Labor and manpower debated in wartime planning
President Roosevelt, Murray, AFL President Green and labor leaders discussed national service and manpower. They favored a survey of available workers before any compulsory draft in war industries, while experts urged a unified civilian manpower agency to fix the employment system. They noted 6 million in the armed forces and many already in war plants, with women as a major untapped labor source and questions about their proper assignments and distances from home.
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Julius Luhrsen
Railway Labor Executive’s Association
Luhrsen
Congress
Selective Service Administration
Roosevelt
Labor-Management Committee
War Manpower Commission
Murray
AFL
William Green
Labor War Board
Weather notes for the Carolinas and Georgia
A brief weather summary reports warmer interior tonight across North Carolina, slightly warmer interior in South Carolina, and slightly warmer conditions in northern Georgia with showers expected in the northwest portion.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
British Eighth Army Strikes After Allied Support
The article credits Britain's refreshed Eighth Army with the principal offensive after heavy battles and losses, aided by the RAF and U S Army Air Forces. It notes American labor and shipyards supplied the tools that enabled the strike, with Major General Russell L Maxwell directing the supply effort.
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Britain
Eighth Army
RAF
U. S. Army Air Forces
United States
Russell L. Maxwell
Maxwell Command Expands Supply Route to Iran and Iraq
A 52 year old veteran Jong oversees moving materiel across the Persian Gulf route to Russia while Maxwell arrives in Cairo to lead a military mission. American engineers have built ports, roads, bases, and supply routes from Egypt through Eritrea, the Red Sea, Palestine, Arabia, and into Iran and Iraq. Eritrea now serves as a UN arsenal in Mis(s)ollini's expansion, part of the springboard for Ethiopia's conquest.
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Jong
Persian Gulf
Russia
Maxwell
Cairo
Egypt
Sudan
Eritrea
Red Sea
Palestine
Arabia
Iran
Iraq
Missolini
Ethiopia
United Nations
Tornado Devastates Berryville Arkansas Causing Fatalities
Undertaker Rea Nelson said 22 bodies were brought to the funeral parlor with many more missing after a violent Ozark tornado. Residents Mark and Mrs. Fanning survived as their bedroom was wrecked and the featherbed saved them. Berryville, a historic Ozark town, saw wholesale houses, canneries, and the high school destroyed, devastating the local economy.
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Rea Nelson
Mark Fanning
Berryville
Ozark
Arkansas
Missouri
Whitmyer
North Arkansas Canning Warehouse
Waterbury bout sees Clario outpoint Garcia in eight
Tommy Clario of Waterbury 135 outpoints Ruby Garcia 133 of Puerto Rico in eight rounds. Philadelphia card also features Sam Turner 16843 over Eddie Wilson 173, both Philadelphia, in eight rounds. Tony Costa 127 of Woonsocket and Fall River’s Billy Buckley 127 clash in ten rounds with Costa earning the decision.
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Waterbury
Conn
Tommy Clario
Ruby Garcia
Puerto Rico
Philadelphia
Sam Turner
Eddie Wilson
Fall River
Mass
Tony Costa
Woonsocket
R. I
Billy Buckley
Vision for a new world order from Versailles era dialogue
A discussion portrays Cecil as driven to shape a new international structure using parts of the League of Nations as a nucleus. It argues for a two tier system with a trusted broad membership and a small four power standing committee, plus future inclusion of Germany Italy and Japan under controlled arms later, to sustain peace and address hunger.
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League
Lake Geneva
Cecil
Versailles
England
League of Nations
America
Britain
Russia
China
Germany
Italy
Japan
Hitler
Gas Execution of Otis Harris At Bertie County
A second man, Otis Harris, 17, from Bertie county, was executed by gas after being found guilty of raping a young white woman. He confessed to the chaplain, showed nervousness before the sentence, and could not eat breakfast. Harris was strapped in at 10 41 and gas began at 10 44. He died in nine minutes with no Bertie County witnesses.
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Modernaer
Jligpor
Otis Harris
Bertie County
Bertie
Roosevelt withholds comment on US troops in Liberia
Washington, Oct. 30. President Roosevelt refused to comment on reports that American troops had been stationed in Liberia or that RAF patrols used the country to hunt Nazi submarines. He cited troop movement classifications and said any statement should come from military authorities.
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United States
Liberia
West Africa
Washington
Roosevelt
Negro Republic
Dwight Eisenhower
British air campaign nets several Axis losses in night raids
British bulletin reports ceaseless day and night attacks on Axis airfields and fronts in the Mediterranean theater. A Matruh landing ground raid destroyed at least three large grounded aircraft and damaged three others, with four enemy fighters destroyed in combat. A tanker attack in the Central Mediterranean scored a direct hit on an enemy merchant vessel.
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Matruh
Mediterranean
Marines Massacre Report Spurs Bougainville News
Reported by Marine correspondent Sergt Richard T Wright a battle in Bougainville area recounts a bayonet charge that captured 20 prisoners and kept Allied advance steady while a Japanese deception of surrender led to a brutal ambush killing 28 of 30 Marines. A separate Navy dispatch notes treachery in the South Pacific.
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Island
Caus
MacArthur
New Guinea
Navy
Sergt
Richard T. Wright
Marine Corps
Wright
Bougainville
Solomon Islands President vows no disclosure would aid enemy
The Solomon Islands president stated he believed nothing he possessed could be disclosed that would aid the enemy, asserting full disclosure is unnecessary or harmful if revealed.
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Solomon Islands
New Zealand Forces Placed Under U S Command
Reuters from Wellington reports New Zealand Defense Minister Fred Jones stated the New Zealand Army in the Pacific is under United States command with NZ air force squadrons operating with Americans in the South Pacific. Prime Minister Fraser announced New Zealand’s position under MacArthur's command has been settled. Australian Prime Minister Curtin congratulated the general and said he would assume command by charter of four governments plus New Zealand.
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Reuters
Wellington
New Zealand
Fred Jones
Pacific
United States Command
South Pacific
MacArthur
United Nations
Japan
Southwest Pacific
United States
Australia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Peter Frazer
John Curtin
Capitol calls for airpower reliance in wartime
Senator Lee urged that the supreme command be vested in an air general and warned of jealousy between army and navy units over wartime glory. Observers speculated political moves behind Army Navy game restrictions as a push toward uniting the armed forces. Rep Tolan proposed a bill to overhaul federal agencies for total wartime mobilization of materials and manpower.
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Senate
Solomon Islands
Wake Island
Capital Hill
Annapolis
Rep. Tolan
D-Calif
Soviet Forces Repel German Attacks Near Stalingrad Front
Soviet reports describe strong resistance on the Kalinin and northwestern fronts. Units penetrated an inhabited locality killing hundreds of enemy. snipers killed over 1,000 Germans in the past month. Stalingrad defenders held, Germans breached a junction but were repelled. Caucasian troops intercepted a German battalion's surrender offer, then destroyed the unit after a three hour battle, with survivors captured.
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Kalinin
Stalingrad
Red Star
Red Army
Red
Stal.Ingrad
Life Imprisonment Given Slayer of C. H. Jester
C H Black of Greenville South Carolina Southern Railway engineer was convicted today of murder for the slaying of Claude V Jester Southern Railway fireman also of Greenville He was sentenced to life imprisonment Jester was slain July 28 in the cab of the locomotive as the train neared Wofford Jester was brother of Mrs Waldo Carroll of High Point.
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C. H. Black
Greenville
S. C
Souther
Claude V. Jester
Southern Railway
Jester
Black
Wofford
Waldo Carroll
High Point
King Christian X Shows Improvement After Transfusions
King Christian X of Denmark was reported improved after two blood transfusions Tuesday night. Copenhagen dispatches said he chatted with family and expressed hope to see the doctors vanish soon. He remains in weakened condition from pneumonia following a horse fall 11 days ago.
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Christian Better
Bern
Christian X of
Denmark
Copenhagen
North Carolina Young Democrats cancel convention
Leonidas Hux of Roanoke Rapids announced there would be no North Carolina Young Democrats convention this year after a club poll. The executive committee will meet in December to decide on officer elections. Also notes U.S. imported 39,534 pounds of lime oil in the first half of 1940.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Young Democrats
Leonidas Hux
Roanoke Rapids
YDC
Hux
United States
Allies Repelled In Sea Landing Near Matruh
Italian high command reports Axis repelled a British sea landing near Matruh in Egypt, with heavy losses. The bulletin says two British attempts ashore failed and frontal Allied attacks were beaten back. Italian claim notes Axis aircraft hit concentrations and 30 night tanks destroyed. three Allied planes were downed.
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Rome
Egypt
Itaian High Command
Matruh
Cairo
Alamein Front
Citizens urged to vote Nov 3 by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt declared the nation in an all out war to keep democracy alive and urged citizens to vote next Tuesday. He asked employers to adjust schedules so workers can cast ballots with pay, and said he would vote by absentee ballot or in person in Hyde Park. He declined to detail his vote but hinted support against Representative Fish.
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United States
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N.Y
Representative Fish
Tech
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