War Today: Mackenzie on Pacific and Caucasus Battles
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes the Pacific clash near the Solomon Islands and the Caucasus fight as pivotal moments shaping the war. He argues stopping Hitler first could allow victory over Japan, notes Japan's risky naval gambit and the strategic value of U S bases in the Pacific to pressure Asia, Australia, and India. The piece urges sustained home-front support and POW repatriates.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Gripsholm
New York Harbor
Pacific
Solomon Islands
Washington
America
Hillerism
Orient
Hitler
The
Caucasus
Red Armies
China
Russian
Siberia
India
Pay Boosts Raise Purses for 23121 State Workers
Harrisburg August 26 more than 23000 state employees will receive pay increases totaling 1.004 million dollars for the period September 1 through May 3. Governor James announced boosts for the three lowest paid groups as a wartime measure to ease living costs. The plan raises Highway Department hourly wages by five cents to 55-60 cents and establishes a 1200 annual minimum for most departmental staff with a year of service. Some workers under 1140 annual pay will be bumped to 1140 now and to 1200 after a year. Several institutional staff earning under 1140 will also gain. Departments may offset costs due to war-related lower activity and unfilled positions.
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Harrisburg
James
Plymouth
Commonwealth
Highways Department
Stalingrad Battlefronts Grow Tense As War Expands
Dispatches reveal Red armies fighting near Stalingrad amid German advances from the Don. Soviet reports claim tank clashes northwest of the city and heavy fighting across the Caucasus while Allied air forces hit Japanese targets near New Guinea and Buna. Western fronts see RAF raids on Germany and Axis bombardments along Britain’s coast as global conflict broadens.
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Sion
Far Pacific
China East Coast
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yvetaken Tungjiang
Miley
Egypt
el Alamein
Alexandria
Mediterranean
English Channel
Germany
Holland
Great Yarmouth
Ipswich
England
Berlin
Kent of Reece Death Feels Royal Grief Across Britain
News of Kent of Reece death reaches King George and Queen Elizabeth at their summer retreat. The Duchess receives family comfort as Britain mourns a high profile royal loss amid wartime secrecy. Messages pour in from around the world as editorials frame the event as a war era sacrifice.
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Reece
Prince Edward
Princess Alexandra
Prince George
Franklin
Roosevelt
Kent
George I
Queen Elizabeth
Buckinghamshire
Coppins
Mary
England
Duke of Windsor
Bahamas
London
Britain
Air Ministry
Dany
the Express
Buckingham Palace
Solomons Counterattack Sinks Japanese Vessels and Strikes New Guinea
Allied forces report continued action in the Solomons with bombing or torpedoing of more than six Japanese ships. The offensive also strafed two transports and destroyed a gunboat off southeastern New Guinea. Damaged vessels include several warships and escort craft.
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Solomons
New Guinea
Secret arm to be surprise to Germans in war effort
London Aug. 26 Brig Gen G M Barnes head of US ordnance mission says Britain and America both produce a secret weapon that will surprise the Germans. He notes strong ally production and says American women must be employed more in munitions work while British factories already use women on tasks like boring guns.
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London
United States Army Ordnance Mission
G. M. Barnes
United States
Barnes
U. S. War Department
Britain
Berkish
America
Ministry of Supply
Washington
Pinned Six Days by Tree in Oklahoma Woods
A 63 year old farmer, Kenneth Wallace, was pinned for six days beneath a fallen tree in Adair county northern Oklahoma. He was chopping timber on August 17 when the tree fell on him. He endured severe shock and exposure, subsisting on wild grapes and leaves after his water bottle ran dry. A search party located him and he received medical care.
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Airie Grove
Ark
Adair County
Oklahoma
Kenneth Wallace
Japanese Carrier Losses and Solomons Battle Update
Japanese naval losses include eight carriers previously, with six sunk in earlier actions and others damaged near Midway and the Aleutians. Allied carrier planes hit a battleship and cruisers in the Solomons, while U S forces burned a cruiser and a transport. MacArthur reported 13 planes destroyed at Buna and silencing of an anti aircraft battery in New Guinea. Allied fighters claimed beached barges damaged and beacons near Rabaul and Gasmata. Marines dig in after landing two and a half weeks ago, with naval air support aiding a possible decisive sea battle as the Solomons contest continues.
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Stalingrad
Belleaguered
Volga
Don
Red Army
Red
Star
Caucasus
Neir
Krasnodar
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Far Pacific
Douglas J MusArthur
New Guinea
Solomons
United ‘Nations
Buna
Japan
Rabaul
Gus‘mata
New Britain
Tokyo
United States
Washington
China War Front
Inva
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Aleutian Islands
U. S
Guadalcanal
MacArthur
Ar Rabaul
Ary
Navy
Whi
Bath
Aluminum Workers to Vote on WLB Wage Ruling
Thousands of CIO aluminum workers vote Thursday at seven plants of Alcoa to decide approving a strike if they reject the War Labor Board decision denying a general wage increase. President Nick A. Zonarich plans appeals to President Roosevelt if locals back the walkout, with voting at New Kensington Badin Alcoa Tenn Edgewater Bauzite Detroit and Bridgeport Fairfield.
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Pittsburgh
Aus
CIO
Aluminum Company of America
War Labor Board
Nick A. Zonarich
Zonarich
Washington
Badin
N. C
Alcoa
Tenn
Edgewalter
N. J. Bauzite
Ark
Detroit
Bridge-Fairfield
Defense leaders report mixed coverage during blackout drill
In Philadelphia a blackout test began at 12 30 a m with warnings only 12 hours prior. Judge Mc Devitt praised overall compliance though one section was poorly covered. A second alert followed at 2 40 p m while violations were minor, mainly among motorists. The drill, authorized by Deputy A C Marts, aimed to simulate daylight air raid conditions in nine southwestern Pennsylvania counties.
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Philadelphia
McDevitt
Dy. A. C. Marts
Pennsylvania Defense Council
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Defense Council
Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Defense Council
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver
Butler
Lawrence
Westmoreland
Fayette
Washington
Greene
Molzahn Sentenced in World War II Conspiracy Case
The 47-year-old clergyman and former cavalry officer in the German army who earned the Iron Cross was named in a June 10 federal indictment along with four others. He aided German Bund leader Gerhard Kunze in fleeing to Mexico. Molzahn faced possible 20 years. Kunze got 15, Willameit 5, Ebell 7, and Vonsiatsky 5 years.
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Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Bund
Mexico
Molzahn
Kunze
Otto Willameit
Chicago
Wolfgang Ebell
el Paso
Tex
Ana
Fair Racing Headlines a Hot Indiana Weekend Card
The Free-for-All field includes six pacers and five trotters with five or six runners likely to race. Symbol Roy, a former pace record setter, is back to contest the event along with Hunter Hanover Laughing Waters Breeze on Brew and others. Carty Nagle will not appear as he races on the Grand Circuit in Old Orchard Maine. The night program features light animal pulling contests and a full midway with pet show and Cavalcade scheduled tomorrow.
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Carty Nagle
Old Orchard
Maine
Roy
Hunter Hanover
Laughing Waters
Breeze
Brewer
Indiana
Labor Board Urged to Lead War Economy Reforms
Philadelphia August 26 The CIO United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union executive board calls for a supreme economic command to streamline the war effort with labor management and government sharing control. R J Thomas says labor must have a voice and cites chaos in production priorities and manpower under the War Production Board. Proposals include removing business minded individuals, halting misleading progress publicity, immediate defense housing action, improved inventory, regional War Labor Board offices, and stronger price controls.
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Philadelphia
America
CIO
United Automobile, Airscraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union
R. J. Thomas
Washington
Thomas
War Production Board
Nelson
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Economic Command
Executive Committee
National War Labor Board
Roosevelt to address youth world wide on Septembers
President Roosevelt announced two major radio talks including a September 3 address aimed at the youth of the world delivered to an international student assembly and broadcast to United Nations and allied and enemy nations via Navy and War Information channels. He also planned an August 31 speech at the dedication of the Navy Medical Center and discussed a broader plan to curb living costs by stabilizing wages and farm prices, with possible legislation before or after Labor Day. He met with CIO chief Philip Murray and AFL president William Green to discuss cost of living and signaled wage and price stabilization as essential to inflation control.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
White House
Congress
International Students Service
United Nations
Stephen Early
Early
Russia
Netherlands
England
Students Assembly
Philip Murray
CIO
Wiliam Green
AFL
Leon Henderson
Dictionaries for Soldiers Dictating War Department Language Project
The War Department seeks English military and ordinary terms and abbreviations related to the war effort to compile an American definition dictionary and foreign military dictionaries in 50 languages. Lists should be sent to the Military Intelligence Division G-3 Language Section at 420 Whitehall Building, 17 Battery Place, New York, NY.
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War Department
War Department General Staff
Military Intelligence Division
G-3
Military Intelligence Service
Whitehall Building
Battery Place
New York
N. Y
Treasury balance report shows daily receipts and debt
Washington August 28 The treasury balance for August 24 shows receipts of 47 493 410.00 and expenditures of 400 439 915.76 leaving a net balance of 3 091 887 454.27. Total debt stands at 85 754 394 851.09 with an increase of 53 415 667.02 from the previous day.
Market Roundup of Major Stocks and Bond Yields
A terse snapshot lists leading stocks across industries with percentages and notable figures. Companies include Chrysler, General Motors, DuPont, Boeing, Coca Cola, Edison, General Foods, Packard, International Harvester, Texaco, and US Steel among others. The report notes varied gains, interspersed with several notable declines and dividend or yield markers, reflecting a broad market drift.
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Air Ateduilivs Amn Am
Ulla Au
LU Am Sinelt
Am Tel
Ain ‘Tub
Anacuida
Reining
Mie
Bald Leva Ct
Ie Bendix Aviatory
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Coabba Briges Mtg
Ches and
Chrysler Corp
Cons Edison
Curtiss Wright
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont de N
Penney (Jc
Penna RR
Radio Corp of Am Rey
Repub Steel
Reynolds Tob
Boke Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Cal
Stand
Ind
Stand Oil NJ
Studebaker Corp
Swift and Co
Texas Co
United Aireral
UTM United Corp
United Gas Impam U & Rubber
Produce and Livestock Markets Report From Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh August 26 produce demand moderate with apples steady led by Penna Rambos Ma iden Blush and McIntosh prices 1.00 to 1.40 per basket. Potatoes steady with Chippewas Jer sey Chippewas and Katehdins 1.80 to 2.10 per 100 lb sack. Hogs five at steady prices cattle calves sheep unchanged amid labor dispute remarks.
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Fuuube
Pittsburgh
Baskets Penna
McIntosh
Gravesteins
Jersey
Iseek Slayer in Blackout Sparks Brooklyn Murder Night
In New York on August 26 gunfire shattered a Brooklyn street during a city blackout and lunar eclipse. Salvatore Maggio, 36, a gun presser, was killed as a car sped away amid sirens and darkness. Police pursued a black sedan as the eclipse deepened and Times Square saw crowds flee.
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New York
Salvatore Maggio
Brooklyn
Times Square
Rail Hearing Set On PRR Line Restoring Service
The Public Utilities Commission will resume hearings at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow in the courthouse to decide if passenger service on the Pennsylvania Railroad branch between Indiana and Torrance should be restored. Remaining testimony in support of restoration will be heard.
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Victor Marker
OPM
Indiana
Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Torrance
PRR
Obituary notices for Dilts Eckman Spisak O Neil McLaren
Obituaries report deaths in DuBois Apollo Dixonville Blacklick Strongstown with survivors and service details. MAROLD DILTS of Creekside DuBois. SARA BELL ECKMAN 75 Apollo. SUSANNA SPISAK Slovakia Dixonville. JAY LUTHER O'NEIL Blacklick. WESLEY W McLAREN Strongstown. Funeral plans, interments listed.
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Indiana Evening Gazette
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Treasury
Iseek Slayer
Blackout
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Creekside
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Daughers
iClaude Dilts
Nile
Dilts
Josephine
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Fred Dills
West
Washington Street
du Bois
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Cemejtery
Sara Bell Eckman
North Firthstreet
Apollo
Frank E. Fulton
George L. Fulton
Rowhuster
Samuel
George Daugherty
Jacob Daugherty
North Apollo
Mary Stewart
Saltsbury
Janna Healen
Dennison
W. H. Schulz
Apollo Cemetery
Susanna Spisak
Slovakia
Stephen Horvath
Dixonville
Joseph Spisak
Anna Liptak
Jacob Resovsky
Charles Liptak
Jay Luther O’neil
O'Neil
Blacklick
W. H. Nicholson
Blacklick Presbyterian Church
Jacksonville Cemetery
Rose (Cunkleman) O'Neil
Mia
Lena Ruddock
Homer City
Mary Knopf
Warren
Fannie Muir
Joanna Rose O'Neil
Edward O'Neil
Bedford
James O'Neil
Doris Lickert
Gideon O'Neil
Nelson and
Mary (Rice) O'Neil
Purchase Line
Wesley Wilmer M'Claren
Cleo Stiles
Strongstown
Strongstown Methodist Church
George
Stepheng
Union Cemetery
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