Wartime outlook lifts as supply boosts hint at breakthrough
Readers get a wary but hopeful view of global fighting. Officials hint that Allied forces prepare for major moves, while a big buildup of planes, pilots, tanks, and soldiers remains mostly unseen in combat. A 5 percent victory tax proposal looms, slated to fund postwar debts and curb inflation, with households urged to plan for higher taxes next year. The local war bond push closes strong, proving community support amid shortages and drive.
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United Nations
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Washington
Senate Committee
French Senate and Chamber Condemn Petain Dictatorship
Paris reports that the presidents of France’s senate and chamber accuse Marshal Petain of assuming unlimited dictatorship and dissolving parliament. They protest his war plans with the allies and warn liberty cannot die in France. Petain reportedly interned two Popular Front figures as he consolidated power.
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Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Marshal Philippe Petain
France
Petain
Pierre Laval
Jules Jeanneney
Edouard Herriot
Chamber
Germany
Herriot
Jeannency
Vichy
French Republic
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Pierre Vicnot
M. Blumel
Blum
Albert Lebrun
Nationwide control set on trucks and buses begins Nov. 15
The Office of Defense Transportation will place all non-military trucks, buses, ambulances and hearses under wartime regulation. Gasoline, tires and parts will be rationed nationwide with certificates of war necessity, mileage limits and load caps.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
District of Columbia
DDT
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
Office of Price Administration
Churchill Stalin dispute reported in Soviet press
Moscow reports reveal for the first time a serious disagreement between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin during their wartime talks. The Soviet press published portions of Churchill's Commons statement, reinforcing the view that allied aid to Russia will not come soon and deepening Moscow's bitterness.
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Moscow
Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Churchill
House of Commons
House with rusty pliers and odd tools in court tale
A colorful description mocks a householder familiar with rusty pliers a two bit saw chewing gum court plaster and shoe leather as the subject of a local court tale shows.
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House
Cedar Rapids Bond Drive At Wake Island Premiere
The Cedar Rapids premiere of Wake Island raised about 165000 in war bonds and stamps amid rain and film star appearances Frances Dee and Edward Arnold. Spectators from all walks funded the drive, with $164000 in bonds and the rest in stamps, reflecting widespread public support and sacrifice.
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Cedar Rapids
America
Frances Dee
Edward Arnold
Wake Island
Iowa Theater
Arnold
Miss Dee
Gazette-Reynolds
Benne Alter
Civil Air Patrol
Sensational Wakefield Fire and Rescue At Sea
Walter Cronkite reports from aboard a U S warship as the Wakefield burns during a Atlantic convoy voyage. Crew and 840 passengers are rescued by escort vessels using rope ladders and improvised gangways with several crew members burned. Cause of the fire under investigation. the ship was among the largest prewar liners and returning troops from Britain.
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United States
Atlantic
Wakefield
Manhattan
British Isles
Eire
Britain
Cmdr
Harold G. Bradbury
United States Coast Guard
Washington
America
West Point
Wakefield Fire Destroys Liner Once Queen of Fleet
The Wakefield formerly the Manhattan was badly damaged by fire at sea on Sept. 3 with 1,600 passengers and crew saved. The 24,000 ton ship was salvaged and towed to an Atlantic port as rescuers battled the blaze, with no loss of life and several injuries reported.
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Washington
Wakefield
Manhattan
Navy
Queen
United States
Naval Service
Harold Gardner Bradbury
Port Angeles
Wash
Coast Guard
Cedar Rapids Woman Enlists in Waves Navy
Miss Katherine Morrison 29 of Commonwealth apartments Cedar Rapids is the first eastern Iowa woman accepted for enlistment in the Waves the women’s division of the U S Navy She was a mathematics major at Morningside College Sioux City and expects to report to Smith College North Hampton Mass for training after sworn in in Chicago The Ninth district’s early intake places her near the 140th recruit and she faces a four month marriage prohibition during training
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Cedar Rapids
Katherine Morrison
Commonwealth Apartments
Iowa
The
Waves
United States Navy
Miss Morrison
Organization of the Waves
Morningside College
Sioux City
Ninth Naval District
Chicago
Washington
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Russians Hold Strong at Stalingrad Front
Soviet dispatches say Red Army troops maintained firm defense around Stalingrad as German armor pressed the western front. The battles on the central front near Mozdok and the Terek river led to German losses, with 400 killed and Axis vehicles destroyed, while Churchill’s aid pledge reached Soviet papers.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Volga
Moscow
Churchill
Britain
United States
Russia
Iran
Persia
Iraq
Caucasus
Middle East
Central Caucasus
Baku
Rostov
Mozdok
Grozny
Terek
Red
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Red Star
Reed to buy war bonds at Marion Bill Reed day
Reed will spend his Jap bounties for war bonds from his 11 planes destroyed as a member of the American Volunteer Group in Burma. Parade Saturday in Marion features bands drum corps and an afternoon program led by K E Cornell and Mayor Mullin. War bond sales at Liberty Chapel with enlistment booths for the armed services and a Bill Reed banquet planned at the Marion Golf Club.
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Reed
Burma
A. R. McElwain
Bill Reed
New York
Bill
Liberty Chapel
Army Air Forces
Mayme Reed
McElwain
Paramount Pictures
Iowa News
Seventh Avenue
K. E. Cornell
John Mullin
W. E. Failor
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Marion Golf Club
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