Yank Equipment Plays Large Role In Reds Effort
Washington reports that Lend-Lease aid to Soviet Russia has grown to support field weapons raw materials and transportation. Finished weapons and heavy metals along with steel copper aluminum and zinc have bolstered Soviet armies and industry. British reciprocity supplies food and aircraft aiding Allied fronts and future de icing and winter gear for US forces.
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Reds
Washington
Edward Stettinius
United States
Russia
Soviet Russia
Stettinius
England
North Africa
Air Ministry
USAAF
Dempsey Casts Off Spouse While Chaplin Gets New One
White Plains court actions split the Dempsey divorce and Hannah Williams separation. Custody undecided with final referee opinion due in two months. Benny Woodall and Ned Peterson testified on alleged closeness between Dempsey and Hannah. Witness accounts included accusations of hugging, kissing, and odd circumstances in Hannah's apartment. Private hearings followed public sessions as the case neared its end.
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Dempsey
Chaplin
White Plains
N. Y
America
Errol Flynn
Jack Dempsey
Hannah
Williams
White Plains Supreme Court
Jack
Benny Woodall
Lew Jenkins
Woodall
Jenkins
Benny
Ned Peterson
Los Angeles
Lenny
Peterson
Mrs. Dempsey
Chaplin Settles Paternity Suit Then Marries O'Neill Daughter
Comedian Charlie Chaplin ends a paternity suit by Joan Barry, his 23-year-old protege, after agreeing to payments of 2500 dollars plus 4600 dollars for medical care and 100 dollars weekly support. He then marries 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, at Carpinteria California. Barry, shocked by the surprise wedding, had pledged to continue the fight to prove Chaplin fatherhood despite the agreement.
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Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
Oona O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Chaplin
Carpinteria
Cal
Miss Barry
Broad Way
Ford Girls Defy Dress Rule With Skirt Rebellion
At Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant fifty seven female workers voted for dresses over the company rule demanding trousers. They argued that army ordnance female staff across the hall wore skirts and claimed if it is good enough for the army, it should be for Ford.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Army Ordnance Section
Army
Chicago Park District hires women lifeguards this summer
Chicago officials say hiring of women lifeguards on city beaches will proceed this summer with emphasis on ability over femininity. Applications are now being accepted as the Park District reverses its previous stance and moves to recruit guards based on qualification.
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Chicago
Chicago Park District
Columbia University Graduates First Class of Naval Officers
NEW YORK The school of military government and administration at Columbia University graduated its first class of naval officers assigned to assist in administering liberated countries. The graduates were told their mission would be to act as good will agents of America and to sow the seeds of future democracies.
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New York
School — of
Columbia University
America
Set Up Food Program in Omaha Overseen by Local Officials
A streamlined national food program is being set up with administration mainly by state and local governments. M. Clifford Townsend, former director of the food production administration, was named a special representative of War Food Administrator Chester Davis. Townsend was recently appointed to the role.
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Omaha
Neb
M. Clifford Townsend
Foo Production Administration
Townsend
Chester Davis
Armed Service Editions to ship 35 million books overseas
Twenty-five million specially printed pocket size books will be sent to American forces abroad next year with the Army receiving 80 percent of the total. Thirty-five million books will be issued, with fifty titles chosen monthly from popular favorites for publication in a special Armed Service Editions format, including both fiction and non fiction.
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New York
Army
War Profits Returned to War Service Groups
U S government profited from a war contract by 150000 dollars after contractor J B Dunn refused to profit on war work. Dunn overstated costs on a quartermaster depot project and then paid back 150000 dollars. The remaining funds will be divided among War service organizations.
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Kansas City
U.S
J. B. Dunn
Dunn
Americans brace for total war effects on home front
As war drags on Americans confront shortages and rationing. The War Production Board projects 106 billion dollars in 1943 spending, with munitions output soaring from 1941 to 1942. McNutt warns of 64.4 million employed next year but cites manpower shortages and cuts to NYA and other agencies. Draft rules tighten with class 3D hardship criteria, while Congress reports 89,327 federal-deferred workers. Navy expands WAVES training and civilian roles as pay as you go taxes ease for service members. The Supreme Court pivots again on compulsory flag salutes for religious objectors and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Aar
Nelson
Paul V. McNutt
Appropriations Committee
House of Representatives
Noe
McNutt
National Youth Administration
NYA
House
War Manpower Commission
Federal Security Agency
Lewis Hershey
Hershey
Congress
From Slips To Chutes
Lt Col George W Riley of the St Louis Ordnance District said the machinery that once produced nightprowns and underslips is now turning out parachutes used with fragmentation bombs. These parachute bombs float slowly to earth raining metal fragments on enemy personnel, aiding low flying planes with greater accuracy and safety for the attacker.
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ST. Louis
George W. Riley
Sub Launching Record At Elec Boat Yard
Electrical Boat Company workers in New London Connecticut launched their eighth submarine in 18 weeks, a likely all time production record for the yard.
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New Lonison
Conn
Electric Boat Company Yards
Last Word To Bookies
In Little Rock Arkansas Gov Homer Adkins warns operators and professional gamblers that draft handbook rules are essential work to tighten. He urges enforcement measures to deter illicit betting and protect the integrity of the draft process.
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Little Rock
Ark
Homer Adkins
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Clinton S. Gelden
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Joseph Keenan
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