Reds On Initiative Over Several Fronts End Australia Menace
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army holding off German pincers around Stalingrad for the sixth day and gaining initiative on multiple fronts. Tank detachments clash between the Don and Volga while Soviet armored units counter invasion machines. Berlin says Germans breached lines northwest of Stalingrad and advanced near the city. Soviet bombers strike Berlin and other targets. Reports note hundreds of tanks and bombers in action, with 498 German planes reported destroyed last week and 206 Soviet losses.
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Volga
Paris
London
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Volga River
Kotelnikovski
Russia
Central Front
Rzhev
Soviet Information Bureau
Berlin
Germany
Baltic
Lower Volga
Western
Caucasus
Prokhladnenski
Don-Volga
Signs of Allied strain as Axis pace slows in war update
The column notes hints of Allied gains and growing UN strength while warning Germany and Japan may press fresh offensives. It cites Moscow reports of hardening Red defenses and continued Soviet counterattacks, suggesting Nazi momentum may be waning due to fatigue and reserves.
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Germany
Japan
Moscow
Bolshevists
Freight Rates On Livestock Get Reduction
RALEIGH August 31 Governor Broughton announced the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered freight rate cuts on livestock. Western Southern and Northern Railroads must reduce rates by December 1 for fat cattle from the west and stocker cattle, enabling in transit feeding then shipment at through rates to northern markets. Cattle, hogs and sheep rates within the south and to northern markets fall 3 to 1 percent. Bedding charges drop from 2.20 to 1.10 per single car and 4.40 to 1.65 per double car. Governors plan to press hearings in Indianapolis September 26 on other commodities.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Southern
Northern
North Carolina
South
Virginia
TCC
Indianapolis
Ind
WPR Officials Indicted For Fraud Charges
Washington August 31 The Justice Department indicted two former War Production Board officials and three used machine tool dealers on conspiracy to defraud the United States and interfere with wartime production. Rhoads of Indianapolis and Glaser of New Haven led the WPB tools unit with Emerman of Chicago and Frank L O'Brien Jr and Clarence J O'Brien of Philadelphia named in the case. The scheme allegedly blocked critical tools from war contractors.
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Justice Department
WPR
United States
War Production Board
Robert B. Rhoads
Indianapolis
Ralph L. Glaser
New Haven
Conn
Louis E. Emerman
Chicago
Frank L. O’brien, Jr
Clarence J. O'Brien
Philadelphia
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
John Lord O'Brian
Rhoads and Glaser
WPBR
Vargas Decrees War On Axis Across Brazil
Rio de Janeiro August 31 Brazil’s president Getulio Vargas issued a constitutional decree officially declaring war on the Axis powers. The decree states a state of war exists in all national territory and outlines four additional measures to mobilize the country for war.
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Vargas
Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Brazil
Senate committee backs Higgins for North Carolina post
Washington August 31 The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the presidential nomination of Carlisle W Higgins for reappointment as United States attorney for the middle district of North Carolina The move set Higgin s to continue prosecution in the region with federal authority over criminal cases and public corruption investigations longitudinally.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Carlisle W. Higgins
United States
Middle District of
North Carolina
Chinese Fighters Push Toward Nanchang and Canton Fronts
Chinese forces drive from Kiangsi and Chekiang toward Nanchang nine miles away and press south toward Canton in Kwangtung. Japanese retreats reported near Tsungfa. Chinese recapture Liangkiatu and Lien tang as air bases at Chuhsien and Lishut retaken. Unofficial reports claim Lanchi fell and the Chekiang-Kiangsi railroad remains contested.
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Kwangtung
Liangkiatu
Lientang
Central
Chekiang Province
Lungyuj
Chuhsien
China
Lishut
Lanchi
Lungyu
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Con
War capital of free states is Washington says Moore
Frederick Moore writes that Washington has become the war capital of the free states, thrust into leadership by circumstances. He notes free men defied the Aryan ideal and that the United States, despite flaws, stands as the hope for liberty, recognized by France, China, and Britain during Dunkirk era.
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Denmark
Norway
France
Italy
Britain
Balkans
Russia
Libya
Washington
Frederick Moore
Ray Tucker
Free States
Berlin
Roosevelt
White House
Dunkirk
Winston Churchill
Wage Dispute Again Closes Wright Plants
Wage dispute at Wright Aeronautical Corp triggers walkouts at Fair Lawn New Jersey plant with about 500 workers absent. East Paterson department workers also stop work, union head Cyril Savage says 100 to 200 absent in Fair Lawn. Company to meet with officials to resolve the conflict.
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Passaic, Valley
Fair Lawn
Savage
U S Bombers Raid Jap Held City and Airdrome
American bombers raided Myitkyina in Japanese occupied Burma and its airfield, starting three large fires. The weekend included raids in French Indo China and Lashio, Burma, with extensive hits on airfields and warehouses. allied planes returned safely.
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China
Myitkyina
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
French Indo-China
Lashio
Hoangsupsi
Psolu
Indo- China
Rangoon
Cee
Oss
Britain raids Antikythera island in new Axis lifeline drive
London and Italian sources partly confirm a swift British raid on Antikythera between Greece and Crete. Italy called the raid small and quickly repelled, while Britain touted a broad air and sea operation against Axis targets, including a 24 hour RAF assault on Sicily with 14 Axis planes destroyed and ten more aircraft claimed.
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Mediterranean
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Greece
Crete
Itatiars
Africa
Air Ministry
RAF
Sicily
Malta
U S Troops In Ireland Labeled Aggression by IRA
The outlawed Irish Republican Army issued a manifesto condemning U S troops in Northern Ireland as aggression. It warned it could use any means to remove foreign forces if conflict with Britain resumed and Americans were drawn in. The IRA, banned in Eire and Northern Ireland, is violently anti British and opposed to Irish partition.
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Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
United States
IRA
Ireland
Eire
Partition of
Minor Drop In Tobacco Prices Follows Ceiling
North Carolina tobacco markets showed a small downward drift after the OPA placed a temporary ceiling on flue cured leaf. Farmers flocked to warehouses seeking price information amid a cautious mood and questions about the ceiling’s impact. Prices were estimated five to eight cents lower by a state expert, with some markets like Wilson showing steady early prices.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
OPA
Leon Henderson
State Agriculture Department
Wilson
Goldsboro
Jim Musgrave
Senate Finance Committee Keeps Most House Tax Schedule
The Senate Finance Committee voted to retain most of the House corporate tax plan, including a 90 percent excess profits levy and a 45 percent combined rate on normal and surtax income. A motion to reduce to 0 percent failed 13 to 6. The panel also approved a treasury proposal limiting corporate taxes to 80 percent of net excess profits income and projected a modest revenue gain from lowering the state excess profits exemption. A new treasury proposal for a broad retail sales tax faced opposition from proponents.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Bailey
Treasury
George
D-Ga
Chainan
Australian Forces Trap Japanese At Milne Bay
Australian ground troops aided by U S and Australian air units drove Japanese forces from the Milne Bay area in a prepared trap on the narrow Milne Bay peninsula north of Port Moresby. Heavy losses and abandoned heavy supplies mark the operation, with Milne Bay rapidly being cleared of the enemy.
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Associated Press
M’arthur
Australia
New Guinea
United States
Milne Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Cyril Albert Clowes
Middle East
MacArthur
Port Moresby
Solomon
United States Service
Taft Predicts Draft Age Change and Overhaul
Senator Taft predicts Congress will lower the draft age to 11 and 19 and overhaul Selective Service. He backs a uniform national induction schedule, delaying married men with children until eligible single men are exhausted, and supports a single pool-based system rather than state boards using their own lists.
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Congress
Taft
Ohio
Focal Boards
Soecal Board
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