Entertaining Stops in South Pacific Base Tour
Larry Adler authors a Central Press piece on a US bases tour in the South Pacific with Radio Comedian Jack Benny Attress Carole Landis musician June Bruner and singer Martha Tilton. The crew's lively encounters with GI Joe and his friend are recounted in this first note of a series.
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Central Press
Larry Adler
Jack Benny
Carole Landis
June Bruner
Martha Tilton
United States
South Pacific
GI Joe
Re education program for blinded veterans boosts hope
The Veterans Administration will guide blinded veterans from training to employability, funding pre vocational rehab and placing workers as farmers, teachers, lawyers, and other roles. About 225 blinded servicemen exist in the system, with trials and new training sites expanding in next weeks.
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Washington
America
Army
Navy
Veterans Administration
Veterans’ Administration
Pearl Harbor
E. Randolph
The
Bucknell University
George Washington University
Allied naval and air actions expand in Pacific and Adriatic fronts
Allied fleets patrol the Pacific as Vice Admiral Mitchel’s Task Force 58 to oppose Japanese and support carrier air strikes. In Europe, Canadians push across the Marano river while British and Italian forces advance near Rimini, with prisoners reaching 5,500 and Salerno’s city fell last September.
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Marc A. Mitchel
Philippine Sea
Manila
Palau Islands
Tokio Radio
Philippines
Morotai Islands
Moluccas
MacArthur
Palau
China
Kweilin
Dutch East Indies
Tokio
Bologna
Milan
Marano
Panzer Grenadiersao
Ospedaletto
Patrignano
Rimini
San Lorenzo
Instrada
Fifth Army
Salerno
Churchill Roosevelt At Quebec ConferencE United to Fight in Pacific
The two leaders sat in Quebec discussing postwar strategy. Churchill pledged British force in the Pacific alongside the United States, stressing shared burden and rapid, unified action to end barbarism in the Pacific as Roosevelt noted fast consensus and careful logistics.
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Churchill
Pacific
Germany
United Nations
Quebec
Mr. Roosevelt
Mrs. Churchill
United States
Britain
Far East
Roosevelt
Mackenzie King
Canada
The
Rimini Front Fiercely Contested Amid Minefield Defense
General Alexander reports heavy mine and defense zone resistance as Allied approaches meet stiff, bitterly contested German lines. The Fifth Army breaches are claimed by Germany but sealed off. Rimini defenders lack transport while Tiger and Panther tanks and self propelled guns bolster a thinning line along the Adriatic front near the Marano river.
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Harold Alexander
High Command
Fifth Army
Rimini
Adriatic
Marano
Runini
Dewey Campaign Sparks Clash Over Ousting Officials
Dewey supporters spar over firing Interior Secretary Ickes and Labor Secretary Perkins if Republicans win. Bloom predicts they will quit if November victory comes. Ickes jokes about being in Dewey's hair as Brownell cites New Deal morale breakdown and gains with independents. Hanegan plans talks with party leaders from ten states in Los Angeles trip.
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Inquirers
Interior
Ickes
Labor
Perkins
Bloom
Dewey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
New York
John W. Bricker
New Deal
Hillman-Browder
Brownell
Robert E. Hannegan
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Five That Group SNAFU Heads to Pacific USO Tour
Jack Benny Landis Martha Tilton June Bruner and I sail from San Francisco to entertain 8000 GIs in the Central and Southwest Pacific. We reflect on civilian views of war and the soldiers who boost morale, sharing hospital visits and the rough ride of bucket seats on the plane.
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Army Transthe
San Francisco
Carole
Martha
Jack
Hamilton
Soviet advances reach beyond Praga and near Targu Mures
The communique reports Russian and Romanian actions across the Bug and Narew rivers and into the Vistula basin near Praga and Kobialka. It notes capture of 50 localities in northern Transylvania near Targu Mures and Vatra Dornei, with patrols entering Warsaw across the Vistula from Praga to assess German troop dispositions.
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Bug
Narew
Pelowizna
Vistula River
Praga
Zoliborz
Old City
Warsaw
Kobialka
Nowy-Dwor
Vistula
Transylvania
Hodaec
Targu-Mures
Romania
Vatra- Dornei
Czechoslovakia
Carpathian Mountains
Bargau Pass
Budapest
Oradea
Lipova
Ineu
Beius
Hungary
Moscow
Weather: North Carolina Sees Moderate Sunday Temperatures
The forecast calls for pair with mod erate temperatures across North Carolina Sunday. Officials urge residents to dress for mild conditions and plan outdoor activities accordingly.
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North Carolina
Ford proposes wage increases for all workers nationwide
Ford announces plans to raise wages for all Ford workers arguing higher pay supports home ownership and full day’s work pay. War Labor Board officials and CIO union leaders weigh timing and impact as negotiations with Ford continue amid broader labor costs.
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Ford
Shawn Ford
William H. Davis
War Labor Board
WLB
Iion
United Automobile Workers (Cio) International
Uvaw-Cio
Ford Motor Co
War ‘Labor Board
Richard T. Frankensteen
Yanks Break German Line as Aachen Siege Tightens
Allied reports say the First Army made a narrow penetration of the Siegfried line at Brand with 173 375 prisoners since the June 6 landings, while American forces push toward the Rhine and Saar. Aachen near isolation, Third Army moves north of Metz and Seventh Army advances toward Belfort and Vesoul, with German defenses stiffening in the Moselle and Vosges regions.
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Prum
First
Siegfried Line
Brandpage
First Army
Maastricht
Siegfried
Aachen
Seventh Army
Belfort
Albert Canal
Dutchees
Aew
Holland
SHAEF
Hodges
Cologne
Berlin
Rhine
Charlemagne
Ferenrman
Trier
Germany
Bitburg
Patton
Saar
Thionville
Gingringen
Buil
Moselle
Third Army
Third Arm
Metz
Vosges Mountains
Nancy
Vesoul
Enem
Fays-Billot
Chatenois
Neufchateau
Mirecourt
Montbard
Dijon
Finnish retreat mapped by Berlin communique
A Berlin broadcast explains why German divisions stayed in central Finland and then moved toward the Gulf of Bothnia harbors and the Nordic border. The text notes advances of about ten miles daily by marching soldiers and places the actions within a 250 to 375 mile range from key coastal and northern front areas.
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Moscow
Finland
Berlin
Finnas
Gulf of Bosnia
Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran Cite Soviet Outlet Wants
The article recalls Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran last year and notes the Soviet Union seeking access to a warm water outlet. It references 1936 Sosanne modifications allowing militarization of the Dardanelles and Bosporus, with the USSR acting as guardian for the passage during the war.
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Roosevelt
Ministe Churchill
Teheran
Soviet Union
Germany
Dardanelles
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