Worcester banquet honors Amos Cote amid union event and past charges
In Worcester on a Saturday night banquet of the Textile Workers Union of America C I O Amos Cote was installed as a local official. Speeches by Emil Rieve Saul Wallen and Saul Waller followed. The event drew about 250 attendees and drew attention due to Cote’s prior 1932 Worcester conviction for running a house of prostitution and related liquor charges.
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Orcester
Mass
Textileers of America
Amos Cote
Massachusetts
Direc
National War Labor Board
Emil Rieve
New York
National Union
War Labor Board
Saul Nien
Saul Waller
Bosin
Wallin
Wallen
Waller
Kin
Rieve
Cote
Tax plan proposals rejected by House Ways and Means
Washington March 9 The House Ways and Means Committee rejected two proposals to modify the Ruml plan and alter 1942 tax obligations. One would abate the six cent normal and 13 cent surtax on the first 2000 of income for all, while the other would apply 1941 rates and exemptions and permit payoff of remaining 1942 taxes over a short period.
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Ashington
Rumi
House
Ways and
Robertson
Crat
Virginie
Doughton
Demo
North Carolina
Disney
Oklahoma
Gearhart
Navy fliers killed in collision at New Orleans station
In New Orleans the Eighth naval district reports two planes collided at the naval air station killing Ensign Edward James of Cincinnati and Student Ensign Hilard G. Holland of Tampa. Two others, Edward Hall of Yakima and Richard C. Hicks of Olympia, were seriously injured.
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Orleans
Eighth Naval District Public Reions Office
Navy
Naval Air Station
Edward James
Neimnati
Hilard G. Holland
Tama
Fla
Ewan Thomas D. Hall
Russians Reach Vyazma Area From Three Sides In Major Push
Pravda dispatch reports Soviet forces press the German defense around Vyazma advancing from Sychevka and Grjazny toward rail hubs Sergo Ivanovskaya and Vyazma. Russian units form an arc around Vyazma while Germans counterattack, with fighting reported near Lyev and Kharkov region.
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Communist Party
Pravda
Ukraine
Kiev
Dnieperopetrovsk
Diack Sea
Vyazma
Grhata
Sychevka
Rehhev
Grhatek
Sergo Ivanovskaya
Vryazma
Red Army
Gzhatsk
Smolensk
Rzechev-Vyazma-Velikie Luki
Lgev
Arel
Kharkov
Voroshilovgrad
Leche Transferred to Orleans Federal Jail
Former Louisiana Governor Richard W. Leche, jailed for 10 years for mail fraud, has been moved from Atlanta to a federal jail in New Orleans. He was governor from 1936 to 1939 and was convicted in 1940 of defrauding the state of $31,000 in highway truck purchases.
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New Orleans
Richard W. Leche
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Leche
Ben C. Dawkins
Western Lousiana District
Louisiana
Prospects for Drafting Labor Rise in Wartime Policy
The article reports heightened prospects of drafting civilian labor to support war production as Congress weighs manpower needs. The Senate military committee seeks more witness testimony on the Austin-Wadsworth national service plan, while Bankhead proposes a farm labor deferment bill to remove farming workers from service if they produce essential war crops. A special committee reportedly backed a goal of 16,890,000 armed forces, despite opposition claiming insufficient manpower for food and supplies.
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Washington
Senate
Bankhead
Alabama
Roosevelt
Brunner earns fifth Messerschmitt in North Africa
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports Sergeant Robert M. Brunner of Dixon California becoming an ace with his fifth Messerschmitt shot down. He flew in a Mitchell bomber named the June Bug led by Lieutenant Robert M. Hamilton of Kenmore New York. The crew attacked two Axis ships and fended off German fighters amid heavy battle damage. Other Mitchell crews credited with sinking ships and damaging Axis vessels include Captain Alpheus W. White Jr Raleigh North Carolina Lieutenant Isaac E. Grant Knoxville Tennessee Sergeant Woodrow W. Pettibon Deerfield Missouri and Sergeant Robert O. Kirkland Plant City Florida.
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North Africa
Robert M. Brunner
Dixon
Cal
United States
Robert M. Hamilton
Kenmore
N. Y
Hamilton
Alpheus W. White, Jr
Raleigh
N. C
New York
Isaac E. Grant
Knoxville, Tenn
Woodrow W. Pettibon
Deerfield
Robert O. Kirkland
Plant City
Fla
Puerto Rico Governor Election Urged by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt asked Congress to consider allowing Puerto Ricans to elect their governor. Tugwell, facing opposition from insular parties and accused of seeking a Communistic state, has defense from Interior Secretary Ickes and support from the island's Democratic faction. The policy favors expanding self government in territories.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Puerto Rico
Senate
Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell
Ickes
Popular Democratic Party
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Bread slicing ban lifted in Washington kitchen note
The piece cites Washington March 9 and jokes about returning a scout knife and safe kitchen access after a bread slicing ban. It hints at a playful moral about cake versus bread and an ongoing cross-cut continuation on page six.
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Washington
Junior
Prisoner Rudolph Hess Recalled Kicked by Army Officer
Fresno report recalls Rudolph Hess visiting the United States in 1940 as a British war prisoner. Captain O C Jones says Hess, then a German youth visiting a St Louis exposition, kicked his chariot and was punched after Hess ran from a scuffle on a farm near Redman Illinois.
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Fresno
Calif
Rudolph Hess
Hitler
Nazi Germany
America
O. C. Jones
Army Air Force Medical Corps
Hammer Field
Redman
Ill
Jones
Munich
St. Louis
Hess
Knox Sees Pacific Gains as Japs Struggle for Supplies
Secretary Knox said the United States is growing stronger in the Pacific while Japan faces supply troubles as bases in the south Pacific strain under air and submarine pressure. He warned fireworks may come and noted American submarines plus land based aircraft are reducing Japanese shipping and ability to move troops. The Solomon Islands area is strengthening for U S forces, and bombing of Munda airfield continues to limit Japanese interference.
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Joan M. Hightower
Washington
America
Pacific
Knox
Bismarck Sea
Japan
New Guinea
C. Yates McDaniel
Associated Press
McDaniel
Rabaul
New Britain
South Pacific
Solomons
United States
Munda
New Georgia Island
Bridges Seeks Proof No Deal In Allred Nomination
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire demands administration evidence that no political deal occurred in James V. Allred's nomination to the fifth circuit court of appeals. Bridges notes he is inclined against the nomination but seeks clear proof of no collusion and wants to review Allred's qualifications.
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Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
James V. Allred
Texas
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Bridges
Roosevelt
Edward J. Flynn
New York City
Australia
Alfred
Senate
Allred
Flynn
Roosevelt's Grandson Injured in Florida Car Bicycle Crash
William Roosevelt ten, grandson of President, was badly bruised in a February 28 collision near Mrs. Curtin Winsor's Hobe Sound home. Doctors reported no broken bones, but a torn muscle as he recovers at Good Samaritan hospital. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt serves in North Africa.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Hobe Sound
William Roosevelt
Good Samaritan Hospital
Elliott Roosevelt
Curtin Winsor
Welles says Standley talk not approved by Washington
Undersecretary Sumner Welles said Ambassador Standley spoke in Moscow without Washington approval or even notification. Welles noted he asked for a text of Standleys remarks and had not received it, stressing the comments were made without government reference. He affirmed trust among the United Nations remains intact.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
William H. Standley
Moscow
Welles
Standley
United Nations
Admiral Standley
Giraud's War Council to Abolish Vichy Laws in Algeria
In Algiers on March 9 General Henri Giraud assembled his war council to abolish Vichy laws, especially those affecting Jews. Attending were Boisson and Peyrou ton, Nogues, Bergeret, Jurion, and Catroux’s coming envoy Georges Catroux. France Afrique reported releases of arrested De Gaullist suspects across French West Africa.
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Algiers
Henri Giraud
Vichy
Pierre Boisson
French West Africa
Marcel Peyrouton
Algieria
Augste Nogues
Morocco
Jean Marie Bergeret
Giraud
Jurion
Tunisia
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Catroux
France Afrique
Dakar
Algeria
Bombers Hit Nuernberg in Strong Raid Aerial
A strong RAF bomber force attacked Nuernberg and targets in western Germany last night. Seven bombers failed to return, and a German intercept aircraft was shot down. Four motored Lancasters took part with Canadian squadrons.
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London
Nuernberg
Germany
Air Ministry
Bomber Command
Berlin
Associated Press
Messerschmitt
Furth
Vichy
Netherlands
Munich
Augsburg
Stuttgart
Britain
Burks Denied Commutation In Louisiana Death Case
Governor Jones said he would study the case and seek full information before deciding any clemency for Finnan Burks, scheduled to die next week. The state pardon board refused to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment, leaving the governor with the decision.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Finnan Burks
State Electric
Lake Charles
State Pardon Board
Burks
Jones
New Orleans
Louisiana Board of Pardons
Father of Twins Wins First Round in Draft Deferment Fight
Philip Mancuso a 25 year old father of seven month old twins won the first round in his draft deferment fight. Federal Judge George A Welsh ordered a full and fair hearing by Mancuso's draft board and the board deferred induction pending a ruling from state selective service headquarters. The decision marked a precedent setting step and Mancuso claimed the board gave him an unfair hearing.
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Philadelphia
Philip Mancuso
United States
George A. Welsh
Mancuso
Draft Board
Rommel withdraws to stronghold as Mareth line attacked
Allied communique reports Rommel pulled back deeper into defenses after six assaults on the Mareth line in southern Tunisia. About 50 Axis tanks were destroyed or captured, and German forces withdrew in the northern sector near Sedjenane. Tozeur and other towns changed hands as Allied air and sea actions continued against Axis forces.
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Eadquarters
Noth Africa
Mareshal
Erwin Rommel
Mareth Line
Tunisia
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tamera
Sedjenane
Tozeur
Gafsa
Chott Djerid
Rommel
Eighth Army
Hallour
Montegomery
CBS
North Africa
Sicilian
Playboy Soldier Convicted of All Charges in Reno
Private Jacob L. Webb, 24, descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was found guilty by a special court martial of all charges including absence without leave and impersonating an officer. He received six months hard labor and forfeiture of two thirds pay. Webb, arrested in Reno in a captain’s uniform with many medals, pursued divorce from Lenore Lemmon of New York.
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Reno
Nev
Jacob L. Webb
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Webb
New York
Florida
Fort Mee Dowell
San Francisco
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