Dewey level attacks Roosevelt over sale of privileges
Governor Thomas E. Dewey accused President Roosevelt of backing a plan to sell special privilege to 1000 contributors for the Democratic fourth term fund. He cited a letter from Arkansas campaign directors and a White House conference as evidence of New Deal politics seeking to barter influence for money. Dewey pledged a new administration with no privilege for sale and called out alleged deceit in federal bank insurance claims. He spoke in Chicago and planned an agrarian address in Syracuse en route to Albany.
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Dewey
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Chicago
Tom
Little Rock
Ark
H. L. McAlister
Sam J. Watkins
Arkansas
White House
Robert E. Hannegan
Edwin Pauley
United States
Congress
Arthur Vandenburg
Michigan
Syracuse
Captive 26 Enemy Ships Sunk in Pacific Battle Off Philippines
Allied reports claim more than 26 Japanese ships sunk or heavily damaged in a three pronged battle near the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur note eight ships sunk and three probably sunk, with extensive damage across battleships cruisers destroyers and carriers. The clash, tied to MacArthur's invasion, is described as among the war’s greatest naval engagements.
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Philippines
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
China
Nimitz
General MacArthur
More Buzz Bombs Hit Britain Overnight
German flying bombs attacked Southern England during the night with launches from northeast and southeast. London issued only a brief alert amid the air raid activity.
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Britain
London
England
Bricker Attacks New Deal On Class Hatred Theme
Shawnee Oklahoma AP report quotes Gov. John W. Bricker declaring the New Deal scourged the employer and sparked class hatreds riots and strikes. He links workers and bosses as two wheels on one axle and says government must ease strain to boost production wages and profits. He criticizes Hillman Browder and Communists in drive seat of the New Deal.
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Shawnee
Okla
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
Bricker
The
Ohioan
Sidney Hillman
Political Action Committee
Earl Browder
New Traffic Plan Proposed for Postwar Columbus Streets
Earl J. Reeder, chief traffic engineer of the National Safety Council, urges sidewalks on streets with pedestrian volume, early highway lighting, and tunnels or overpasses at heavy traffic intersections as a postwar traffic safety plan discussed at the Ohio Traffic Engineering Conference in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Earl J. Reeder
National Safety Council
Ohio
Reeder
Warn Boards Against Rejecting Vets Votes
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel advised election boards not to reject soldier ballots because envelopes looked opened. He cited a War Department letter noting many tampered looking letters were damaged by tropical atmospheric conditions.
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Columbus
Edward J. Hummel
Hummel
War Department
Tropics
Aged Inmate of Gallia State Hospital Dies
Miss Emma Kleckner an inmate of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics died last night at 101 after spending 46 years of her life in the institution.
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Gallia State Hospital
Gallipolis
Emma Kleckner
Ohio Hospital
Voters on Fence Attract Efforts of Both Parties
Washington heads into a campaign season as indepen dent voters hold the balance. Republicans for Roosevelt form on the West Coast led by Bartley Crum criticizes foreign policy. Democratic dissenters and Republicans opposing the New Deal gain prominence with figures like Senator W Lee O Daniel Rep John M Costello and Senator Ellison D Smith backing anti reelection efforts. Cotton Smith helps organize a meeting of anti Roosevelt Democrats to plan campaigns against the president.
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Washington
Joseph H. Ball
Minnesota
Bartley C. Crum
San Francisco
Club
Cotton
Bridgehead Over Vistula Reported In Renewed Offensive
Russian and Polish troops penetrate across the Vistula north of Warsaw in a fresh drive threatening Berlin and East Prussia. In the south Russians complete Transylvania conquest while Kirkenes falls in the Arctic. Allied forces push on Walcheren and South Beveland as Montgomery seals Dutch pockets.
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Vistula River
Warsaw
East Prussia
Moscow
Berlin
Gumbinnen
Goldap
Transylvania
Arctic
Kirkenes
Antwerp
Walcheren
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Holland
Bergen Op Zoom
Hertogenbosch
Hertogendbosch
Moergestel
Tilburg
Antwerp-Breda Road
Beveland
Battle Line
Maas
North Sea
Swiss Alps
Epinal
Vosges Mountains
AP War Correspondent Ace Bush Killed by Jap Bomb
San Francisco report states 31 year old Associated Press war correspondent Asahel Ace Bush was killed by a Japanese bomb at Tacloban on Leyte island in the Philippines while finishing a story in an abandoned ammunition dump during the Hollandia invasion. A plane dropped a bomb minutes after he completed his dispatch.
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San Francisco
Asahel
Ace
Bush
Associated Press
Tacloban
Leyte Island
Philippines
Hollandia
New Guinea
Postwar Electrification Plan Aims to Reach Ohio Homes
A three year rural electrification program proposed by the Agriculture Department would serve 16,500 Ohio customers and create a 5.546 billion dollar outlet for electrical goods. The plan includes 1.02 billion dollars for line construction. Meanwhile two new polio cases were reported in Columbus expanding this year totals to 1,048 oral cases.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ohio
Columbus
James Bauman
GM Postwar Spending To Reach Half Billion
New York GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr outlined postwar production plans stating expenditures are likely to reach or exceed the previously announced 500 million dollar program. Funds will reorganize facilities to resume motorcars trucks and other peacetime products. Prewar capacity will be expanded to meet near term demand while aligning with longer term prospects. Money will also improve employee facilities and expand nonproduction facilities.
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New York
Alfred P.sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Sloan
More Top Grade Meat Expected Next Month
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration predicts a larger supply of top grade meats in November though still extremely limited relative to demand. The civilian ration period for five weeks beginning Sunday will see overall meat supply 2.4 percent below October’s average.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Cleveland Fire Death Toll Rises to 124
Detectives probing the Cleveland gas plant disaster report a man near the liquefied gas facility said the initial blast came from a lone cylindrical container. The death toll reached 124 with 43 identified, 69 still listed as missing, including 45 company employees.
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Cleveland
East Onio Gas Co
Pilot Shot in Uprising Says It Was Mistake
NEW ORLEANS Capt. Lewis DeWeese a Kent Ohio native and commercial air lines pilot said at a hotel where he was treated for wounds from last week's uprising in Guatemala that it seemed to be a case of mistaken identity and that neither side was careful about who they shot.
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New Orleans
Lewis DeWeese
Commercial Airlines
Kent, O
Guatemala
First Gas Range Is Finished by Tappan
Seventeen days after the War Production Board permitted partial civilian production, the Tappan Stove Company completed its first gas range since 1942, rolling off the assembly line yesterday with the plant reporting the milestone.
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Tappan
Yanks Advance Through Rain and Mud on Leyte
General MacArthur's headquarters report heavy fighting as American forces push through mud and rain in Leyte, sealing off Japanese supply lines. Northern front corps complete shore to shore moves, capturing Samar coast and severing the main supply route via San Juanico Strait.
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Leyte
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Valley
10Th Corps
Samar Island
Samar
Philippine Island
San Juanico Strait
Oil Pact To Be Protested At Ohio Meeting
Columbus—A resolution protesting the Anglo American petroleum agreement will be drafted within ten days by the National Council of Independent Petroleum Associations, with Eric V. Weber of the Ohio Petroleum Marketeers Association chairing the drafting committee. Senator Robert A. Taft said the treaty might be the biggest cartel ever seen.
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Columbus
National Council of Independent Petroleum Associations
Eric V. Weber
Ohio Petroleum Marketeers Association
Weber
National Association
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Jackson Ration Board Denies Candidates Gas
The Jackson County ration board's gasoline panel will not grant extra gasoline to two candidates, defying OPA rules that office seekers are entitled to it. John H. Summers, district OPA director, vowed to enforce regulations even if it requires removing board members.
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Columbus
Jackson County Ration Board
District Office of Price Administration
OPA
John H. Summers
German Commander Killed in Belgrade Bombing
London dispatch reports General Schneckenburger, commander of a German army corps, was killed by Russian aircraft during a low level attack on an advanced trench position near Belgrade.
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London
Berlin
Schneckenburger
Belgrade
Japs Trapped Near Formosa in Major Pacific Battle
Nimitz reports two engagements with a large Japanese task force south of Formosa trapped by U S carrier planes and warships, a decisive air sea clash northeast of Leyte and off Samar, plus earlier Leyte Gulf actions. Japan admits sinking ships while losses mount, and Nipponese fleet escapes under cover of night amid potential broader destruction.
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Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Philipspines
Nimitz
Formosa
U. S
Leyte
Samar Island
Sibuyan Sea
MacArthur
Leyte Gulf
Princeton
Seventh Fleet
Imperial
Philippine Sea
Philippines
Admiral Halsey
Asiatic Fleet routs Japanese carrier force near Formosa
The three day battle southeast of Formosa saw Vice Adm Mitscher and Halsey carrier pilots rout a major Japanese fleet. Nimitz reports two battleships damaged in Sulu Sea actions and four destroyers strafed. Japan lost about 14 carriers, with seven US carriers sunk including an escort carrier. Admirals King, Nimitz, and MacArthur comments frame a waning Japanese carrier threat as homeland defense hinges on land based air power.
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Emperor Hirohito
U. S
Pacific
MacArthur
Formosa
Adm. Mitscher
Imperial Navy
Sulu Sea
Nimitz
United States
Halsey
Adm
Ernest J. King
U.S
Philippines
Ohio panel to report on mental health plan in ten days
In Columbus the governors committee on a mental health program for Ohio will issue a full report within ten days, chaired by Hal H. Griswold of Cleveland. In London Princess Beatrice, 88, last surviving child of Queen Victoria and mother of former Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, died today.
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Columbus
Governor’s Committee
Ohio
Hal H. Griswold
Cleveland
London
Beatrice
Britain
Queen Victoria
Victoria Eugenia
Spain
Sea Triumph May Shorten Pacific War Duration
Washington reports a crushing Japanese defeat in Philippine waters could end the war months sooner. Analysts say loss of Japan as a navy would free American task forces to smash remaining enemy ships and bases while air forces relieve pressure on China’s fronts. Admiral King noted most of Japan’s fleet involved.
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Admiral Halsey
Pacific
General MacArthur
Leyte
Sea Triumph
Pacific Zone
Washington
Philippine
Japan
Ernest J. King
Navy
Vitory
Philippines
King
Singapore
Army Air Forces
China
U. S. 14Th Air Force
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South China Sea
Uzon
Mindorg
Sorneo
Panay
Miles
Philippine Islands
Mindanaq
Gertrude Sanford LeGendre
Laddie Sanford
Army
Sidney P. McGendre
Mt. Holly
S. C
Warn
Vistula
South Beveland
Rilland
Oostburg
Cadzand
Montgomery
Breda
Meuse
Nijmegen
Jap Shell
Uprising
Jackson Ration Board
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