President broadens control on enemy trade and assets
The Commerce and Treasury departments outline a new War Trade Board replacing the Exports Administrative Board. The act empowers licensing of enemy or ally businesses, censorship of communications, control of enemy assets within the United States, and reporting requirements for firms with enemy connections.
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New War Trade Board
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Jonzo E. Taylor
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Thomas D. Jones
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Beaver White
Frank C. Munson
Shipping Board
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Bureau of Exports
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War Trade Council
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Alien enemies exempt from US business licenses unless linked to Germany allies
The act exempts Germans, Austrians, Turks and Bulgarians with no ties to German or allied interests from licensing. Thousands of small alien enemy businesses in the United States need not obtain licenses unless they deal with firms connected to enemy or ally territories. The President may broaden scope, but has not done so.
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Germany
Berlin Seizes Iron and Steel as War Needs Grow
Berlin reports the confiscation of all iron and steel amid expanding war needs. Copenhagen dispatches note Germany faces mounting difficulty in securing iron and steel for military purposes.
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Germany
Berlin Edict Seizes Iron and Steel Supplies Abroad
An imperial regulation issued in Berlin confiscates stocks of structural iron and steel products including common tubing sheeting cast iron and cast steel. The order bans use of these materials except with special permission and expands beyond last July’s more limited rule.
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Berlin
Evans Plays Well But Loses In Fourball Match
Detroit pair Wilbur Oakes and Jimmy Standish defeated Charles Evans Jr of Chicago and Hugh Vaughn of Detroit 5 up and 4 to play in a 36 hole Red Cross benefit match. Evans played superbly, matching or beating par on 27 holes.
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Charles Evans, Jr
Chicago
Red Cross
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Wilbur Oakes
Jimmy Standish
Evans
Anti God Amendment Attacked at Father Mathew Event
Monsignor James E. Cassidy denounces the Curtis Lomasney anti-aid amendment as anti God during a Father Mathew anniversary in Fall River. He urges God-loving citizens to oppose the proposed measure, warning it would erase God and religion from school books.
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James E. Cassidy
Father Mathew
France
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Christ
Big boom in grand opera portends prosperous season
New York and Chicago lead a surge in opera sales with the Metropolitan Opera in New York reporting $600,000 in advance subscriptions and Chicago hitting a new record. Promoters plan $50,000 in advertising to broaden appeal and fill upper balconies as the season approaches.
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Grand Opera
Chicago
United States
Metropolitan Opera
Windy City
Thierry Named French Ambassador to Spain
Paris October 14 Joseph Thierry minister of finance in the Ribot cabinet has been appointed French ambassador to Spain.
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Spain
Paris
Joseph Thierry
Finance
Ribot
Bridge kills conductor in Nashua incident
A Boston and Maine freight conductor Earl Mills aged 55 of Nashua New Hampshire was found dead atop a freight car as the train passed under a bridge. Medical examiner ruled death by a fractured skull likely killed during the transit through Ayer on October 14.
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Mills
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Boston & Maine
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