War Today outlines shifting China front in Pacific war
The piece traces a five year conflict in China with Japanese advances near Hangzhou and Nanchang reversing as Chinese forces strike back. It notes railway battles in Chekiang Kiangsi and potential airbase targets while warning of Japan's possible renewed pressure toward Siberia and Russia. American air support boosts Chungking as ground fights intensify this summer.
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China
Shanghai
Singapore
Kiangsi
Chekiang
Hangchow
Nanchang
Chekiang-Kian
Shangri la
Doolittle
Tokyo
Yushan
Chuhsien
Lishui
Kinhwa
Cheklang
Chungking
Siberia
Indo-China
Kwangsi
Russia
United Nations
Japan
Asia
Moscow
Hitler
Cums
Caspian-Caucasus
Europe
Chek
Chennault
Toda
Ruhr
Kyushu
Osaka Lee
Miners to Stay on Job as War Effort Pushes
War Manpower Commissioner McNutt announced a program to keep metal miners on the job by making mining work more attractive and training more workers through the U S Employment Service. Steps include preventing contractor poaching and prioritizing transport for miners. In Oakland, boilermakers vote 120 to 60 in favor of issuing junior cards to women, with nationwide vote to follow. Coffee rationing moves closer as War Production Board cuts deliveries to dealers to 65 percent of last year’s, lowering monthly per capita use below 7/8 pound.
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Washington
Paul. McNutt
U. S
McNutt
War Labor Board
Selective Service System
Oakland
Calif
Boilermakers
AFL
Boilermakers Union
the Moors Dry Dock Company
Ed Ryan
Moore Loval
National Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Moore
CIQ
Moore Yards
Latin America
War Production Board
Board
Marines Break Japanese Resistance On Multiple Islands
Japanese troops fled into hills after the Aug. 7 landing as Marines overran beachheads on several islands. In one melee 700 Japanese were engaged with 870 killed or captured, while another clash left six dead and 13 wounded. Allied air forces pounded Timor and other targets as Soviet and German frontline actions raged near Stalingrad and the Caucasus.
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Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Moabisse
Timor
Semeon Timoshenko
Red Armies
the Bend
Stalingrad
Great Volga
Caucasus
Pyatigorsk
Krasnodar
Red Army
Krasnoddar
Krymskaya
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Staliarad
Europe
United Nations
Germany
Katelinikovsk
U. S
British Spitfies
Straits of Dover
France
Legion Votes to Sell Bonds to Fund New Headquarters
Delegates at the Cherry Tree Post meet to authorize raising funds for a Legion HQ. Steele Clark, Indiana County commissioner and Cherry Tree delegate, led the push to sell $40 08 worth of War Bonds bought by the Legion. Clark spoke up after years of silence, declaring fifty thousand dollars or more as a heavy burden for Cherry Tree.
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Legion
Steele Clark
Cherry Tree Post
Indiana County
Delegates Elect Officers At State Legion Convention
About 10,003 delegates from 36 districts registered as the convention adjourned with votes to elect three officers including state commander. Daniel Hartbauer and John Love were leading contenders, Harry Singer was chosen national executive, Michael Markowitz as alternate, and Hugh Kemper as department chaplain amid resolutions on war plant strikes and Legion membership.
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Daniel C. Hartbauer
Pittsburgh
John C. Love
Bellefonte
Harry K. Singer
Philadelphia
Michael Markowitz
Wilkes-Barre
Hugh Kemper
Easton
Singer
J. Guy Griffith
New Kensington
National Executive
Legion
Molzahn Trial Ends with Guilty Verdict on Espionage Conspiracy
Molzahn and his wife testified in defense while five defendants faced the case. Anastase Vonsiatsky, the Russian Fascist leader from Thompson, Conn., received a five year term. The pastor stood trial. the others pleaded guilty. The conspiracy operated from January 1941 to December 8, 1941, to gather Army Navy and defense data for Germany or Japan via Kunze.
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Lameit
Chicago
Bund
Anastase A. Vonsiatsky
Thompson
Conn
Molzahn
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr
Hartford County
Molgahn
Pearl Harbor
United States Army
Navy
Arr
Germany
Japan
Kunze
United States
Draft plans target Christmas call under Hershey guidance
Major General B. Hershey, head of selective service, said a draft call by Christmas could target men with no dependents first, with navy marine corps and coast guard service draft plans already “in the offering.” He spoke at Northwestern University but warned industry must start surrendering manpower promptly.
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B. Hershey
Selective Service
Wars
Hershey
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
National Institute For Commercial and Trade Association
Northwestern University
Draft reclassification to fill 1-A quotas announced
General Hershey stated draft boards will reclassify skilled war plant workers and married men with dependents to fill 1-A quotas. Unfit or older workers and women may be drafted for factory work as needed. The sequence favors single men with dependents, then married men with employed wives, then men with wives and children.
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Hershey
Aluminum workers press White House on wage ruling
AWA and CIO unions demand war labor board reconsider the 8 to 4 decision denying a general wage boost for 28,000 aluminum workers at 10 Alcoa plants. They seek Roosevelt audience and protest alleged injustice while strikes and labor actions ripple through Vernon California, Detroit Chrysler Arsenal, Kaiser yards, and Midwest trucking.
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War Labor Board
WLB
Zonarich
CIO
Alcoa
Ben Fischer
AWA
Vernon
Calif
Aluminum Company
War Production Board
Chrysler Tank Arsenal
Detroit
Ed. Thal
Detroit Building Trades Council
Congress Industrial Organizations
E. J. Hunt
Arsenal
AFL
Henry J. Kaiser
Richmond
Ray Stewart
Oakland
Mets
Lodge 681
Midwest
Chicago
Robert Appel
Central States Employers’ Conference
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Judge Calls Parole Parley in Harrisburg
Harrisburg Aug 22 Judge Ralph H Smith of Pittsburgh proposed a conference to settle State Parole Board policies. Attorney General Claude T Reno backed the idea. The case of Gabe Spencer awaiting parole after 18 months was held. Reno praised the new parole act as progressive and constitutional, despite a Delaware County judge ruling it unconstitutional. Reno vowed to appeal to the State Supreme Court.
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Harrisburg
Ralph H. Smith
Pittsburgh
Claude T. Reno
Gabe Spencer
Smith
Spencer
Tam
Reno
Delaware County
State Supreme Court
McCLURE Musical and literary program at church
Tonight at 8:00 a musical and literary program will be held in the church followed by a reception. The pastor, officers and members of the congregation will participate. The anniversary sermon is tomorrow.
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Tomor
War Production Board Cuts 85 Power Projects During Curtailment
Washington Aug 29 AP Civilians face probable widespread curtailment of electricity as the War Production Board suspends or halts 85 public and private power projects. The program shifts to protect war needs with a small margin for added munitions, warning civilian inconvenience may occur during droughts or accidents.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPA
McClure Family Pastors Blairsville Church Milestone
Morning service at 11:00 features Rev John McNaugher and Joseph Sheriff with choir and Miss Martha Kier at organ. Afternoon fellowship at 2:30 includes greetings from Conemaugh Presbytery and visiting divines, then 7:30 with Blairsville pastors and solo by Mrs. Margaret McClure Cummings. Dr McClure born 1861 in West Middletown and educated at Jefferson Academy Washington & Jefferson Allegheny Westminster. He helped triple church members, funded new church, and earned many posts including Blairsville Library president and Westminster College trustee. He and wife Margaret had seven children including Dr Robert E and William Donald.
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McClure
John McNaugher
D. Pittsburgh
Joseph Sheriff
Martha Kier
Conemaugh Presbytery
Blairaville
Margaret McClure Cummings
Robert B
Letitia
Templeton) McClure
West Middletown
United States
Ford Museum
Ford
Jefferson Academy
Canonsburg
Washington & Jefferson College
Trinity Hall
Allegheny Seminary
Fittsburgh-Xenia
Westminster College
Margaret McNaughes
Synod of Pittsburgh
Bible School
Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League
Blairsville Library Association
Robert E
University of Pittsburgh
Margaret Cummings
Department of
Christian Education
Maryville
Tenn
William Donald
Sudan
Africa
John
Scalfe & Co
Oakmont
Janet
Blairsville
Catherine
Indiana High School
Thomas
People’s Bank
Rangers Remember Dieppe Pillbox Assault with British Air Help
The Rangers recounted a perilous mission north of Dieppe attacking two German pillboxes. They said the first pillbox was empty, then a second was silenced by British Spitfires firing on the position. In a subsequent crossroads clash, five Germans fell as the rest fled, and the Americans credited the British for courage and combat skill.
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Dieppe
Corporal Brady
Brady
War letter probate tests fate of Captain Lamont Clark
White Plains, Aug 22. A Philippines jungle letter by United States Army Captain Lamont T. Clark of Lake Mahopac, presumed alive or dead, may probate an estate of about $10,000. If admitted, the letter dictates disposal of property to friends and relatives depending on his wife Mawila’s status. The surrogate court withheld provisions pending Clark’s fate.
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White Plains
N. Y
Philippines
United States Army
Lamont T. Clark
Lake Mahopac
Sherman
Clark
Mawila
Mid-Atlantic farmers push tri state harvest surge
Farmers and co operatives along country roads showcase a vivid display of corn, tomatoes, peppers, and peaches. A middleman notes most produce comes from South Jersey with Pennsylvania rising later as Western New York joins. The tri state harvest is expected heavy and diners will see more home grown fare this winter.
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Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
OPA imposes bunker coal price ceiling adjustment
Washington Aug 22 APA Supplies of bituminous coal used for ships bunker fuel at Tidewater may add to their maximum prices the amount of freight rate Increases between January 15 and April 30 under an OPA ruling. Ceiling prices for Great Lakes bunker fuel reflect freight rises, tidewater prices do not, aiming to correct this inequality.
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Washington
APA
Tidewater
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Great Lakes
Tidewaters
Canadians and Americans Fend Off German Gun Crew at Dieppe Beach
Report describes Canadian troops and three American sergeants engaging a German anti air crew at Dieppe. A British officer orders a quick assault with Bren gunners, a firefight ensues, gunfire wounds several, including Szlma who loses his hat to a bullet. The men call Germans tough but say the Dieppe beach experience hardened them.
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Sziina
Oechorch
Szlma
Dieppe
Tony Hneat
Leaked timing of two state blackout draws reprimand
State Defense Council director Dr. A C Marts said sources of a prior leak were found and disciplined. A 15 minute daylight drill was approved for Allegheny and eight nearby counties including Greene Washington Fayette Westmoreland Butler Lawrence Beaver and Armstrong.
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State Defense Council
A. C. Marts
Dr. Marts
Allegheny
Greene
Washington
Fayette
Westmoreland
Butler
Lawrence
Beaver
Market Cables Slow Demand and Steady Produce Prices
MARKETS PITTSBURGH AUG. 22. Produce demand slow. Apples mostly steady with various regional prices for different varieties. Potatoes moved in two car lots with steady to slight changes. Livestock outlook shows few salable hogs, cattle steady, calves and sheep scarce but firm.
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Pittsburgh
Penna Rambos
West Va
McIntosh
New York Duchess
Maiden Blush
New Jersey
Katahdins
Long Island Bliss Triumphs
Ohio Cobblers
Chippewas
NAMED TO POST HARRISBURG
Leonard N. Miller of State College was named chief of the Division of Occupational Information and Guidance in the Department of Public Instruction by Dr. Francis B. Hear, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, conceived the one way street as an aid to traffic.
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Harrisburg
Leonard N. Miller
State College
Department of Public Instruction
Francis 8. Hear
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Julius Caesar
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