Allies map drive on Japs in China and Moscow talks
President Roosevelt announced a tripartite agreement among the United States Britain and China on new operational plans for the Chinese theater. The decision followed a Chungking conference with generals Somervell Stillwell Chenault and Somervell and British commander Lord Mountbatten. Roosevelt said details could not be released yet and discussed supply issues. He noted possible postwar meetings including Stalin Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, and affirmed Senate ratification procedures and the Connally Resolution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
China
Chungking
Gener- Stillwell
Chenault
Somervell
Lord Wis Mountbatten
Moscow
United Nations
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Stalin
London
Hull
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sweden Eyes Finnish Peace Move With Russia
The Associated Press reports that Sweden notes Finland preparing to seek peace with the Russians. Stockholm's Social Demokraten cites Finland ready to go to Moscow for a separate peace, with Finland's fate described as potentially being settled.
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Finland
Thousana
Stalin
Russia
Stockholm
Social Demokraten
Juhu Paasikivi
Moscow
Warns Against New Ohio Law on Motorist Responsibility
Columbus report cites Attorney James A. Weyer urging Ohio State Bar Association to monitor the new financial responsibility law. He warns failed practical application could push compulsory insurance and harm the public. The measure, effective Sept 20, requires proof of at least $11,000 in financial responsibility for drivers unable to meet judgments after auto accidents.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Weyer
Cleveland
Ohio State Bar Association
Weyer
USO
Hollywood War Benefit Aids Troops Overseas
A Saturday night program featuring a million dollars worth of entertainment talent will be recorded for wartime distribution by the War Department. The hour long show, embracing carols and Yuletide themes, will be given to the USO and sent to American troops abroad for Christmas Day. The Hollywood Victory Committee announced the plan today.
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Hollywood
Hollywood Victory
War Department
Beast
USO
Rate of Rejection Law For Pre War Fathers
Washington U A drive to action on legislation to ou hers at the bottom of the draft List got underway today under the Catership of Senator Johnson D. Selective service officials at Philadelphia meanwhile expressed such at the low rate of rejection for physical disabilities among pre Pearl Harbor fathers. They said so as it is running about 10 percent of 40 each to 50 percent as had been predicted.
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Washington
Johnson D
Philiphia
Suhat
Milk price rise urged to avert rationing
Connecticut Milk Producers' Association head Ken Geyer warned before the Senate Agriculture Committee that milk rationing could be needed unless Congress raises dairy prices. He cited a 32.9 percent drop in Connecticut milk production since mid June and supported the Eastland McClellan Bill for a one cent per quart nationwide increase along with higher prices for dairy products and abolition of subsidies to dairymen.
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Washington
Ken Geyer
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut Milk Producers’ Association
Congress
Geyer
Senate Agriculture Committee
Connecticut
USO
Mrs. Finsterwald Dies After 12 Day Illness
Mrs. Bessie M. Finsterwald 58 of 13 Hanlin Ave died Thursday afternoon at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a 12 day illness. Born in Meigs County she lived in Athens 45 years. Survived by husband William daughter Mary James son Owen grandson Freddie James and half sister Mrs Lillie Jones. A son Earl died in 1929. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. in Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home with burial in W Union St Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Bessie M. Finsterwald
Hanlin Ave
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Meigs County
Athens
Earl
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral
W. Union St
USO
Yugoslavs Gain in Montenegro Drive Nazis From Stronghold
London dispatch reports Yugoslav Partisan forces reinforced by growing recruit numbers captured a German stronghold in Montenegro, routed Nazis in another clash, and began cutting up remaining enemy columns as announced by the Yugoslav Liberation Army. Auto fatality in Dayton details a four year old girl killed by a second car. her father Edward Metzner lives in Chillicothe.
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London
Montenegro
Yugoslav Liberation Army
USO
Dayton
Helen Christine Metzner
Edward Metzner
Chillicothe
Repayment for Lend-Lease to Britain Questioned
The Senate Truman committee urged considering repayment from Britain for lend-lease shipments as part of postwar prosperity plans. It proposed US purchase of British-held reserves in Asia, South America and the Dutch East Indies if Britain cannot pay in dollars for needed petroleum.
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Washington
Senate
Truman Committee
England
U. S&s
Asia
South America
Dutch East Indies
United States
International Rubber Regulations Committee
RFC
Jesse Jones
West Virginia Man Wed Baptized and Jailed
In Huntington Major Bernard C. Morris of the Salvation Army baptized James Hutchinson and Jewel Hutchinson in federal court. Judge Harry E. Watkins sentenced Hutchinson to two years for stealing luggage from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Station amid a prayerful ceremony.
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Huntington
Bernard C. Morris
Salvation Army
James Hutchinson
Jewel
Harry E. Watkins
Milton Man
Hutchinson
Chesapeake and Ohio
USO
Japs Lose Fourteen Warships In Week In Pacific
Allied headquarters report Japan’s navy suffered 14 ships sunk or damaged in a week while failing to approach Bougainville. A Japanese task force attempting to shell Empress Augusta Bay was repelled in a two hour battle. subsequent raids on Rabaul caused further losses. American ships remained afloat after dawn air attacks.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
Solomons
U. S. Marine
Bougainville
Rabaul
Empress Augusta Bay
United States
Lly
General MacArthur
Mitchells
Troops Restore Order at Japanese Relocation Center
The Army took over the Tule Lake segregation center in Siskiyou County sending 1,000 troops eight tanks and 20 armored cars to quell unrest after a guard was beaten. Some 20 people were injured as 500 internees were rounded up under floodlights inside the 700 acre camp. No shots were fired.
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San Francisco
Tulelake
The
Chronicle
Siskiyo County
Robert Cozzen
WRA
Kai
Hawaii
Japan
Cozzens
WLB Expected to Approve Coal Wage Increase
Washington says the War Labor Board is ready to approve the $1.50 per day wage raise agreed by John L. Lewis and Harold Ickes as coal production slowly recovers after a three day strike.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
Harold Ickes
Wage agreement to raise coal mine pay and prices
A government settlement with the United Mine Workers of America will raise miner pay to end a near total stoppage and likely push coal prices up. Interior Secretary Ickes said he may ask the Office of Price Administration to raise coal prices as the bargaining board prepares to vote, with production behind schedule by tens of millions of tons.
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Washington—M
United Mine Workers of America
Ickes
U. S
Office of Price Administration
FBI Probes Background of Slain Truck Driver
FBI agents checked the background of Harry F. Atkinson of Detroit formerly of Norwich who was shot and killed by a policeman in Zanesville after trying to evade arrest. Atkinson, in civilian clothes, drove an Army car reported stolen in Detroit. Police halted him after a gas station reported he failed to show ration coupons.
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Zanesville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry F. Atkinson
Detroit
Norwich
Atkinson
Clifford Courtney
Steel output in Youngstown mills cuts deeper on coal strike
Carnegie-Illinois reduces blast in six furnaces to the output of five and Youngstown Sheet & Tube warns of similar cuts if coal supplies fail to arrive. Republic Steel also trims blast and semer operations, with total production likely to slip to 97 percent next week if coal reappears.
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Youngstown
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Republic Steel
Bessemer
High School Pupils Must Help on Farms in Ohio
Ohio farm labor supervisor Guy Dowdy told a state agricul ture meeting that high school students must be trained to boost food production by 25 percent next year despite a potential 25 to 30 percent drop in farm labor. He outlined regional training meetings and school-based programs to prepare volunteers for farm work. Dowdy cited 27,000 city dwellers helping harvest this season and urged efficient use of labor and machinery to offset shortages.
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Columbus
Guy Dowdy
Ohio
Agriculture Extension Service
Dowdy
Ers
Sys
Prison Break At Junction City Ends In Fatal Shooting
At the state prison camp near Junction City a prison break left Edward Hykes dead and three others injured as guards faced attackers. Nelson Palmer reported being cut and tied before attackers tried to seize keys. Tower guard Waldo McDonald fired, ending the mutiny after a flaming bottle was hurled.
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Junction City
Here
Nelson Palmer
Waldo McDonald
Edward Hykes
New Philadelphia
Robert McCall
Butler County
Alva Sewards
Gallia County
Trobbery
Navy Dependents Get Increased Pay on Time
Navy families were assured they would receive increased dependency payments on time despite bookkeeping changes from amendments to the servicemen's dependents allowance act. Rear Admiral F. E. McMillen said the next monthly payments would be made on November 30, noting last month's 513,716 checks totaled 26,054,093 dollars.
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Cleveland
Navy
F. E. McMillen
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Lucas County Group Backs Bricker for 4th Term
The Lucas County Republican Committee prepared a letter to Gov. John W. Bricker asking him to seek a fourth term at the May primaries and assuming he would also seek the Republican presidential nomination. Mayor James Garfield of Cincinnati announced plans to run for governor, regardless of Bricker’s decision.
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Toledo
Lucas County
Republican Committee
John W. Bricker
James Garfield
Cincinnati
Bricker
USO
Jap Puppet Leaders Hold Parley in Tokyo
Representatives of the Japanese government and five puppet states met in Tokyo to inaugurate the assembly of Greater East Asiatic Nations. The meeting aimed to establish a new Far East order as a fundamental factor for permanent world peace. The report came from a Tokyo broadcast.
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New York
Tokyo
Assembly of Greater
German Bomb Victims Reach Eight Million Homeless
Swiss dispatches report eight million Germans homeless as Allied bombings continue. Hamburg casualties total 152,000 with 42,000 killed in Kassel and 3,000 killed along with 12,000 made homeless in Düsseldorf raid Wednesday night. Paasikivi is noted for negotiating the 1940 winter war peace.
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Stockholm
Germany
Hamburg
Kassel
Duesseldorf
Paasikivi
Finland at stake for peace as German ally pressure rises
Finland presses for an honorable peace bound by the near collapse of its army and the loss of men and treasure. Moscow may offer an exit via the Baltic, while German divisions in the north threaten a separate peace. On the Russian front the Red Army advances near Kherson and Kiev, and in Italy Allied gains threaten the Masico line as Rom e faces renewed Allied pressure.
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Moscow
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Sozh
Kiev
Kherson
Crimea
Rumania
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Rome
Auruneci Mountains
Adriatic
San Salvo
Garignano
Venafro
Pescara
Istonia
Terni
Orte
iRome
Allied Air Blitz Hits Reich After Massive Bomber Attacks
RAF Mosquito bombers joined a record American and RAF assault, delivering about 4 000 tons of bombs on the Reich in 24 hours. Duesseldorf and Wilhelmshaven were targeted as fires burned. pathfinder flares illuminated night raids. Cairo talks with Turkey raise hope of air bases and possible alliance shifts.
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Leghorn
Civitavecchia
Balkans
Leros
Dodecanese
RAF
Germany
Reich
Air Ministry
Duesseldorf
Wilhelmshaven
The
East Anglia
Cairo
Anthony Eden l
Numan Menemencioglu
Turkey
Lou Costello’s Infant Son Drowns at Home
Hollywood reports comedian Lou Costello returns to radio after illness but announces the death of his infant son, Lou Costello Jr., who drowned in the estate pool at Van Nuys. The tragedy occurred hours before a scheduled broadcast.
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Lou Costello
Hollywood
Butch
Lou Costello, Jr
Costello Estate
van Nuys
Willis Sixth Kentucky Governor Seals GOP Victory
Louisville reports Simeon S. Willis a 63 year old Ashland attorney and former state court of appeals judge will become Kentucky's sixth Republican governor next month. The party also captured the lieutenant governor seat and five other state cabinet posts, ending a 1927 GOP governor vacancy.
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Louisville
Simeon S. Willis
Ashland
State Court of Appeals
Kentucky
Roosevelt appoints WLB panel to probe living costs
President Roosevelt named a War Labor Board committee to study the cost of living and report in 60 days. WLB Chairman William H. Davis leads with labor reps George Meany and R. J. Thomas. public members H. B. Norton and George K. Batt. The panel will assess rent clothing recreation and other costs beyond food. In Philadelphia CIO elects Philip Murray to a fourth term as president at its sixth constitutional convention.
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War Labor Board
Roosevelt
WLB
William H. Davis
George Meany
AFL
R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Labor
H. B. Norton
Chicago Bridge and Iron Company
George K. Batt
Bubon Brothers
Murray
Philadelphia
The
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Philip Murray
Soldier's Sweetheart Sends Censor Candy
Lieut. Seymour C. Karp, an Eighth Air Force mail censor at a fighter station, received a box of salt water taffy from Miss Olive Brooker of Mercerville New Jersey. The note explained it is in appreciation for the holes he cut in Bob Miller's letters.
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London
Seymour C. Karp
Sag Harbor
Long Island
Eighth Air Force
Olive Brooker
Mercerville
N. J
Karp
Bob
P.S
Sergt
Bob Miller
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