Harlem Riots Prompt Curfew After Violence Spreads
Mayor LaGuardia imposes a 10:30 p.m. curfew as Harlem turmoil spreads with fatalities and injuries. A 1,500 member mostly African American committee with nightsticks and armbands volunteers to aid police patrols to curb the unrest. Major General A. Terry notes Harlem remains under control the Service Command does not declare it out of reach.
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New Tore
LaGuardia
Harlem
Reca
A. Terry
Service Command
Labor Shortage Hits U S Farm Production Anew
An AP report says urban farming for war effort suffers from extreme farm labor shortages. Wages topped previous highs as 11.75 million workers reentered farming, a drop of 2 percent from last year. The South Atlantic region faced severe shortages despite overall declines in rural unemployment. The Agriculture Department notes farm labor demand at 125 percent nationwide. Turn to Mo. 11 on Page 2.
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Igw
Rts
Agriculure
Deartment
Bureau of Agriultural Economics
BAE
Ull
Earl Harbor
South Atlantic
World Today War Update From Europe and North Africa
The World Today reports Allied bombing intensifies in Italy including Naples, with civilians evacuated as Berlin issues non essential civilian warnings. Ploesti oil center heavily struck by U.S. liberators from Cairo. large raid damages German oil supplies. In Sicily, U.S. naval forces bombard northern coast to support Seventh Army advancing near San Stefano, as German resistance along the Monte Eine line falters.
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Associated Press
Naples
Germany
Berlin
Italy
Hamburg
Ploesti
U. S. Libera
Cairo
Garmeny
Seventh Army
San Stefan
Mt Eine
Vast low level raid on Ploesti burns fuel sources
Cairo AP reports 173 Liberator bombers of the U S Ninth Air Force completed a 2.4 mile round trip to drop 300 tons of explosives on Romanian Ploesti oil fields. Major General Lewis F. Brereton announced the operation as the biggest low level raid in history. The Middle East Air Command said 20 bombers were shot down and many planes did not return. Enemy losses claimed include Me 210s and Fw 190s amid heavy opposition over the target and during the return flight.
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Cairo
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Ploesti Ofl
Ru- Tanis
Lewis F. Brereton
Cottonseed price ceiling raised to aid Southern farmers
The Office of Price Administration approved a seven dollar per ton rise in the ceiling for cottonseed, boosting from 49 to 56 dollars per ton to offset higher production costs. The move, supported by Senators Bankhead McClellan and Eastland, aims to bolster milk production by increasing available cottonseed meal for dairy feed amid last year’s low meal prices.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Bankhead
D.- Ala
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D-Ark
Eastland
D.-Miss
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
White River
Missouri
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Bell Street Prowler Eludes Pursuers
A prowler, described as a white man, avoided capture after approaching M L Driver’s residence at 131 North Bell Street. Family members spotted the intruder near shrubbery as they came home late, Driver pursued with a flashlight, and the man fled through a vacant lot. Police conducted a neighborhood search but found no trace.
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M. L. Driver
North Bell Street
Confiscated Liquor Totals 26 Bottles
Investigator L C Easterwood of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board reported a total of 18 one pint pints of Fierica whiskey and two quarts of Ale were seized during a Thursday night raid. The check noted 26 bottles in total as confiscated.
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L C Easterwood
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Glider Crash Kills St Louis Mayor and 9 Others
A Army glider crash at Lambert Field during a public demonstration killed Mayor William Dee Becker, Maj. William B. Robertson, and nine others including city officials and Robertson Aircraft Co executives. Investigators from Scott Field will lead the inquiry.
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St. Louis
William Dee Becker
Thomas N. Duvart
Chamber of Commerce
Army
Dothan Brothers Reunite in North Africa Post War News
Captains Clyde Tindell and James L. Tindell, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Tindall of Dothan, reunited in North Africa after a year and a half apart. Clyde, in his headquarters, heard Jimmy’s voice as a vehicle approached and rushed to embrace him, discovering they were only about 80 miles apart. Details remain sparse due to censorship.
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James L. Tindell
C. W. Tindall
Dothan
Acropa
North Africa
Clyde
Jimmy
Stati
Wafarmbore
8. C
Tinker Field
Oula
Gach
Invasion Forecast On Algiers Radio By War Office Head
Fimner Davis, head of the Offices of War Information, on Algier radio predicts a great invasion from England to sweep Europe as Sicily did. He says Americans will continue the fight until all enemies are beaten. Nine of thirteen gang members die after a New York Central train strikes their group on tracks near Ohiman. Survivors report they did not notice the approaching train.
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Algiers
Fimner Davis
War Information
Spraldng
Algiern Radio Tonight
England
Europe
Sicily
Nokomis
New York Central
Ohiman
George Says Fourth Term Not Inevitable
Georgia Senator Walter F. George says a fourth term is not inevitable and that public leaders should focus on current duties rather than 1944 politics. He has served 21 years in the Senate and may seek renomination in the 1944 Democratic primary.
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Romney Wheeler Vienna
United States
Walter F. George
Georgia
Roosevelt
George
Senate
Tom Watson
Scrutiny Of U S Expenses Due When Taxes Are Hiked
President Roosevelt's renewed request for tax increases faces bi partisan calls for tighter federal spending review. Senators Wherry Radcliffe Taft urge cutting unnecessary appropriations and closer inspection of Army and Navy requests. Officials debate whether more than about five to six billion in new taxes is achievable while guarding middle class burden.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Benatar Wherry
R.-Neb
America
Wherry
Radcliffe
D.md
Army
Navy
Byrd Committee
Taft
R.ohie
Joint
Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
Walter F. George
Dga
Senate Finance Committee
Vienna
George
U S May Require Two Years To Demobilize Home Front
Washington report on the postwar transition outlines a two year demobilization for civilian and military sectors. The 12 man White House conference predicts cancellations of war contracts, conversion to peacetime production, and potential unemployment peaks. It calls for unemployment aid extensions and improved survivor insurance as civilians face gaps before full civilian readjustment.
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U.S
James Marlow
George Zielke Washington
Conpe
Roosevelt
America
Inauranca
Civilians Flee Italian Factory Towns As Peace Talks Stall
Civilians flee metropolitan Italy as demonstrations grow and Badoglio stalls on surrender. Allied air power threatens invasion of the mainland while radio broadcasts from Algiers warn of forthcoming land operations.
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Italy
Badoglio
Associated Presa
London
Algiers
Marchal Fierra Badogtlo
U. S
Naples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barriers Guarding Munda Approaches Blasted By Navy
Allied forces report Navy bombers and escort planes attacked barriers guarding Munda, dropping 27 tons on gun positions and supply dumps around central Bolomon airfields. They note lighter recent raids, possible weather dampening air activity, and ongoing operations near Munda and Vila airdromes with barge destruction and fires at targets in New Guinea and nearby islands.
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Munda
Bolomons Airhas
Allied
Lkely
New Guinea
Coral Sea
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Cape Goucester
New Britain
Lae
Bola
Ceram Island
Hombe
Munde
Vile
Bolomonk
Bomba Island
Netherlands East Indies
Walngapor
Lin Sen Dies China President Lin Sen Dies in Chungking
Lin Sen, longtime president of the Chinese republic, died after a long illness in Chungking. Chiang Kai-shek was named acting president by the Kuomintang Central Committee. Lin had previously fled to the United States for education and returned to China after the revolution.
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Lin Sen
Chiang Kai - Shek
Koomintang Central Committee
Lin Ben'a
H. H. Kung
Ho Ying Chin
China
Chiang Kal-ahek
Japan
Foochow
Fukiam
California
Tie
United States
Nazis Reported Leaving Berlin To Avoid Raids
Stockholm AP dispatch reports German authorities evacuating non essential civilians from Berlin amid fear of Allied bombing. Instructions circulated to women children and elderly to seek homes with relatives or evacuation areas in eastern Germany as frantic preparations continue after Hamburg air raids.
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John Colburn
Stockholm
Hamburg
Berlin
Germany
Soviets Recapture 100 More Villages In Drive On Orel
Soviet Red Army forces press the Orel offensive driving on the German base. They reclaim 100 villages south and northwest of Orel, report 2,000 German dead, and damage tanks, guns, and trucks. The advance targets the Orel Bryansk feeder line while mines complicate progress.
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Orel
Moscow
Orel-Bryanek Reily
Pravds
Gaina
Napier Civilians Win Bond Praise at Napier Field
Civilian employees at Napier Field Alabama earned a War Department certificate praising their cooperation in War Bond purchases. The certificate notes 9 percent of Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School civilian personnel are enrolled in the Army Pay Reservation Plan and 10 percent of monthly payroll funds are invested in War Savings Funds. Colonel James L. Daniel Jr. presented the certificate to Maurice Holmes, a civilian war bond clerk, in his office with Major Ray M. Hawley and First Lieutenant ny Hooper witnessing.
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War Department
Army Air Forces Advanced
Napier, Field
Alabama
Army
James L. Daniel
Maurice Holmes
Clvian
Henry L. Stimson
H. K. Loughry
Daniel
Ray M. Hawley
Yeats
Ny Hooper
Atticar
8th Army Springs Offensive To Meet Americans In Move
Allied forces begin an offensive in Ricily with U S troops seizing San Stefano to pressure the Axis. The British Eighth Army pushes toward Catania as American and Canadian units widen the Mesina bridgehead. Bombers strike Naples Capodichino and other targets while Allied seapower bombards Italian harbors and rail hubs.
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Relman Morin
North Africa
Ricily
U.S
San Stefano
Axis
Eighth Army
Catania
Erith
Mesgina
Naples
Italy
Ban Stefano
Stelan
Nepies
Capodiching
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pietro Badog
Capodichino
Itaiisn High Command
Sted
Biehty
Milaxto
Axia
Afrana
Randazzo
Vibo
Valentin Marina
Gulf of San Eufemio
Masala
River Oliva
Crotens
Jonlan Bee
Crotone
U. S
Seventh Army
Sicily
Lilly
Harth
Webb Sergeant Dies In Aircraft Crash
Technical Sergeant James WM Parker of Webb route one was killed in an airplane crash near Des Moines Saturday. He had been in the Army for five months. Ward Wilson will handle funeral arrangements. Surviving are his parents Mr and Mrs F M Parker of Webb route one a brother Jack of Webb route one and a sister Mrs Marie Burdechan of Headland route one. Details of the crash have yet to be learned.
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Webb
Des Moines
Ward-Wilson
F. M. Parker
Yente
Jack
Alee
Marie Burdechan
Headland
Detalia
Tha Cragh
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