OW I Says U S Could Meet Labor Shortage With War Effort
The Office of War Information stated the nation could handle manpower through tech and wartime work, disputing cries of a broad labor crisis. The report notes labor force shifts and government decisions, with emphasis on unions and transportation in wartime production.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Cresee
OWI
Tion
At Transportation
Pheaas
Pago
200000 Married Men to Be Called RANDTON Draft
200000 married men may be drafted under a new measure affecting those who would otherwise be called next spring. Local effects will vary. delay in induction of 18 and 19 year olds could push starts to January. Senate figures cite congressional delay over a one year training requirement before combat abroad. The War Department opposes the restriction and seeks its elimination. Please turn to Page 3 Col 2.
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Randton
Aswaimem Cavers
Reynolds
D-N. C
Senate Military Committee
Deena Port
Gurney
R-S. D
Nent
Diguss
Bills Would Abolish J P Fees And Set Salaries For Justices
Senate President Byron Randolph released a draft bill for 1943 action that would end J P fee payments and replace them with salaries ranging from 100 to 5000 dollars a year. Public hearings are set, including one in the Senate chamber November 20, and other bills address industrial schools and mental hospitals.
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Justices of the Peace
Legislative Interim Committee For Action
Senate
Byron B. Randolph
US Soldiers Reopen Fairport-Painesville Railroad Hit By Strike
U S soldiers resumed rail service on the Fairport Painesville and Eastern line to move war materials after a 34 man strike. An army battalion and military police secured the 3 ½ mile link installing locomotives for chemical and magnesium plants near Lake Erie. District 50 of the United Mine Workers called the strike over non union crews. Maurice J Dineen said some members protested the hiring of 30 non union workers as train crews.
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Painesville
U. S
Fairport, Painesville
Lake Erie
District 50
United Mine Workers
Maurice J. Dineen
John L. Lewis
Dinee
Diamond Alkali Co
Fairport-Painesville
Gismond
Labor Holiday Ends By Mechanic Society in Cleveland
The national administrative council of the Mechanics Educational Society of America voted to end Monday a labor holiday by 9,200 tool and die makers that halted 15 Detroit plants. Vice president Michael Bisovsky said the dispute moves to the War Labor Board with eight discharged members to remain on Briggs aircraft plant payroll in Detroit pending a settlement as the council weighs expanding the strike to Toledo, Cleveland and other cities.
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Cleveland
National Administrative’ Council
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Detroit
Michael Bisovsky
War Labor Board
MESA
Briggs Aircraft
Toledo
Martin Quits As GOP Chairman And backs liaison group
Rep Martin resigns as chairman of the Republican National Committee to focus on minority leader duties. Sen McNary endorses a joint congressional committee to liaise between the White House and Congress on wartime conduct, signaling cross party support after the election.
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Washington
INS
Joseph Martin, Jr
Charles L. McNary
House
Senate
Congressional Committee
White House
Congress
Rep. Martin
Republican National Committee
GOP
Martin
Sen
McNary
Malimbin River Crossed by Army in Guadalcanal Offensive
U S troops crossed the Malimbin river east of Henderson airfield and attacked Japanese forces that landed there last week. Navy communique says Japanese offered light resistance as Americans advanced. Casualties cited show 5,186 Japanese killed in three months of fighting in the Solomon Islands, with American losses around 1,000. Marines held positions west of Henderson, repelling counter attacks as front expands about 20 miles.
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Washington
Cins
Guadalcanal
Navy
U. S
Malimbin River
Henderson Airfield
Navy Department
Department Alpos
Solomon
Price Violations Charged to 4000 Retailers in War Controls
The Office of Price Administration announced 4000 retailers faced charges for violating the general maximum price regulation as Frances Perkins said the average American family paid 24 percent more for food by mid October versus September. The action targets war profiteers with potential license suspensions. Henderson noted many notices were sent to merchants with unintentional or minor infractions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Frances Perkins
Leon Henderson
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OPA Warns 51 Firms in Charleston Area
Bernard Selove said warning letters were sent to 51 businesses to observe price ceiling rules or face court action and license loss. Most violators were coal companies. WV saw active enforcement in the Cleveland region with seven violations per 10 inspections across 9,425 inspections.
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Bernard Selove
Office of Price Administration
Charleston
OPA
West Virginia
Cleveland
U S Fliers Strike Brest U Boat Base In Daylight Raid
United States heavy bombers with RAF support attacked Brest docks and submarine pens in a daylight raid. Flying Fortresses and Liberators faced heavy anti aircraft fire but all aircraft returned safely. One German fighter fell. one Allied plane missing.
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London
United States
Brest
France
Switzerland
RAF
Italy
Thenee
Soviet Armored Trains Crush German Forces on Nalchik Plains
Soviet armored trains in a six hour battle claim to have knocked out 10 German tanks and armored cars, destroyed a German plane, and dispersed two infantry companies near Nalchik. Stalingrad garrison reportedly routed Germans from minor Volga city positions as tanks attack in the Caucasus region.
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Moscow
Nalchik
Stalingrad
Volga
Ordzhonikidze
Caucasus
Tuapse
Black Sea
Haynes to Command U. S. India Airmen
Brig Gen Caleb V Haynes arrives in New Delhi to take command of the U S India air task force, succeeding as China bomber command chief Lt Col Herbert Morgan Jr. Morgan, from Pittsburgh, will replace Haynes in China where he led bombing sorties against Japan. The India force will operate under Brig Gen Clayton L Bissell with Brig Gen Claire L Chennault directing the China task force.
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New Delhi
Caleb v. Haynes
S. Air Forces
India
China
Haynes
U. S. Bomber Command
Hongkong
U. S
Haynes I
Claire L. Chennault
Clayton L. Bissell
Kane
China Bomber Command
Col
Herbert
Butch" Morgan, Jr
Pittsburgh
Afrika Corps Flee 285 Miles Across North Africa Front
British 8th Army closes on Libyan frontier as Rommel’s remnants retreat toward Libya. Hundreds of thousands of Axis prisoners are expected, with over 20 000 Italians and thousands of Germans in Allied hands. Allied air and sea forces harry retreating columns along the coast and inland flanks.
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Cairo
Egypt
INS
8Th Army
Afrika Corps
Erwin Rommel
Libya
Bardia
Buaqbuq
Sollum
el Alamein
Matruh
Adolf Hitler
Suez Canal
Near East
Rommel
United Nations
Japs Claim 21 Subs Sunk in Three Months
Tokyo reports Imperial headquarters says Japanese naval forces sank 21 Allied submarines from late July to late October and lost two of their own subs. It also cites 34 Allied merchant vessels totaling 242,400 tons sunk, with 29 Japanese merchant ships totaling 122,500 tons lost.
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Tokyo
Imperial
Imperial Navy
Domei
President Announces Aerial Landing to Foil Axis Invasion
The White House said a powerful American force under Lt Gen Dwight Eisenhower would land on the Mediterranean Atlantic coasts of French colonies in Africa to forestall a German Italian invasion. Supported by the British fleet and air forces, the operation aims to prevent Axis occupation and aid the Allied effort in Europe, with France informed and cooperation requested. Roosevelt spoke in French in a radio message urging French aid and liberty restoration.
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Gen. Eisenhower
Washington
White House
Africa
Germany
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
War Department
London
Egypt
Atlantic
Americas
Russia
France
la France Eternelles
United States
United Nations
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U.S
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U. S. Quartermaster Depot
Philadelphia
Fdr
Malimbin
Perkins
U. S. Fliers
Nazia
Fuka
Foe
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