Wooden ships revived to aid inter American trade plan
In Washington a plan to use wooden sailing vessels for inter American trade gains momentum after initial skepticism. RFC funds of 10 million dollars back a new corporation to build 300 ton ships with shallow drafts and wind power, with engines for flexibility.
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Washington
D. C
Wayne C. Taylor
Rio
Taylor
Americas
Maritime Commission
Department of Commerce
RFC
Rockefeller Office
Latin America
Caribbean
Allied Offensive Expands in Southwest Pacific Theater
Eight months after Pearl Harbor Allied forces press the war, with U S Navy and Pacific units striking Japanese bases in the Solomons and at Kiska in the Aleutians. Admiral Nimitz notes heavy enemy resistance as fires, bombs, and naval guns blend in the campaign.
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Pearl Harbor
Southwest Pacific
Solomon Islands
United States
Pacific
America
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Coral Sea
Japan
Navy
Solomons
Pacific Fleet
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
Gandhi Arrest Deepens Indian Independence Struggle
Britain arrests Mohandas K. Gandhi and nearly 200 All-India Congress leaders as they planned a nationwide nonviolent civil disobedience movement against Britain's rule. Rioting erupts in Bombay and Ahmedabad with grain store looting, amid Gandhi's sixth surrender.
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Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Gandhi
New Delhi
Bombay
Ahmedabad
United Nations
Nazis Grab Oil and Grain Wealth in Caucasus Drive
News notes German advances in the Caucasus as Red Star admits trainloads of foodhead to German lines and Kuban farms burn under scorched earth tactics. Soviet oil fields see wells blown. Nazis win vital oil and grain despite losses as the war rages on.
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Red Star
Kuban
Russia
Maikop
Germany
Probes Open Into Steel Black Market Charges
Price Administrator Leon Henderson opens an inquiry after Frank Higgins alleges his New Orleans yard bought steel at high premiums from a black market. Congressman Carl Peterson launches a separate probe into Higgins' canceled Liberty ship contract and steel shortages. Senate Chair Truman accuses the navy bureau of ships of negligence over tank landing boats, citing Navy model substitutions for Higgins ships built in New Orleans.
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Leon Henderson
Frank Higgins
New Orleans
Carl Peterson
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Senate
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Bureau of Ships
Truman
Navy
Frank Knox
Higgins Company
Women Called for War Jobs and Cargo Plane Drive
Spokesmen for the manpower commission estimate one in four housewives aged 18 to 44 could be needed in munitions work, with a nationwide registration of women possible. McNutt says 5,000,000 more women must be placed in war jobs by end of 1943. Army and Navy chiefs announce a green light for vast cargo plane construction. Arnold says 21 percent of multi engine bombers this year will be cargo or transport, totaling about 30 percent for cargo across the fleet, and planes move 2.5 million tons weekly. Navy organizes a large cargo plane program as vigilance against U boats increases.
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Paul V. McNutt
Army
Navy
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Senate
Picnic on the President's Cottage Porch and Book Endorsements
Eleanor Roosevalt recalls a sunny day atop a hill near the President's cottage with views of the Catskills and Berkshires, describes a cat and a small dog episode, and notes Mr Lunsford P Yandell promoting a pocket book of Jesus sayings. She quotes Dale Carnegie on the book’s value and shares social visits, a theater show This Is the Army, and a Dutchess County art exhibit with voter calendar selections. She urges home nursing training amid stretched hospital resources.
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New York
Catskill Mountains
Hudson River
Berkshires
Shawangunk Range
Weekly News Analysis by Western Newspaper Union
An editor’s note introduces a weekly opinion column from Western Newspaper Union analysts. The piece explains that the opinions reflect the WNU view and may differ from the host newspaper’s stance.
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Western Newspaper Union
Italian historian Ferrero dies in Geneva at 71
Guglielmo Ferrero, noted Italian historian and opponent of Fascism, died in Geneva at age 71. Seven years earlier Mussolini’s government seized his books and forced him into exile, though he had taught at the University of Geneva since then. His best known work is The Grandeur and Decadence of Rome.
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Geneva
Guglielmo Ferrero
Italy
University of
Rome
Government limits typewriter production through October
The War Production Board announced an order that ends typewriter manufacturing except for a small government quantity by one factory on October 31. It also restricts most typewriter companies to 12 percent of their last year’s output from July 1 to October 1.
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Washington
War Production Board
Space Saving Kitchen Breakfast Bar and Foldaway Stools
A 16 inch wide counter under a window creates a compact kitchen for quick meals and small lunches. Simple cream painted stools tuck under the counter. blue linoleum covers the counter, with Mexican figure inspired linens to add cheer. A transfer pattern offers mats napkins curtains and pot holder figures from Mrs Spears Book 7.
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Mexico
Caballero
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