Roosevelt accuses union rackets in political speech
In a campaign address Roosevelt blasted union politicians linked to the Teamsters as racketeers and extortionists. He condemned Republican tactics as dictatorial and warned of deceptive rhetoric used to purport New Deal aims.
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Los Angeles
Sevelt
Teamsters Union
San Diego
Jand
Bhank
New Deal
Repub
Roosevelt
United States
Wagner Tebor
United Drive Opens Campaign For Community Chest War Fund
The Community Chest War Fund drive runs from October 9 to 28 with W. J. Riley as general campaign chairman. It marks the second year of combining the Chest campaign with the United War Fund effort in many cities. Budget details will be set after final talks with Chest agencies.
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W. J. Riley
Campo
Community St
United War Fund
Nota
Riley
John Trease
Campaign Corman
Tom Hicks
West Monroe
Jesse Heard
Wallace says jobs likelier under Democrats in shipyard tour
President Wallace told thousands of shipyard workers that they are more likely to get jobs under a Democratic than a Republican administration. The Roosevelts Truman campaign stop urged workers to register and vote Democratic to aid shipyards and factories.
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Iladelphia
Wallace
Roosevelt
Demo
Revan
Witeader
Nazi retreat to Riga becomes frantic eastward push
Soviet forces drive toward Riga as German retreat collapses. Red army armor and infantry close in from the north and northeast, wrecking German transport and forcing a chaotic escape toward East Prussia. The drive overruns 300 communities, with Estonia already largely liberated and 200 locations captured yesterday.
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Moscow
Riga
Latvia
Baltic
East Prussia
Red Air Force
Estonia
Red Army
Allied Forces Hit by German Counterattack in Italy
Allied news says a strong German counterattack drove Fifth Army troops from a portion of Monte La Fine Hill Mass near Bologna. The Eighth Army widened bridgeheads at Rubicon and moved toward Bellaria near Rimini. Germans reinforced with three infantry divisions and increased artillery fire as Allied forces advance on northern Apennines.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Monte la Fine Hill
Bologna
Eighth Army
Rubicon
Po Valley
Bellaria
Rimini
Ravenna
Naz
Albert Kesselring
Apennines
Monte la Fine
Firenzuela
Monte Beni
Monte Freddi Cesellaccia
Monte Freddi
Nine Confederates Attend Reunion At Confederate Birthplace
In Montgomery Alabama nine veterans of the 1861 65 Confederate Army attended the 54th annual reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans the birthplace of the Confederacy. Notables included J W Dixon 113 W L Culpepper 95 and J A Davidson 99 among others with U C V commander Gen Homer B Atkinson expected to join. Activities included visits to Maxwell Field and the Capitol where Jefferson Davis was sworn in.
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Montgomery
Ala
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Jefferson Davis
J. W. Dixon
Jasper
William Buck
Muskogee
Okla
W. L. Culpepper
Atlanta
H. S. Dowling
D. J. Ford
Marshall, Tex
W. W. Alexander
Rock Hill
N. C
William Banks
Houston
Tex
J. A. Davidson
Troy
J. W. Moore
Selma
Army of Tennessee
Homer B. Atkinson
Petersburg
Sons
Confederate Memorial Association
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Maxwell Field
Davis
Four Louisiana Electors Quit Amid Pledge Ultimatum
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana Democratic electors facing a October 2 pledge deadline began resigning after a split in the ticket. Four electors from New Orleans Wisner Lake Charles and Alexandria quit, with two others resigning earlier, as the party central committee threatened to replace any nonpledged electors at the November slate.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
Nro- Roosevelt
Texas Supreme Court
Louis C. Riecke
New Orleans
Charles B. Sherrouse
Wisner
F. T Sartwelle
Lake Charles
Paul A. Gillham
Alexandria
J. W. Reily
W. H. Talbot
James H. Davis
John Fred Odom
State Central Committee
Gilham
Dewey Plans Swift Counterattack After Roosevelt Message
Governor Thomas E. Dewey signals a rapid response to Roosevelt's planned radio address. He will speak in West Virginia on October 6 at Charleston with NBC national broadcast. Dewey touted his Oklahoma City speech and noted fiery telegrams as opposition to the Roosevelt stance.
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Jack Bell
Albany
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
West Virginia
New York
Republican National Committee
Charleston
NBC
Oklahoma City
Dick Lee
New York Daily News
White House
Paul Lockwood
Soldier contends wife is prisoner in court demand
Corp George P. Drakos told Judge Frank E Donoghue the Antons kept him from his wife Ansimo since their July 1943 elopement. Warrants were issued for George and Lena Anton after they refused to let him see his spouse on furlough from Camp Chaffee Arkansas.
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Chicago
Frank E Donoghue
Donoghue
George
Lena Anton
George P. Drakos
Antons
Ansimo
Drakos
Camp Chaffee, Ark
New York
Sea and air troops land in Albania and Dalmatian islands
Allied forces have landed on the Albanian coast and on Dalmatian island groups off Yugoslavia to block German withdrawals. Land operations include destroying the garrison at Himara. Berlin reports indicate broad-front naval and air assaults along the Dalmatian coast amid a wider push by Russians northeast of the region.
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Rome
Albania
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Reich
Adriatic
Europe
Dalmatian
Himara
Berlin
DNB
Arkansas Democrats court freedom as party splits at state convention
Arkansas Republicans hailed the Democratic party rule change as a new freedom that could make the state doubtful in the national race. The plan allows Democrats to vote for the national ticket while backing state nominees, a move drafted by C. E. Daggett D A Bradham and Lamar Williamson and announced at the state convention amid claims it aims to curb Negro voting in primaries.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Democratic Party
National Party
Wallace Townsend
C. E. Daggett
Marianna
D. A. Bradham
Warren
Lamar Williamson
Monticello
Arkansas Public Expenditures Council
The
Arkansas Gazette
OWI predicts prolonged conflict post Germany defeat
The Office of War Information reports it will take one and a half to two years to crush Japan after Germany falls. OWI cites morale shifts, production limits, and geography as factors that could extend the war, noting B 29 raids as a definite advance though still infrequent.
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Washington
Japan
Germany
Office of War Information
OWI
United States
United Nations
Navy Departments
Foreign Economic Administration
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Biggest Peleliu victory sighted as Marines push inland
In the Palau campaign, U S and Allied forces close two pockets of Nipponese defenders on Peleliu after ten days of heavy fighting. Casualties exceed 7 000 Japanese killed with about 5 500 Allied casualties including 686 killed 406 missing and 4 408 wounded. Allied forces report roads secured and communications severed between pockets as Amphibious and air operations continue in the southwest Pacific.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Palau
Peleliu
Philippines
Pacific
Leathernecks
81St Army
Angaur
Palaus
Leif Erickson
Associated Press
Amiangal
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
Almahera
Celebes
Blitz hits six Nazi cities in renewed Allied raid
London reports Allied bombers raided Karlsruhe and Frankfurt in western Germany. The attacks targeted rail bottlenecks and industrial centers with about 6,000 tons of explosives dropped on six centers in the last day. Heavy bomber formations and many fighters crossed the Channel for a third straight day of raids.
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London
Germany
Reich
Karlsruhe
Frankfurt
Rhine
Metz
Luxembourg
Continent
Yester
Dorsey and Wife Enter Innocent Pleas in Assault Case
Trombonist Tommy Dorsey actress Pat Dane and Allen Smiley pled not guilty to felonious assault charges tied to Screen Actor Jon Hail. Trial set for November 14. Judge Clement D. Nye dismissed charges against Eddie Norris, finding no grand jury link to the Dorseys and only a slight chance Smiley struck Norris.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
Pat Dane
Allen Smiley
Hollywood
Jon Hail
Clement D. Nye
Eddie Norris
Nye
Dorseys
Norris
Smuey
British First Airborne Withdrawn From Arnhem Stand
Britain’s last division from Arnhem pulled to the south bank of the Rhine after nine days of fierce fighting. The fate of many troops escaped remains undisclosed while some were captured or killed, and 9,000-man division strength was not fully preserved. The withdrawal, cloaked by censorship, aimed to protect survivors as field battles continued near Nijmegen and the Maas river.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Britain
Arnhem
Siegfried Line
Bernard L. Montegomery
Eindhoven
Nijmegen
Geremans
Waal
Antwerp
Orleans Boy Reunited With Mother After Father’s Death
Eleven year old Harry Feldern Jr. is reunited with his mother Mrs. May Vonfeldern of Memphis after his father’s sudden death. She arrives by bus and says the boy has an 11 year old sister in Memphis, seeks custody due to lack of support, and notes the boy previously believed he had no relatives. The father, a civilian employee at a nearby army camp, died of a heart attack after purchasing a birthday ring for the child. The mother plans funeral arrangements and possible burial in Jackson, Tennessee.
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New Orleans
Harry Feldern Jr
May Vonfeldern
Memphis
Vonfeldern
C. Grenes Cole
Little Harry
Feldern
Von
Sto DeRidder
Harry
St. Stephens
Cere
Tim
Judge Kennamer's Son Dies in Action in France
Paratrooper Phil Kennamer, 28, son of Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennamer, was killed in action Aug 15 in France while serving in World War II. His death closes a long publicized case tied to the 1934 Thanksgiving slaying of John F. Gorrell, in which Kennamer had testified that he acted in self defense during a dispute over a Tulsa kidnapping plot.
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Tulsa
Okla
France
Phil Kennamer
John F. Gorrell
War Department
Franklin E. Kennamer
Gorrell
Kennamer
Oklahoma
Edward D. Burks
The
Tulsa World
Burton Suit Dropped Over Large State Lease
Louisiana state officials announced the dropping of a suit against W. T. Burton of Lake Charles over lease cancellation on about 470000 acres of state land. An amendment sets a 1945 deadline for full development in 5000 acre blocks after geophysical exploration.
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Baton Rouge
A Hardy
State Minerals Board
W. T. Burton
Lake Charles
Burton
Major Hardy
State Supreme Court
Justin C. Daspit
J. N Marcantel
Shreveport
C. K. Allen
Lake Pontechartrain
Lake Maurepas
Pass Man«chec
North Pass
Rigolets
State Hind Office
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Llace
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Italy
Reichswald Forest
Brussels
Belgium
Holland
Munster
Western Front
Moneseyck
First Army
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