Invasion Talk Sparks Aleutian Propaganda Debate
A Vichy report claiming American landings on Kiska Island prompted naval officials to deny confirmation while weighing the possibility that the radio claim aimed to probe enemy response. The piece notes heavy July bombardments, weather timing, and past Attu actions as context for a near-term invasion decision.
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Attu
Kiska
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Gertrude Cove
Kiska Harbor
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Aleutian Island
Aleutians
Kiske Harbor
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Texas Prefs Go for Gnats In Big Way
Austin based University of Texas houses the world’s largest gnat collection with about 1,000,000 insects in a climate controlled lab. Generous funding from a $35,000 Rockefeller grant supports research on chromosomes, evolution, and hybridization using gnats and flies collected from North America and worldwide. A fly catching bus has logged 33,000 miles, aiding studies that include M-ray chromosome effects. Researchers plan a new trapping tour to southern Mexico and near Monterrey.
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University of Texas
Rockefeller Foundation
the University
Florida
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Utah
Yellowstone Park
Grand Canyon
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Mexico
Texas Big Bend
Korea
Japan
Hawaii
Canada
Europe
South Africa
Texas
Monterrey
First military submarine and its maker
The first military submarine used for war was the American Turtle, built in 1777 by David Bushnell of Saybrook Connecticut.
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David Bushnell
Saybrook
Conn
Harbor Dad Faces Draft As War Looms
War Manpower Chief McNutt urged boosts to dependents allowances and outlined proposals to aid families if fathers are drafted. He noted current payments total 62 for one child and 10 more per additional child, with Senate plans to raise that to 68 and 21 respectively. Local boards were told to advance occupational deferments and scrutinize deferrals to keep nonessential men from being drafted while age-group policies remain under armed forces guidance.
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Paul V. McNutt
Army
Navy
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McNatt
United States
Taft
R-O
Saratoga Officer Meets Senators in London Tour
Capt. Lohnas H. Knapp, son of Dr. Thenuse Snapp of & Springs, spoke with Sen. James M. Mead during a dying tour of air bases near London. Knapp, recently injured, and four other senators toured Flying Fortress crews, bomber stations, and a Kassel raid briefing reenactment, hearing praise for efforts in the big league theater.
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Lohnas H. Knapp
Thenuse Snapp
Springs
James M. Mead
New York
London
Knapp
Kassel
Senators
Millions Aid China Relief Effort Through A R C Grants
The American Advisory Committee reports funds raised by United China Relief in America totaled over 5.74 million dollars for the year ending March 31, 1943. The program, in five categories medicine and public health education child welfare disaster relief and economic reconstruction, directs grants to emergency medical services training schools national health administration public health work and medical colleges. Education grants totalled 1 071 for Christian universities and affiliated schools aiding students during wartime.
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Chungking US
China
Stedicine Ams
Emergency Medical Service Training School
National Health Administration
National Medical Colleges
International Peace Hospitals
Friends Ambulance Unit
Aid and Grants Reported to Private Schools and Welfare groups
The report notes aid to private schools and facilities including student aid, with costs for child welfare projects at 878 dollars and grants to the National Association for Refugee Children and other child training schools in the northwest. Total disaster relief spending reached 1.30888 million dollars. Grants extended to soldiers welfare groups and Christian institutions reprosariums. Chinese industrial cooperatives received 550 thousand dollars.
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A. R
National Association For Refugee Children
Northwest
Ballston WAC To Be Officer Candidate At Des Moines
Shirley J. Knight of Ballston Spa the first Fort Devens WAC to ship overseas service ribbons has been selected to attend the WAC officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines Iowa While attached to a medical detachment with the army engineers in Newfoundland she married John S Knight a writer for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve Mrs Knight is daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward P Bousquet Bailston Spa Her service in Newfoundland earned the American defense ribbon and the overseas ribbon of the North Atlantic Division.
Sea Water Device Aids Castaways From Caltech Team
Pasadena scientists at the California Institute of Technology under Dr. Alex Goetz developed a system to render sea water drinkable for shipwrecked persons. Two small chemical blocks and four plastic bags suffice to equip an airplane lifeboat or raft to produce drinking water.
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California Institute of Technology
Alex Goetz
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