Wallace for Czar of All Defense Talk
Washington sources report President Roosevelt weighing a major defense reorganization to place Wallace in charge of a new agency combining OPM and Economic Defense Board functions. The plan would elevate Wallace to assistant president over Knudsen and Hillman, with several top officials joining the new board.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Defense
Vice
Office of Reduction Management
Economic Defense Board
Wallace
Chage
OPM
Wiliam S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Cordell Hull
Henry L. Stimson
Navy
Frank Knox
Leon Henderson
Great Britain
Russia
China
Lord Beavercrook
Knudsen
Hillman
Stimson
Knox
Constantine A. Oumansky
F. M. Golixov
Red Army
RAF Bombers Hit Cologne and Duisburg in Night Assaults
The Air Ministry reports eight British planes missing after night raids on Cologne and Duisburg with fires sprawling across docks and factories. British fighters targeted air fields in occupied Europe. Germans struck northeast England and Scotland. Admiralty tallies Axis shipping losses at about 4.01 million tons with major German, Italian, and Finnish contributions.
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London
Royal Air Force
Germany
Cologne
Duisburg
Isshel
Dunkerque
Air Ministry
Ministry
England
Scotland
Berlin
Sunderland
Duisburg A
Rhine
Ruhr
Rhineland
Admiralty
Netherlands
Colonel Still Dies in Arkansas War Games
Colonel Coger M Stil, 46, of Columbia Mo assigned to the 163d Infantry from Fort Leonard Wood Mo died from injuries after being struck by a four ton truck during maneuvers north of Camp Robinson. The incident occurred while he directed traffic in a simulated attack. Sergt Hubert L Sutton of Company E 163d sustained bruises. His death marked the eighth soldier fatality in the Arkansas war games.
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Conway
Ark
Coger M. Stil
Columbia
163D
Fort Leonard Wood
Camp Robinson
Still
Hubert L. Sutton
Catanal
Colonel Still
Belgian Planter Dies in Congo War Casualties
Special Radio dispatch describes Georges Paquay, a Belgian planter in the Congo, dying of double pneumonia amid the civilian casualties of Britain's wartime economic drive. The narrative follows colonial auctions of his possessions on a veranda in Cabinda as locals and officials bid on household items.
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Bonn
Belgian Congo
Matadi
Congo
Great Britain
Georges Paquay
Crocodile
Boa
Boma’s
Banana Company
Cabinda
Brussels
She's Bankrupt Debts And Assets In Federal Petition
Philadelphia August 19 Mrs Gertrude Simon Hirshorn lists liabilities 1455015 20 and assets 50 in federal bankruptcy filing declaring no income for two years no tax return and no bank account Most debts tied to mortgages dating back to 1929 Harrisburg August 19
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Philadelphia
Gertrude Simon Hirshorn
Patrolmen rescue deer hunter after canyon distress call
In Los Angeles Patrolmen Osborne Rutherford and William McGree found a lone deer hunter after a three hour search through Trail Canyon following a call of help. The man had been listening to a radio drama on a portable radio when found. In Carlsbad New Mexico a rattlesnake incident ended with Shorty Broadbent hospitalized but expected to recover.
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Los Angeles
Osborne Rutherford
William McGree
Trail Canyon
Hairdressers Propose Five Defense Styles for Women Workers
Chicago reports a hairdressers association designing five defense hairstyles to keep hair from belts and gears as women increasingly enter factory work. The styles favor hair lengths of two and a half to three inches for safety.
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Chicago
Armored truck guards fur exhibit as Boy Scouts take over
In Milwaukee at the Wisconsin State Fair an armored truck delivered $5,000 of furs to a fur exhibit. Police with a machine gun guarded the unloading but left after the display, and three Boy Scouts armed with scout knives assumed full guarding duties.
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Milwaukee
Roosevelt appeals for end to Kearny yard strike
Reports say President Roosevelt urged Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co to accept National Mediation Board recommendations to end a 12 day strike halting 493 million dollars of work at Kearny New Jersey yard. If rejected, government could take over and operate the yard under Navy control.├
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Roosevelt
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
National Mediation Board
Kearny, N. J
Mediation Board
L. H. Korndorff
Navy
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Michigan City
Ind
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Carmen
A. F. of S. Building Trades Workers
Camp Lockett
San Diego
Calif
Oneida Knitting Company
Utica
Textile Workers Union of America
C.I.C
U. S. Department of Labor
Anna Weinstock
NLRB
Washington
Wien
Union
Western Electric,Inc
Masees
CSO
Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Sparrows Point
Nicholas Fontecchio
Steel’ Workers Organizing Committee
Nine Allied Planes Shot Down in Raid Night
Berlin reports nine Allied planes lost in strikes on Germany last night while British bombers hit western Germany with minor damage and civilian casualties. A German Luftwaffe attack on Sunderland harbor and English airfields caused fires and explosions. Two British bombers and two Spitfires were claimed shot down. Atlantic bombing ships sank two British merchant vessels about 800 miles west of the Scilly Islands.
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Berlin
Germany
Baltic
Sunderland
England
Grantham
English Channel
Atlantic
Scilly Islands
Flying Wing Arrives as Free French Air Flagship
The United States designed Flying Wing, a daring unarmed bomber, lands in Brazzaville Congo as flagship of Free French air forces. Piloted from Southampton by Jim Mollison, it ferries officers and mail across the Congo jungle while Col. Pierre Carettier requests more standard transport planes from the United States.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
Brazzaville
French Equatorial Africa
Flying Wing
Free French Africa
de Gaullist Air Arm
Cunliffe-Owens
Southampton
England
Congo
Jim Mollison
Pierre Carettier
African Air Forces
Perseus
de Gaullist
Leopoldville
Belgian Congo
Manhattan
Free Belgium
Africa
Carettier
United States
Douglas
Lockheed
Egypt
Royal Air Force
Middle East
Vichy
Sudan
America
France
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