Greater Output of Civilian Goods Due War Production
Washington notes America's production of war materiel has near peak levels and may shift toward civilian goods. The change stems from factory conversion completion and better future needs estimates by military planners. A production review could trim a 1944 program by several billions, overseen by the War Mobilization Board. Byrnes will study postwar demobilization as officials seek a smooth transition to peacetime industry.
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Washington
America
Europe
Roosevelt
War Mobilization Board
James F. Byrnes
Ways and Means Rep Pushes Federal Retail Sales Tax
Rep Robertson of Virginia leads Ways and Means in backing a federal retail sales tax as a possible substitute for the administration revenue plan. He publicly supports the levy as Congress weighs replacing income and luxury rate increases with a 10 percent sales tax to raise about 6 billion dollars, a move that faces strong opposition from the administration.
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Washington
Rep
Robertson
D-Va
House
Ways and Means
Virginian
Capitol Hill
Wallace Calls China Bulwark of Democracy
Vice President Henry Wallace praised China as bulwark and cradle of democratic ideals, saying the western nations fight for shared sovereignty. He told a broadcast audience that the war is a mutual effort by nations upholding people’s sovereignty and commended China as a chief inspirer of western democracy.
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Wallace
China
Washington
Henry Wallace
Bombers Strike Burma Strongholds Across Wide Front
U S and allied air forces attacked Japanese troop concentrations and transport in Burma Friday and Saturday. Lashio in south central China was bombed by American medium bombers on Friday, while RAF bombers and fighters hit enemy-occupied villages in the Kalemyo area Saturday, causing great destruction.
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New Delth
Burma
Lashio
China
Kalemyo
Federal Employment Figures Decrease In July
The United States Civil Service Commission reports July shows the first decline in years with 3,223,375 civilian federal employees on July 31 versus 3,252,8 at June end. The drop marks a significant shift in federal staffing levels per the agency.
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Washington
United States Civil Service Commission
Yanks Take 2-1 Victory Over Cards In Fourth World Series
In sweltering Sportsman's Park crowds, Lefty Marius Russo starred for the Yankees, pitching seven sturdy hits and driving in the deciding run with his second double as New York beat St. Louis 2 to 1 to move three games ahead in the 1943 World Series. Russo overcame a sore arm, kept the Redbirds to seven hits, and his late hit produced the margin after a costly error tied the score in the seventh.
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Sportsman’s Park
St. Lewis
Marius Russo
New York Yankees
New York
St. Lows
Redbirds
Strport
Musso
Russo
Hurling Ace
Allies Capture Vila Airport in South Pacific Victory
Allied forces seized Vila airfield on Vila Island completing occupation of Japanese positions on Kolombangara Island three days later. Admiral Halsey’s command ended the New Georgia campaign begun 13 weeks earlier with American troops storming Rendova and targeting Munda airdrome. Seizure of Kolombangara grants U S domination over southern and central Solomon Islands up to Choiseul.
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Southwest Pacific
Vila Airfield
Peerations
Kolomgangara Island
Adm
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
New Georgia
Amercan
Rendova Island
Munda
Roviana Lagoon
Kolombangara
United States
Solomon Islands
Choiseul
Farmhand Morrell Confesses to Bay Farm Murders in Mercer
Mercer Pennsylvania through UPI State Police Sgt Frank Milligan said William Albert Morrell a 21 year old farm hand confessed to killing an elderly couple and his employer's wife at a Wilson dairy farm. He described binding gagging Mrs Helen Wilson and shooting Mrs Catherine Wilson and Robert McKay before fleeing with Janice Graham. Morrell faces first degree murder arraignment before Justice Thomas McClain. The DA says he doubts charges will be filed against the woman.
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William Morell
Mercer
Edwin C. Moon
Janice Graham
UPI
Frank Milligan
William Albert Morrell
Here
Sergt. Milligan
Helen Wilson
Wilson
Milligan
Morell
Catherine Wilson
Robert McKay
McKay
Claridon
Fnday
Graham
Morrel
Ohio
Thomas McClain
Moon
Stillwell Flyers Bomb Indo China Raid Reported
American bombers based in Chungking raided Gialan airdrome near Hanoi in Indo China on Friday without loss. They dropped twenty tons of high explosives on barracks and hangars, likely destroying several Japanese planes in the hangars. The action was announced by Lieut Gen Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters yesterday.
Chiang Takes Oath as China's New President
Chiang Kai-shek was sworn in on the Republic’s 32nd anniversary and vowed to pursue constitutional government and defeat aggressors with the United Nations. He stressed legal observance, public opinion, and strengthened military and economic machinery amid wartime reconstruction.
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China
Pime
Soviets Capture Dnieper Height in Major River Line Breakthrough
Moscow announced the Red Army seized an important height and village on the Dnieper western flank and pushed German forces back, nearing Kiev in a pincers move. Guerrilla detachments seized villages in the Zhov region while northern advances swept toward Poland and Latvia. 64 tanks and 58 planes were knocked out Saturday. Marshal Timoshenko received the Order of Suvorov for leading the Caucausus victory, amid rumors of shift to a new theater.
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London
Red
Dnieper
Moscow
Hiev
Ukraine
Aiev
Nevel
Gomel
Rad
White Russia
Pravda
Flath
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Semeon Timoshenko
Red Army
Caucasus
Two Firemen Buried Under Rubbish Pile
Milwaukee police and fire crews battled a west side dump fire that collapsed into a flooded quarry burying two firemen. Gordon Fischbauer, 23, and Albert Dessecker, 32, died after rescue efforts. Deputy Chief Tremain said the rubbish pile, smouldering since Saturday, spilled into the quarry as hundreds of tons toppled atop rescuers.
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Milwaukee
Tremain
Fischbauer
Washington Park
Dessecker
Hans Hayer
Hurricane Forces Plane to Land at Mazatlan
Pan American Airways manager Francisco Postlethwaite reported that five to seven people were killed in Mazatlan when a hurricane hit the Pacific port. Walt Disney and twenty others including eight Hollywood staff were aboard a Pan American airliner forced to land there. Twenty injured in Mazatlan and twelve in nearby towns. About 100 houses destroyed and much of the residential district damaged. The party visited the devastated area before continuing to Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Francisco Postlethwaite
Pan-American Airways
Mazatlan
Pacific Coast
Walt Disney
Hollywood
Mazat- Tan
Postlethwaite
Mazailan
de Marigny Lawyer Promises Surprises
New Orleans detective Raymond C. Schindler, hired by Alfred de Marigny, predicts the defense will uncover startling new evidence at the Nassau murder trial of Sir Harry Oakes. He describes the case as one of the most weird and vicious since the Lindbergh baby crime and says the British government has a weak case.
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New Orleans
Raymond C. Schindler
New York
Alfred de Marigny
Sir Harry Oakes
Schindler
Nassau
Mexico
de Matigny
Fifth Army Girds For River Battle
Allied bombers destroyed 102 German fighters in raids on Muenster Coesfeld and Enschede with Thunderbolts, while 30 bombers and two fighters went missing. The raids, part of a third straight daylight assault on Germany, followed a large Eighth Air Force attack with over 1,800 tons of bombs reported.
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P—Ls
Muenster
Coesfeld
Netherlands
Enschede
Germany
Poland
East Prussia
John G Whinant
United States
Britain
Focks Wulfis
Messerschmitts
Ira C. Eaker
Eighth Air Force
Berlin
Ruhr
Dortmund-Ems Canal
Bremen-Cologne
Coesfield
Muenster Muenster
Buddies Saw Winant Fall on Mission 13
Lieut. John G Winant Jr. 22, son of the American ambassador to Britain, was reported missing after a raid over Muenster Germany. Flyers recalled seeing German fighters machine gun parachutes and the Fortress under rocket gun attack as several crew members jumped free. Winant’s crew noted the strange remark about mission 128 and a prayer before he went into combat.
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England
John G Winant Jr
Britain
Muenster
Germany
Flying Fortress
Winant
Sergt Fried P Livingston
Sayre
Okla
Nan
Plang
Stephen Neher
McKeesport
Steam Shovel Digs For Murder Bones
A steam shovel unearthed charred embers while digging for the body of Frank Murphy. Inspector Hoyt of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation says the remains likely lie about two feet underground and were burned along with clothes. Samuel Steed Stott claims Stott killed Murphy 18 years ago. The dig, started at 9 am and halted at 3 pm, continues to be examined for further evidence.
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Murphis
Catholic Cleric Chides Pegler At Clerks Convention
The Rev Thomas E Shortell S J director of Holy Cross College institute of public relations urged Westbrook Pegler to write weekly about good unions and union leaders Addressing the 24th annual convention of the Massachusetts Federation of Post Office Clerks he said criticizing unions damages public faith in labor overall.
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Worcester
Mass
Thomas E Shortell
S. J
Holy Cross College Institute of Public Relations
Westbrook Pegle
Massachusetts Federation of Post Office Clerks
Father Shortell
Japs Offer Resistance During Wake Island Raid
Wake Island defenses bore the assault as Admiral Nimitz reported heavy Japanese resistance. A combined force of aircraft carriers and land based bombers destroyed more than 61 enemy planes over two days. The three phase operation dropped 320 tons of bombs, the largest single action in the Pacific to date, shattering the island’s airfield, barracks, and shops.
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Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Wedes
Chester Wo Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Central Pacific
Carrie
Alfred E. Montgomery
Nimitz
United States
Adamnral Montgomery
No-Strike Pledge Reaffirmed at CIO Convention
The CIO United Automobile Workers reaffirmed the no-strike pledge with modifications to wage and plant bargaining. Delegates called to scrap the Little Steel Formula and Roosevelt hold-the-line order and urged wage rollbacks to September 1942 levels. They supported direct negotiations between union and management with full authority to settle disputes, and favored government seizure under wartime powers with guaranteed collective bargaining rights.
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Buffalo UP
CIO United
Automobile Worhers
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
R J Thomas
George F Addes
Addes
Earl Mazey
Detroit
Ourright
Smith-Connally
Allies Launch Air Offensive in Balkans and Aegean
Allied HQ Algiers and Northwest African air forces opened a blistering attack against German positions in the Balkans and the Aegean. Flying Fortresses and Liberators damaged Greek and Crete airfields, wounded enemy aircrews, and set dumps ablaze near Eleusis and Rhodes. American Lightning aircraft reportedly destroyed several Nazi bombers.
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Allied
Algiers
Northwest African
Balkans
Aegean Sea
Greece
Crete
United States
Rhodes
Eleusis
Athens
Secret disclosed on new British anti tank gun
London revealed last night Britain’s new secret tank busting weapon is an 11 pounder capable of blowing the turret from a German tank at 1500 yards. An official statement said it is the complete answer to the Tiger tank, the 6 ton Mark VI.
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London
Britain
Truckmen Strike Ties Up Mid-South Freight Traffic
Nashville readers report a major truckers strike with over 3200 drivers and helpers walking out to protest War Labor Board delays. Freight movement nationwide slows as warehouses stockpile goods including war materials. Army official says AFL leader pledged efforts to resume material shipments and keep war supplies moving. Fifty eight trucking firms affected as unions and companies cite wage and vacation delays.
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Nashville
Tenn
mid-South
Army
Robert Borden
American Federation of Labor
Birmingham
Ala
War Labor Board
Allies May Control Jap Base at Rekata
The Tokyo radio broadcast cited by Berlin said Japanese naval aircraft bombed Rekata on Santa Isabel Island, suggesting Allied forces had seized the Big Sea Plane base used by Japan since its advance in the Western Pacific. Indications pointed to the base’s likely capture, though official confirmation in Washington was pending.
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Washington
Tokyo
Berlin
Rekata
Santa [Abel Island
Solomons
Western Pacific
Birthday Chief Justice Stone Keeps Working At 71
Chief Justice Harland Stone, the only Supreme Court member eligible to retire by age, remains deeply engrossed in duties. He plans a court session for his birthday to decide about hundreds of summer petitions, with only brief walks and limited social activity breaking his routine. Appointed to the Court in 1925 and elevating to Chief Justice in 1941, Stone, a New England Republican, was a strong defender of New Deal measures before the Court.
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Washington
Harland Stone
Supreme Court
Tnes
Stone
Coolidge
Roosevelt
Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Press In Italy
Allied forces push along a 44 mile Volturno Calore line and expand advances near Ponte and San Marco as German divisions pull back. Indian Army units operate in Italy while rains hinder movement, and officials warn of possible major battles between Naples and Rome.
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Aled
Algiers -P
Italy
Fifth Army
Volturno
Calore
Eighth Army
Mark W. Clark
Ponte
Benevento
Callore
San Marco
Motta
Campobasso
Tiber
Rome
Naples
Slav Guerrillas Have Difficult Supply Problem
Four officers of Yugoslavia's exiled government in Cairo explained that Mihailovic could field 150000 to 130000 armed troops, potentially reaching 300000 with adequate arms. They cited severe supply difficulties due to mixed French Greek Italian and German weapons and scarce ammunition.
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Cairo
Draja Mihailovic
Cam
Yugoslavia
Brinds
Italy
Mihaailovic
Haninmier
Fichte
Mihailovic
Guerrilas
Nelson Plans Visit To Soviet Factories
Nelson plans an early visit to Soviet factories in Moscow to view the development and production efforts under Russian oversight. The visit follows escorted arrival in Moscow and a reception at the airport by Soviet officials and foreign trade leaders.
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Moscow
Russia
Donald Nelson
Liie
Caauman
Esterday Nels
Nels Son
T F Senchastno
Foreign Trade Commissarivai
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