Detroit Train Slams Bus Killing Sixteen at Crossing
A Grand Trunk Western passenger train struck a northbound motor bus at the Caniff avenue crossing in Detroit. Sixteen people, including several pupils, were killed and many more injured as bodies lined the tracks for two blocks. The bus, driven by William F. Clos, stopped for a freight train and entered the crossing after signals. The locomotive split the bus, with most fatalities in the rear section.
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Detroit
Detroit Street Railway
Grand Trunk Western
Chicago
William F. Clos
Caniff Avenue
Fred A. Nolan
Detroit Trans
Five principal changes in new tax law for corporations
Washington reports five major corporate tax changes. They raise surtaxes, impose a 90 percent excess profits levy, set an 80 percent overall limit, offer postwar rebates, and switch corporations to a calendar year basis.
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Washington
Start Schoolboy Dies After Truck Accident
James Matthew Eppinett a 13 year old Start school fourth grade pupil died at a local hospital after an accident on a truck near his home. He was rushed by ambulance from Rayville but succumbed to internal injuries and a fractured skull. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 10 a.m. in Hall's Cemetery directed by Mulhearn Funeral Home. He is survived by his mother Mrs Effie Eppinett three sisters Pauline Frances and Omega and grandfather Joe Eppinett all of Start.
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James Matthew Eppinett
Start
Rayville
Hall's
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Young Eppinett
Effie Eppinett
Ree
Pauline
Frances
Omega Eppinett
Joe Eppinett
Start School
War Casualties of U S Total 47463
United States war casualties announced total 47 463 killed wounded and missing. The figure includes 17 400 Americans and 11 000 Philippine scouts missing in the Philippines. Navy marine coast guard losses numbered 4 453 killed 1 593 wounded 9 768 missing. Army records show 1 016 killed 1 461 wounded 611 missing and 61 prisoners of war.
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Washington
United States
United States Army
Philippines
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Leland P. Lovette
Bureau of Public Relations
Local Chest Campaign Shows Strong Support on Day Two
Twin City Community Chest reports robust donations by noon Wednesday as volunteers tally contributions. Names include Bess Sharp, Lee P. H., Culp's Music Co, Thompson & Thompson, Lieut. James D. Sparks, Mary Elizabeth Cornett, Flower Shoppe, Dixie Lunch Room, Danna's Beer Garden, Buttitta Grocery, Tifectio's Bar, Shep Girault, and Trousdale Wright & Girault with varied amounts from 1.00 to 1500.00.
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Twin City
Bess Sharp
Lee
P. H
P.T. A
Leppratone
Culp’s Music Co
Thompson & Thompson
D. N. Thompson
James D. Sparks
Mary Elizabeth Cornett
Mary Mulhearn
Redress
Mane
J.C. Steele
Dixie Lunch Room
Danna’s Beer Garden
Buttitta Grocery
Iscoreseses
Tifectio’s
Éc-A
Shep Girault
Sk Fap
Bourgbie - Sin Pts
Trousdale, Wright & Girault
Old Santa Claus Progressing Well
Chicago reports Santa Claus remains active in toy making despite war related shortages and reduced labor. Toy manufacturers expect sales to reach the 1941 level of 225 million dollars, with growth driven by higher worker spending and demand for educational games.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
Santa
Merchandise Mart
British Open New Holes In Enemy's Defense In Desert
In Chicago on Oct 28 Ernest Peter Burger a surviving member of the German saboteur gang resumed testimony in the treason trial of six Chicagoans. He described the Brandenburg sabotage school in detail and how the eight saboteurs learned to handle explosives and disable critical infrastructure before entering the United States last June.
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Chicago
Ernest Peter Burger
Bandenburg School of Sabotage
Reich
Burger
United States
Lorient
France
Hans Max Haupt
Louis Kaplan
Herbert Hans Haupt
Washington
Otto Wergin
Florida
Long Island
Nazis Routed in Caucasus Frontline Push Near Tuapse
Red Army counterattack along the Tuapse road drove Alpine troops back from a key mountain position as autumn rains turned the Don Volga steppes to mud. In Stalingrad the urban fighting continued with German gains offset by Russian defenses and a renewed relief offensive threatening the Nazi flank.
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Moscow
Red Army
Black Sea
Tuapse
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Novorossisk
Red Star
Izvestia
Don-Volga
Semeon Timoshenko
Pravda
Homecoming Planned at Northeast Junior College
Northeast Junior College will celebrate its 10th annual homecoming on Friday, November 6, with a game against Lamar Junior College Beaumont Tex on Brown field. Invitations go to parish superintendents high school principals and senior students to attend. A downtown student parade will highlight the day and the queen will be presented at the game. Committees led by Ada Bess Hart and E J Brown organize activities athletics and student council with members including Prentiss Cox Charlotte Padgett Betto McRaney William Ray Knight and A P Seamster.
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Northeast Junior College
Lamar Junior College
Beaumont
Tex
Brownfield
Ada Bess Hart
A. P. Seamster
Carrie Mae Stephens
Margaret Payne
Wilbur Perkins
E. J. Brown
B. S. Hamner
Lewis Slater
Prentiss Cox
Charlotte Padgett
Betto McRaney
William Ray Knight
Pilot Must Wait to Surprise Wife
Sergeant Pilot Dick Leppert of the Canadian air force, after flying in England, returned home for a two week furlough but must postpone his surprise as his wife has moved to Los Angeles to live with a sister and no one knows her new address.
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Kansas City
Dick Leppert
England
Los Angeles
Furious Drive To Make Path For Tanks Continues Unabated
In north Africa the battle for armored supremacy intensified as Allied and Axis forces clash. US pilots tally seven Axis planes. Lt. Lyman Middleditch of New Jersey downed three, part of a broader Allied victory report. Prisoners report heavy air attacks and German Italian tank losses while Rommel’s forces regroup behind the front.
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Stephen Barber
Cairo
North Africa
Britain
Field
Rommel
United States
Black Scorpion Squadron
Lyman Middleditch
Highland
N. J
Middleditch
Jones Campaigns For Five Million Bond Amendment In Louisiana
Governor Sam Jones urged passage of a constitutional amendment to authorize a $5,000,000 bond issue using state oil-royalties surplus to fund improvements for state institutions and hospitals. He argued the plan would help house and care for 9,000 mental, tubercular, charity, and delinquent youths.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Louisiana
Jones
Demands Rise for Coordinated Armed Forces
Washington reports growing calls in Congress for a joint legislative committee to coordinate war problems. Rep Maas notes the need for a liaison body of House and Senate military and naval committees as a step toward merging army navy and marines into a single amphibious force under unified command. Rep Mott supports closer coordination as sea land and air operations dominate fighting.
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Washington
Maas
Minnesota
House
Naval Committee
Pacific
Senate
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Mott
Oregon
Movement of Japanese Americans Completed in Eight Months
San Francisco report details the relocation of 110 599 persons of Japanese ancestry from west coast military areas to ten interior relocation centers. The operation, led by Lt General J L DeWitt, moved the last evacuees from Santa Anita and Fresno centers with no incidents. Evacuees receive housing food and medical care and workers earn 19 dollars monthly.
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San Francisco
West Coast
Santa Anita
Fresno
J. L. DeWitt
Western Defense Command
Japan
Hong Kong Bombed Again by U S Air Forces
Japanese claims report a fourth Hong Kong bombing in four days with seven B25 bombers and five P-40 escorts. Docks were set afire in the prior raids and Hong Kong’s main power plant was blasted, according to the Japanese.
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New York
United States
Hongkong
Knox foresees long bloody costly fight for victory
Navy Secretary Frank Knox warned at a Navy Day dinner that the United States faces a long, arduous war with heavy losses and high costs. He said victory requires a stubborn pace of production and sustained fighting as ships, planes, and crews grow to meet a vast global mission. He pledged Americans will meet the destiny ahead.
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New York
Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
United States
Clark Gable Becomes Second Lieutenant In Army Air Forces
Miami Beach, Oct. 28. Clark Gable earned his bars as a second lieutenant and spoke for 2,500 officer candidate school graduates. Arnold presented diplomas as Gable urged disciplined men after 12 weeks of training on a golf course drill field.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Clark Gable
Army Air Forces
Gable
Henry H. Arnold
Air Force
Government imposes wage and salary controls during wartime
Washington announces new federal rules limiting pay increases for all workers. Regulations set a $25,000 top net salary with few exceptions and require government approval for changes that would lower or raise pay beyond established ranges. Enforcement lies with the treasury and war labor board to curb inflation and boost tax revenues.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Treasury and War Labor Board
U-boat that sank Wasp destroyed by American destroyer
Tampa Florida Oct 28 An American destroyer destroyed the Japanese submarine that torpedoed the U S aircraft carrier Wasp survivor Jack H Westbrook 18 quartermaster aboard the Wasp testified He described the moment the sub surfaced a depth charge explosion and the sub breaking in two before sinking The destroyer picked up Westbrook after the ship was abandoned
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Tampa
Fila
United States
Wasp
Jack H. Westbrook
Westbrook
Guadalcanal Airfield Battles Intensify Across Pacific
Washington reports a titanic naval and land clash for Guadalcanal control with American and Japanese ships exchanging blows. Japanese destroyers sunk, one battleship hit, cruiser damaged. ground fighting rages on north shore and west flank as Marines and Army defend the airfield crucial to US bomber operations.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
Guadalcanal
Roosevelt
Knox
Navy
United States
Australia
Marine Corps
Guadalcanal Field
Tulagi
Tulagi Harbor
Solomons
Stewart Islands
Ten war effort reforms proposed by New Orleans editor
Ralph Nicholson of the New Orleans Item urged ten measures to speed victory. They include Roosevelt renouncing a fourth term, firing Secretary Perkins, unifying armed forces under the nation’s best-qualified leader, merging unions, extending the 48 hour work week, drafting civilians, taxing war profits, cutting bureaus and expenditures, ensuring freedom for subject peoples, and seizing French territory where possible. Nicholson spoke at the National Public Eating Grease Institute in New Orleans and criticized press blamed for defeats in the Pacific.
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New Orleans
Ralph Nicholson
New Orleans Item
Roosevelt
Perkins
Nicholson
Lublic Eating Grease Institute
Pacific
America
Far East
J Derec
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J. S. Jap
Tain
Business Today
Treasury
Nin
James Eppinett
U. S
Esident
Conti
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