Stalingrad Front Holds Amid Storm and Artillery Assault
News from Moscow reports autumn storms slowed German efforts at Stalingrad while Soviet forces maintained firm, undented lines. Izvestia noted continued supplies for defenders as German long range guns targeted Volga crossings and ground assaults persisted in a northern factory district.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Izvestia
Red Army
Westbrook Pegler on horse-room racket and La Guardia advice
Westbrook Pegler recalls Moe Annenberg case and the horse bourse in Jersey City. He notes indictments, conviction, and a three day shutdown under local New Deal protection. He cites Mayor La Guardia urging children to report losses and cops to disrupt gamblers.
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Moe Annenberg
Henry Morgenthau
Grand
Annenberg
New Deal
Jersey City
Mayor la Guardia
Navy Bill Faces Senate Fight Over Manpower and Florida Canal
The $6.34 billion appropriation bill, already passed by the House, faces Senate opposition over manpower appointments and the Florida barge canal. Senator McKellar pushes for senatorial confirmation of all manpower commissioners earning $4.50 yearly, plus a $1 million survey request. Senator Vandenberg seeks a roll call on using unexpended river and harbor funds for Florida canal work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Florida
Senate
House
McKellar
Tennessee
Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Vandenberg
Michigan
Congress
Peacetime Workers Rehired as War Transition Eases
Washington reports peacetime workers are returning to industry as wartime conversion slows. Eight leading industries show employment back to or above peacetime levels, with autos at 641000 in August, refrigerators and laundry equipment near normal, washing machines at about 60 percent, and radios up 20 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Standley Arrives in Moscow to brief on Russian crisis
Admiral William H. Standley United States ambassador to Moscow has arrived to report to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull on the diplomatic and military aspects of the Russian situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standley
Washington
William H. Standley
United States
Moscow
Roosevelt
Hull
Pow Wow Earns All American Rating For Northeast Junior College
The Pow Wow bi weekly newspaper of Northeast Junior College earned a fourth consecutive All American rating from the National Scholastic Press Association based at the University of Minnesota. The scoring book totals 965 points with outstanding marks in news coverage and writing and editing. features rated excellent while interviews were fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northeast Junior College
United States
National Scholastic Press Association
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Association
May Robson dies at 78 veteran actress of stage and screen
Beverly Hills Calif. Oct 20 May Robson aged 78 veteran Australian born actress died at her home. She remained active in pictures until less than a year ago with her son Edward Gore and secretary companion Lillian Harmer at her bedside. Her last feature was Joan of Paris released by RKO in 1942.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
May Robson
Edward Gore
Lillian Harmer
RKO
Community Chest
Lionel Barrymore
Lew Ayres
Younger Draft Bill Provokes Protest Mail in Washington
Protest mail floods senators as 18 and 19 year olds would face draft with school and off duty restrictions. Mothers oppose induction and disrupt studies while organizations push anti vice rules near posts. Senate to consider the House passed bill with possible amendments on deferrals and schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Lee
Oklahoma
First Lady to Visit Queen and England Reportedly
London reports say Queen Elizabeth and King George VI left Balmoral with two daughters for southern England to prepare for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. No official announcement yet but authoritative sources expect Mrs. Roosevelt to land in England soon as a private guest, not a state visitor.
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London
Elizbeth
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
George VI
England
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Daily Herald
Roosevelt
Air Forces Strike Mediterranean and North Africa
Allied air forces conducted widespread raids over the Mediterranean and North Africa, hitting at least two large merchant ships near Tobruk and damaging enemy aircraft on a landing ground. British fighters set a two masted schooner aflame near Crete, while RAF torpedo planes sank an enemy merchantman northeast of Pahtellaria. No Allied losses were reported.
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Cairo
Mediterranean
North Africa
Tobruk
Crete
el Daba
Fuka
Pahtellaria
Malta
Italians Refuse to Battle in Russia Mutiny Reported
Reuters reported from an Italian frontier dateline that an Alpine regiment mutinied at Gorizia when sent to the Russian front. The ringleaders were shot by fascist authorities and the troops were embarked without arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Gorizia
Italy
National scope eyed as mob violence hits Mississippi
Mississippi faces a national question as Governor Paul Johnson links unrest to Axis aiding elements after the lynching of three negroes. Rep Rankin warns federal poll tax moves could provoke violence. A Laurel grand jury investigating the lynching is discharged without mention of the case and a deputy sheriff shooter remains at large.
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Mississippi
Axis
Jackson
Miss
Paul Johnson
Rankin
House of Representatives
Johnson
Workers Defense League
Roosevelt
Biddle
Laurel
Send Your Trucks Give Your Metal War Scrap Drive
Residents urged to donate trucks with drivers and helpers to move idle metal to steel mills. Call 4800 with truck details. Individuals can haul their own scrap or take it to schoolyards, or sell to dealers and report weight. Organize neighborhood crews if needed. executives must lead the effort.
House backs new office of war mobilization plan
A congressional report calls for a single super agency to coordinate war production manpower and pricing. It urges subordination of WPB selective service administration and war manpower to a new Office of War Mobilization led by a chairman with a policy role.
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Washington
Super Control Board
Special House Committee On National Defense Migration
Tolan
Democrat
California
War Production Board
Selective Service Administration
War Manpower Commission
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Mobilization
Pearl Harbor
Office of War Supply
WPB
Army
Navy
Fewer Women Seek Congress as War Mobilization Grows
Washington reports a drop in women candidates for Congress and state offices in the 1942 general elections. UPI notes 66 women candidates, including two for the Senate and 28 for the House, down from 92 in 1938 and 83 in 1940, despite broader wartime employment gains for women.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Waacs
No Request From Wife of Hess For Leave To Join Him
London October 20 Richard Law under secretary of state in the Foreign Office told the House of Commons that no request had been received to permit Rudolf Hesss wife to join him in internment in England He added that if such a request were received it would be denied since Hess is a prisoner of war and not entitled to such facilities The statement followed a question from MP William Thorne who suggested Frau Hess had asked to join her husband
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London
Richard Law
Foreign Office
House of Commons
Rudolf Hess
England
Law
Fuehrer
Germany
William Thorne
Frau Hess
Tax Bill Will Deeply Hit U S Individual Pocketbooks
Washington reports the house passed a wartime revenue bill 130 to 2 after reconciling 500 differences with the senate. Treasury estimates say the plan will bring in about six point nine eight billion dollars plus a ten billion gross and eight billion net, expanding federal taxes in 1943 to around twenty seven billion. The measure now goes to the senate for final approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Kadens Faces Charges In Illinois Armed Robbery Case
Irwin Kadens, an army deserter linked to a string of crimes, faces two armed robbery charges and one rape count as prosecutors seek indictments. His wife Jeanette Kadens, 27, defends him, saying she cannot believe the accusations and recalls his past support for their family.
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Chicago
Illinois
Irwin Kadens
Francis McCurrie
Cook County Grand Jury
Kadens
Three Parishes Form Defense Area in New Orleans Region
The parishes of Orleans Jefferson and St Bernard plus New Orleans will join the 15th metropolitan defense area. A full time director will coordinate defense efforts, with appointment by Mayor Maestri and consent of the governor and parish presidents. An advisory council will assist the director.
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New Orleans
Orleans
Jefferson
St. Bernard
Washington
James M. Landis
Office of
Civilian Defense
Landis
Houston
Atlanta
Jones
Louisiana
Maestri
Navy Secretary Knox says Japanese not yet at max force
Washington secretary of the Navy Knox said the Japanese have by no means exercised their maximum force in the Solomons campaign. He noted the battle remains a stiff fight and that American warships reappeared in the Solomons as new communiques arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Knox
The
Solomons
Navy Department
Scrap drive eyes six million tons in nation wide effort
New York reports the scrap committee aims for six million tons of old iron and steel salvaged in the newspaper driven drive. States tally 3,209,484 tons so far with totals rising weekly as more scraps are counted. Wyoming leads with 13,098 tons and 1,042 pounds per person.
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New Orleans
Edgar von Spiegel
United States
Germany
S. J. Peters High School
von Spiegel
New York
United Scrap Metal Drive Committee
Newge
Wyoming
Land Would Shoot Union Organizers Says Admiral
Rear Admiral Emory S Land chairman of the United States maritime commission told the Investment Bankers Association in New York that union organizers should be shot at sunrise during the duration of the war. He called profiteers needle boys and urged typewriter strategists to rely on the president and military experts for war guidance.
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New York
Emory S$. Land
United States Maritime Commission
Investment Bankers Association of America
Waldorfe Astoria Hotel
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la Guardia
Manpower Board
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Bill
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Francis
Batt's of
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Guadalcanal
Lower Solomons
Tokyo
Tomokazu Hori
Pacific
Hori
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