Halifax Debate on Seniority Rule and Wartime Legislation
Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin argues against Congress seniority in wartime policy. He cites General MacArthur and Sumner Welles as examples of needed ability over tenure. He urges applying the same yardstick to legislators as used in the armed services to improve oversight of war measures.
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General MacArthur
Military Affairs Committee
Sumner Welles
Foreign Affairs Committee
Armed Services
Speculation on Supreme Court seat successor names
The article outlines possible successors to a vacant Supreme Court seat, noting speculation about figures such as Francis Biddle, Charles Fahy, Thurman Arnold, Samuel Rosenman, and Senate leader Barkley, with others like Learned Hand and Florence Allen discussed for federal circuit judges. It emphasizes there is no official agreement and even non-lawyers have been considered, though no constitutional requirement ties a justice to the legal profession.
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Tion
House
South Carolina
Francis Bidde
Charles Fahy
Thurman Arnold
Samuel Rosenman
New York
Learned Hand
Florence E. Allen
Cleveland
Armistead M. Dobie
Charlottesville
Samuel HF. Sible
Atlanta
Sherman Minton
New Albany
Ind
Sam G. Bratton
Albuquerque
N. M. Minton
Bratton
Herriot continued efforts amid wartime executions
Reports from London on Saturday detail Nazi reprisals across occupied Europe. Scores of executions are reported in Croatia, Holland, and Czechoslovakia with hundreds more confined to camps in northern Norway. A Reuters dispatch cites 217 Croats shot for killing a German during a parade in Yugoslavia, while Zagreb notes five more Croats executed for communist activity. The British government in London announces 12 new executions to the Germans and 79 others.
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Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Reuters
Old Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Switzerland
Coat
Loncem
War Reporting Notes On Belgian Roundups And Brussels Sabotage
A German broadcast claimed four Dutchmen were executed. Belgian news agency reported police roundup and quoted a German warning that hostages will pay with their lives for acts against German forces. Swiss dispatches cited a Hungarian paper saying 100 Belgians were reported for sabotage in Brussels Liege and Mons with several killed.
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Belgium
Brussels
Liep
Mons
U S Army advances in Aleutians as 38 ships sunk or damaged
Navy communique No 138 reports 38 Japanese ships sunk or damaged in the Aleutians 13 sunk 3 probably sunk 21 damaged. An enemy cargo ship near Kiska was bombed and abandoned. The Andreanos group was occupied without opposition with air bases now in operation.
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Kiska
Navy
North Pacific
U.S. Army
U.S. Navy
Andreanos
Aleutian Islands
Andreanos Islands
Aleutian Chain
Seguam Pass
Amchitka Pass
Dutch Harbor
Navy silent on Aleutian advance bases and aims
Since the Japanese moved into the western Aleutians in early June the Navy in command of the area has given no information on where new bases might be located or whether the move serves better bombing facilities or to provide jumping off points for amphibious operations against Japanese-held islands.
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Aleutians
Navy
Byrnes Authorized to Impose Wage and Price Controls
The article reports Byrnes obtaining authority to enforce a broad price and wage control regime. It notes the salary cap, the potential extension to present salaries, and Byrnes power to direct departments, deny transport, and shape cost calculations. Roosevelt praises Byrnes for stabilizing living costs amid postwar transition.
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Roosevelt
Henderson
Congress
Supreme Court
Senate
Justice Byrnes
United States
Bus Wreck Claims Three Known Dead in Pender County
A bus and a tanker wagon collided near St Pauls injuring 18 as authorities recovered bodies identified as Lawrence R. Barbee of Greensboro and J H Land Jr of Chadbourn among the deceased. Salvage crews recovered vertebrae from the wreckage and 33 were listed as aboard the Fayetteville bus at departure.
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Lumberton
J. L. Stephens, Jr
Fayetteville
A. L. Cornwell
Baker's Sanatorium
Branch
Ila Murphy
Winston- Salem
C. C. Price
Richard Neal
Ashtabula
H. S&s. Worthington, Jr
Lacross
Henry Matthews
Kenly
Yorktown Name Restored for Newport News Carrier
The Navy announced a new aircraft carrier under construction at Newport News will be named Yorktown to honor the carrier lost after Midway. Secretary Knox approved the change replacing Bon Homme Richard, noting the original Yorktown sank after aerial and submarine attacks in June. The new ship will be the fourth to bear the Yorktown name, following a 16-gun sloop of 1839 and a gunboat of 1888.
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Washington
Navy
Newport News
Yorktown
Midway
Bon Homme Richard
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Knox
Weather and industry notes in southern states and steel stockholders
The weather report covers North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia continuing mild temperatures on Sunday and Virginia warming Sunday while Tennessee shows thunderstorms and a west to central cooling trend. It also notes women make up about 40 percent of the roughly half million stockholders in the American steel industry.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Tennessee
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