Roosevelt reports wartime aims from Atlantic meeting
President Roosevelt told Congress the Atlantic Conference with Prime Minister Churchill produced clear principles hard to oppose. He warned a peace granting Nazi domination would invite a second war and urged continued aid to Allies and talks with Russia to bolster defense against Germany.
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Field Day Marks End Of Program At Ravine Park
Warren Case city recreational director announced the summer playground program closes tomorrow at Ravine Park and Ravine Lake. Festivities begin 1:30 PM with a volleyball tournament among McKinley Wilson and Jefferson teams, followed by foot races novelty events swimming diving baseball and more until 5:45 PM. See FIELD DAY-Page Five.
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Light Rains Cool South Dakota After Wide Sprinkles
Light scattered rains lowered temperatures across South Dakota. Pierre reported .51 inch yesterday, Rapid City .13, Brookings .10, Yankton .09, Watertown shower, Huron trace. Yesterday’s peak reached 90 in Mitchell Pierre and Yankton as moderating readings expected Friday.
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Auto production curbed as U S faces 1942 shortfall
The Office of Production Management announced major cuts in passenger car output for August through November with a plan to drop 50 percent for the model year ending July 31, 1942. Knudsen indicated later quotas will be set monthly, three months ahead, and the scrap drive aims to reduce vehicles on highways amid steel shortages.
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Proposal AIA Suggests Wiping All Tax Exemptions
Washington August 21 A I A chairman Walter A M Cooper told the Senate Finance Committee the institute recommends abolishing all personal income tax exemptions. Present exemptions are 2000 dollars for married persons and 800 dollars for singles. Treasury suggested reductions to 1500 and 750 respectively.
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Take New Steps To Halt Strike In U S Steel Unit Plan
President Roosevelt, meeting with L H Korndorff and Myron C Taylor, sought to halt a 14 day strike at the Kearny New Jersey Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock plant. Taylor and Korndorff to confer with Navy Secretary Knox and others as Detroit transit tensions rise. The AFL and CIO disputes echo across city departments as workers weigh sympathy action.
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War duration forecast tied to economic factors
DeWitt MacKenzie analyzes Roosevelt and Churchill signals on a potentially long European war, noting Roosevelt’s 1943 projection and the broader view shared with Italian fascist editor Virgilio Gayda. The piece weighs how economic angles shape guesses about the war length and cautions against treating any single forecast as definitive.
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Poles Norwegians Urge Britain to Invade Europe
Allied strategists from Poland Norway and Britain push for a ground invasion of the continent as the only path to defeat Germany. Editorialists urge a second front while Norwegians in England and on the home front consider landing in Norway to open a corridor to Murmansk and disrupt German defenses.
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Destruction Reported of Huge Russian Hydroelectric Dam
London reports the third German offensive on Russia shrinking in scope with big advances on Ukrainian and Leningrad fronts. Unconfirmed word claims the Dnieper dam near Zaporzhe may be destroyed, potentially aiding German crossings while warnings stress wider flooding and river narrowing above the dam. Gloom persists from Moscow desk and Marshal Voroshilov urges defense of Leningrad to the last.
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Russians Admit Old Capital To Be In Dread Danger
Moscow dispatches report Leningrad under dire threat with Voroshilov urging citizens to arm and defend the city. He says the capital of Russia will never fall, while Soviet forces claim counterattacks recaptured towns and seized arms. Reports detail heavy fighting near Leningrad and in the Ukraine with German losses mounting.
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Lake Byron obituary signals vanishing South Dakota lake
Obituary notes Lake Byron in Beadle County has dried up leaving only a few water pockets and weeds. Once a beloved habitat for people and wildlife, it is mourned as a loss to central South Dakota and local duck hunting seasons.
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