Debate Over Von Bock Stalingrad Strategy and Hitler Influence
World War analyst Witt Mackenzie reports a quarrel between Field Marshal Von Bock and Hitler over the Caucasus campaign and the siege of Stalingrad. The piece weighs whether Hitler’s insistence doomed a more cautious approach or reflected strategic risk.
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Ewitt MacKenzie
Herr Hi
Snow
Caucasus
Fedor von Bock
Baste
von ‘Bock
Bock
Stalingrad
Volga
von Back
Hitler - von Bock
Itler
von Bock
Lin
Hitler
Middle East
Timoshenko
South
Germany
Market Report Parsers Grain Prices and Stocks
Chicago grain futures rose early on inflation hopes, then retreated. wheat led gains before a late setback with December near 1.28 and May around 1.31. Corn and oats showed mixed moves. soybeans rose modestly. Poultry and produce prices held steady. cotton and livestock listed with sizable turnover and mixed gains at New York and St Louis markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Washington
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
Springs
U. S
Idaho
U.S
Minnesota
North Dakota
Bliss
Wisconsin
Cobblers
ST. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
Ill
S. Dept
Senate Farm Parity Debate Escalates Over Labor Cost Share
Senators Thomas and Hatch push parity revisions to include farm labor costs in price calculations. President Roosevelt opposes, while administration leaders seek a compromise plan. House already passed a similar measure. Senate adjourned amid talks with key allies and polling showing mixed support. If vetoed, Roosevelt may act unilaterally using wartime powers to fix farm prices.
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Thomas
Casevelt
Senator Hatch
Roosevelt
Congress
Hatch
McNary
Oregon
Barkley
Kentucky
Brown
D-Mich
Wagner
White House
Sen
D - Okla
D.nm
House
Senate
Office of Price Administration
Arkansas oil quota cut to 73107 barrels a day
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission cut the three month Oct 1 quota to 73107 barrels daily, 1294 fewer than the July 1 limit. The Miller county field would be spaced at 160 acres to speed war use, while other pools saw smaller reductions or gains, with production in most fields unchanged.
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Texarkana
Ark
Arkansas
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission
Ischings Q. C. Bailey
el Dorado
Office of Petroleum Coordinator
OPC
Miller County
Atlanta
Midway
Hearing on Private Sale of Water Works Underway
Hearing continued from page one as Butcher and Sherrard of a Philadelphia investment house delay SEC approval by financing the deal privately. Moses insisted the sale funds electric and gas service expansion and noted A P L 1941 income and government regulations strain staff. Marion officials questioned water quality and urged the commission to ensure service improvements if the sale proceeds, while Wynne and De Witt withdrawn and Arkadelphia’s mayor left the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butcher and
Wynne
de Witt
R. T. Goodlie
Arkadelphia
Cecil Nance
Marion
Commission Pilomey
A. Lasley
Bridge toll plan tied to $2,000,000 grant under congressional act
Judge Trimble heard a tax claim of about 960,000 annually after parties agreed the bridge was built under congressional authority. Title rests with the oy bonds floated to match the grant, tolls pay the bonds, and the bridge will become toll-free within 40 years from ownership once the bonds are paid.
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Trimble
Retake Streets: Offensive Aims to Annihilate Hitlerite Germany
Retake Streets asserts the goal of destroying Hitlerite Germany, pledging no advance warning before attacks and urging French cooperation. British bombers hit Flensburg and an Axis convoy off the Dutch coast, with ten RAF bombers missing. Flensburg lies in Schleswig Holstein near Denmark, recently targeted repeatedly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Flensburg
Schleswig Holstein
Train wreck devastates line near Washington
A late evening crash at 7 30 p m eastern war time derailed the rear pullman of the Cleveland night express to Washington. Fire followed as cars burned for hours. Nine people were admitted to Frederick hospital with injuries not yet disclosed.
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Washington
Burdette
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Frederick Hospital
Cleveland
Rall
Son Confesses to Murdering His Parents
A 27 year old St Louis electrician Robert Nash confessed to police to killing his father Charles A Nash 61 and mother Eleanor 49 during a dispute over 640 in debts and late hours. Authorities say Nash described driving home in Illinois and disposing of the evidence after the slayings near Springfield. An earlier admission included a life insurance premium on his father.
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St. Louis
Robert Nash
Leonard Murphy
Murphy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Illinois
Charles A. Nash
Internal Revenue
Eleanor
Springfield
Nash
Father
Pact
Nur Poedy
Mllinois
East St. Louis
Springfeld
James McCue
Andrew Aylward
Young Nash
10 Million Man Army Includes Younger Group
Washington outlines a shift in select service and manpower planning as war production strains prompt a rethink of the draft system. The piece discusses inflation and rubber pressures, urging building a stronger foundation to carry the manpower load for both armed forces and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Stinnett
Washington
Selective Service
United States
Ambassador Train Collision Near Dickerson
Road officials reported the second car from the rear was damaged. The baggage car on the Ambassador from Detroit to Washington overturned and caught fire. The Cleveland train stopped about a half mile from Dickerson due to engine air pump trouble. The Ambassador collided with it shortly after starting. Fire engines arrived and 14 ambulances were dispatched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambassador
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Dickerson
Prognostications on the future of selective service
Washington observers foresee major shifts in deferment policies and new legislation. A draft could expand the army to 10,000,000 or more by late 1943, with 18 to 19 year olds drafted after year’s start and possible suspension of recruiting. Unmarried men with descendants and childless married men may be called next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Selective Service
Nazis Sowing Mines Off Invasion Coast
Norwegian sources report German forces hastening minefield layings along the coast to bolster anti invasion defenses. At Narvik informants say machineguns and light artillery are in many houses with cannons placed in the town center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invasion
London
Narvik
Far Norden
Deadline to Get Poll Receipts is Oct 1
Little Rock reports the November general election in Madison county stirs voter interest as Republicans challenge Democrats for county offices. The auditor’s office issued 3,000 poll tax blanks and now requests 1,500 more receipts, valid through Oct 1, 1943, with an expected total under 275,000 receipts statewide. In Madison County only 2,091 receipts were sold last year.
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Little Rock
Madison County
Arkansas
Madisai
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Lydia E. Pinkham
See
Thomas E. Powe
Lutber Co
Texarkana, Texas
Ralph Routon
N. Pine Dules
Perkisonns Jewelry Store
South Walnut
Ana Ament Boyett
South Main Street
Harry W. Shiver
Phong
Market Report
Ray Jow
New York
von Hock
Japan
Russia
Laok
Pume
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Erie
Southern Railway Preferred
Western Union
American Radiator
Govyear
Goodrich
U. S. Ruber
N. Md
Norminal
Senate Farm
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Miguels
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Donald
Joyce
Jenny
Von
Leon
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