The War Today Reflects Axis Aims and Global Reach
DeWitt MacKenzie reports from absence with Glenn Babb on how Axis powers mark a global war anniversary. Berlin pact expansions, pledged arms aid, and exclusion of Soviet Russia frame a narrative of Axis triumph and United Nations restraint, as radio propaganda signals a sustained effort through next week.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Glenn Babb
Axis
United States
Berlin
Germany
Italy
Japan
Kurusu
Washington
Soviet Russia
Avis
Hitler
Volga
Nile
Hirohito
East Asia
East Indies
North America
United Nations
Coral Sea
Midway
Solomons
Hommel
Desert
New USS Lexington Added To World War II Fleet Record
U S navy launches new aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Quincy Mass with high hopes to match the deeds of the original Lexington. Rear Admiral Sherman recalls enemy ships sunk and crews lost while Christie Mrs Theodore Douglas Robinson christens the vessel.
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Quincy
Mass
U.S.S
Coral Sea
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Lexington
Sherman
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Pearl Harbor
Louis And Conn Offer To Fight Without Cuts
War department officials said they would consider Joe Louis and Billy Conn’s offer to proceed with the heavyweight title bout without pay. Secretary of War Stimson is unlikely to reverse yesterday’s decision canceling the Oct 12 bout due to army standards and interests. Louis Conn and promoter Mike Jacobs said they would waive the arrangement to deduct 133,451 dollars from the gate to meet fighter obligations.
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Washington
War Department
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Stimson
Army
Army Relief Fund
Louis
Conn
Mike Jacobs
Jacobs
British Losses at Sea Replaced by Surging Shipbuilding
An Associated Press review notes that despite more than 1,200 British naval and merchant vessels lost in three years, the fleet remains formidable. Shipyards delivered over 590 warships in 30 months and 23 new yards joined production, with merchant ships replacing cargo losses rapidly. June 1940 marked the costliest month with 39 warships sunk.
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Washington
America
Liberty
Great Lakes
Maritime Commission
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works
Henry J. Kaiser
Richmond
New York
Britain
Associated Press
England
Admiralty
A. V. Alexander
Europe
Mercantile Marine
Royal Oak
Hodd
Barbara
Darlan Nogues Cenfer After Attack Report
London dispatch reports Axis and German outlets claim Darlan met General Augustine Nogues in Morocco. Berlin and Algiers radios hint talks on Franco Spanish Morocco issues amid Dakar attack rumors. A French official calls the claim news to him.
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London
Dakar
French West Africa
Darlan
Augusto Nogues
Morocco
Algiers
Luis Orgaz Yoldi
Jap Bomber Squadron Routed By Yanks Over Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal Solomon Islands Sept 12 Allied planes including Maine and Navy fighters and anti air craft shot down 10 of 26 enemy bombers and four escorting Zero fighters at 24000 feet. One American plane and pilot were lost. The on the spot report offers a foxhole view of the battle.
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Guadalcanal
Navy Department
Washington
U.S
Solomons
Tom Yarbrough
Solomon_Islands
United States
Maine
Navy
Dean Of State Bar Succumbs In Wilmington
John D. Bellamy 85 longtime North Carolina bar dean died in Wilmington hospital after 67 years of practice. A former congressman, state legislator, and Democratic convention delegate, he authored life histories of colonial figures and held posts as city and county attorney and New Hanover County bar president. Survived by widow and five children in Wilmington and Philadelphia. He helped nominate Grover Cleveland and cast North Carolina’s 1936 electoral vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Wilmington
John D. Bellamy
North Carolina
Bellamy
Congress
Brunswick
New Hanover County Bar
Davidson College
University of Virginia
J. Walter Williamson
Nelson McRae
William M. Bellamy
Emmett H. Bellamy
J. Leeds Barrell, Jr
Philadelphia
Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Corbitt Truck workers vote for CIO Auto Workers
Albert L. Lohm of the National Labor Relations Board said Henderson workers at Corbitt Truck Company voted 117 to 30 in yesterday’s election to make the CIO Auto Workers Union their bargaining agent. The plant builds heavy duty trucks for the government and plans to elect officers and begin negotiations next week.
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Albert L. Lohm
National Labor Relations Board
Corbitt Truck Company of
CIO Auto Workers Union
Aussies Force Nips Back On Mountain Pass
Japan's invasion efforts in New Guinea and China faced setbacks as Australian troops repelled Japanese advances in the Owen Stanley mountains near Port Moresby. New artillery was employed for the first time in the jungle drive, while Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek advanced toward Chuki and Chenghsien, nearing Hangchow after breaking fortified positions.
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Japan
New Guinea
China
Douglas MacArthur
Owen Stanley
Port Moresby
Government Likely to Control Dairy Products This Winter
Washington officials say greater government control over dairy consumption before winter is likely to assure war needs and equitable civilian distribution. Milk production remains at record levels into 1943 but distribution will face strain from armed forces lend lease needs and population shifts. Officials foresee possible orders altering distribution from surplus milk regions to shortage areas to meet rising civilian demand.
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Washington
U. S
Agriculture Department
United Nations
United States
Raid on Oslo Gestapo HQ Stuns Quisling Rally
British RAF planes bombed Nazi Gestapo headquarters in Oslo during a daylight raid. Four bombers hit targets at about 100 feet, one plane was lost, and Quisling denounced the attack as RAF murder planes while his nationalist followers were gathered at a rally in the capital.
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London
Norway
Oslo
RAF
Vidkun Quisling
Air Ministry
Quisling
Socialist Party
Japanese Tricks Fail To Deceive Aussie Soldiers
General MacArthur's Headquarters reports failed Japanese attempts to lure Australian patrols with English phrases in New Guinea. In one incident a voice cried "Hello, Mum," prompting skepticism. In another, a Japanese reader behind a tree was discovered as the leader threw a grenade, ending the ruse.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Chinese Lay Siege to Chenghsien After Northern Drive
Chinese forces in Chekiang by passed Japanese positions to reach Chuki and Chenghsien, siege lines forming at Chenghsien a key highway junction southeast of Hangchow. Rail town Chuki lies 40 miles south of Hangchow. Chenghsien sits 60 miles southeast. Japanese garrisons at Kinhwa and Sanchi reportedly busy looting as garrisons assessed withdrawal. A separate report says a tank-supported Japanese column retreated after advancing into Anhwei.
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Chungking
Chekiang
Chuki
Chenghsien
Hangchow
Chungkiang
Turgwang
Chengsien
Kinhwa
honth-Tokyo
Sanchi
New York
CBS
Anwhei
Nation watches Congress juggle farm prices amid inflation fears
Nation grimly watches Congress juggle farm price controls as inflation looms. The House pushes parity measures seen raising living costs up to 33.5 billion annually while the Senate contemplates a 5 percent rise. Senator Brown warns disunity could force the President to act.
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Nation Grimly
Congress
James Marlow
George Zielke
New York
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Brown
D-Mich
Senate Farm Bloc
Supreme Court
Toll Of Nazi Deaths Climbed In Stalin's Moscow Drive
Soviet reports from Moscow on September 26 say recaptured strategic positions near Stalingrad and on the German left flank while the invasion dead tally rose by about 3,000. Red Star praised defense morale amid renewed Soviet gains and warned of difficulties for the fascists. Soviet field dispatches claim German counterattacks were halted with heavy losses, including 300 German deaths and 200,000 rounds seized in one sector. In another sector 600 Germans killed and several enemy weapons destroyed as Soviet troops advanced.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Star
Army
Russia
Red Army
Laval Confident in Regime Despite Rumors
Vichy Sept 26 Pierre Laval told newspapermen his government rests on solid foundations and laughed off rumors of his fall. He declined to comment on circulating reports while censorship limited details. He cited the need to continue propaganda to send workers to Germany in exchange for war prisoners and emphasized a German agreement to return one prisoner for every 3 French volunteer specialists.
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VICHY
Pierre Laval
Laval Teck
Laval
Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
London reports five axis supply ships bagged in Mediterranean
British submarines have sunk at least five and probably seven Axis supply ships in the Mediterranean, with another severely damaged, according to a navy communique. The losses strain Axis sea communications as Allied attacks press on North Africa, with one ship sunk and another probably sunk described as large. others were medium tonnage.
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Mediterranean
Admiralty
Conmimunique
Anis
North Africa
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