U. S. Casualties Reach 47 463 In All Services
United States war casualties total 47 463 killed wounded and missing to date. Navy Marine and Coast Guard losses include 4433 killed 1593 wounded and 9763 missing. Army figures show 1016 killed 1461 wounded 611 missing and 61 prisoners of war.
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Washington
United States
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Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Leland RP. Lovette
Bureau of Public Relations
Army
Soldier Freed of Jap Name in San Francisco Change
Private Frank Matsuyama Jr aged 30 from Camp Crowder Missouri became Frank Wellman after his mother, Mrs Georgiana Wellman Matsuyama, won permission from Superior Judge F.E. Py Mogan to change his name. The change aims to remove a Japanese surname hindering his Army career and may allow him to apply for officers training. Frank Matsuyama Sr, a Japanese national, is noted to be training Denver policemen in jiujitsu.
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San Frantisco
Frank Matsuyama
Camp Crowder
Frank Wellman
Georgiana Wellman Matsuyama
FE. Py Mogan
Denver
Jiujitsu
Atlantic Charter Expands to All Humanity Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt affirmed that the Atlantic Charter applies to all humanity and pledged U S Britain cooperation to improve the West Indies. He cited plans to help smaller islands become self sufficient, provide compulsory education, extend voting rights, and broaden self government.
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Roosevelt
Atlantic Ocean
Churchill
Wendell Willkie
Asia
Europe
America
Russia
China
United Nations
s.Mf
Great Britain
United States
West Indies
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Halti
Dominican Republic
Britain
Netherlands
France
Colombia
Venezuela
Allied Advances Across Global Fronts Report Big Naval and Ground Actions
Reports from the Solomons, North Africa, and Russian front describe intensified combat. Allied naval forces claim sinking Japanese destroyers and damaging ships, while Montgomery's Eighth Army advances on El Alamein. In Russia, Red Army recaptures a strategic hill near Tuapse and presses in Stalingrad and the Volga-Don Corridor amid heavy losses.
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London
U. S
Southwest
Pacific
Egypt
B. L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
el Alamein
Alexandria
R.A.F
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Frank Knox
Guadalcanal
Russia
Black Sea
Caucasus
Tuapse
Red Star
Stalingrad
Red Army
Steppes
Volga-Don
Snack Bars to Fight Fatigue in Factories
Albany reports the New York Labor Department urges snack bars in plants to provide quick foods and short between meal breaks to reduce mid work fatigue and boost war production. Dr May R Mayers notes surveys of nearly 2000 plants show nourishment improves efficiency. recommends hot and cold snack carts offering items like peanuts and raisins.
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New York Labor Department
New York
Department
Industrial Hygiene Division
May R. Mayers
Union Investigation Resumes After Indictment In Newburgh
A special grand jury probing Local 17 International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union reconvened in Newburgh after a recess. Samuel Nuzzo, a Newburgh nightclub owner and former business agent, was indicted on 89 counts of grand larceny and forgery of union records relating to about $35,000 missing from the union treasury. Assistant Attorney General Edward O'Neill leads the probe, ordered last April by Governor Lehman.
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Newburgh
Local 17
International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union
A. F. of I
Samuel Nuzzo
Treasury
Edward O'Neill
Lehman
Advert Offering Uden Tablets Cites King Cole Imagery
An old style ad promotes Uden Tablets for stomach ulcers indigestion and heartburn. It taunts King Cole as merry or not and urges readers to try Uden with a first dose guarantee and double your money back offer through a local druggist.
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King Cole
Collision of Train and Bus Kills Sixteen in Detroit Area
A southbound passenger train collided with a bus near the Detroit Hamtramck line, killing sixteen and injuring several others. The front end of the bus was hurled into Detroit territory, and crews worked to extricate bodies as investigators from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad opened a formal inquiry.
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Detroit
Transportation System
Detroit Street Railways
Joseph Levinski
Mary Alla
Clos
Hamtramck
Nolan
Chicago
Durand
Mich
John Irwin
W. McDaniels
Babcock
Frank Lyman
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Ration Banking Implemented for Gas and Sugar Users
In the Albany Troy Schenectady area sugar dealers gasoline distributors and institutional users must use ration banking starting today with ration accounts opened last Monday. Local OPA officials report mixed cooperation and anticipate a rush while some small businesses say the plan adds work without aiding them. Dealers will deposit coupons into bank accounts and draft for replacements instead of giving coupons to boards or suppliers.
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Albany
Albany-Troy-Schenectady
OPA
Schenectady
Tri-City
Kitchen Police Duty Is Called Unfair to Cooks
A Camp Adair officer and the Ninth Service School commander debate K P duty. Major Hosiah J. Osborn argues it harms cooks and demeans the kitchen crew. He says K P is punishment and diminishes morale while a Camp Adair advocate defends it as a duty and a chance to inspect food preparation and kitchen cleanliness.
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Corvallis
Ore
Camp Adair
K.P
Maj
Hosiah J. Osborn
Ninth Service School For
Bakers
Goldbrick
Major Osborn
MacArthur's Planes Blast New Guinea Operations
Allied long range bombers raided Japanese invasion bases in New Guinea while ground fighting in the Owen Stanley Mountains remained static. Bristol Beaufighters crossed the range to hit Lae, strafing beaches, sinking three barges, with one plane lost. Darwin fell under another night raid by nine Japanese bombers, while Dili was attacked by Hudson bombers to blunt raids from Timor.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
Darwin
Rabaul
New Britain
Hudson
Dili
Timor Island
Dill
Alola
Kokoda
Kokda
RAF Lashes Nazi Lands in Wide Attacks
RAF Mosquito bombers hit targets from Belgium to the Baltic and Spitfires targeted pillboxes warehouses and freight trains in occupied France. Flensburg shipyards submarine base attacked while a merchant vessel fled. Beaufighter claimed Junkers 88 over Bay of Biscay. One Beaufighter and two Mosquitos reported missing in raids. London endured a large scale mock raid with searchlights and anti aircraft fire.
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Belgium
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France
R.A.F
Flensburg
Air Ministry
Netherlands
Cap Griz
Cap de la Hague
Coastal Command
Bay’ of Biscay
Air and Home Security Ministries
Americans Headed For Dictatorship Says Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas, longtime Socialist Party candidate, warned in Buffalo that Americans are unknowingly moving toward a popular dictatorship with the President as a virtual dictator. He criticized wartime policy handling as inadequate and noted Coleman B. Cheney, the party’s gubernatorial candidate, is serving as a private in Colorado.
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Buffalo
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Thomas
New York
Streket
America
Coleman B. Cheney
Colorado
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