Wallace accuses Jones of obstruction in wartime stockpile push
Vice President Wallace charges Commerce Secretary Jones with obstructionist tactics and harassment of the Board of Economic Warfare as he defends government stockpiling of strategic materials. He cites delays by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and asserts presidential authority over material programming, urging decisive action to secure essential supplies.
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Wallace
Commerce
Jones
Board of Economic Warfare
Senate
BIW
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
BEW
WPB
Willaen
Congress
Lalinony
Milo Perkins
South America
Africa
Inday
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Melirla
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MacArthur
Staly
Monte
Saii
Iluch
Jest Tonen
Willaytory Insulatiin
Af Somerset Fia
Detevan Suymites Corporation
TEAS
Japs Fortify Resolve Warned by General Eichelberger
Lieut. Gen. Robert Eichelberger told 400 officers at the officers candidate school that the Japs are implacable enemies, likely to fight to the end. He warned against underestimating them and cited a lone Japanese soldier who killed 32 Allied troops before dying. He described the Japanese as wily, savage yet well trained, noting the difficulty of defeating them in New Guinea jungle warfare.
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Allied
Australia
Robert Michelberger
Geren
Eichelberger
New Guinea
Invasion timing dismissed by Paris radio report
A Paris radio report quotes German plans delaying invasion dates as unrealistic, noting Allied invasion of Europe remains uncertain. The Independent French News Agency cites a traveler from Germany saying discouragement grows and Germany may capitulate before any invasion occurs, amid bomb pressure.
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Lainuun
Juee Bo
London
INS
Europe
Istanbul
Germany
Softening of Kiska Pushed in Aleutian Attacks
Six more air strikes hit Japanese positions on Kiska in the Aleutians Sunday with follow up raids on Lab Island and Little Kiska. In the South Pacific American planes bombed targets in the central Solomons but yielded no observable results. The raids are viewed as pre invasion softening up the enemy.
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Kiska
Navy
Lab Island
Little Kiska
South Pacific
Solomons
Japs Raid on Darwin Breaks Up Under Allied Attacks
Allied fighters and long range bombers clashed with Japanese forces as Darwin raids were repelled. British and Australian pilots claimed downed Zeros and two bombers while Spitfires suffered no serious casualties. U S Liberators bombed Ambon and the Boroe Islands as operations spread from Kiska to Cape Gloucester.
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Australia
MnArthur
Washington
Kiska
South Seas
Pacific
Submarine Commandere
Far East
MacAlthur
Banda Sen
U. S
Ambolia
Boeroe Islands
Chi Miles
Cap Gloucester
Rabaul
New Britain
Second Nazi Spy Seized at New York
New York reported the second German spy arrest in days. Edwine Barry De Spretter, 52, a Uruguayan-born consulting engineer, pleaded guilty to attempting to sell information on heat induction and gun sight parts to German intelligence. He admitted involvement with Ernest Lehmirtz, Staten Island air raid warden, and faces possible life in prison or death. De Spretter, owner of a New York plant, had been subcontracting for defense work and disclosed detailed aircraft data, aiding Lehmirtz in matters of national defense and harbor area intelligence.
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Willy
Edwine Barry de Spretter
Ernest
Lohmitz
Staten Island
Lehmirtz
U. S
Martin Epstein
de Spreiter
Leutenant
Fi Guresight
PBT
Lehmitz
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de Spretter
Uruguay
Lin Army
Whe Lehmitz
de Spratter
Dengan Hills
Aetna
New York City
Lehmite
Ewslol Aeronautical Corporation
Rawlings
Harber
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Lehr
Sila Conroy
de Gpretler 4
de Apretter
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Letinita
National Defense
Iy Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
TRI Chief
Jernmielib
PBS
Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity Tuesday Outlook
Light temperature change expected with scattered thundershowers in the north Tuesday afternoon and night. South portion sees minimal warmth with possible brief shower activity and continued mild highs.
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San Antonio
Vicinty
Boats Sunk at One-a-Day Rate in Allied Streak
Ottawa report cites Col Mackmald saying at least 14 enemy submarines were sunk in two weeks and an Allied assault on Europe would begin soon. Churchill notes Allies winning. London reports show sinking rate better than one per day for two months. Goering’s paper cites aircraft carriers changing German tactics and U-boat constraints.
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Ottawa
Malcolm Mackmald
Beltish
Condi
Europe
MacDonald
Churchill
London
Navy
Knox
Ugo
Convieys
Sweet Lucy Potent Drink and a Barber Shop Bookie
A San Antonio gambling feature recounts “Sweet Lucy” potently, with a reporter visiting houses and rooms on Labor to North Boledon streets, noting dice and card games supervised by local barbers and a bartender named Light. The piece covers arrests, a Labor and Refugio street dice raid, and the author’s detour to study racing forms and barber shop chatter before resuming casino routes.
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Light
Asid
Strollen
San Antonis
Labor and
Refugio Streets
Victoria Courts
Clothing Union Seeks Pay Boost and Benefits
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America asked for a general 1 percent wage increase for 100,000 cotton garment workers, a 10 cent hourly minimum, better working conditions, a one week paid vacation after a year, six paid holidays annually, and a guarantee of not less than ten hours pay for any day an employee misses work.
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Clothing Workers of America
Paper Says Nazis Kill 7500 Belgians
London reports the Belgian government in exile and resistance quote an underground paper claiming Germans have executed over 7600 Belgians since occupation. The item cites leaders and groups within the Flemish nationalist movement, noting ongoing killings by patriots amid the conflict.
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London
Lirisoutis
Henry Labra
Lehief
Adderbeek
Paris Says British Battleships Sail For Mediterranean
A German controlled Paris radio reported two battleships and destroyers sailed from a British base at Oloraltay into the Mediterranean for maneuvers, but no confirmation came from other sources.
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Paris
Monon
Parla
L Ébroyers
Oloraltay
Mediterranean
Attacks On Cologne and Hamburg In Allied Bombardment
Stockholm and Berlin dispatches report a major Allied bombing raid on Cologne with heavy incendiaries and cathedral damage. British heavy bombers struck Hamburg as a submarine base and aerial bombardments intensified across the Ruhr, Cologne, and nearby industrial targets.
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London
RAF
Cologne
Barri
Hamburg
Hottest Weather Persists For San Antonio Area
San Antonians endured another scorching day as temperatures neared the 100s. Weatherman J Henry Jarboe warned that readings would rise into the upper nineties again with shade and lemonade offering the only relief. Fort Worth topped the state at 102 as heat and humidity intensified statewide.
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San Antonians
J. Henry Jarboe Isala
Mercury
Fort Worth
Forts Strike Heavy Blow At Leghorn
Allied air forces claim a large raid on Leghorn in north Africa damaged a light cruiser and four supply ships, ignited storage tanks and an oil refinery, with heavy smoke over the port for hours. Italian reports acknowledge great damage and 173 killed, 300 wounded.
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North Africa
Mirauders
Decimon Manny Abield
Sardinia
Calasetta
Alghero- Ferbilia
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