Solons Turn Attention to U S Payroll
Congress debates drafting non fathers while thousands on government pay roll await fate. Senators and representatives weigh vouchers for service members voting by V mail and a new relief pact seeks shared burden with 43 allied nations at the White House in November.
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Washington
May
House Military Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Costello
R-Ind
Senate
House
Bernard M. Baruch
Congress
Secretaries of War and Navy
Senate Elections Committee
Capitol
Appropriations
Kerr
D-Sc
Dies
Roosevelt
White House
United States
Eleanor Roosevelt Heads East After Pacific Tour
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, returning from a 24 000 mile 38 day journey to Australia and the South Pacific, heads to report to headquarters to brief President Roosevelt. She says soldiers asked about college opportunities and job prospects after the war and about the world they will build.
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San Francisco
Eleanor Roosevelt
Australia
South Pacific
Honolulu
Eight Killed as Train Hits War Workers Vehicle
WEST LAFAYETTE P A passenger train struck an automobile near the Moore Enameling Plant, killing eight war workers. Coroner E C McDill reported the driver waited for a switch engine to clear a rig before entering the track, the car was struck near the rear and overturned. Bodies lay along the right of way.
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West Lafayette
Anutomobile
Coronner E. C. McDill
Moore Enameling
Taft Ridicules Four-Freedom Gospel on Radio
Senator Taft denounces talk of universal crusade for four freedoms as dreaming aloud. Speaking on Network Radio during Town Hall, he cautions against assuming the world will be swept by U.S. ideals. He notes Russia could pursue its own postwar aims if crusades proceed.
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York
Robert Aft
Ohio Republican
Dursien Town Hall
Russia
MacArthur Strikes Finschhafen as Australians Inch Toward Airfield
Allied forces pounded Finschhafen as Australian artillery unleashed shells on the Japanese coastal base. Gen Douglas MacArthur disclosed early amphibious operations near the airfield while Australian troops landed six miles north at dawn. American ships bombarded positions beyond the beach head and bombers dropped 21 tons of explosives with attack planes firing 48 000 rounds.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
New Britain
Lae
Salamaua
Change in Ohio liquor store hours to 11 am–7 pm
Columbus Ohio Liquor Director Don Fisher announced that starting October 1 retail liquor stores will shift hours from 1 pm–9 pm to 11 am–7 pm local time. The reasons cited include midday lunch purchases during the war effort and to aid workers on the noon–8 pm shift while preserving evening hours for employees.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don Fisher
Fisher
Knox Pushes Pacific War in British Visit
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox urged the British press to educate the English public on the necessity of fighting the Japanese war. He warned American confidence in British cooperation would erode if people believed defeating Hitler would end all strife. Knox said Churchill’s remarks have not dispelled these fears in America.
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London
Frank Knox
Hitler
Churchill
America
Toledo Schools Reopen After Ended Strike
Toledo public schools, shut since Sept. 15 by a strike of non educational employees, will reopen Monday under a settlement approved by the strikers and ratified by the board. The agreement provides a 24 month wage increase from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1 for maintenance personnel after a demand of 30 dollars per month. Herriot Reported Dead in South of France Sanitarium.
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Toledo
Board of Education
Citizens’ Committee
Youth sentenced to die in chair in Mercer County
Seventeen year old Louis Vernon Hand was condemned to death in the electric chair by Common Pleas Judge Raymond Younger for the hammer slaying of 6 year old Richard Stober last July 3. Hand, who grinned in court, was scheduled to die at the Ohio Penitentiary January 14.
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Celina
Louis Vernon Hand
Common Pleas
Raymond Younger
Richard Stober
Hand
Ohio
Younger
Mercer County
War Bonds Shoe Period Is Extended
The Office of Price Administration extended the shoe ration stamp period to six months from four. Stamp No. 1 remains the coupon for the next period, valid starting November 1 and possibly lasting until May 1. Stamp 18 in Book One is extended indefinitely beyond October 31, overlapping the new stamp.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Fewer Ohio Traffic Fatalities Reported
Wartime transportation restrictions cut Ohio motor vehicle deaths. Bureau figures show 815 fatalities from Jan 1 to Aug 1 this year versus 2,481 in 1941 and 1,? in 1942. The monthly average fell from 206.7 in 1941 to 116.4 this year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fulton County youth killed during hunting incident
Wauseon report identifies Dale Forrest Paul, 16, of Swanton, as Fulton County's first hunting season victim. Coroner H. M. Warner says the shotgun discharged when he stumbled over a root, ending the youth's life.
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Wauseon
Dale Forrest Paul
Swanton
Fulton County
H. M. Warner
Cleveland Industrialist Refuses War Pennant
President James F. Lincoln of Lincoln Electric Co refused to accept an Army Navy pennant for war production in June 1942. He said the House Naval Affairs Committee had called him crook during an investigation of the firm's bonus system.
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Cleveland
James F. Lincoln
Lincoln Electric Co
House Naval Affairs Committee
Strike Ties Up Pacific Coast Transportation
A Pacific Electric Railway strike by 2,600 workers halted rail and bus lines in the Los Angeles area. Private cars filled gaps while officials and Army officials discussed duration and possible government takeover with no formal decision announced.
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Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Roosevelt
Army
Brotherhood of Railway
Shortage of Greeting Cards Forecast in Indianapolis
Indianaplis based greeting-card wholesaler Carl Austin predicted a 1943 Christmas card shortage. He said supply will be about last year’s level, while current orders indicate demand will be two to three times higher than 1942, a record year.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Carl Austin
Austin
Reds Close On Smolensk Front as Dnieper Push Grows
Soviet dispatches report Red Army reaching the Dnieper in force and advancing near Tarasenki just three miles from White Russia border. Heavy fighting and pincer moves threaten Kiev and Cherkasi while German positions along the Dnieper and in the Kuban face strategic pressure.
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London
Red Army
Dnieper
Smolensk
Tarasenki
White Russia
Suzanovo
Moscow
Kuban
Caucasus
Berlin
Reuters
Nazi Transocean
Anapa
Black Sea
Taman
Kiev
Terts
Cherkasi
Pripet
Poltava
Dnepropetrovsk
Chernigov
Buzanovo
Pochinok
Roslav
Guerrilla Attacks Hit Trieste and Threaten Fiume
Yugoslav guerrilla units press into Italy from the border striking Trieste and attacking the Nazi garrison. Other Slovene formations seize Idria as fighting flares along a 50 mile front between Bistrica and Ljubljana. Tito leads operations near Trieste while Mihailovic's forces fight further south.
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Idria
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Bistrica
Feistritz
Ljubljana
Fiume
Josefp Broz
RAF Bombers Hit Mannheim Ludwigshafen and More
RAF heavy bombers struck four German cities in a second night operation. Mannheim Ludwigshafen suffered a major 1,730 ton payload in 45 minutes while Darmstadt Aachen and a Cologne area target were also hit. Thirty two bombers did not return.
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London
Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
Darmstadt
Marnuheim
Aachen
Cologne
Rhine
Nekar
U. S
Hamburg
Hannover
Germany
Italy
Union Members Vote To Reject Strike In Wartime
Delegates at the CIO State County and Municipal Workers of America biennial convention in Cleveland pledge to reject strikes as betrayal of members and harmful to war effort. Corporal Bob Weinstein notes armed forces members oppose strikes. The body also condemns racial discrimination in the armed forces.
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Cleveland
CIO
Municipal Workers of America
Bob Weinstein
1400 Italian Sailors Dead in Roma Sinking
Survivors aboard the Roma report 1,400 crewmen killed and about 500 badly burned after a German plane hit the battleship’s stack. The vessel exploded and sped toward Algiers following Italy’s capitulation.
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Roma
Mahon
Balearic Islands
Italy
Algiers
Accident victim sues doctor for 50000 dollars
Agnes Wagner 18 of Washington Court House filed in Columbus common pleas court asking 50000 dollars in damages from Dr Richard L McFarland of Columbus. She says the physician failed to set properly an arm broken in an accident last June 25.
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Columbus
Agnes Wagner
Homer Wagner
Washington Court House
Common Pleas Court
Richard L. McFarland
Miss Wagner
Rumanians Claim Hungary Moves Toward Peace Talks
Romanian radio reported Hungary planned to seek a separate peace while a cabinet crisis in Budapest grew as Italy’s exit from the war appeared favored. British broadcasts noted pressure on Hitler and a return of Gen Ferenc Szombathelyi to Budapest amid a demand for more Hungarian divisions to Dalmatia and Croatia.
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Turkey
CBS
New York
Budapest
Italy
Hitler
Hungary
Ferenc Szombathelyi
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Croatia
Translyvania
Rumania
Germany
Bay War Bonds The Germans Claim 21 Ships Sunk
Berlin radio said German submarines attacked a heavily escorted Allied convoy bound for America, sinking 12 destroyers and nine merchant ships totaling 46 500 tons. The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, echoed Churchill's Commons remark that the convoy was under attack, noting Allied losses in the North Atlantic had not happened in four months ending Sept 18.
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Berlin
America
Associated Press
Churchill
House of Commons
North Atlantic
Eisenhower
Fifth Army
Oliveto Cira
Salerno
Matera
Taranto
Altamura
Naples
Italy
Palermo
Office of War Information
Europe
Eighth Army
Straits of Messina
Pisa
Air Command
Cancello
Capua
Avellino
Venevento
West Virginian Held For Not Registering
A 23 year old native of West Virginia is held in Summit County jail for failing to register for selective service. Deputy Sheriff Sam Keene reports the man said he worked on a Huntington area farm and drifted to Akron because he was tired of cutting corn. He also stated he cannot read or write.
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Akron
West Virginia
Summit County
Sam Keene
Huntington
W. Va
Picket Line Formed At Rockefeller Center
Pickets formed at Rockefeller Center as 675 maintenance employees protested discharges. The center largely returned to normal with thousands of office workers arriving during the morning rush hour and only partial elevator service in 12 buildings after a Wednesday service disruption.
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New York
Rockefeller Center
Seven Troop Transports Shot Down Over Corsica Battle
Allied air forces shot down seven German troop transports during a Corsica operation as Gen Giraud’s French and American Rangers push the remaining garrison into a northeast corner. Allied ships enforce a blockade to prevent sea escape while Fifth Army advances toward Naples and Salerno defenses.
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Corsica
Henri Giraud
North Africa
Napoleon
France
Bastia
Leghorn
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Salerno
Naples
Chardon High Students Join Mass Harvest Effort
Chardon High School sent the entire student body home from classes to participate in a four day harvesting project this autumn week with faculty approval. About 200 students worked four days this week and will finish today, assisting with crops and related chores.
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Chardon
Chardon High School
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