Roosevelt Makes Surprise Aleutian Visit A Warfront Milestone
President Roosevelt visited the Aleutian base aboard a navy cruiser marking his first Pacific tour of the war. He praised the armed forces for driving out the enemy and rapidly building new bases on remote islands. He noted no specific war plans and avoided campaign remarks.
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Roosevelt
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Honolulu
Frank Jack Fletcher
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Navy
Army
Hales
William D. Leahy
Leahy
Ross T. McIintire
Edwin M. Watson
Wilson Brown
Fala
Doughnut Cutters Donated by McAlester Volunteers
In McAlester Oklahoma eleven citizens answered a doughboy’s mother plea for doughnut cutters. Corporal Monroe Messick reported in a letter from Italy that the troops yearned for doughnuts and the tools to make them, prompting local donations to supply cutters.
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Okla
Italy
Cpl
Monroe Messick
Hoover reveals axis fifth column defeat in America
J Edgar Hoover the FBI chief says no fifth column exists in the United States. He outlines an undercover war against spies and saboteurs, now disclosed in a six part AP exclusive. The first article will run in Somerset American on August 14.
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America
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Associated Press
Somerset American
Senate Passes States Rights Postwar Reconversion Bill
Senate approves George bill 55 to 19 establishing an office of war mobilization and reconversion to coordinate peacetime transition. Includes extending unemployment coverage to 3.5 million federal workers and reimbursing states, with rates set by states. Murray Kilgore measure rejected 49 to 25. bill heads to House for action.
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Senate
George
D-Ga
Finance Committee
Office of War Mobilization and Adjustment
House
Ways and Means Committee
Say
Baruch-Hancock
Roosevelt
Wesley L Shaulis Dies in Hospital After Fall
Wesley L Shaulis 66 of Somerset R D 6 died at Community hospital at 11 45 Friday night after a July 29 fall. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage days earlier and did not regain consciousness. Survived by children Ray Niles Gail Paul Mary Elizabeth all in California and a deceased wife Jennie Shaulis. Also survived by three sisters and a brother. Home previously destroyed by a tornado. Funeral services under Charles Hauger incomplete.
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Somerset
R. D
Community Hospital
Ray
Niles
Gail
Paul
Mary Elizabeth
California
Jennie Shauks
A. J. Weimer
Friedens
S. E. Knupp
W. B. Putman
Charles Shaukis
Charles Hauger
Roosevelt Seizes 103 Midwest Truck Firms in War Move
The government seized 103 midwestern truck companies tied to a 25 000 driver strike, appointed Col. J Monroe Johnson to direct operations, and ordered all workers back to work to prevent war material bottlenecks. Ellis Lonenecker named federal manager of the firms serving Minnesota to Oklahoma and parts of surrounding states.
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Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
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Col. Johnson
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Ellis T. Lonenecker
Highway Transport Division
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Nebraska
Iowa
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Missouri
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
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Army
National Defense
Transformer Co Strike Deepens Across Pittsburgh Plants
About 325 workers at the Pennsylvania Transformer plant in Pittsburgh kept a week-long strike going over the dismissal of five union officials. The walkout tied to other district actions left 1,800 idle, as workers demanded union recognition and bomb production was shifted elsewhere.
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Army Ordnance
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Acme Die and Machine Company
Latrobe
American Window Glass Company
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Arnold
Duraley Company
Scottdale
Crucible Steel Company
Labelle
Baltic Push Seizes Petseri as Red Forces Ring Estonian Front
Gen Ivan Maslennikov’s Baltic army drives 43 miles along a 15 mile front through German lines capturing Petseri a key rail and road junction in southern Estonia. Moscow says 200 localities taken and up to 300000 Nazi troops may be trapped in Estonia Latvia and nearby sectors as Russian armies advance toward Riga Tallinn and Prussia.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Ivan Maslennikov
Estonia
Fetseri
Latvia
Moscow
Maslennikov
Stalingrad
Petseri
Lake Peipus
Tallinn
Riga
Berlin
Sunakste
Bialystok
Poland
German East Prussia
Lithuania
Warsaw
Vistula
Caucasus
Carpathian
Philippines II spotlight again in Pacific war notes
General Headquarters reports renewed Allied focus on the Philippines with Guam retaken and Mindanao bombed for a third straight night. Roosevelt, MacArthur, and Nimitz reaffirm drive toward unconditional surrender as Saipan base operations expand in the Pacific theatre.
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Southwest Pacific
Philippines
Guam
Mindanao
Corregian
Japan
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Richmond
Juy ‘Turner
Pacific Fleet
Saipan
Marianas Island
U. S
Nimitz
Mauz
Superforts Make Good In Pacific
The 20th bomber command reports two night attacks on Palembang Sumatra and Nagasaki Kyushu using a strong force of B-29s. Three aircraft are missing from the double mission with one making an emergency landing in China. The Nagasaki raid lasted about one and a half hours and covered 3 600 miles round trip from bases in Southeast Asia.
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Sumatra
20Th Bomber Command
Oday
Japan
Palembang
China
Kyushu
Nagasaki
Japs Sending Reinforcements to Philippines and Formosa
Chungking dispatch reports Japanese are pouring troops into the Philippines and Formosa to deter an American onslaught. A Chinese army spokesman says Tokyo plans to bolster Canton defenses and ward off possible landings on China’s coast.
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Philippines
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Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Honolulu
Japan
Tokio
Pacific
C. C. Tseng
Army
Allied Air Blitz Hits Brest and Transport Hubs
Nearly 2,000 allied heavy bombers from the Eighth Air Force and RAF swept across occupied Europe to strike Brest and distant German freight yards. Flanking waves hit fuel dumps, rail yards at Mulhouse Belfort and Paris area airfields while targets at Saarbrucken Strasbourg Lens Douai and Somain faced hazardous strikes. British daylight raids followed an intense night campaign on oil and transport facilities from Bordeaux to Berlin.
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Polish Forces Advance Toward Pesaro on Adriatic Front
Allied reports say Polish troops crossed the Cesano river advancing two miles in two days and seizing Scapezzano, Monterado, and Corinaldo as they near Pesaro. German counterattacks failed while storms limited action on the Eighth and Fifth army fronts. Florence sees sporadic shooting and artillery, with AMG delivering 60 tons daily to 80,000 in southern Florence and Indian troops patrolling east of the city.
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Nazis Burn 30 Villages Claim Stirs Allied News
A Tito headquarters communiqué says German forces burned 30 Bosnian villages, killed over 100 women and children, and looted farms after failing to defeat Yugoslav Partisans. Eastern Bosnia reports heavy Partisan losses for the 13th SS division as reinforcements push toward Miksic amid stiff resistance.
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London
Marshal Tito
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Miksix
Three American POWs Executed by Japanese in Manchuria
The U S Navy reports that three American prisoners Sergt Joe B Chastain Cpl Victor Paliotti and Seaman Frank Meringolo were executed July 31 1943 for killing a police inspector after escaping a Manchurian prison camp They allegedly posed as German flyers and were captured with Mongol help after fleeing toward the Russian border
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Manchuria
Navy
Foreign Office
Red Cross
Joe B. Chastain
Starling E. Chastain
Waco
Texas
Victor Paliotti
Julia Paliotti
Cranston
Frank Meringolo
Demetrio Meringolo
Brooklyn
Robots Drop On London In Brief Daylight Bombing
Clusters of flying bombs hit southern England and the London area today as fog across France hampered air attacks. Anti aircraft guns on the coast shot some down and a movie theater damaged by a direct hit saved by a lowered curtain as people slept onstage. Appendectomy planned for Duchess of Windsor in New York hospital late August or early September with hospital and surgeon unnamed.
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London
England
France
Duchess New York
Duchess of Windsor
New York City
British Information Service
Allied armored push drives German retreat toward Paris
Allied forces report rapid German withdrawal as U S tanks press 33 miles behind enemy lines north of Paris. Montgomery says enemy is in bad shape and may not escape. Bradley’s forces drive from Le Mans toward the Seventh Army as a second column advances toward Chartres.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Paris
Nantes
Loire River
France
Loire
Europe
Bernard L. Montgomery
Omar N. Bradley
le Mans
Seventh Army
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Falaise
Angers
Werih
Cwenther von Kluge
Maryland and Pennsylvania Heat Wave With Weekend Showers
Maryland forecasts call for very hot Saturday with Sunday showers and a cooler spell. Eastern Pennsylvania expects hot, clear Saturday then thundershowers and cooler evening or night, with Sunday clearing and pleasant. Western Pennsylvania reports thundershowers and cooler Saturday. West Virginia anticipates hot Saturday followed by thundershowers and cooler in the afternoon or night with Sunday pleasant.
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