Stalingrad Fight Rages As Soviet Defenders Hold Off
Russians hold the Germans at bay in Stalingrad for a fifth day of intensive street fighting. Red Star cites hand to hand clashes in squares and fights across building stories as the siege enters its 29th day, with German relief moves and fresh troops continuing to push forward.
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Stalingrad
Moscow
Ped
Soviet Information Bureau
Volga
Communist Party
Pravda
Izvestia
Berlin
Rzhev
Stockholm
Arbetaren
Norway
Russia
Field Marshall von Bock
Legion Favors Lowering Minimum Draft Age to 18
The 1942 American Legion convention in Kansas City urged lowering the draft age to 18 and 19 and pressed immediate wartime roles for all civilians in uniform. Delegates called for conscripting capital labor industry and agriculture, securing jobs for veterans, and one year of postwar compulsory training with fewer deferments for essential workers.
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Kansas City
American Legion
Armed Services
80 Per Cent of Press in Scrap Drive
Washington reports that over 80 percent of the nation's daily newspapers have pledged participation in the scrap collection drive. Richard W. Slocum, head of the Newspaper Scrap Drive Committee, told Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board that about 1,400 dailies have pledged, with more joining daily. A meeting on September 4 arranged by Nelson saw newspapers accept leadership in their communities to boost scrap intake.
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Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board Today
Richard W. Slocum
Slocum
Nelson
War Labor Board's Authority Challenged
The Mechanics Educational Society of America challenged the War Labor Board's power to amend a contract that would deny a general wage increase at the S. K. Wellman Co. Cleveland plant. Matthew Smith of Detroit warned a 500-worker walkout could occur, though a strike was prevented pending a WLB review of the union complaints.
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Cleveland
Mechanics Educational Society of America
War Labor Board
S. K. Wellman Co
Cleveland War Plant
Matthew Smith
Detroit
International Mesa
Wellman
WLB
Roosevelt Envoy to Vatican Reports Roosevelt Peace Ideas
Myron C. Taylor, Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, has presented the President's war and likely peace objectives to Pope Pius XII in Bern. An audience is expected before Taylor's departure. Reuters notes a second 50 minute Vatican audience with Harold J. Tittman, the U.S. charge d affaires.
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Bern
Switzerland
Pius XII
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
Reuters
Vichy
Taylor
Harold J. Tittman
United States
War report on Stalingrad shows Red defense holds firm
A wartime correspondent notes Red forces continue to hold Stalingrad despite German assaults and siege conditions. The piece argues Hitler's Caucasus oil objective delayed, weather and resistance impeding a breakthrough, and predicts October outcomes remain uncertain.
OV Dobbin Finally Has His Day and How
Jefferson City report says OV Dobbin the horse escaped injury after a collision with a motor car, causing damaged headlights but no harm to the animal. In Independence Kas Eddie Boogie had a car struck by a horse ridden by Richard Cain who said he lost control of the animal.
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Dobbin
Jefferson City
John Cartner
Independence
Kas
Eddie Boogie
Richard Cain
Cain
Ohio August tax intake rises by 207 million dollars
Internal Revenue Bureau reports August collections at 681 million dollars up 207 million from 1941. Social security and liquor levies drive the gain, with income tax up sharply and cigarette taxes ahead by about ten million. Auto use tax appears as a new wartime levy earning over 13 million.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
Social Security
Eaker Foresees Victory From Air Attacks On Germany
Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker chief of the AEF Bomber Command says Germany can be destroyed from the air with a rapidly assembled force. In a London Daily Mail interview he notes there is hardly a corner of Germany within range of U S bombers in coming months. He says enough British airdromes exist to support the Allied air offensive.
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London
Germany
Ira C. Eaker
AEF
Eaker
Roosevelt
London Daily Mail
United States
British Isles
Situation Improved Hindu Leader Says Violence Eases
New Delhi AP reports Sir Mohammed Usman, leader of the council of state, told the opening session of the upper house that the overall situation in India has improved though mob violence continues. Casualties since Aug 9 include police deaths 390 wounded 1 060 troops 331 wounded 159.
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New Delhi
India
Mohammed Usman
Council of State
Clock Made in Japan Returned by Airmen from Lae Raid
An air raid on the Japanese base at Lae returned a clock marked Made in Japan. A note signed Flying Circus warned the Japanese to watch the clock and that they would be bombed every hour on the hour.
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New Guinea
Lae
Imperial Headquarters
Japan
Flying Circus
Parking Meters Revenue Rises In Three Month Span
Canton report shows meter income climbed from 14 696.06 to 21 511.48 in June July and August compared with last year. Increased meters from 600 to 850 boosted collections despite travel rationing pleas.
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Canton
Fraley Restored as Gallipolis Police Chief
The Gallipolis civil service commission restored John Fraley to chief of police after he had been removed two months earlier amid charges by the city manager who ordered his ousting.
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Gallipolis
Parity row heats Senate clash on farm price base
The Senate debates a 4.6 percent parity base raise amid a split fight with the farm bloc pressing higher parity in the anti inflation bill. Barkley argues for caution as Hatch and Thomas push labor costs into parity calculations, with Overton adding salary relief to prevent freezes.
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Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Hatch
D.N.M
Thomas
D.-Okla
Banking Committee
Johnson
Calif
O'Daniel
D.-Texas
Overton
D.-La
Safety Conference Opens in Cleveland Emphasizes Accident Prevention
The All-Ohio State Safety Conference opened a three day session in Cleveland with focus on industrial accident prevention. A report by the Ohio State Safety Council shows Ohio urban traffic deaths up 21.2 percent this year versus 1941, while rural fatalities fall 21.3 percent in the same period.
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Cleveland
Ohio State Safety Conference
Ohio State Safety Council
Ohio
Six Day Week in Coal Mines Is Authorized
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania hard coal miners may work six days a week this winter due to fuel oil rationing. An operators and United Mine Workers CIO agreement sets a 35 hour week but includes a clause for a 42 hour week starting December 1 if the market justifies it.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Richard G. Maize
United Mine Workers Union
CIO
Maize
Kiss Checks For U.S. Fighting Men
Cleveland girls of the United Sweethearts Club of America mail 4 inch Kiss checks to soldiers sailors and Marines on furloughs. The checks bear a lipstick imprint promise and are nontransferable under the club rules.
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Cleveland
United Sweethearts Club of America
Twenty Five Drown When Picnic Launch Sinks Off Beausoleil Island
A Georgian Bay capsizing near Beausoleil Island leaves 25 Midland Machine and Foundry Company workers dead while 16 others are saved. The group of 41 employees was returning from a company picnic when the launch sank.
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Midland
Ont
Beausoleil Island
Georgian Bay
Midland Machine and Foundry Company
Theother
Knox Predicts Renewed Jap Attacks on Solomons
Secretary of the Navy Knox warned of major new Japanese efforts to reconquer the Solomon Islands and said U S forces prepare for another fight. He spoke after returning from the American Legion convention and noted the need for universal sacrifice in total war. Allied reports update the New Guinea front near Port Moresby with Japanese raids repelled and Allied sorties destroying a supply bridge and an air base.
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Knox
Solomon Islands
American Legion
Kansas City
Jack Singer
International News Service
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Owen Stanley
Port Moresby
Buna
Buka
Kaiser Hiring 20 000 in East for West Coast Shipyards
Kaiser initiates recruitment for 20,000 New York and Midwest workers to crew Henry J. Kaiser shipyards in Portland Oregon. First 600 hirees to depart on a special train with 50,000 more sought from several states including New York Indiana Illinois and Texas. No shipbuilding experience required clerks and white collar workers to be trained as journeymen. Kent C. Melhorn of Kenton Ohio named by Roosevelt for promotion to rear admiral in Navy.
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NEW York
Portland
Ore
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser
Thomas Murphy
Indiana
Illinois
Texas
Washington
Kent C. Melhorn
Kenton, O
Roosevelt
Soldier Ends Life With Rifle At Langsville
POMEROY Staff Special Max Gorby 29, a furloughed soldier from Camp Funston Kansas, killed himself near Langsville with a small calibre rifle. His body was found by Dan Gorby after a family search. He was unmarried and survived by his mother, two brothers Roy and Wade, and sisters Mrs. Herbert Huber and Mrs. Herbert Nelson. Funeral arrangements were being completed.
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Pomeroy
Max Gorby
Elsworth Gorby
Roy
Wade
England
Herbert Huber
Deanville
Herbert Nelson
Union Furnace
Urges Broadening of Canned Music Inquiry
Senator Clark of Idaho urged widening a congressional probe into the American Federation of Musicians AFL over a labor ban on recorded music. He expressed tremendous concern that the ban threatens wartime communications and morale.
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Washington
Clark
Idaho
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
Two US soldiers detained after Belfast saloonkeeper death
In Northern Ireland near Belfast Edward Clenaghan, 30, a local saloonkeeper, was found shot and beaten on a road near his home. Two United States soldiers were under arrest today in connection with the death. Names of the suspects were not released.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
United States
Edward Clenaghan
Witheld
Messenger urges scrap drive in wartime campaign
In a Sept 25 1942 statement Donald M Nelson calls on every U S citizen to join the salvage effort and turn in scrap metals rubber and rags to support war production. He urges a nationwide promotion campaign with newspapers and local committees to sustain steel and material stocks for fighters and allies.
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Messenger
War Production Board
United States
America
Navy Chief Vinson Presses Larger Fleet Expansion
Chairman Vinson urged rapid naval expansion after President Roosevelt asked for 2.73 billion more to lift the Navy to a record 17 billion. He said the growing fleet, with Allied forces, would decisively weaken the U boat threat and project sea power globally toward victory. He cited vessel counts and aviation builds as proof of acceleration toward 60 000 planes in 1942 and 125 000 in 1943.
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Washington
Dieppe
Solomon Islands
Vinson
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
United Nations
United States
Europe
America
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Solomons
Navy
Iceland
South America
Alaska
Indian Ocean
Two American Vessels Lost in Action at Sea
The Navy reported two U S merchant ships sunk in the Mediterranean during August as a Malta bound convoy faced Axis air and sea attacks for three days. One ship was torpedoed and sunk by a motor torpedo boat at night after persistent assault.
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Washington
United States
Mediterranean Sea
Eagle
Resistance to British Miffens in Madagascar
British forces advancing from the northwest toward Tananarive encounter stiff French resistance 19 miles from the Madagascar capital as reported by a Madagascar broadcast. In Moscow Wendell Willkie tours the Red Army collection of captured German trophies and banners.
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Madagascar
Tananarive
Madagas
Moscow
Wendell Lb. Willkie
Red Army
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Scermans
Air Transport
Signal Corps
NEA
Liudmila Pavlichenko
U. S
WAACS
Boston
Alice Gordon
Elizabeth Paine
Legion
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Caucasus
Trans- Caucasia
U.S
THE
Associated Press
East
Joan Fontaine
Red Cross
Olive Slocum
Miss Fontaine
Langsville
Tess
Nelson Lands Press
Gordon K. Bush
the Messenger
Athens
Washington, D. C
Willkie
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