Roosevelt to Meet Churchill in Canada for Talks
President Roosevelt will travel to Quebec for talks with Prime Minister Churchill to draft blueprints for Allied armament against the Axis. A press ban on the site has been lifted and a joint press conference is planned. Stalin met American and British envoys in Moscow as preparations proceed. American and British staff chiefs join leaders in advance discussions.
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Winston Churchill
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Joseph Stalin
Molotov
Food Sets Pace First Substantial Cost Decline Reported
Washington reports a 2 percent fall in food prices driving a summer decline in the cost of living. Frances Perkins says OPA cuts in meat and cheaper vegetables reduce the index by mid-July, though clothing prices rose. The July 15 index stands 123.8 percent of the 1935-39 base, about 5 percent above September 1942 and 23 percent above January 1941.
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Pearl Harbor
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Office of Price Administration
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Poland
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
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OPA
Rick Is Back from Moscow Inspection Tour
Captain Edward Rickenbacker returned to Washington from an inspection tour abroad, including a June trip to Moscow, and reported to Secretary of War Stimson at once.
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Edward ¥. Rickenbacker
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Moscow
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Lewis Entry Is Bypassed By A F L
The American Federation of Labor executive council deferred the United Mine Workers of America readmission to its October convention without recommendation. President William Green said U M W A could not be seated at the 1943 convention, as federation books close August 31 and paid-up membership is required for voting.
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American Federation of Labor Executive Council
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Progressive Mine Workers of America
William Green
Baby Kidnaper May Be Bigamist
Long Beach California reports Woodrow Morgan, a hospital worker, says he is the legal husband of Mrs. Catherine Wright who is held in Albany Oregon for kidnapping two day old Judith Gurney. Morgan claims a prior Honolulu marriage to Wright and no divorce or annulment exists. He implicates Sergt. Jesse Wright of the Army as her present husband.
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Honolulu
Byrd Seeks Two Year Trial Of Sales Tax
Senator Byrd of Virginia proposed a two year trial of a sales tax. He announced that a committee would begin hearings on September 1 focusing on Army and Navy outlays as part of reducing non essential expenditures while seeking to cut costs and raise additional taxes.
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National and American League Scoreboard Summary
Baseball scoreboard shows multiple games across leagues. Brooklyn beat Cincinnati and Philadelphia split results with Pittsburg while Chicago routed Boston and Boston fell to Chicago in another. New York and St. Louis played 10 innings, with additional American matchups including St. Louis over New York and Detroit over Washington. Cleveland swept Philadelphia while Philadelphia lost to Cleveland and Boston crushed Chicago, with Eastern play listing Hartford Albany results and a curfew halted game. Scranton split with Elmira and Binghamton edged Wilkes Barre. Springfield defeated Pica. other scores noted.
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New Raid Plan Hits Nuernberg City in Night Bombing
British heavy bombers pounded Nuernberg with more than 1,500 tons of explosives in a shift to strike Germany's finished products sector. The raid followed a major attack on Mannheim Ludwigshafen, as RAF officials outlined a new phase targeting manufacturing and consumer goods amid fading German material flow. Sixteen bombers were lost as Nuernberg’s defenses were lighter than Hamburg’s, but fighters fought across southern Germany.
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Hamburg
Bombers in Simulated Air Attack Test Across State
A mock air blitz last night involved a flight of B 25 Mitchell bombers over the state as part of a civil defense drill. The sequence ran from 3 17 p m to 10 07 p m with blue and red alerts, alarms, and an all clear. Royal Simons 26 faced blackout law charges and was jailed on bail pending arraignment.
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Amsterdam
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Gerald
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James J. Madden
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W. Irving Walsh
Frank Connery
Police Department
Barkley declines Wheeler draft revival request
Senate leader Alben Barkley says he cannot reconvene Congress before September 14 to address pre Pearl Harbor draft bills. He notes the recess ends two weeks before October 1, when the draft order would take effect, allowing Congress time to act if it wishes.
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Burton K. Wheeler
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Wheeler
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England Raided London by Nazi Bombers Again
Nazi bombers conducted two raids on southern England today, delivering low dives with flares and oil bombs. The strikes were the sharpest in weeks, causing multiple casualties as Allied air offensives tilt the balance this summer.
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Black Marketeers Steal 46 Hereford Steers in Kane County
In Aurora Tl Forties head of Hereford steers vanished from Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Hammond’s Kane County farm. Sheriff Powell and farm manager Ralph Hounshell blamed black market operators. The steers, each over 1000 pounds, were left grazing in a field and the pasture fencing remained intact.
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Hammond
Chicago
Krebs to Report for Military Service at Camp Upton
Richard Julius Herman Krebs writing as Jan Valtin is ordered to report for military service August 26 at Camp Upton on Long Island New York. The author of Out of the Night has been summoned to begin duty.
Randazzo Pressure Grows as Allied North Africa Drive Advances
Allied forces push through coastal flanks toward Randazzo Sicily while British and American units press along the Cesara Randazzo road. British Eighth Army nears Mt Etna east shore, with patrols from Guardia to Riposto narrowing gaps toward the Italian coast. Capo Orlando area gains and evacuation signs appear as Allied air power intensifies, targeting ships and barges around Milazzo and Milazzo harbor amid a broader Sicilian breakout.
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Memphis Belle Now from Texas Marriage News
Asheville North Carolina Major Robert K Morgan pilot of the Memphis Belle said yesterday he and Miss Patricia Jane Huckins of San Antonio Texas would marry next month. Morgan said Huckins is the daughter of Lieut Col and Mrs Joseph Huckins of San Antonio. The Memphis Belle was named for a Memphis girl who after the crew’s return announced their engagement had ended.
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Glider crash prompts suspensions in Washington
The War Department said faulty manufacture and inspection caused the St. Louis glider crash that killed ten. Two Army Air Forces inspectors, Charles Do Latty and William A Williams, were temporarily suspended. Grounding prevented similar gliders from Robertson Aircraft Corp. parts from the same sub‑contractors. An A. F. M. Material Command probe reviews inspector responsibility and possible discipline.
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City Doomed As Russians Reach Dnieper Bend Near Kharkov
Russian forces closed to within 93 miles of the Dnieper bend and cut the Kharkov Poltava railway at Vodyanaya, narrowing the escape gap from Kharkov to about sixty miles. They captured Akhtyrka after heavy street fighting, with 1,600 Germans killed and 36 tanks destroyed. Moscow said 127 German planes were down in two days as the front stretched from Smolensk to Kharkov.
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Trap closes as Japs hold out at Bairoko Harbor
Allied headquarters report heavy fighting as Japanese forces remain entrenched at Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island. Munda air field, captured August 5, fell to units of the 25th 87th and 43rd Army and Marine forces. Liberator bomber sinks a vessel in a small enemy convoy near Kavieng New Ireland with heavy convoy losses from strafing. Bombing on Woodlark Island ineffective. Allied air forces sink 18 more supply barges off New Guinea and damage others in ongoing offshore strikes.
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Woodlark Island
New Guinea
South Pacific
Bloom Urges Dropping Anti Chinese Exclusion Act
Chairman Bloom of the House Foreign Relations Committee urged repealing the 61 year old Chinese Exclusion Acts. He argued China should receive recognition as an ally for its fight against the Axis and supported admitting 105 Chinese under the existing system. In New York a trolley car crash on Pelton Street injured four and sent 41 others to hospitals after brakes failed. a bystander pulled the trolley pole down to stop it.
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Palestine Ruling Is Predicted by U S Representative
Representative Emanuel Celler said trusted sources expect a joint Foreign Office and State Department statement to end discussion on the Arabian-Jewish question in Palestine. He said the statement would effectively accept the MacDonald white paper of 1939 limiting Jewish admission to 75,000 for five years.
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One man Army In Jap Prison
relatives learned Chicago Pi Capt Arthur W Wermuth known as the one man army in Bataan is safe and well in a Japanese prison camp The postal card from Prison Camp 10 Philippines states he is in good health and sends regards to his family
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