Army and Navy Ban Kimmel Short Trials
Army and navy boards found no grounds for court martial against anyone for Pearl Harbor. Secret reports withheld until after the war. Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal will continue their investigations with remaining witnesses in combat zones. Congressional calls for independent inquiry grow as Roberts commission findings differ.
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Nine Die in Morganton Car Crash West of Town
Nine people were killed and five seriously injured when two cars collided head on eight miles west of Morganton on Saturday, according to AP.
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Morganton, N. C
Morganton
Daily News Index Columns and Features Summary
The snippet lists columnists Marquis Childs David Lawrence Drew Pearson and David Lawrence with sections on Comics Movies Radio Sports and Deaths. It hints at a newspaper index page compiling columns and features for the day with named writers and topic areas.
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Ceeeeseeaevseens
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Seesseeeees
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Benny Show Threatened By Petrillo Union Fallout
Hollywood report says James Petrillo’s AFM threatens Benny’s NBC Sunday program over non union engineers. NBC says show will go on, AFM disputes, NABET suggested as alternative staffing. no settlement deadline announced. Local AFM president says no details, uncertain about negotiations.
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Jack Benny
James Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
NBC
Benny
AFM
New York
Spike Wallace
East
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Beverly Fredenall
National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians
NABET
Streamliner Hits Car in Hampton Killing Family
In Hampton Iowa a Rock Island Rocket collided with a car killing Mrs Dale Barney 29 and three of her six children Darlene Richard eight year old twins and Janice seven. A fourth child Shirley five was hospitalized with shock and a leg fracture. Sheriff Nolte said the train struck the car mid train and dragged it about a block. No witnesses. The Rocket continued north with no reported damage.
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Dale- Barney
Rock Island
Chapin
Barney
Darlene
Richard
Janice
Shirley
Charles Nolte
Rock Island Railroad
Leyte fighting flares as Japanese counterattacks mount
Allied command reports renewed Japanese counterattacks southwest of Ormoc as American forces push from the north. Air activity remains limited with one enemy plane shot down. MacArthur’s men say 26,000 Japanese have been lost in convoys destroyed aiming for Leyte.
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Limon
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New Guinea
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MacArthur
Liberators To Build Aerial Highway to Tokyo for B 29s
Admiral Nimitz announced a new series of attacks on Volcano and Bonin island groups to extend air routes toward Tokyo. The plan involves shorter-ranged Liberators assigned to blaze the approach between Saipan and the Japanese homeland amid ongoing Allied offensives.
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Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Bonin
Saipan
V-3 Rocket Ready for New York by Month End
London reports German Munitions Minister Speer told the Reich war production board that giant V-3 rockets will be ready for firing against New York by month end. The V-3 is described as a larger successor to the V-2, with estimates placing its weight between 50 and 70 tons, largely due to propellant and fuel. Both V-1 and V-2, and possibly V-3, carry a one ton warhead of explosives.
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Albert Speer
Reich War Production Board
New York
London Daily Express
England
Nazi Threat To Renounce Rules of War
London reports German high command warning it may abandon international rules of warfare in response to alleged infringements by enemies. The trigger was a French proclamation threatening executions of hostages in Strasbourg, prompting talk of Geneva and Hague convention suspensions and possible reprisals. Allies say they comply with the 1929 Geneva convention.
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DNB
Jacques le Clerc
Strasbourg
Germany
Reich
le Clerc
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Paris
Allied Expeditionary Force
Dorsey Trial Hurdles Through Muddle In Courtroom Drama
Hollywood police court reports show the Tommy Dorsey assault trial proceeding with fast pace yet confusion. Key witness Jon Hall testified about a party at the Dorsey apartment on August 15 while defense counsel pressed for possible charges dismissal. Antonio Icaza alleged Dorsey struck first with an uppercut and a bottle blow as guests drank heavily amid tensions during the weekend recess.
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Hollywood
Tommy Dorsey
Pat Dane
Allen Smiley
Jerry Geisler
Smiley
Miss Dane
Hall
Isaac Pacht
Dorseys
Antonio Icaza
Dorsey
Icaza
Government halts civilian production expansions nationwide
Washington AP reports a 90 day halt on new civilian goods authorizations in about 125 cities to focus on war programs. The move targets 68 Group 1 labor short areas including Detroit Chicago Cleveland Newark Salt Lake City Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle and 45 boosted regions while others proceed only where war output stays on schedule or labor limits allow. Walter E. Muir notes Iowa firms largely did not seek reconversion and Maytag at Newton remains mostly on war work with limited civilian parts output.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Walter E. Muir
Des Moines
Iowa
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Davenport
Burlington
Muir
Maytag
Newton
Four Left-Wing Ministers Resign in Greek Cabinet
Four left wing ministers quit the Greek cabinet following a warning from British Lt Gen Ronald Scobie that Allied forces would enforce demobilization and disarmament of guerrillas. The resignations aim to avert bloodshed while hoping for return to normality as rival factions refuse to surrender their arms.
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Athens
Ronald Scobie
Robot Bomb Zooms Over Ike's Building HDQ
General Eisenhower toured the western front visiting Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's headquarters when a Nazi buzzbomb passed directly over the building. The moment highlighted the high risk air war as Allied leaders continued to assess operations.
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Robot Bomb
Ike
U.S. 12Th Army Group
Eisenhower
Omar. N. Bradley
Ralph Smoyer Reported Missing in Action
Ralph Smoyer, 39, is missing in action as reported to his mother Mrs. C E Beck of 2536 First avenue NE. A gunner on the destroyer Johnston sunk Oct 23 in the Second Battle of the Philippines Sea. Smoyer entered service Oct 1942, trained at Great Lakes and San Diego, has been overseas since Jan 1. his wife resides in Waterloo.
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Ralph Smoyer
C E. Beck
First Avenue
Johnston
Philippine Sea
Smoyer
Great Lakes
San Diego
Waterloo
Break in Cold Wave Seen in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids broke a sharp cold stretch this morning as the thermometer rose from 3 to 30 degrees between 5 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. after a low of 3 degrees. Ames and Iowa City stood at 3 and 3 above, with several Iowa cities near zero. Forecasters predict warmer, cloudy conditions tonight and Sunday with light rain possible in the west.
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Mercury
Atlantic
Ames
Iowa City
Spencer
Charles City
Burlington
Dubuque
Iowa
Davenport
Chambers
Towa
Americans Down 22 Nazi Planes in Allied Air Battle
American heavy bombers hit three railroad yards near Coblenz with 550 Thunderbolts and Mustangs escorting. German fighters tangled with the escort, leaving at least 22 German planes shot down. RAF Mosquito bombs struck Karlsruhe behind Strasbourg.
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London
Coblenz
Western
Karlsruhe
Strasbourg
Chinese Forces Drive Enemy From Chefang on Burma Road
Chinese troops with U S air support pushed the enemy from Chefang near the Burma road China sector. Only 24 miles remain to Wanting on the Burma border as other units advance about 50 miles east toward Bhamo inside Burma.
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Associated Press
U.S
Che'fang
China
Burma
Bhamo
General de Gaulle Arrives in Moscow for Meetings
General Charles de Gaulle president of the French provisional government arrived in Moscow for a series of conferences with Joseph Stalin. He was received by Soviet officials and planned talks on postwar arrangements and French policy in Europe.
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Moscow
Charles de Gaulle
Josef Stalin
Americans Break Through to Linnich and Saarbrucken in Roer Fight
Allied forces push along the Roer and Saar front, with Ninth Army entering Linnich and widening west bank gains toward Dusseldorf while First and Third Armies close on Saarbrucken. Seventh Army and French forces tighten the Strasbourg pocket as Germans retreat across fogbound Rhine bridges.
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Rhine
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Merzig
Saarlautern
Germany
Saar Basin
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Thunderbolt
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Zinswiller
Haguenau
Vosges
Strasbourg
Eight die in plane crash near Burbank airport
The death of merchant seaman Harry Gay of Long Beach on Saturday raises the death toll to eight from the Friday crash near Burbank airport as the plane was nearing landing.
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Burbank
Harry” Gay
Long Beach
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