Washington college selects adminis tration of new officer candidate program
The college, identified as a national institution in Washington, selects a new officer candidate program to train soldiers. Enrollment is about 250, with 1, Oct start and a 1, year duration. Magn units and dormitories at Cowles Hall and the tron building will house the students. The program keeps the hall system and maintains library, laboratories, and educational facilities. The faculty gains personnel while the student body remains close to last year.
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de War
Washington
Well College
Cowles
Tron
Ant General's
Rove i
Asta
Cedar Rapids Named Top U S Business Center by Forbes
Forbes magazine lists Cedar Rapids among the nation’s best business centers for concentrating sales activities and promotions. It highlights Cedar Rapids as a leading high spot territory with four others, noting a median gain of 29 percent over last year in the 1,000,000 plus population category.
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Cedar Rapids
Forbes Magazine
United States
Former Pastor of St. Paul's Dies in California
Dr. A. M. Jayne age 69 former pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist church Cedar Rapids died Friday in Altadena California after a long illness. He will be buried in Mt. Vernon Iowa after funeral services in Altadena. Born May 6 1873 in Central City he married Mary Collin in 1900 who died in 1928. He served at Rockford Iowa then Cedar Rapids before moving to Oklahoma City and Lansing Michigan retiring to Altadena. Survived by three daughters and three sons plus five grandchildren and five sisters.
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St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids
Altadena
Calif
Mt. Vernon
Central City
Mary Collin
Jayne
Cornell College
University of Chicago
Rockford
St. Paul’s ‘Methodist Church
St. Paul’s
First Methodist
Oklahoma City
Central Methodist Church
Lansing
Mich
Ruth Plumley
Indianapolis
Louise Goslyn
Manchester
N. H
Frances Smith
Revival of Rumi plan eyed by Senate panel
Washington AP reports supporters on the Senate Finance Committee predicted a revival of the Rumi pay as you go plan for income tax collection. Senator Byrd said Beardsley Rumis chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would be available for informal discussion with committee members next week as they consider decisions on individual schedules in the new bill.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Beardsley Rumi
Federal Reserve Banks
New York
Reds Halt Drive for Stalingrad
Soviet reports say the Red Army halted the German push at Stalingrad and checked advances in the Caucasus and central eastern sectors. Naval battles persisted at Novorossiysk as Russians pressed counterattacks and reported losses of enemy tanks, transports, and aircraft while guarding the Volga region.
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Red Army
Stalingrad
Volga River
Caucasus
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Terek
Mozdol
Caucasian
Grozny
Baltic
Leningrad
Red Star
Marines Break Japanese Resistance at Guadalcanal
A Marine unit reports clearing the last organized Japanese positions on Guadalcanal near the Tenaru river. Heavy fire and anti tank grenades halted a Japanese river crossing attempt. remaining snipers in a nearby cocoanut grove are few and to be cleaned out soon. Bodies lie along the sandbar at the river mouth, a stark record of the fierce battle.
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Theia
Cocoanut
Tenaru River
Tenaru
F R Slated to Issue Rigid Curb on Wages Salaries Farm Prices
President Roosevelt plans a Monday order to impose drastic limits on wages, salaries, and farm prices, creating an economic administrator to enforce wartime cost of living controls. The move, preempting Congress in farm price policy, signals a sweeping, potentially revolutionary budgetary shift. Officials say enforcement may rely on tax law, with details left to the new administrator and potential adjustments to certain pay scales and farm products.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Wendell Willkie
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Bernard M
Congress
Briton Praises Swell Job by U S Tankmen at Alamein
The British press notes U S Army crews in General Grant tanks helped beat back the German 15th and 21st armored divisions in early action on the Alamein front. A British major lauded their performance and willingness to join the fight, saying they hit Rommel hard and could not have behaved better. The report recounts the clash at 7 p.m. Monday as Rommel’s forces closed with the Imperial armored corps, with dawn the next day bringing continued fighting aided by British artillery and anti tank guns.
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Alamein
United States Army
Grant
Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Imperial Armored Corps
England
New Zealand
Cairo
United States
Tobruk
el Alamein Front
Alexandria
G-Men Nab Trio as Jap Propagandists
The FBI says three men tied to a Japanese plan to propagandize the United States and feed news to Mexico and the Negro press were arrested. Joseph Smyth Irving Williams and Walter Matheson faced charges of acting as foreign agents and receiving slush funds to control publications and supply news services. They faced up to ten years in prison and fines.
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FBI
United States
Mexico
Joseph Smyth
Old Lyme
Conn
Irving Henry Williams
Noroton
Waar Matheson
Washington, D
Smyth
Williams
Matheson
Washington
Living Age
Foreign Observer
North American Review
Special
Office of Inter-American Affairs
Rockefeller Committee
Schools in Camden Move to Six Day Week During Winter
Camden officials said all 40 public grammar and high schools will run on a six day week and close in January and February to save fuel. The wartime schedule starts Wednesday with 18,000 pupils and 700 teachers. Thirty schools burn coal while the rest use fuel oil. summer vacation remains unchanged.
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Camden
N. J
Board of Education
Hungary Orders Nationwide Blackout After Russian Raid
Bern Switzerland AP reports Hungary ordered a nationwide blackout Saturday night after a Russian air raid on Budapest Friday. The Hungarian news agency says eight people were killed and 21 wounded with only slight damage in the capital suburbs. Bombers struck in three waves, and nearby villages were hit.
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Bern
Switzerland
Hungary
Budapest
British Nip e Assaults By Rommel
British and Allied forces reported a new Axis retreat on the southern end of the 35 mile line and repelled three heavy counter-attacks. U S tanks and planes supported British advances as Rommel’s offensive near El Alamein faltered.
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United Nations
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Thid
el Hemeimat
Great
Qattara Salt Basin
Kaiser Steel Price Ceiling Injunction Enforces Ceilings
In Cleveland OPA obtained a consent decree permanently enjoining Kaiser Price Payment Above Ceilings for buying 504000 pounds of steel in small lots to evade price maximums. Judge Wilkin noted Kaiser did not admit willful violations while the suit cites above ceiling pricing and a related charge against Builders Structural Steel of Cleveland awaiting a Wednesday hearing.
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OPA
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Kaiser Company
Robert N. Wilkin
Wilkin
Kaiser
Federal District Court
Watkin
Builders Structural Steel Company of
Nazis Execute Czech Clergymen in Reprisal
London AP reports Germany executed four churchmen including Orthodox Bishop Gorazd and minister Vaclav Cikl as part of reprisals for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The Nazi action follows mass executions and village destructions tied to the Heydrich murder.
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London
Gestapo
Reinhard Weydrich
Reinhard
Heydrich
Bohemia-Moravia
Gorazd
Jan Sonneveld
Vladimir Petrek
Vaclav Cikl
Plan to end supply hoarding under wartime control
Washington AP War Production board moves to curb civilian supply hoarding and ensure equitable distribution. Retailers and wholesalers must report stock on hand and quarterly sales, with a forthcoming order to enforce limits. Exemptions apply to small firms and certain trades. about 200,000 firms affected.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPS
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Vwuu
Ule
Cops battle youths in Belfast streets
In Belfast a 16 year old gunman Gerard Adams was wounded after firing on a policeman who returned fire, wounding him in the abdomen. Adams was charged with possession of illegal documents as police continued rounding up IRA elements, holding 31 of 100 detained.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Gerard Adams
Adams
IRA
Air War Rages Across Europe With Major RAF and US Attacks
London dispatch says U S heavy bombers hit Rouen docks for a second time while Boston aircraft attacked Le Havre. Allied blitz extended from Bremen to Budapest, with raids on Vienna, Breslau, Koenigsberg, and Poland. One plane believed down. Bremen marked the 99th raid.
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United States
Rouen
Boston
le Havre
Europe
Vienna
Budapest
Germany
Bremen
Austria
Hungary
Breslau
Baltic
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
France
Royal Air Force
Poland
Middle Danube
Berlin
Russia
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