Bombers Hit Japanese Positions in New Guinea Patrols
MacArthur forces report heavy Allied air strikes against Japanese positions in New Guinea near Buna Gona as ground patrols maintain contact along the Kokoda to Buna corridor. Allied dives bombed an ammo dump, bombers attacked Timor, and Japanese raids on Darwin and Townsville were repelled with no damage.
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MacArthur
Australia
Japan
New Guinea
Buna- Gona
Oivi
Kokoda
Buna
Papua
Port Moresby
Gona
Owen Stanley Range
New Gainea
Dutch Timor
Koepang
Bom
Wartime bootleg renamed cotton mop in moonshine slang
Wilson reports that wartime bootleg liquor now calls itself cotton mop in local jargon. ABC officer R. O. Lawson explains moonshiners adopted the name to reflect the use of cotton mop molasses in place of rationed sugar.
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Wilson
R. O. Lawson
ABC
Last passenger pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo
The last survivor of the passenger pigeon lineage perished in Cincinnati Zoo in 192. The historic extinction marks end of an era as zoological records note the lone individual failed to thrive under captivity.
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Cincinnati Zoo
L K Proved Its Worth In Her Case Says Goldsboro Mother
North Carolina readers praise Dr Foster’s L K formula as a remedy for digestion and nervous fatigue. Mrs Williams of Goldsboro reports relief from belching bloat and weakness after using the first bottle. She regained strength, sleeps well, and enjoys meals, urging others to accept no substitute. Family size 97 cents at leading drug stores.
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L-K
Goldsboro
North Carolina
Foster
S &K
G. A. Foster
M. D
R. LC. Williams
N.C
DR. Foster
Federal Court Holds Pelley For Sedition
INDIANAPOLIS Ind July 28 Pelley former leader of the Silver Shirts of America aged about 10 has been on trial in federal court on sedition charges He is among 28 indicted in Washington He has been jailed in Marion County awaiting bond removal hearing postponed three weeks Two associates Marian Henderson and Lawrence A Brown of Indianapolis faced trial with him Newspapers say he published propaganda for the Galilean and the Nation's No 1 Fascist Indictment lists twelve counts including distribution of false statements to harm the United States He faces state and federal actions before beginning a North Carolina sentence at Asheville N C and the case includes a note about a blackfish being a mammal not a fish
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Indianapolis
Ind
Dapper
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts of
America
North Carolina
Pelley
Asheville
N. C
Washington
Marion County
U. S
Fellowship Press
Noblesville
Marian Henderson
Lawrance A. Brown
B. Howard Caughran
United States
Darien
Conn
Galilean
National Whinkings Reveal Crowley's Axis Assets Battle
A bold analysis outlines Leo T. Crowley’s drive to block returning patents to Nazi owners and to parcel them to American interests for life of the copyrights. It notes a Red army forecast near the Don and a possible Soviet counterattack with British and U.S. troops, plus White House political maneuvering over Joe Ball in Minnesota and Rosevelt-Wallace 1944 concerns. It also touches on Moscow’s siege dynamics, northern strategy, and naval considerations in the Baltic.
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Globe
South America
Crowley
B.C
New World
Western Hemisphere
Leo
Uncle Sam
Joe” Ball
Minnesota
White House
Harold Stassen
Leo T. Crowley
Wisconsin
Joe
Roosevelt-Crowley
Ball
Stassen
Henry Wallace
Harold
Rostov
Stalingrad
Murmansk
Archangel
Leningrad
Red Fleet
Sweden
Baltic
Germany
Lord Fisher
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Wattepat
Archilles
Stalin
Alles
England
Cologne
Hell’s Angels
Baltic Sea
War industry notes and secret radio myths in occupied Europe
A briefing on wartime production faults cites July August output dips due to heat and scrap delays, with the War Production Board approving a two million ton expansion. A CODE column then discusses clandestine networks, war news, and how messages survive across borders via hidden compartments, wood canes, and told rumors.
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Gestapo
LEMAN OFFENSIVE TARGETS MURMANSK MOVE T
Albertin Leman argues United Nations misjudged Axis threat and now must pressure the German advance in Russia. The piece urges a punch to reach Finland and drive German forces from Russsias windpipe before the front stalls.
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Albertin
Murmansk
Finland
von Bock
Don
United Nations
Russia
State Veterinarian Gets Federal Assignment for Wartime Service
Raleigh July 18 Appoint ment of Dr William M state veterinarian in the decade old department of agriculture as a constant in the procurement and signment service for physicians dentists and veterinarians in federal manpower commission comes as recognition of the 64 standing work by Dr M and the state department. North Carolina led in Bang’s disease eradication among dairy cattle and tuberculosis control. The appointment letter was signed by Paul Me chairman of the War Manpower Commission. His foot was seized by a shark. a sixteen year old Billy Lesson kicked the ferocious fish until it released him.
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K Enterpuise Bureau
Walter Hot Raleigh
William M
Deca Ment of
State Department
North Carolina
Bang
Echved
Dr Me
Paul Me
War Manaver Commission
Strand
South Africa
Billy Lesson
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Bers
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Townsville
Pacific
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R. L. Williams
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Thomas L. Johnson
The
Silver Shirts of America
Blackfish
Turc
Home Service
Don River
Hitler
Timoshenko
Caucasus
Moscow
London
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve System
Washington Post
District of Columbia
New York
Potomac
W. P.B
Army
Staff Seret
John W. Westervell
H. L. Cubrich
Long Beach
Cali
T. Westervelt
Ava
Langren Hotel
Asheville, N. C
Western
J. H. Enwright
Wachovia
Charlotte
Raleigh
Salisbury
Winston-Salem
Federal Defosif Insurance Corporation
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