Russians Break Through Near Sevsk In Major Offensive
Russian forces overran Sevsk and twenty other localities south of Bryansk as part of a broad summer offensive. Moscow reported over 6,000 German dead and 700 captured with a hard hit on Kharkov, Pltava, and surrounding districts. Soviet bombardments targeted air bases and tank concentrations as lines shifted toward the Dnieper corridor.
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Moscow
Hiev
Dnieper
Levsk
Monitor
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Poltava
Kotelva
Zenkov
Stalingrad
Soviet Generals Win Promotions Amid Victory News
Moscow radio announced Col. Gen Andrei Yeremenko seven time wounded Stalingrad hero was raised to full general. Also promoted to full general were Vassiliy Sokolovsky, former chief of staff to Marshal Timoshenko, and Alexey Antonov. They had been colonel general.
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London
Moscow
Andrei Ivanvich Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Vassiliy Sokolovsky
Semeon Timoshenko
Western Front
Alexey Antonov
Bar Association Admits Negro to National Group
Chicago reports that Pi Judge James S. Watson of the New York City municipal court was elected to membership in the American Bar Association. He becomes the first Negro admitted in many years, as the 66th annual convention ended with a resolution that race creed or color should not determine membership.
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Chicago
James 5S. Watson
New York City
American Bar Association
Board of Governors
Association
No Washers Yet Washington Needs War Push Delays
Washington sources say GFI Washing machine producers await CBP orders and remain paused after War Production Board guidance. Industry insiders expect a delay into next year as civilian production remains suspended.
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Washington
GFI
War Production Board
National scoreboard shows ties and a blank schedule
National: Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 3, St. Louis 2. Only games scheduled. American: St. Louis 3, Detroit 1, Cleveland 6, Chicago 2. Eastern: Springfield at Albany postponed, Elmira at Wilkes-Barre postponed, Manchester at Scranton postponed.
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Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
St. Louis
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Detroit
Cleveland
Springfield
Albany
Elmim
Wilkes-Barre
Maghamton
Scranton
General Gillespie To Stay At Arsenal Helm Despite Retirement Age Order
The War Department said Brig. Gen. Alexander G. Gillespie will remain commandant of Watervliet Arsenal despite reaching the usual retirement age. Born August 19 1881 in Gaines Michigan he is 62 and had been slated for retirement September 1. Exceptional officers like him are being retained when replacement is difficult.
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Arsenal
War Department
Alexander G. Gillespie
Watervliet Arsenal
Watervliet
Gaines
Mich
Adjutant Generals Office
De Marigny Silent As Hearing Ends In Bahamas Court
Alfred De Marigny, bearded and quiet, listened to prosecutors link him with the murder of Sir Harry Oakes as the preliminary hearing stretched into a delay to allow one defense witness. Dr Ulrich Oberwarth, prison physician at arrest, may be unavailable in October. Magistrate Field kept the hearing open while weighing if the case warrants a jury trial.
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Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
de Marigny
Godfrey Higgs
Higgs
Ulrich Oberwarth
Oberwarth
Sir Harry
F.E. Field
John Herbert Anderson
Bahamas General Trust
Directed Vast Expansion At Wa tervliet Arsenal
General Gillespie, named commandant of the Wa terlriet Arsenal in 1940, oversaw rapid growth from a few hundred workers to over five thousand, with new buildings including the world’s largest cannon producing plant. The post’s manufacturing space doubled and the grounds became notably scenic. Gillespie, West Point graduate, counted Stilwell and MacArthur among his contemporaries.
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Watervliet Arsenal
General Gillespie
Arsenal
Military Academy
West Point
Joe” Stilwell
Douglas MacArthur
Gillespie
Prime Minister Churchill Plans Washington Visit
The announcement that Prime Minister Churchill will travel to Washington next week sparked speculation of talks with President Roosevelt on governance in liberated countries. Churchill and Mrs. Churchill and their daughter Mary have been fishing near Quebec since Wednesday and will return for his radio address Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern War Time, broadcast to the United States.
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Churchill
Washington
Roosevelt
Mary
United States
King Boris Gravely Ill in Sofia After War Pressure
Fresh reports say King Boris of Bulgaria is seriously ill in Sofia from a heart ailment after a visit to Adolf Hitler's headquarters. Reportedly Hitler lost his temper several times and tried to strike him, with military advisers preventing violence. Hitler had demanded Bulgaria break ties and join the war.
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Boris
Bulgaria
Sofia
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Bulgarian King Boris Rumored Target After Assassination Reports
Ankara UPI reports Bulgarian radio says King Boris was seriously injured amid beliefs of a possible assassination attempt. Russia floated theories while Boris, 49, said he cannot explain public reaction and cannot agree to the demands.
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Boris
Russia
French Pleased Says Hull With Allied Recognition Steps
Secretary Hull reported that French leaders in North Africa welcomed the French Committee of National Liberation after the Quebec conference, viewing the moves as a solid basis for broader understanding while the Allied powers refrained from naming it a government. Russia, Peru, and the Dominican Republic extended recognition, and London officials said the move ended any chance of dealings with Vichy by the Allies.
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North Africa
Hull
Algiers
Quebec
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Russia
United States
Peru
Dominican Republic
London
Seven Germans Recaptured as Kingston Prison Break Fades
The Kingston Fort Henry escape involved 19 German POWs who tunneled under the wall to a hill crest on the St Lawrence. Twelve were recaptured by police and military units, aided by a civilian couple and a woman who spotted a fugitive with a flashlight. One escapee was captured after being cornered at Dead Man’s Bay.
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Ont
Fort Henry
United States Army
Coast Guard
St. Lawrence River
Canada
Ontario
St. Lawrence
Dead Man’s Bay
Gertrude McDermott
Dead Man's Bay Area
Ida McDermott
Francis McDermott
Detroit
New Super Gas Boosts Power For Allied Planes
Dr Gustave Egloff, president of the American Institute of Chemists, announced in San Francisco that a new airplane fuel increases engine power by about 50 percent compared with 100 octane gasoline. He said the compound has been known for seven years but difficult to produce in quantity and would give Allied aircraft superiority in speed climbing and lifting power, reducing enemy planes to easy targets.
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San Francisco
Gustav Egloff
United States
Egloff
American Institute of Chemists
District Attorney Won’t Seek Death Penalty in Espionage Case
United States District Attorney John C. Lehr said he would not seek the death penalty for four men arrested last Tuesday on espionage charges, citing the information presented so far as insufficient to justify such a sentence.
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Detroit
United States
John C. Lehr
No Missions Abroad For Sumner Welles
Washington reports there will be no diplomatic posts for Sumner Welles after leaving as Undersecretary of State. Speculation centers on possible moves to Russia or Latin America, but an informed source says a new post is unlikely and the split with Hull is blamed for the friction.
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Sumner Welles
Moscow
South America
Roosevelt
Russia
Stalin
Quebec
Latin America
Welles
Norman Armour
Argentina
Breckinridge Long
Capitol Hill
Night Flight Seen Sequel to Day Raid
London reports describe a massive nocturnal air raid by hundreds of Allied bombers including United States Flying Fortresses and British heavy bombers. The raid targeted German airfields in France with potential aims toward Berlin, engaging in multiple combats and resulting in losses on both sides.
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London
Europe
United States
France
Berlin
Continent
Students Aid Unloading War Freight Cars In New York Area
New York area workers including Princeton students sailors on leave and union truckers answered a government appeal to unload thousands of freight cars with war supplies. The War Shipping Administration cited manpower shortages delaying unloading and tying up materials for American and Allied forces. Princeton says 100 students will work eight-hour shifts today and tomorrow in Trenton with 50 experienced handlers who worked weekends at the Belle Mead Army services depot last winter.
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Warj Shipping Administration
Princeton University
Trenton
N. J
Belle Mead Army Services Forces Depot
Princeton
Man files default divorce amid snake hoard claim
John Hilon Stiles, 49, obtained a default divorce from Irene Bernice Stiles, 41, who reportedly kept ten to twelve rattlesnakes plus a Siamese hooded cobra, an African green mamba, and other venomous snakes in their Minneapolis home. He said a 9-foot Indian python slithered the house, leaving him in constant fear.
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John Hilon Stiles
Irene Bernice Btiles
Sleepy Eye
Minn
Stiles
Sweden protests sinking of two Swedish boats
Sweden filed a protest through its foreign office over the sinking of two Swedish fishing vessels by German mine sweepers in international waters. The incident, described as unannounced, marks a latest clash between Sweden and Germany amid ongoing tensions.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Foreign Office
Germany
Selznick Filed Amended Suit Over Hollywood Remarks
Mrs Mildred Selznick amended a suit yesterday alleging her estranged husband film producer Howard Selznick went Hollywood and showed an inclination to annoy young women in the neighborhood as part of the dispute.
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Los Angeles
Mildred Selznick
Howard Selznick
Hollywood
Shaw supports Indian federation but declines ICIRIndependence council
George Bernard Shaw said India would likely become a federated commonwealth like the United States and the British Commonwealth but refused an invitation to join the council for the international recognition of Indian independence. He argued nations must depend on one another for peace and cooperation and called his participation an impertinence.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
India
United States
British Commonwealth
U.S. SR
Council For the International
Council
Shaw
America
Japs Quit at Bairoko Harbor End Siege in Southwest Pacific
Allied Headquarters reported Japanese resistance at Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia has ended. The garrison evacuated across Kula Gulf to Vila on Kolombangara after losing the foothold near Munda airfield.
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Southwest Pacific
New Georgia
Bairoko Harbor
MacArthur
Bairoko
Munda Airliet
Kula Gulf
Earnstase
Vila
Kotombangara
Mountbatten to lead Southeast Asia command deputy
Washington reports indicate Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell is slated as deputy commander in chief of the new Southeast Asia command. Mountbatten, after meetings with U S military leaders, travels to Chungking to confer with Chiang Kai-shek before final staff and headquarters announcements.
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Washington
Louis Mountbatten
Joseph W. Stilwell
Southeast Asia
Mountbatten
Stilwell
United States Army
China- Burma-India
London
Chungking
Chiang
Burma
China
New Delhi
India
First Lady visits New Zealand army hospitals
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt toured United States Army camps and Red Cross centers in Wellington arriving from Auckland. Crowds greeted her as she traveled by motor to government house for a welcome by Prime Minister Fraser and dignitaries. She praised New Zealand hospitality to American troops and urged remembrance of the dreadful nature of war to prevent its repetition.
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N. Z
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States Army
Red Cross
Auckland
Refrney
Peter Fraser
United States Armed Forces
Government House
Cyril Newall
Alice the Bronx Zoo Elephant Dies After Fifth Sit Down
New York report confirms the Bronx Zoo’s rheumatic elephant Alice died after officials, citing a failing hind leg, administered anesthetic following her fifth sit down in three years. Earlier, a derrick helped her stand after a fourth incident. The animal had a long history of standing sleep.
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New York
Alice
Bronx
Sia
Happy Land
French German Marshals Meet Near Vichy
Berlin radio dispatch reports Marshal Petain and Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt met near Vichy yesterday. In Laval’s presence they discussed various questions in a spirit of perfect understanding.
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Vichy
Berlin
Marshal Petain
Karl Gerd von Runstedt
France
Pierre Laval
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