Willkie Reports Soviet Discontent Over Delayed Second Front
Willkie told Stalin in Moscow that he would return to Washington with a report on the Soviet disappointment over the lack of a second front by the United States and Britain. He delivered a thick envelope containing Roosevelt’s personal message to the Soviet leader after a two hour Kremlin meeting attended by Vyacheslav Molotov.
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MOSCOW
Wendell L. ‘Willkie
Washington
Soviet Russia
United States
Britain
Stalin
Roosevelt
Kremlin
Willkie
Cairo
Chungking
Vyacheslav Molotov
London
Europe
U S to Cut Civilian Meat Use in Last Quarter 1941
Agriculture Secretary Wickard announced an Oct 1 cut in civilian meat consumption to about 79 percent of 1941 last quarter deliveries. The plan sets per person weekly limits of 2½ pounds, with beef at 80 percent, lamb and mutton 95 percent, and pork 75 percent, to ensure army navy and lend lease needs are met. Public eating places may adopt Meatless days, and housewives should adjust purchases for dependents.
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WASHINGTON
Claude Wickard
United States
Wickard
war production board
committee
Left Hand Corner Gandhi House Gon A New York Gesture
New Yorkers grumble over few army contracts as a $5.0 million raincoat contract goes to firms in New York. Jewish workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union agreed to pay cuts for skilled and lower paid labor, enabling the factory to bid successfully while preserving jobs. The St Thomas Times Journal calls the gesture notable amid charges of dragnets on the continent.
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News
acord Ling
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Lost license ends up in Australia over sea mystery
Portland report recounts Nancy Latourette who dropped her Oregon driver’s license in Seaside a year ago and received it back in an envelope postmarked Somewhere in Australia. Sgt Paul S Yale, ex-Portland, wrote he found it while trekking in Australian bush country. Latourette is puzzled how it crossed hemispheres.
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PORTLAND
Ore
Nancy Latourette
Seaside
Australia
Paul S. Yale
Lull Reported Across China Front Amid War Haze
An army spokesman said fighting slowed along the China front with no comment on Chinese preparations for a spring offensive. Free China observed a medieval noon festival, marking the 14th century Mongol era, as families served cakes bearing the ideographs for Kill the Mongols and later Kill the Japanese.
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CHUNGEING
China front
Free China
Kublai Khan
Parliament Bill Aims Three Month Penalties for Black Market
Canberra Sept 24 An introduced bill in Parliament proposes minimum penalties of three months imprisonment for individuals and fines of 50 000 dollars for companies to curb black market dealings.
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CANBERRA
Australia
Use Jerry Propeller To Keep Their Score
Canadian night fighter squadron crews in England tally victories with a metal swastika on a propeller blade. The Dormier 217 shot down July 24 marks the count, showing Sve shot down, three probable, and 10 damaged. PO. George Bower of Vancouver scored a probable on Junkers 88, a dive following his burst. Night fighters require instant readiness and frequent air sorties in darkness.
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CHARLES BRUCE
RCAF
ENGLAND
Sve
George Bower
Vancours
Bower
Junkers
bright sealight
Bowers
Library committee Regina set to streamline service
A provincial literary committee is formed by the Canadian Legion War Services to remove overlaps in library service. Elected Sept 24 representatives from provincial agencies will coordinate distribution of literature to 33 units across the navy army and air force in Saskatchewan.
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REGINA
Canadian Legion War Services
navy, arty
air force
Saskatchewan
Quebec man held after coroner's jury verdict
Francois Trace, 72, of Quebec City is being held by police after a coroner's jury ruled he is responsible for the death of his 72 year old wife Myrs Trace. She died in hospital yesterday from injuries said to have been inflicted by her husband a week earlier.
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QUEBEC
Francois Trace
Quebec City
Myrs, Trace
One Ton Bombs Smash Buna Supply Base
Allied fighters and bombers pounded Buna in southeastern New Guinea for a consecutive day, attacking airfield installations, barges, and supply huts. British and American air units also strafed Kokoda inland supply lines while Japanese forces remain bogged down near Port Moresby.
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Australia
Buna
New Guinea
KOKODA
Owen Stanley mountains
Port Moresby
French Cheer As British Enter Tananarive
Vichy French garrison in Tananarive surrendered unconditionally and British troops occupied Madagascar's capital after landings on the island. A communique said the entry was greeted with cheering as Ubey breached stiffened Vichy resistance 15 miles north of the city. Antalaha, 200 miles south, was also reported early Wednesday in the communique.
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LONDON
Tananarive
Madafoscar
Ubey
Antalaha
Ditgo Suarez
Calgary labor shortage halts vital war projects
Calgary reports a severe labor shortage halting construction on key war projects. Municipal airport runway work and other essential sites are awaiting workers as W Harry Ross of the Unemployment Insurance Commission warns urgent action is needed to obtain men to resume progress.
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CALGARY
W. Harry Ross
British bombers raid Flensburg submarine yards in night assault
British RAF and Canadian squadrons joined Royal Canadian Air Force and Coastal Command in a night raid on German targets including Flensburg submarine yards. The British air ministry reported failures with ten bombers missing. Bombs caused slight damage and minor casualties in a Norwegian town as incendiaries fell.
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LONDON
Germany
Flensburg
air ministry
R.C.A.F
coastal command
Netherlands
Britain
air and home ministries
US Destroyer Jarvis Delisted in Pacific Disappearance
The Navy reported the destroyer Jarvis vanished in the southwest Pacific after combat damage near Guadalcanal, likely sunk by enemy submarines or aircraft. An auxiliary transport Little was sunk in the Solomons with about 250 lives potentially lost. half the Little’s crew were saved. Commanding officers Lt Cmdr William Walter Graham, Jr and Lt Cmdr Gus B Lofberg were lost.
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WASHINGTON
navy department
United States
Jarvis
southwest Pacific
Little
Solomons
Guadalcanal
the
Cmdr
William Walter Grahman, Jr
Gus B. Lofberg
Lady Astor Defends Against British Communists
Cheltenham England Sept 24 Lady Astor told an audience that Russia's great enemy in Britain is the British Communist She said I would not mind sitting on the platform with a Russian Communist but I would not be seen dead with a British Communist Her remark reflected wartime political tensions and anti communist sentiment in Britain during the period.
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CHELTENHAM
England
Lady Astor
Russia
Britain
Six Die In Baltimore And Ohio Train Wreck
Six people are confirmed dead and 14 more trapped after a collision between two passenger trains and a freight on the Baltimore and Ohio main line near Dicker son Maryland. A Pullman car was crushed as the Washington bound Cleveland night express and a fast freight collided. Rescue workers faced burning wreckage with no signs of life six hours after the crash.
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JAMES £. HAGUE
Associated Press
DICKERSON
G. L. Mortis
Baltimore and Ohio
Axis Vessel Hit Directly In RAF Greek Raid
Gairo reports British torpedo carriers scored a direct hit on an Axis vessel off Greece as part of ongoing raids on Rommel's overseas supply line. The RAF bulletin notes a slight rise in enemy air activity over the Egyptian front but states no RAF losses. land front remained quiet aside from night patrols.
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GAIRO
Greece
Erwin Rommel
R.AF
Cost of living bonus sought for armed forces dependents
Ottawa dispatch reports renewed advocacy for a cost of living allowance for dependents of service members. Officials say a reopening of the subject is possible at the next Parliament session, but no major changes to current arrangements are expected soon.
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OTTAWA
Mystery Desert Rider Traded In Horses Here
Cairo dispatch profiles Maj. David Stirling alias phantom major leader of famed commandos. Once trading horses in Canada and Texas at the war’s start, he formed a psychic raider group that has destroyed hundreds of enemy positions and disrupted transport behind Rommel. Stirling, six foot four and Scots Catholic, earned the DSO and now operates on the desert front, seeking ground action and stealth.
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CAIRO
Egypt
drsert
Rommel
Canada
David Stirling
Lord Lovat
Britain
deers
Stirling
Alberta
Texas
Montana
England
Scots Guards
commanion
Ritchie
Oficer
Jan Christian Smuts
D.S.O
Forts Of Stalingrad Taken From Foe In High Street Battles
Soviet dispatches report Red Army forces recaptured a settlement northwest of Stalingrad and killed over 7,200 German invaders as heavy fighting raged in streets and ruins. The Red Star described intense counterattacks with 115 tanks and 48 field guns knocked out, while German reinforcements arrived by air to sustain the siege.
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Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
OSCOW
A.P
Red army
Stalin
Red navy
Volga river
Stalingrad
Red Star
Farm bloc pushes parity price boost in anti inflation bill
The House approved the anti inflation bill 284 to 96 after a strong farm bloc secured an amendment raising parity prices for farm products, making the measure unacceptable to President Roosevelt. Administration forces continue to press on with the FARM BLOC.
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WASHINGTON
house of representatives
Roosevelt
Cabinet in Session After War Meeting in Ottawa
News brief notes Canada’s full cabinet meeting held shortly after a war committee session. Other dispatches report an unknown plane over Vichy, Paris police arresting Romanian Jews, exploratory drilling planned at McMurray Sands, an Edmonton airman missing overseas, and a missing nine year old girl sought by police near Prince Albert.
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PARIS
BERLIN
A.P
McMURRAY SANDS
EDMONTON
McMurray
sil sands
Rieteiet
EDMONTON-CALGARY
James F. Maguire
Bis parenta
James Maguire
Calgary
ALBERT
Sask
Rexel
Canadian Mounted Police
Army
twantry
Rachel Burns
BROOKLYN
BOSTON
CARDINALS
Brooklyn Dodgers
St Louis Cardinals
Cincinnati
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Fort Benning
Georgia
Camp Shilo
Men
Canadian Parachute Battalion
R. H. Keefler
Directorate of Military Training
R. F. Routh
Mont
West Front
U.S
P.C
Agricultural Sec
WILL
Gandhi
N.Y
Salvation Navy
dame aE Sika
OREGON
China
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
WELD
RAF
Dutch Coast
FLENSSURG
R.A.F
Volga
RICHARD L. TURNER
C.P
war committee
VICHY
Niewerspen BARHAV
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