Effort Made To Solve Shortages
Washington Sept 10 AP The supply priorities and allocations board ordered its executive director Donald M Nelson to draft a detailed plan for the defense program showing military and civilian needs and future production. The move accompanies measures to expand civilian industries and a push to obtain large aluminum and magnesium supplies via three new plants. The plan will break down military and civilian demands into raw materials labor and machinery needs and cover army navy air force and lend lease requirements to Great Britain and others. The board urged one central authority to develop unified official requirement figures to avoid confusion. The Tennessee Eastman plastics plant expansion proposal was denied for the time being.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Great
Brith
S P.A.B
First 25 Draftees Mustered Out Of U S Service
San Diego Calif Sept 10 Twenty five selectees led by W Houston Wolfe 44 Atmore Ala butcher lined up at Camp Callan finance office for release under new law allowing discharge of men over 28 or with hardship. Another 25 to be released tomorrow as 960 slated for discharge in weeks ahead. They received transport payments 130 to 149 dollars per man plus one third of three months pay seven dollars. Wolfe inducted June 4 plans to return to his shop.
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San Diego
Calif
W. Houston Wolfe
Atmore
Als
Camp Callan
Uncle Sam
Wolfe
Sessa torpedoed with no warning. Roosevelt to speak
Washington reports from Sept 14 state that the Sessa was torpedoed and shelled at night and sank in two minutes. Roosevelt plans a lengthy address Thursday night as U S relations with Axis nations remain strained. Observers expect a strong policy statement and steps to safeguard ships, possibly authorizing Atlantic naval patrols to sink Axis vessels found between the U S and Iceland.
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Washington
APJ
State Department
Roosevelt
United States
Ireland
Greer
Iceland
Greas
Atlantic
Hyde Park
Samuel J. Rosetiman
New York Supreme Court
War
Navy
Reverend Charles Murray Elected Moderator in Synod Meeting
In Billings the 49th annual Allenana Presbyterian synod session elected Rev. Charles R. Murray of Billings as moderator with Presiding officer Mrs. J. Miller Smith of Helena. Melvin V. Higbee of Miles City named vice moderator, and new officers including secretaries and mission(secretaries) named. More than 100 delegates attend the joint gathering.
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Billings
Charles R. Murray
Alon Lana
Melvin V. Higbee
Miles City
J. Miller Smith
Helena
St. E. Cameron
Missoula
Ars
T. Rapekin
Libby
National Sewing Mission
Stanley
Great Falls
Overseas Sewing Mission
W. B. Jensen
Great Walls
Stewardshiry
Clementine Gros
Vital airlift to Alaska bases via regular transport flights
Army announces a new weekly air freighting route from Sacramento to Ladd Field Alaska to rush defense supplies. BOth Transport Wing pilots will operate twin engine transports on a three stage trip via McChord Field and another stop, shortening delivery to three days in emergencies.
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Sacramento
Calif
Sept
America
Alaska
Army
Far North
Air Corps
B0th
Sacramento Air Depot
Laddfield
Fairbanks
Mexico
Wawaki
Philippines
Salt Lake City
Boise
Snokane
Finns Press Toward Leningrad Through Scorched Earth
Finnish forces push through the Karelia isthmus toward Leningrad as Soviet defenses falter under artillery. The hard fighting has left a scorched landscape and the city once part of a Finnish homeland now ceded to Russia after the earlier Russo-Finnish war.
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Karelian
Leningrad
Russia
Crop Production Seen Nearly Two Percent Higher This Year
Washington reports the Agriculture Department expects total crop production to be nearly 2 percent above last year despite August drought. Corn output is forecast at 2,525,964,000 bushels, down from August estimates but higher than 1940 and the 1920–39 average. Wheat is put at 957,565,000 bushels, the largest upturn since 1915, with last year at 14,698,000 bushels. The 1941 mix includes 84,966,000 winter, 43,219,000 durum, and 229,348,000 spring bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Tie Department
President appoints five man board to probe railroad strike
President Roosevelt names a five member board led by Dean Wayne Lyman Morse to investigate the threatened rail labor stoppage involving about 1.25 million workers. Other members include Harvard law professor Thomas Need Powell Columbia finance professor James Cummings Boubright and RockefellerFoundation social sciences director Joseph Henry Willits along with Washington attorney Huston Thompson. The mediation board says proceedings will begin in Chicago to decide venue and set a date for the emergency fact finding inquiry to avert a strike.
Huge Coast Defense Guns Get Test
San Francisco September 10 spy Uncle Sun's largest land guns the 16 inch coast defense rifles roared with earth shaking thunder in their first firing at Fort Cronkhite. The gun crew scored two direct hits with the one ton shells on a target twelve miles at sea and only fifteen feet square. Six other shots out of fourteen were misses. The 60 foot barrels can be elevated to project a one ton shell 35 miles to sea. The tremendous rifles never had spoken before.
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San Francisco
Uncle Sun
Coast Defense Rifles
Fort Cronkhite
Oslo Imposes Civil Siege Under German Authority
German commissioner Joseph Terboven enforces a state of civil siege in Oslo and the Aker district. A curfew from 5 am to 3 am bans alcohol and movement, shuts theaters, and orders Norwegians to surrender radios. Authorities report no disorders and warn violators face military trials. Local papers blame disruptive elements and subterranean activity for the order.
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Oslo
Norway
Joseph Terboven
Aker
Hetsreen & Yp. Am
A. W
Benun
Lerboven
Aftenposten
Newnyiyer Frittfolk
A? Kogland
Morgenbladet
Edit Wold
Lines Are Out Berlin to Budapest Telephones Cut
Berlin reports step by step halted telephones cut Budapest from Berlin this morning while Austrian legation and German sources denied any new political moves. AP in Bern could not reach Budapest correspondents and Hayas news agency connections were severed as stories were being dictated.
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Berlin
Budapest
Hungary
Hungaria
Aml
Hunera
Associated Press
Bern
Switzerland
Hayas
New York Times
Nicholas Storthy
Wungery
Illness of Father Sullivan Aboard in Seattle
Father Stephen J. Sullivan, longtime pastor of Holy Cross in Townsend, lies seriously ill at Providence Hospital in Seattle. Message received by Monsignor Victor Day from his brother Ambrose Sullivan states Sullivan left Townsend two weeks ago for Seattle seeking a health benefit.
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Stephen J. Sullivan
Holy Cross
Townsend
Providence Hospital
Seattle
Victor
Ambrose Sullivan
Townsend Pricet
Walher Sullivan
Day
Weather Summary For Montana North West And East
The forecast calls for largely unsettled conditions with scattered showers on Thursday and Friday. A cooler spell arrives in the western areas Thursday night into Friday, bringing more showers and cooler temperatures.
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Montana
West
Taylor Seeks War Peace Talks With Pope Pius XII
Myron Taylor Roosevelt’s emissary held two private audiences with Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Maglione in Vatican City. The talks touched on war and peace, with Taylor said to emphasize the welfare of peoples over form of government in relation to Soviet Russia. British Minister Osborne also met the pope, as Taylor’s mission was described as a horizon-spanning review of the European war and political situation.
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Vatican City
Myron
Taylor
Roose Velt
Pius XII
Taigi
Maglione
Elficles
Russia
Roosevelt
Harker
Sir Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne
Cardinal MagHone
Vatican
Ialy
Cardinal Maglione
Éloek
Reports Indicate Bomber Likely Found Near Puget Sound
Reports of two good leads sparked an air search for the missing Army bomber. Col. William H. Cram of McChord field said crews hoped to locate the craft by tomorrow. Seven ships, including two B-1s, searched from dawn until bad weather paused operations near noon. The Olympic Peninsula reports prompted renewed flights at 2 p.m., but a late thunderstorm forced all search activity to halt by 4 p.m.
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Tacoma
Wash
Puget Sound
Olympic Reninsula
William H. Cram
McChord
Cascades
Olympic Peninsula
Crom
Parachute Battalion Ready in Mexico
The ministry of national defense reports Mexico has equipped and trained a parachute battalion of 400 men, the first of its kind. The unit, fully equipped with light machine guns radios and parachute packs, will march in the capital’s Independence Day parade next Tuesday.
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Mexico City
Ministry of National Defense
Mexico
All-Out War To Bring Poison Gas
Major General William N. Porter warned that the European war would not be truly all out until poison gas is used. Speaking for the American Chemical Society banquet, he argued gas warfare depends on Axis advantage and that gas is mainly defensive, with Mussolini and Hitler having noted mustard gas uses in past campaigns. He urged offense over defense to defeat fascism and said defense alone cannot win.
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Atlantic City
William N. Porter
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service
American Chemical Society
Porter
Mwhler
Hitler
Italy
Mussolini
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt World Broadcast Tonight From White House
New York Sept 10 The full network and shortwave stations will carry Roosevelt's address from the White House tonight at 9 o clock AST on NBC CBS and MBS with translations in several languages NBC Blue will read reaction from London and Buenos Aires at 9 05 CHS 8 34 Washington report.
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Roosevelt
White House
NBC
CBS
MBS
Nbc-Blue
London
Buena Aires
Nazis Fail To Storm Leningrad Amid Slowed Assault
Reports from the area describe Soviet field fortifications near Leningrad being destroyed by intensive Stuka raids while city defenses hold. German claims of immediate capture recede as they acknowledge possible long siege by gunfire bombs and starvation rather than a rushed assault.
Germans Intensify Leningrad Siege Amid Food Shortage Talk
German reports claim Soviet field fortifications near Leningrad were destroyed by terror raids and that anti aircraft and artillery positions were silenced. Water works were bombed and fires spread as German leaders discussed starving the city to force surrender. Though Lake Ladoga remains open, land routes are cut off and troops are within 15 miles of the city. The siege's duration remains unspecified as officials stress minimizing civilian losses and insist on no prestige gains.
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Berlin
Gerraian
Leningrad
Lake
Ladoga
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Fur Coat Instead of Orchids Goes Into Refrigerator
In Birmingham on September 10 Margaret Waite expected orchids but found her fur coat instead. A chain of miscommunications led the landlady to place the box in the refrigerator, with the maid shopping and the landlady’s mother involved. The large box contained the fur coat sent from town, and the kitchen ended up wet and buttered with vegetable mess.
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Birmingham
Ala
Margaret Waite
Little Sentiment in State for War Declared by OConnor
Congressman James F. OConnor of Livingston said Montana shows little sentiment for war while noting strong federal pressure. He supports aid to Great Britain short of war and opposes US entry or sending an expeditionary force. OConnor plans to return to Washington soon after a northern Montana trip. He criticized sugar quotas as part of broader tensions.
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Montana
James F. O'Connor
Livingston
Washington
West
O'Connor
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Soviet counterblows halt German drives on central front
Striking hard at Moscow on September 1, Soviet front dispatches report three German offensives on the central front faltering as Red troops blunt their advances toward Leningrad Kiev and Odessa. German forces retreat west from Yelnya after a 24 day battle leaving heavy casualties while Soviet air forces claim успех against Luftwaffe and a trap closes the German bottleneck near Smolensk.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Kiev
Odessa
Yelnya
Smolensk
Baltic
Comitunique
Gomel
Smotensk
Red Army
Explosion of Steam Main Smashes New York Street
A giant underground steam main exploded in downtown New York creating a crater like hole about 600 square feet. A 150 foot geyser of steam dirt and debris shot skyward as police noted few injuries. Water from a large conduit shut down subway service between Chambers Street and Times Square, forcing passengers to wade through four feet of water to reach platforms.
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New York
James Hu Quinn
Chambers Street
Times Square
Helena Man Injured in Auto Crash
Helena man Benny Costella suffered severe head lacerations a fractured skull and a broken arm in an auto accident early yesterday at the intersection of highway 81 and the northbound road just outside the city. The crash occurred as the car overturned after being driven by Adolf Young and Vic Moses. Costelli was a passenger. Police investigated the wreck and described the injuries and the vehicle rollover.
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Benny Costella
Broadway
Itmits
Ssid
Adolf Young
Vic Moses
Costelli
Gontel
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