Roosevelt Plans Three Major Radio Talks to Nation
President Roosevelt schedules three radio talks for September 3 focusing on youth worldwide, and August 9 at Bethesda Navy Medical Center for the Navy’s 100th anniversary bureau of medicine and surgery. A Labor Day inflation plan is to be announced with possible congressional message fulfillment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
White House
Congress
International Students Service
United Nations
Central War Tle
Navy Dvill
Russia
Netherlands
England
Barry
China
Chiang Kai Shels
C Generaliss
Phil
Eclipse Moon Shown Despite Censor Fears and Weather News
Our Daily Bread notes a total lunar eclipse Tuesday night August 25 and criticizes suppression of advance eclipse reports by authorities. The piece argues meteorology and astronomy information are globally published and censorship harms public interest.
CIO Aluminum Group to Vote on Wage Increase Rejection
Thousands of CIO aluminum workers at eight Alcoa plants will vote tomorrow to approve local leaders action rejecting the war labor boards decision denying a general wage increase. Union president Nick A. Zonarith said a yes vote could empower a strike if needed and plans to appeal to President Roosevelt. Voting continues tomorrow night at plants in New Kensington and Bain, Bain, Bain, Edgewater, Bauxite, Detroit and Bridgeport Fairfield.
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Pittsburgh
CIO Aluminum
Aluminum Company of America
War Labor Board
Nick A. Zonarith
Zonarith
Annecion
Roosenger
WLB
Aluminum
Little Steel
New Kensington
Bain, N. C
Alcoa
Tenn
Edgewater
N. J
Bauxite
Ark
Detroit
Bridgeport - Fairfield
Onn
Duke of Kent Dies in Wartime Plane Crash
The Duke of Kent, King George's youngest brother, was killed when a Sunderland flying boat crashed in northern Scotland during a wartime mission to Iceland. All 13 aboard died. The royal family entered mourning for four weeks. An Air Ministry inquiry is underway.
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London
Britain
Duke of Kent
George
Iceland
RAF
Scotland
Air Ministry
Daily Sketch
Russian Workers Take Up Arms to Aid Red Army
In a crisis around Stalingrad, thousands of workers from city factories joined Red Army defenses on the Volga west bank as German thrusts threaten siege. Reports say German forces neared the city from northwest while Soviet lines regrouped behind tanks, with cavalry claims of a night raid and several German losses.
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Red Army
Europe
Henry C, Cassidy
Moscow
Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Stalin-grad
Stalin- Krad
Red Sur
Kotelnikovski
Kenshodar
Campaign expense reports list Arkansas races totals
Holt campaign costs total 8945 with 112 ballot fee and 784 advertising on election day. Attorney general Jack Hall reports 8045.45 in expenses including ballot fee 225 office rent 025 newspaper and radio ads 4030 2189 tolls 050 miscellaneous 975. Other figures show Brooks Hays 4149.50 Duval Parkins 2705.40 Robert Lofius 5087. Oren Harris 110 Kim C Cale 450 John M Golden 225.
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Lile Rock
Adkins
Secretary of State
Jack Hall
John L. McClellan
Brooks Hays
Little Ravk
Duval I. Parkins
Warren
Robert A. Lofius
Payetteville
Supreme Court
Oren Harris
el Dorado
Kim C. Cale
Malvern
John M. Golden
Lake Village
Fayetteville approves airport expansion bond vote
Fayetteville voters approved a $100000 municipal airport expansion bond 406 to 308 in a regular election. The funds will double the 160 acre field, and finance a new hangar and administration building.
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Fayetteville
Fayetteville Municipal
Italians Worry Over Allied Shipping at Gibraltar
Rome's Tritone de Geneve correspondent reports Italian chatter on Allied transports and warships massing at Gibraltar and West African ports. They fear possible second front plans and a surprise Med attack, citing Tunisia as the most exposed point and recalling Mussolini’s warning about the Yugoslav coast.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Tritone de Geneve
Gibraltar
West African
Italy
Mediterrianeain
Dieppe
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Syria
Egypt
Mussolini
Gorizia
Farmer Survives Six Days Trapped Under Tree
Prairie Grove Oklahoma August 26 Kenneth Wallace a 60 year old farmer was pinned beneath a fallen tree for six days in sparse woods after chopping it on August 17. He survived by a quart of water for 12 hours and reportedly chewed wild grapes and sucked dew for revival before a search party found him with severe shock and exposure.
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Prairie Grove
Adaiy County
Oklahoma
Kenneth Wallace
Fontana Dam to submerge Tennessee Valley town
The unincorporated town of Japan in Graham county North Carolina will lie 50 feet under Fontana reservoir when the Fontana dam is completed in 1944 TVA officials ponder how the village got its name A Los Angeles teen reports a shotgun theft at a temple desk and a man used radio to speed his wife's divorce action from an undisclosed abroad base.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Temi
Tennessee Valley Authority
Fontana Dam
Japan
N.C
Fontana Reservoir
Graham County
Bryson City
TVA
Reno
Vila
Ney
State Quota for New Tires Reduced in Arkansas
Little Rock Aug 26 Substantial reductions in Arkansas tire quotas for September were announced by State Rationing Officer James J Hollaway The state was allotted 11 New atta tires for next month down from 62 for August 4 002 new truck tires down from 4 127 and 287 passenger tires down from 206 The War Production Board has notified OPA that downward allotments for tires will continue through 1942 to stay within rubber limits More than 8000 eligible applications await quotas and cannot be filled due to shortages The cut comes amid high production and active industries in the region with heavy vehicles in use around the clock The report notes US fires cost about 10000 human lives.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
James J. Hollaway
Holaway
War Production Board
OPA
Oleway
Secret Weapon To Surprise Nazis, U S Army Officer Says
London Aug 26 Brig Gen M Barnes head of the U S ordnance mission said both nations are producing secret weapons that will surprise the Germans. He spoke after touring British munitions plants noting U S British arms quality and quantity could support a full sized army. He praised British weapons now in production as eye openers and invoked lessons in munition labor, especially the use of women.
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London
United States Army Ordnance Mission
Ardnance
M. Barnes
United States
Barnes
U. S. War Department
Britain
America
Soldiers Pay for Cigarettes in Egypt Shuffle
Washington reports Army officials probe claims American troops at an Egypt camp were charged for cigarettes meant for free distribution. Officials cite possible shipping mixups and misdirected shipments as the cause, noting past World War I instances of similar mischarges.
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Washington
Egypt
Relocation Of 20000 Japs To Arkansas In Oct
Little Rock reports that about 20 000 Japanese evacuees will be moved from the West coast to two southeast Arkansas relocation centers by mid October. E B Whitaker War relocation authority director announced after a San Francisco conference. Jerome in Chicot Drew counties and Rohwer in Desha counties are the centers, to be completed by Oct 15 with uniform policies across all ten centers nationwide.
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Little Rock
West Coast
Arkansas
E. B. Whitaker
War Relocation Authority
War Department
San Francisco
Jerome
Chicot-Drew
Rohwer
Desha County
Whitaker
United States
150 Passengers Questioned After Gripshorn Arrival
Jersey City officials report about 150 of the 1,400 Gripshorn passengers were taken to Ellis Island for questioning. The move follows suspicions about papers and loyalty amid mass repatriations from the Orient, with 300 disembarked by midnight and more to be processed over several days.
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Jersey City
N. J
Ellis Island
U. S
Aantil
Japan
United States
Mississippian First to Down Nazi Plane
Sam F. Junkin of Natchez Mississippi becomes the first American fighter pilot to down a German plane in combat over Dieppe. He was wounded in the right shoulder, jumped from his disabled plane, and was rescued by Naval craft.
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London
Sam F. Junkin
Natchez
Miss
United States Army
Britain
Dieppe
Junkin
American Equipment Superior to Axis, Army Says
Col Edwin W Pilburn, back from Africa and the Middle East, says U S weapons are equal to or better than Axis gear in planes tanks guns and vehicles He cites American tanks as decisive in desert combat noting no American crew in Africa failed to knock out a German tank He urges complete coordination and drive between ground and air forces for Allied success in Africa.
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William F. Boni
U. S
United States Army
Edwin W. Pilburn
Africa
Middle East
Cal. Pilburn
Ace
Pilburn
War Department
Kent
Erwin Rommel
Navy reports heavy fighting in Solomon Islands area
Washington reports a widening sea and air battle around Guadalcanal and the Solomons as Japan rushes reinforcements. U S forces claim damage to Japanese destroyers and transports while American fighters and bombers claim several enemy aircraft shot down. Allied headquarters say Japan risks much of its fleet to dislodge Marines and retake bases, with ongoing actions to determine naval supremacy in the Pacific.
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Washington
Great Sea
Solomon Islands
Guadalcana Land
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Solomons
Atiae
Autralia
Pome
Navy
Sea
Solomons Islands
U. S
Nine
Solomon
America
Navy mi
Gain
Nea B
Pacific
Solomong
MacArthur
Japan
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Rae Luck
Moon
Rockefeller Center
New York
Holt
Telemop
Caroline Islands
Los Angeles
Aimee Scopple McPherson
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