Laval Says United States Shares Responsibility Over Madagascar Attack
Pierre Laval declares US equal to Britain in the Madagascar attack and reads a telegram from Governor Annet denying British charges. He notes British motorized columns advancing toward Tananarive and Antsirabe while Majunga and Morondava are cited as captured ports.
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Associated Press
Vichy
Pierre Laval
United States
Britain
Madagascar
Laval
Annet
Vichy Controlled
AXIS
United States State Department
Washington
Indian Ocean
Tananarive
Aladagascar
Antsirabe
Majunga
Morondava
Africa
Mozambique Channel
England
America
Tenanarive
de Gaullist
London
Roosevelt Eyes Gasoline Restriction Plan Next Week
President Roosevelt said he hopes by Monday to implement nearly all recommendations from a rubber committee calling for gasoline rationing, reduced driving, a 35 mile per hour limit, and mileage caps for essential use. A new rubber administrator within the War Production Board is to be named, with local boards to run the program.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Rubber Committee
Madagascar Assailed Allied Move to Secure Key Route
Britain advances to take full control of Madagascar to protect a vital ocean turnpike feeding Africa to India. The move aims to keep the sea lane open to Allied forces while Vichy France protests. Americans and British stress France’s defense and aid to all Allies.
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Madagascar
Africa
Russia
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
Britain
United States
Great Island
VICHY
France
America
Mada
Hand To Hand Fighting On Mountain Side
Australian troops repelled a swift Japanese advance toward Port Moresby in heavy hand to hand fighting on the Owen Stanley range south of Efogi. Casualties were heavy on both sides as Allied and Japanese forces massed on a narrow mountain trail.
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Associated Press
M’arthur
Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
MacArthur
Efogi
Old Belt Marts Open Sept 22 Instead of 28
Richmond Virginia September 11 The sales committee of the Tobacco Association of the United States voted to advance opening dates in the old belt from September 28 to September 22 based on faster South Carolina crop disposal. H R Pettus vice president of Universal Leaf Tobacco Co chaired the committee and said the move may strain tobacco companies but will let farmers market their tobacco earlier. The old belt includes bright tobacco markets in North Carolina and cigarette type markets in Virginia.
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Richmond
The
Tobacco Association of the United States
Old Belt
H. R. Pettus
Universal Leaf Tobacco Co
South Carolina
Pettus
North Carolina
Virginia
Roosevelt Attacks Defenders of Rising Living Costs
President Roosevelt faces harsh counterpoints from key allies as he blames registrators for inflation. Wickard Henderson and others urge wage and farm price freezes, arguing for safeguards in the national defense policy message as inflation grips consumers.
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Leon Henderson
Wallace
Federal Reserve System
Ficcles
Bernard M. Baruch
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt Says 18 and 19 Year Olds Not Needed Yet
President Roosevelt told a press conference that 18 and 19 year olds may not be drafted before year end under selective service. He discussed seeking legislation to enlist younger men if required and noted Navy plans under study to limit navy enlistments while directing manpower to where needed. He cited about 700,000 men already enlisted in the Navy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Navy
Mr. Roosevelt
Navy Department
Explosion at War Plant Kills Three in New Jersey
An explosion at the Essex Specialty Company war production plant in Hackettstown, New Jersey, killed three workers and wounded five. Fire, extinguished in a half hour, caused about 10000 in damage. Injured victims include Helen Coleman 19 of Stephensburg and Charls Menzelle 45.
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Hackettstown
N. J
Essex Specialty Company
Army Explosives Branch
Army
Chicago
Washington
Dover General Hospital
Helen Coleman
Stephensburg
Charls Menzelle
New Jersey
U S Producing More Food Yet Shortage Persists
Washington reported that U S farm output will reach a record high this year with 1942 production up 13 percent from 1937 peak and 27 percent above the ten year average, yet Secretary Wickard warned that armed forces and allied demand will outstrip available food and fiber for everyone.
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Washington
United Nations
Wickard
Crop Reporting Board
London News: Two Indian Officers Burned by Crowd
Reuters dispatch from Lucknow reports that a police inspector and a constable were burned to death by a demonstrator crowd at Sadat, raising tensions during the unrest in India.
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London
Reuters
Lucknow
India
Sadat
Million Men Battle For Volga Bastion In World War II
Moscow reports Adolf Hitler ordered German forces to take Stalingrad at any price as a vast Axis army presses the Volga bastion. Red Star notes the defenders hold, with a million men involved on both sides in the Moscow campaign context.
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Moscow
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Volga
Red Star
MAE
Joseph Stalin
Volga River
Stalin
von Bock
Sevastpol
Black Sea
Crimea
Sevastopol
Semon Timoshanako
Eye Witness Report Details Solomons Battle Damage To Japanese Fleet
Clark Lee aboard a U S Fleet warship reports a bold strike near Guadalcanal on Aug 24 with one Japanese battleship and a heavy cruiser hit by American dive bombers and torpedo planes. The dispatch notes no American pilots lost and cites prior Midway losses as context.
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Solomons
U. S
Tulaci
Clark Lee
Bataan
MacArthur
Australia
Navy
Guadalcanal
Lee
Solomon Islands
Battle of Midway
Robert Elder
Milwaukie
Ore
Harold
August Flue-Cured Tobacco Leads North Carolina Market
State agriculture officials report North Carolina flue-cured tobacco sold in August totaling 93,919,372 pounds at an average of 37.57 dollars per hundred pounds, up 10.69 from last year. Warehousemen show producer sales at 35,285,528 dollars, 76 percent above the prior year's payments to farmers.
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Raleigh
State Agriculture Department
North Carolina
W. P. Hedrick
Allied Aerial Destruction of Nazi Industry Pressed Home
Hundreds of British bombers struck Duesseldorf and other western German targets in a night raid, with up to 11 RAF planes reported lost. Duesseldorf, a major metallurgical and chemical hub near Cologne, faced intensified bombardment after a brief lull as Soviet raids raged on Berlin and Budapest. Spitfires repelled two Nazi probes from the southeast coast and anti aircraft defenses claimed a German bomber.
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Duesseldorf
London
Germany
RAF
Logne
Rhine
Berlin
Budapest
Woenigserg
Reich
Koenigsberg
Moscow
Britain
Stage Set For Prompt Action On FDR Orders
Washington delegates move to fast track congressional action on President Roosevelt’s demand for legislation to curb wages farm prices and profits. Aims to meet the October 1 deadline with hearings planned in the Senate Banking Committee led by Brown and Wagner and House action by Steagall.
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Wasiington
Roosevelt
Congress
Brown
D-Mich
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Wagner
D-Ny
House
Steagall
D-Ala
House Banking Committee
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Cora Sea
Pacific Ocean
United Nations Sales
Georgia
Ellis Arnal
Arnall
Atlanta
Gene Talmadge
Hitler
Island
Allied Air Force
DUATIONU/A
Lars Urleog
Ray Tucker
Power
FDR
House Banking and Currency Committee
Claude A. Wickard
Volga Bastion
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