Soviets Push On Kharkov With Major Gains
Soviet forces struck across the Donets River below Kharkov and captured Zmyev twenty miles south of the city in a decisive assault killing about 1,200 Germans. Northwestern and western advances near Kharkov brought seven miles of gains, 2,000 more German deaths, and the capture of over fifty villages as Red Army units press a semi encirclement. Red Star urged Allied invasion to shorten the war while noting Sicily failed to divert German divisions.
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Donets
Kharkov
Zmyev
Ukraine
Moscow
Red Army
Zeyev
Zmnyev
Kharkov-Lazovaya
Kharkov-Krasnograd
Poltava
Bryansk
Spas Demensk
Beryezova
Malinka
Dnieper
Red Star
Europe
Russia
Sicily
Big RAF Bombers Hit Reich In Major Night Raid
In a climax to nearly 3,000 American and British warplane sorties in 24 hours the RAF big bombers struck Peenemunde the Nazi center for aircraft radiolocation and armament. US AAF said raids across Europe set a new record for sorties and targets with over Schweinfurt and Regensburg. The 36 Fortresses over Germany were the day’s high, with 100 fought down by fighters and Thunderbolts.
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Italan
Schweinfurt
Regensburg
Germany
Peenemuende
United States Army Air Force
United States Army
Thunderboltg
Africa
WLB Denies UAW Membership Dues Checkoff at Chrysler
The War Labor Board refused to grant maintenance of union membership and dues checkoff at Chrysler Corp in Detroit. The ruling involved CIO United Auto Workers and a large corporation, with labor members joining the decision despite a panel recommendation to grant the checkoff.
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Washington
Dpi
War Labor Board
Chrysler Corp
Detroit
C.I.O
United Auto Workers
Scoreboard summary of 1920s Baseball and Baseball Scores
American league and national league game snippets list multiple matchups with innings noted. Includes Chicago, Brooklyn, Pittsburg, New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, Elmira, Albany, Wilkes-Barre, Springfield, Hartford, Scranton, Binghamton, Utica. Highlights include 10 and 14 inning ties and decisive scores such as Chicago 4 Washington 2 and Philadelphia 6 St. Louis 3.
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W.vvaryn
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
New York
a-New York
Boston
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Philadelpha
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Elmira
Albany
Wilkes-Barre
Springfield
Hartford
Scranton
Binghamton
Utica
Spanish War Veterans Elect Doyle National Commander
Doyle 69 of Indianapolis nominated unanimously for national commander in chief of United Spanish War Veterans at the 45th encampment. He served in the Philippines and later with Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, father of General Douglas MacArthur.
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Beston
Guy A. Doyle
Indianapoli
United Spanish War Veterans
Doyle
Pulppines
Arthur MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
President Arrives at Citadel in Quebec for War Conference
President Roosevelt arrives in a motorcar at the Citadel in Quebec for conferences with British and Canadian war leaders. The Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, sits beside him as the honor guard passes. Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks behind the car.
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Earl of Athlone
Canada
Citadel
Quebec
Winston Churchill
England
Allied radio urges Europe to prepare for liberation day
The Allied controlled United Nations radio at Algiers told occupied Europe to ready for the day "you will hear the call of the Allied command" on the eve of the continent's invasion. The AP noted the next blow's exact location would not be revealed, but the occupied country first to welcome liberation would be notified at the last minute. The broadcast, while expecting metropolitan France, spoke of Greece to Norway awaiting freedom and said a new phase of liberation had begun.
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London
United Nations
Algiers
Europe
Ngh
Associated Press
France
Greece
Norway
Eden Arrives For Conference In Ottawa Visit
The arrival of Anthony Eden from London and Roosevelt's Ottawa visit plan signal two political undertones. Eden arrives with Helen and Sir Alexander Cadogan aboard a landing float, while Cordell Hull may join negotiations. Roosevelt and Churchill will discuss international politics with Stalin in mind, though staff limits temper immediate decisions.
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Quebec
Anthony Eden
London
Roosevelt
Ottawa
Canada
St. Lawrence
Helen
Alexander Cadogan
Brenden Bracken
Cordell Hull
Churchill
State Department
Foreign Office
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Eden
Stalin
French Patriots Intensify Sabotage Against Nazis
Reports from Bern say French underground actions against German requisitions are escalating as gun resistant acts spread through France. Incendiarism targets crops and threshing machines, with even flour mills destroyed to hinder Nazi grain access.
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Bern
Switzerland
Lyon
Office of War Information
London
France
OWI
Limoges
Vichy
Lausanne
Gasoline stocks overdrawn hindering ban lift
Secretary Ickes Petroleum Administration for War said East Coast civilians overdrew their gasoline allowance risking the removal of the pleasure driving ban. Stocks fell 22 700 barrels per day to 345 percent of normal, with military demands rising and PAW allotments at 342 000 barrels daily for civilian use.
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Washington
Ickes
Ralph K. Davies
Office of Price Administration
Davies
PAW
Rocky Mountains
Anthracite Parley Called to Set New Wage Terms
The War Labor Board took over the 80,000 mine workers wage dispute after twenty weeks without a contract. A hearing is set in Washington for Monday with John L. Lewis and Thomas Kennedy invited, while operators push for a 64 cent daily increase and the United Mine Workers demand at least 1.20 dollars more per day. The board noted changes would wait until mines return to private operation unless Ickes or the union requests changes.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Anthracite
War Labor Board
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Thomas Kennedy
Walter Gordon Merritt
Lloyd K. Garrison
WLB
Harold L. Ickes
Expand Postwar Building Program
The New York State Board of Regents, after approving a $36 million postwar education building program, added $7.396 million in new items. The funds cover $5.619 million for the State College of Agriculture at Ithaca and $1.777 million for the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva to develop food processing advances.
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New York
New York State Board of Regents
State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Geneva
Minutes Havoc: U S Raid Dismantles German Sub Base
A Norwegian traveler compilation reports that three years of work on the Trondheim Norway submarine base were largely undone in ten minutes during the United States Flying Fortress raid on July 24. The account highlights swift, decisive Allied action and substantial damage to enemy fortifications.
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Stockholm
Trondheim
Norway
Man Killed in Plant Explosion Near Decatur
One person died and ten were injured in a blast at the Oak Ordnance plant at Tilopolis about twenty miles east of Decatur. Maurice Pryor, 22, of Springfield, was killed. Betty Cooke, 19, and Evelyn Davis, 32, both of Springfield, were taken to St. John's Hospital with serious injuries.
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Decatur
Oak Ordnance
Tiliopolis
Here
Maurice Pryor
Springfield
Betty Cooke
Evelyn Davis
St. John's Hospital
Service Men To Get Ration Book Three
Military personnel may obtain war Ration Book Three from the Office of Price Administration issued yesterday. Shoe stamps will be removed and service members can receive shoe purchase certificates from the government.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Left Wing of A.L.P Wins Kings County Primary
An unofficial Brooklyn Board of Elections survey shows the left wing of the American Labor Party defeating the right wing by 470 committee seats in Kings County. The left elected 1,975 members to 1,505 for the right. The left also seeks a referee to run the county committee meeting in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The left retains control in Manhattan while the right holds dominance in the Bronx.
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New York GP
Board of Elections
American Labor Party
Kings County
Brooklyn
A.L
New York State
Supreme Court
Thomas c. Kaiden
Manhattan
Bronx
Mine Indictments Still Stand
Ditisburg UP The Smith Connally Anti Strike Law cleared a major hurdle when Judge Schoonmaker overruled motions to quash indictments against thirty miners. Indicted by a grand jury for wildcat strikes in southwestern Pennsylvania's soft coal fields during June and July, the act passed June 25 over a presidential veto. Trial of 28 charged with conspiracy and 2 with coercion opens Sept. 1.
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Ditisburg
Smith-Connally
F. P. Schoonmaker
Southwestern
Pennsylvania
Smoke Screens Credited With Saving Lives In Sicily Landing
Major General William N Porter credits smoke screens used by the Army Chemical Warfare Service in the Sicily invasion with causing few casualties. The statement highlights protective measures that aided troops during the landings.
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Boston
Army Chemical Warfare
Sicily
William N. Porter
Free Training Despite Rich Job Market
Washington reports War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt urged regional directors to push war goods producers to pay learners' wages to trainees if needed. The goal is to attract workers to free training for skilled labor despite plentiful jobs.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Axis Sicily defeat and Allied buildup promised
Allied commanders announced major offensives in Sicily as deaths and captures for Axis surpassed 167,000. Eisenhower said the Seventh and Eighth Armies are ready to strike, with both sides consuming heavy losses and Allied planes targeting coastal roads, rail lines, and ports to trap retreating Axis units.
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North Africa
Sicily
Eighth
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pal
Messina Strait
Eisenhower
U. S
Seventh Army
Eighth Army
Harold Alexander
Messina
Italy
Battipaglia
Naples
Castrovillare
Ansguola
Badoglio Admits Loss of Sicily
Bern Switzerland reports Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio acknowledged that Allied forces forced the Axis to abandon Sicily. In a three minute radio speech he urged Italians to accept the outcome while signaling a possible future return for Sicily under Italian leadership.
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Bern
Switzerland
UPI
Sicily
Pietro Badoglio
Wartorn Isle
Italy
Vittorio Orlando
Sicly
Badoglio
Union Officer Dies in New York At 37
Elas Reisberg 37 vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for 21 years died yesterday. His body will lie in state at the LLGWU auditorium before his funeral tomorrow.
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New York
Ration Book Four in Offing by OPA as War Prep
The Office of Price Administration announced no date for Book Four registration. Edward F. Stegen, a regional official, said national registration would occur between October 20 and November 1, with issuance possibly around year’s start or December. Details on whether registration will be via schools or direct mail remain unsettled. Book Four will reuse red and blue stamps for meats and similar items, like Book Two, and follow Book Three’s safeguard role.
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Stration
Edward F. Stegen
Chicago
OPA
Planes Collide Killing Children in San Diego Crash
Two P-38 Lightning interceptors collided above San Diego sending one plane nose down toward the Linda Vista housing project. Three children perished along with an Army pilot. Identified youths were Nicholas Schumacher 5, Margaret Schumacher 3, and Kathleen May Long 5, all residents connected to local families. The crash occurred while planes maneuvered with a formation over the city.
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San Diego
Cal
Linda Vista
Lloyd F. Jones
Nicholas Schumacher
Margaret Schumacher
W.A. Schumacher
Hettinger
N. D
Kathleen May Long
Clifford Long
San Deigo
Wewak Air Strikes Devastate Japanese Forces in Pacific
Allied and Australian air forces hit Wewak New Guinea destroying or crippling large parts of the Japanese air strength. Fifty plus ships damaged or sunk and three cargo vessels set ablaze. A separate victory at Vella Gulf in the Solomons saw Japanese destroyers sunk and a cruiser lost.
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Pacific
Japan
Wewak
New Guinea
Solomons
Borneo
Salamaua
Vella Gulf
Vela Lavella Island
Man Held for Imprisoning Girl
New York UP Thomas Brennan forty five pleaded innocent in Long Island City Court on endangering the health of a minor after police said he broke into a blocked shed and found his 13 year old stepdaughter who said she had been imprisoned for punishment for 18 days. Brennan released without bail for further hearing tomorrow. The girl Catherine Fitzpatrick was taken to the Queens Children’s Society Shelter. Detective Richard Scott said she was found after neighbors called police and told him she had been taken from the shed only to do the family washing, but she was fed and had bread and tea today.
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New York
Thomas Brennan
Long Island
Brennan
Catherine Fitzpatrick
Queens Children’s Society
Richard Scott
Catherine
German general Wolfs gans Von Chamuier Ghscinski dies in accident
A German news agency dispatch reported that General Wolfs gans Von Chamuier Ghscinski of the Nazi air force was killed in a fatal accident. The message was transmitted for publication within Germany yesterday.
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New York
Wolfs Gans von Chamuier-Ghscinski
Air Force
Dr. By
Germany
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