Japanese Reinforcements Land On Guadalcanal
The navy reports fresh Japanese landings on Guadalcanal despite U S air attacks. One destroyer sunk and another damaged along with a Kako class cruiser. Losses include seven planes and a small launch. Reinforcements aim to strike the American air base on the island's north coast.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Navy
Solomons
Marine Corps
Whch
Shortland Island
Hitler's Winter Promise Faces Cold Reality Abroad
Wide World War Analyst Kirke L Sneseon notes Hitler’s pledge of a milder 1942-43 winter clashes with Ground realities. Stalingrad remains out of reach, Rommel stalls in Egypt, and Allied air bombardment plus resistance in occupied Europe threaten Nazi advances as General Winter expectations falter.
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Hitler
Russia
Stalingrad
Don-Volga
Berlin
Rommel
Egypt
Sea
Qattara
Scandinavia
Low Countries
France
Road houses urged closed or regulated during war in parish
Fourth District court reports a grand jury recommendation to shutter road houses and night clubs for wartime or restrict them. It cites crime origins at such venues and protects soldiers and cadets quartered in the parish, urging police jury to require nightly midnight closures and weekend Monday reopenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth District Court
Plan to Provide Tires for Every Passenger Auto
Washington reports a government plan to supply tires to keep every passenger car rolling for essential wartime mileage. The plan imposes strict controls on mileage speed rubber gasoline tire care and car sharing as the Baruch committee’s recommendation to provide tires to all drivers is interpreted by the OPA. Replacement tires will be the minimum grade needed and may include recaps used tires or new tires from various quality grades.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Baruch Committee
Robert W. Horton
OPA
Horton
William M. Jeffers
United States
Henderson
Axis planes in Egypt bagged in Allied air strikes
United States air forces and the Royal Air Force destroyed or damaged 34 enemy planes at Axis air bases in Egypt yesterday and last night. Allied losses stood at 12 planes. Axis claims cited 54 Allied planes shot down in heavy air battles.
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Cairo
United States
Libya
Suda Bay
Crete
Louisiana Scrap Drive averages 10.5 pounds per person
Louisiana reports an average of 10.5 pounds of scrap per person from 52 parishes as the statewide scrap drive aims to boost war industries. Total scraps and progress are monitored as the drive continues to October 24 with potential higher totals anticipated. Major General Harry Twaddle orders a court martial at Camp Swift for Private Schubert Knapp in the slaying of 8 year old Lucy Maynard.
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Louisiana
Knapp
Baton Rouge
Bruce R. McCoy
Louisiana Press Association
Parrish Fuller
Salvay
Fuller
Bastrop
Tex
Harry Twaddle
Schubert Knapp
Lucy Rivers Maynard
Camp Swift
Twaddle
95Th
D. W. Brann
C. B. Maynard
St. Paul
Gurls
Steel workers strike at Dixie Ordinance plant near Sterling
Sixty one iron workers from the International Association of Bridges Constructural and Ornamental Iron Workers walked off the job at the Dixie Ordinance works near Sterling ton. Foremen stayed on but forbidden from certain duties as pay demands surface. The group seeks a raise from 1.25 to 1.37 12 per hour after a year on site.
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International Association of Bridges
J. C. Tourek
Kellogg Company
H. H. Phillips
Shreveport
Busi
Senate Passes Record Tax Bill With High Rates
The Senate approved a sweeping tax bill imposing a 19 percent tax on the first dollar and a 5 percent victory tax on income over 624 yearly. Corporations face 34 to 40 percent rates with a 90 percent levy on excess profits over 5,000. The measure aims to fund a costly war effort.
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Washington
Senate
Treasury
Americans Strike Nazi Europe With 100 Planes Over France
US Army Air Forces joined the RAF in a daylight raid on northern France with more than 100 four motor bombers and Liberators. The attack marked the largest of its kind to date, with four US bombers lost and five German planes shot down.
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New York
United States Army Air Forces
Europe
High Command
United States
France
United States Army
Four Brent children die in Baltimore West Lombard fire
A Baltimore fire on West Lombard street claimed four young Bren t children aged eight to 16 and left a 20 month old baby critically injured. Norma Brent, 16, held the infant out a window before flames trapped her family. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.
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Baltimore
West Lombard Street
Norma Brent
Paul Brent
Lorraine
Shirley
Norma
Gary
Sun Papers
Boy Dies After Falling From Seed Cotton Truck
A 13 year old boy J B Waters of Gardner near Alexandria died after falling from a seed cotton truck nine miles northeast of here. He sustained a fractured skull and died en route to a local hospital. The accident occurred as he rode in the truck bed near Swartz when a side gave way. Driver O W Day hauled the load for Mr Mitchell. Mrs Mitchell and her daughter were in the cab. The parish coroner Dr J T French investigated the case.
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J. B. Waters
Here
J. &. Waters
Gardner
Alexandria
J. T. French
Cagle
Monroe-Bastrop
Swartz
French
Monroe
Cassidy scoop called genius in News Chronicle essay
The News Chronicle calls Henry C. Cassidy's letter to Stalin a piece of journalistic genius after Robert Lyndh recounts how Cassidy delivered the note to the Kremlin and Stalin's reply on the second front. Lyndh notes only a journalist would have thought to mail a note to be dropped in the Kremlin box.
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London
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
News Chronicle Today
Robert Lyndh
Cassidy
Kremlin
Stalin
Lyndh
German Officer Calls Stalingrad Battle Like Reaching for the Moon
An eyewitness report from Berlin relayed in Swiss papers quotes a German officer comparing the Stalingrad attack to reaching for the moon. He notes heavy bombardment, continued Russian defense, and fierce center-city battles as Russian reserves cross the Volga nightly.
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Bern
Switzerland
Stalingrad
Berlin
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Basel National Zeitung
Volga
Nazi Prisoners Tied in Britain and Canada Clash
Britain and Canada began shacking 1,376 German war prisoners amid German demands to free equal empire prisoners. Germany tied five Nazis captured in a Sark raid claiming reprisal for alleged Allied mistreatment, while Britain defended the action as necessary for raiders safety.
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London
Britain
Canada
Dieppe
Sark Island
Channel
Ina
Stalingrad Stalemate Deepens As War Rages Northwest
Dispatch from Moscow reports static warfare in Stalingrad with limited street fighting while Russians gain some ground northwest of the city. The Soviet communique notes mortar and artillery exchanges, German losses, and continued action in the Caucasus and Mozdok as forces maneuver along the Don and Black Sea fronts.
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Stalingrad
Caucasus
Moscow
Don
Mozdok
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Largest daylight raid on Lille by 115 American bombers
United States army headquarters reports 48 Nazi planes destroyed with many more probably downed or damaged in yesterday’s raid on Lille, amid losses of four bombers and no fatalities aboard 11 returning aircraft. Five enemy planes fell to fighters in the air battle.
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London
United States Army
Lille
France
Army
United States
Eighth Air Force
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