ODT Takes Over The Truck Lines
Minneapolis dispatch reports the government seized 103 midwestern trucking firms and ordered 25,000 striking drivers to return to work to resume military supply movement. Roosevelt assigned the Office of Defense Transportation to run the industry, with Ellis Longenecker arriving to direct operations, while local officials warned full-scale action may not begin until Monday.
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Minneapolis
Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Mel G. Barnes
Twin Cities
Washington
Ellis T. Longenecker
Highway Transportation
Barnes
Longenecker
Paul Halpine
Lincoln
Neb
Midwest Operators Association
Omas E. Flynn
International Brothershood of Teamsters
A.P.L
Indianapolis
Flynn
War Labor Board
WLB
Col. J. Monroe Johnson
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
W. J. Haas
Omaha
Kansas City
Three Americans Executed After Escape in Manchuria
Washington reports three fleeing American prisoners were recaptured and executed after being charged by Japan with killing a police officer. The victims were Seaman Frank Meringlo, Sgt. Joe B. Chastain, and Cpl. Victor Palotti, held in a Manchurian camp. The men escaped June 21 1943 and, after assuming German aviator roles, allegedly killed an inspector during a food-plot incident before being captured and condemned by a military court.
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Washington
Navy
Marine Corps
Frank Meringlo
Joe B. Chastain
Victor Paliotti
International Red Cross
Switzerland
State Department
Japanes Foreign Office
Manchuria
Red Cross
War Prisoners on Strike at Stockton Depot
Eighteen hundred German prisoners of war held in short rations as 500 staged a strike to protest lengthening the work day to nine hours from eight at the Stockton army ordnance depot. Maj. Arthur E. Cook said many strikers would resume work but all remain under discipline until all withdraw from the strike position.
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Stockton
Cal
Stockton Army Ordnance Depot
Arthur E. Cook
Army
Navy Casualties From The Pi-Six Kansans Reported
Navy department lists 275 casualties including Theodore Gomez and Paul Vandyke Martin Jr among Pi-Six Kansans. Names show service branches USMC USN USMCR with statuses: dead wounded grounded and locations tied to Kansas towns Honston Great Bend Topeka Salina Pittsburgh Pittsburgh references.
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Washington
Navy Department
Theodore Gomez
USMC
Margaret Rowland
Honston
William H. Griffith
Coldwater
Charles FE. Leigan
USMCR
Great Bend
Paul Vandyke Martin, Jr
Pittsburgh
Charles Robert Maxwell
USN
Topeka
Dave Rex
Norton
Salina
Ford urges postwar effort to end hatreds and build federation
Henry Ford says postwar tasks include leveling hatreds built by the war. He questions dismembering Germany, urges rooting out philosophies of aggression, predicts a world federation and a parliament of man. Ford cites General Arnold and Admiral Nimitz as examples of commendable leadership. The report also notes Charles Morelock returning from a four week Indian school staff summer program at Carson Indian School.
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Big Boy
Mich
Henry Ford
Ford
Lake Superior
Germany
General Arnold
Admiral Nimitz
Charles Morelock
Haskell Institute
Stewart, Nev
Carson Indian School
Red Cross sews bandages resumes at Junior high office
The Red Cross sewing group led by Mrs. E F Huddleston and Mrs. Ed Anderson will reopen next week in the west basement room of the Junior high central building. Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday 1 30 to 4 p m with 800 T binders already shipped out. Material is salvaged from recapping and requests for large turnout to process new supply. The sewing room hours remain 1 30 to 4 p m daily. material won t be issued before September 1 and members are asked to return finished work. No yarn on hand yet for knitting. Executed cases reported in Germany about 100 executions and 1 000 arrests since July 28 attempt on Hitler identified by Tidningen.
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Red Cross
E. F. Huddleston
Ed Anderson
Sewin Room
Mass for Nazi Victims Held in Lublin and Camp Atrocity
Moscow reports thousands gathered in Lublin to honor victims of Maidanek and other Nazi camps. Polish, Soviet, and German prisoners described mass graves, a memorial tablet, and a weighing chamber used to record starvation. Images showed crematories and piles of bones as crowds watched in silence.
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Moscow
Lublin
Father Krusinski
Committee of Liberation
Criminali
Maidanek
Pravda
Boris Gorbatov
Freight shipments ease after truckers strike at Kansas City
Rail shipments rebound as week-old trucker strike subsides, easing freight congestion in Kansas City. The report notes easing transportation disruption and mentions figures tied to the rail system's recovery.
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Kansas City
UPI
Clayton Robinson and Alice Smith Kinship in Missouri Death Notice
Clayton Robinson and Mrs Alice Smith are named in a county obituary. The fragment notes Alice born May 25 1861 at Baldwin to Dr William Martin and Cornelia Clay Martin attended Baker University. She married Walter 8 Smith and lived in Fort Tex where son Walter Scott Smith was mentioned.
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Oklahoma
Ft Apache
Arizona
Wm. H. Robinson
Arkansas City
Fennasan City
Wren
Meides
Kansas City
Gin Ae
Hugh Pi
Independence Avenue Methodist
Clayton Robinson
Alice
Kansas Avenue
Kan
Dr Homer K Ebright Leads August Newcomers Event
A fragment mentions Dr Homer K Ebright presiding at an August gathering for newcomers at a chapel designated as Sons Chapel, indicating an official role in welcoming new attendees.
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Sons Chapel
Homer K. Ebright
Offi
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Alan Hale
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