Allied Forces Drive Wedge In Nazi Line Near Munda
Allied forces inch toward Munda air base in a major Pacific campaign. General MacArthur reports progress as 700 tons of bombs and heavy shelling target the Munda defenses. American marines push through jungle terrain within 1.9 miles of Mundas ridgeline amid reports of Japanese pillboxes destroyed.
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Yates McDaniel
Pacific
New ‘Orgia
Munds Air Base
Doug MacArthur
Manatea
McArthur Avid
Munda
United States
Solo
Land Navy
Wilwin Halsey
Pelican
Idreme
Bairokes
Munds
Rice Anchorage
Renve Talarad
Mun
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Enogwi Inlet
Dragons Peninsula
Zenana
Lambeti
Mundie
Bairoko
Ford on 80th birthday marks tougher years ahead
Henry Ford, elder industry figure and Ford Motor Co. patriarch, today turns 80 while aboard a Ford ore carrier en route to a northern mountains vacation lodge. Since Bryant Ford’s death, the company leader has worked harder, yet appears in good health and energy for the annual holiday.
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Henry
Ford
Lidhlgen
Bryant Ford
gen‘Wranager
Chinese Assault Regions Near Hangchow Reported
A Beijing army press conference described sustained Chinese attacks on Japanese garrisons 100 miles southwest of Hangchow. Reports say railway traffic on the Shanghai Hangchow line was disrupted to move troops, with Chinese forces repelling a Japanese thrust near Ukang northwest of Hangchow. The spokesman claimed Japan enlists subjugated peoples and plans to recruit Koreans and Formosans. factories producing consumer goods have been converted to war needs. He warned Mussolini’s fate will soon befall Tojo.
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Shangking
Shanghaiangchow
Hangchow
Ukang
Muscolini
Tojo
Japan
Italians Fight Nazis Amid Adriatic Front Reports
Dispatches from Madrid record renewed clashes between German and Italian forces in northern Italy and Dalmatia. Nazis plan to guard five Italian submarines found at Fiume as Allied landings loom on the Dalmatian coast. Dalmatian guerillas seek withdrawal terms with Italian divisions in northern Dalmatia amid tensions with Croat Ustachi.
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Madrid
Gernmam
Tahar Toécope
Maly
Fiume
Menages
Dalmieten
Istrian
Penitegia
Undine
Gulf of Trieste
Rome
Trieste
Italy
Balkan
Adriatic
Dalmatia
Thei Acme
Ustachi
Mucclini
Roosevelt Postwar Plan Urges Demobilization and Readjustment
President Roosevelt approves a report on postwar demobilization and readjustment proposing three months furlough at base pay not exceeding $100 monthly plus family allowances. The plan calls for rapid peacetime industry conversion, private employment emphasis, and a central postwar demobilization agency. Berlin reports German anti aircraft units to be relieved by workers and redeployed to fronts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Resources Planning Board
Stockholm
Germany
Berlin
Sweden
Caldwell cafe closed ends two civic clubs meetings
Caldwell Idaho reports that the Lions and the Toastmasters meetings venue has closed. Harold Cheesebrough, operator of the town's other cafe, says he is too busy to cater to special requests. In Chicago the military police HQ reports a break in with two wrist watches stolen. In Topeka Kansas professor H J Colburn of Warhburn College was noted.
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Caldwell
Idaho
Lions
Toastmasters
Harold Cheesebrough
Traffic Death Toll Cut in Wartime Half
The United States cut its traffic deaths in the first six months of 1943 to about half the prewar figure, the National Safety Council said. The half-year total reached 108, down 4 percent from 1941 and 32 percent from 1942, with wartime speed limits and public cooperation cited as keys. Ned H. Dear- led the council statement urging continued responsibility to prevent accidents as a wartime victory measure.
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Chicago
United States
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dear
U. S. SubS Sinken Ten Jap Vessels
American submarines sunk ten more Japanese ships and damaged four, raising wartime total to 297 attacks. The navy listed two large transports, two large cargo ships, three medium cargo ships, two medium tankers and one small cargo ship sunk, with a large cargo vessel and three medium ships damaged.
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Washington
Pacific
Navy
Roosevelt
Australia
Bombing of Hamburg Reaches New Intensity In Allied Strike
London reports R A F bombers dropped over two thousand tons of explosives on Hamburg last night, its seventh pounding since Saturday. Twenty-eight bombers were credited. several enemy planes were shot down. The massive raid spurs talk of paralyzing the city and shaping air war strategy for months.
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London
Hamburg
Sir
Air Ministry
Bombers Hit Japanese Targets in Burma Central and West
American and British air units bombed bridges railways factories and shipping in central and western Burma without losses. The Myit river bridge near Mandalay was destroyed trenching rail traffic Mon Ywa northward. Tangon factory and rail facilities were blasted and Myingyen mills damaged.
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New Delhi
Burma
United States
United States Air Force
My River
Mandalay
Soan
Monywa
Chindwim
Irrawaddy
Tangon
Myingyen
Dawan
Russian Drive Nearing Orel Relief Forces Face Soviet Push
German forces defend Orel as fresh German and French units arrive. Soviet communique reports a major Red Army thrust, tank and infantry advances of up to six miles, and heavy German losses across the Orel area including 600 dead in one engagement and 3,000 killed overall.
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William McGuffin
Moscow
Orel
France
Germany
Red Army
Berlin
Belgorod
Nez
Donets
Leningrad
French Chiefs Feuding Again Over Defense Commission
The long running dispute between General Charles De Gaulle and General Henri Giraud over a defense commissariat intensifies. A French National Liberation Committee session served as sounding board with De Gaulle gaining majority support amid Sicily invasion and Mussolini's resignation.
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de Gaulle
Giraud
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
French National Committee of Liberation
Commissariat of Defense
Mermaders
Sicily
Mussolini
France
Most of Fascist Grand Council Arrested
London reports Transocean German agency states all members of the Italian Fascist grand council except one were arrested. The list includes Mussolini and Ciano among others. exception unnamed though described as particularly radical. Berlin radio broadcast the Transocean claim via AP.
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London
Transocean
Grand Council
Benito Mussolini
Galeazzo Ciano
Carlo Scorza
Fascist Party
Robert Farinacci
Dino Grandi
Emilio de Bono
Giuseppe Bastian
Luigi Federzoni
Berlin
Associated Press
Roosevelt issues warning to neutrals on axis leaders asylum
President Roosevelt issued a virtual ultimatum to neutral nations not to grant asylum to axis leaders. He said the United States would view any neutral protection of Mussolini Hitler and Tojo as against the principles of the United Nations and would not endorse such actions. He also signaled openness to peace talks with any legitimate government leader in the future.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
Tojo
United States
United Nations
Tax fraud trial in Burton case opens in New Orleans
U S Attorney James Waters argues three defendants acted with deliberate intent to defraud the government in the Burton income tax case. He says the government seeks a wilful evasion of 1936 37 38 taxes totaling 729 95 while defense cites bookkeeping errors and slips.
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New Orleans
James Waters
Burton
W. T Burton Company, Inc
Victor C. Canfield
Lake Charles
T. Burton
Aid Marks
W. Maxwell
Corporation
Lake Brown
Tinkkeeper
Waters
Hugh M. Wilkinson
Herbert W Christenhberry
Haynesville Boy Prisoner of Japs
Navy department released a list of 393 U S personnel held as prisoners of war by Japan in the Philippines and Manchukuo. The roll includes five officers and 328 enlisted sailors and 14 Marines, with 4 235 total prisoners named to date. Names include Henry H Cook New Orleans Henry Edward Francis Durand New Orleans John Douglas Gray and Doyle Winslow Waggoner Haynesville and others.
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Washington
Navy Department
United States Naval Services
Philippine Islands
Manchukuo
United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
Naval Services
Louisiana
Cook
Henry H
New Orleans
Durand
Henry Edward Francis
Gray
John Douglas
Crawford Bolin Gray
Haynesville
Waggoner
Doyle Winslow
Aviation
L. L. Waggoner
Columbia
Shreveport
Walker
Robert R
Military Crisis in Italy After Milan Uprising Ouster
Italian premier Badoglio ousted Milan military commander General Canale and ordered General Ruggero to seize control as crowds in Milan and other cities demand peace. Eisenhower’s speech broadcast yesterday fuels hopes for armistice while censorship tightens and protests spread across Rome, Milan, Genoa and beyond.
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Pietro Badoglio
Milan
Canale
Vittorio Ruggero
Badoglio
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chiasso
Benito Mussolini
Eisenhower
Rome
Genoa
Bern
Fighter Planes Demonstrate Capital Air Defenses Near Washington
Seventy four P-47 fighters roared over the new air port near Washington showing fortified protection for the capital. Major General Ralph Royce led a two day tour for newspaper men, highlighting lessons from London, Africa, the Solomons and Pearl Harbor. The air field at Camp Springs sits 16 miles from Washington, spans 4360 acres, and required up to 9000 workers during peak construction.
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First Air Force
Mitchel Field
N. Y
Army
Washington
Ralph Royce
Richmond
Philadelphia
Camp Springs
London
Africa
Solomons
Pearl Harbor
Maryland
New York
Cruisers bombarded Italian mainland near Crotone
British ships shelled a railway stretch skirting the shore south of Crotone yesterday with some bridges, marking the second allied bombardment of the Italian mainland.
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New York
British Broadcasting Corporation
Sicily
United States
Crotone
Axis Wavers at Mt Etna in Sicily Offensive
Allied forces push deeper along the Mt Etna line with Canadians taking Agira and US troops advancing from Nicosia toward Catania. Patton's Seventh Army exploits breaches, foes retreat toward Messina as air strikes hit Messina Milazzo and targets near Rome Naples.
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Daniel de Luce
North Africa
Mt. Etna
United States Army
Nicosia
Catania
Messina
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
Agira
Regalbuto
Milazzo
Sicily
Italy
Rome
Naples
United States
Viterbo
Acuino Field
Stelen High Command
Associated Press
Reuters
Japs Take Over French Area of Shanghai
Tokyo radio said the Vichy consul general in Shanghai handed the keys of the French concession to the Japanese puppet government. The July accord ends extraterritorial rights and restores Chinese administrative control, part of a broader Axis move.
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Tokyo
Vichy
Shanghai
Britain
United States
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