Industry watch fears central plan controls in defense economy
New York August 25 rapid shift to a defense economy spurs talk of a central committee to allocate production and sales to firms. Proponents say it could end wasteful competition and stabilize prices though critics call it state socialism. Copper price signals and capital tied to output gains highlight the urgency.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
News-Star Special News Service
OPM
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources
Arizona
Henderson
Churchill pledges British aid to US in Pacific crisis
London reports Churchill warns Japan to halt expansion and vows Britain will stand with the United States in seeking a peaceful Pacific settlement. He frames the Atlantic charter with Roosevelt as a pledge to destroy Nazi tyranny and calls for aid to Soviet Russia as Nazi aggression grows.
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London
Churchill
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Pacific
Roosevelt
Europe
Soviet
Russia
Germany
Britain
China
Indo-China
Siam
Singapore
Australia
Philippine Islands
Army seeks land for war games in northern parishes
Major Niels I Poulsen said the war department must acquire use of all lands in northeast Louisiana not covered by existing agreements. The Second Army will move from Arkansas to northern Louisiana for preliminary maneuvers before joining the Third Army for major war games. War department offices opened in parish seats to gather land agreements, with thousands of cards being mailed for signatures.
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War Department
Louisiana
Niels I. Poulsen
Army
Arkansas Line
Arkansas
Third Army
Radio headsets please prisoners at San Quentin
San Quentin inmate program brings an eight thousand dollar radio system to 4000 prisoners. Inmates control four hour nightly broadcasts and a 15 minute morning news segment. Warden Clinton Duffy hosts a weekly ten minute show and says the effort restores hope by replacing harsh punishment with rehabilitative activities.
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San Quentin
Calif
Clinton Duffy
San Quentin Prison
NBC
Duffy
Sabotage Targets Paris Railways After German Crash
In unoccupied France five railway sabotage acts were reported in the Paris area over two weeks. A car of Germans collided with a cable trap in a Paris suburb. Fernand de Brinon urged railway workers to avoid endangering lives as Communists were blamed. German occupants were said to be injured.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Fernand de Brinon
Occupied
Draft boards to look after jobs
Washington August 25 Local draft boards are charged by director Hershey to ensure returning soldiers regain their prewar jobs. Each board should appoint a reemployment committeeman to protect rights. Law requires rehiring unless employer changes make it impossible or unreasonable. About 200000 men over 28 married or in hardship to leave by Christmas.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Committee Votes Lower base For Tax Exemptions
The senate finance committee voted 10 to 6 to lower exemptions from 2000 to 1500 for married couples and from 800 to 750 for singles, expanding the tax base and boosting federal revenue by 300 to 350 million dollars. Chair George of Georgia said no change to house rate schedule and that a general manufacturers sales levy and a withholding tax were rejected or not ready for recommendation.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
Georgia
Treasury
Go Signal on Flood Control Work Given
President Roosevelt signed the 275 million omnibus flood control bill allowing major action at the head of the Eudora and Boeuf floodways in Louisiana and Arkansas. The controversial Arkansas-LA floodway is abandoned, while engineers may start strengthening the fuse-plug levee and building up to authorized grade along 60 miles of levee, using blanket lower Mississippi funds.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Lower
Mississippi Valley
Eudora and
Boeuf
Louisiana
Arkansas
Army Engineers
Mississippi
Congress
Nazis Order Haiti Consulates Closed
Berlin ordered the closing of Haiti s consulates in the Reich for political reasons Haitian consuls were given until September 15 to wind up their business Germany also closed its consulates in Cuba and Haiti The Haitian government had earlier withdrawn privileges of German consuls and said it was closing its consulates in Germany and German occupied lands Haiti joins Mexico Honduras and Cuba in ceasing consular exchanges with Germany.
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Berlin
Germany
Haiti
Reich
Cuba
Mexico
Honduras
Iran's Modern Monarchy and Oil Lease Facts Outline
The article outlines Iran’s 1925 constitutional monarchy under Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 60 year lease on 500000 square miles, a largely desert nation with 3 million nomads, a diverse population, and military assets including about 190000 army recruits, a small air force of 13 British built planes, and a pocket navy with vessels built by Italy, along with historic treaties with Turkey Iraq Afghanistan and Soviet Russia.
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Associated Press
Iran
Persia
Russia
Caspian Sea
India
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Teheran
Riza Khan Pahlevi
Shah
Pahlevi
Sultan Ahmed Shah
Mohammed Ali Shah
Turkey
Iraq
Afghanistan
Persian Gulf
Italy
State To Give Service Tests
Baton Rouge announces the first competitive civil service examinations to be held September 20 under a 1940 law aiming for merit-based filling of posts. Willard E. Parker, Personnel Director, says four or more will be appointed from an exam register to positions at $100 monthly starting salaries, aiming to attract young men and women seeking state service careers.
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Baton Rouge
Willard E. Parker
Russian Drive Smashes Many German Tanks
General Red army counter-attacks with massive tanks and infantry report multiple German divisions routed in Leningrad Gomel sectors. Romanian losses cited near Odessa as Red cavalry pivots on the Dnieper bend amid rain and fog.
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Moscow
Red Army
Leningrad
Gomel
Red
Russia
Black Sea
Odessa
Ukraine
Dnieper
Retreat Begun by Blue Army in Arkansas
Red Kotmk forces invading from multiple states launched a broad frontal assault on the Blue Seventh corps of the Second army in southwest Arkansas. A wide flanking movement extended from Blevins to Washington to Hope, pinching 75,000 Seventh corps troops. The withdrawal aimed to coordinate three divisions with the 75th Field Artillery brigade to fall back toward Cam as part of a delicate maneuver in rolling terrain.
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Arkansas
Red Kotmk
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Kentucky
Blue Armat
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Blue Seventh Corps
Blue Battle
Blevins
Washington
Hope
Seventh Corps
South Arkansas
Camden
75Th Field Artillery Brigade
Most Of Soldiers Are Not Squawking About Service
Editor notes this is the second of a series on Louisiana maneuvers based on interviews with soldiers near Camp i. Soldiers describe army life as okay, some express fatigue and desire to quit, while others defend the army and praise their unit.
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Louisiana
New Ores
Camp
55Th Regiment
Quartermasters Corps
World War II spreads as forces clash across Middle East and Europe
Allied troops in the Middle East surge to oust Nazi agents while British and Russian forces push to control key oil hubs. Churchill pledges U S support against Japan as Singapore receives reinforcements. Red Army counterattacks in Leningrad Gomel and Dnieper areas claim Romanian and German losses. Luftwaffe and U boats strike British shipping. Britain bombs western Germany. sabotage runs through Paris amid occupation tensions.
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Associated Press
Iran
Middle East
Persian Gulf
World
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London
Churchill
United States
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Tokyo
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Singapore
Britain
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Gomel
Dnieperopetrovsk
Kiev
Germany
England
Faeroe Islands
Paris
France
Roosevelt vetoes bill to freeze government farm stocks
President Roosevelt vetoed legislation to freeze government stocks of wheat and cotton, saying it conflicts with sound policy and harms farmers and consumers. He argued it would undermine the agricultural adjustment program and its benefits, and objected to a provision for the Commodity Credit Corporation to acquire and hold 1940 and earlier crops indefinitely.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Capitol
Commodity Credit Corporation
Congress
Child Drowns After Second Bayou Fall in New Orleans
In New Orleans on August 25 Herman Mc Clain, aged 6, fell into Bayou St. John twice. He was rescued once last year by bystanders, but yesterday no spectators were present and he drowned.
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New Orleans
Herman McClain
Bayou St. John
Detroit Transit And Shipyard Strikes End As Navy Takes Over
Three thousand workers at Detroit area shipyards and transit employees return to work as President Roosevelt orders navy control. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers ends its strike after tying up half a billion dollars of ship construction. An Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Operators strike also settles with a vote pending union dues and recognition.
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Associated Press
Navy Manaent
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kearny
N. J
Navy
National Mediation Board
A. F. of L
Detroit
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and
Roosevelt Hosts Duke of Kent in Washington Visit
President Roosevelt and the Duke of Kent arrived in Washington by special train for a brief stop before the duke flies to Norfolk to inspect defense operations. The president, back to routine, hosted the royal visitor at Hyde Park and toured WPA art at the Roosevelt library. He also signed a proclamation allowing Plantation Pipeline to acquire rights of way for a Baton Rouge to Greensboro pipeline with a 90000 barrel daily capacity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Duke of Kent
Norfolk
George VI
England
Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Plantation Pipeline Company
Baton Rouge
Greensboro
N. C
Seven members of one family killed in New Jersey crash
A Central Greyhound bus collided with four autos in Waldwick New Jersey injuring many. Joseph Bason 38 his wife Blanche and six of their relatives aged 4 to 25 were killed. Driver Carl Ramsey 30 of Albany charged with causing death by reckless driving.
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Waldwick
N. J
Joseph Bason
Blanche
Charlotte
Marian
Ursula
Bason
Elizabeth
Ann
Jersey City
William
Bergen County
John J. Breslin, Jr
Carl Ramsey
Albany
N. Y
Edward Shaheen
New York
Invasion of Iran by Allied Forces to Oust German Agents
British and Russian troops launched a synchronized invasion of Iran to remove German agents amid fears of sabotage to oil fields and pipelines. Soviet northern advance joined Allied western and southern thrusts, with Iran's 190000-man force opposing and Berlin claiming clashes on the Caucasus border.
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Associated Press
Little
Iran
Persia
Middle East
Ankara
Turkey
Caucasus
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Tabriz
Cairo
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London
Bandar Shahpur
Persian Gulf
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