Allied Offensives in Pacific and Med Seek to Ease Pressure on Russia
The article notes Roosevelt’s claim that major wartime strategy shifts include new offensives against Germany and Japan to divert forces from Russia and China. It highlights Allied actions in the Solomons and a British push in Egypt, which have strained Axis shipping and fuel supplies, with Rommel facing growing fuel shortages as Allied strikes cut enemy tankers in the Mediterranean.
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Roosevelt
Pacific
Mediterranean
Germany
Japan
Russia
China
Solomons
Burma
Egypt
Rommel
Judge requests federal probe after vote fraud claim
Judge Frank Voelker ordered a federal review of irregularities in a runoff for Mississippi's Fifth district. A Ward 2 Precinct 4 box showed 125 Mills to 81 McKenzie in recounts, before 130 to 26 in official tally. FBI agent attended, fingerprints to be tested on the last 81 ballots.
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Jackson Parish
Secretary of State
Frank Voelker
Newt V. Mills
Fifth Congressional District
Charles E. McKenzie
Ward 2
McKenzie
Mills
Voelker
Federal Bureau of Investigation
McRaney
Election Day Set Amid Ballot Questions and Renominations
Voters in Baton Rouge are expected to go to the polls Tuesday for the general election to renominate Democratic candidates and decide ten amendments. The September primary produced a six year term for Allen Blissful and a new eight member House of Representatives. Incumbent officials including H Maloney and James Hammand are mentioned with various state and federal seating considerations and retirements.
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Es FE
McKenzie
Son Believed Dead Reads Word Of Son Missing
In New Orleans on October 31 an obituary draft for Archie Jr a Marine officer is interrupted by a note from Archie Sr who had been told October 15 his son was MIA near Guadalcanal The message indicates Archie Jr is alive in San Diego and asks for leave The letter is signed Archie.
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Orleans
M. Smith
Archie, Jr
Guadalcanal
Assenger
Excise taxes rise on cigars and whisky in new levy
The government imposes higher excise taxes effective Sunday on many items including nickel cigars and whisky. The nickel cigar tax climbs from 32 to 40 cents per thousand units, raising overall revenue by about 103.9 million dollars over six years. A new 3 percent levy on transportation costs will also push costs higher, with coal shipments exempt from the increase. Whisky tax rises from four to five dollars per gallon on 160 proof stock.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
French women halt German labor drafts in occupied zone
In Bern and across Haute-Savoie strikes challenge Laval’s labor exchange plan. French women barricaded town halls to block German doctors from examining men for the Reich labor draft. Walkouts spread from Annecy and Marnaz to Toulouse and Marseille as workers quit when orders arrived, with police guarding facilities.
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Bern
Switzerland
Haute-Savoie
Pierre Laval
Journal Geneve
Read
Marseille
Oreign
Laval
Offic
Tomans
Aw van
Result Of First Five Days Of Campaign Encourages Workers
Twin City Communist workers report improved morale after five campaign days. W H Thon leads the drive urging wholehearted cooperation and local support despite wartime conditions and reduced airfield activity. Thompson notes many men have left services, increasing fundraising need for the campaign.
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W. H. Thon
Reiter
Navy enlistments will be continued
The Navy Department in Washington announces that voluntary enlistments will continue. Rumors of ending recruit drives are unfounded and the current method remains in place, with officials directing widest publicity for the announcement.
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NAVY
New Orleans
Navy Department
Washimgton
Russians strike in Stalingrad as Germans gain on Nalchik plain
Moscow dispatch says the Red Army went on the offensive inside Stalingrad and north of the Volga, winning gains after repelling German assaults. It reports German losses near Stalingrad, German infanter y wiped out and tanks and blockhouses destroyed, while Russians push forward northwest of the city and on the Black Sea front near Tuapse, with the Caucasus Nalchik plateau becoming a major focal point.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Nalchik
Caucasus Mountains
Red Army
Stalingrad
Volga City
Black Sea
Ia Moscow
London
CBS
Rome
Tuapse
Nal‘& Plateau
Caucasus
War Necessity Certificates Sent to Louisiana Vehicle Owners
The Office of Defense Transportation has mailed certificates of war necessity to owners of 89 218 commercial vehicles in Louisiana. After November 15, truck owners must hold the certificate to buy gas tires and automotive equipment, with rationing starting November 22. Forms were sent from a Detroit central office and must be returned there to confirm eligibility.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of War Information
Office of Price Administration
D. T
Detroit
W. BR. Atkins
O. D. T. New Orleans Motor Transport di 1
Teachers to study pre flight at LSU in Baton Rouge
Fifty teachers from Louisiana state to undertake a two week course at Louisiana State University under the general extension division led by Dr Marion B is to prepare them to teach pre flight classes in high schools. The course will train them in aeronautics concepts used in typical army training with aviation instructors of the university flying school in charge.
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Baton Rouge
Hke
Louisiana State University
Louisiana High Schoo
University General Extension Dis
Marion B
Grvnt
Army
Production Rate Rises Across Four Armament Categories
Washington October 31 The war production board reports September gains in four arms of output war planes ordnance merchant ships and naval and army vessels Nelson WPB chairman says production of war goods now nears four times pre Pearl Harbor levels Four engined bomber output is nearly on schedule and several new aircraft plants have entered production this fall Fading early doubts these plants would perform have been dispelled by improving results
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Pearl Harbor
WPB
Nation 10 Cast Votes Tuesday
Voters face off year elections as 53 613 052 are registered with about 34 800 090 likely to cast ballots Republicans expect a sizable House gain of 34 seats while Democrats foresee no more than 15 seats gained The results may signal sentiment ahead of the 1944 presidential race and President Roosevelt's influence remains a focus.
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Associated Press
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Willkie Criticizes Administration On Courage Shortage
Wendell Willkie, in a three page statement from New York, attacks the administration for lack of courageous leadership and for recognizing the Vichy government. He says GOP critics are significant as the party view of war and peace shifts from yesterday’s formulas. He delays announcing vote for the Republican state ticket led by Dewey next Tuesday.
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New York
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Republican Party
British Calmly Whittling Down Nazis Strength Near El Alamein
Cairo dispatch reports the British Eighth Army steadily reducing German force in the western Egyptian desert. Allied air superiority aided by American planes. Australians repulse multiple Axis infantry waves with some tank support, while 200 more prisoners, including Poles, Dutch, and Czechs, are captured as battle enters its second week.
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Cairo
Eighth Army
DNB
French Foreign Legion
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
el Alamein
Mediterranean
Qattara
Guadalcanal air arm blasts Japanese targets 23 of 31 days
In the Guadalcanal fighting, General Douglas MacArthur's air force of Americans and Australians carried a persistent long range assault against Japanese ships and bases. During 31 days ending October 30, air actions occurred on 23 days or nights as Allied forces pressed the Solomons campaign.
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Melbourne
Australia
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Jhouglas MacArthur
Salomons
MacArthur
Japan streamlines government under Tojo leadership
Tokyo radio announced drastic reforms to strengthen Japan's fighting power and reduce bureaucratic layers. A new super ministry of greater east Asiatic affairs will unify administration of Formosa, Korea, and Sakhalin with Japan proper. Officials said 78 imperial ordinances and two cabinet decrees will affect 170,000 officials, abolishing 31 bureaus and 12 departments and creating 24 bureaus and one department.
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New York
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo Radio Today
Tojo
Korea
Shakhalin
East Asia
Domei
Overseas Ministry
Manchurian Affairs Board
China Affairs Board
East Asiatic and South Seas Affairs Bureaus
Foreign Ministry
Domej
Bomb Dropped For Luck Hits Jackpot In Desert Raid
An Australian British and Canadian crew of a British medium bomber dropped a stick of bombs for luck near Cairo on Friday night and hit a huge munitions dump about 5,000 feet below. The explosion damaged the plane with desert particles. The mission comes amid eight days of desert bombing totaling 1,750,000 pounds.
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Cairo
GovernorJones cites 30 percent cut in Louisiana payroll
Governor Sam H. Jones in Alexandria says his administration reduced Louisiana public payroll from 25 792 to 16 742 and cut annual state payroll by 3 884 630 dollars. He notes 9 050 jobs eliminated since February 20 1940, cites hospital expansions, and reports staffing decreases across highways conservation New Orleans dock board Orleans levee board and LSU.
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Alexandria
Sam H. Jones
Louisiana
Highway Department
Conservation Department
Clements
New Orleans
Fifteen Killed As Malta Plane Crashes Near Gibraltar
Madrid dispatches report a four motor Malta bound plane crashed on a Gibraltar hill top, then fell into the sea. Of 32 aboard, 15 killed and 11 injured, with several missing. Crew numbered ten. passengers included women and children. Some passengers bore wounds from earlier Malta bombings.
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Madrid
Malta
Gibraltar
la Linea
US carrier sunk in South Pacific after Santa Cruz attack
Navy reports an unnamed US aircraft carrier was lost after two enemy bombing runs near the Santa Cruz islands on October 26. The Porter destroyer was also lost in the same engagement, with few casualties aboard the carrier and crews removed before it sank. The carrier group included Saratoga Hor net Ranger Enterprise among others.
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Washington
United States
South Pacific
Santa Cruz Island
Guadalcanal
U. S. S. Porter
Saratoga
Hornet
Ranger
Enterprise
United States Fleet
Jane’s Naval Register
Lexington
Coral Sea
Yorktown
Wasp
Solomons Islands
Navy Department
Santa Cruz Islands
Porter
Navy
War Production Board bars private financed homes in Monroe area
The Chamber of Commerce reports WPB has cancelled Order P-55 which halted privately financed home building and Order P-110 for renovations, effective for the duration. FHA defense houses totaling 170 remain. Chamber seeks WPB waiver for Monroe and West Monroe to permit renovations, needing lists of inadequately housed families and proof of materials. Call 315 or 360 to be counted.
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Chamber of Commerce
War Producetion Board
WPB
Monroe
West Monroe
George Holland
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