Allied War Plans Face Winter Weather Clash at Quebec
As Roosevelt and Churchill prepare for a Quebec conference, analysts weigh whether Allied forces can hit Hitler while weather and seas allow. The debate centers on timing for a possible invasion of France this year, balancing Mediterranean operations with a renewed push on the Western Front and the Russian front.
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Dewltt Wackenzie
Messrs
Roosevelt
Chwehtl
Quebec
Hitler
Une
Wich
Quebtr
France
Allien
Mediterranean
England
Channel
Blelly
Reich
Balkans
Penicillin Aids Tot in Life Fight
New York reports 2 year old Py rha Malone battles septicemia with penicillin at Lutheran hospital Manhattan. Dr Dante Colitts says the child remains in danger as fever rises. The drug’s scarce civilian availability was arranged by the New York Journal American amid the life and death battle.
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Patricia Malone
New York Hospital
New York
Pyrha Malone
Dante Colitts
Lutheran Hospital of
New York Journal-American
Mexicans Protest New Silver Export Tax in Mexico City
Mexicans silversmiths publish full page ads in newspapers protesting the new high export tax on silver jewelry. They seek an interview with Secretary of Finance Eduardo Suarez who announced the tax to curb silver car smuggling as crude jewelry. The industry argues the tax harms a symbol of Mexico and cites coin shortages from silver melting for industry.
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Mexico City
Finante Eduardo Suarez
Allveremiths
Mexico
Fugitive Fights Extradition
Pardoned convict Harold H. Klein, 43, released from Western penitentiary, contests extradition to Huntsville Texas farm from which he escaped in 1928. Two Texas deputy sheriffs await Governor Edwards Martin's approval as Klein weighs his mind. He served 12 years of a 20 to 60 year sentence before release on sight appeal.
Three Killed in ICAP Plane Crash at Sky Airport Houston
Civil Aeronautics officers log an investigation into a crash of a plane used as a Civil Air Patrol training ship. The three occupants killed were Duke Westall, 29, a CAP lieutenant and co-owner of Sky Airport Houston, Ross Yingling, and Ralph H. Thels. The plane fell on a vacant lot near South Houston.
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Houston
Civil Aeronautics Offorers Logay
Civil Air Patrol
Stafford 1
Duke” Westall
Sky Airport
Ross Yingling
Ralph H. Thels
U boat sinkings and Allied naval losses rise in war drills
Axis U-boats destroyed at about one a day for three months. May June July saw over 90 submarines sunk. U.S. ships lost reach six warships and 110 vessels sunk or damaged since the war began. Roosevelt and Churchill call for intensified anti submarine war and continued shipyard efforts.
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Washington
United States
Lune
Navy
Pacific
U. S
Pickere
Maddox
Plymouth
Sentinel
Redwing
LaGuardia Attacks Draft Officials Over Inefficiency
New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, speaking on his weekly radio show, accused draft officials at Washington of being ineaginative and creating public uncertainty by prioritizing expediency over efficiency in the selective service process.
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New York
Selective Service Administration
F. H
New Alaska Cruiser Lifts From Camden Yard In Navy Plan
The Alaska, first of a new class of 10 000 ton heavy cruisers, was launched at Camden New Jersey by Mrs. Ernest Gruening. She awaits finishing touches on the Delaware River before joining the fleet. Official specs remain undisclosed as six ships are planned in the group.
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London
United States
Bleily
Stelly
AAS
Navy
Stellan
Maddox
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Savanagh
Nashvile
Phoenix
Boise
Honolulu
Helena
St. Louis
Camden
N_ 1
U.S. Navy
Alaska
Simiter
Battlestins
Delaware River
U. S
Ernest Gruening
Camden, N. J
New York Ship, Building Corporation
Mexico Bandits Hold Up Tourists
A gang of about 60 armed men held up a bus on the Mexico City Cuautla road late at night. Passengers including North American tourists were forced off, searched for money and jewelry, and the bus was damaged in the rain. The bandits hailed from the rural area and fled before soldiers and police arrived. Victims’ names and robbery total were not reported.
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Mexico City
Cuautla
Cuernavaca
Macoblian
Nepantla
Cara
Soldiers Watch War Debt Rally Shows Broad Gifting
Aug 16 Washington. The US treasury grew by 70 units as two Maine privates reported the fiscal year debt ending June 29, 1943 at 104,304,022,068.70 and enclosed 20 cents to round it off. Gifts poured in to aid the war effort from Cuba to Peru including gold teeth, dog collars, racing pigeons, Rolls Royces and even labels from Germany Italy and Japan.
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Elliott Hayes
Stall Gueeeaponvieni
Washington
United States Treasury
Brunswick
Maine
Courney
Office of War
Uncle Sam
Pearl Harbor
Treasury Department
Treasury
Germany
Woman Denies She's Wed to Flynn
Nora Edington of Los Angeles denied marriage to Flynn saying she is only his private secretary. The denial was reported by the Acapulco correspondent of Mexico City's newspaper Novedades from the Aug 16 dispatch.
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Mexico City
Flyns
Nora Edington
Los Angeles
Navedades
Acapulco
Flynn
Leukemia Victim Improved After Eastward Trip
Six year old Vickie Laswell of Springfield TL, leukemia victim, was reported improving after a $ New York philanthropist funded the trip and treatment. The father brought him East last Saturday for care and expenses were paid by the donor.
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New York
INS
Vickie Laswell
Springfield
Another Cut is Newsprint Due
Washington reports the war production board warns newspapers may face another cut in newsprint after October 1, likely 5 to 10 percent, due to expected declines in Canadian pulpwood and paper supplies. A new supreme coordinating board under WPB is being formed to align paper production and distribution, announced early this week under Donald Nelson. WPB officials say the paper shortage is worsening.
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We3hington
CNS
War Production Board
Canada
WPB
WPRB
Donald Nelson
WEPB
Browning
Anes
Fishermen's bee shortage relief from OPA clearing house praised
New Orleans report says shrimp towing fleets slowed by bee shortage last week have relief as an OPA clearing house between manufacturers and wholesalers of shrimping is set up and to be tested today. Fisherman G C Lewis, 58, leads the Fishermen's Supply association comments on the update.
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New Orleans
PS G. C. Lewis
Fishermen’s Supply Association
OPA
Lewis
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