Gunner's Mate Fights Torpedo Planes Near Munda
In the South Pacific near Munda, Gunner's Mate Third Class Wesley Olds of Lancaster, California, describes a convoy action against torpedo planes. Olds, wounded but continuing to fire, watched the McCawley damaged and plane after plane fall, with a lone P-40 and other escorts finishing the encounter.
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Serer
Peter Zurhinden
Daytem Obie
Marine Corps
Zurlinden
Anngpehs
Associated Broce
APS
Associated Press
South Pacific
Wesley Wo Olds
Lancaster
Munda
U. S
Olds
McCawley
Alexander Learning To Fly His Own Plane In Africa
Allied Headquarters in North Africa reports General Sir Harold Alexander, famed for Africa and Sicily campaigns, is learning to fly in a small plane nicknamed puddle jumper. His instructor is Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham who says the pupil is apt and progressing well.
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Alexander
North Africa
Harold Alexander
Fifteenth Army Group
Wallace says criticism of corporations targeted small minority
Vice President Wallace declared that his recent attack on big corporations targeted only a small minority. He praised the draft system and warned free enterprise must be preserved in postwar life. He told reporters a Detroit speech accusing monopolistic practices was misunderstood as an attack on the corporate form.
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Washington
Wallace
Detroit
French General Killed in Action in North Africa
Allied Headquarters announces General Louis Martie Koeltz, commander of the French Nineteenth Corps, was killed in action during the Tunisian campaign. The death is announced with a posthumous Legion of Merit award.
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North Africa
Louis- Martie Koeltz
First Army
Russians Reach Nine Miles South of Kharkov
A British radio report recomed by NBC states Russian forces moved to within nine miles south of Kharkov. Earlier Moscow dispatches claimed advancement after capturing Zevev, twenty miles south of Kharkov.
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New York
NBC
Russam
Kharkov
Moscow
Zevev
Rat disrupts Pacific yard as power cuts short work
A rat at the Consolidated Shinbiniding Corporation yards near Huntington Beach California chewed an electric cable causing a temporary blackout that halted dockyard activity for an hour. The incident coincided with a supply of 6 100 pound machinery parts needed to repair a light crater, flown in by naval transport after a 44 hour and 31 minute transit.
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Hong Beach
Calf
Hae
Shinbiniding
Corporation Yards
Tiler
PIA
Navy
Naval
Demand Exceeds Gasoline Supply in Baltimore Area
Baltimore August 19 Demand for gasoline in this area far exceeds the restricted supply. John R Sherwood a leading petroleum products distributor said suppliers are overselling quotas cut back 25 percent by a directive of the petroleum administrator for war. If demand remains unchecked many stations will display no gas signs before August ends.
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Baltimore
John R. Sherwood
Sherwood
Petroleum Administrator
Assessors Named In Carroll County Board of Permanent Assessors
Emory T. Evans and Ray C. Hook of Westminster have been appointed to life terms on Carroll county's Board of Permanent Assessors. The County Commissioners approved the moves today. The positions carry annual salaries of 1800 dollars.
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Westminster
Emory T. Evans
Ray C. Hook
Carroll County
Italian Underground Urges General Strike in Italy
The Milano E Liberta radio station broadcast a new appeal by anti Fascist parties calling for a general strike in Italy. The AP recorded the message demanding immediate end to hostilities abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele dismissal of Premier Badoglio amnesty for political prisoners and freedom for workers to organize.
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London
Milano E Liberta
Italy
Associated Press
Vittorio Emanuele
Badoglio
Order Two Italian Towns Evacuated
A Lugano dispatch cited by BBC says Italian authorities evacuated the northern towns of Varese and Como and halted border crossing permits. In New York trading, buying was selective with demand lifting favorites slightly as investors waited for major abroad military developments.
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New York
BBC Today
Lugano
Switzerland
Varese
Como
CBS
Weather Summary for August and Daily Readings
The report notes no precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 8 am. August precipitation to date is 0.77 inches with 1943 deficiency at 0.40 inches. Normal August is 1.435 inches, actual 1.042 inches. Yesterday’s high 80, low 45, with values compared to last year 85 and 55 respectively. Sunset 7:57 pm, sunrise 8:23 am, moonrise 11:15 pm, moonset 11:46 pm. Rivers Monocacy and Potomac are clear at monitored points.
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Ceresville
Potomac
Knoxville
Watching Performance Of Unit He Commanded
Former commander retired in Frederick watches his Seventh Infantry unit progress in a campaign. Colonel Harrison McAlpine, longtime leader at Fort Lewis and Vancouver Barracks, followed the regiment from 1919 through 1938. He retired January ief and now rests with family on Rockwell Terrace.
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Frederick
Seventh Infantry
Siohan
Sane
Feren
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
Government Mails Too Much Printed Matter
Ren Richardson Harless urged a law to bar government bureaus from mailing printed matter unless requested. He argued saving newsprint could offset shortages and balance conservation nationwide, while examining Quebec newsprint and paper production areas.
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Kenegamt
Richard F. Harless
D-Asiz
Harless
House
Quebec
United States
Western Marylanders urge easing of gas regulations
Representative Gleon Beall reports Western Maryland residents seek changes to OPA gasoline allotment rules. He says high taxes and rationing press workers and farmers, with calls for more personal use of fuel. One farmer complains limits prevent simple Saturday trips to town.
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Washington
Aug
Maryland
Amos And Andy Return To The Airlanes
Hollywood announces Amos and Andy, Gosden and Correll, return to radio with a weekly Friday show 7 to 7 38 Pacific War Time. They promise music guest stars and a public audience, after a 1934 hiatus and four thousand episodes produced.
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Hollywood
Iman Goodén
Amos
Charles Correll
Andy
Sears
Ordnance Technicians Aided Sicilian Invasion
Baltimore reports that ordnance technicians accompanied para chute and glider forces in the Sicily invasion. Army ordnance combat repairmen trained in North Africa helped establish a new standard of warfare by firing on Nazi tanks from the air, knocking out 13 tanks before reinforcements arrived.
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Baltimore
Sicily
Holabird Ordnance Depot
Mediterranean
War Department
Army Ordnance
North Africa
No One Power Likely To Get Possessions Chautauqua
Henry P. Villard a State Department official said a form of international trusteeship over former enemy territories in Africa is likely. He warned instant liberation would cause chaos and that no single power will likely gain outright possession. He spoke at the Chautauqua Institute amid British remarks on Libya’s postwar fate.
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Chautauqua. NY
Africa
Henry 8. Villard
State Department
Villard
Chautauqua Institute
House of Commons
Libya
Italy
King Christian in Conference With Nazis
Stockholm report says King Christian of Denmark met German Ambassador Werner Best last Saturday amid a Danish crisis over Nazi plans to punish saboteurs. Outcome not disclosed. Germans reportedly postponed an ultimatum to try Danish saboteurs in German courts under Nazi law.
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Stockholm
Christian
Denmark
Werner Best
Svenska Dagbladet
Maximum Prices Set For Alfalfa Meal
Washington Aus 19 The Office of Price Administration ordered nationwide maximum prices for alfalfa meal to boost processor prices up to about four dollars a ton in some areas while lowering them in others. The adjustment aimed to align hay prices with frozen meat prices from March 1942 and prevent further increases.
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Washington
Aus
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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