Navy hunts Nazi raider as convoys guard Atlantic routes
U S forces press a broad convoy defense in the Atlantic while pursuing a Nazi surface raider in the Pacific. Navy Secretary Knox confirms escort protection for British bound cargoes across 2000 miles of the North Atlantic, signaling a strong deterrent against Axis threats.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
United States Navy
Germany
Erich Raeder
United States
Reich
Navy
Knox
North Atlantic
Hod Carriers Union Convention in St Louis Sparks Ire
The piece denounces the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union and its 30 year calm on leadership as corrupt and undemocratic. It accuses the federation of coercing workers into large initiation fees for defense work and criticizes the executive board led by Joseph Victor Moreschi and Achilles Persion for self electing governance. It notes headquarters moved to Washington in 1940.
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St. Louis
American Republic
Scranton
Dominick D’allessandro
Quincy
Mass
D'Allessandro
Joseph Victor Moreschi
Jimmy Petrillo
Musicians’ Union
Hod-Carriers
Moreschi
Achilles Persion
Persion
Washington
Pipeline Completes a 10 Million Dollar Logansport to Perryville Line
The Southern Natural Gas Company's 14 inch pipeline from Logansport to Perryville is finished. Chief engineer William von Phul Jr says it will supply industrial plants in Alabama and Georgia and operate at 12 to 14 hundred pounds pressure. Construction began last April and cost about 10 million dollars, with record speed.
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Southern Natural Gas Company
Logansport
Perryville
William von Phul, Jr
Ford, Bacon and Davis
Alabama
Georgia
United States
Ickes Rejects Lifting East Gasoline Curfew
Secretary Ickes, defense petroleum coordinator, says gasoline rationing and filling station curfew must continue in the east. He argues there is an oil shortage, citing week ending September 13 stocks down 565000 barrels and east coast stocks about 2.7 million barrels, 25 percent of last year’s level. East coast demand in 1941 is about 11 percent higher than 1940.
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Washington
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
Defense Petroleum Coordinator
Senate
East
British move artillery toward Turkish border
A diplomatic observer arriving from Syria says British artillery and other military units are moving northward toward the Turkish border in a constant stream. The observer declined to estimate the total movement.
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Turkey
Ankara
Syria
U S Threatens to Seize Ships Tied by Strike
The A F S Seafarers International union rejected a maritime commission ultimatum to arbitrate a war bonus dispute and threatened a general coastwise and intercoastal shipping strike. The commission warned it would requisition 11 strike bound ships if arbitration did not begin by noon.
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U.S
Associated Press
A. F. S. Seafarers International Union
New York
Weehawken
N. J
Maritime Commission
A. F. of
L. Seafarers International Union
Granville Conway
Commission
New York Harbor
New Orleans
Boston
Mobile
Alcoa, Calmar, Robin and Waterman Lines
Seafarers International Union
A. F. of L
Emory S. Land
Pacific Coast
A. F. of L. Electricians
Kansas City
Wheeler says Roosevelt pushing U S toward war
Montana Senator Burton Wheeler claims President Roosevelt is acting to drag the United States into the European war. He cites navy orders as evidence and suggests Churchill told Roosevelt England would seek peace unless the U S enters the conflict within 60 days. Wheeler urges Americans to read London papers for administration plans.
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Butte
Mont
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Roosevelt
United States Navy
Wheeler
Winston Churchill
England
United States
Roosevelt Lend Lease Request Seeks $5.985 Billion Supplemental
President Roosevelt forwards to Speaker Rayburn a second lend-lease operations report showing $6.23 billion of the $7 billion appropriation already moving through allocation production and delivery. He urges speedy enactment of a $5.985 billion supplemental appropriation to sustain aid to democracies vital to U S defense. Budget Director Harold D Smith submits the same amount to fund procurement and operations for defense aid including ordnance aircraft tanks ships and related needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Rayburn
House of Representatives
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harold D. Smith
United States
State Firemen to Meet Here
More than 500 attendees expected at the 36th annual Louisiana State Firemen's Association convention opening here Tuesday. Monroe fire chief Frank Roddy said southwest fire chiefs meet Monday, with many attendees staying for the state gathering. The Virginia hotel will serve as convention HQ for three days, with memorial services, barbecue, banquet, and officer elections set through Thursday.
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Louisiana State Firemen's Association
Frank Roddy
Monroe
Roddy
Fire Chiefs’ Association
Stillwater
Okla
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Virginia
Thibodeaux
Bernstein Park
WPA Recreation Head Selected in Louisiana
James H. Crutcher state WPA administrator announced the appointment of Major W. H. Bartlett formerly Salvation Army divisional commander as head of the WPA recreation program in Louisiana. He will assume duties October 1 on a year’s leave of absence from the Salvation Army. he succeeds John A. Zimmermann who became regional representative of the National Catholic Community Service.
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New Orleans
James H. Crutcher
WPA
W. H. Bartlett
Salvation Army
Louisiana
Bartlett
John A. Zmmermann
National Catholic Community Service
Tax Bill Hits Average Fellow In Dozen Ways
The $3.55 billion revenue bill, approved by the Senate, would tax the average citizen in numerous ways starting October 1. A hypothetical $3,000 income family would face 6 percent on local telephone bills 10 percent on long distance calls, 5 percent on bulbs, 10 percent on a refrigerator, 5 percent on a night out, 10 percent on a movie, 5 percent on travel, doubled taxes on tires, a $5 car tax, 10 percent on jewelry, 10 percent on new radios or cameras, 13 cents on card packs, 10 percent on club dues, and higher whisky wine and estate taxes if fortunes are inherited or gifted.
Old Regulars to Back Maestri for Reelection
The Old Regular political group in New Orleans planned to name Mayor Robert S. Maestri as their mayoral candidate in the January primaries after his statement that he will seek reelection. Maestri, a Huey Long backer and former conservation commissioner, was sworn in as mayor in 1936 after his sole opponent withdrew. Other declared candidates include Paul H. Maloney Sr and Shirley G. Wimberly.
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New Orleans
Robert S. Maestri
Maestri
Pan
Huey P. Long
Long
Paul H. Maloney
Internal Revenue
Shirley G. Wimberly
Roosevelt seeks $5.985 billion more for lend lease
President Roosevelt asks Congress for an additional 5.985 billion dollars to the lend-lease program to avoid interruption in aid to vital countries. The measure would raise total lend-lease funding to 12.985 billion with a detailed breakdown for agriculture, ordnance, planes, and defense manufacturing.
Army Maneuvers At Highest Pitch In 75 Mile Front War Games
Massive Allied maneuvers with 500000 men across a 75 mile front from Alexandria Louisiana to Texas surge in intensity. Second army under Lt Gen Lear drives into Third army lines amid armored thrusts supported by bombers and air cover. Possible river crossings and strategic wedges shape the unfolding clash as Patton notes new air ground combat team proves armored divisions can be pressed into vulnerable positions.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
Louisiana
Texas
Ben Lear
Second Army
Walter Krueger
Third Army
DeRidder
Oakdale
Hornbeck
Leesville
Sabine River
Red River
Lear
Krueger
Zwolle
Gulf of Mexico
Rice Yahner
George S. Patton
World Today: German gains amid Leningrad siege and Ukraine push
Germans report capturing 119 pillboxes and a fortified park near Leningrad while siege guns threaten Kronstadt. Berlin touts “great successes” as troops push into Ukraine. Guderian reportedly loses 20 000 men and 500 tanks in Bryansk actions amid broader German advances and Allied air strikes.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Hitler
High Command
Ukraine
London
Crimea
Sebastopol
Moscow
Guderian
Bryansk
Russia
Murmansk
Red Army
Rhineland
Germany
England
Civilian ground spotters urged to aid war defense in two states
Army authorities asked civilian ground spotters in Louisiana and Texas to intensify reporting of all aircraft to the Blue air task force interceptor net. Brigadier General William Ord Ryan warned a failure to report a flight of 24 aircraft between Beaumont and Lake Charles could be disastrous.
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Alexandria
Blue Air Task Force
Louisiana
Texas
Army
Beaumont
Tex
Lake Charles
William Ord Ryan
Houston
New Orleans
New Orleans to Host Legion Convention After Milwaukee Session
Lynn A. Stambaugh of Ferge North Dakota was elected commander. The 28th American Legion national convention, meeting in Milwaukee, voted to hold the 1942 gathering in New Orleans September 21 to 25. Delegates also upheld a stance against extending lease lead act, favored neutrality law repeal, and supported deploying American troops to keep war from U.S. shores.
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Milwaukee. Wis
Lynn A. Stambaugh
Ferge, N. D
American Legion
Milwaukee
Wis
National Convention of the American Legion
New Orleans
Nazi Germany
Legion
Quake Shakes San Francisco and Nearby Areas
Thousands in San Francisco and as far as Santa Cruz eighty miles southward were awakened by a sharp earthquake at 11:52 last night. The tremor lasted more than a minute but caused no reported damage.
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San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Mobilization Push Seen to Sustain Allied Aid in Russia
A London dispatch says Britain and the United States must rush supplies to the Soviet Union as casualties in the eastern front rise to 3,000,000 by August end while Germany has 2,000,000. President Roosevelt seeks nearly 6 billion dollars more for the lease‑lend program to keep aid flowing. German forces reportedly invested a fortified park and stormed 119 pillboxes near Leningrad.
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Associated Press
London
Russia
Britain
United States
East
Germany
Roosevelt
Congress
New Shah to Gift Father’s Wealth to Nation in Iran
Iran's 21-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi announced plans to concede all of Reza Pahlavi's vast holdings to the state and grant amnesty to political prisoners. Seizure of the former ruler's property was decided before the oath. 27,000,000 tomans in the national bank will fund government salaries as the regime pledges tax cuts and ending corrupt state sales.
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Teheran
Iran
Shah
Mohammed Shah Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi
Asia
Britain
Russia
Axis
Mazanderan
United States
England
Peresian
National Bank
Legation
London
Vatican denies Roosevelt war plea as false report
In Rome on September 18 the Vatican denied a U S report that Pope Pius XI refused President Roosevelt's request to declare a war against Nazism justified. Osservatore Romano stated the reg was not made and the report false.
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Rome
United States
Associated Press
Pius XI
Roosevelt
Vatican City
Osservatore Romano
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