Governors Support Federal Ballots for Armed Forces Vote
Most state executives await Roosevelt’s service vote plan findings. California Maryland and Kansas say state laws permit federal ballots. Rhode Island New Hampshire Connecticut Nebraska Vermont Indiana and New Mexico expect to validate or arrange action for November elections.
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California
Maryland
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New Hampshire
Connecticut
Nebraska
Vermont
Indiana
New Mexico
A Model is Murdered in a Penthouse Night Scene
Argus Steele reconstructs the evening as Syria Verne, a de luxe model, is shot in her penthouse after an earlier quarrel with Pierre Sturgis. Ellen Curtis and Dorry figure in nightclub chatter while Carstairs flirts. Ellen phones Argus to help, but the detective declines, only to be drawn back when Verne is slain.
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Argus Steele
Ellen Curtis
Penguin Club
Ellen
Argus
Lucy Callahan
Martinelli
Hollywood
Pierre
Bill Carstairs, III
Playboy
Dorry
Carstairs
Bill
Plaza Hotel
Mr. Steele
Syria Verne
Bill Carstairs
Roger Flagg
Police Headquarters
Fifth Avenue
Butch
Boss
Eleven Camp Robinson Soldiers Drown in Accident
Eleven soldiers from Camp Robinson died in an amphibious training accident near Little Rock as two assault boats collided on an artificial lake. All bodies were recovered, with most victims from Company M, 264th Infantry in the 66th division. nature of the accident was not disclosed.
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Little Rock
Ark
Camp Robinson
Asault
66Th Division
264Th Infantry
The Home Front War Over OPA and WLB Powers
Washington dispatch discusses OPA price controls set to expire June 30 and Congress considering续 continuance or reform. Bowles touts near stability while AFL CIO allege 1941 prices up 43 percent. War Labor Board faces CIO steelworkers wage demands that threaten the little steel formula, with potential broader wage hikes across labor.
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Chester Bowles
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AFL
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Bowles
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War Labor Board
WLB
CIO
Man Freed After Distress Call From Phone Booth
In Chicago on March 17 Arthur Silver talked at a drug store phone booth with his girlfriend into the night. The store closed around midnight and police freed Silver after receiving a distress message from his companion.
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Chicago
Arthur Silver
Silver
Passengers Leave Gripsholm Balance Cleared for Shore
Passengers still disembarking from the Gripsholm exchange liner in Jersey City. 128 remaining to ashore by tonight. 662 aboard earlier, 534 cleared after examinations, 19 to Ellis Island for further questioning. Officials cited lack of adequate credentials rather than disloyalty.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gripsholm
Ellis Island
Quadruplets Born in Argentina with One Surviving Girl
A 38-year-old Argentine woman delivered quadruplets in a Buenos Aires suburb. Three infants died within hours. one baby girl weighing two pounds survived. The birth follows a prior reported quintuplet birth eight months earlier to rancher Senor Franco Diligenti and his wife.
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Buenos Aires
Senor
Senora
Franco Diligenti
Celio Giachino de Angiullli
Yanks Slain by Comrades in Sicily Flight
The War Department confirms 410 American paratroopers killed in Sicily when Allied gunners mistook 23 U S transport planes for enemy ships and shot them down. Stars and Stripes correspondent Jack Fossie first disclosed the loss. the 82nd Airborne's Gela operations are noted.
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Washington
War Department
Sicily
U. S
Jack Fossie
Army
Stars and Stripes
San Francisco
Stimson
Fossie
82Nd Airborne Division
Gela
Navy man writes home from abroad via censor
A Grand Island, Nebraska sailor recently shipped abroad says in a letter that the censor approved telling readers they are at a location that has been deleted by the censor. He notes that this is about all he can disclose.
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Grand Island, Neb
Grand Island
Liquorless Day Introduced in Cheyenne
In Cheyenne Wyoming on March 17 whiskyless Wednesday follows meatless Tuesday as leading bars cope with liquor shortages and adopt new tradition.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Italy's Area Smaller Than Mexico's
A concise geographic comparison notes that Italy covers less land area than Mexico. It cites the relative sizes of the two countries, highlighting Italy's smaller footprint in global geography and territorial extent.
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Italy
Mexico
Senior WMC Group in Good Meeting at Hartselle
The senior group of the W. M. C. of the First Christian church of Hartselle met at the church on Monday afternoon. President Mrs J P Hodges led prayer. roll call shared World Call items. Miss Bertha See led the program with a devotional by Mrs E H Sharpley and a mission study on Christian in Learning and Living.
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J. P. Hodges
Bertha. See
E. H. Sharpley
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