Wedge Driven Between Nip Garrisons In New Guinea Landing
Sixth Army infantrymen executed a night landing off Cape Opmarai in Dutch New Guinea to wedge between Japanese garrisons at Manokwari and Sorong. Troops established a beachhead with no preliminary bombardment as transports unloaded assault troops, while snipers were reported killed and the area held by green-clad American forces.
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Peninsula
Dutch New Iece
Sixth Army
Cape Opmarai
Manokwari
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Phil
New Guinea
MacArthur spearhead drives 200 miles toward the Philippines
Allied forces landed on a volcanic coast near Sorong with big LSTs and two small craft. Vehicles filled the black sandy beach beneath Mt Kwoka while bulldozers cleared dispersal areas. PT boats prowled the coast under Lieut. (jg) Frederick Jacobson as MacArthur’s advance cut off two Japanese bases.
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Sorong
Frederick Jacobson
Re Wis
Gen. MacArthur
Philippines
House Military Panel Attacks Labor Trafficking for War Contracts
A House military committee report censures firms hiring out their workers to other firms for war contracts. It cites profits from inflated wages and reimbursable costs, naming Higgins Aircraft United Aircraft Chrysler and others with multi million dollar payments for employed personnel.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
Higgins Aircraft, Inc
United Aircraft Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge
War corpsman hunts Schmeling among 160 corpses in France
Captain Gaddis Wittjen commands a graves registration unit in France seeking to verify rumors that Max Schmeling was among 160 German paratrooper bodies buried in no man’s land. Maj. Roy Craft leads a walk through the cemetery as correspondents watch for confirmation amid repeated false reports.
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AEF
France
Gaddis Wittjen
Max Schmeling
Hitchcock
Tex
Max
Wittjen
Schmeling
Joe Louis
Roy D. Craft
San Francisco
Charles H. Corlette
Crete
Maj. Craft
No-Man's-Land
Craft
Paris
Need 50,000 Workers For Ammunition Plants
War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt announced the list of heavy ammunition plants and urged urgent recruitment of 50,000 more workers by year end to keep invasion guns stocked. Baraboo Wisconsin's Badger Ordnance Works is among the facilities, with most tasks open to women and men alike.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Badger Ordnance Works
Baraboo
Wis
Army
McNutt
Oxygen Tent Saves Thousands of Fish in Wallingford
In Wallingford Connecticut the fire department saved thousands of suffocating fish at a reservoir. Fire engines sprayed water into the air to supply oxygen after fish were found floating and gasping. The fish and game department attributed the event to a lack of oxygen and declared them out of danger.
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Wallingford
Conn
Fish and Game Department
Recreational Expert Demonstrates Program At College
Don L. Bevan, leader of folk dancing and community singing, will present a demonstration recreational program at La Crosse State Teachers College at 3 p m Wednesday in the little gymnasium. He has been educational director of Co op Youth Social Centers for the Midland Cooperative and has conducted recreation institutes at colleges in the region. He also speaks on recreation in schools and communities and assists in planning teaching programs. Refreshments will follow. Students from all departments are urged to attend.
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Don L. Bevan
la Crosse
Notable Deaths in New York and Chicago Figures
Frank J. Loesch, 92, Chicago lawyer who coined the term public enemy and chaired the Chicago crime commission for a decade, also served on Hoover's Wickersham commission. John C. Scobie, 66, senior partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers, died at his Greenwich, Connecticut home.
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Associated Press
Cooperstown
N. Y
Frank J. Loesch
Chicago
Chicago Crime Commission
Hoover
Wickersham Commission
New York
John C. Scobie
Price, Waterhouse Co
Greenwich, Conn
Rocket Propelled Nazi Fighter Aboard by German Forces
London reports a new rocket propelled fighter seen by Allied crews as extremely fast but elusive. U S forces say MB-163s encountered over Germany on Friday as Col Alvin P. Tacon Jr. notes Mustangs failed to engage two craft.
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London
Berlin
U. S. Air Force
Germany
Alvin P. Tacon, Jr
Mobile
Ala
Highway Crash Report Cites Minor Scalp Lacerations
Pittsburg Kansas reports a highway accident involving a woman who suffered minor scalp lacerations and fractures of her dignity and ease of big and little sitters, with details limited in the release.
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Pittsburg
Kas
Brownell Predicts Dewey To Carry 25 States
Herbert Brownell Jr the Republican national chairman predicts Gov Thomas E Dewey will win at least 25 states in the November election totaling 311 electoral votes well above the 266 needed. He claims public opinion in Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan New York and Iowa supports Dewey with the rest listed including Colorado Connecticut Delaware Idaho Kansas Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey North Dakota Oregon Pennsylvania South Dakota Vermont Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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New York
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Brownell
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Ichigan
Iowa
Dewey
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Dakota
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Vermont
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Gallup
Michigan
Madison Merrimac Labor Shortage Area Classified by WMC
The War Manpower Commission placed Madison Merrimac Wisconsin in group one for acute labor shortages endangering essential production. It shifted Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin to group two, and removed twelve static areas including Dubuque Iowa and Wisconsin’s WIMONA from classifications.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Newark
Madison-Merrimac
Wis
War Manpower Commission
Sturgeon Bay
WMC
Dubuque
Iowa
Wimona
Minnesota
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Middelurg
Mt. Kwoka
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Montgomery Ward
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Gpurgeong
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Cynthia
U. S. Pat
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