Drive to retake Guadalcanal amid intense Japanese campaign
Strengthened Japanese forces bombarded Guadalcanal airfield as U S Marines hold position. Navy reports large aerial battles with Japan losing multiple bombers and fighters. Artillery and naval shelling intensified the night of September 12 13. Marine defenses and air counterattacks kept up amid heavy fighting in the Solomons campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Solcnsen Islands
Navy
United States
Guadalcanal
Giz
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
Giza
Marine Corps Grumman
Santa Isabel
Solomons
Answers To War Quiz Questions On Page Five
Answers outline war quiz items including W Averell Harriman as Roosevelt’s representative, Navy external communication methods, and cadre meaning in training units. Also notes Secretary Hull warning France’s Gaston Haye on wholesale labor shipments to Germany as contrary to international law and U.S. obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Averel Marriman
Roosevelt
Vichy Isp
Washington
Hull
Gaston Henry Haye
Germany
United States
France
Allied Airmen Hit Japs Bases In New Guinea Fight
Allied air forces again struck Japanese bases in New Guinea and patrols in the Owen Stanley Mountains reported increased activity. Bombing targeted Buna supply lines and dispersal areas, with fires started and two anti aircraft batteries silenced. Shipping off the Tanimbar islands and in Rabaul harbor also faced heavy attack as Japanese fighters challenged the bombers. General Blamey said the New Guinea campaign will be hard and long, noting Allied air and ground forces prevented a Milne Bay bridgehead and that 12,000 Japanese landed with about 700 killed.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Buna
Owen Stanley Range
Tanimbar Islands
Darwin
Samlaki
Rabaul
New Britain
Blamey
Tran
Owen Stansiey Range
Port Moresby
Milne Bay
Blames
State Selective Service Head Speaker At Kiwanis Meeting
Col Henry C Stanwood head of selective service in Maryland spoke at the Kiwanis Club meeting at the Francis Scott Key Hotel about how men will be drafted in sequence within four categories. He outlined Category 1 as l A others, category 2 dependents, category 3 married without children, category 4 with wife and children. but he offered no estimate of numbers or timing. He traced the system to 1920s planning, wartime changes in deferments, and emphasized sympathetic occupational or dependency considerations fading under wartime needs. Parsons Newman introduced Stanwood, with several local guests in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Stanwood
Selective Service
Maryland
Haid
Francis Scott Key
Stanwood
Col. Stannwood
Col
Col Stanford
Parsons Newman
Iee! Board No. 1
Col. i Stanwood
Melvin Engle
M.S Reifsnyder
Clifford J Bissler
Westminster
C. L Seivard
Pottstown
Je T Beall
Magerstown
Elyond If Whitmore
A. L Bole
Harry J. Leichert
Wm. B. Bennett
George C. Slagle
John V. Nicodemus
Charles H. Feete
Garland
Teachers Recruit Pupils To Pick Apples In Frederick
Contacts between the US Employment Service and Frederick High School Principal Don Willis established to quantify willing student volunteers for harvesting the county bumper apple crop. Teachers under Willis direct recruitment in classes. Reactions from pupils and Boy Scouts to harvesting plans to be announced. Orchard managers and Employing Service offices seek to pair volunteers with available picking work. Motor taxes of all kinds paid by American motorists totaled 1,764,186,000 in 1946.
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Frederick High School
Don Willis
Frederick County
Willis
Cambridge Wish School
Wail“lig
Cambridge
Winchester Hall
U S Attacks Japs Holding Kiska Island
Alaskan base reports a bold air raid by two fighter planes led by Brig. Gen. William O Butler striking Kiska harbor and shoreline targets. The mission hit ships, a yacht, a gun crew, and troops ashore, with near misses and destructive fire observed as the aircraft returned to base. Butler, 46, commanded Alaskan Air Force during summer operations from Marshall Virginia.
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Alaskan
Kiska
William O. Butler
Alaskan Air Force
Butler
Dire Anda
Alaskan Army Air Force
Marshall
Campaign expenditures for judge renomination filed
Dr Clde Routson reported campaign spending in the Republican primary for Judge of the Orphans Court. The filing with the Clerk of the Circuit Court shows totals of 134.16 with breakdowns including 25 for filing 270 for advertise printing 81An for printing and 35.16 for postage.
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Clde Routson
Orphans’ Court
Circuit Court
Routson
Rationing Of Fuel Oil For Thirty States
Washington reports the government will ration fuel oil for thirty states this winter, with initial limits on 17 Eastern states and a group of Midwestern states. Basic quotas aim 25 percent below normal, with exceptions for emergencies and hardship. Deliveries begin under control now, and from October 1 must have written ration guarantees. area may expand if needed.
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Washington
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
North
South Dakota
Kentucky
Nebraska
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Tatlon
Nelson
Eastern
Middle Western
District of Columbia
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Leon Henderson
Robert P. Patterson
Ralph K. Davies
WPB
Middle West
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Converting Oil Burners to Coal Amid Oil Shortage
Nelson urges converting fuel oil burners to coal due to expected gas and electricity shortages this winter. Those converting should secure coal and diversion equipment, while non converters should weatherproof homes to cut fuel use. He notes Eastern Seaboard oil supply relies on tankers, with rail cars serving the Midwest, and military tanker withdrawals reducing shipments. Government moves to reroute fuels by pipelines and barges are underway, but oil shortages remain critical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Seaboard
Mid-West
Netraleum
Changes Made In U. S. Pacific Air Commands
General MacArthur announces leadership shuffle in the Southwest Pacific Allied Air Forces appointing Major General G C Kenney to replace Lieutenant General George H Brett. Ralph Royce of the 29th Bombardment Wing is reassigned. Brett returns to the United States for further assignment.
Local Boards Taking Over Price Control
Baltimore dispatch reports state OPA Price Executive Philip Winebrewer announcing rapid transfer of price control duties to local county boards. Frederick and Howard counties have begun, with central enforcement through Baltimore. Maryland assumes statewide ceiling authority. first readjustment allows a Baltimore County merchant to raise canned asparagus from 28 to 32 cents amid prior under-ceiling operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
OPA
Philip KR
Winebrewer
Frederick County
Howard County
Maryland
New York
Washington
Winebrener
Baltimore County
Winbrener
Burkittsville Youth Charged With Larceny
Ambrose Morris Jr a 17 year old Negro from Burkittsville was released in his own recognizance after arrest by State Police Corporal M M Puncke on charges of stealing two gasoline rationing books from two cars on A U Magaha s farm near Burkittsville on September 8 Morris is to be tried in Police Court tonight
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose Morris, Jr
Burkittsville
M. M. Puncke
A. U. Magaha
Corp
Puncke
Morris
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Atlantic
NEA Telephoto
Sir Thomas Blamey
Allied Land Forces
Clare Boothe Luce
Greenwich
Conn
Henry R. Luce
Ann Brokaw
Hartford
Kiwanis Meeting
Col. Stanwood
U.S
Kiska Island
Best
Frederick
Allen
Market ST
Atlantic City
America
Jo-Carroll Dennison
Tyler
Tex
U. S. Pacific
Frederick Group
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Cc. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Frederick, Md
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