U S Pays Tribute To Soviet s Struggle
Washington reports a thaw in Allied ties as the Soviet Union marks two years since entering the war with Nazi Germany. Across the United States crowds celebrate with concerts, pageants, and speeches by leaders including Mayor La Guardia and Joseph Davies. Public shifts include Comintern dissolution notes and a Supreme Court citizenship ruling linked to anti Communist policy. The Davies visit, Stalin letter, and new cultural ties underscore growing U S Soviet unity in 1943.
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Soviet Union
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Dies Committee
Supreme Court
Unia
Mission 10 Moschow
Maurice Hindus
Navy cancels Elk Hills oil contract with Standard Oil
The Navy Department canceled its contract with Standard Oil Co of California to exploit the Elk Hills oil reserve. Secretary Frank Knox defended the decision saying there is no suspicion about anyone involved. Norman Littell had criticized the deal as granting a five year monopoly. The Navy will protect the reserve by taking over surrounding Standard lands.
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Navy Department
Standard Oil Co
California
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Elk Hills
Frank Knox
Norman M. Littell
Standard Oil
Knox
Standard
Windsor Rites 49th Birthday
New York The Duke of Windsor now Bahamas governor celebrated his 49th birthday in a Waldorf Astoria suite before boarding for Florida en route to the Bahamas after a six week US visit. He appeared healthy and said his age was close to 59 for comfort, dodging a question on regrets about his past.
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England
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Florida
Einstein Employed In Naval Research
Princeton reports Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein is doing research for the Navy Bureau of Ordnance. He is tackling mathematical problems related to explosives and the laws governing them. The 64 year old scientist, who fled Germany, became a U.S. citizen in 1940.
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Navy Bureau of Ordnance
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Germany
Artists Arrive To Paint War In North Africa
War Department artists arrive in North Africa to document the war scene. Led by George Biddle, the overseas unit includes T-Sgt. Charles Farr and Lt. Edward Reep among six men, painting in fields, markets, and bivouac areas as part of a broader campaign of war art. They are free to depict war in any light, focusing on an integrated portrayal rather than strict limitations.
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War Department
George Biddle
Justice Department
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R. C. von Ripper
Mitchell Siporin
Charles G. Farr
Savo Radulovic
Edward A. Reep
von Ripper
Judge Bars MacFadden Divorce Case
Florida Circuit Court Judge Paul D. Barnsen dismissed the divorce suit filed by 75 year old physical culturist Ber narr MacFadden against his wife Mary Williamson finding the complaint lacked grounds for divorce. MacFadden, married 31 years, claimed extreme cruelty and noted an incident in Englewood New Jersey where she allegedly broke two of his teeth with a metal razor box. the court granted a month to amend the bill of complaint.
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Bernarr MacFadden
Mary Williamson
Florida
Paul D. Barns
England
MacFadden
Enclewood
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Ohio
Cleveland
Jean Flick
Armour Packing Co
Clarence Malo
Carnegie-Ilinois Steel Co
Michigan Senate
Michael E. Nolan
Ironwood
Texas
War Labor Board
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Evansville
Ind
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Park
WAAC
Dolores Eliott
Sheridan
San Francisco
Marilyn Winkler
Castiac
Cal
Hetn
Tos Angeles
Joseph Catton
Coffee stamps now good for a pound every three weeks
Washington reports coffee supplies have improved to nearly normal levels. The CPA has authorized stamps for one pound every three weeks, a marked change from the peak shortage when a single pound was stretched over six weeks.
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CPA
House Passes Bill For New Food Czar
The House Agricultural Committee approved by 18 to 8 vote a bill to create a food czar and remove rationing and price powers from the Office of Price Administration. The scheme would place food authorities under War Food Administrator Chester Davis, drawing opposition from the Administration.
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Office of Price Administration
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Brooklyn housewives groaned as laundries rationed service
The manpower shortage forced local laundry owners to cut service to about 75,000 families and seek government permission to raise wages to keep workers. Other notes include a Ringling Brothers show hit by food poisoning, a Paterson New Jersey bee swarm, and various postwar political and social items.
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Ringling Brothers Circus
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Katherine Pezur
Joseph C. Baldwin
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N. Y
Richard
Jan Waltin) Krebs
Bethel, Conn
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