Railroads and Mines Face Strikes as Wage Talks Break
Labor fronts shake as coal and railroad workers threaten strikes over proposed wage plans. The War Labor Board set a deadline for coal mine resume work and warned of presidential seizure if strikes persisted. Railroad unions, joined by five transportation bodies, demanded higher pay while stressing no strike while peace efforts continue. Union leaders criticized the board while noting a $9 daily raise proposal and a $1.12 daily increase approved for some workers. The ballot ends November 25 with escalation possible if talks fail.
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WLB
Ohn L. Lewis
United Minerkers
Kesman
Illinois
Cesson
Teleto Lewis
UMW
Vct
Japs Prepare for Air Raids
London report outlines a complete reorganization of raid precautions with evacuation plans for large towns. Berlin radio quoted Kisaburo Ndo, interior minister, on transferring industries to rural areas and empowering the government to prohibit building and widen thoroughfares to halt fires.
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London
Berlin
Ans
Kisaburondo
Rts
Nazis Hold Rome Defenses Slow Allied Push in Italy
Allied forces press through central Italy as German mountain defenses delay progress toward Rome. British Eighth Army seizes Acquaviva and Civita Campomarano, five miles north of Petrella, while American Fifth Army pushes beyond Raviscanina and Francolise. Allied air power targets railways and supply dumps as Nazi rear guards retreat to fortified lines.
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Italy
Rome
Algiers
Eighth Army
Acquaviva
Civita Campomarano
Petrella
Fifth Army
Raviscanina
Francolise
Salonika
Sedes
Greece
Heraklion
Crete
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Hitler
Air raid pressure growth in German morale
Allied prisoners report German morale cracking under Allied bombing. Sir Archibald Sinclair cites 17,000 tons of bombs dropped in four weeks. Scotland's Thomas Johnston says prisoners believe the war could end by Christmas if bombers hold. Rommel seeks a decisive Luftwaffe win as winter looms on the Russian front.
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London
Germany
Archibald Sinclair
Thomas Johnston
Scotland
Erwin Rommel
Italy
Washington murder case links to jilted suitor and German threat
Police name Frederick C. Mergner as murder suspect in the death of Char te W. Robinson, a divorced resident, whose body was found on a rain soaked street near the capitol. The report also notes German naval tactics, Wolf Pack, and other wartime dispatches from London and Fort Worth attribution to various sections.
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Washington
Capitol
Eld
Frederick C. Mergner
Charte W .Robinson
Emmi Mallitz
Germany
Brown W. Robinson
Crown Lint
Ind
Chicago
CIVE
Vital Jap airfields wrecked by Yankees
Allied headquarters report three vital airfields on Bougainville and the Shortlands have been bombed into uselessness. Kahili and the Kara strip on Southern Bougainville and the Ballale fighter strip in the Shortlands are out of action as Japanese planes abandon them. Since June 30, MAC ARTHUR operations have destroyed over 400 Japanese aircraft. Bougainville remains key to blocking a move on Rabaul, with Japanese forces estimated around 40,000 keeping the line.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
Solomons
Rabaul
United States
Kahili
Kara Strip
Bougainville
Ballale
Shortlands
MacArthur
New Britain
Toy Shortage Worst in U S History
New York reports toy stocks at about 50 percent of normal as 2,000,000 more children enter the market amid a wartime birth rate rise. James L. Frn, managing director of Toy Manufacturers of the USA Inc, calls the shortage the worst on record and predicts supplies may not last past December 15, with most stock in stores and few reorders possible.
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New York
Santa Claus
U.S.A
Three New Air Routes Proposed in Midwest
Central Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve three Midwest to Norfolk routes. Two Chicago to Norfolk paths run via Indianapolis Cincinnati Huntington Charleston Roanoke and Richmond. A Detroit to Norfolk route would pass through Toledo Columbus Charleston Roanoke and Richmond. An underground gasoline tank exploded beneath a station causing three injuries.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Midwest
Norfolk
Chicago
Indianaplis
Ind
Cincinnati
Ohio
Huntington
Charleston
W. Va
Roanoke
Richmond
Detroit-Mich
Toledo
Columbus
USO
Urbana
Nazi Propagandists Warn Allies of Russian War Might
Madrid dispatch reports German propaganda showing increasing Russian manpower and materiel for the Dnieper battle. It quotes German spokesmen claiming 98 percent of Soviet equipment is home made, with few American tanks among the 100. Russian industry near the Urals is said to run at full capacity, leaving Allies unable to gauge Russia’s true war production.
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Madrid
United States
Britain
Stalin
Berlin
Ger
Urals
Russia
Liquor Tax and Postal Rates Under Scrutiny in Congress
The House Ways and Means Committee debated the speed of postal rate hikes and liquor tax increases. Some members warned the action could fuel bootlegging and hurt newspapers already suffering from reduced wartime advertising. A possible shift to a federal retail sales tax was raised for discussion. The plan would keep first class out of town letters at three cents, raise local rates, and double second class rates with higher money orders and C O D charges. Induction delays for pre war fathers also faced scrutiny amid broader drafting wrangles.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Robertson
D-Va
Carlson
R-Kas
Congress
War Manpower Commission
Airline executive warns planes costly after the war
Pittsburgh based C Bedell Monro president of Pennsylvania Central Airlines says planes will remain expensive even after the war. He notes private plane costs and a minimum 100 hour annual operation cost of 1020 dollars, citing traffic control issues and hoard of private flights.
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Pittsburgh
C. Bedell Monro
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
National Association of Commercial Organization
Pilot sacrifices ship by diverting enemy planes at Coral Sea
Navy Day recounts Lt. Paul Baker of San Diego as missing after his fuel depleted dive to draw Japanese aviators away from the carrier Lexington during the Coral Sea engagement. Baker had previously downed five Japanese planes and steered his craft into the night to avert an attack on the Lexington, sacrificing himself to save the ship.
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Washington
Lexington
J.g
Paul Baker
San Diego
Calif
C. H. Woodward
Coral Sea
Woodward
Tulagi
Baker
Yabal
Wickard Warns Land Boom Threatens Farms In Postwar Era
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard warned Chicago that a rising land boom could hurt farms by lifting land sales and values nationwide He urged immediate steps to curb inflation and head off the land boom as non war effort affecting policies and farm stability.
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Wickard
Chicago
Claude R. Wickard
October Liquor for Ohio Still Unreceived
State Liquor Director Don Fisher reports 74,000 cases of October liquor orders for Ohio are undelivered due to scarce railroad space and inbound freight cars. A separate Navy ceremony christened the service’s newest airship, with Mrs. Jean Rosen, wife of Rear Admiral C. E. Rosendahl, presiding during Navy Day events.
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Columbus
Old Saint Nick
Don Fisher
Donner
Blitzen
USO
Akron
Jean Rosendahil
C. E. Rosendahl
Navy
America
Dey
Government Losses In Food Explained
The Commodity Credit Corporation cites rusted cans weevils flood damage and contamination as causes of large government food losses. A previously unpublished CCC report to the House Banking Committee notes huge canned meat fish vegetables and milk losses with CCC paying about one dollar per five thousand spent. Rep Crawford questions unnecessary losses in CCC records.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
House Banking Committee
Crawford
R-Mich
West Virginia Miners Quit in Wage Strike
The Charleston dispatch reports 900 more miners left the pits as the coal industry weighs the War Labor Board's counter proposal of a 1.12 and a half dollar daily wage increase. In total twelve operations shut down and 4,139 workers did not report for work, leaving only three producing mines in Monongalia County. Industrial Collieries Richard Mine, Bethlehem Steel captive with 480 workers and 54,265 monthly tons, Koppers Federal No. 3 with 239 workers and 50,332 monthly tons, and River Seam Booth No. 2 remain active.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Monongalia County
Industrial Collieries Company
Richard
Bethlehem Steel
Koppers Coal Division
Everettville
River Seam Coal Company
Booth
Milk Agency Admits Defeat on Price Rise
Harrisburg Pa The Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission conceded it cannot raise milk prices without Office of Price Administration approval under current federal price ceilings. It said it is helpless to boost retail prices two or three cents a quart or grant producers increases over 90 cents per hundred pounds.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission
Office of Price Administration
Moscow Parley Advances as Delegates Open Key Issues
Delegates from Britain, the United States, and Russia reached major questions in the tri-partite conference. By the ninth session, one participant offered the official view so far so good, while caution remained that the talks are not near completion and will continue beyond today.
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Moscow
Government Beef Subsidy Plan In Effect
Washington announces a beef subsidy plan aimed at aiding slaughterers with no meat price effect at retail. Vinson says flat 1.10 per hundredweight for live cattle, plus a graded schedule for common to good grades, and 80 cents per hundredweight for non processing slaughterers, financed by economies from replacing the flat subsidy.
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Washington
Vinson
USO
LAW Chief Loses Fight In Texas High Court
AUSTIN Texas The State Supreme Court denied the petition for discharge of R J Thomas president of the United Automobile Workers and ordered him remanded to Travis County sheriffs to serve a contempt judgment of 100 dollars fine and three days in jail for violating a restraining order against soliciting union membership without an organizer's permit under Texas labor union rules.
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Austin
Tex
State Supreme Court
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Travis County
Thomas
Texas
Russians Press Wider Push in Crimea and Dnieper Bend
Moscow dispatches report Krivoi Rog near fall as Russian forces batter German lines across South Russia. Twelve thousand Germans said killed with 100 towns captured and advances up to 12 miles. Other fronts include Yugoslavia where Germans push to reclaim territory, and Greece where two guerrilla armies clash on the Pindus route.
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Krivoi Rog
Iron City
Russia
Dnieper
Berlin
Crimea
Veseloye
Melitopol
Krivol Rog
Kiev
White Russia
Gomel
Orsha
Slovenia
Josip (Tito) Broz
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Free Yugoslav Radio
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Dalmatia
Cairo
Greece
Pindus Road
Pindus Mountains
Edes
Napoleon Zervas
Elas
Col
Seraenkis
USO
Month's Vacation for Colleges Is Advocated
Washington The Office of Defense Transportation urged colleges and prep schools to grant a month long Christmas New Year holiday starting by December 15 and ending no earlier than January 11 1944 to ease anticipated rail and bus congestion. Captain Clark Gable, former movie star with the Eighth Air Force in Britain, has arrived in Washington.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Ohio to Spend Seventy Million on Entertainment in 1943
Ohio residents are projected to spend about 70 million dollars on entertainment in 1943, with 53 million of that from movie admissions. The three percent state admissions tax has already yielded over 1.66 million through October, and officials expect final quarterly totals to reach 2.1 million. P. J. Wood of Independent Theater Owners of Ohio cites war conditions and consumer demand driving movie, night club, and ball game attendance as relaxation amid hardship.
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Columbus
Joe Buckeye
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
P. J. Wood
Independent Theater Owners of Ohio
Wood
Submarine Runner Lost in Pacific Patrol
Washington reports the 1,525 tone Runner submarine has been lost in the Pacific. The Navy notes it brought total submarine losses to 14 since the war began, with about 65 crewmen aboard. Built at Portsmouth Navy Yard New Hampshire, the vessel operated amid heavy Japanese shipping tolls.
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Washington
Pacific
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Portsmouth
N. H
Models Still Friends Despite Cutting Fray
Two young models in New York formed a roommate split after one faced a grand jury indictment for felonious assault on the other. Marilyn Hiller 17 Canton testified Virginia Leith 18 Wycoff New Jersey slashed her with a razor over a quarrel about reading light.
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New York UM
Marilyn Hiller
Canton
Virginia Leith
Wycoff
N. J
BIS To Train Boys For War Plant Jobs
Lancaster report says the Boys Industrial School will begin training inmates for Ohio war industry jobs using vocational equipment from the defunct National Youth Administration. About 100 BIS inmates trained in NVA shops at Newark and Chillicothe last summer, per Supt. Cletus Sheetz. In Kent, high voltage power lines felled onto a truck after a traffic crash, electrocuting driver Wallace Murran, 26, of Youngstown.
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Boys’ Industrial School
Ohio War Industries
National Youth Administration
Cletus Sheetz
BIS
NVA
Newark
Chillico
Sheetz
Kent
Wallace Murran
Youngstown
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