Justice Dept seeks summary judgment in AP antitrust suit
The Department of Justice asks for a summary judgment against the Associated Press, arguing for a court ruling without further testimony. The paper contends this undermines due process and risks limiting the AP’s rights and ability to present its case amid wartime information needs. It also notes the need for full transparency in local air raid siren funding discussions and mentions considering a sound engineer study for warning systems.
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Department of Justice
Associated Press
Council Chamber
OCD
Henry Haegg
Rubber workers strike halts Akron plants with 49000 idle
Three major rubber firms halted production in Akron as CIO workers joined a mass walkout over a War Labor board wage decision. Pickets formed at Goodyear gates and 18000 CIO workers were idle, with 14000 at Goodrich and 17000 at Firestone, despite war department demands for resumed output.
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Akron
Ohio
CIO
War Labor Board
War Department
Washington
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
No. 1
Goodyear
United Rubber
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation
B. F. Goodrich Company
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
James P. Mitchell
Army Service Forces
Mitchell
Sherman H. Dalrymple
International Uaw
United Rubber Workers Union
Goodyear Local
Nazi Party Purge Reported Planned
The German Transocean news service in Berlin said discussions on purging tepid Nazi party elements have been under way since the Italian Fascist party shake up. Gauleiter Robert Wagner of Baden and Alsace said the party would eliminate those not fighting or due to inherited weakness, unless they leave voluntarily.
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London
Transocean
Berlin
Germany
Robert Wagner
Bader
Alsace
Senate Unit Knocks Out Subsidies Ban
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $6.27 billion lend lease bill after removing a House ban on using funds to subsidize agriculture products. Chairman McKellar said subsidies warrant general legislative action. The full committee will review the bill Wednesday.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
McKellar
D-Tenn
Congress
WPB curtails production of women's clothing items
The War Production Board issued a broad conservation order restricting women's fashion for autumn, winter, and summer. It bans double breasted suits and several skirts and neckwear styles, limits cuff button use to two, caps trimming, and enforces fabric square inch limits. maternity and tall dresses have extended lengths within rules.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Summary Judgment Sought Against AP News Service
The government urged a federal court to grant summary judgment against the Associated Press in a Sherman Act antitrust suit without witnesses testifying in open court. The sought injunction would require AP to provide its news and picture services to newspapers paying a proportionate share of gathering costs.
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New York
Government
Federal Court
Associated Press
Justice Department
Attu Yanks Gain Amid Weather and Raids
American troops push forward on Attu despite sleet snow and rain as navy reports another bombing of the Japanese camp at Kiska. The Sunday Attu raid adds seven probables to previously stated downed planes while Espiritu Santo and Guadalcanal face limited Japanese air activity. American air forces hit three Japanese cargo ships near Shortland and target positions at Shortland and Munda.
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Washington
Attu
Navy
Kiska
South Pacific
Espiritu Santo
New Hebrides
Guadalcanal
Shortland Island
Solomons
Shortland
Munda
Navy Secretary Knox says Attu corralled Japanese on a peninsula
Secretary of the Navy Knox reports American forces on Attu have corralled the Japanese on a peninsula and expect the fighting to end soon. He notes plans to complete the Attu airfield for possible strikes on Kiska and other North Pacific bases. He cites unknown bomber bases, possibly Kuriles, and praises the Seabees for their skilled supply work ashore.
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Washington
INS
Knox
Attu Island
Attu
Kiska
North Pacific
Navy
Kuriles
Allies Hit Submarine Fleet Harder Says German Spokesman
London report cites German naval spokesman Heinrich Schmidt acknowledging strengthening Allied anti submarine attacks as May losses are forecast lower than April. Allied sources say Axis submarine destruction rises toward a new high and warn the final showdown may come in late summer with 600 U boat operations and intensified escort forces.
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London
Germany
United States
Britain
Heinrich Schmidt
Stockholm
Allied Planes Drive Eastward as Heavy Bombers Rest
Allied air forces resumed daylight offensives across the Channel as RAF heavy bombers took a pause after a Dortmund raid. German daylight raids hit a south coast town, flattening worker housing and burying an unknown number of people. one enemy plane was shot down.
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London
Channel
R.A.F
France
Dortmund
Crop Loss Mounts in Flood Belt
The Red Cross reports 2,756,200 acres under water across Illinois Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma and Kansas with 154,248 people displaced. Indiana adds about 10,000 more evacuees as floods threaten key war industries and levees around St. Louis Buckley.
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Red Cross
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Wabash
Mississippi
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Kansas
Indiana
Illinois Militia Air Corps Reserve
Illinois River
Peoria
Beardstown
Ill
Cupe
Granite City
Blood donations save thousands in Tunisian fighting
Allied headquarters report blood donated by Americans to the Red Cross and other groups saved some thousands of lives in the Tunisian fighting. Major General Ernest Cowell praised American women nurses who landed at Oran and immediately began nursing the wounded under fire.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
United States
Red Cross
Ernest Cowell
Cowell
Oran
Bent Nail Used as Fish Hook Aided 131 Days Adrift
Poon Lim, a 25 year old Chinese mess steward, survived 131 days aboard a liferaft after his ship was torpedoed. He used a bent nail as a fish hook and unraveled rope for line, catching fish and even birds for food as he drifted in the South Atlantic until rescue near Brazil.
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South Atlantic
Miami
Filia
Stoical
Poon Lim
Hainan
Secon
Brazil
War Labor Board upholds portal wages for miners
The War Labor Board denied John L. Lewis a 2 a day wage rise for 450000 United Mine Workers but endorsed genuine portal to portal payments covering travel and productive time. It urged further concessions, ordered reports in 15 days, and raised vacation pay to 50 dollars while providing safety gear and tools.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine
UMW
WLB
William H. Davis
Little Steel
Sailor disrupts House debate with unscheduled gallery protest
A 21 year old sailor Evan Jones from Los Angeles jumped from his seat in the House gallery during a debate on the anti poll tax bill. He shouted about democracy and freedom of speech before being restrained by gallery attendants and a police secret service officer. Jones said he had been on active duty two years and was on 48 hour furlough to see how democracy works. He was taken to the guard room for questioning with physicians summoned for examination.
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Washington
INS
Secret Service
Kenneth Romney
House
Evan Jones
Los Angeles
Romney
Jones
Dead Hero's Medal Pinned on His Baby
In Boston, 7 month old Patricia Gail Kehoe, daughter of Lieut Kenneth Kehoe, receives a Purple Heart posthumously awarded to her father. Major Sherman F Miles pins the medal on her pink sweater as the child looks up at him, though her father died in action in North Africa on March 30.
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Boston
Patricia Gail Kehoe
Kenneth Kehoe
Ger
Sherman F. Miles
First Service Command
Kehoe
North African
Miles
U S Flyers Pound Italy and Nearby Isles
Refugees flee north from southern Italy and the Mediterranean islands as American air raids devastate Sardinia Sicily Pantelleria and the Italian mainland. Rome reports districts abandoned in Cagliari amid the sustained Allied bombing.
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Italy
Mediterranean
Sardinia
Sicily
Pantelleria
Switzerland
Rome
Cagliari
Umberto
Allies Pound Sardinia With Large Air Assaults
Allied air forces launched a major strike against Sardinia, sending over 300 American planes to target docks shipping and airfields. Twelve enemy aircraft were downed in 24 hours, with several ships damaged and a supply ship exploding.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Sardinia
Italy
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Berlin
Men Prevent Suicide Attempt by Young Girl on Bridge
A 17-year-old girl on the B avenue bridge near noon Tuesday was stopped from leaping by two passersby, George Driscoll and Don Kopecky, who pulled her back and took her to police headquarters for questioning. She cited an unhappy love affair.
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Cedar Rapids
B Avenue
George Driscoll
Sixth Street
Don Kopecky
Belmont Parkway
Pact with China Goes into Effect
Roosevelt proclaims the China treaty takes effect relinquishing all extra territorial rights in China by the United States. The move ends U.S. extraterritorial privileges and aligns with the broader policy toward Shanghai and treaty powers.
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China
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Edsel Ford III Gravely Ill At Lake Saint Clair Home
Detroit AP reports Edsel Ford president of Ford Motor Company and son of Henry Ford is gravely ill at his Lake Saint Clair home. He is said to be suffering from undulant fever and will turn 50 on November 6.
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Detroit
Edsel Ford
The
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Lake Saint Clair
Ford
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