Amid
Appropriations Subcommittee
Budget Bureau
Civilian Service Commission
National Resources Planning Board
Pernicimus
Gerhard K. Colm
Alvin H. Hansen
Gardiner C. Means
Nhational Resources Planning Board
Volume of Japanese losses totals over two hundred ships
An Associated Press tally shows at least 309 Japanese vessels destroyed by UN air and sea forces since November 1939. It lists 232 naval ships and 77 merchantmen, with six aircraft carriers among the losses totaling about 262,780 naval tons and 216,846 merchant tonnage, followed by a monthly breakdown of sinkings since the war began.
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United Nations
Terunkuni Maru
English
Associated Press
Yawata Maru
Ryukaku
Akagi
Kaga
Iyu
Soryu
Hoover blamed over credit for FBI spy case
A newspaper item accuses J Edgar Hoover of denying FBI credit for tracing German spies who landed on Long Island and Florida, claiming Coast Guard detective work was the actual breakthrough. The piece notes friction with Coast Guard leaders and hints at withheld wartime background details.
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J. Edgar Hoover
F.B.I
Long Island
Florida
Coast Guard
G-men
American Air Forces In New Raids On Axis
American air units under Maj. Gen. Lewis H Brereton conducted 21 missions in 36 days over Tobruk and Bomba shipping routes with limited losses. They hit an Axis tanker and a large motorship, while Rommel bolstered his air effort with more Italian planes. British and Royal Navy planes intensified attacks near Alamein and Matruh as ground fighting raged west of the Libyan coast.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Bomba
United States Army Air Forces
Lewis H. Brereton
Western Desert
Co Alamein
Alexandria
Brereton
Middle East
Erwin Rommel
Valley of the Nile
Rommel
Burg el Arab
London
Siciy
Mediterranean
Matruh
RAF
Study Increases In Ceiling On Steel Wages War Time Policy
Washington July 18 The Office of Price Administration is studying whether wage increases under the War Labor Board little steel formula should entitle the employer to a price ceiling increase. Officials reluctant to be named say OPA would grant price rises only with proven hardship and WLB approval. A 44 cent daily boost in the little steel case was based on restoring purchasing power to January 1 1941 levels, a yardstick WLB hopes to guide wartime wage adjustments.
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Washington
UvPi
Office of Price Administration
War Labor Board
OPA
WLB
Little Steel
Nazi Advance May Prompt U. S. To Open Second Front
London dispatch says a German advance in the Don Basin could push the United States and Britain to launch a second front across the English Channel. But shipping and training hurdles make a full invasion unlikely. experts note rugged German defenses and the need to seize French airfields for air cover.
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Crew Middleton
London
Don Basin
U. S
Britain
English Channel
France
Low Countries
Russia
Oliver Lyttelton
Germany
Hitler
British Bombers Blast Industries In Daylight Raid
A small formation of four motor Lancaster bombers attacked the German Ruhr district in daylight for the third day running. They carried several tons of bombs and returned safely despite heavy fighter opposition. RAF fighters claimed a German fighter destroyed off the French coast, while a German raider hit a south coast town, killing a woman and four children and injuring about a dozen. An Air Ministry note said supply ships were damaged off Cherbourg Peninsula and one RAF plane is listed as missing.
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London
Ruhr
RAF
Air Ministry
Tiwo
Cherbourg
Serb Patriots Threaten Hitler's Danube Oil Route
London reports say Yugoslav patriots under Gen Draja Mihailovic operate along the Danube threatening Nazi river-borne oil from Romania. A raid on the Iron Gate could disrupt oil shipments, with German flotillas sent to suppress guerrillas noted by DNB.
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London
Draja Mihailovic
Danube
Hitler
Rumania
Mihailovic
DNB
Norway
Balkans
Zgierz
Gestapo
Czecho-Slovakia
House Debates Tax Bill Ahead of Corporation Rate Vote
Washington July 18. The House wrapped three days of speeches on a 6.14 billion tax bill as leaders rush to secure support for a vote on changing corporation rates. Rep Knutson urged sending the bill back toWays and Means to raise the excess profits rate and lower the normal plus surtax. Cooper warned the plan would cut the bill’s yield by about 390 million, favoring large corporations. Carlson defended a sales tax as needed in the emergency.
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Washington
House
Knutson Tr Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Cooper
D-Tenn
Knutson
Carlson
R-Rans
Case Against Saboteurs in Final Stages
The trial of eight alleged Nazi saboteurs reached its tenth day as 14 witnesses, mostly FBI agents, testified before a military commission. Prosecutors said they had practically completed their case, with cross examination of agents describing a Florida group’s potential confession and training as saboteurs.
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Washington
Florida
FBI
McCoy
Approval of Pipeline Bill Brings Prediction of Seaway Plan
Washington July 18 UPI Final congressional approval of the Florida Barge Canal and pipelines bill drew predictions from opponents that action would follow on the St Lawrence River seaway and water power project. The House passed a 93 million authorization for canal improvements and pipelines, sent to the President after minor Senate edits. Senators Gerry and Austin warned the move set a war‑cost precedent, while Clark defended Florida efforts, noting no precedent for St Lawrence. The bill also covers the Gulf Inland Waterway from Florida to the Mexican border and authorizes oil pipelines across Florida and from Mississippi fields to the Atlantic.
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Washington
UPI
St. Lawrence River
Gerry
St. Lawrence
Austin
Vermont
Florida
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Clark
Tinsley Oil Fields
Mississippi
Russians Gain At Voronezh In Front Rally
Soviet troops on the Voronezh Front report advances and capture of several populated places as German pressure continues toward Rostov and Stalingrad. Russian counter-attacks intensify with the aid of American-built Boston bombers, while the Don and Donets area sees German outflanking threats.
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Voronezh
Richard McMurray
Russia
Germany
Rostov
Stalingrad
Red Army
Baltic
Millerovo
Caucasus
Don
Donets
Timoshenko
Mik
Ship Sinkings Mounting Across Oceans In War
The Associated Press reports four more cargo ships destroyed by Axis forces in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. A Japanese cruiser off India’s coast sank a medium American merchant vessel, while submarines sank a British cargo ship and two medium US merchants in the Atlantic. Since Pearl Harbor, western Atlantic losses total 383 Allied and neutral merchant ships, with at least 25 US vessels lost in the Pacific. A cruiser attacked the American ship in the Bay of Bengal, sinking it after bomb and shell fire. eight survivors reached an east coast port, 24 others were lost. British ship survivors said the raider had Italian crew and a German commander. 19 others were unaccounted for aboard the British vessel. The American cargo ship torpedoed off the east coast June 25 saw 66 aboard sail 250 miles to safety.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Indian Oceans
India
United States
Pacific
Bay of Bengal
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