Compulsory Service Hint At Legion Convention
At the Kansas City Legion convention war leaders warned compulsory service or industrial conscription could come if voluntary methods fail. War Manpower Director Meehutt urged maximum worker contribution while Knox and Patterson spoke of possible broad national service legislation. Johnson urged postwar economic planning and air power dependence as essential to victory.
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Kansas City
American Legionnaires
Paul Mee Nutt
War Manpower Commission
Legion
America
Navy
Knox
Robert P. Patterson
Louis A. Johnson
William P. Witherow
National Association of Manufacturers
Legionnaires
Yesteryears
Johnson
United States
Withcrow
Ahad
United
Reds Battle in Streets to Repel Nazis at Stalingrad
Soviet high command said Russian forces renewed fierce street fighting in Stalingrad, repelling German assaults as tanks and infantry clashed. The battle entered its 27th day with reports of German counterattacks and losses, including claims of German tanks and two companies wiped out.
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Halmore
Germany
Stalin
Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
MacArthur's Planes Fire Cargo Vessel Off New Guinea
General MacArthur reports Flying Fortresses set fire to a Japanese cargo ship off New Guinea. Allied forces continued heavy bombing and strafing of Lae Buna and Buka while jungle fighting near Port Moresby remained minimal. Medium bombers and fighters returned safely after raids on Lae and Buna.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Lae
Buna
Buka
Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
Kokoda
Qwen Stanleys
Nelson taps Eberstadt as WPB assistant in shift
Production chief Donald M. Nelson names Ferdinand Eberstadt as WPB vice chairman in charge of programs and scheduling. James S. Knowlson shifts to devoted duties coordinating American and British production. Eberstadt also becomes WPB requirements chair, signaling a broader absorption of Army Navy munitions board functions into WPB.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Army- Navy Munitions Board
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric
WPB
Army
Navy
Nelson
Ferdinand Eberstadt
Munitions Board
Army-Navy
Two Big Ships Possibly Hit In Solomons
On Sept 19 AP reports Army Flying Fortresses attacked a Japanese battle fleet near Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomons, possibly damaging two battleships. Navy communique notes heavy antiaircraft fire with possible hits as the force retires north, while land actions around Guadalcanal stay minor.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Solomon Islands
Gizo Island
Rekata Bay
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Tulagi
American
Tennessee Executives Arrested Over Tire Recap Scheme
The six Tennessee nationals accused of illicitly purchasing recapped tires saw two Nashville taxi executives arrested. Charles Matthews of Nashville Chattanooga Knoxville taxicab firms and James Blakemore, president of General Cab Co. of Nashville, face charges with New York’s Al Handler for violating the War Powers Act through unqualified tire transactions. Bail set at 2500 pending September 29 arraignment.
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Nashville
Tenn
Charles G. Matthews
Chattanooga
Knoxville
James G. Blakemore
General Cab Co
Tennessee Cpa
al Handler
New York City
U. S
Ward Hudgins
Matthews
Blakemore
Breakdown of potential draftees shows limited manpower
A confidential analysis by Elie G outlines why many fathers must serve if Roosevelt and Congress fail to back the Army's call for conscripting 18 and 19 year olds. From 27 million registrants aged 20 to 45, dependents reduced the pool to 10 million, with four million barred by disability and exemptions leaving about six million potential soldiers.
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Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Pearl Harbor
Singapore
Sevastopol
Dutch Ordered To Cooperate With Germans
London dispatch reports Rost Van Tonningen head of the Nazi backed Netherlands East Company told Hilversum radio Dutch industries and farmers must cooperate with the Nazi plan to move plants and people to Eastern Europe Ukraine and the Baltic states. He warned that without immediate Dutch collaboration the Germans will intervene to advance Europe’s interests.
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London
Germany
Europe
Aneta
Netherlands
Rost van Tonningen
Netherlands East Company
Hilversum
RAF Bombers Hit Northern France Coast in Night Assault
London reports RAF bombers pounded the northern French coast with powerful explosions reaching English towns across the channel. Observers along the southeast coast noted bright flashes two minutes before detonation and speculated on four ton bombs. Earlier heavy raids sent a long formation over the channel after nightfall, with a Nazi bomber claimed down over England and others crossing the northeast coast to drop incendiaries inland.
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London
RAF
France
Channel
England
Reward posted for hit-run driver in Wake County death
Governor Broughton announced a reward of 100 for information leading to the capture of the hit and run driver who killed 13 year old Doris Hill in Wake County on September 1. The case drew state wide attention as investigators pursued leads in Raleigh and surrounding areas.
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Raleigh
Broughton
Eetty Doris Hill
Wake County
Murphy Attacks War Selfishness Delay and Indecision
Detroit, Sept. 19. Justice Frank Murphy, 15 pounds lighter after army maneuvers, returns to Michigan warning that delay and selfishness can lose the war. He chastises blood money profit and political interference, urges all to treat winning the war as a personal duty, and expresses confidence Detroit industry and labor will deliver victory. He plans to return to the Supreme Court in October.
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Frank Murphy
Detroit
United States Supreme Court
Michigan
Justice Murphy
Arm
Harbor Beach
Supreme Court
Murphy
Rubber Needs To Be Dictated By Necessity
Omaha welcomes Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers who says rubber conservation will be guided by need not regional pressures. He assigns military needs first and essential driving second, warning against waste that could jeopardize the war. Jeffers, Union Pacific president, emphasizes winning the war through prudent rubber use. May or Dan Butler notes the shift from steel to rubber as a notable change.
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Omaha
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
Uniion Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Dan Butler
Alertern Wins Potomac Handicap at Havre de Grace
Alertern beat Half Crown in a stretch duel to take the 87275 Potomac Handicap purse at Havre de Grace Maryland. Colchis owned by R Sterling Clark finished dead last in a seven horse field for three year olds.
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Alertern
Havre DE Grace
A. C. Ernst
Half Crown
R. Sterling Clark
Colchis
Famed Nazi General Ewald Von Kleist Dies in Caucasus
Moscow reports Field Marshal Ewald Von Kleist, 61, commander of the German First Tank Army, killed in fighting near Mozdok in the Caucasus. A Prussian veteran, he led forces that captured Rostov and drove into the Caucasus, with a long World War I background and roles on both western and eastern fronts.
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Moscow
Ewald von Kleist
Mozdok
Caucasus
von Kleist
Ukraine
Don
Donets
Rostov
Braunsfeld
Wetzlar
Calvary
Calvary School
Hanover
Plane crashes in New Jersey kills pilot near Red Bank estate
Middletown New Jersey Sept. 19 The pilot and sole occupant were killed when an army P 38 pursuit plane crashed in flames near the estate of J Wright Brown president of Editor and Publisher. Headquarters declined to reveal the pilot's name for military reasons. An air raid warden said the craft burst into flames about 400 feet above the ground and crashed in a bush cluttered field by the Navesink River near state highway No 35 three miles south of Red Bank.
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Middletown
N. J
J. Wright Brown
Eastern Defense Command
Mitchel Field
Command
Berkman
Navesink River
Red Bank
Seven Germans Executed as Uneasiness Spreads in Europe
London reports the execution of seven Germans who resisted Nazi tyranny and the Luxembourg patriot Heinrich Adam for striking against the Reich. In Norway, resistance to Quisling grows after mass resignations by unions and professionals following compulsory membership decrees. Reichskommissar Terboven is seen as seeking to overthrow Quisling, while dozens of additional German executions were noted in Paris and Karlsruhe related to treason and listening to foreign radio.
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Europe
London
Luxembourg
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Quisling
Germany
Trade Union Confederation
Federation of Norwegian Industries
Reichscommissar Terboven
Heinrich Adam
Paris
Adam
Reich
Frankfurt
Karlsruhe
Communist Party
British Troops Occupy Town In Madagascar
British forces have landed at Tamatave and occupied Brickaville on Madagascar east coast. British columns push toward Tananarive from Majunga with limited resistance and few casualties, as French defenses concentrate near the capital.
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London
Brickaville
Madagascar
Tananarive
Tamatave
East Africa
Majunga
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Eddy G
Transocean
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Eberstadt
Guadalcanal- Tulagi
Arto
Elie G
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