Propaganda and clamor mix in eastern sea discussion
Westbrook Pegler notes a United dispatch from Louis Star-Times stating Russell Davenport, editor of a subscription magazine, would not back Dewey. Davenport is described as a Willkie ally in 1940, not a party figure, and his quoteworthy remarks are treated as sleeves pulled by a con man.
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Louis
United Dispatch
Louis Star-Times
United Press
Rus- Davenport
Dewey
Russell Davenport
For
Davit
Wendell Willkie
Republican Party
Pnal
Marcia Davenport
Rescue flight captain earns silver star for daring evac
Flight Officer Richard T. Drews of Oregon lands his Lightning under heavy fire to rescue Richard E. Willsie in Romania. Maj. Gen. Nathan Twining pins the Silver Star amid a Mediterranean air war, as Drews and fellow pilots score multiple aerial victories against German aircraft and transport planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
15Th Air
Marschel S. Green
Mayfield, Ky
Amern Fliers
Mediterranean
Derailment Injures Four Near Lake City Station
The Milwaukee Road Olympian train derailed near Lake City Minnesota at 2 a m. Fourteen passengers were hospitalized with injuries, none died. The train had just passed the station and kept moving. many aboard were soldiers and sailors recently returned from Attu and Kiska. Authorities cited multiple yard switches but offered no explanation.
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Lake City
Minn
Milwaukee Railroad
Lakeity
Hos Ae
Pat McGrady
the Marine Orps
New York
Ang
Attu
Kiska
Milwaukee
Philadelphia Ends Unauthorized Transit Strike Aboard Army
Philadelphia ends an eight day walkout at the transit system after army intervention. Four strike leaders James H. McMenamin Frank P. Carney William C. Dixey and Frank Thompson were discharged and await Smith Connally act hearings on August 14. Tensions eased as production and services resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Army
James H. McMenamin
Frank P. Carney
William C. Dixey
Frank Thompson
Smith-Connally
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Philip Hayes
Hayes
James Stewart
C. I. O. Transport Workers Union
Roosevelt
United States
Smith- Connally
The
War Manpower Commission
Hitler Urges Blind Confidence From Home Front
London reports Adolf Hitler urged blind confidence among Germans, pledging to fight Allies to the end and not capitulate. German and Swiss dispatches say total mobilization may extend to foreign workers, with Himmler seeking stronger SS forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Berlin
Hitler
Tass
Bern
Zurich
Heinrich Himmler
Russians push toward East Prussia as Drohobycz falls
Moscow reports eleven Russian army groups hammering from Krakow to East Prussia with bombardment and infantry. Drohobycz oil and communications hub captured amid a bloody pursuit through the Carpathians. Warsaw endures fierce street fighting as Germans hold the besieged capital.
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Moscow
Germany
Krakow
Warsaw
East Prussia
Drohobycz
Carpathian
Red
Reich
Vistula River
German Silesia
Baltic States
Carpathians
Jelgava
Latvia
Baltic
Riga
Red Army
Ee Basin
Two Strikes in Spotlight
Labor front shifts to two remaining major disputes involving 8,500 transportation workers in the United States and Canada after week-end settlements sent 14,400 back to work. About 4,500 truck drivers idle in Midwest dispute while 4,000 Tramway workers in Montreal strike after federal and provincial rejection of compromise. Nationwide about 11,000 idle in 19 other conflicts. total idle 19,500 today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Labor Front
United States
Canada
A. F
Montreal
Philadelphia
Overton Leaves for Washington to Shape Postwar Aims
Sen John H Overton departs Alexandria for Washington to aid demobilization reconversion unemployment and postwar surplus property policy as the Senate readies a controversial bill. He emphasizes duty over re election and plans a statewide broadcast Tuesday night to deliver his third campaign address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
John H. Overton
Washington
Senate
Overton
America
Louisiana
Allied Air Sweeps Hit German Oil Plants and Balkan Targets
More than 500 US heavy bombers blasted two German synthetic oil plants deep in the Reich with 500 to 750 Liberators and Flying Fortresses striking over France. Fifteenth Air Force crews hit plants near Breslau while other forces struck Alibunar Novi Sad and Danube oil facilities. A large British-bases bomber force targeted fuel depots, bridges, and rail junctions as escort fighters covered the operation.
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London
United States
Reich
France
Fifteenth Air Force
Mediterranean
Blechhamer
Breslau
Balkans
Alibunar
Belgrade
Danube
Novi Sad
Davis Seeks Industrial Peace After War
Chairman William H. Davis of the war labor board expresses hope for postwar harmony between labor and industry. He predicts mutual sacrifice will carry into peace with a simple basic agreement outlining aims of full employment fair wages and fair profits to support a $150 billion national income.
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Washington
William H. Davis
War Labor Board
Davis
Donnybrook
Reconversion Legislation Faces Senate Unemployment Debate
Congress this week tackles reconversion policy with a clash over unemployment compensation. The Murray Truman Kilgore plan would provide up to 35 dollars weekly in federal aid, while Senator George's Georgia bill shifts administration to states with smaller payments. Leaders aim to decide this week and move a bill to the House floor early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
House Republicans
George
Georgia
House
Ways and Means Committee
Man Pushes Mother From Window and Ends His Life
In Long Beach California Dudley W. Burriss 30 pushed his mother Mrs June K Burriss 55 from a seventh floor apartment window and then leaped to join her in death. Witnesses said the couple argued and the mother cried for help as Burriss followed her from the window to a garden below. Neighbors on a nearby roof described their struggle and the mother clung to the sill before falling. The husband and father John Murray Burriss said his wife and son were ill and he was away arranging the funeral of his wife's mother who died Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Dudley W. Burriss
S. W. Tubbs
O. E. Whittelsey
R. A. Pinson
Burriss
June K. Burriss
June K. Burriss, 55, Arguing. He Heard Mrs. Burriss
Mary F. Whitty
Grace R. Seely
Frances W. Barnes
U S Warships Strike Bonin Islands In Major Pacific Action
American carrier force hit the Bonins with two day raids destroying Omura town on Chichi Jima and sinking or damaging 41 enemy ships. Five destroyers five cargo ships and an oiler were sunk or damaged along with a light cruiser and five smaller craft. Thirteen enemy planes were destroyed while 19 American airmen were killed.
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Associated Press
Bonin Islands
Japan
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Tokyo
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pacific
New Guinea
Hengyong
United States
Bonin
Kazan Islands
Omura
Chichi
Haha
Muko
Ane
Iowa Jima
Kazans
Higgins Aircraft lauded for exposing labor hoarding
Representative Hebert criticized a military committee report for omitting Higgins Aircraft in New Orleans as a leader in exposing labor hoarding of skilled technicians for war contracts. Hebert credited Andrew Jackson Higgins with initiating the exposure after alerting the Senate war investigating committee.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Higgins Aircraft, Incorporated
New Orleans
Hebert
Democrat
Louisiana
Higgins Corporation
Senate War Investigating Committee
Congressional
Military Committee
Higgins
Andrew Jackson Higgins
New
Urania Lumber strike ends as workers return to mill
Alexandria La August 7 The strike of 300 workers at the Urania Lumber Company sawmill ended today when the men returned to work officials said No change was made in the labor contract President Q T Hardtner said The men struck over discharge of workers who did not pay union dues The company has operated the mill 46 years and this was its first labor trouble
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Alexandria
Urania Lumber Company
Urania
Q. T. Hardtner
Hardtner
Robots Keep Coming
German flying bomb attacks continued on London and the southern counties with night raids at short intervals causing a few casualties.
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London
Americans Narrow Path Toward Paris With Brittany Drive
Allied dispatches report American forces pushing east from Brittany toward Paris, 135 miles away, amid a major German counterattack between Mortain and Lourdeval. Britons advance toward Mont Pincon near Caen as Brest and Saint Nazaire remain contested. Brittany towns fall, prisoner counts rise.
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Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionary Force
Brittany
Paris
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Nates
Lorient
St. Malo
Auray
Vannes
Huelgoat
Carhaix
Omer N. Bradley
Loire
Nantes
Dinan
St. Brieuc
Normandy
Domfront
Avranches
Varenne
Mayenne
Laval
Houssay
Chateau-Gontier
Dinglas
Switzeland
Caen
Mont Pincon
Orne
50 000 Prisoners Taken in Italy Inoffensive Rome Advance
Allied forces report over 50 000 German prisoners captured from Cassino to Florence by the Fifth and Eighth armies. Florence remains in Allied hands though German shelling continues as Kesselring blows bridges to delay crossing. About recon patrols on the Arno north bank with limited activity in the city.
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Rome
Florence
Harold Alexander
Arno
Cassino
Albert Kesselring
Tiber
Eighth Army
Treason Trial In Denver Uses Nazi Witnesses
Three Japanese American sisters face treason and conspiracy charges in Denver district court for aiding two German POWs to escape from a Colorado camp in October. The government cites maps, timetable, clothing, and an automobile as links, with the Nazis as key witnesses.
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Denver
United States
United States District Court
Trinidad
Colo
Watrous
N. Mex
Tsuruko Wallace
Florence Shioze Otani
Billie Shitara Tanigoshi
Inglewood
Calif
Pearl Harbor
Granada Relocation Center
Amache
Wallace
Tanigoshi
Heinrich Haider
Herman August Loescher
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Corps
Haider
Loescher
California
Nevada
Colorado
Commanders Assigned New Posts At Supreme Headquarters
Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner of Kokomo Indiana and Maj. Gen. Earle E. Partridge of San Antonio Texas were named new commanders of the Eighth U S Army Air Forces bomber divisions replacing Maj. Gen. James P. Hodges and Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. Brig. Gen. Francis E. Griswold succeeds Kepner as head of the Eighth Fighter Command, with Griswold from Harrodsburg Kentucky, formerly chief of staff.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
James P. Hodges
Curtis E. Lemay
Eighth U. S. Air Force
William E. Kepner
Kokomo
Ind
Eighth Fighter Command
Earle E. Parteridge
San Antonio
Tex
Depe Uty
Eighth U. S. Army Air Force
Kepner
Clarksville
Tenn
Francis E. Griswold
Harerodsburg
Fo Emerly
Stast
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Westbrook
Pegler
McKer
Joe Bush
Russell
N Varnell
Andrews
Richard E. Willsie
Willsie
Varnell
Nathaniel A. Pape
Baylor Street
Austin
St. Robert
Charles E. Ebert
Third Service Command
Upper Silesia
Moravia
Lower Austria
U. S
By J. B. Krueger
Capital
Wes Gallagher
U.S
Mortain
Lourdeval
Italy
Alexander
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