War Moves By Louis F Keemle Warns Japan in Crisis
United Press war analyst Louis F Keemle notes Tojo calls the war station critical as Allied actions in the Mediterranean and Europe accelerate. He cites Hitler’s failures and the Russian front as decisive factors shaping Japan’s new course and warns of potential Soviet and Allied maneuvers in Siberia and the Asia-Pacific.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Hideki Tojo
Europe
Japan
India
Hitler
Russia
Jan
Atdon
United States
Rustoo
Pan
Siberia
Australia
ige Steel Works Begins Production
TVSBURGH United States announces Carnegie Iron and Steel Corp plans a 75 million dollar expansion. The new facility, under a 20 month construction phase, taps eleven 225 ton open hearth furnaces, aiming to produce about 1.5 million tons of ingots daily and employ roughly 3,000 workers as it mobilizes to thwart Axis forces.
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Tvsburgh
America
Daiymiker
Axis
Carnegieois Steel Corp
Conction
Hitler Salini
Hirohite
Nw 11
Spe
Anaconda Wire Must Pay Fines For War Frauds
Attorney Alex M. Camp stated the Anaconda Wire Cable Company must pay nearly 0,000 in costs plus a 10,000 fine in a federal case tied to war frauds. Four individuals were fined and imprisoned or placed on probation. Johnson Hastings Owen M tied to plant frauds received 10,000 and two years' imprisonment, Hart Marion plant manager 10,000 and 18 months, Bishop inspector 500 and one year, Carpenter former supervisor 500 and one year, Kunkle inspector 100.
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WAYNE
Alex M. Camp
Anaconda Wire Cable Company
Thomas W. Slick
Johnson
Pearl Harbor Spy Kuehn Aided Japanese Attack Plans
Office of War Information disclosed that German agent Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn helped the Japanese with ship numbers and signaling methods before Pearl Harbor. He and his family aided in light signals from Kalama Kai and Lanikai, while FBI records note cash deliveries and prewar activity.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Office of War Information
Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn
Der
Kuehn
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhard
Heydrich
Kalama
Kai Lua
Qahu
United States
Honolulu
Germany
Japan
FBI
Tadasi Mori
Sees Attempt to Criticize Farmers in Subsidy Debate
Secretary Charles W. Holman of the Nation Cooperative Milk Producers Federation accused organized labor of trying to crucify American agriculture with a subsidy rollback plan. He told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that AFL leaders back price policies and seek higher real wages, which could add billions to taxes, raise debt interest, and create public payrolls for policing unneeded jobs.
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Wasitington
D. C
The
Nation
Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Senate Bankings and Currency Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Holman
Commando
Usts
AFL
William Green
Display Flags Guide and Flag Week Push
Yeoman Elaine B. Ivarsen of Baltimore explains flag display rules for paired flags, while Sergeant Caroline York and others show proper horizontal and staff mounting. The United States Flag Association urged $100 million more in War Bonds during Flag Week, climaxing today as Allied air offensives target Germany and its ports.
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Elaine B. Ivarsen
Baltimore
United States
United States Flag Association
Caroline York
Women's Army Auxilliary Corps
Meridian
Texas
Alvin C. York
Kathleen Hogan
United States Marines
Stamford
Connecticut
Michael Sirianni
Philadelphia
Spar Geneveve Frinleigh
Coast Guard
Shreveport
Louisiana
Yeoman
George Giammittorio
Navy
Alexandria
Virginia
U. S. Bombers Hit Sicilian Air Bases Amid Invasion Push
Waves of American four engine bombers struck Sicily targeting Gerbini and Catania airfields as allied commands report heavy tolls on enemy aircraft. Cairo communique notes Middle East groups leading the assault with Northwest Africa air forces shifting to patrols and reconnaissance after rapid island seizures in the Sicilian narrows.
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Allied
North Africa
Sicily
Middle-Coastern
Cairo
Wnd
Sicilian
United Press
C. R R. Cunningham
Mediterranean
Lampione
Sicilian Narrows
Lampedusa
Gerbini
Catania
All Quiet on Zoot Suit Front
Los Angeles reports a quiet weekend after a spate of melees involving zoot suit wearers. A sailor said he was robbed of 26 dollars by six youths. a railroad worker was beaten and treated for possible jaw injury. Authorities credit sailor and Marine exclusions and police reinforcements for easing weekend violence.
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Los Angles
Raul Warren
Los Angeles
Walter EL Jansborp
Wiley Alfred
Otto
Gent
Skidrow
Destroy 25 Jap Zeros in Solomons
Washington reports Ameri can fliers in the Solomon Islands shot down 25 enemy Zeros in a raid over the Russell Islands north of Guadal canal. Six American planes were lost but four pilots were rescued. This follows a prior raid last week when 17 of 19 Zeros were downed. a Japanese warship was listed as sunk and two other vessels burned.
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Washington
Solomons
Bougainville Island
House votes to liquidate NYA and cut labor security funds
Washington report notes the House Appropriations Committee moves to liquidate the National Youth Administration, denying new NYA funds and trimming total labor department federal security agency appropriations by about 124 million dollars from 1943 levels. McNutt's War Manpower Commission and the Federal Security Agency bore the bulk of the cuts.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
National Youth Administration
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
NYA
Federa Security
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
Security Agency
Manpower Commission
WMC
Selective Service
Paper delivery schedule updated for press time
The press time for delivery has been moved earlier and readers are instructed to have their paper ready by 5 45. If the carrier misses a reader call by 6 00 and a paper will be delivered.
U S Holds Only 62 Jap Prisoners
Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion said there are only 62 Japanese prisoners of war in the United States while Japan holds thousands of American prisoners. He urged humane treatment to avoid Japanese retaliation and noted that wartime treaties require equal rations for prisoners and soldiers.
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Washington
Allen W. Gullion
United States
Gullion
Japan
Vii
Philippines
Taiwan
Ferguson backs move to abolish OPA authority
Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan endorses shifting gasoline rationing to Harold Ickes, transportation to Joseph Eastman, and food to Chester Davis, effectively dismantling the Office of Price Administration. He argues Ickes, Eastman, and Davis know the systems and bottlenecks and should oversee production.
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Washington
IUP
Homer Ferguson
Mich
Harold L. Ickes
Joseph B. Eastman
Chester C. Davis
Office of Price Administrations
Ickes
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
OPA
Ferguson
Ickies
Eastman
Davis
Food Administration Authority
CPA
War in Brief heavy bombers hit Kahili and Rabaul
In the Solomons a heavy bomber raid on Kahili was reported with all American planes returning safely. In Russia Red Army forces seized four villages northeast of Orel as German air losses rose to about 1,300 planes in two weeks of battle. Australia reported a third attack on Ra baul air power, with Flying Fortresses and Liberators striking Vunakanau airfield at dawn, two hours of bombardment leaving fires visible for miles and all allied aircraft returning.
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London
Germany
Rhineland
Reich
Air Ministry
Bomber Command
Coastal Command
Holland
The
RAF
Dusseldorf
Munster
Bochum
U. S. Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Kiel
Bremen
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Britain
Washington
Kahili
Solomons
Navy
Moscow
Orel
Mtsensk
Allied
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
Vunakanau
Jehovahs Witnesses Win Ruling on Flag Salute
The Supreme Court, by a 6 to 3 vote, reversed Gobitis and upheld Jehovah's Witness children right to refrain from saluting the flag in public schools due to religious beliefs. Justice Jackson led the majority, overruling the 1940 decision and declaring compulsory salutes infringe individual conscience. dissents by three original Gobitis supporters.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Betty Benoit
Ralph £. Taylor
Clem Cummings
Hugo L. Black
William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy
Harlan Fiske Stone
Jackson
Wiley Rutledge
Charles Evans Hughes
James C. McReynolds
Felix Frankfurter
Owen J. Roberts
Stanley F. Reed
Frankfurter
Federal District Court
Charleston
W. VI
West Virginia
Walter Barnette
Paul Stull
Macy McClure
High Tribunal
Jehoval’'s Witnesses
Jackson Enids
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Weath
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Sundsy, Jane
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