South American Allies Back Brazil Amid War Footing
Argentina and Peru granted Brazil non belligerent status enabling Brazilian ships to use parts of their territories while Uruguay pledged to Havana pact aims. Brazil tightens defense as navy and air force patrols off Natal region amid reports of enemy submarines offshore. Caracas and Moscow fronts note major WWII battle developments and German advances near Stalingrad with fresh Russian countermeasures and strategic oil access in the Caucasus.
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United Nations Bloc
Peru
Uruguay
Havana
Brazil
Natal
Dakar
Africa
Sergipe State
Adolf Hitler
Kharkov
Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Caucasian
Grozny
Caspian Sea
Ukraine
Carpathian
Romania
Leningrad
Moscow
German artillery officer sentenced in diamond conspiracy
New York reports Werner Von Clemm age 44 former German artillery officer was sentenced in federal court to two years in prison and a $10000 fine for conspiring to sell Dutch and Belgian diamonds in violation of Roosevelt's 1940 freezing order. Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, both in the film world, wed yesterday in New York.
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New York
Werner von Clemm
Roosevelt
Fay Wray
Robert Riskin
Office of War Information
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Athens
Classified
Ohio plant wins Army Navy Production Award for wartime work
The Strontium Products Co in Ohio, located near Beaumont along Route 33, is named among plants receiving the Army Navy Production Award for outstanding war production. The facility, noted for its large red flare visible day and night, was renovated from old car barns to support expansion. Award ceremonies are planned with details to follow.
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Beaumont
Washington
Capital
War and Navy Departments
Ohio
Army-Navy
Strontium Products Co
Record Pig Crop May Solve Meat Shortage
Chicago reports that a record spring pig crop will soon flood national markets. Livestock men say this volume could ease meat shortages and fight potential rationing or price controls by boosting supply.
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Chicago
Would-Be Extortionist Shot by Cleveland Police
A 21 year old man suspected of writing threatening letters to extract $5 000 from a Cleveland theater manager was shot and slightly wounded by police in an ambush. Detectives Peter Merylo and Clarence Kiefer seized the suspect as he approached a dummy package, receiving a leg wound during the struggle.
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Cleveland
Peter Merylo
Clarence Kiefer
Rose Weber 14 Dies in West Liberty Car Crash
West Liberty teen Rose Weber, 14, was killed in an automobile crash yesterday. In a separate incident in Wauseon, Dr. James L. Adams, 36, of Barberton was killed when two autos collided late last night.
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Russells Point
Rose Weber
West Liberty
Wauseon
James L. Adams
Barberton, C
Nelson to reintegrate war production priorities
Washington production chief Donald M. Nelson will withdraw some priority powers from Army and Navy procurement officers to gain closer personal supervision of war material flow. He plans to end semi independent scheduling by the armed services and have all schedules integrated by the War Production Board to match needs with resources.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Armed Services
Nelson
Army, Navy and
Martime Commission
War Production Board
Army
Navy
Dewey Poised For Governor Nomination In New York
GOP delegates at Saratoga Springs gather to nominate Thomas E. Dewey for governor by acclamation amid visible Dewey support and last minute talk of Wendell L. Willkie. Rolland B. Marvin proposed a Willkie tribute during county chairmen’s meeting, touching on wartime unity.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
Rolland B. Marvin
Onondaga
Willkie
Brazil Receives 40 U. S.-Made Aircraft
The United States delivered 44 American-made aircraft from Hagerstown to Rio de Janeiro in a record flyaway. The planes will replace obsolete German Focke Wulfs for training and transport as South America joins the war effort. In Belgium a Belgian News Agency report states 38,000 foreign Jews have been conscripted for work in Germany.
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New York
London
Belgium
Germany
O Daniel Wins Texas renomination in tight runoff
U S Senate contender W Lee O Daniel led in the Texas runoff as late returns tallied. Former Gov James V Allred trailed with substantial gains but remained behind with O Daniel holding about forty three to forty percent support in a three man race.
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Dallas
Tex
W. Lee O’daniel
James V. Allred
O'Daniel
O’daniel
Allred
Allied fliers defend Darwin in bold P-40 interception
General MacArthur's HQ says Curtiss P-40 fighters broke up a large Japanese air raid on Darwin, downing 13 enemy planes with no Allied losses. The raid, supported by tactical attacks on Buka Strait’s wharf area, caused limited damage, while veterans from the Philippines and Java claimed notable aerial victories.
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U.S
MacArthur
Australia
Ine Geiecnuunig Aittneens Teal
Buka Passage
Buka
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Philippines
Java
Norma Shearer Weds Martin Arrouge in Beverly Hills
Norma Shearer widow of Irving Thalberg and the star wed Martin Arrouge, 28, her former ski instructor, in a Beverly Hills church ceremony. The couple planned a quiet ceremony, with Shearer arriving 15 minutes late, and planned a honeymoon at her Santa Monica beach home.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Norma Shearer
Irving Thalberg
Martin Arrouge
Miss Shearer
Arrouge
Sun Valley
Ida
Beverly Hills
John J. O'Donnell
Aleutian Defense Situation Seen Much Improved
Seattle AP reports Senator Mon Wallgren says the Alaskan defense posture in the Aleutians is much improved, though he was more critical weeks earlier and now voices cautious optimism about military conditions.
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Aleutians
Seattle
Alaskan
Mon
C, Wallgren
D.wash
The
Hughes Kaiser Join To Build 500 Cargo Planes
San Francisco reports Henry J. Kaiser and 36 year old Howard Hughes form a joint venture to manufacture 500 cargo airplanes to counter Axis submarine warfare. They promise 57 passenger capacity per craft and nonstop New York to Los Angeles flights in about eight and a half hours.
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Henry J. Kaiser
Howard Hughes
Kaiser
Washington
Hughes
California
Los Angeles
New York
Chinese Capture Linchwan Base in Kiangsi Province
Chinese high command reports Linchwan in central Kiangsi, the province’s second most important Japanese base, has fallen after a two week siege aided by United States air support. Linchwan lies on the Fu River, about sixty miles southeast of Nanchang, the main enemy base in the region.
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Linchwan
Puchow
Kiangsi
Chinese High Command
Fu River
Nanchang
United States Army
Mother of Clark Lee Dies in New Jersey
Mrs. Etta Gould Lee, mother of AP war correspondent Clark Lee and widow of Clayton D. Lee, founder of the United Press Associations, died Saturday in East Orange New Jersey. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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Clark Lee
New Jersey
East Orange
N. J
Etta Gould Lee
Associated Press
Clayton D. Lee
United Press Associations
Lee
Noted novelist Alice Duer Miller dies at 66
Funeral services were held today for Alice Duer Miller, acclaimed American novelist of four decades. The author of The White Cliffs of Dover died at 66 and was to be buried in Bergsen Cemetery, Morristown, New Jersey.
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NEW York
Alice Duer Miller
White Cliffs
Dover
Bergsens Cemetery
Morristown
N, J
25 Army Navy fliers die in four crashes
At least 25 officers and men were killed with three injured in four Army and Navy air crashes. A Navy patrol plane near Dahlgren Virginia may have 12 victims, an Army Fortress bomber crash near Las Cruces New Mexico killed seven, another Army bomber near Bogalusa Louisiana killed six, and a pursuit plane at a Tallahassee base killed Second Lieutenant Melvin Lacey.
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Navy
Dahlgren
New Mexico Mountains
Las Cruces
Bogalusa
Melvin F. Lacey
Sacramento
Calif
Tallahassee
Fla
13 Merchantmen Sunk By Axis Submarines
Axis surface and undersea raids in southern waters sunk 13 more merchantmen, widening the Allied toll in the western Atlantic to 439 victims. Six Brazilian, four British, one American, one Panamanian and one Swedish ships were destroyed since Aug. 16, with over 640 dead and 550 rescued.
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Associated Press
Caribbean
South America
Lightning kills man at Newton Falls trailer camp
A bolt of lightning struck a tree at a trailer camp near Newton Falls during a steak fry injuring 12 people and killing Harold Conlin, 23, of Altamont, Ohio. The victims included company workers and relatives or wives of workers.
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Warren
Newton Falls
Harold Conlin
Altamont
Nazi Claims 166 Soviet Planes Destroyed in Aerial Onslaught
Berlin reports 166 Soviet aircraft were destroyed yesterday by German fighters and anti aircraft batteries on the eastern front. German losses were eight planes. The claim breaks all records for enemy air losses in a single day.
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Berlin
New Front Speculation Grows Over Allied Moves
London dispatch notes a large American convoy and fresh fighting troops arriving in Britain. Maj. Gen. Mark Clark says only ready outfits are being sent as Britain creates a new Iran Iraq command under Gen. Wilson in the oil region behind Russia. Tedder will head RAF across all three Allied zones.
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United States
Churchill
Moscow
Dieppe
Britain
Mark Clark
U. S
Iran-Iraq
Henry Maitland Wilson
Russia
Caucasus
Archibald P. Wavell
Middle
Near East
Wilson
India
North Africa
Arthur William Tedder
Egypt
RAF
Four Die As West Virginia Floods Hit State
Four people died in West Virginia floods including three B&O railroad crewmen after a bridge failure near Clay. A six year old girl drowned near Hundred. Roads wrecked and crops damaged as high water undermined bridges and tracks.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio
Clay
Hundred
Gassaway
State Road Commission
Plane Fight Casualty Is Painesville Youth
Lieut. Don Walters was killed in a high altitude battle over the North Sea. The 19 year old bride, former Helen Celebaugh of Painesville, mourns as Walters served as co pilot of a United States Flying Fortress that later landed safely in England after taking crippling damage.
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Cleveland
Don Walters
Helen Celebaugh
North Sea
England
Blackout of Moon Scheduled Tuesday
A total lunar eclipse will occur Tuesday night with the event starting at 10 p.m. Eastern War Time, reaching maximum at 11:48 p.m., and ending at 1:35 a.m. Local observers in Columbus can view the eclipse.
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