Wheeler Promises Fast Vote to Ban Father Draft Inductions
Senator Wheeler of Montana says he will oppose any delay by the administration on his bill to halt the drafting of fathers into the armed forces. He amends the proposal to ban inductions definitively rather than postponing action until after January 1.
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Wheeler
Washington
Mont
Senate
High Command
Congress
Army
Navy
Barkley
General Marshall
Admiral King
Military Affairs Committee
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
House
Rep
Fulbright
D-Ark
Submarine Grenadier Lost and Subchasers Downd in War Zones
The Navy reported the loss of the submarine Grenadier overdue and presumed lost, plus two subchasers 694 and 969 in the Mediterranean from an August 23 enemy bombing. The dispatch also notes U S policy shifts on draft timing and calls for hearings with General Marshall and Admiral King.
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Washington
Grenadier
Navy Today
Pacific
Mediterranean
Barber and Beauty Shops Declared Essential
CHICAGO-UM The War Production Board considers beauty and barber shops essential for continued operation. Donald R Longman head of the service trades division of the Office of Civilian Requirements spoke to the National Beauty and Barber Manufacturers Association.
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Chicago
The
War Production Board
Donald R Longman
Service Trades Division
Office of Civilian Requirements
National Beauty and Barber Manute Association
Bombers Hit Paramushiro As Aleutians Drive Proceeds
U S Army Liberator and Mitchell bombers struck Paramushiro in the Kurile Islands as part of resumed operations after the Aleutian conquest. The attack, described as a coordinated effort, killed or damaged defense forces, shot down several enemy fighters, and left four U S planes missing.
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Washington
Japan
Kurile Islands
Aleutians
Navy
Paramushiro
Liberator
U. S
FCC chief calls for objectivity in radio news reports
Chairman James L. Fly of the FCC urged improvement in radio news broadcasts and hoped the industry would pursue objectivity in straight news reports. He said he did not fault legitimate interpretive comments but criticized a broadcast described as news but framed as opinion.
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Washington
James L. Fly
The
Communications Commission
Fly
Living Costs Fourth Higher in Cleveland August 1943
The Labor Department reports Cleveland’s cost of living for the month ending August 15 rose 25 percent from January 1941 the base date of the Little Steel formula. Food costs in Ohio Michigan Indiana and Kentucky cities rose 6.5 to 10.4 percent year over year. Cleveland’s overall index stood at 127.8 percent up 0.1 percent from July and 7.5 percent from August 1942.
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Cleveland
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ohio
Michigan-Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio relief costs dip to 1943 August low
Ohio relief costs fell to 514000 in August down from July and eight month totals show a 44 percent drop from 1942 and 60 percent from 1941. About 14000 relief cases were reported in August versus 28985 in 1942 and 45353 in 1941. SYDNEY Australia Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt departed Australia after an all day visit.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Welfare Department
Sydney
Australia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stolen Cash From Cleveland Man’s Trunk
Police report a theft of $26,820 from a trunk under a west side man’s bed. Albert Schmeeberger said thieves missed $19,000 of his savings and that he liked to keep his money where he could see it. Police Capt. Patrick J. Lynch filed the report.
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Cleveland
Patrick J. Lynch
West Side
Albert Schmeeberger
Lynch
Mobile press publisher conttempt conviction dismissed
A Mobile judge dismissed the contempt conviction of Ralph B. Chandler publisher of the Mobile Press and Register. Probate Judge Norvelle R Leigh Jr ruled contempt for criticizing a judge or court must target a pending undecided matter, noting final disposition had occurred before the editorial publication.
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Mobile
Ala
Ralph B. Chandler
Mobile Press and Register
Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr
Leigh
Prisoners of War Urged to Help Process Concord Grapes
Kalamazoo Michigan reports officials from two plants seeking Italian POW labor to aid in Concord grape processing this year due to manpower shortages. They request public volunteers including white collar workers and students to relieve the shortage if possible.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Drafted father from Highland Park granted furlough at Fort Custer
A Highland Park man, Harry A Barany, 27, arrives with his two young daughters at the Fort Custer recruit reception center and is granted a furlough to arrange care for the children. Army officials say Barany does not know the whereabouts of the children's mother and has no one to leave them with.
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Highland Park
Mich
Army
A. T. Etcheson
Ft. Custer
Harry A. Barany
Shortage of Liquor To Revive Bootleg Foe Warns
President M L Curtis of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association warned wartime liquor shortages could revive bootlegging gangs. In a speech for the sixth annual meeting he cited dwindling spirit reserves and urged Treasury alcohol tax aid to fight enforcement problems. He noted bootleggers already promote illicit spirits under known brands as federal tax rises push prices.
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Columbus
M. L. Curtis
National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association
America
Curtis
Treasury Department
Alcohol Tax Unit
Iowa
State Liquor Commission
Renegotiation Law Criticized By Industry Leader
J F Lincoln of Lincoln Electric Co Cleveland testifies to House Ways and Means Committee on renegotiation of war contracts praising recourse to courts and condemning price adjustment boards for undermining industry. He argues the law punishes efficiency while rewarding inefficiency and warns of destruction to industries.
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Washington
J. F. Lincoln
Lincoln Electric Co
Cleveland
House
Ways and Means Committee
United States
Lincoln
Bond sales exceed two billion as war loan nears goal
Treasury officials report 2.369 billion dollars raised toward the 15 billion third war loan. Delaware leads per cent with 28, New York 24, North Carolina 16 as of the three day totals. In London, Tokyo radio says the Teia Maru ship left Yokohama with Americans held since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Treasury
Delaware
New York
North Carolina
London
Ine
Berlin
Tokyo
Yokohama
Pearl Harbor
Russians Capture Bryansk Breaching Nazi Defense Line
Russian forces seized Bryansk driving through the main German defense west of the Desna. Moscow said the city evacuated in good order with heavy German losses and large stockpiles abandoned, opening a path toward White Russia and the Dnieper front.
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London
Bryansk
Dnieper
Keystone
Moscow
Desna
Kiev
Dnieperopétrovsk
DNB
Berlin
Red Army
Sea of Azov
Crimea
White Russia
Ukraine
Reinforcements Clamp Salerno Front as Allies Close North
Allied reinforcements flood Salerno as British Eighth Army pushes north toward a Clark-led American Fifth Army front. German counterattacks surge with heavy fighting on the 24 mile Salerno front while Axis forces send tens of thousands into Italy. Parallel advances continue along the southern Adriatic coast with Cosenza and Bari secured.
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London
Salerno
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eighth Army
Fifth Army
France
Russia
U. S
Eboli
Bernard L. Montomery
Cosenza
Adriatic
Bari
Brindisi
Hermann Goering
Tunisia
Medjez el Bab
Sicily
Alps
Algiers
Rome
Balkans
Belgrade
Montenegro
Germany
Benito Mussolini
United Nations
Farm Gas Shortage Probed by Senate Subcommittee
A Senate agriculture subcommittee questioned Office of Price Administration officials about a farm gasoline shortage raising production costs. Senator Aiken says farmers, especially in the East, struggle to obtain gas for equipment and seeks to determine if the shortage is real or man made by government rules.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Office of Price Administration
Aiken
R-Vt
East
Boy War Bonds Ickes Cites New Need For Conserving Coal
In Washington Harold L Ickes Solid Fuels Administrator noted slight declines in both anthracite and bituminous coal output for the week ended Sept 4. He said the reductions show the need to conserve fuel especially given the possible production burden from Italy's capitulation.
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Washington
Solid Fuels
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Italy
Food subsidy fight carried over to Capitol action
Congress returns to the food subsidy issue with Aster Bowles leading the Office of Price Administration. Bowles reports that subsidies and price controls aim to lower living costs, with plans to cut prices on milk and staple foods and replace ration stamps with tokens.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
Capitol
Aster Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Bowles
Senate
OPA
Reconstruction Finance
Begin Job of Segregating Interned Japs
President Roosevelt told the Senate that the War Relocation Authority has begun segregating loyalty facing evacuees from 95 000 in Japanese relocation centers. About 6 300 will be moved to Tule Lake to Kabul camp for repatriation or expatriation as hearings decide further segregation. The president noted the disloyal among evacuees are a small minority.
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Roosevelt
Senate
War Relocation Authority
Japan
WRA
Tule Lake
Newell
Calif
Bay War Bonds Meigs Flier Decorated Fourth Time in Pacific
Two airmen awarded third Oak Leaf Clusters, equivalent to a fourth Distinguished Flying Cross, for transporting supplies and troops to forward positions in the Pacific. Flight Officer Burl S. Ashley of Letart Falls Ohio and Flight Officer Claude W. Patterson of Samsa Kentucky cited.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Burl S. Ashley
Letart Falls
Meigs County
Ohio
Claude W. Patterson
Samsa
Bahamans Refuse Farm Work in Ohio
Twenty one Bahamas migrants refused to work on small farms near Bloomfield and were jailed in Trumbull County awaiting a decision. Spokesman Ishmall Gaitor said objections cited banks being too short and housing conditions as inadequate. Navy lists missing Robert W. Shumate, son of Orse Shumate of Oak...
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Warren
Bahamas
Bloomfield
Trumbull
Ishmall Gaitor
Washington
Navy
Robert W. Shumate
Orse Shumate
Oak
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R.N
U. SS
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
Ottawa
Defense
J. L. Ralston
Dominion
Montanan
Japs’ Kurile Islands
Bering Sea
Attu-Kiska
Aleu
Salamaua
New Guinea
Lae
Eleanor
Fort Custer, Mich
Smolensk
Isha
Zhukovke
A Bryansk
Cherhigov
SOVIE
Prituki
Akhtyrka
Lubny
Poltava
pCherkassy
Kirovo
Krivoi Rog
Voxnesensk
Miles
CPA
BAY War Bonds
Meigs Flier
Oak Hill
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