Senate Bill Extends FDR Powers to Stabilize Wages
Senate leaders introduced legislation granting President Roosevelt broad authority to stabilize wages, salaries, and farm prices not below parity. The measure, sponsored by Wagner and Brown, would allow ceiling adjustments based on parity or the highest recent market price, with hearings slated to begin.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Congress
Wagner
D-Ny
Banking Committee
Brown
D-Mich
Leon Henderson
Wagener
Nazi Air War Hinge on New Planes and Allied Supremacy
The article reports Nazi development of three new warplanes for Britain, including a sub stratosphere bomber, amid Berlin’s threat of unprecedented air raids. It argues Hitler faces Allied air dominance and must counter with aerial mastery to protect western Europe, citing Major General Spaatz and RAF American bombing.
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Berlin
Germany
England
Iso
Europe
Royal Air Force
Merican
Hitler
Spaatz
U. S. Army Air Forces
Dellares
Allies Hold Japs 40 Miles North of Port Moresby
Allied forces kept Japanese troops pinned 40 miles north of Port Moresby for a fourth day as medium bombers dropped 17 tons on Lae base and airfield. Flying Fortresses attacked three enemy merchant ships and a cruiser off New Guinea, with patrols active in the Owen Stanley region.
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Port Moresby
Associated Press
General MacArthur
Australia
Lae
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Seloe Island
Tanimbar Island
Sai Islands
New Britain
Revolts Reported in Bulgarian Macedonia and Skoplje
German reports of a revolt in Bulgarian Macedonia and a siege in Skoplje provoked Yugoslav fears of a new Axis terror wave. Sources in Belgrade doubted Bulgarian defections while noting lingering Russian sympathy among Bulgarian peasants and some military elements.
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London
Macedonia
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Stockholm
Secret weapon said to rival fortresses and tanks
A column from August 11 1942 claims the US has developed a secret weapon more revolutionary than fighters, tanks, or guns. The writer describes seeing it in operation and predicts it will stun Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini when produced, with censor Byron Price and John Sorrells noted in the AP office.
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United States
Ordnance
Hitler
Hirohito
Mussolini
Byron Price
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
John Sorrells
Scripps - Howard Organization
Bremen Bombed by RAF and Russians Across Europe
British and Russian air forces struck Bremen in northwest Germany in a heavy raid of hundreds of bombers, with follow up attacks over dawn in Germany. The raid damaged the Weser port complex and submarines and Focke-Wulf plants, while Bucharest and the Ploesti region were targeted in separate Soviet raids. Nineteen British bombers were missing and German reports noted damage to residential areas.
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Siberia
Japan
Russia
Manchukuo
Iberia
Vladivostok
Pearl Harbor
Germany
Assomatea Press
London
Bremen
Bucharest
Ploesti
Romania
Air Ministry
Weser
Berlin
Focke-Wulf
Duesseldorf
Vichy
Buda
North Carolina Middle Belt posts mixed tobacco averages
Tobacco offerings in North Carolina's middle belt averaged 39 to 43 cents a pound with mostly medium quality. The Commodity Credit Corporation was actively buying for Allies while domestic buyers pushed up bids. Louisburg reported 44.4 cents for 350,000 pounds. Fuquay Varina sold 42 cents per pound, about 800,000 pounds on floors. Sanford around 39 to 40 cents with medium to good grades. Durham shipper 2,000 pounds in the can.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Commodity Credit Corporation
America
Louisburg
Fuquay-Varina
Sanford
Durham
New Pipe Line Approved For Guilford Area
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones said the defense plant corporation will finance a 3.6 million dollar 5 inch pipe line from Greensboro North Carolina to near Richmond Virginia. The 175 mile route will carry about 30 000 barrels daily of gasoline and light petroleum products and should be in operation in four months.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Defense Plant Corporation
Greensboro
N. C
Richmond
Houston-Beaumont
Texas
Baton Rouge
Texas-Gulf Coast
Plantation Pipe Line Company
Delaware Corporation
Plantation Company
British forces push toward Madagascar capital Tananarive
Allied columns drive from Majunga toward Tananarive with Maetvatanana capture and Ambanja seizure. Reports say advance detachments move across mountains toward Andriba and Ambositra while Morondava force encounters little resistance. Casualties reported 30 to 40 in Majunga action.
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London
Macvantannan
Tananarive
Madagascar
Majunga
Maetvatanana
Andriba
Morondava
Amabanja
Junga
Betsiboka
Ambositra
Ambanja
Roosevelt says war production at 50 percent of maximum
President Roosevelt told Congress the United States is producing just over half its maximum war output and warned that only by draining civilian economy can the Allies receive the weapons needed to turn the tide. He cited the sixth quarterly lend-lease report showing aid to Britain and 35 other nations totaling billions, with export and purchase figures and a goal to expand deliveries.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
United Nations
Britain
British Commonwealth of Nations
United Kingdom
Russia
Middle East
Australia
China
Hershey Sees Early Drafting For Young Men
Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, told New Jersey Legionnaires that the war will require mobilization of married men with dependents and youths aged 18 and 19. He forecast a large mobilization next year and noted not enough single or exempted married men remain for ten to thirteen million in the United States. He said war workers would be drafted if needed and defended selective service boards from criticism.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
New Jersey Legionnaires
United States
Hitler
Sweeping New Labor Law In Vichy France Drafts Workforce
Vichy France enacts a sweeping compulsory labor law. It requires able bodied Frenchmen 18 to 50 and unmarried women 21 to 35 to be ready for work and possible shipment to Germany. The state gains control over employment, salaries, and hours, with vocational training for unskilled workers. The regime says measures are necessary to prevent harsher actions abroad.
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Vichy
Germany
Russia
Madagascar
Marshal Petain
Fresh German Assaults Press Stalingrad Front
Soviet reports say fresh German troops attacked approaches to Stalingrad as Wehrmacht tanks and armored cars pour in. Red Army forces halted a southwest penetration, fought hand to hand, and counterattacked to restore the line while German units bombed but refrained from air strikes.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Army
Lower Volga
Soviet Information Bureau
Caucasus
Mozdak
Grozny
Pravda
Sinyavino
Leningrad
War Like Mood On Axis Urged By India Party
A Hindu Mahasabha committee urged Britain to raise India to a war like mood against the Axis. Gandhi’s permission to meet him was sought, but likely denied. Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee chaired a conference declaring Indian bodies would bury the ratchet until after the war and accused Britain of an authoritarian plan 6000 miles away.
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Axis
India Party
New Delhi
Hindu Mahasabha
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
All-India National Congress
Gandhi
Syamaprasad Mookerjee
Bengal
Mahasabha Committee
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Karafuto
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