Allies Take Offensive in Pacific Area Naval Assault on Solomon Islands
Allies launch a naval attack in the Pacific aimed at the Solomon Islands as part of an offensive, while British forces thwart a sabotage plan in India and Nazi profits rise amid the Russian campaign. Editorial note indicates analysts from Western Newspaper Union discuss opinions on ongoing operations.
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Pacific
Solomon Islands
India
Union
Caucasus
Red Star
Kuban
Russia
Allied gains in Pacific war push to Solomon Islands
In a major early war offensive, U S fleets and Pacific ships attacked Japanese bases in the Solomon Islands and at Kiska Aleutians, signaling a shift after eight months of gloom. Adm Nimitz stressed strong enemy resistance as U S forces struck along the Coral Sea boundary.
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Pearl Harbor
Southwest Pacific
Solomon Islands
United States
Pacific
America
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Coral Sea
Japan
Solomons
Pacific Fleet
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
Probes Open Into Steel Black Market Amid Shipbuilding Claims
Investigations by Price Administrator Leon Henderson and Rep Carl Peterson are launched into a rumored steel black market with immediate delivery from scattered warehouses. The probes follow Frank Higgins’ claim his firm paid premium steel and link to Higgins shipyard in New Orleans. Senate inquiries accuse the Navy of negligence over tank landing boats, challenging Navy approvals and substitution of Navy models for Higgins designs.
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Price
Leon Henderson
Frank Higgins
New Orleans
Carl Peterson
House
Maritime Commission
Higgins’ Company
Harry S. Truman
Senate
National Defense
Navy Department
Bureau of Ships
Truman
Navy
Frank Knox
Higgins Company
Gandhi and 200 Congress Leaders Arrested in India Drive
Britain arrests Mohandas K Gandhi and nearly 200 All-India Congress leaders as they move to launch a nationwide nonviolent civil disobedience campaign. Rioting breaks out in Bombay and Ahmedabad, grain stores are looted, and Gandhi is kept under strict surveillance while urging followers to seek freedom or die.
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India
Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Gandhi
New Delhi
Bombay
Ahmedabad
United Nations
Geneva Historian Guglielmo Ferrero Dies at 71
Guglielmo Ferrero, noted Italian historian and foe of the Fascists, died in Geneva at age 71. Seven years earlier Mussolini's government seized his books and forced him to flee Italy. He had taught history at the University of Geneva since then, with The Grandeur and Decadence of Rome among his most noted works.
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Geneva
Guglielmo Ferrero
Italy
University of
Rome
War Production Board limits typewriter output this year
Washington reports the War Production board will end typewriter manufacturing by October 31 except for a small government allotment. The order also caps most firms to 124 percent of their machines sold last year for the period July 1 to October 1.
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Washington
War Production Board
War Production Seeks Women for Munitions Jobs and Cargo Planes
Spokesmen announced that one in four American women aged 18 to 44 may be needed in munitions work to reach full war production. A nationwide registration of women could catalog female resources. McNutt says about 5,000,000 more women must join war jobs by end of 1943. The Army and Navy approve large cargo plane production. Arnold says 21 percent of bomber output this year will be cargo or transport capable, with 30 percent overall for cargo. Cargo planes move troops, gliders, and 2.5 million tons weekly. Towers notes Navy speed for a major cargo plane program.
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Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Army
Navy
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Arnold
John H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Submarines lull near U S waters noted by Allies
British officials in London say coastal waters near the United States are no longer soft spots for German submarines. Axis U-boats are believed to seek other waters as convoy systems in Panama and the Caribbean alongside stronger air defenses curb attacks. NATO authorities warn Nazis may renew pressure on North Atlantic supply lanes while Allied anti submarine craft and engine bottlenecks improve.
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London
United Nations
Panama
Caribbean
North Atlantic
Wooden sailing ships spark inter American trade plan
In a reshaped effort to boost cargo capacity with noncritical materials, Undersecretary Taylor championed wooden sailing ships for inter American trade. RFC funds of 10 million dollars support a Rockefeller Office venture to build 300 ton vessels with shallow drafts and auxiliary engines. Latin yards will assemble a belt of sailing ships for long and short routes, leveraging prevailing trade winds.
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Washington
D.C
Wayne C. Taylor
Rio
Taylor
Americas
Maritime Commission
Department of Commerce
RFC
Rockefeller Office
Latin America
Caribbean
Entertainer Fudy Garland Tours Army Camps in 1940s
During Mr Winchell's absence guest columnists take over with Fudy Garland recounting her Army camp tour. She describes meeting soldiers, answering questions about Hollywood, and the wedding cake surprise for her and husband David Rose. She recalls vaudeville past, four shows nightly, and soldiers' fondness for older songs like Over the Rainbow and Dear Mr Gable.
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Fudy
Garland
Hollywood
United States
Camp Robinson
David Rose
Palace Theater
Fort Knox
Louisville
Kentucky
Willie Shore
Abbi-Dabba
Mr. Gable
Easy Stitches for Gay Flowered Chair Set Pattern 411
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William Green
Green
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United Mine Workers
Lewis
United Labor Front
United
Maikop
Germany
District of Columbia
White House
Herbert Hans Haupt
Heinrich Haim Heinek
Edward John Kerling
Hermann Otto Neubauer
Richard Quirin
Werner Thiel
Peter Burger
George John Dasch
Trisl
Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
STEEL
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Housewives
U.S
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Henry Wallace
Wallace
Red Cross
Norman Davis
Jed Johnson
Oklahoma
Joseph J
Ludge
GOP
Charles A. Eaton
New Jersey
Romania
Carol
Madame Lupescu
Mexico City
George Messersmith
Messersmiths
Cuba
Messersmith
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
43Rd Division
Rhode Island
Mee
Mr. Winchell
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New Fork
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Jerry Link
Fuller
Aunt Netty
Mebbe
Eellogg
Austin Dobson
Learther
Lydia B. Pinkham
Pinkham
Marchant
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