Waste Fats Collected This Month in Butte
The August disposal drive by Camp Fire Girls will collect waste fats Thursday and Friday in Butte and nearby areas. Residents should place fats in proper containers and use sub depots listed for drop off if not reached by house to house calls.
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Butte
Camp Fire
West Gold
Fred Schreiber
Keokuk
John Dougherty
Edwards
John Hopkins
Caledonia
S. G. Cathrall
North Crystal
Chauncey Peck
West Galena
Agatha Keneally
Arizona
H. G. Hemingway
Wall
Jack Arthur
Shields
A. Selby
East Broadway
Helen McGlynn
Howard
I. D. Hadzor
Empire
J. C. Combe
West Daly
Walkerville
C. R. Griffin
South Washington
D. L. Watkins
West Silver
John Pearson
Pine
Chas. Carle
Princeton
Joe Perusich
Nevada
W. M. Collins
Washington
J. Lyman
Japanese Girls May Join WAC in 1940s Recruitment
Chicago area WRA supervisor Elmer L. Shirrell announced that Japanese American girls will be accepted into the Women's Army Corps starting tomorrow. National enlistments are capped at 500 with 30 slots allocated to Illinois. recruiters are visiting ten West Coast relocation camps to enlist eligible Japanese girls.
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Chicago
U.P
Elmer L. Shirrell
Chicago Area
War Relocation Administration
WAC
Illinois
Shirrell
West Coast
British Ambassador Hoare to report on Franco talks
Sir Samuel Hoare will depart Madrid for London to report on his discussions with Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Foreign Minister Francisco Gomez de Jordana, a move announced Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Samuel Hoare
London
Francisco Franco
Francisco Gomez Dordanayi
Red Forces Take Kharkov From Nazis
Moscow announced Kharkov, Russia’s third largest city and key German defense hub, fell to Soviet forces after a 17 day offensive. A deep Donets river breakthrough north of Izyum aimed to free the basin as German defenders retreated 19 to 22 miles. The operation overran 30 villages including Donetsko Amvrosievka station.
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London
Kharkov
Russia
Moscow
Donets River
Izyum
Donets
Sea of Azov
Red
Donetsko - Amvrosievka
Ukraine
Berlin
War Industries Need Workers
War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt urged moving 2.6 million workers from non essential to war use in 1943 44 with 2.1 million shifts before year end. He cited expanding military and rising production needing replacements and urged careful transfers to match talents and avoids shifts from scarce laundry jobs to other work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Paul V. McNutt
United States Employment Service
McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Congress
William Haber
WMC
Night raids strike Berlin for seventy third time
London reports Allied night bombers hit Berlin in a rapid follow up to Sunday's large strike on a German poison gas factory near Cologne. The raid also sparked more than 100 fires across a broad Rhineland area as British and Canadian planes continued pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Berlin
Cologne
Rhineland
Planning Meet To Open Today For Northwest Water Plan
Governor Ford announces a planning session by the Northwest States Development association advisory committee to draft a long range water resources program for the Columbia river basin. Montana will seek reclamation of 216000 acres in five valleys needing about 1000000 acre feet of water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Northwest
Northwest States Development Association
Sam C. Ford
Missoula
Kalispell
House Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
House
Compton White
Idaho
Ford
Montana
Columbia River Basin
Fred Buck
China and Australia Represented at War Conclave
In Quebec on August 23 1943 Roosevelt Churchill and top US and Allied officials plus Chinese Foreign Minister Soong met for high level talks onPacific strategy. Bracken hinted at a citadel gathering and Churchill planned a major address before leaving Canada. Hopkins and Knox joined the discussions wrapping strategic aims against Japan and Germany.
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Quebec
U.P
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
United States
Canada
Harry L. Hopkins
Mr. Roosevelt
Frank Knox
War Stimson
Soong
China
Warmer Tuesday With Scattered Showers Forecast
Slight uptick in temperatures expected Tuesday and Tuesday evening with scattered showers. Monday’s highs near 75 and a low around 34 degrees.
Poison Gas Plant Heavily Bombed Near Cologne
British and Canadian bombers raided the Rhineland in thick weather, targeting Leverkusen near Cologne, home to a large chemical works for war gas components. Five bombers were lost. Gas storage tanks may have been hit amid clouds of fumes, weather hindered observation, as other raids struck rail and air targets in France and Belgium.
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London
U.P
Rhineland
Leverkusen
Cologne
Air Ministry
France
Belgium
Blazing Air Combat Marks New High In Aerial Gunnery
Allied air operations over Salerno and Naples produced new high levels of gunnery as American Marauders and A-36 Invaders contested about 100 German and Italian fighters. RAF night bombers hit Salerno as Liberators and Halifaxes struck Crotone, while RAF and US forces pressed to disrupt Italy's rail gateways and supply lines amid heavy losses on both sides.
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North Africa
Salerno
Naples
Italy
Foggia
Adriatic
Peninsula
Aversa
Benevento
Battipaglia
Cancello
Villa Literno
NLRB Refuses Reconsider Case in War Labor Ruling
CHICAGO Aug 23 The National Labor Relations Board refused to reconsider denial of a collective bargaining election in the District 50 United Mine Workers case at Allies Chalmers Springfield plant. The ruling marks the board's first policy statement on strike voters under the Smith Connally act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
United Mine Workers of America
Springfield, Ill
Allies - Chalmers Manufacturing Company
NLRB
Induction forecast for pre Pearl Harbor fathers disclosed
Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey outlined that about 446000 pre Pearl Harbor fathers may be inducted by January to meet year end needs. He noted large deferments and labor priorities, stressing occupational deferments for those in war production while assuring readiness to draft fathers if required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Hershey
Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Navy
Key Airstrip Is Goal of Allies
Allied headquarters report jungle troops crossed the last river barrier protecting Salamaua on the New Guinea coast and neared the airstrip as artillery bombarded the Salamaua airdrome. Australian and American forces expanded engagements in the central Solomons while Tokyo claimed a U S invasion of Kolombangara failed.
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Allied
Australia
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Cenetral Solomons
Comneil
Tokyo
U. S
Kolombangara Island
New Georgia
Yanks and Canadians Expand Aleutian Spread Toward Japan
Allied forces push from Kiska to Segula and reinforce positions on Kiska. Segula, 25 square miles, reported landed with no Japanese found. Submarine base at Kiska yielded three midget subs and partial demolition attempts, while plans turn the area into a northern advance route toward Paramushiro and the Kurile chain with bombing strikes already delivering on Paramushiro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Japan
Segula
Paramushiro
Kurile Islands
Aleutians
Kurile
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ivan Tarasov
Tarasov
Eugene Savitsky
International Radiophoto
Donets Basin
Blast Berlin
Munda
Solomons
U. S. Marine Corps
International Soundphoto
Pacific
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