Largest U.S. Convoy Reaches Britain and Pacific Marine Success
The largest U.S. troop convoy to date lands in England for training toward a second front. In the Pacific, Marines hit Makin in the Gilbert Islands and repel a night Japanese boat assault, with 670 enemy dead and 30 captured as Marines suffer 28 dead and 72 wounded.
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England
Europe
U. S
Great Britain
United Nations
Solomon Islands
Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Makin
Gilbert
Solomons
Pearl Harbor
War Production Board sets July 1 1943 goal
WPB chief Donald Nelson outlined U S war production status as ahead in some categories and behind in others with shortages and agency balancing as major issues. A target date of July 1 1943 was set to maximize impact on the enemy, guiding all production decisions.
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War Production Board
Assembly Lines
Donald Nelson
WPB
U. S
Nelson
Brazil Declares War First in South America on Axis
Brazil, angered by Axis aggression, becomes the first South American nation to declare war on Germany and Italy, joining 29 nations. Mass demonstrations followed Axis sinking of five Brazilian ships with about 600 lives lost, while Brazil cuts diplomatic ties with all three Axis powers. The move aims to secure the Natal bulge near Dakar as a potential Axis invasion point. Meanwhile Soviet reports note heavy fighting around Stalingrad as Nazis push across the Don, underscoring the strategic battle for control of the Volga corridor and its oil and war factory outputs.
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Brazil
Germany
Italy
United Nations
Japan
Atlantic
Natal
Dakar
Africa
Amaro Soares Bittencourt
United States
Pacific
Stalingrad
Don River
Kotelnikovo
Red Army
Volga River
Baku
Persian Gulf
Russia
Commando Raid at Dieppe Declared Official Success
Allied chiefs say the Dieppe raid achieved its objectives and yielded valuable information on Nazi defenses. British and Canadian commandos with American Rangers fought a nine hour assault on coastal fortifications midway between Calais and Le Havre, with high but manageable casualties and loss of landing craft.
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Dieppe
Calais
le Havre
Vichy
Allotment for military dependents advanced
Dependents of enlisted personnel will receive monthly allotments earlier than November 1 after congressional approval and presidential signing. Navy payments to begin very soon and the Army to start early in September. basic payment is 50 dollars, with servicemen contributing 22 and the armed forces 28. About half of service members expected to have dependents receiving allotments.
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U. S
Congress
Navy
Army
Draft Status Changes for Draft Deferments In War Work
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey outlines plans to reclassify war work deferments 2A and 2B. He says older men women or handicapped substitutes will replace deferments and permanent exemptions end. 3A cases with dependents prioritized next including grandmother cases and then men with wives or wives and children.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Chicago University
Coffee and Overalls Signal War Time Ration Shifts
The government ordered coffee deliveries to dealers cut to 65 percent of last year’s levels from 75 percent of this month’s quota. WPB actions aim to boost rugged work clothes by increasing cotton loom output, while theaters may face fabric shortages and reduced operations as war demand grows.
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John
War Production Board
WPB
Electric Power: Less for Civilians
The War Production Board halted or suspended work on 85 public and private power projects to cut wartime expansion and gave 28 federal projects low priority likely delaying completion beyond the war. The WPB warned civilian inconvenience and sacrifice must be expected.
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War Production Board
WPB
Ace WWI commander named to air forces chief in Asia
Brig Gen Clayton L Bis sell named commander of U S army air forces in China Burma and India. Sen Mon C Wallgren reports marked improvement after Alaska tour. US submarines sink four ships and damage two in Pacific while a large merchant vessel is sunk near the Aleutians. Henry Kaiser and Howard Hughes join to plan 500 flying freighters to speed war supplies worldwide.
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Clayton L. Bissell
U. S. Army
China
Burma
India
Alaska
Sen
Mon C. Wallgren
Washington
Aleutians
Japan
Pacific
Henry Kaiser
Western Shipbuilding
Howard Hughes
No Tax Money for Civil Frills Says Missouri Representative
Representative Cannon of Missouri, chair of the House appropriations committee, denounces civil government expenditures while war outlays from 1940 to 1942 total 228 billion dollars. He warns inflation, notes rising rents and prices, criticizes nonessential spending, and argues war debt will burden unborn generations. He cites penny hoarders, inflation effects in rural areas, and the burden of federal and state taxes on “Joes and Johns and Bills.”
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Cannon
Missouri
Appropriations Committee
The
House
United States
Washington
Victory Gardens
Johns
U. 8 S
Joes
Naval position shown by Midway and Pacific shift
The article argues U S naval strength has rebounded since Pearl Harbor with half Jap cruiser losses and about half of their aircraft carriers gone, enabling defense of Hawaii and the U S West Coast by land based planes While main risks include Midway and potential attacks on Alaska Hawaii and the continent Top naval leaders weigh the balance against Russian setbacks and a broader Pacific offensive
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Washington, D. C
Solomon Islands
U. S
Solomons
Pearl Harbor
United States
South Pacific
King
Midway
Alaska
Hawaii
Continental
Pacific
Philippines
Singapore
Java
Russia
Practical Kitchen Tips From Everyday Cookery
Household hints cover pillow case care and sewing tricks after a year of use. Recipes advise salt timing in porridge and gravies. Ironing on the wrong side preserves fabric roughness. Honey can replace sugar measure for measure in many dishes. Fresh peas can be boiled in the pod and eaten when tender.
Free book offer from Dr Coe on piles and fistula
An advertisement from Dr C M Coe of 503 Pine Street St Louis Missouri offers a free valuable book for sufferers of piles or fistula claiming it will pay readers. The notice invites readers to write for the pamphlet.
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C. M. Coe
Pine St
St. Louis, Mo
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Key Pittman
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Pagia. Sank. Jr. School of Mechanical
CAL Trades
Finney Ave
St. Louis
A. G. Brauer
WEITE
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Frei. Pai
Schulte PT. & Lac. Mfg, CO
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Kent Blades “Staat
Joseph Kin
St. Joseph Aspen
Benjamin Franklin
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
Cohen
Doan
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