Britain Bombers Rain Havoc On Berlin And Western Germany
British air raids blamed Berlin for enormous explosions and a large fire near a major rail station. Targets included Mannheim Ostend and Dunkirk with raids extending to Belgium and France. Royal Air Force and Allied planes reportedly caused damage with minimal casualties and one aircraft lost.
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London
Berlin
Air Ministry
Frankfort
Belgium
France
Reich
Germany
Mannheim
Ostend
Dunkerque
East Anglia
England
Norway
Bremen
Norwegian
Federal reserve limits slow installment buying across markets
Shoppers on a thousand main streets report tighter installment terms as the federal reserve imposes controls on consumer credit. Cars require one third cash with up to 18 months to pay, radios 20 percent down, refrigerators 16 percent down, 18 months to pay. Officials will monitor sales reports to gauge impact and may tighten terms if needed.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
News-Star Special News Service
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Two Air Task Forces Active in Louisiana War Games
Two air task forces prepared for a September defense test as the Third Army meets the Second in Louisiana. Major-General Herbert A. Dargue leads 114 bombers and 196 pursuit ships from Mitchel Field to support General Walter Krueger's field army, while Major-General Millard Harmon backs General Ben Lear’s Second Army. Both units, about half of U S continental airpower, aim to coordinate dive bombers and fighters for the ground defense exercise starting September 15.
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Rice Yahner
ARMY
Louisiana
United States Army
Third Army
Herbert A. Dargue
First
Mitchel Field
N. Y
Walter Krueger
Millard F. Harmon
Ben Lear
Arkansas
Continental
United States
Army recreation chief named for Louisiana centers
Col onel L Kemper Williams, former local business executive now on active duty in Washington, was designated by the war department to oversee army recreation centers in Louisiana. He will assume charge September 15 at the Lake Pontchartrain camp and five Gulf coast camps, under Colonel Philip Fox at Mobile Alabama.
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New Orleans
L. Kemper Williams
United States Army
Washington
War Department
Louisiana
Williams
Lake Pontenc
Gulf Coast
Philip Fox
Mobile
Ala
Banister Opposes 540000 Loan for State Finance
State Representative D. Ross Banister says he voted against Governor Sam Jones 540000 loan proposal for the department of finance. He urged an extraordinary session to address what the courts have found defective in acts from the last session.
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D. Ross Banister
Sam Jones
Department of Finance
Jones
Banister
Iron Lung To Be Purchased For E A Conway Memorial
The E A Conway Memorial hospital will acquire an iron lung after Brown Paper mill officials contributed $1,000, joining $1,500 already raised by the public. Mill employees gave $500, matched by an additional $500 from mill management, bringing the total to $2,500.
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E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
B. Beasley
Twin City
Safety record figures and traffic rule of the day
Accidents to date this year 565 and last year 318. Personal injuries this year 44 and last year 54. Deaths this year 4 and last year 3. Traffic rule Section 54 bans operating loud vehicles that obscure the driver’s clear view to front rear and sides. rear view must be direct or via an efficient rear-vision mirror.
War Years Put Europe Under Hitler, 2-Year Perspective
James P. Hackett notes that two years into World War II Nazi domination spans Europe with 17 nations under pressure. Only Spain Switzerland and Sweden remained neutral. Portugal Turkey and Ireland avoided direct combat. The piece estimates nearly 1.76 billion people affected and details enormous mobilizations across Britain Soviet Russia and allied regions, comparing with World War I forces.
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James P. Hackett
Associated Press
Great Britain
France
Europe
Nazi Berlin
Spain
Switzerland
Sweden
Portugal
Turkey
Eire
Africa
Middle East
British Empire
Soviet
Russia
British Isles
Middle
Far East
Germany
Plane Crash Fire Kills Three Children in Hempstead Street
In Hempstead New York a U S Army P 39 plane crashed in flames in a busy street. Pilot Second Lieutenant Roy W Scott bailed out from 700 feet but was uninjured. three children Casper Cuccio Georgene Kramer and Pauline Cucio died from severe burns.
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Casper Cuccio
Georgene Kramer
Pauline Cuccio
Arthur I. Kramer
Peter Cuccio
Scott
Fixed fee contract awarded for Dixie Ordnance Works plant
Senators Overton and Ellender announced a fixed fee subcontract to M W Kellogg Co for design and construction of the Sterlington anhydrous ammonia plant. The overall price is 6 557 086 dollars. Commercial Solvents Corp of New York won the War Department contract to operate the plant, named Dixie Ordnance Works, with construction to start at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Kellogg Company
New York
Sterlington
News-Star
John Overton
Allen Ellender
Louisiana
War Department
Commercial Solvents Corporation of
Nineteen Espionage Ring Members Go On Trial in Brooklyn
Nineteen teens from a German espionage ring face trial in Brooklyn federal court as four more defendants admit guilt bringing total confessions to seventeen. Richard Eichenlaub Paul Bante and Felix Jahnke pleaded guilty before Judge Mortimer F. Byers. United States Attorney Harold M. Kennedy leads the prosecution with Washington special prosecutors ready to present the case.
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New York
Brooklyn
Mortimer F. Byers
Richard Eichenlaub
Little Casino
Paul Bante
Felix Jahnke
United States
Harold M. Kennedy
Washington
Russian fatalistic view noted in Japanese dispatch
Domei quoted a Tokyo commentator who said winter will not alter the German Russian war but warned Russia's fatalistic spirit will sustain strong resistance. The analyst called the Russian outlook a grave problem for Germany and linked it to perseverance and resolve.
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Tokyo
Domei
Russia
Germany
Japan Faces Gravest Crisis and Mobilization Demanded
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye told government and war industries leaders Japan faces its gravest crisis and requires total mobilization. The round table discussed war supply routes to Soviet Russia and defense against northern encirclement, amid talks of an ocean safety zone and possible U S military air cooperation.
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Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Domei
Konoye
United States
Soviet Russia
Washington
Moscow
National Service Association
Tohokai
Seigo Nakano
Bering Sea
Alaska
Japan Times and
China
Pacific
Britain
Netherlands
Yomiur
Richmond K. Turner
REGISTER EARLY URGES COLVERT AT NO EPOCH COLLEGE
Ouachita parish schools delay opening by three to four weeks while Northeast Junior College prepares for on time start. Dean C C Colvert urges students to register next week and attend classes through September. sophomores begin registration Monday and Tuesday with a 9 am orientation in the college auditorium. Faculty barbecue at Dean Calvert's home Friday at 7 pm and faculty meetings set for Saturday 10 am and Monday 3 pm.
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Ouachita Parish
C. C. Colvert
Northeast Junior College
Parish
C. C. Calvert
Roosevelt names Russia mission to discuss aid
President Roosevelt appointed a five man mission headed by W. Averell Harriman to Moscow to discuss material aid to Russia in its fight with Nazi Germany. The panel includes Maj. Gen. James H. Burns Maj. Gen. George H. Breit Adm. William H. Stanley and William L. Batt with about nine technicians. No departure date was announced.
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Washington
Roosevelt
W. Averell Harriman
London
Moscow
Russia
Nazi Germany
James H. Burns
Lend-Lease Administration
George H. Breit
Army Air Corps
Great Britain
Middle East
William H. Stanley
Naval Operations
William L. Batt
Office of Production Management
White House
Russians claim Soviet counteroffensive gains and German losses
The World Today reports Russians rolling back German offensives around Leningrad and Moscow, claiming 22 villages and key positions retaken and fierce German tank resistance. Berlin endures the RAF’s sharpest overnight raid in months, with northern and central Germany and Rhineland hit, Britain lightly raided, and a large Canadian contingent arriving to bolster defense. British claim a torpedo hit on pocket battleship Luetzow. Japan’s premier vows total mobilization to meet wartime emergency.
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Hy Associated Press
Leningrad
Moscow
Berlin
Germany
Rhineland
Britain
Luetzow
Japan
La Follette Attacks New Tax Bill in Senate Debate
Senator La Follette labeled the revenue bill a vicious assault on the rank and file taxpayer and urged rejection he joined by critics from Wisconsin Missouri and Michigan in opening Senate debate on a $5.68 billion measure The bill’s advocates said it would raise about $3.68 billion annually and argued exemptions would be lowered for married and single filers while other members supported passage.
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Washington
George
Georgia
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
la Follette
Wisconsin
Vandenberg
Michigan
Clark
Missouri
Senator la Follette
Progressive
House
Membe
Fimance &Up
Peth Clark
la Foliette
Ten aboard ocean ferry found dead in Britain
A transatlantic ferry plane with ten aboard was found wrecked in mountainous Britain near the coast. The death toll rises to 54 from three ferry crashes in four weeks, including two Americans. Passengers included Captain Sherwood Picking, Charles Spence of New York, and Count Guy de Baillet Latour.
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London
Britain
Atlantic
Sherwood Picking
United States
Charles Alvan Spence
Little Neck
N. Y
Count Guy de Baillet-Latour
British observers join Louisiana maneuvers corps
Eight Britons arrive at Camp Polk Louisiana as observers with the Third Army for maneuvers starting September 15. They were unavailable for comment pending arrival of other members of the mission.
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Camp Pole
Louisiana
Louisville Avenue Bridge Captured In Ouachita River Maneuvers
Monroes area pressure heats as the 137th infantry supported by the 130th field artillery seize the Louisville avenue bridge and mine it to deter Reds. Blues from northeast Louisiana concentrate near Monroe while Reds push from southwest. Units near El Dorado and Farmerville coordinate with radio watch for a possible major battle over the next week.
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Monroe
137Th Infantry
130Th Field Artillery
Louisville Avenue
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kotmks
Here
Two Waco Women Die in Deridder Crash
Two 18 year old women from Waco Texas identified as Mrs Chester Bolton and Mrs Clyde Erickson perished when a station wagon collided with a bus near Deridder Louisiana. Two soldiers from Denver were injured and hospitalized. The bus driver testified the wagon slid off the pavement and struck the bus before flames engulfed both vehicles.
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Deridder
Chester Bolton
Clyde Erickson
Waco
Tex
John H. Walker
Dean Gable
Robert D. Hiberman
120Th Infantry
Denver
Camp Polk
H. T. Torrance
Waco High School
Walker
Dudley Hunt
Erickson
Bolton
Leesville
36Th Division
US products found on Hess plane in historic flight
Donald Dunning returned from 15 months in England and reported that Hesss Me 110 used American tires and aviation fuel and oil brands. He noted the 100 octane fuel designation and new tires as evidence of US sourcing aboard the aircraft.
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Burbank
Calif
Rudolph Hess
Germany
British Isles
Donald Dunning
England
Dunning
Hess
United States
Recapture of 12 Towns in 10 Days Claims
Associated Press reports twin Soviet counter offensives retook 22 villages in 10 days and pushed German lines back near Moscow and Leningrad. Voroshilov’s arrival inspired Leningrad defenders as panzer forces sliced a German salient and a strategically important town fell to Lenin grad troops.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Leningrad
Schutzstaffel
Hitler
Theermans
Soviet Union
Smolensk
Vyazma
Klementi Voroshilov
Red
Army
Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Krasnogvardeisk
Tallinn
Pskov
Voroshilov
Red Star
Ind Army Depot to Open Friday in Second Army Maneuvers
Preparations are under way for the official opening Friday of the Sec ond army depot in this area Lt Colonel Warren H Aldrich announces The base includes the quartermaster and signal sections Headquarters will be in the old post office building at St John and Grammont streets and will house military police and a first aid dispensary Troops are arriving steadily and will be quartered on the highway 80 tract The present base personnel will be more than tripled General Ben Lear will establish headquarters during the maneuvers The signal depot is in West Monroe near the fairgrounds and Coleman avenue tracks The quartermaster section lies on highway 80 tract The post office will provide postal facilities for about 200000 men and will be at the Missouri Booster hall The section is quartered at Ruston the ordnance at Hedge and the medical at Jonesboro All units operate under the depot quarters S: Field Marshall Smuts says United States will enter war and fight with full power as Capetown notes US entry likely
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Second Army
Warren H. Aldrich
Coing
St John and Grammont Streets
Aldrich
Highway 80
Ben Lear
Jon
West Monroe
Fairgrounds
Coleman Avenue
Missouri Booster Hall
Ruston
Hedge
Jonesboro
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Mexico
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Ouachita River
U. S
IND Army Depot
Capetown
Union of South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
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