War Today and Axis Plans for World Domination
The piece warns of Nazi and Japanese aims to destroy Allied sovereignty and impose conquest. It cites Tojo and Yamamoto threats, reveals German postwar plans for a vassal world, and foresees a Gestapo state, contrasting it with UN aims for freedom, equality, and brotherly love.
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Caucasus
Yamamoto
Japan
British Information Service
New York
Libya
High Command
Hitler
Germany
Gestapo
Cordell Hull
Eden
United Nations
German Trawler Sunk by British Forces Off Cherbourg
One armed German trawler was sunk and a second heavily damaged in a morning clash with light British warships off Cherbourg, France, the Admiralty reported.
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London
Cherbourg
France
Admiralty
Sub skipper sinks three destroyers at Kiska
In fog bound waters off Alaska on July 4 a U S submarine skipper defied standard rules and destroyed three Japanese destroyers within minutes. Within hours two more Japanese destroyers were sunk, and later reports say three more were taken at Kiska. The commander credited his crew with ingenuity and aggressiveness.
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Keith Wheeler
Chicago Times, Inc
Alaska
Tokyo
Kiska
America
Japan
North Pacific
Nazis Execute 28 Frenchmen For Sabotage
Vichy reports the execution at Lille of 28 persons for sabotage and other offenses. most were Lille region mine workers. French courts at Douai sentence two to life, 28 to 40 years, mostly miners, for stealing ration cards. Courtrai reports many arrested as hostages after five fires. radios and bicycles confiscated.
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Vichy
Lille
Douai
Courtrai
Drawbridge Hit By Oil Tanker on Chesapeake
CHESAPEAKE CITY MD July 28 An oil tanker smashed into the highway drawbridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal just before noon today plunging the structure into the canal. No one aboard the tanker was reported hurt and initial accounts said no one was on the bridge. The tanker struck the south concrete abutment and part of the bridge fell onto the bow of the ship. The wreckage blocked the canal used for major commerce between Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River. The cause was not known and the canal office declined further comment.
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Chesapeake City
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Chesapeake Bay
John M. Reed, Jr
Delaware River
St. George's del
Reed
Air corps veteran suffers minor injury on furlough
July 28 Spindale report says William Murray Thompson, an air corps veteran, served 11 months with no hurt. On furlough his hand was caught in an electric jam causing a laceration requiring twelve stitches, a ring reportedly saved two fingers.
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Spindale
William Murray Thompson
Air Corps
Custodian Crowley Oversees War Asset Disposal
Leo T Crowley the property custodian handles more than seven billion dollars in possessions seized since the war began. His tasks include removing foreign connected managers and workers and replacing them with substitutes as part of postwar asset control and security measures.
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Dor
Leo T. Crowley
Sam
Tee
United States
Crowley
Eastman Orders Train Services In Local Areas Discontinued
Washington July 26 Transportation Director Joseph B Eastman said local train service probably would be discontinued for the war duration where duplicating bus service is reasonably adequate Commuters trains would not be affected He urged state public service commissions to survey local rail and bus service to release engines and cars for more important use and expedite discont inance requests He noted buses may replace trains where service is adequately paralleled and urged conserving buses and railway cars due to rubber shortages
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Mastman
Big Industrial Center Raided By Luftwaffe
Birmingham in the Midlands suffered a heavy air raid last night with fires across the city and numerous casualties. Incendiaries and blasts damaged homes shops and a large hospital nearby. A ninth German bomber was shot down off the southwest coast as scattered bombs hit the Midlands and eastern counties. Rescue workers labored through dawn to free those trapped in bombed sites.
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London
Birmingham
Midlands
Greater
Cherokee County Soldier Arrested on Panama City Rape Charge
Kannapolis July 28 Police Chief Ira T. Chapman said Quenton Palmer, a Cherokee County soldier, was arrested at his Panama City army post on a charge of raping an 18 year old Wannapolis girl the night of July 179 Extradition papers were being prepared. Clyde Seercy of China Grove remains jailed here in connection with the alleged assault after last week’s Wilmington defense job arrest.
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Kannapolis
Ira T. Chapman
Quenton Palmer
Cherokee County
Panna City
Fla
Chapman
Clyde Seercy
China Grove
Wilmington
Blast on empty gas barge kills five at Paducah
Paducah Kentucky July 28 five men were killed in a blast on an empty gasoline barge moored to a landing on the Illinois side of the Ohio River near Paducah. Police Chief W E Bryant said five bodies were seen on the burning barge while a sixth man was pulled clear.
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Paducah
Illinois
Ohio River
Here
W. E. Bryant
New York Man Urges Compulsory Savings Plan
A New York merchant urged the Senate Finance Committee to siphon off 25 to 30 billion dollars of surplus purchasing power through a compulsory savings plan to curb inflation. Senator Taft supported the idea as preferable to taxes, while concerns about black markets and machinery of the plan were raised.
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Washington
New York
Senate Finance Committee
Taft
R-Ohie
Julian Goldman
Goldman
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Treasury Department
House
Connally
Senator Connally
Dtex
Treasury
George D-Gay
Hite
German Shells To Be Returned
COLUMBIA South Carolina July 28 P about 200 shells will be returned to Hitler after a 25 year absence The shells will be a personal gift of Adjutant General James C Dozier They had stood in front of his Fort Jackson home for 16 years The offer was accepted by Brig Gen R E Beebe and arrangements were made to return them to Germany
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Columbia
S.C
Hitler
South Carolina
James C. Dozier
Fort Jackson
Dozier
R. E. Beebe
Germany
Soviet Admits Gravest Hour Of Struggle
The German advance within 50 miles of Stalingrad pressured Soviet defense as Red Star and other papers warned of a crisis moment. Rostov and Novocherkassk fell while Soviets claimed stout resistance along the Don, Manych, and Sal Rivers and warned of a likely Allied second front. Pravda noted German divisions pulled from France to push the breakthrough.
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Lower Don
Stalingrad
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Lower
Don
Kalach
Volga
Second Front
Red Star
Europe
Oselan
Don River
Rostov
Manych
Sal
Rostov-on-Don
Northern
Caucasus
Novocherkassk
Astrakhan
Caspian Sea
Semeon Timoshenko
trans-Caucasus
Pravda
Communist Party
France
English Channel
Nazt Marselal Looks Over Channel Defense
German field marshal Gerd von Rundstedt has been inspecting extensive fortifications along the North French channel coast for several days as reports describe the deeply echeloned defense works and German fortifications in the area.
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Nazt Marselal
Berlin
DNB
Troday
Starshal
Kurl
Gerd von Rundstedt
French Channel
Americans Interned In Japan React To Doolittle Raid Thrill
A group of American internees near Tokyo recall the April raid by Doolittle’s squadron. An enemy air alert triggered fires, as a twin motor plane skimmed rooftops at 200 feet and vanished toward Fuji. Japanese defenses and distant bombings followed, with reports of damage to Nagoya and Kam
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Joseph Dynan Lourenco
Kwasaki
Ater i
Tamagawa Valley
Fuji
Yokohama
Kobe
Osaka
Necave
Nagoya
Kawasawi
Yokosuka
Theodore Walser
Waseda
Walser
Rommel Digs In To Consolidate His Long Gains
In Egypt Rommel’s African army, pressed by new British land and air blows, seems to dig in to hold forward positions 75 to 50 miles from Alexandria rather than push toward the Nile Delta. Fighting on the northern flank continues, with双方 taking prisoners and inflicting losses as both sides rush men and matériel.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Marshal Rommel
Alexandria
Nile Delta
Suez
Sir Claude Auchinleck
Rommel
United States
Auchinleck
Parachutists Reported Dropped Near Washington
Baltimore July 28 Reports that parachutists or other objects were dropped from unidentified planes in three areas near Washington are being investigated today by military authorities. The Third Service command said reports came from Doubs Md near the Potomac River Shenandoah Junction W Va six miles west of Harpers Ferry W Va and Bartgis Store near Annapolis on the defense highway to Washington. Investigations by state police state guard FBI and military intelligence agents are in progress.
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Baltimore
Washington
Third Service Command
Doubs
Potomac River
Shenandoah Junction
W. Va
Harpers Ferry
Bartgis
Annapolis
Lassiter Chosen NC Alcohol Board Leader at Beach Meeting
The North Carolina Association of County Alcoholic Beverage Control Boards elected Mark Lassiter of Snow Hill as president at its semi annual meeting in Wrightsville Beach. Frank Spruill of Rocky Mount was named vice president and H L Gibbs of Morehead City was re elected secretary and treasurer.
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Lassiter Abc
Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Association of County Alcoholic Beverage Control Boards
Mark Lassiter
Snowill
Frank S. Spruit
Rocky Mount
Hls. Gibbs
Moreherd Cith
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Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Fanatic
U.S
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