Allied drive tightens grip as Jap supply lines cut
Allied communique reports Japanese supply lines severed to New Georgia and Kolombangara in the Solomons and to Salamaua in New Guinea. Japanese forces cling to pockets near Munda and Bairoko harbor while American and Australian troops consolidate positions on ridges near Salamaua.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
Solomons
New Guinea
New Georgia
Salamaua
Munda
Vella Lavella
Kolombangara
Bairoko Harbor
New Britain
Induction Outlook For Pre Pearl Harbor Fathers Faces October Draft
War Manpower Commission spokesmen said a strong possibility exists that only non deferrable fathers will be drafted in October, with no plans to change the October 1 start for pre war father inductions. They denied rumors of reduced goals and noted Navy and Army expansion targets suggesting total armed forces may rise beyond prior estimates.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Knox
Coast Guard
Marines
Army
Poisoned Mexican Hop Pickers Stricken Near Grants Pass
Three hundred Mexican hop pickers fell ill with food poisoning after lunch in the fields near Grants Pass Oregon. Dr M E Cortell said bacterial action in scrambled eggs served by the War Food Administration was the suspected cause.
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Grants Pass
Ore
M. E. Cortell
War Food Administration
Fourteen-year-old charged in double funeral tragedy
In Covington Kentucky on August 20 a sixteen year old girl Jo Ann Kiger kissed her slain father Carl C. Kiger 49 vice mayor of Covington and his six year old son Jerry at a funeral after a high mass in St. Aloysius church. She is charged with murder in their deaths.
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Covington
Jo Ann Kiger
Carl C. Kiger
Jerry
St. Aloysius Church
Navy Film Showing at Masonic Temple Cancelled
Navy films intended for a Logan Ohio event were damaged in transit from Columbus to Marietta and cannot be shown. The showing is postponed to a later date under the American Legion post.
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United States Navy
Masonic Temple
Logan
Logan Post No
American Legion
Columbus
Marietta
Subsidy Plan Pushed to Front as Congress Looms
Washington officials say the administration will deploy a new cost of living subsidy before Congress returns, with Byrrnes promising a substantial cut. Details are secret but estimates place the government cost from 300 million to over 1 billion dollars. Meat and butter subsidies likely stay at 1 percent while vegetables such as potatoes may see price relief.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
James F. Byrnes
War Mobilization
USW Urges Government Buy Slaughter Cattle
United Shoe Workers CIO call to government to buy and slaughter five million cattle to increase meat supply and ease leather shortages. Frank R. McGrath cites leather inventories down 50 percent since last year in a letter to President Roosevelt.
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Washington
United Shoe Workers (Cio
Roosevelt
Frank R. McGrath
Ickes Plans Return of Five Coal Mines to Owners
Secretary of the Interior Ickes will return five non-struck coal mines to private ownership in Ohio, West Virginia, and Alabama. The OWI was to announce the step, though officials did not name or discuss the mines. Ickes has run about 3,700 major mining properties since May 1 during early strikes by United Mine Workers.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Ohio
West Virginia
Alabama
Office of War Information
OWI
Coal Mine Administration
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War bond drive nets 532868 for Spirit of Jalico bomber
An all day bond campaign by Jack and Heintz Inc aircraft parts makers in Cleveland raised 532,868 in cash. The funds go to a bomber named Spirit of Jalico, with payments coming in above the workers 15 percent payroll deductions.
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Cleveland
Jack and Heintz, Inc
Spirit of
Eight feared buried in Congoleum Nain plant blast
A major explosion at the Congoleum Nain Inc plant in Kearny New Jersey left three dead and 10 injured with eight more believed buried under rubble in a three story brick and concrete building. Fire teams used steam shovels to search smoking debris as fires spread to nearby structures.
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Kearny
N. J
Congoleum-Nain Inc
Charles Burnett
Newark
New Jersey
Passiac River
No. 12
Higher Grade Oil Prices Are Asked
Independent Oil executive L E Kincannon urged the Petroleum Administration for War panel that higher crude prices will spur new field development and fuller production. He warned that competition as known in the industry cannot continue without crude access for small refineries. The Indiana Illinois Michigan Ohio Minnesota Kentucky group was assembled by W Vanderveer of Chicago and included Robert Stith of Stith Petroleum in Indianapolis who noted that a 72 hour filling station limit favors larger chains.
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Indianapolis
L. E. Kincannon
Independent Oil
Petroleum Administration For War
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Minnesota
Kentucky
W. Www
Vanderveer
Chicago
PAW District 2
Robert Stith
The
Stith Petroleum, Company
Quebec Conference Signals Broad War Plans Against Japan
Brendan Bracken, at Quebec, says plans discussed with Roosevelt and Churchill target Japan as part of the same war. He warns the war will be long and hard and that Britain will divert all strength to defeating Japan after Hitler is defeated. He calls Japan a ruthless, savage foe and vows not to lay down arms until Japan is conquered.
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Bracken
Europe
Japan
Hitler
Truman group hearings probe Wright engine parts plant
The Truman Senate investigating committee held a two day public hearing in Cincinnati to accuse Wright Aeronautical Corp. of supplying defective engine parts from its Lockland plant. Vaughan denied selling products with defects and Robert Patterson said no engines known to be defective were used.
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Cincinnati
Truman
United States Senate
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Army
Lockland
Guy W. Vaughan
Curtiss-Wright Corp
Vaughan
Robert P. Patterson
Radio Official Denies Union Muzzling Charge
In Columbus Ohio Aug 20 an official rejected UAW vice president Richard T Frankensteen claim that WHKC radio used the Smith Connally act to muzzle him The station says it cut controversial portions to comply with the National Association of Broadcasters code The deleted content targeted Republican Senator Robert A Tait and Representative John M Vorys over anti labor and anti Roosevelt voting records in the 78th Congress
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Columbus
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers (Cio
WHKC
National Association Broadcasters
Frankensteen
Washington
Ohio
Moses
Robert A. Tait
Cincinnati
John M. Vorys
Allies gain Lipari and Stromboli as Sicily war shifts
Allied forces report the capture of Lipari and Stromboli islands in the Aeolian group north of Sicily. Southern Italy endures heavy bombardment as American and British armies prepare to push from Sicily into the Italian mainland. King Vittorio Emanuele III signals possible peace overtures while war council plans near Quebec discuss the zero hour.
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Sicily
Lipari
Stromboli
Tyrrhenian Sea
Messina
Aeolian
Italy
Europe
War Council
Roosevelt
Churchill
Quebec
France
Algiers
Vittorio Emanuelle III
Rome
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Terrain Slows Down Soviets in Twin Drives
Soviet troops on the central front faced difficult terrain and heavy strain as they pressed twin advances on Bryansk and Kharkov. In Ukraine, 240 miles south of Bryansk, Red Army forces formed a line while air forces targeted rear bases to disrupt German supply routes. A fierce battle east of Bryansk saw fresh German troops pushed back as villagers were cleared.
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Moscow
Bryansk
Kharkov
Red Star
Ukraine
Dity
Red Army
Teacher Shortage Faces Ohio Schools
Ohio faces a war induced shortage of qualified teachers as schools prepare to open. About 4000 fully certified teachers, roughly 10 percent of normal strength, are unavailable due to military service and wartime jobs. The state will issue one year temporary certificates to keep education steady.
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Columbus
Ohio
Buckeye
Harold J. Bowers
Armed Services
Lincoln urges farmers to work out problems themselves
Murray D. Lincoln executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau told 5000 southwestern Ohio farm people in Batavia on August 20 to solve their own problems rather than rely on government action.
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Lincoln
Batavia
Murray D. Lincoln
Ohio Farm Bureau
Derailment Blamed on Boys Playing Tracks in Michigan
In Grand Rapids a Wolverine passenger train derailed, killing fireman John R. McCarty of Jackson. Police inspector Albert F. Seiern said three curious boys aged five and six placed four tracks to see what would happen, causing the wreck.
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Grand Rapid
Mich
New York
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