Anglo American War Conference to Study Rome Open City
In Quebec the sixth war conference between Roosevelt Churchill and allied chiefs will address Italy declaring Rome an open city. High US and UK leaders have discussed the issue and may require Badoglio to surrender unconditionally. Roosevelt’s arrival is awaited and a negotiated peace is ruled out. Churchill denied predicting the war would end in six months.
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Rome
Quebec
U.P
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
United Kingdom
Pietro Badoglia
Badoglio
Catholic Action
le Canada
Montreal
British Information Service
Great Britain
War Food Plans Are Criticized
Washington Aug 16 The agriculture secretary released a report sharply critical of the war time food program. The six man subcommittee said UN food supplies are inadequate and cannot be fixed without sweeping changes in policy. It urged accelerating both domestic and foreign programs and warned the U S cannot be the UN food basket.
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Washington
U.P
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
United Nations
E. W. Gaumnitz
United States
Roosevelt reports to aides after Hyde Park talks
President Roosevelt, after three days with Churchill at Hyde Park, returns to the White House to brief Hull at luncheon on Hudson River talks. He plans Quebec conferences with Churchill and Allied leaders. Walker, Knox, and Hull discuss war priorities and party politics.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hyde Park
New York
White House
Hull
Hudson River
Quebec
Army-Navy
United States
Britain
Ray Atherton
Canada
West
Democratic National Committee
Montana
Minnesota
North Dakota
Illinois
Soviets Push Toward Bryansk Front Ahead of Kharkov Rivalry
Soviet forces moved to 18 miles east of Bryansk on Monday driving from Karachev and taking Zhizdra and Malyeluki as part of a wider advance toward the Spas Demensk line. German counterattacks near Kharkov intensified with a large-scale clash reported as a decisive battle loomed.
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Robert Musel
London
U.P
Bryansk
Spas Demensk
Kharkov
Karachev
Malyeluki
Bryansk- Moscow
Zhizdra
Tserkovschina
Church Town
Moscow
Belgorod
Blagodatnaya
Red Army
Allies in Sicily Near End of Campaign
The Rome radio in a German broadcast reported by AP said Americans would need more than two years to conquer the Italian mainland at the Sicily pace. The Allied Sicilian campaign, now nearing a successful end, began five weeks ago.
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London
Rome
Associated Press
Sicily
Club organized to boost sales for This Is the Army
A community club forms to back the Army Emergency Relief Fund showing of This Is the Army at the Montana theater. The plan calls for an $11 and $5.50 ticket closing drive starting Tuesday morning to ensure a full sellout. Members include Mrs. D. G. Stivers and Col. L. M. McKinley among others.
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Army
Army Emergency Relief Fund
Butte
Citizens’ Committee
Montana
D. G. Stivers
Col
L. M. McKinley
Ralph Smith
al Livingston
Tom Kelly
Guy Pratt
John Brandl
R. F. Peterson
James T. Fin
Len, Jr
Walter Barnard
Ray Young
J. H. McDonald
James F. McCarthy
John L. Boardman
H. A. Dover
Army Relief Fund
Byrnes Sees Living Cost Reduction and War Mobilization
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes pledged a substantial reduction in the cost of living and outlined a home-front program facing expected major fighting. He said food prices are stabilizing and Roosevelt approved an eight hour day in certain coal mines to boost production. He urged continued wartime mobilization and warned against overconfidence in Italy.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Congress
Interior Ickes
Italy
Mail Vote Bill Opposed Over Constitutional Grounds
Washington Aug 16 Indications of congressional opposition on constitutional grounds to a bill allowing soldiers and sailors to vote by mail in 1944 without being registered. Senator Green says the measure may be unconstitutional, arguing it fixes voting conditions rather than qualifications and infringes on states rights. The Green Lucas bill faces Senate elections committee scrutiny and potential conflict with state laws on absentee voting.
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Washington
Green
D-R.i
Senate Elections Committee
Briton Sentenced for Violating Censorship Rules
Harold Ebury a 45 year old British platinum dealer from Pebble Beach California was sentenced to 18 months in a federal penitentiary for violating U S censorship rules by sending messages to South American agents with coded double meanings to conceal platinum smuggling to Argentine buyers with Axis links.
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San Francisco
U.P
Harold Ebury
Federal
United States
Ebury
Pebble Beach
Calif
Ecuador
FBI
Ration Book 3 to Be Used across War Foods
The Office of Price Administration announced that brown ration stamps in book three will begin September 12 for meats fats oils butter and cheese replacing red stamps from book two with the same value. Expiry dates shift monthly with new brown stamps C through F becoming valid from late September to mid October. Red stamps X Y Z expire October 2. brown stamps A B expire October 2. Blue stamps for canned frozen and dried foods start September 1. Gasoline old-type B orders face Sep 1 restrictions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Smuts Calls Special Caucus Ahead of US Visit
Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts has summoned a special caucus of his united party for August 30. The move is seen as preparation for a possible visit by Smuts to the United States, perhaps as early as next month.
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Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Field
Jan Christiaan Smuts
United Party
United States
Americans Capture Vella Lavella in Central Solomons
Allied headquarters reported American forces landed August 15 and occupied Vella Lavella without opposition, capturing about 350 Japanese prisoners. The move shortens the supply line to central Solomons and positions U S forces near Vila and Kolombangara, with further advances on New Guinea and Roosevelt Ridge.
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Allied
Australia
Solomons
United Nations
Rabaul
Vella Lavella
New Britain Island
New Georgia
Kolombangara Island
Vila
Kape Harbor
Vella Gulf
Bairoko Harbor
New Georgia Island
Kolombangara
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
New Guinea
Tambu Bay
Salamaua
Choteau Area Has New Oil Field
The Montana Oil Conservation Board reports a new oil prospect near Choteau, described as the largest indication of oil deposits in north central Montana since 1928. Ike Taylor, an Illinois operator, drilled the well and authorities anticipate casing will be completed within a few days before an estimate of production can be issued.
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Great Falls
Montana
Pondera
Choteau
R. P. Jackson
Montana Oil Conservation Board
Jackson
Ike Taylor
OPA names business man to lead price chief post
General Manager Chester Bowles announced a co operative business oriented plan for the Office of Price Administration and named James F. Brownlee a former General Foods official to replace Donald H. Wallace as price chief. The move follows a congressional ban on professors in policy making roles.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
OPA
James F. Brownlee
General Foods Corporation
Donald H. Wallace
Williams College
R A F Bombers Blast Europe In Night Raid Sweep
London reports a vast R A F bomber assault roars over the city at midnight as Allied raids on Milan Paris Denain and surrounding airfields unfold. daylight strikes target Le Bourget Denain Poix Abbeville and Bernay with heavy losses alleged on German air forces and a fatal Paris incident noted.
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London
Milan
France
Italy
Channel
Dunkerque
Paris
le Bourget
Denain
Valenciennes
Thunderbolts
Eighth Airforce
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Poix
Abbeville
Bernay
Tricqueville
Aines- Gilly
Unchanged Temps Expected As Week Proceeds
A steady trend shows little temperature change Tuesday with mild conditions. Monday posted a high of 82 and a low of 43, outlining a cooler evening pattern ahead.
Peace Protest Amid Milan Ruins After RAF Bombing
On August 16 from the Swiss Italian frontier, Frank Brutto Chiasso reports Milan residents marching through bomb debris in a peace demonstration shortly after a heavy RAF raid. Authorities detail widespread destruction in the Scala Farina yards, cathedral towers, and royal palace, with fires, besieged communications, and mass evacuations toward the Swiss border. The Italian Socialist party calls for peace and monarchical suppression, accusing Badoglio’s government of war policies.
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Chiasso
Milan
Here
Italian Socialist Party
Italy
United Nations
Britain
Scala Farina
Brianza
Sorresco
Royal
Switzerland
Libera Stampa
German Forces Crumble Before Attack Near Messina
Allied forces press a dual invasion drive from Sicily toward Messina as German rear defenses crumble. US Seventh Army advances to 14 miles from Messina. British Eighth Army to 15 miles, with Milazzo and Taormina captured or threatened. Heavy bombardment fills the strait area, threatening German evacuation lanes.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Messina
Sicily
Messina Strait
Italy
United States Seventh Army
Barcellona
Milazzo
Eighth Army
Taormina
Castiglione
Raggi
Randazzo
Algiers
Reuters
Norway under strict Nazi control shakes up police ranks
London reports Jonas Lie gains command of all police forces in Norway with power to appoint military courts and arrest allies of the enemy. Quisling’s attempt to move Lie to the eastern front failed, and reports say a purge of Quisling's police and armed units may follow as executions and loyalty declarations spread through Norwegian ranks.
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London
U.P
Gereman
Norway
Jonas Lie
Vidkun Quisling
Lie
Gestapo
Quisling
Stockholm
Gunnar Eilifson
Eilifson
Adolf Hitler
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U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
Holy City
Hull, Knox and
Walker
Vella Island
Europe
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