Strike at Rockefeller Center Highlights Unions Pledges
The elevator men strike at Rockefeller Center underscores alleged deceit in AFL and CIO pledges to refrain from wartime disruption. The piece cites frequent strikes since Pearl Harbor, suggesting many were used to dodge responsibility and pressure government concessions. It notes at least 1,000 strikes in the period and mentions Stewart Field as an example of union tactics.
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Rockefeller Center
William Green
Phillip Murray
Green
Pearl Harbor
Murrey
Goss 19
Stewert Field
United States
Frankness in News Provokes Debate on War Reporting
Pearl Harbor Sept 2 An exclusive interview with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr Republican Massachusetts urges frankness in war news saying censorship breeds distrust and aids the enemy He argues timely radio feedback from the front should guide reporting and warns propaganda harms allies and misleads Americans
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Pearl Harbor
Franknessi
Ed Beck
United States
Redw
Deak
Laeige
Germans Attack Russians in Dnieper River Battle
Moscow dispatch says Germany launches 10 to 12 counterattacks daily to hold bridgeheads on the Dnieper. Soviet reports claim Red Army relief after artillery stoppage, while Zaporizhzhia and Dnepropetrovsk region fronts show no decisive progress. London notes a three pronged push toward Kremenchug to sever retreat routes.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Dnieper
Faverabel
Communist Party
Pravda
Red Army
Zaperotce Entinepropetrovek
Dnieper Zaperoziee
Dnepropetrovak
Went Perk
Ant
Berlin
Deleper
Constante
Rumenian
Black Sea
London
Kremenchug
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Sity
Italy's Uncertain Status in War Allies Questioned
The report outlines Italy's push toward full allied status or co-belligerent role with the United Nations. It notes Premier Badoglio's possible move to sever Germany and align with the Allies, but warns of divisions among troops and public opinion in the US and UK. A Cairo-based Associated Press dispatch mirrors the cautious aid plan.
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Italy
Radiegio
Badogno
Germany
United Nations
United States
Britain
Washington
London
Simerely
Willian McGeoffin
Associated Press
Cairo
Jungle warfare called worst by U S Senator Lodge
United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr says Pacific jungle fighting is worse than desert and beach battles. He notes jungle warfare is opaque to sight and full of disease and fear, based on his two month tour with U S forces including Tobruk Sicily China New Georgia and New Guinea.
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Pearl Harbor
T. H
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Lodge
Masschusetts
Tobruk
Sicily
China
New Georgia
New Guinea
Norwich pilot may have set speed record in raid over Emden
Fourth Lieutenant Robert H. Knapp of Norwich New York reportedly dove his P47 Thunderbolt to about 449 miles per hour during a fighter escort mission over Emden Germany. Knapp described the plane's elevators peeling as the dive ended at 5 000 feet with no major damage found on return.
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United States
England
Robert H. Knapp
South Broad Street
Norwich
N. Y
Emden
Koapp
Cass Hough
Fighth Air Force Fighter Command
Oving
Robert F. Baley
Arboles
Cole
Knepp
Focke-Wulf
Knapp
Ouachita Over Top In Bonds
Ouachita parish surpasses its war bond quota with a total of 4 532 420 on Wednesday the drive continues through Saturday night Total sales exceed quota by 217 820 and include a downtown Monroe rally with hundreds present Merchants band and auctioneer led a lively event as the drive pushes forward to fund the war effort.
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Ouachita Perich
Jack Rogers
Guachita Parish
Ageam
Monroe
C. D. Oakley
Cochairman
Rogers
Dende
Ewell
Grover Hollowey
War Bond Committee of Merchants Division
Ron Campbell
Mongee
Selman Field Band
Willard Sheppard
Jackson
St. John
DeSiard
Two Men Returned On Charges Of Kidnapping And Robbery
Two men, Mark James Donnelly and Jack Leon Moffitt, both 21 and from Houston, were lodged in Caddo parish jail after being returned from Eastland Texas to face charges in St. Charles parish for kidnapping and robbery. They allegedly held up Walbridge near Huey Long Bridge, tying him and robbing him of nearly $100, a $1,000 stickpin and a wristwatch, then fleeing in a car. They were captured in Eastland with the car. Both men admitted prior prison records.
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Shreveport
Exatland
Tex
St. Charles Parish
Caddo Parish
Dubrece
Jack Pizzalotta
J. E. Currie
State Police
New Orleans
Mark James Donnelly
Jack Leon Moffitt
Houston
Dubroca
Walbridge
Huey Long Bridge
Eastland
Finschhafen War Near End in Southwest Pacific
Allied operations for Finschhafen intensify as Australian troops press Japanese positions on New Guinea coast. Wewak harbor bombardments destroy merchant ships and tankers, while coastal road and high ground engagements deepen the advance toward the town. Liberator aircraft and fighters strike, with continued shelling of headquarters and encirclement efforts shaping the campaign.
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Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Wewok
Smith
Wewak
Finsehhafen
Hanes Bay
Les
Finachhafen
Siebbe Creak
Pinnehheten
Japen
Stratespe Island
New Britain
Oy Reid
Wintel
Willian F. Bess
Jones Aiding in WAC Drive in Louisiana
Governor Jones appointed 21 leaders from colleges and former women’s club presidents to organize local committees for the WAC recruiting drive. The effort aims to enlist 1 289 cadre members statewide to support war council goals.
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Baton Rouge
Jones
Tiley Wac
M. J. Pruge
Caspeign Chewman
Tadlay
Fruge
Myrtle Smith
WAC
Mes
BR. Howell
Sar Houston Jones
C B Hodges
Lousiana
Sam Terry
Public Welfare
Easie Quiver
State Library Commission
Roger Sharp
Stele
Tene Jee Fletcher
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Fen Leaming
Mansfield
Louisiana Federation of Women's Cury Mra
Newsprint Industry Proposal Urged by Southern Publishers
In Hot Springs Ark on September 21, a resolution to urge the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to back development of a southern newsprint industry was drafted for submission at the closing session. The plan favors southern pine as a wood source to address wartime shortages and notes an experimental mill in Lufkin Tex.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Sesson
Canada
Lufkin
Tex
Marine Saved by Hand Grenade at Vira Harbor
Sergeant Lawren W Scholfield of Council Bluffs Iowa led his platoon after the sergeant fell during a marine raid at Vira harbor. He was knocked back by enemy fire and a hand grenade in his left breast pocket deflected the blast, saving his life, as Chaplain Lieutenant Paul J Redmond who rushed to aid him reported the incident.
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Associated Press
New ‘Georgia
Lawren W. Scholfield
Council Bluffs
Jo. Scholfield
Vira Harbor
Paul J. Redmond
New Haven
Conn
Marine Raiders
Scholfield
Father Draft Opens Friday and Airpower Debate
Senator Downey urged delaying conscription for fathers, arguing airpower could force Nazi surrender and criticizing army leadership. In Washington, military leaders opposed requiring wives to prove dependency to receive increased dependent allowances, backing faster payments and broader eligibility.
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Washington
Downey
California
Senate
Germany
War and Navy Departments
Miller G. White
Army Chief of Staff
House Military Committee
General White @ud
Representative Thomason
Texas
Atlanta Banker 15S Killed By Prowler
Henry C Heine, 62, a Atlanta banker and past Kiwanis International president, was killed by a masked prowler at his home in Atlanta. His son in law Dr. Bryant K Vann, 30, was wounded in a gun battle with police as officers answered the alarm. Mrs Heinz, daughter of Asa Candler Sr., reported hearing a struggle and finding her husband shot through the heart.
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Atlanta
Henry C Heine
Kiwanis International
Bryant K. Vaan
L. d. Carroll
W. M. Miller
M W. Blackwell
Heinz
Citizens and Southern National Bank
Blackwell
Miller
Asa Candler
Intader
Naples in Ruin as German Forces Fall Upon City
Refugees recount Naples grimly under German occupation with bombardment and massacres. The port is mined and burned, ships sunk, and civilians forced into labor or killed for defiance. Reports describe terror, looting, and a frantic exodus as Allied plans near invasion.
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Naples
United Nations
Harbar
Gance
Vesuylua
Mudibie
Capel
Tex
Guards Around Cardinal Dougherty Home After Threats
Police placed guards around the Philadelphia archbishop Dennis Cardinal Dougherty's home after a threatened man, John Havidich, escaped from Norristown state hospital. Havidich had previously demanded money and issued death threats in 1933 and 1935, later appearing at St Charles Borromeo Seminary before police arrived. He is currently on trusty status in the state hospital.
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Philadelphia
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty
Archdiocese of
Metiman
Nor Tdtown
State Hospital
Charlies Beckman
Detective Bureau
John Havidich
Havidich
Norristown
Catholic Seminary of
St. Charles Borromeo
Overbrook
Nation's airplane builders convene in Washington
Washington news reports describe a meeting of U S airplane manufacturers to discuss war production, manpower shortages, and finance as War Production Board officials forecast next year's output to rise by 50 percent. The event follows a Fort Belvoir address and a public demonstration of military hardware.
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Washington
War Department
Airrafft Wir Production Counm
AWPC
Charlies FB
Wilson
War Production Board
Fort Belvoir
Andrew J. Higgins
New
Fifth Army drives Germans from Salerno positions toward Naples
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports the Fifth Army routing German mountain positions above Salerno in six days of heavy fighting and advancing within 15 miles of Naples. Nocera and Castellammare were captured as German withdrawal continued toward the River Ventura line. Pompeii reportedly entered, and the British Eighth Army pushed a straighter western front as Avellino edge near.
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Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Fifth
Salerno
Naples
Sorrento
Bay of Maples
Gulf of Salerno
Mark W. Clark
Nocera
Castellammare
Bay
Eighth Army
Fifth Army
Avellino
Avelline
Prisoners to Aid Harvest in Louisiana Rice Crop
Senator Overton announced that Southern Defense Command and War Manpower Commission have arranged for prisoners of war to assist in harvesting Louisiana rice. Camps at Rayne, Broussard, Jennings, Sulphur and Welsh are planned with some prisoners already en route. Cane fields pose safety concerns over knives, but sites and numbers for sugar cane labor have been proposed at Napoleonville, Franklin, Raceland, Schriever, Woodland Plantation, Donaldsonville and Port Allen.
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Washington
Overton
Louisiana
Southern Defense Command
Eighth Service Command
Rayne
Buethe
Jennings
Sulphur
Welsh
Aperr
Napoleonville
Franklin
Raceland
Schiciever
Woodland Plantastron
Donaldsonvile
Port
New Orleans Port Commander Hodson Assumes Duty
The public relations officer announced Colonel Fremont B. Hodson has taken command of the port, succeeding Brigadier General George B. Bunner who retires January 31, 1944. Hodson entered service in 1917, served in France, and previously worked in the Washington transit office.
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New Orleans
Fremont B. Hodson
Slonel Hodson
George B. Bunter
Hopelev
Lagarde General Hospital
University of Oregon
France
Transaetion
Washington
Hodson
United States
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