Army Will Get New Triple-Deck Pullmans Soon
The Pullman-Standard Michigan City plant began rolling out the largest order for a single design of rail cars, triple-deck sleepers for army use. Production targets 12 to 18 sleepers daily. Each all steel sleeper seats 30 with wide triple-breadth sections and a middle-aisle layout.
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Chicago
Aes
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Michigan City
Ind
Pullman-Standard
Russians trap Crimea with rapid advance across Dnieper
Soviet forces pressed the Crimea siege by sealing off the peninsula. Red Army units drove toward Perekop and advanced south along the isthmus to Armyanski Bazar, with 2,000 Nazis killed and 6,000 captured in one encirclement. Luft and sea power backed the push with air attacks on German concentrations.
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Stalingrad
Crimea
Red Army
Dnieper
Kakhovka
Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Perekop
Armyanski
Feodor Tolbukhin
Fourth Ukraine
Noce
Salkova
Melitopol-Dzhankai
Kerch
Caucasus
Ivan Petrov
Crimean
Petrov
Sevastopol
North Carolina and South Carolina Weather Outlook
The forecast shows continued warmth tonight with cooler conditions in the mountains. Clearing and cooler by Wednesday. Scattered thundershowers across west and central North Carolina tonight and east portion Wednesday morning, with similar chances along the South Carolina coast and inland areas.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
GMC workers back strike vote at Flint Chevrolet plant
More than 10 000 General Motors Chevrolet division workers in Flint voted by about four to one to strike over grievances including stalled pay raises, retroactive pay, and working conditions. The referendum followed a September 8 notice of intent to strike by UAW Local 659 under the Smith Connally Act.
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Flint
Mich
General Motors Corporation
Chevrolet
National Labor Relations Act
NLRB
United Automobile Workers (Cio) ‘Local 659
Morgenthau Returns to Treasury After Mediterranean Tour
Secretary Morgenthau returned to the treasury after a three week Mediterranean tour to discuss fiscal issues with allied military leaders. He was joined by Harry D. White and Fred Smith, with the trip taken by air. A Hollywood draft notice mix up saw 78 year old Charles Henry Cooper, father of Gary Cooper, receive an induction notice by mistake.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Mediterranean
Harry D. White
Treasury Monetary Exit
Fred Smith
Hollywood
Ae Lee
Enry Cooper
Gary Cooper
Cooper
Charles Henry Cooper
Elk Feeds Crowd at Brookfield Church Supper
Skeptical church women collected ration points for hot dogs just in case venison failed. Rev Kring Allen arrived with a 383 pound elk and a deer enough for an overflow crowd, including longtime nonattenders. He plans to feed the Rotary club with leftovers tomorrow.
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Brookfield
Kring Allen
Rotary Club
Hungary Orders Home Troops From South of Kiev
A Reuters dispatch from Ankara reports Hungary has ordered home 90 000 troops serving garrison duty with German forces in the south of Kiev area. The move reflects reorientation of Hungarian forces amid shifting fronts in World War II.
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London
Reuters
Ankara
Hungary
Aus
Kiev
Walton wins gong in Tokyo swim meet and fights in Pacific
Marine Lieut. Frank E. Walton Jr earned a gong as a champion swimmer with a National A A U team in Tokyo 1931. The Niese said striking the gong guarantees victory. A public relations report states Walton’s fighter squadron downed 11 Japanese in its first combat contact.
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Los Angeles
Frank E. Walton, Jr
A.A.U
Tokyo
Niese
Walton
Bougainville Offensive Accelerates Pacific Drive
American and New Zealand forces push on Bougainville after heavy raids on Rabaul and Treasury Island landings near Choiseul. The operation aims to curb Japanese air fields and threaten New Britain from multiple fronts as MacArthur plans further advances.
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Bougainville
Rabaul
MacArthur
Admiral Halsey
Millard Harmon
Alexander A. Vandegrif
Treasury Island
Choiseul Island
New Britain
New Guinea
Government Orders Coal Mines Open to Boost War Effort
Amid WLB limits and talks with miners and operators, President Roosevelt announced a government takeover to reopen all coal mines by Wednesday morning. He warned the enemy and urged every miner to report for duty as the war needs coal now. Edward R. Burke of the Southern Coal Operators Association suggested a meeting with miners, operators, and Stabilization authorities to seal a deal. The policy committee had delayed decisive action, then the White House moved quickly to instruct mine reopening.
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War Labor Board
WLB
Illinois
Lewis
Ickes
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Operators Association
White House
Roosevelt
Izvestia Hails Moscow Tripartite Talks As Victory Step
Izvestia devotes a three column front page to Hull Molotov and Eden praising the Moscow conference as a fruitful contribution toward victory and a secure peace. The editorial indicates Soviet approval of military decisions made at the talks.
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Moscow
Ridge battles and retreat lines near Garigliano
Allied observers credit Casanova's capture with pushing the fifth army toward seizing the ridge. If Massico falls, German forces would likely withdraw to the Garigliano river banks and the Aurunci mountains. Germans lay mines and booby traps in retreat to cover the Garigliano. Mount Matese ridge runs from Castello D Alise about 40 miles inland. American forces advanced up its northern slope from the Can.
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Garigliano
Casanova
Fifth Army
Massico
Aurunci
RAF Bombers Blast Jap Center In Burma
British forces report RAF bombers hit a major Japanese communications center at Mandalay Burma while fighter bombers attacked Irrawaddy river traffic and Chin Hills positions. Dive bombers aided the assault. all planes returned safely.
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RAF
Burma
New Delhi
Mandalay
Irrawaddy
Chin Hills
Sailor Edward Moore Charged in Abduction Case
New York police issued a general alert for 20 year old sailor Edward J. Moore on a charge of abducting Margaret Leighton Moore 14 from a Park Avenue family. A taxi driver reported a sailor and girl matching descriptions in Times Square and at Pennsylvania Station.
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New York
Edward J. Moore
Margaret Leighton Moore
Park Avenue
Harry Nagle
Pennsylvania
Miss Moore
Central Park
Nagle
Times Square
Norfolk
Robert H. Hendry
Hendry
Brooklyn
Moscow declaration described as a curious peace document
The piece discusses a wartime Moscow declaration proposing a potential central European federation including Austria and neighboring states. It contrasts Italy's portrayal of democracy with fascist elements, questions the openness of constitutional freedoms, and likens the document to a partial peace pact akin to Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points.
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Eers
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Austria
Churchill
Europe
Vittorio Emmanuele
Italy
Woodrow Wilson
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Aitrent
Baxter
Sgt and
Gus
WWE
MR Harding
Okan Shuffy
J.G) Buz Sawyer
Sweeney
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