Allied Air Officers Shift in Pacific Command
Major General George C. Kenney is named commander of Allied air forces in the area as naval aviation leader Rear Admiral John H. Towers takes charge of a new Pacific air command. The Solomons battle sees Jap losses climb to 165 aircraft and at least 20 ships sunk or damaged, with continued Japanese bombardments and Allied strikes across New Guinea and surrounds.
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Ralph Royce
United States Army Air Corps
Brett
United States
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
John H. Towers
Naval Aeronautics
Air Command
Pacific Fleet
Towers
Nimitz
The
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Gizo
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel
MacArthur
Australia
Samlaki
Rabaul
New Britain
Tanimbars
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Allied air leaders praise war effort as pilots press front
In north sector reports the general notes the Zero’s maneuverability and mixed Japanese fliers while Allied air forces gain control. He says progress is steady and losses are being outpaced by victories as RAF and USAAF shows rise in tallies. He also remarks on Australian air force leadership cues.
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Royal Australian Air Force
United States Army Air Forces
United States
Black and White Ointment Promoted for Skin Irritations
An advertisement promotes Black and White Ointment for external skin irritations with directions to cleanse daily using Black and White Skin Soap and to apply antiseptic treatment for healing.
Cold Russia Hardening War Fronts Amid Red Army Push
Soviet communique reports heavy fighting near Stalingrad and Mozdok with German losses including tanks guns and infantry. Stalingrad mortars destroyed 40 tanks while Red Army repulsed attacks and backed by armament plants amid Volga city bombardment.
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Stalingrad
Red Army
Moscow Radio
Volga River
Mozdok
Central Caucasus
Don Basin
Voronezh
Compulsory Union Membership Question in Wartime Labor Policy
The piece argues that wartime taxation and government control reshape labor relations. With civil mobilization and possible martial law, it questions forcing citizens to join unions and suggests unions will remain only as negotiators, not demanders, until peacetime free competition returns.
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United States
United Workers
Religious Advance Discussed At First Presbyterian Church
The United Religious Education Advance will be explained at a 7 30 p m meeting of men women and young people at the First Presbyterian Church in Monroe. The plan is a cooperation among forty Protestant denominations to reach all 60 000 000 unchurched in the United States. The local Presbyterian church aims to participate in reaching its share during 1942 to 1946.
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United Religious Education Advance
Monroe
First Presbyterian Church
United States
Canada
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian
Conner's Service Station Offers Esso Fuels Oils and Water
The Esso station operated by 1.in Conner in the region shows modern oils for maximum lubrication under heat and a cling grease for transmission protection. The shop, open daily 1:00 am to 7:00 pm and midnight Saturdays, distributes Ashley Mineral Springs Water from a unique U.S. source.
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Ry. Conner
Businiess
Conner’s
Ashley
Mineral Springs
United States
Ashley Mineral Springs
Adv
Navy reports Yorktown sunk after Midway battle
The Navy said Yorktown was damaged and possibly sunk after depth charge attacks, with few casualties added to the 307 total losses at Midway. Yorktown and Hammann were the United States ships lost, while Japanese losses included carriers Kaga Akagi Soryu Kiryu and at least ten ships. Captain Elliott Buckmaster commanded Yorktown. Hammann was led by Commander Arnold Ellsworth True.
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Yorktown
Battle of Midway
Hammann
United States
Midway
United State
Lexington
Coral Sea
Enterprise
Saratoga
Wasp
Hornet
Ranger
America
United States Navy
Kaga
Akagi
Soryu
Kiryu
Navy
Elliott Buckmaster
Columbus
Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Arnold Ellsworth True
Corinth
Tokyo
Goveret Hemostdoachot
Waverly Child Dies in Fire
A child perished in a fire in Waverly and was laid to rest in the Masonic cemetery. The girl is survived by her parents and two brothers, Leon and Ellis Fuller.
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Waverly
Leon
Ellis Fuller
Experienced 1-B Men Sought for Army Air Forces
Experienced mechanics technicians and specialists aged 18 to 50 may enlist in the army air forces despite certain physical defects designated 1-B. Loss of an eye or ear should not bar experienced mechanics aged 18 to 30 from serving. Technicians should report to the nearest army recruiting station to check eligibility.
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Army Air Forces
Office of the Adjutant General
Students at LSU to Be Fingerprinted This Fall
Baton Rouge La Sept 16 All students registering at Louisiana State University this week will be fingerprinted at the request of the FBI and state police President Campbell B Hodges said Tuesday night The new fall term opens Friday He said faculty members would have fingerprints recorded later in an assembly of a file contemplated to include the entire civilian population of the nation.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Federal Bureau of Investigation and
State Police
Campbell B. Hodges
Hodges
Drunken Walking Fine Reported In Butte Court
In Butte Montana a man was fined five dollars for walking on the wrong side of a highway while intoxicated. The police court record notes the offense as walking while drunk.
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Butte
Mont
Eastland Wins in Mississippi Seat Runoff and Races
Eastland secured the Mississippi congressional runoff victory defeating Rosa Collins’ seat rivals as Bilbo-backed opponents trailed. The vote shifts also crowned district judges Ed H. Green Lester Clark D. M. Anderson Jesse H. Graham Edgar Lane with close tallies across precincts. Eastland’s background includes law, farming, and a 1927 bar admission after Vanderbilt and Alabama Mississippi study.
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Sunflower County
National House of Representatives
Rosa Collins
Senate
W. A. Winfield
Philadelphia
Neshoba
Ed H. Green
Cleveland
Lester Clark
Hattiesburg
D. M. Anderson
Newton
Jesse H. Graham
Meridian
Tenth
Edgar M. Lane
Raleigh
Thirteenth
Anderson
Frank F. Mize
Forest
Tenth District
Clark
John R. Tally
Clarksdale
Thirteenth District
Lane
Homer Currie
Monroe official Miles dies at home in office post
Maysville Arkansas native Miles relocated to Monroe in 1902. He worked with the V. S. & P. railroad until 1913 then joined the city secretary treasurer staff and rose to assistant secretary treasurer, a post he held at death. Survived by widow, son Douglas G. Miles and grandson Thomas Miles.
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Maysville
Little Rock
Ark
Monroe
Douglas G. Miles
Thomas Miles
Funeral Held for Douglas Miles Monroe Official 66
Funeral services were conducted for Douglas Thomas Miles 66 assistant secretary treasurer of the city of Monroe He died at a local sanitarium early Tuesday morning after a two week illness The funeral at Mulhearn Funeral Home featured pallbearers P A Poag F L Smith Clarence D Oakley John L Madden Walter Mangham Dr Philip Gayle Edel Blanks and Glen Anderson Born May 18 1898 in [location omitted]
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Douglas Thomas Miles
Philip Gayle
Edel Blanks
Glen Andersou
Mr. Miles
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Pacific
Tanimbar Islands
Darwin
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Kenney
Kenney
France
George H. Brett
Rayville Marine
Pensacola
Oliver Smith Worley
Rayville
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Barracks
Fla
Worley
Fighting Leathernecks
Stella W. Worley
Russia
Grozny
MNER
U. S
England
Helen
Stamford
Conn
Connecticut
Haight
Margaret
Lynch
Doris Ledwon
Grace Aquilino
Patrick Lynch
Grasslands Hospital
Eastland
Mississippi
Busby
Winstead
Douglas Miles
Dixie Funeral Home
Ead
Jackson and Oak Sts
Bdand
West Monroe
J. O. Williams
Trenton West Monroe
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