Price Stabilization Fight Moves to Senate Action
Congress debates Roosevelt price stabilization plan as administration aims for a comprehensive bill. Senate subcommittee chair Brown says a measure will be introduced and quickly moved in the Banking Committee while Republicans challenge the President’s approach. The Finance Committee supports a 7.675 billion dollar tax package plus a 5 percent levy on high earners to fund postwar goals, with credits and war bonds as settlement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Brown
D.-Mich
Senate
Congress
Capitol Hill
Butler
R-Neb
Rep
Fish
R-Ny
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Fire Stricken Ex-Liner Manhattan Saved at Sea
The naval transport Wakefield formerly the liner Manhattan was burned on Sept. 3 but all 1,600 passengers and crew were saved. The ship was towed to an Atlantic coast port after a dramatic rescue as warships protected the convoy. Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury led a fire party back aboard to curb the blaze.
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Manhattan
Washington
Wakefield
Navy
Queen
United States
Harold Gardner Bradbury
Port Angeles
Coast Guard
Bradbury
U. S
Gallia Youth Reported Killed in Sea Action
The Navy casualty list reports four Ohioans killed in action and 10 missing from Aug. 13 to Aug. 30. Among the dead is Clifford Sullins, seaman of Bidwell in Gallia County.
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Washington
Navy
Clifford Sullins
Seaman
Bidwell
Gallia County
The Best Mouse Trap Ad Appeal for Athens Classifieds
A short sales pitch urges Mr Business Man to advertise daily in Classified to remain visible to new families moving into Athens. It suggests the inexpensive approach and includes a dial number 0242 for contact.
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Athens
Classified
Break Near as Uses Rejects Vichy Protest
The United States rejected Vichy's protest over air raids on occupied France. Pierre Laval delivered the protest to the American chargé d affaires in Vichy, which was immediately refused. Laval cited Le Havre and Rouen casualties as 50 killed and 130 injured. Pinkney Tuck Drew warned bombs would continue on German military sites.
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Washington
United States
Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
State Department
Laval
le Havre
Rouen
Pinkney Tuck Drew
Germany
British U S Vessels Added to U Boat Toll
The torpedoing and sinking of an American freighter in the North Atlantic and a British merchantman in the Caribbean raised Allied and neutral losses in the Western Atlantic to 459 since Dec 7. Two sailors and two naval gunners are missing from the American ship. Forty six survivors from the American vessel were rescued. All 58 men aboard the British ship were rescued by a U S warship.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Caribbean
Associated Press
Atlantic
United States
Curtiss-Wright opens engineering classes to women
Glendale Calif engineering courses at Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute will open to women on September 14 due to manpower shortages and rising demand for aircraft engineers.
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Glendale
Calif
Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute
MacArthur urges troops to kill one Japanese apiece in New Guinea action
General MacArthur told U S troops in the field today that all he asked of them in action was to kill one Japanese apiece. Allied forces slowed the Japanese drive on The Gap a 5000 foot pass in the Owen Stanley Range near Port Moresby as heavy jungle fighting raged below.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
United States
Onets
Owen Stanley
United Nations
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Trail
Milner Bay
Normandy Island
Rocriand Islands
Buna
Soviet Hold At Stalingrad As Nazi Assault Intensifies
Soviet reports say German tanks and infantry pressed a fresh push on Stalingrad's western defenses under dive bomber cover. Soviet lines claim no further withdrawals, while reinforcements and renewed attacks keep the Volga city jealously contested amid broader Caucasus fighting. The Mosdok area near Grozny sees heavy clashes with German casualties reported. Churchill’s war review is printed in Soviet papers as Britain and the United States pledge aid.
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Stalingrad
Moscow
Churchill
Britain
United States
Russia
Iran
Persia
Iraq
Caucasus
Middle East
Central
Baku
Rostov
Mosdok
Grozny
Terek
Jewish Children Sheltered by Catholic Leaders in France
In unoccupied France Catholic leaders shelter Jewish children defying orders to surrender them, creating an open rift between the Vichy government and priests, per Fighting French Press service.
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London
France
Kieht Killed as Bomber Crashes in Newark Street
A mid day twin motor Army bomber crashed into a Newark apartment, killing eight people. Six crew aboard and two women bystanders died. Firemen and Army officers identified victims including Mrs. A L Weston and Mrs. Dollie Campbell. Parachute failures caused two crew to plunge to earth.
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Kieht
Newark Street
Newark
A. L. Weston
Dollie Campbell
Russell E. Newlin
Indianapolis
A. Pecon
Dayton
Wright Field
Licking County
Weston
EF. J. Edmonds
Roland Jones
Louis Mitchell
Lawrence S. Lawyer
Freeport
Ill
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Douglas M. Kilpatrick
Houma
Charles Watson
Corp
R. A. Arens
Sawyer
Newlin
Pecon
British Gun Factory Shipped to United States
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. announced in the Saturday Evening Post that a British gun factory once in a bombed English city has been dismantled and sent to the United States. He said lend-lease is now a two way street and the transfer shows cooperation beyond aid to U S allies. The guns will be used by American soldiers, with Britain feeling repaid for damage inflicted on Germany and Japan.
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Philadelphia
England
United States
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
Stettinius
Saturday Evening Post
U. S
Lewis T Stobart Dies At Racine Residence
Lewis Thomas Stobart age 31 died Tuesday night at his Racine home after a three month illness. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 30 PM at his parents home, Mr and Mrs John Stobart. He leaves a wife Ola and two children Shirley 6 and Mary Grace four months, plus a sister Hazel and brothers Charles Cleveland and John Point Pleasant.
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Pomeroy
Lewis Thomas Stobart
Racine
John Stobart
Hazel
Charles
Cleveland
John
Point Pleasant
Production up as Patterson hails tanks planes and Eagle Squadrons
In Cleveland Robert Patterson said U S tank output rose to impressive levels and last month produced more warplanes than Germany, Japan and Italy combined. He forecast December tank production doubling and praised American crews and aircraft including P 40 Hawks and P 47 Thunderbolts. London reports credit three American Eagle squadrons with destroying 53 enemy planes.
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Eagle Squadron
Cleveland
Robert P. Patterson
Germany
Japan
Italy
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
Patterson
London
Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Forces
Air Ministry
Power To Head GOP Campaign Committee
The Ohio Republican Party moves to organize its campaign effort for the general election with Don Power, executive secretary to Governor John W Bricker, expected to lead the state campaign as directors are appointed for other state offices.
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Columbus
Republican Party
Ohio
Navy
Don. Power
John W. Bricker
Johnston Takes Over As Gallia Probate Judge
Hollis C. Johnston assumed the duties of Gallia County Probate Judge today by appointment of Governor Bricker. He will serve until November 4, handling duties for the county in the interim.
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Johnston
Gallia
Gallipolis
Hollis C. Johnston
Gallia County
Bricker
RAF Night Raids Hit Frankfurt and Rhineland
British bombers conducted a sixth night raid on Germany hitting Frankfurt with large fires reported by the air ministry. Other Rhineland targets were struck while fighter command carried out offensive patrols. Seven bombers were missing, plus three fighters and two coast command aircraft from patrol operations.
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London
Germany
Frankfurt
Air Ministry
Frankfort
Rhineland
Fighter Command
Coast Command
le Havre
Cherbourg
Rigid Enforcement of Price Ceilings Planned
New York Price Administrator Leon Henderson pledged strict enforcement of price ceilings and supported President Roosevelt’s inflation control push. He warned ceilings would be enforced to the hilt and called Labor Day actions from Congress inevitable.
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John James Powers
New York
Coral Sea
Roosevelt
Powers
Leon Henderson
Henderson
The
Research Institute of America
Congress
Ohio Poor Relief Costs Hit Decade Low in August
Ohio’s poor relief outlays fell to about 847000 in August, nine percent below July’s record low. For eight months of 1942 the total will approach 8594756, versus 12073519 in the same period last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Wakefield disaster survivors praise Navy rescue teamwork
Survivors of the Wakefield described a 20 minute fire ordeal at sea with civilians from a northern base among the passengers. Navy destroyer and cruiser crews fought the flames and helped passengers to safety while Marines maintained order aboard the burning transport. The Wakefield, named for Washington’s birthplace, was a swift former wartime liner carrying Americans from Europe at the war’s outbreak.
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Wakefield
Navy
Robert Crabtree
Pawtucket
R. I
Sven Gothe
Cambridge
Mass
Crabtree
Atlantic
Washington
Virginia
America
Europe
Freeland
Chicago Grocer Jailed For Hoarding Sugar
Chicago grocer John Freshman 28, operator of a South Side store, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to hoarding sugar. He allegedly possessed 22 000 pounds while reporting 2 500 pounds to the Office of Price Administration and falsified weekly sugar sales totals.
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Chicago
John Freshman
South Side
Freshman
Office of Price Administration
Earl Haig 24 Reported Prisoner of War in Italy
London report confirms Earl Haig son of the British World War commander is a prisoner of war in Italy after being listed missing in the Middle East last month.
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London
Government to control truck bus and taxicab operations
The Office of Defense Transportation orders control of commercial vehicles by Nov 15 to conserve transport for war. About 5,000,900 trucks 150,000 buses 50,000 cars fall under the rule with fuel tire and accessory checks and certificates of war necessity required. Gasoline rationing may extend beyond the eastern states to meet winter heating needs.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Con
Senator Green
D-Ri
Roosevelt
Joseph B. Eastman
ODT Directir
Los Com
Office of Price Administration
Britain’s War Costs Rise Daily in Vote of Credit Debate
London reports Chancellor Sir Kingsley Wood defending a 1,000,000,000 pound vote of credit while noting war expenditure in recent weeks averaged 12,250,000 pounds daily and has risen by 2,000,000 pounds per day since June. He cited 3 years of war costing about 10,000,000,000 pounds and total expenditure near 12,100,000,000 pounds with 40 percent funded by taxation.
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London
Kingsley Wood
Britain
Army Sleuths Uncover Tons of Scrap Metal
Army sleuths in Northern Ohio uncover 2000 tons of steel rails at East Liverpool 100 tons of steel equipment near Amsterdam 1850 tons of scrap at a derelict boiler works in Lowellville and 1200 tons in Cleveland junk yards as part of a metals recovery effort.
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Cleveland
Ohio
East Liverpool
Amsterdam
Lowellville
Two Bombers Collide: Six Army Fliers Killed
In Roswell New Mexico a midair collision between two training bombers during a practice flight at 4000 feet killed six Army aviators. The Ohio group included Lieut Oscar W Predmore 27 of Franklin Ohio Cadet Allen W Hattoi Lakewood Ohio and Pvt Vernon T McKelvey 30 from Fort Cobb.
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Roswell
N. M
Ohio
Oscar W. Predmore
Franklin
Allen W. Hattoi
Lakewood
Vernon T. McKelvey
Fort Cobb
Mrs. John L. Lewis Dies in Washington
Mrs. John L. Lewis wife of the UMWA president died early today after a lingering illness in Washington. Survivors include her husband a son John L. Lewis Jr a medical student and a daughter Kathryn secretary treasurer of District 50 UMWA. The family resided in Alexandria Virginia.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis Jr
Kathryn
District 50
The
United Mine Workers
Alexandria
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