Air War Dramatizes Allied Strikes Across Europe
United States flying fortresses and RAF Spitfires raid Meaulie in Northern France, part of a daylight operation with USAAF B 17s escorting RAF fighters. The RAF conducts twin raids on Kassel and Gdynia amid moonlit skies, losing 32 planes in night sweeps while targeting German aircraft production and Baltic harbor bases.
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London
United States
France
Meaulie
Albert
United States Army
Air Force
St. Om
Betretat
British Air Ministry
United States Army Airforcs
Kassel
Baltic
Gdynia
Poland
RAF
Soviet
Russia
Red Navy
Air Ministry
Gaudecciel France
Battle of Stalingrad Rages as Red Army Halts German Drive
Moscow dispatches report a crisis at Stalingrad with fierce fighting and encirclement of a German armored spearhead. Red Army infantry press in from all sides while Nazi momentum stalls. new hammering offensives target Rzhev as the city battles intensify.
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U. S. Army
Stalingrad
Red Army
Moscow
Ukraine
Volga
Great Volga
Stalin
Rzhev
President outlines flexible price program aims
President Roosevelt said his inflation plan favors flexible rather than rigid stabilization of farm prices and wages. He endorsed a fixed ratio to living costs, aligned with Price Administrator Henderson, and noted no freeze order is planned.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Justice Department
Department
Philip Murray
CIO
William Green
AFL
Congress
National Grange
Seventy Men To Report For Induction September 7
The Winchester Selective Service Board lists seventy local men to report for induction on September 7 at 6 15 AM, then proceed to Charlottesville for final exams, marking the first September quota call. A separate group of seven colored men is slated for September 9.
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Winchester Selective Service Board
Charlottesville
Frederick County
Selective Service Board
Douglas Lee Stockey
Gady James Williams Julian James Shade
Lewis Ray Rhodes
John Frederick Kline
Joseph Howard Lockhart
William Eldwin Gibson
Charles Franklin Shull
Richard Elmer Hockman
Vernon Clarence McClintock
Albert Franklin Unger
Sanford J. Payton
Commodore Perry Miller
Pred Lori
Charles Edward Clark
Warren McGilvery Robertson
Blair Wade Bean
Lawrence Lucian Lake
Holmes Fisher Penn
Ralph Leo Mauck
Eddie Holmes Brill
Adam Stickley Ritter
Russell Maury
Fred Eugene MclInturff
John Curtis Fray
Russell Harrison Oates
Earl Lovelace
Printz
Madison Sanders Pangle
Richard Page Jackson
William Jefferson Atkins
Julian Henry Buncutter
Samuel Phillip Burall
Roy Clark Hillyard
Edwin Holliday
Harold Cleveland Bly
Leslie Raymond Lonas
Charles Derwood Herrell
Ernie Wesley Smith
Marvin A. Danielson
Dewey Irving Batt
Phillip O’rear
Jamies
Addison Bowles
Charles Abraham Miller
Albert Fries
Lawson B. Lafollette
Gilbert Greenwalt
Homer Jackson Campbell
John Walker Greene
Alva Lee Mahew
Dennis Michael Reardon
James Robert Ora Jr
Frank Russell
Typhoon toll rises in Kyushu and Honshu
A Tokyo dispatch reports a violent typhoon in Japan killing at least 63 people and injuring 73. The storm damaged Kyushu and Honshu, destroying about 560 houses and washing away 240, with more than 30,000 people isolated by flood waters.
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Berlin
Transocean
Tokyo
Kyushu
Honshu
Community church and sale notices for early September
Notices list local church events including a Macedonia Church chicken and ham supper on Sept 4, Relief Church yard party on Sept 4, Sacred Heart lawn party Sept 1 and 2 with bingo and prize drawings, and a trustee sale advertisement page 8. Also reference to Rouss Fire Hall event on Friday at 8:30 and cemetery committee items.
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Macedonia Church
Relief Church
Sacred Heart
Land and Air Forces Battle Nipponese on New Guinea
Melbourne report says tremendous resources will be drawn into the Solomon Islands fight. General Blamey notes the action is not a single clash but a sustained battle to an Allied victory. Allied air and ground units clash with Japanese land forces amid constant rain and mud in New Guinea.
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Melbourne
Solomon Islands
Thomas Blamey
Mil- South
Ae Ee
Air Force
Blamey
General Mac Arthur Unrevealing Details On Air Force Men
General Mac Arthur provided no details about the ongoing air force matter when questioned by reporters. The exchange focused on broader policy questions as aides advised restraint. Page 3 continued coverage with additional context and comments from officials.
Reports Defeat for Japanese Shocking Setback in Solomons
London dispatch summarizing Sydney reporting that the Japanese fleet suffered a shattering defeat in the Solomons and is withdrawing toward the Japanese Mandated Islands. US authorities caution the victory was not declared a major win and note limited information from London and Sydney. A Star by Selwyn Speight estimates 50 Japanese ships sunk or damaged recently, describing a failed last push to dominate the southwest Pacific.
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London
the Star
Sydney
Solomons
Washington
Solomon
United Nations
Tulagi
United States
Selwyn Speight
Star
Southwest
Pacific
Japan
Limiting of Corporate Tax Proposal Considered by Senate
Senator Connally said the Treasury proposed an 80 percent overall cap on corporation taxes with a postwar rebate and 20 percent debt deduction. The plan would raise combined normal and surtax on corporations to 55 percent while retaining the 90 percent excess profits tax, limiting taxes for earnings to the excess rate.
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Washington
Connally
D.-Tex
Treasury
Randolph Paul
House
Black Selling Charged In Meat Markets Across Chicago
Chicago reports say confusion over wholesale meat prices and grade based ceilings has led to widespread price ceilings being breached. Observers note packers set different ceilings for various meats and mislabeling like calling good meat choice skirts ceilings.
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William Ferris
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Blue Network to Sell War Bonds Across Night of Radio
The Blues Network will broadcast Aug 29 from 9 P M to 4 A M Eastern War Time selling War Bonds directly to listeners. Stars Amos and Andy Edward G Robinson Red Skelton Nelson Eddy Fanny Brice Dinah Shore will perform with Orson Welles hosting. Local stations will insert features and some buyers may go on air.
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Washington, D. C
Blues
Western Union
I Pledge
America
Orson Welles
Cerem
Hollywood
Amos and Andy
Edward G. Robinson
Red Skelton
Nelson Eddy
Fanny Brice
Dinah Shore
Chinese Recapture Key Airfield in Chekiang Kiangsi Counteroffensive
Chinese dispatches report reentry into Chuhsien near Chekiang and recapture of the great airfield just outside the city, a major base from which Japan could be bombed. Chinese high command says airfield was seized after dawn advance and a Japanese attempt to wreck it failed.
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Chungking
Chuhsien
Chekiang
East China
Japan
Eas
High Command Communitigiee
Lishui
Chusien
Kiangsi
Kwangtung Province
South China
Linchwan
Suichang
British Join In Fight On Subs
The Navy said British planes and fliers joined the anti submarine campaign in the western Atlantic. Royal Air Force coastal command aircraft cooperated with U S naval and army forces and have engaged the enemy. The statement implies British crews have been operating from American bases to aid intensified efforts against U boat marauders.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
Royal Air Force Coastal Command
United States Naval
Army
British Isles
United States
Beech
Britain
Whitacre Household Goods Sale Announcement
Frank Whitacre hold a sale of household goods on Saturday August 29 at 2:00 p m. This notice lists the sale date and time for local residents and potential buyers.
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Frank Whitacre
American and four Britons killed in bomber crash near Algeciras
Patch from Algeciras reports a two motor bomber en route to Gibraltar from Canada via Britain crashed into a mountainside near Algeciras in fog. One American and four Britons were killed. Three crew members were seriously injured.
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Madrid
Algeciras
Gibraltar
Canada
Britain
Death of Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, commander of Austrian Lithuanian unit Laeenae, has died at age 70. The report from Vienna cites German broadcasts noting his death.
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Vienna
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of
Austria
Government seeks court order against AP to require service
The government says AP is premier among U S news services and asks federal court to compel AP to serve any newspaper willing to pay the cost. Chicago Sun and Washington Times Herald are named as having trouble gaining AP membership.
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New York
Associated Press
United States
Federal Court Today
Chiscago
Italian Cruiser Blasted by British Aircraft Off Crete
Cairo reports RAF torpedo planes attacked the Giuseppe Garibaldi class cruiser off Anti Kythera Island northwest of Crete. A second vessel, likely an oil tanker or merchantman, was also attacked and possibly torpedoed. Only the bow of the damaged ship remained above water. British air activity continued at El Alamein with raids on Axis lines and an enemy bomber set afire over a Nile Delta air base.
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Cairo
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Antikythera Island
Crete
el Alamein Front
RAF
Nile Delta
Pilot Killed In Navy Plane Crash Over Potomac
A single seat navy fighter crashed into the Potomac near the Anacostia naval air station. The pilot Lieut. W. D. Saunders Jr. 39 of the Marine Corps, residing in Arva, was killed. No other details about the mishap were published.
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Washington
Navy
Potomac River
Anacostia Naval Air Statere
W. D. Saunders, Jr
Marine Corps
Draft Board Moves Office
The Frederick Selective Service Board moved its office from the room formerly occupied by the Board of Visors to the Farm Security office in the same building.
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Star
Frederick
New Manager For Safeway
Mr. W. W. Woody White named new manager of the Safeway store in Winchester succeeding prior supervisor. White previously managed the same Safeway location and will oversee daily operations and staff.
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W. W
Woody” White
Safeway
Winchester
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Merca Ball
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Charles Willie Turner
Johnny Washington
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Edward Wine
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