Brownell Links Truman to Ku Klux and New Deal Flaws
New York AP Herbert Brownell Jr accuses Sen. Truman of embracing Communist and Ku Klux Klan influence to bolster the New Deal. He cites Truman's Los Angeles remarks praising Styles a former Klan leader and notes PAC ties to Styles. Brownell cites Truman's San Francisco remark about Browder and his stance on the Pendergast machine.
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Herbert Brownell, Jr
New Deal
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt
Brownell
Truman
Los Angeles
Hal Styles
Congress
California
CIO Political Action Committee
Styles
PAC
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Browder
Pendergast Machine
California Democrat Admits Klan Ties in 1920s Claims
Hal Styles assistant Ronnie Ames released a statement for the Democratic congressional candidate from California's Fifteenth district. The reply quotes the candidate admitting joining the Ku Klux Klan 18 years ago and mentions widespread Klan membership claims.
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Hollywood
Hal Styles
Ronnie Ames
Congress
California
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Ku Klux Klan
New York Evening Graphic
Exposing the Klan and Public Condemnation
A writer argues that exposing the Ku Klux Klan is a public service and deserving of commendation for courage, framing the act as necessary moral action against hate. The quote emphasizes duty to reveal hate groups to the public.
Engel accuses Roosevelt of withholding Nazi danger reports
Rep. Albert Engel charges that in the late 1930s President Roosevelt withheld a detailed German airpower warning from Congress while cutting War Department budget requests. Engel cites a 1937 attache report and claims funds from 1935 to 1941 were reduced by over 833 million, with Congress later adding 352 million more.
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Washington
Albert Engel
R-Mich
Roosevelt
America
Engel
Congress
Wintry Weather On Italian Front
Allied forces in Italy pressed advances despite wintry conditions. The American Fifth and British Eighth armies gained ground toward Bologna and Cervia area as fighting raged for Monte Belmonte and surrounding hills. Nazi resistance held on the Apennines while Allied gains broadened.
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Rome
INS
Bologna
Cervia
Adriatic
Apennine Ridge
Mark Clark
Monte Grande
Monte Belmonte
Fifth Army
Seven Die in Cincinnati Pencil Plant Fire
In Cincinnati, seven employees of the Cincinnati Pencil Co died when a four story building burned late Monday near downtown. Ten others were injured, four firemen among them, as workers leaped to safety from the fourth floor to a nearby roof. Superintendent Clifton E. Smith said 23 people were working overtime to fill Christmas orders. Fire Chief Barney Houston said the blaze likely began on the first floor and fed by volatile lacquers used in pencil processing.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Pencil Company
Clifton E. Smith
Barney Houston
Yanks' Radio Banter Played Out Over Aachen Battery
A tank riding G I and a Lightning pilot cooperated to destroy a German gun battery near Aachen. The radio dialogue, often profane, was broadcast to headquarters where a general and WACs listened in. The exchange prompted a caution that front line interphone chatter can be intercepted far away.
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G.I
Aachen
London
Horseneck
Col
Clinton C. Wasem
Dover
Ohio
Wasem
Fishing Tackle Output Granted War Production Board action
The War Production Board authorized limited production of fishing rods reels hooks and tackle parts revoking a May 31 1942 restriction. It allows more manufacture and repair of tackle using metals plastic and cork and lifts the 50 percent 1941 cap. WPB notes benefiting returning service members and civilians aiding food supply via fish.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Edgar A. Guest The Poet of the People
A fragmented verse recounts Edgar A. Guest recalling a hopeful scene on a train. The speaker mentions four dollars and fifteen cents in change and a waiter’s service, contrasting troubled times with renewed hope on distant hills.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Radio schedule highlights for October 24 1944
A detailed hour by hour listing of radio programs across stations WMT WHO WGN KXEL W E NE and others for Tuesday evening October 24 1944 and the following morning October 25, including news blocks music shows quiz programs dramas and comedies with host names and station call signs noted.
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WMT
Farm Forum
WHO Farm
WGN
KXEL
Jerry
Honeym'n Hill
Rosa
Kxel Sardi
WMT Melodiers
This Is My Best will present Wilder story with Van Johnson
Van Johnson stars in Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination on This Is My Best at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday over CBS and WBBM. Wilder, a U.S. Air Force major, chose the novel for the program amid his Mediterranean posting.
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van Johnson
Wilder Story
AN Johnson
Hollywood
Thornton Wilder
CBS
WBBM
Johnson
Frank Sinatra
Wilder
United States Air Forces
Mediterranean
Rachel Crothers
Theater of Romance
WMT
Richard Kollmar
Joy Hathaway
Gracie Allien
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Vincent Lopez
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn
N. Y
Blue
EXEL
Bennett Sisters
Jimmy Hilliard
Hilliard Orchestra
Jack Fulton
Local Radio Schedule Fragment
Fragmentary radio listings show Judy and Jan at 2 45 p m on WMT with WHO happiness at 3 pm and Rhythm on WMT. Entries mention KXEL and WF News with scattered program notes including World Today and Country Ed.
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Jan
World Today O News
Tomix
Stan
Ker
World News
WHO
E-t
Rosemary Laura Lawton Smilin
Ed McConnel
America
the Fry
Farmer Pleads Guilty In Old Shooting Case
Joseph Dunne, a 43 year old farmer from Jackson County, pleads guilty to assault with intent to commit manslaughter in a December 1942 shooting case. He receives a suspended five year sentence and is paroled to the state parole board. The prior conviction was overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court due to instructional errors.
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Gazette
Maquoreta
Joseph Dunne
Jackson County
C. R. Stafford
Muscatine
Fort Madison
State Parole Board
Dunn
Frank James
Supreme Co
Palau Airfield May Beacon for Big Bombers on Road to Tokyo
Peleliu airfield in the southern Palau Islands becomes a new junction point on the road to Tokyo. It now handles four engined transports and could serve as a base for big bombers joining General MacArthur’s invasion of the Philippines. Nimitz announced ongoing mop up of Japanese forces on Peleliu and Angaur as NATS and military planes begin regular cargo and passenger service to the southern Palaus.
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Pearl Harbor
Peleliu
Palau Islands
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Palaus
Chester W. Nimitz
Angaur
Naval Air Transport Services Pacific Wing
D. W. Tomlinson
NATS
Pacific
Doomed Paris journalist faces death in purge trial
PARIS AP George Suarez veteran Paris journalist was sentenced to death at Paris first purge trial on his conviction Monday night of intelligence with the enemy during the German occupation. Suarez directed Aujourd hui during the occupation and can appeal to the cassation court and then to Gen de Gaulle if needed. Only five hours were required.
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PARIS
George Suarez
Suarez
Aujourd’hui
Cassation Court
Charles de Gaulle
Evidence Submission Details In Suárez Case Reveals Payments
The document outlines a plan to submit evidence against Suárez alleging a monthly payment of $15,000 during the Nazi regime. It notes the target period and the financial amount claimed to have been received for wartime actions.
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Suarez
Cpl John Isom Killed In Action in Germany
Columbus Junction reports Corporal John Isom of the Winfield community was killed in action in Germany while serving in the First Army. He was the brother of Mrs Jarrett Peters of Columbus Junction.
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Cpl
John Isom
Germany
Columbus Junction
Winfield
First Army
Jarrett Peters
Gen Patch's Son Killed in Action In France
Mrs. Alexander Patch received a radio message confirming the death of her son, Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army in France, amid wartime losses and official military communications.
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Patch
West Point Captain Killed in Action in France
Family confirms Capt. Alexander M. Patch III, a 1942 West Point graduate, was killed in action Sunday in France. He served with the Seventy Ninth Division under his father’s Seventh Army.
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France
Patch
West Point
Seventy-ninth Division
Seventh Army
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