War Board Rejects Lewis Bid for Underground Travel
The War Labor Board voted eight to four against granting portal-to-portal pay for United Mine Workers leader John Lewis in the Illinois Coal Operators Association contract. The board approved other terms, including time and a half for the eighth hour, while miners stay on a seven hour day excluding travel time.
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War Labor Board
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U.M.W
Illinois Coal Operators Association
WLB
Matthew Woll
A.P.S
William H. Davis
Illinois
Congress
Illinois Coal Operators
Southwest Pacific forces poised for stronger blows says Patterson
Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson with Gen. MacArthur’s staff stated that allied offensives in the Solomons and New Guinea are pushing toward surrender. He cited monthly plane production surpassing 7,000 and noted growing striking power sent to the Southwest Pacific as battles at Bairoko Salamaua and nearby positions continue.
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Southwest Pacific War Zone
William 8. Knudsen
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New Guinea
Salamaua
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Kula Gulf
Hirohito Pleads for Greater War Production
The Tokyo radio quoted Emperor Hirohito urging the nation to increase output to raise fighting strength. The OWI noted broadcasts described audiences with industry leaders to boost production and denied Chinese reports that Admiral Mineichi Koga was killed in action.
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Tokyo Radio
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Office of War Information
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Mineichi Koga
Isoroku Yamamoto
Betty Grable Plans Temporary Screen Hiatus for Motherhood
Betty Grable announced she will retire from the screen after her current film to focus on motherhood. The 26 year old star, married to trumpeter Harry James in Las Vegas, expects a baby next spring and expresses happiness. She previously wed Jackie Coogan, now in the army air forces. James was divorced in Mexico from Louise Tobin shortly before their July marriage.
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Betty Grable
Betty
Harry James
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Jackie Coogan
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Miss Grable
James
Mexico
Louise Tobin
Maisky Reported Arriving in Teheran on Trip
The German controlled Paris radio said Ivan Maisky recently replaced as Russian ambassador to London arrived in Teheran. The report, not yet confirmed by other sources, gave no explanation for the visit. Maisky is now serving as a vice commissar for foreign affairs.
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Paris
Ivan Maisky
Teheran
Maisky
Red Army presses on at Kharkov as Poltava goal drawn
Soviet communique says the Red Army advances south and west of Kharkov despite German reserves. German retreat grows toward rout with stocks of war material abandoned. In Donets and near Izyum heavy fighting continues as forces move toward Bryansk.
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London
Red Army
Kharkov
Poltava
Dnieper
Moscow
Kiev
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Izyum
Bryansk
Condition Improves After Mayo Hospital Operation
From Rochester Minnesota. Harry Wilson manager of the Fargo Wilson Wells store had an operation August 13 at Mayo hospital. His condition is reported improved.
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Minn
Harry Wilson
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Mayo Hospital
Heart Attack Fatal To Jack Kinney
Jack Kinney 89, operator of a Twin Falls wholesale business, died at a local hospital from a heart attack. He arrived at the hospital late yesterday and the body was taken to Twin Falls. Funeral services will be held there later this week. survivors include his widow Georgia Kinney.
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Jack Kinney
Twin Falls
Georgia Kinney
Legion Speaker Attacks Lewis and Policies at Idaho Falls
Roane Waring, national commander of the American Legion, lambasted John L. Lewis and Henry Wallace during a public talk at the Idaho department convention in Idaho Falls. He urged readiness for postwar challenges, warned against idealistic pacifism, and defended an American nationalist stance in world affairs.
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Idaho Falls
Roane Waring
Memphis
American Legion
U.M.W
John L. Lewis
Henry Wallace
Legion
Idaho Department
Waring
America
Raiders Bomb Naples Set Cruiser Afire
Allied air forces attack southern Italy with dive bombers and fighters, hitting Naples area targets. A U S A-36 dive bombers score two direct hits on an Italian cruiser off the south coast, igniting a blaze as RAF and RCAF planes bomb steel works and rail yards at Torre Annunziata.
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North Africa
Italy
Middle East
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Sapri
Gulf of Policastro
Castrovillari
Sibari
RAF
Torre Annunziata
Gulf of Naples
Roosevelt Announces 75 Percent Food Allocation to Civilians
President Roosevelt told Americans civilians will receive 75 percent of the nation’s food production for the current fiscal year. A quarterly lend-lease report to Congress attributes shortages to higher consumption by civilians and armed forces, not to lend-lease shipments abroad, with civilians getting about 1935–39 levels on average.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Russia
War Food Administration
WFA
U. S
Idahoan Receives Medal for Naval Heroism in Japan Waters
Washington announces decoration for Emerial A. McMurtrey 23 pharmacist's mate during submarine patrols in Japanese waters. He is son of Wiley McMurtrey of Mountain Home Idaho.
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Washington
Navy
A. McMurtrey
Wiley McMurtrey
Mountain Home
Axis Crisis Deepens as Germans Face Uprising in Denmark
Berlin reports describe Himmler's interior ministry move as tightening home front discipline while anti Nazi sentiment grows in Germany. In Denmark, 5000 protesters march with Allied flags and Danish and Norwegian troops pour into Copenhagen to quell riots and sabotage as shops are looted and Danish cities declare emergencies.
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Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Germany
Berlin
Himmier
Transocean News
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Hamburg
Stockholm
Denmark
Odense
Copenhagen
Norway
Fire Hits Warehouse at Ogden Depot
A blaze struck a signal corps warehouse at the Utah army service forces depot in Ogden destroying one bay. Col. Roy D. Burdick said fire walls and doors kept the fire contained and responders halted spread.
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Ogden
Signal Corps
Utah Army Service Forces Depot
Roy D. Burdick
Pocatellan Urges Gamblers Take Work or Be Drafted
A Pocatello resident and naval range engineer urged action to curb wartime gambling and boost labor. He reported hundreds of men in Pocatello and Blackfoot frequenting gaming hubs, called for workers or conscription, and said gun range work resumes Monday as high school labor declines. He stressed public demand to redirect men from clubs to war effort and noted challenges selling war bonds amid gambling venues.
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Pocatello
Arco
the Tribune
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Sicily
Bingham County
Russia Plans Peace Rule
Washington reports circulate the Soviet embassy text asserting Moscow seeks a leading role in postwar world organization and opposes a united Europe or a Europe split into federations and blocs. The piece, from War and the Working Class, highlights the USSR’s stance against Western plans and its aim to shape postwar order.
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Moscow
United States of Europe
Europe
Soviet Union
Wealthy heir Tommy Manville weds Marie Ainsworth in secret
Tommy Manville, a wealthy asbestos heir, married Marie Sunny Ainsworth, 19, a Matagorda Texas showgirl, in Justice Louis A Valente's office. It was Manville's seventh marriage and the bride's third, occurring two weeks after a prior broken engagement announcement.
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Tommy Manville
Marie Marie
Sunny” Ainsworth
Matagorda
Texas
Supreme Court
Louis A. Valente
Manville
Justice Valente
Editor's Father Dies in Fairview Utah
Amasa Bernard Cox 82 longtime Fairview farmer died Tuesday. Survived by son A. Tra Cox editor of the Soda Springs Sun and a sister Mrs Phena Pigwell of Jerome. Funeral plans not listed.
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Utah
A. Tra Cox
Soda Springs Sun
Amasa Bernard Cox
Phena Pigwell
Jerome
Roosevelt urges Hitler to surrender now at Quebec address
President Roosevelt spoke from Ottawa about the Quebec conference, offering Germany, Italy and Japan a chance to surrender now. He warned that if Nazi leaders had attended, they would learn surrender pays better now than later and touted US Canadian friendship.
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Roosevelt
Canada
Hitler
Quebec
War Council
Europe
Peace Tower
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Ptattad Minte
Minter Churchil
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Italy
Japan
Russian advances threaten Kharkov front in renewed offensives
AP dispatches from London report Soviet high command claims capture of 60 positions including Zenkov, 75 miles northwest of Kharkov, in ongoing Kharkov sector fighting. The bulletin follows Moscow radio coverage monitored for details of battlefield gains and troop movements.
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Kharkov
Zenkov
High Command
Moscow
Monitor
Retail Bureau Meets Pocateillo Merchants
The Retail bureau meets at 10 45 a m Thursday at the chamber of commerce to arrange an entertainment program for the Idaho Educational association fifth district meeting set for October 8 and 9. The fifth district TEA covers seven southeastern Idaho counties.
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Pocateillo Merchants Retail Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Idaho Educational Association
Idaho
Ships Return To Berlin See Big Fires
RAF Mosquito squadrons struck Berlin again last night and found fires burning amid smoke. American Flying Fortresses hit a Bordeaux aircraft plant en route to Britain from North Africa after Regensburg raid. A German report claimed minor damage from light bombing while Paris region raids killed 25 and wounded 100. today marks the third anniversary of the first RAF Berlin raid.
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France
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Regensburg
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Arrest Bates Nazi Plots Detected in Detroit Munitions District
FBI arrests include Beauteous Grace Buchanan Dineen 34 and Theresa Wassertauer Behrens among four women and two men tied to an Allied spy plot aimed at U S munitions centers. Bonds set at 50000 dollars each for examination next month. One suspect, Bertrand Steuart Hoffmen, held in New York custody.
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Nazi Germany
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Germany
J. Edgar Hoover
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Fred William Thomas
United States
J. Stanley
Bertrand Steuart Hoffmen
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