Yankees Beat Cards 2-0 In Major League Action
A brisk baseball note reports the New York Yankees defeating the St Louis Cardinals 2 to 0. The game highlights include strong pitching and clutch defense sealing the shutout.
11 Oct 1943
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1943
Page
1
A brisk baseball note reports the New York Yankees defeating the St Louis Cardinals 2 to 0. The game highlights include strong pitching and clutch defense sealing the shutout.
A poorly scanned column discusses fears about a European influenced American Labor Party seeking compulsory dues and political attendance. It mentions Roosevelt ideas on labor leaders, Dubinsky associates, and a union member receiving a letter stressing the right to vote amid warnings of a new political force.
Washington reports urgent civilian mobilization efforts as $100 billion in munitions for 1944 may be trimmed to eight billion under a proposed War Mobilization board. The panel, led by F Byrnes, would allocate resources, reduce procurement, and direct diversions to meet actual needs amid Navy and shipyard shifts.
A wildcat strike by truck drivers in four cities including Atlanta Birmingham Jacksonville and Memphis disrupted freight flows slowing eastern terminals and triggering a fight over pay and vacations. Union leaders say drivers struck in protest while operators and employers prepare statements and possible negotiating panels.
Washington October 11 leaders in both chambers warned that blank check wartime funding is ending. Senate military appropriations chair Thomas orders tighter accounting and targeted spending while House chair Cannon says the peak is past and big construction allocations for munitions will be trimmed in the 1945 appropriations bill.
Chief Justice Stone marks his birthday with a Supreme Court session to announce the grant or denial of nearly 300 summer petitions. He has not missed a beach vacation illness since 1937 and is expected to serve as chief justice as long as health permits. An Amherst alumnus and 1925 Coolidge appointee, he rose to chief justice in 1941 under Roosevelt.
The Supreme Court agreed to review whether a draft registrant was legally inducted after an oath following his refusal to serve. The case centers on Arthur Billings, a former University of Texas teacher who termed his objection rational not religious, and who planned to refuse induction at Fort Leavenworth. The court also considered other petitions, including Walter Gormly’s appeal over a five year sentence for refusing to report to a conscientious objectors camp. A separate fatal crash in Monroe, Louisiana, killed five people including Susie George and Gay Albritton, with three others injured after two wrecks on Forsythe Avenue.
Senator Butler reports that the United States is stirring bitter jealousies among smaller South American nations due to unequal lend-lease aircraft allocations. He calls some projects disgustingly wasteful and cautions that imbalances could influence postwar aims debates in the Foreign Relations Committee.
Lieutenant John G. Winant Jr., 21, son of the American ambassador to Britain, was reported missing after a bombing run on Muenster, Germany. Fellow pilots said German fighters attacked the returning Fortress "Tech Supply," and witnesses described parachute openings and a free fall as the ship went down at 25,000 feet.
In Kansas City a group of 127 parents of missing service members converged at Mrs. Ralph Herrick’s home seeking information from the war department. They discussed sending the list to Congress and to the Red Cross and YMCA, and planned biweekly meetings and prayers for their boys.
United States and Allied forces report a string of enemy losses in the Pacific. Casualties in the central Solomons reach about half, with Vila airfield and Kolombangara captured. Wake Island installations damaged and Rekata Bay seaplane base compromised. A rear guard at Finschhafen eliminated.
The Red army, aided by guerrilla forces, pushed troops and heavy equipment across the Dnieper to reinforce bridgeheads north of Kiev. Pravda quoted front dispatches saying Soviet divisions penetrated beyond the river and captured the German defense zone along the western bank.
A German planted time bomb exploded at the Naples artillery barracks, killing 25 and injuring at least 39. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark visited the scene as nearby buildings were evacuated and authorities concluded the Germans tunneled under the structure to place explosives.
Attorney General Eugene Stanley plans to meet Governor Sam Jones to decide on possible prosecutions over records removed from the Plaquemines parish courthouse during the Saturday clash that installed Walter J. Blaize as sheriff. State troops remain, guarding the scene as a cache of guns and ammunition is found near the courthouse.
Paul V McNutt head of the War Manpower Commission told a Boston convention that voluntary manpower control has not proven adequate and listed six conditions to fix it. He urged turnover speed ups, transfers from non essential to war jobs, higher productivity, more hires in low paid jobs, more women workers, and acceptance of contract withholding in tight areas. He projected 114 million workers in munitions by July next year and noted planned faster employment growth despite cuts.
In St Louis the Yankees defeated the Cardinals 6 to 2 to win the 1943 World Series four games to one. Bill Dickey hit a two run homer driving Keller, and Chandler pitched for New York while Mort Cooper started for St Louis. Fans filled late as the sun beat down and the crowd counted down toward the end of the series.
In Little Rock on October 11 a 17 year old boy confessed to the murder of his mother Julia Koers Browning 36 widow of a prominent physician. The youth a former lifeguard and Catholic High senior said he struck her with a metal rod during an anger over a model airplane. He led police to the murder scene and claimed to have then killed the family dog to hide the crime. He is jailed for first degree murder awaiting further legal action.
Archie Elbert Currie and Drew Britton pled guilty in federal court to a selective service violation. Each received a two year sentence to be served in a federal penitentiary with the second count suspended for five years and five years probation starting after term completion. Both defendants withdrew prior not guilty pleas.
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