Soviet Push For Second Front In Western Europe Urged
Soviet experts in London urged opening a second front to ease pressure on Red armies in Stalingrad and the Moscow defensive line. Stalin ordered stubborn defense as Siberian troops arrive at Stalingrad, while 3,000 enemy losses reported in three days near Voronezh and the Mozdok area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
London
Stalin
Stalingrad
Marshal von Bock
Mozdok
mid-Caucasus
Novorossisk
Voronezh
Don River
Red
Volga
Inflation Fight Moves Forward With Wage Price Stabilization Plan
Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees approved legislation authorizing President Roosevelt to stabilize wages and prices. Bases are September 15 or August 15, with ceilings limited to protect pre-September levels. Measures set parity floors for key commodities and allow controlled wage increases with exceptions. Existing law maintains 85 percent parity loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House Banking and Currency Committees
Roosevelt
House
Promise of Rubber Supplies For War Effort Stressed
William M. Jeffers, newly named rubber administrator, pledged ample rubber for military and essential civilian needs and stressed rapid action. He endorsed expanding synthetic rubber and continuing research while warning against reducing civilian mobility, noting that keeping wheels turning is vital to the war economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
America
Manpower Control Advocated by Hill in War Bill
Senator Hill of Alabama proposes a bill giving President Roosevelt broad power to coordinate manpower and industry. The measure would allow executive orders designating occupations for non serving citizens, with local draft boards calling workers from nonessential industries to war plant jobs. The resolution advocates universal service and total mobilization of industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Lister Hill
Alabama
Hill
JAP NAVAL THRUST: Bombers drive off Japanese fleet near Tulagi
Allied air forces in the Solomons forced a Japanese battle group northeast of Tulagi to withdraw after a bombing raid that damaged two battleships. The fleet may regroup for a renewed Guadalcanal Tulagi push as MacArthur reports ongoing air attacks on Lae and Japanese supply lines from Buna to Kokoda toward Port Moresby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomons
Tulagi
Guadalcanal-Tulagi
MacArthur
Lae
Buna
Kokoda
Port Moresby
Climate rationing plans weigh midwest east fuel limits
The CFA will consider wide climate differences across 30 central states and the East in determining household fuel oil rations. In Lancashire, a fisherman paid about 8 dollars plus 16 dollars costs for using bread as bait. Britain saved shipping space by crops yield gains. Rio de Janeiro police order Axis nationals including Japanese to register at the alien bureau.
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Central States
CFA
Lancashire
England
Warvest
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Police Alien Bureau
Japan
Bismarck
N. D
Locust Street
Arthur Barnes
New York Central
Buffalo
Mr. Barnes
Kaiser Gets Contract To Build Experimental Planes
Kaiser Henry J. Kaiser and Howard Hughes are authorized to build three experimental supercargo planes for 18 million dollars by the War Production Board. They will not profit on the initial order and must draft plans for a future factory to mass produce the planes if the trial succeeds. A representative expects completion in 18 months. Major General Lewis B. Hershey outlined draft timing for 1943, including calls for single men, married men with and without children, and possible inclusion of 18 and 19 year olds if authorized.
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Henry J. Kaiser
Washington
Kaiser
Howard Hughes
War Production Board
Army
Navy
Hershey
Lewis B. Hershey
Aids
Congress
M. Gross
Charlie McCarthy
Alaska
Roy Shield
Victor Borge
British naval losses described by A V Alexander speech
British losses in the war as outlined by A V Alexander show replacements for four battleships four aircraft carriers and 22 cruisers over 27 months. London reports estimate 200 destroyers including 50 U S vessels added since the war began. Alexander bases a current balance on these figures.
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A. V. Alexander
British Admiralty
Sheffield
Britain
London
United States
Alexander
Marty More
Barham
Prince of Wales
Repulse
Hood
Glorious
Ark Royal
Hermes
Eagle
Royal Oak
Courageous
U S Parachutists in Britain Strengthen Allied Striking Power
Official confirmation from Eisenhower headquarters reveals American parachute troops are in England. They may serve as invasion spearhead or in Commando raids as British paratroops do. Officers receive a $100 monthly bonus, enlisted men $50. Medical reports show under 1 percent accident rate on jumps.
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England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AEF
Britain
U. S
Europe
Parachute Corps
U S Rubber Opens First Synthetic Plant in Connecticut
The U. S. Rubber company has activated its first synthetic rubber plant in New England, located in Connecticut. A cooling water spray envelops the butadiene storage tank to prevent polymerization and guard against external fire.
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U. S. Rubber Company
New England
Connecticut
Nation warned of war losses may reach three million
Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commander of the Second army, warned at the 24th annual American Legion convention in Kansas City that U S war losses could reach three million. He asked if the nation could face such casualties without wavering or talk of stalemate.
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America
Ben Lear
Second Army
American Legion
Kansas City
General Lear
Washington Wheat Price Notable but Bread Costs Rise
Washington readers discuss how wheat price shifts influence bread costs, tracing 1898 to 1914 bakery practices, packaging, labor, and sanitation changes. Experts note wheat must rise substantially to lift loaf price, and public patience with higher bread prices persists as Price Administrator Henderson models stabilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Henderson
Aviation Accidents Show Marked Decrease
The author notes a drop in military plane crashes, cites official data and a stronger safety program. A Washington official shares that accidents are 68 percent lower than in 1950, with rapid fleet growth influencing the rate and a dedicated colonel enforcing strict safety rules to protect aircraft and crews.
Bombing planes seen as lethal WWI successors
Aviation News Committee says postwar bombers outpace prewar observation aircraft. Rockefeller Foundation offers free yellow fever vaccine to government use for armed forces. German foreign workers total about four million with prisoners of war included. Economists project higher dairy cow numbers this year and next.
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America
The
Aviation News Committee
Rockefeller Foundation
Washington DC gossip and Alaska defense notes briefed
A column notes Donald Nelson pressing to fire Guy Holcomb of the Small Business Administration triggers resignation, with praise for Holcomb’s work for small business. It also reports on Senate Armed Services progress in Alaska defenses, bomber range fixes, and rumors about Harry Hopkins and a Freuhauf yacht.
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Donald Nelson
Donald
Washington
Guy Holcomb
Justice Department
Small Business Bureau
Nelson
Holcomb
WPB
Atlanta
United States
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Happy Chandler
Kentucky
Mon Wallgren
Rufus Holman
Oregon
Alaska
Pearth Harbor
Alaskan
U. S
Aleutians
Umnalk Island
Army
Navy
Freuhaut
Detroit
Harry Hopkins
Connecticut
Harry Freuhauf
Notes of an Innocent Bystander and The Magic Lanterns
A curio of 1940s film notes and radio quips reviews the era stars Betty Grable Irene Dunne and Rex Stout jokes while mocking Nazi reports and wartime morale. It blends busy showbiz items with political asides and humorous dispatches from Washington and Broadway.
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Union
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Mies
Auttaket
Fort Moresby
New Guinea
Cape York
Owen Stanley
BUNAS
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU
H Street
Washington, D. C
Arthur
Art
Marshall
Air Force
Bankhage
Berlin
Germany
Mate Aes
John H. Folger
North Carolina
Civil Service Commission
al Indhes
Betty Grable
Victor Mature
Rutherford B. Hayes
Jane Wyman
Jas. Gleason
John Payne
Poland
Rex Stout
Brothers In Congress
Frank Sullivan
Gropper
Mrs. Willoughby
Mary Elizabeth Plummer
Atlantic Monthly
Broadway
Harry Thompson
Cosmopolitan
Sioux City
Constance Moore
Vichy
One Agem
Priesta
the Mirror
Oscar Ewing
Pelley
R. J. Gannon
Fordham
China
Russia
Great Britain
Edward G. Robinson
Dinty Moore
46Th Street
Johnny Broderick
Broderick
Apal
Mr. Robinson
Halifax
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