German Drive Near Rostov Threatens Caucasus Oil
German forces push toward Rostov on the Don amid claims of Kob Rostov capture and new raids along the Don bend as oil fields in the Caucasus loom near. Moscow reports say resistance by fresh Russian troops was broken, while U S built bombers reinforce the Soviet effort.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Caucasus
Don River
Black Sea
Caspian
North Caucasus
Stalingrad
Tikhorestk
Rostov
Great
Caspian Vos
Baku
Kerch
Crimea
Lower
Maikop
Tuapse
Batum
Caucasus Mountains
Red Army
Northwest
Russia
The
Germany
Northern
Don Bend
Tsimlyvansk
Tikhoretsk
Tikhovretsk
Tsimlyansk
aAxai River
Berlin
Voronezh
Novo
Flite Hitler Guard
War Today analyzes Hull plan as postwar blueprint for freedom
The editorial praises Secretary Hull for a four directional program toward peace after the war. It sees Hull's document as a beacon for Allied nations and occupied peoples, a rebuke to neutrals, and a lever to discourage support for aggressors. It calls for an international peace enforcing agency and removal of trade barriers, noting Sumner Welles and Senator Pepper urging swift justice.
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Hull
Mr. Hull
Tennessee
Europe
Marble Palace
Lake Geneva
Sumner Welles
Claude Pepper
Florida
Hitler
Nazi Industry Raided Again
London reports RAF bombers hit western Germany's Ruhr and Rhineland targets in the night raids. Nazi-occupied airfields in both nations were attacked along with railways and other targets in occupied territory. Seven British bombers were missing while German losses included seven bombers shot down over Britain.
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London
Royal Air Force
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Air Ministry
Britain
Bedford
Plane On Fire Tar Heel Pilots Bomb Benghazi
First Lieutenants Walter Clark of Lincolnton North Carolina and Louis Prehat of Omaha Nebraska were credited by the British air ministry with bombing Bengasi by daylight and returning safely. Their large American bomber was on fire with one dead engine as they reached the Libyan city. Clark piloted the aircraft while Prehat moved along the smoke filled catwalk to fight the flames with cushions and a fire extinguisher. The rear gunner was unaware of the fire until Prehat checked the turret. Despite the inoperative engine, Clark completed a precise bombing run and observed smoke and flames from a warship in the harbor after scoring a direct hit.
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London
Walter Clark
Lincolnton
N. C
Louis Prehat
Omaha
Neb
British
Air Ministry
Bengasi
Libya
Clark
Prehal
Clarke
British Tighten New Positions West of Alamein
Cairo July 24 British armored forces pressed at Axis positions west of El Alamein while consolidating gains on the northern and central fronts after two days of sharp fighting. Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck said air and artillery bombardments continued on gun emplacements and supply lines as Australian troops held the Hill of Jesus and nearby ridges. Southern Qadara marshes saw little action.
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Cairo
el Alamein
Sir Claude Auchinleck
RAF
el Ruweisat
Jesus
Qadtara
GMC Tank Plant Rolls Out M-4 Tanks in Trainloads
Detroit July 24 General Motors Fisher Body division reports completion of a new welded M-4 tank plant with War Department approval. First units rolled out in 45 days and are moving by train to the battlefront. British designation General Lees, these 25 to 30 ton tanks feature a turreted 75mm gun and circular rotation.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
War Department
Army
Fisher Body
United States
General Lees
Washington
Defenders of Aleutian Islands Endure Hard Life in Combat Zone
Keith Wheeler reports from the Aleutian battlefront detailing American soldiers on Kiska Island and along the Aleutians. The piece describes brutal conditions, sparse gear, and the perilous, low-altitude flying required in combat operations as Americans fight and endure to halt a convincing invader.
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Aleutian Islands
Keith Wheeler
Chicago Times
Chicago Times Inc
Alaska
Aleutian Battlefront
Kiska Island
Aleutians
United States
Chief Justice Declines Post In Rubber Row
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone said he would not accept an independent inquiry into the rubber situation. President Roosevelt said he had consulted Stone but did not ask him to undertake a survey, and the chief justice offered no further comment.
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Sugar Hill
N. H
Harlan F. Stone
Roosevelt
The
New York Times
Washington
Navy Opposed New Shipyards
Two Higgins Shipbuilding Company officials testified before a house merchant marine committee that the navy department opposed opening new shipyards and that an assistant to the navy secretary said in March 1941 that no new yards could be opened except by old line companies. The hearing also cited assertions that Joseph W. Powell led navy and maritime commission shipbuilding and restricted yard openings to existing firms.
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Higgins Shipbuilding Company
New Orleans
House
Merchant Marine Committee
Navy Department
Navy
Andrew Jackson Higgins
L. FE. Ditwiler
Maritime Commission
Higgins Company
Laberty
Detwiler
Joseph W. Powell
Secretary of the Navy
Powell
Navy and
Finns Reported Ready To Make Deal With U S
New York July 24 Finland signaled willingness to seek a postwar U S guarantee to safeguard small democracies like Finland from Bolshevik pressure. The idea appeared in a Stockholm paper and Finnish radio, with no firm offer to break from Germany, while noting long restrained front lines and concern over postwar aims.
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New York
Finland
United States
Germany
Soviet Russia
United Nations
Red Army
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Helsinki
Heavy Japanese casualties in three Chinese provinces report
Chinese high command said Japan suffered heavy losses in three Chinese provinces and near Lishui air base in southeastern Chekiang. Some of the heaviest losses were in attempts to retake Kweli on the Chekiang Riangsi Railway, a short stretch now recaptured by Chinese forces.
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Chungrhing
Lishui
Chekiang
Kweiki
Chekiang-Riangsi
New Seattle Leader Shifts Chamber of Commerce Pace
Opposition to Johnson grows as the Chamber of Commerce of the United States faces a managerial revolution. John W. OLeary blocks progress while Ene A. Johnston, 43, pushes for liberal ties with Roosevelt and Cabinet officials.
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Ray Tucker
Chamber of Commerce of
The
United States
Tme
Gibraltar
Ene A. Johnston
Seattle
Johnston
Pres
Roosevelt
William Green
Philip Murray
John W. O'Leary
Washington
Ele
Japs Toehold In New Guinea Blasted Hard
Allied air units blasted Japanese positions on the New Guinea southeast coast hitting the Gona Mission Buna area. They destroyed shore installations and five transports, with one fuel ship aflame. Japanese forces reportedly pressed small landings at Ambasi as Allied fighters strafed landing barges and troops fled into the sea.
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General MacArthur
FTF
Australia
New Guinea
Gona
Buna
Ambasi
Papua Peninsula
Salamaua
Pelley Nabbed In Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley former Silver Shirts leader and Court Asher publisher were among 28 indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on sedition and conspiracy. They were arrested in Indianapolis by U S Marshal Julius J Wichser. Asher posted 5000 bond. Pelley jailed in 5000 bond. If jailed, he may avoid return to North Carolina to serve two to three years for securities law violations. Pelley had been ordered to report in Asheville to begin the sentence.
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Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
Pelley
Asheville
FLIERS KILLED NEAR LYNCHBURG IN CRASH
In a farm field south of Lynchburg Virginia two army fliers Capt Harold C Smith and Second Lieutenant Russell W Wetzel were killed when their plane crashed. Both men were from Bolling Field and identified by cards on their persons.
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Lynchburg
Army
Harold C. Smith
Russell W. Wetzel
Bolling Field
Parachute Landing Reports Deemed Not Substantiated
FALSE REPORTS BALTIMORE July 24 The third service command announced today that investigations of reported parachute landings at six locations in this region west of day had resulted in no substantiation whatsoever.
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uPy
Third Service Command
Westerday
Nazis Salvage and Build Liberty-Style Ships Plan
Germany, short of ship space after near three-year war, begins salvage of sunken vessels along the European coast and pushes a plan to standardize merchantmen akin to Liberty ships. British reports say 3,250,000 tons of the original 9,000,000 tons were sunk before December. Allies curb Axis overseas commerce as Nazis move iron ore convoys from Lulea to German ports while Soviet submarines threaten Baltic routes.
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Germany
Reich
Hrali
United States
European
Baltic
Mediterranean
Lulea
Sweden
Russia
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