Fumble John Pegler and a Dispatch from Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler recalls a Chicago Tribune era figure nicknamed Fumble John Boettiger and his late tips, links to New York and Seattle episodes, and Pegler's own clashes with the American press. The reminiscence touches on media racketeering charges and Roosevelts era campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago Tribune
John Boettiger
Eville Chamberlain
F.ir
Seattle
Fumble
Nowaays
Great Northwest
Marshall Field
Fumbleohn
John
Themerican Daily Press
Pegler
Cheago Tribune
Ned Beck
Albany
Spene
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Cardin
Col
Robert Raethe
Tiue
Aerobatics Planned at Selman Field Open House Day
Selman Field officials invite the public to a RAF Open House Day next Sunday featuring formation flying by seven AT-7 trainers and a special AT-6 aerobatic display. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with aircraft on view including B-23s AT-6 AT-7 and AT-11. Guides will explain training uses.
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Selman Field
Co L. Stromme
Army Airorces
Wil Fe
Verhead
Wille
Eisenhower Admitted To Ashland General Hospital
General Dwight D. Eisenhower newly designated chief of staff has entered Ashard General Hospital at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia on physician advice to prevent complication from a severe cold. Eisenhower testified before a House committee with a hoarse voice and flushed face and may delay plans to return to Germany by air. Mrs Eisenhower is ill with pneumonia at Boone Iowa but improving.
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Washington
Genwight D. Eisenhower
Ashard General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Army
Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
House
Germany
Pneutremia
Boone
Iowa
Truman Nominates Donnelly as Revenue Collector for Louisiana
In a November 2 report President Truman nominated Charles A. Donnelly of New Orleans as collector of internal revenue for Louisiana He succeeds Joachim O Fernandez who resigned from the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Charles A. Donnelly
New Orleans
Internal Revenue
Louisiane
Joachim O. Fernandez
Picketing at GM Amid Wage Dispute in Cold
Detroit dated reports show General Motors debating a three man arbitration proposal for a 30 percent wage rise while U S labor officials prepare responses. Pickets formed lines outside strike bound plants as a federal mediator headed to Washington for possible settlement. The CIO Auto Workers Union awaits GM’s reply to arbitration terms including book disclosure and linkage safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors
G. M
C. E. Wilson
Washington
C. I. O. Auto Workers Union
John W. Gibson
Schwellenbach
Nationalists close on Hulutao amid Manchuria push
Nationalist forces near the port of Hulutao in Manchuria threaten a seaborne invasion point for a drive toward Changchun. Communist reports claim advances on Yencheng and Tinghsien, while Tsaoyang highway center changes hands and Russian withdrawals from Changchun loom.
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Chungking
Hulutao
Yencheng
Tinghsien
Nanking
Peiping-Hankow
Shihkiachwang
Manchuria
Changchun
Manchurian
China
Tsaoyang
Hankow
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Transbaikal Front
Hsiung Shih Hui
Malinovsky
Siege Broken at Ambarawa as British Deploy Gurkhas
British Indian troops use Sherman tanks for the first time in the Soerabaja offensive and push 2009 yards south in Ambarawa, seizing Hotel Oranje and halves of the city while Indonesian resistance fades. About 40 Indonesian casualties reported. 10,000 Dutch civilians reportedly held by Rapwi.
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Batavia
Java
Hotel Oranje
Simpang
Ambarawa
Dutcn
Rapwi
Semarang
Ambatawa
Bamdoeng
Tjikambek
Bandoeng
Palembang
Sumatra
Soerabaja
Soekarno
Sutan Sjahvir
All Sons of
Meat and fats rationing ends tomorrow in U S
Washington reports all meat rationing ends tomorrow and food fats become point free including margarine lard and shortening Canned fish and sugar remain rationed The program began March 29 1943 and ends at 120 4 m Saturday with potential lift of sugar rationing noted by Secretary Anderson
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Washington
Anderson
Public urged to save sugar stamps in ration book
Washington November 23 The Office of Food Administration cautioned the public to conserve sugar stamps in ration book four for sugar purchases. With meats and fats rationing ending tomorrow all other stamps in book four and red tokens used as change for meats fats coupons become valueless. The sugar stamp number 38 remains valid for five pounds through December 31.
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Washington
OFA
Rationing to Ease for Civilians by December
Anderson estimates lifting rationing will free civilian supplies at about 165 pounds per person annually in December, up from 110 pounds per capita previously. The note appears as a continuation on the sixth page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Hull Says He and FD R Tr y to Prevent War
Donation list to United War Fund and Community Chest shows multiple donors from Swift & Company and related workers. Names span employers, auxiliary departments, utilities, and crafts among numerous individuals contributing modest amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
FD. R
United War Puna and
Community Chest
Hull details desperate diplomacy before Pearl Harbor
Cor dell Hull testified to congressional investigators that he and Franklin D Roosevelt sought to delay any showdown with Japan and never issued Japan an ultimatum. He described efforts to avoid war while awaiting documents and a draft message to Congress on policy toward Japan.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Bsage
Roosevelt
Senate House
Japan
Hull
Gerhard Gesell
Lucas
Democrat
Illinois
Frank Walker
Pearl Harbor
Congress
State Department
Barkley
Kentucky
Rebels Seize and Shoot 20 Iranian Officials in Mianeh
An Iranian general reported by radio that 20 officials and landowners were seized and shot by rebels in Azerbaijan province. Fighting continued in Mianeh, 250 miles northwest of Tehran, as military radio links were restored between Tabriz and the coast. The government blamed Separatists for the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Azerbaijan
Mianeh
Tabriz
Davis to Address National Bank Supervisors in New Orleans
Gov Jimmie Davis will speak to the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks at their annual meeting in New Orleans Thursday the governors office announced today.
Halsey Relinquishes Command of Third Fleet
Admiral William F. Halsey ends a 45 year seagoing career as he turns over command of the Third Fleet aboard the South Dakota. Rear Adm. Kingman succeeds him amid ceremonies in Long Beach California with praise of his leadership and a 17 gun salute from the South Dakota and other ships.
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Long Beach
Calif
William F
Bull) Halsey
Third Fleet
South Dakota
Halsey
Howard F. Kingman
Admiral Kingman
Alabama
Iowa
Wisconsin
Chicago
Atlanta
Dayton Topeka
Vicksburg
Bennington
Churchill and Bevin Clash Over Greek Plebiscite Delay
In Commons, Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin clashed over Labour’s plan to delay the Greek monarchy plebiscite. Bevin urged a March 1948 vote while Churchill warned a two to three year postponement would be wrong for Greece. Bevin urged frank, open UN discussion and pledged no unfriendly acts toward any nation.
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London
Winston Churchill
Ernest Bevin
Labor
Bevin
Greece
Britain
Great Britain
United Nations
United States
Canada
Washington
General Assembly
United Nations Organization
San Francisco
de Gaulle
Nazi Leaders Face War Crimes Trial Demand**
MERNBERG Nov 23 AP Punishment of 20 of Hitler's top aides was demanded by the United States for spreading an atrocious doctrine of aggressive warfare in a plot to murder millions. American prosecutors said the main case would rest on 10 documents never before revealed. Attempts to introduce the documents met German defense protests and the session adjourned for the day.
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Mernberg
Hitler
United States
International War Crimes Tribunal
Britain
Churchill
United Nations
Attlee
Truman
Mackenzie King
Mr. Truman
Nazi industrialists linked to Hitler funding at war crimes trial
American prosecutors said Krupp and I G Farben leaders financed the Nazi party to combat Communism and aided rearmament. Hjalmar Schacht was named as war economy plenipotentiary while Krupp funds backed Hitler. Keitel aided cabinet planning of aggression.
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Mernberg
Hitler
Krupp Steel Empire
I. G. Farben Chemical Trust
Thomas Dodd
Hjalmar Schacht
Reich
Krupp Works
Gustav Krupp von
Wilhelm Keitel
Germany
Rudolf Dix
Schacht
Reichsbank
Nazi Party
Reichschancellor
Georg von Schnitzler
IL. G. Fareben
Schnitzler
Krupp
Albert Vogler
Steel Combine
Japanese Sunder War Lords as Allied Sweep Intensifies
Riotous hunger drives Japanese to raid a Sendai U S Army warehouse as 200 laborers seize food and goods while Allied jailers press war crimes cases. In Tokyo area, surrender of Gen Koiso and others at Sugamo prison marks step in war crime crackdown.
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Tokyo
Sendai
Hokkaido
Honshu
Kuniaki Koiso
Pear Harbor
Hideki Tojo
Sugamo Prison
MacArthur
Col
Tadashi Kawashima
Sixth Army
Hankow
Sugamo
Koiso
Omori
New York Man Is Shot to Death in Greenwich Village
A 30 year old man identified as Rocco Loscalzo was shot to death in Greenwich Village. The violence occurred as New York deploys its largest armed mobile patrol to curb a wave of crime.
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New York
Manhattan
Greenwich Village
New York City
Rocco Loscalzo
Philip Beceiro
Brooklyn
Arthur W. Wallander
Wallander
Queens Midtown
East River
Bummy) Davis
Susan Scanga
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Contin
Selman
Paae
Gen. Eisenhower
Hulutoa
Yencheng and
Goering
Hermann Goering
Nuernberg
United Fund
Swift & Company
D. M. Smith
R. F. May
Helen Cathey
Hazel Miller
H. A Pfeiffer
L. M. Moseley
S. W. Rasberry
W. L. Perce
G. R
American Optical Company
Slagle-Johnson Lumber Company
J. L. Jones, Sr
W. E. Reardon
Hunt & Whitaker, Inc
Paul Plyler
Sybil Marrow
L. Brassett
Marjorie Walden
Deas Beaird
Audie Roberson
Majorie Whittington
Mary Day
J. Joiner
Lou Street
Virginia Terry
Dell McKaskle
Rubye Johnson
Rubyve Simpson
Decia Pender
Hazel Hartnell
M. Dew
Wanda J. Dickens
Evelyn Terry
S. Jones
M Jones
Shiry Custer
P Johnson
J Ambrose
F Krickmire
Violet Robertson
L. Brunson
Vella R. Henry
P. Rateliff
Opal Seallan
Mary V. Gregory
Alice B. Black
Bessie Bareswell
E. Maddox
Billie Ray Dawkins
Dorothy Thomas
K. McKnight
M. Gilliland
R. Cox
Mary Louise Mitchell
Julian S. Paley
Louise George
Ruby Taylor
Rachel Lanier
Loise Jones
V. Stedman
Lavern Froxel
Iran
Davis
Omtir
Daniel de Luce
U. S
U.S. Army
Sadao Araki
Yoshihisa Kuzuu
Black Dragon Society
Shigeru Honjo
Mekden
Kayakiri
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