Seven Jap Planes Downed By U. S. Fliers in China
In two raids near Hengyang, U S pilots claim four Japanese bombers and three fighters shot down. Captain Albert J. Banmler and Ma. John Allison, credited with two kills each, survived a landing crash. New Zeros used but failed to impact the air battle.
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Tol
Hengyang
Jeet Sour
United States Air Force
China
Jieut
Joseph W. Stilwall
Hunan
Albert J. Banmler
John ¥. Allison
Gainesville
Fla
Fredericksburg Railway to Go
Fredericksburg plans to lose its small railway as the line owner’s receivers sell the property. The 23 mile route to the Southern Pacific near Comfort in Kendall county faced $60,000 in failed attempts to revive it. Interstate Commerce Commission allowed cessation and fare was about $75,000 to assume control.
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Fredericksburg
Sunction
Southern Pacific Railroad
Comfort
Kendall County
New Munition Plan Starts Decentralized Production
The War Department announced a plan to decentralize ammunition and ordnance production. Starting tomorrow a field director of ammunition plants will be in St Louis Missouri with directors to be appointed in other key centers. About 10 officers and 150 civilians will move from ordnance headquarters to Philadelphia with the production section of the small arms and gauge facilities moved to that city to serve sub offices.
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Washington
Army
War Department
St. Louis
Chief of Ordnance
Philadelphia
Gage and Gage
L. A. Campbell Jr
Ordnance
Senator John Lee Smith Tours San Antonio for Lt Governor Run
State senator John Lee Smith of Throckmorton visited San Antonio on Friday to campaign for the lieutenant governor candidacy in the runoff election. He spoke to supporters and outlined his platform, stressing fiscal responsibility and public safety.
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Robert F. Wood
Center
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Wood
Talmidge
John Lee Smith
Throckmorton
San Antonio
Five Killed in Army Bomber Crash Off Mobile Bay
Five aircrew members were believed dead after an army bomber crashed in Mobile Bay near Brookley Field and sank instantly. Barrage crews began lifting the craft while officials withheld the identities.
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Ale
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Mobile Bay
Brookley Field
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Mass picketing banned after steel strike violence
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, imposed a ban on mass picketing after a clash between union dues pickets and non union steel workers at Jones and Laughlin Steel. Sheriff OLaughlin announced the order as four injured workers were hospitalized. A United Steel Workers spokesman said the dues picket remained peaceful before a Wednesday night attack by non members that left four injured.
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Tuy U
UIS
Aliquippa
C. T
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Raver County
Charles J
Olaughlin
Ning
G. T. O. United Seel
UW & W
Refugees From War Arrive in Baltimore Vessel Nyassa
Nearly 800 refugees from European and Middle East conflict zones disembarked from the Portuguese vessel Nyassa in Baltimore awaiting clearance. About 200 were held in Port Howard detention, with 350 Jewish refugees aided by Jewish American relatives and 28 American nationals among the arrivals. One stretcher case, Bertha M. Keith, 60, died shortly after arrival.
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Baltimore
Tojay
Nyassa
Bertha MM. Kieth
Port Howard
Convention Has No Place to Meet in San Antonio
Pastor Rever G Green of Friendship Baptist Church cannot find a meeting hall for 2000 Baptist delegates in San Antonio. The only available venue is Municipal Auditorium at 350 dollars per day, which Green says is too expensive for colored folks. He heads to the recreation department offices with his problem.
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Jan Anas
Rever G. Green
Friendship Baptist
Townland Pine Streets
Priday
Kerrville
Yoakum
San Antonio
A!l
Friendship Church i
Friendship Church
Pastor Green
Municipal Auditorium
Green
Hopkins Bride on Wedding Trip at White House
Mr and Mrs Harry Hopkins were married in the White House yesterday. The couple, likely to reside in Connecticut, will soon return to live with the President and Mrs Roosevelt. Louise Gill Macy of New York is mentioned as the former Mrs Macy in the report.
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Washington
Harry Hopking
Connecticut
White House
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Louise Gill Macy
New York
Heinz Shifts to Condensed Soup Line After 45 Years
Heinz announces a move from ready to serve soups into condensed soup production after 45 years in the field. H. J. Heinz II cites conserving tin supply as the motive. The report notes only a minority of states regulate child labor in street trades.
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Pitysburgh
H. Ud. Seligz Company
H. J. Heinz II
Bomb Raids Kill Four in Alexandria and Cairo
Axis bombers hit Alexandria killing four and wounding 13 with light raids also reported in Cairo. Air alarms sounded in both cities as British patrols harassed Axis forces on the El Alamein front. British fighters claimed several enemy aircraft over the lines and Malta.
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Alexandria
Interior Ministry
el Alamein
Claude Auchinteck
Maltale
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