Justice dept seeks summary judgment AP antitrust suit
The Department of Justice asks for a summary judgment in its antitrust case against the Associated Press. The editorial argues this move risks due process and could undermine civil liberties, urging AP to fight the maneuver in court. It also comments on city spending, air raid warning plans, and government remarks on local governance during the war.
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Associated Press
Hose
Roosevelt
National Association of County Officials
Washington
Strikers in Rubber City Rise to 49000 Unrest
Akron Ohio three major rubber firms halted production as 49000 CIO workers idle in protest of a War Labor board wage ruling. War Department urged resumption, noting ordered production essential to war needs. Picket lines formed at Goodyear No 1 plant with no violence.
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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
Membee
Ines
WPB curtails production of women clothing under new limits
The War Production Board ordered bans on double breasted women suits and other garments, limited cuff buttons to two, and imposed fabric use rules to trim evening gown lines. Maternity wear and tall women face adjusted length, with new bans on culottes dresses and various neckwear.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Nazi Party Purge Reported Planned
Berlin broadcast reports from Transocean that a purge of tepid Nazi party elements is under consideration in Germany. Gauleiter Robert Wagner of Baden and Alsace says the party may eliminate those not fighting or deemed weak, removing involuntary members if they do not quit.
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London
Transocean
Berlin
Germany
Robert Wagner
Baden
Alsace
Senate unit approves lend lease funds bill in subsidy move
Senate appropriations committee approved a 6.2736 billion lend lease appropriations bill after striking a house approved ban on using funds to pay subsidies on agriculture products. Chairman McKellar said subsidies deserve general legislative action. The full committee will review the bill next.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
McKellar
D-Tenn
Congress
Summary Judgment Sought Against Associated Press
The government asks a three judge federal court for summary judgment against the Associated Press in an antitrust civil suit. It would compel AP to provide news and photo services to any newspaper sharing gathering costs, without in court witness testimony. The move, new under Sherman Act practice, relies on 1938 federal civil procedure rules.
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New York
Federal Court
Associated Press
Justice Department
Attu Yanks Gain Amid Weather as Pacific Actions Continue
American troops push forward on Attu despite sleet snow and rain as navy reports. Japanese main camp area at Kiska bombed again. In Sunday Attu raid airmen shot down seven more planes bringing total to twelve. Espiritu Santo and Guadalcanal saw limited Japanese air activity while Allies attacked cargo ships and positions in the Shortland and Munda zones.
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Washington
Attu
Navy
Kiska
South Pacific
Espiritu Santo
New Hebrides
Guadalcanal
Shortland Island
Solomons
Shortland
Munda
Navy Headward Says Attu Forces Has Japs Cornered
Secretary of the Navy Knox reports American forces on Attu have corralled the Japanese on a peninsula. He sees the airfield being completed for potential strikes against Kiska and northern Pacific bases. Seabees on Attu aid supply landings and beachhead operations as fighting nears end.
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Washington
INS
Knox
Attu Island
Attu
Kiska
North Pacific
Navy
Kuriles
Nazi Admits Allies Hit Submarines Harder In Atlantic
London AP reports German naval spokesman Heinrich Schmidt acknowledges growing Allied effectiveness against U boats. Allied sources predict May ship losses near April’s lows while Axis submarine destruction rises toward a new high. Final clash expected late summer as 600 subs prepare and Allied forces intensify anti U boat warfare.
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London
Germany
United States
Britain
Heinrich Schmidt
Stockholm
Allied Planes Roar Over Channel Resume Daylight Offensive
Allied forces push eastward across the Channel to resume daylight operations. RAF fighters patrolled northern France on intruder missions after a major Dortmund attack. A large German daylight raid struck a south coast town, destroying houses and risking many lives. one attacker 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 flood damaged acres across Illinois Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Kansas with 154,248 displaced. About 1,392,600 crop acres under water. Indiana adds 10,000 evacuees. Levees strained as Mississippi neared record crest at Saint Louis. Beardstown evacuated. war industries at risk near Granite City.
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Red Cross
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Wabash
Mississippi
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Kansas
Indiana
Illinois Militia Air Corps Reserve
Ilinois River
Peoria
Beardstown
Illinois River
Ilinois
Cupe
Granite City
Ulinois
Blood Donations Save Thousands in Tunisian Fight
Allied headquarters report that U S blood donations to the Red Cross and allied groups saved some thousands of lives in the Tunisian fighting. Major General Ernest Cowell praised American nurses who landed under fire at Oran for their courage and immediate nursing of the wounded.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
United States
Red Cross
Ernest Cowell
Cowell
Oran
Bent Nail Helps Chinese Sailor Survive 131 Days Adrift
Poon Lim, a 25 year old Chinese steward, survived 131 days in a South Atlantic liferaft after his ship was torpedoed on November 23, 1942. He used a bent nail as a fish hook, unraveled rope for a line, and caught fish with bait from a flashlight coil and biscuit. He endured with rainwater, moon day counts, and occasional birds before rescue by a fishing vessel off Brazil.
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South Atlantic
New York
Philip J. Noel Baker
British War Transport Ministry
Noel Baker
Poon Lim
Miami, Fla
Stoical
Hainan
Brazil
Hainan Island
War Labor Board endorses portal to portal pay for miners
The War Labor Board denied John L. Lewis demand for a 2 dollar daily wage rise for 450000 United Mine Workers but backed genuine portal to portal payments covering underground travel time and productive work. The decision directs further bargaining within 15 days and raises vacation pay to 50 dollars while removing certain cost charges for miners.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine
UMW
WLB
William WH Davis
Little Steel
Sailor Interrupts House Debate With Unscheduled Plea
A 21 year old sailor Evan Jones from Los Angeles jumped from the gallery during an anti poll tax bill debate shouting for free speech. He was seized by police and a Secret Service agent and taken to the guard room for questioning. Jones said he was on a 48 hour pass to see how democracy works and claimed the right to speak despite gallery rules. Physicians were 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 seven month old Patricia Gail Kehoe, daughter of Lieut Kenneth Kehoe, receives a posthumous Purple Heart for her father from Major General Sherman Miles of the First Service Command. Kehoe was killed in action in North Africa on March 30. The baby, in her mother’s arms, looks up as Miles pins the medal on her pink sweater.
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Boston
Patricia Gail Kehoe
Kenneth Kehoe
Sherman F. Miles
First Service Command
Kehoe
Miles
U S Flyers Pound Italy and Surrounding Isles
Thousands of bomb shaken refugees flee north from southern Italy and the Mediterranean islands as American planes strike Sardinia Sicily Pantelleria and the mainland. Rome reports districts abandoned in Sardinia and Crown Prince Umberto warns Romans of dwindling arms and urges total effort.
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Italy
Mediterranean
Sardinia
Sicily
Pantelleria
Switzerland
Rome
Cagliari
Umberto
Allied air power pounds Sardinia and Pantelleria targets
American air fleets attacked Sardinia and Pantelleria with heavy bombers and fighters. Over 300 American planes engaged nine Sardinian targets and damaged docks, ships, airfields, with 12 enemy planes destroyed and three American aircraft losses. RAF bombers hit Messina rail yards and harbors Sunday night.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Sardinia
Italy
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Berlin
Malta
Erwin Rommel
Nile
United States
San Giovanni
Reggio
Calabria
R.A.F
Messina
Sicily
Men Stop Teen Girl From Jumping Off Bridge
A 17 year old girl was prevented from leaping from the B avenue bridge in Cedar Rapids when two men crossing the bridge, George Driscoll and Don Kopecky, grabbed her and pulled her back. They took her to police headquarters where juvenile authorities questioned her about an unhappy love affair.
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Cedar Rapids
B Avenue
George Driscoll
Sixth Street
Don Kopecky
Belmont Parkway
Roosevelt Proclaims China Pact Takes Effect
President Roosevelt proclaims the treaty with China goes into effect relinquishing all extra territorial rights for the United States in China. The move formalizes the agreement reached earlier and marks a shift in American sovereignty in Chinese affairs.
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China
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Edsel Ford Ill Condition Grave at Lake Saint Clair
Detroit AP reports Edsel Ford president of Ford Motor Company and Henry Ford's son is gravely ill at his Lake Saint Clair home with undulant fever. He will be 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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