Family celebrates overseas service of brave munitions veteran
Mrs. John Wellman greets son Pfc. Ben Wellman in England marking his overseas service after basic training in Cheyenne and Portland. The article lauds SEABEES in the South Pacific for rapid base construction, skilled crews, and broad recruitment, noting salaries from 54 to 126 dollars monthly plus overseas pay, quarters, and care.
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John Wellman
Pfc
Ben Wellman
England
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Portland
New York City
Dorchester
Dorsetshire
America
Island “X
R. J. Mitchell
U. S. Marine Corps
South Pacific
Seabees
Navy
Detroit youths charged with murder in race riot
Four white youths face murder charges after a June riot in Detroit in which Moses Kiska was shot while waiting for a street car. Aldo Trani 16 Anthony Saraceno 16 Armando Mastantuone 20 and Robert Cattone 17 are named. two others unnamed are at large. Detective Buckholdt said Trani admitted firing at Kiska and others from a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Recorder’s
John V. Brennan
Moses Kiska
Aldo Trani
Anthony Saraceno
Armando Mastantuone
Robert Cattone
Sergi
Bricker Announces Ohio Postwar Commission Meeting
Governor Bricker said the Ohio Postwar Commission will hold its organizational meeting with 21 members to plan projects promoting Ohio in the after peace years. The event is set for August in Columbus.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio Postwar Commission
Itoh
Nate Sion
Ohio
States tighten draft as fathers face induction
An unofficial survey shows most states will need to draft fathers with dependencies to meet October quotas as selective service lifts the ban. Manpower officials warn local boards to call up only what is absolutely required, with about 300,000 family men expected to be inducted this year.
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Washington
Selective Service
Paul V. McNutt
Tennessee
Alabama
Oklahoma
Maryland
Arkansas
Nebraska
Utah
Maine
Sea Services
State Selective Service Orders Reclassification
Ohio selective service headquarts directs draft boards to begin immediate reclassification of 3-A registrants to 1-A Col. C W Goble said the move should be rapid but not excessive and that exact numbers to be reclassified or inducted cannot be estimated Local boards are to continue inductions based on dependency while preserving essential agricultural and war production needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Selective Service
C. W. Goble
Bricker to Attend Ohio Legion Convention in Cincinnati
Gov. John W. Bricker announced he will attend the annual convention of the Ohio Department of the American Legion in Cincinnati next week. The trip follows his statement made in Columbus on August 3.
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Bricker
Meet Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio Department
American Legion
Cintone
Six Killed in Bomber Crash at Charlevoix
A Dallas origin two engine bomber trainer crashed while taking off near Charlevoix Michigan killing six people including three air force lab attaches. Lt Col John E Davis of Columbus Lt Wendel Lester of Baytown and civilian W W Cummins of Solon were named among the dead. Lt C E Ginther of New Albany was critically injured. The seventh passenger fate pending notification.
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Dayton
Air Forces’ Experimental Laboratories
Charlevoix
Mich
A. H. Pearson
Wright Field
John E. Davis
Columbus
Wendel P. Lester
Baytown
Tex
W. W. Cummins
Solon
Navigation Instrument Experimental
Pearson
C. E. Ginther
New Albany
Ind
Dallas
O'Brien Named Acting Secretary of Ohio Chamber
George J. O'Brien was named acting secretary of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce pending a mid September trustees meeting to select Dixon’s successor. Born in Cleveland, he spent ten years as personnel director at American steel foundries in Alliance and eight years as president manager of the Alliance chamber of commerce.
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Ohio
C OF C
Columbus
George J. O’brien
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Karl S. Dixon
O’brien
Cleveland
American Steel Foundries
Alliance
Alliance Chamber of Commerce
Eye Witness Tells Havoc In Hamburg
Stockholm reports describe Hamburg’s war industry halted by Allied air attacks. An eyewitness from Copenhagen says work obligations are suspended and streets burn with ruins. A Danish worker recalls bodies in the debris and widespread devastation. German press questions invincibility as ruins smolder.
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Hamburg
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Germany
Allied convoy attack claimed as U boat force sinks ships
London reports a British communiqué stating a force of 25 to 30 submarines and planes attacked, sinking two Allied convoy ships and probably destroying another.
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London
Yanks Meet Savage Counterattacks In Sicily Drive
U S Seventh Army troops faced a fierce German counterattack near Tronia about 20 miles west of Mount Etna. The Americans repelled the assault, pushed the enemy back and closed a road gap on the drive toward Messina, delivering a stout, man-sized defense amid high intensity fighting.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Sicily
Messina
Tronia
Mount Etna
Merchant Vessel Sunk in South Atlantic by Enemy Submarine
The navy announced the sinking of a medium sized United States merchant vessel torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the South Atlantic early in July. Survivors landed at Miami.
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Washington
Navy
United States
South Atlantic
Miami
John L Lewis to Appear Before War Labor Board
John L Lewis was booked for a personal appearance before the War Labor Board to press the United Mine Workers case for wartime pay. He had submitted for approval an Illinois coal operators association contract claiming a potential 1.40 to 3.50 daily increase, tied to government approval and price administration advances, as the WLB eyes wage stabilization.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
Illinois Coal Operators Association
WLB
Illinois
Roosevelt
Ickes
Office of Price Administration
Army to Probe Plant Blast in Cleveland
A military inquiry began into the Ferro Enamel Corp plant explosion that killed seven workers and injured eight. Captain William N. Noble said cause is undetermined and details will not be released until the Army investigation ends.
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Cleveland
Ferro Enamel Corp
William N. Noble
Army
Chemical Warfare Service
Noble
U Boat Warfare Said to Resume on Large Scale
A Berlin broadcast reported by DNB and recorded by AP said German U boats have resumed large scale attacks after being equipped with machinery to escape observation.
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London
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Cleveland Harbor Traffic Near Normal After Frosty July
Harbormaster Henry Silverthorn reports July ship traffic near normal with 481 lake vessels arriving and 480 departing. Fogs ice and several accidents kept traffic down in March and April, with July showing improvement for Cleveland marine activity.
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Cleveland
Henry Silverthorn
Axis Defenses In Sicily Crumble Under Allied Push
Allied forces break through the Mt Etna line within 55 miles of the center, seize at least five strategic objectives, and shrink a 70 square mile bulge as Italian reports acknowledge a southern flank assault. Axis 90,000 prisoners cited. Roosevelt purported armistice terms aired by German agency.
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Sicily
Mtitna
DNB
Il Popolo di Roma
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
Greece
Albania
France
Yugoslavia
Taft Says Nations Must Plan Peace
In Indianapolis a bipartisan U S Congress pair Senator Harold Burton Republican Ohio and Rep Robert Ramspeck Democrat Georgia urged that postwar foreign policy be planned and built now. They said nations cannot blunder into peace and must work together with Allied powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
United States Congress
Harold Burton
R-O
Robert Ramspeck
D.ga
Indiana Com
Burton
War Food Administration seeks 23 percent boost in peanut butter
The War Food Administration asked the food industry to raise peanut butter production by about 23 percent this year as a supplement to short supplies of other high protein foods, especially meats, officials announced today.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Snites Welcome Second Daughter in Chicago
Aug 3 report confirms Mrs. Teressa Larkin Snite gave birth to a second daughter. The child is born to Fred Snite Jr who is a 33 year old victim of infantile paralysis.
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Snites
Chicago
Teressa Larkin Snite
Fred Snite, Jr
Harlem Quiet After Riot Five Die
New York citywide unrest ends as five are dead and hundreds injured, with 5 million in property damage. Police and state guards patrol Harlem after curfew and looting, while the dim-out ends and repairs begin.
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Harlem
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Matthew J. Eder
Uptown Chamber of Commerce
Ickes Sees End of Highway Happy Days
Secretary Ickes declares that declining oil reserves end America’s era of abundant gasoline and backs a congressional push to build plants for extracting fuel from coal and coal shales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ickes
Washington
America
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St. Louis
Paul H. Hazelton
U. S. Army Air Forces
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Detroit Boys
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Svenska Dagbladet
John Lewis
By Joseph A. Loftus
Antoni Rogowski
James H. Lashlee
Louis Trezeciak
William Lubobinski
Henry Nakel
Konstantine Deluga
Stanislaus Szeczech
Axis
Badoglio
By Roger Greene
Bernard L. Montgomery
Catania
Taft
WFA
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