Japs Quit Salamau In Haste
Allied Headquarters in the southwest Pacific report a fast disintegrating Japanese army abandoned Salamau New Guinea leaving behind war equipment as Australians pursue north into the mountains Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Salamau was overrun after pioneers swam the Francisco River and occupied the airfield two miles southwest of the town Australian forces moved into the harbor area near Cape Parsee Huon Gulf Japanese survivors fled toward Lae after bombing flattened Salamaua.
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Southwest Pacific
Salamau
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Air End Sea Anchorage
Salamavua
Francisco
National scoreboard shows Boston and Brooklyn in suspended game
National league scoreboard lists Boston 7 Brooklyn 6 after 10 innings in a suspended game from July 18. Regular game Brooklyn 16 Boston 3. American league pending, Cleveland at St Louis postponed, Detroit at Chicago postponed.
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National
Boston
Brooklyn
Gleveland
St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago
Paramushiro Bombed Again by Allied Forces
The fourth raid on Paramushiro Islands involved heavy and medium bombers targeting enemy shipping and ground installations. An air battle with about 25 fighters left ten or possibly thirteen enemy planes down. Four US planes were lost or did not return, with a transport freed and a sinking transport and three cargo vessels damaged.
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Japan
Paramushiro Islands
Nippon
Navy
Paramushiro
United States
Attu Island
Aleutians
Chinese Given Liberty Ships for China From Kaiser Yard
The Chinese government will accept two 10,000-ton Liberty ships built at Henry J Kaisers Richmond yards and transferred to China by the United States Maritime Commission. They will be named Chung Shan and Chung Cheng in honor of Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek, manned by Chinese crews, the first American manufactured vessels to be transferred to China.
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Richmond
Cal
Henry J. Kaiser
Richmond Yards
China
United States Maritime Commission
Chung Cheng
Sun Yat-Sen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Election Board Receives Subpoena Over Supreme Court Nomination
A subpoena issued for Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio directs the New York Board of Elections to produce all records in Supreme Court regarding his Supreme Court nomination and the later substitution by the Democratic and Republican parties. The return date aligns with arguments on a show cause order to declare illegal the board’s acceptance of the substitute nominations.
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New York
Thomas A. Aurelio
Board of Elections
Supreme Court
Aurelio
Ilegal
Berlin Radio Declares Mussolini Freed and Heading New Fascist Regime
Berlin radio claimed a Fascist government under Benito Mussolini was formed and under his direct command. The report said Mussolini, protected by Marshal Badoglio, was moved to a German airfield and would establish a new regime in Germany, with parachute troops aiding the operation.
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London
Berlin
Benito Mussolini
Tunisia
Russia
Sicily
Italy
Mussolini
Marshal Badoglio
Ti Duce
Germany
Duce
Badoglio
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Delay After Mussolini Fall Sparks Allied Critique
Lord Strabolgi accused the Allies of a curious and unexplained delay after Mussolini’s ouster that allowed Germans to pour troops into Italy and the Balkans. He warned the Badoglio government showed weakness and urged a direct appeal to Italians to join the Allies. He lamented air raids on Milan and related disarray that led to 200,000 Italians capitulating to Germany.
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London
Lord Strabolgi
Mussolini
Strabolgi
Admiralty War Staff
Will Rogers, Jr
California
England
Italy
Balkans
Stradolgi
Badoglie
Milan
Tax Deadline Comes Tomorrow
Washington 4 Guy T Helvering commissioner of Internal Revenue issued a final reminder that about 15 million taxpayers must file declarations of estimated income and Victory tax by tomorrow midnight. He said the procedure is new and stressed filing date to avoid penalties through ignorance of the law.
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Washington
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenues
Helvering
Woman War Worker Killed in Electric Shock Incident
Buffalo report says 21 year old Miss Alice Kaos trzycki died of electrocution while testing a live wire at General Cable Corp. plant. Medical Examiner Rocco N. De Dominicis identified the cause as contact with an energized conductor during machine operation.
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Buffalo
Alice Kaostrzycki
Rocco N. de Dominicis
General Cable Corp
Is He Dead Mussolini Rumors Stir in Bern Dispatch
New York Times reports in Bern that Mussolini may be dead or in Allied hands and that Berlin seeks a declaration. The dispatch notes his absence from German radio after liberation, suggesting German plans. It also cites Hitler’s supposed role in freeing Mussolini and links to Fascist ties.
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New York
New York Times
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
United Nations
Berlin
Times
Avert Wreck as Man Spots Hot Boxes on Train
A pedestrian looking down from a bridge on a 95 car Baltimore and Ohio freight train spotted hot boxes on two cars. He warned the crew, and the train pulled into a siding for repairs, recalling the fatal Labor Day Pennsylvania Railroad wreck.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional Limited
Stabbing Death of Actor David Bacon in Venice
Los Angeles television actor David Gaspar Bacon died from a back stab wound after his car left Washington Boulevard and crashed into a bean field near Venice. Reported witnesses described a possible vehicle with a driver and a black haired passenger. Bacon’s wife Greta Keller was reportedly under medical care after hearing the news. Authorities noted Bacon, from a Boston political family, disappeared after leaving Hollywood for an evening swim.
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Los Angeles
Upi
David Gaspar Bacon
Boston
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
White House
Hyde Park
Venice
Bacon
Wayne Powell
Washington Boulevard
Greta Keller
Bryansk Besieged By Soviets
The Red Army stormed Bryansk on the Desna, seizing the town’s outskirts and overrunning the eastern Desna railway network. Soviet forces captured prisoners and equipment as German reinforcements were trapped at Kruti station. In Ukraine, four German divisions near Bakhmach were declared wiped out.
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London
UPI
Red Army
Bryansk
Desna
Moscow
M. M. Popov
Popov
Ukraine
Kiev
Dnieper
Kruti
Nezhin
Bakhmach
Prisoner Swap Held Up in Lisbon Delay
The Red Cross ship Atlantis with 555 Italian prisoners awaiting exchange anchored in the Tagus River yesterday but failed to contact the shore. British prisoners from Italy have not arrived due to unsettled Italian conditions, and the Atlantis may return to North Africa without disembarking the Italian detainees.
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Lisbon
Red Cross
Atlantis
Tagus River
Italy
North Africa
Shaw's Wife Dies in London After Courtship on Surrey Paths
Mrs George Bernard Shaw, born Charlotte Frances Payne Townsend, died at their London home on Sunday. Marshalled by a witty social circle, she was one of the few who could speak plainly to Shaw. They wed in 1898 after a Surrey bicycle courtship. he called her his green eyed Irish heiress.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Charlotte Frances Payne-Townsend
Shaw
Surrey
OPA Plans to Cut Cost of Groceries
The Office of Price Administration announced a fresh effort to shrink the grocery bill and reported a third straight monthly decline in the cost of city living. General Manager Chester Bowles said a new program will lower prices on apples, oranges, onions, potatoes, lard, vegetable oils and peanut butter, funded by about 100 million dollars in subsidies and government purchases.
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Washington (P
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Battle reports claim landings on Rhodes amid mixed garrisons
A report circulating in Izmir marine circles says Allied lie forces landed on Rhodes between Crete and the Turkish mainland. Italian posts on the Dodecanese are unreachable. Earlier Turkish towns reported friction and fighting between Italian and German garrisons. An informed neutral says Germans won Rhodes control.
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Istanbul
Dodecanese
Rhodes
Crete
Izmir
United States
Middle East
Cairo
Aegean
Big Inch Leaks From Welding Flaws Found
The Petroleum Administration for War said faulty welding seams caused split joints in New York section of the Big Inch oil pipeline. Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davis announced that an investigation by PAW and War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. found the fault lies with the pipe itself. Despite replacements and delays, oil deliveries to Eastern refineries continued roughly on schedule.
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Washington
New York
Petroleum Administration For War
Ralph K. Davis
PAW
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Wallace Accuses Standard Oil Over Synthetic Rubber Push
Vice President Wallace asserted Standard Oil Company (N J) delayed rubber and chemical firms to hinder synthetic rubber development. He replied to Ralph W Gallagher who claimed Wallace aimed at international cartels, saying the charge impliedly targeted his company.
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Wallace
Standard Oil Company
N. J
Standard and
G. Farben
Ralph W. Gallagher
Yace
Chicago
Troops Aid N Y Farm Shortage
The War Department will furnish 1,365 soldiers to relieve a manpower shortage in New York farms and canneries. Anna M. Rosenberg, regional director of the War Manpower Commission, said 1,040 troops will serve in western New York and 324 in the Hudson Valley, following WMC certification to Washington.
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War Department
New York State
Anna M. Rosenberg
War Manpower Commission
Rosenberg
New York
Hudson Valley
WMC
Washington
Notices Urge Limit on Gifts for Captured Flyers
After the Liberator raid on the Ploesti fields August 1, Romanian papers request restraint from sending gifts to American flyers captured in the action. Officials say prisoners have already received more gifts than they can use.
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Istanbul
Italy
Ploesti Oi
Fifth Army Fights Desperate Salerno Battle Hub
Allied forces press the Salerno bridgehead as heavy fighting rages around Naples. Fifth Army pushes forward on the southern front while German resistance grows fiercer on high ground. British seize Crotone in southern Italy and push along the Adriatic coast toward Bari with Allied air and naval support.
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North Africa
Mediterranean
Salerno
Mount Vesuvius
Italy
Crotone
Adriatic
Brindisi
Bari
Reynolds Packard
United States
Fifth Army
Salerno Gulf
Eisenhower
Naples
Capture of Italy's Fleet Hurts Japan
The liquidation of the Italian fleet, once the world’s fifth largest, nears completion freeing Allied naval power for Pacific action against Japan. Giulio Cesare and four surrendered battleships reach Malta. Roma sunk by German planes. Possible remaining ships include Impero or Cavour. Valletta harbor hosts a procession of warships. Spanish authorities interned other Italian vessels after a 24 hour limit. A strong fleet readies for attacks on Japanese sea routes.
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London
Mediterranean
Pacific
Giulio Cesare
Malta
Italy
Trieste
Pola
Cavour
Taranto
Valletta
Spain
Balearic Islands
Nelson
Rodney
Anson
Howe
Warspita
Valiant
Allied Officers With Guerrillas
Allied senior officers are serving at the headquarters of Gen. Draja Mihailovic and Josip Broz to coordinate Yugoslav guerrilla activities with Allied strategic plans. Advices report confused battles between Italians and Germans with Croats fighting on both sides. Partisan groups of Serbs and Croats hold large mountainous areas in Bosnia and Dalmatia, including heights overlooking Banja Luka.
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Cairo
Draja Mihailovic
Josip Broz
Bosnia
Dalimatie
Banja Luka
Too Old to Fight Says FCC Chairman on Radio Coverage
Washington report quotes James Lawrence Fly, head of the Federal Communications Commission, saying radio shows too little on vital public issues. He criticizes industry for restricting rather than promoting sound policies for broader public service.
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Washington
Chaplain King Recounts Escape With Fighting Unit
Lieut. Col. William E. King of Kansas City serving with the U. S. Fifth Army in Italy describes three days with a battalion cut off and under fire. He swam 300 yards through an irrigation ditch when it came under fire and returned to safety. He recalls a private telling him he felt too old to fight after turning 21 yesterday and aging forty years by the night’s danger.
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U. S. Fifth Army
Italy
William E. King
Kansas City
King
Nazis Execute Defeatists Reported by German News Agency
The German news agency D N E said three more Germans were executed for defeatism. One killed was a 43 year old waiter accused of undermining morale by making disruptive statements in inns and telling customers defeatist views. The other two were 60.
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New York
United States
Congress Reconvenes for 78th Session Tasks
Washington weighs manpower needs as Congress reconvenes after a long break. Senate plans to address draft and soldier numbers while the House sets foreign policy as top agenda. Tax debates and postwar unemployment relief loom amid 1844 campaign considerations.
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Washington
Homecoming Brings Death in Texas Family Tragedy
A five year old from Dublin Texas died in a highway crash after begging to kiss Texas sand as the family returning from Kirkland California crossed the New Mexico line. Cary H Gary asked his father to stop and stepped out. another car struck the Gary vehicle causing fatal injuries.
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el Paso
Tex
Texas
Kirkland
Calif
New Mexico
Cary H. Gary
Dublin
K. H. Garr
Gary
Planes Grounded as Weather Halts Allied Bombers
Unfavorable weather kept Allied heavy bombers on the ground while Royal Air Force fighters crossed the Channel toward Boulogne and Calais in France before nightfall yesterday.
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London
Boulogne
Calais
France
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