Labor Party Refuses Endorsement As Bennett Rides Split
The American Labor Party in New York rules out endorsing the Bennett led Democratic ticket for governor. Labor leaders consider nominating a third party standard bearer while endorsing Flora D Johnson for Representative at Large. Other potential ALP candidates include Dorothy Thompson and Fiorello LaGuardia. The party vows to run against the major parties under New Deal lines. The convention eyed a formal nomination hours after opening in Albany.
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Coffee Rationing Tightens As Supplies Shrink
Washington August 22 The War Production Board orders stricter coffee deliveries to dealers due to shipping shortages with Latin America. Beginning September 1 quotas drop to 6 percent of last year, lowering per capita consumption from about 14 pounds a month to under half a pound.
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Nazis Mass 800000 on Don Front to Seize Stalingrad
Front dispatches report Germany has massed about 53 divisions, possibly 800,000 men, along a 60 mile Don front in a bid to break to Stalingrad. Fighting rages on both Don banks as German storm troops push across with reinforcements arriving in the Caucasus and Krasnodar area.
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Dieppe Arms Output Surge and Allied Response
A new surge of patriot activity in German occupied Western Europe followed the Dieppe raid. Vichy France imposed harsher measures to deter patriots. Belgian patriots seized dynamite from a mine near Marcinelle but escaped after a brief clash with Nazis. Dutch boy scouts mocked German troops and stole Nazi symbols while Vichy set death sentences for radio transmitters used for anti-national purposes. In Washington, Nelson reported July munition output rose but lagged behind goals, with mixed progress across aircraft and ship production and calls to balance and coordinate efforts.
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Norwegians Executed for Aiding Russians
The Norwegian government in London reports German authorities in Norway executed three fishermen for feeding two starving Russians found on the Mageroya islands at Norway’s extreme north tip.
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Norway
Mageroya
Violence reported in Indian villages amid regional unrest
News from New Delhi notes renewed violence breaking out in hinterland villages of Madras and Bengal Provinces, with press reports and traveler accounts reaching the capital. The report highlights escalating tensions in the region.
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Shipyards Building Ahead of the Losses For First Time
Chicago August 22 US Navy counts four to five ships sunk among about 2000 cargo vessels destroyed in Atlantic coastal zones since May 14. Capt Lovette notes shipyards last month produced more tonnage than sunk, convoying required amid German submarines from bases in occupied France. Aleutians trap yields five or six Japanese ships sunk, none of our warships lost.
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Leland P. Lovette
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Chicago Association of Commerce
France
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Income Levy Debate Shapes War Tax Plan
Senator George of California urged rapid action on a proposed income levy as the House work on a wartime revenue bill continues. He backed a pay as you go plan with source taxation and argued for a high tax rate with postwar refunds to avoid overburdening corporations hit by high excess profits levies and inflation.
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Beardsley Ruml
New York Federal Reserve Bank
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FBI Round Up 25 Aliens in Pacific Curfew Violations
In a coordinated night operation across 35 Northern California cities and towns, FBI agents and local police arrested 25 enemy aliens for curfew violations. Among those detained were seven Italians and eight Germans. Assistant special agent H C Van Pelt said the arrests totaled up to 11 30 PM with more than 200 officers involved as the roundup continued.
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Fireman Killed In Pittsburgh to Buffalo Passenger Train Derailment
Mayville Aug 22 Fireman Charles T. Dedden 48 Oil City Pa died when engine and two express cars of a Pittsburgh to Buffalo passenger train derailed seven miles north of Mayville. Superintendent Frederick D Davis said a loose track caused by heavy rain led to the wreck. The engine toppled but express cars stayed upright. No other injuries. passengers were moved to Buffalo by motor coach.
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Marines Win Big In Gilbert Islands And Solomons
U S Marines inflicted heavy losses on Japanese forces in the Gilbert Islands and Solomons. They killed hundreds, took dozens as prisoners, destroyed installations and two seaplanes, and sank a transport and a gunboat. Major Roosevelt aided the operation under Carlson. Nimitz framed the clashes as a turning Solomons victory with ongoing skirmishes and high Japanese casualties.
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Girl Falls From Window in Lancaster Death
Four year old Virginia Davis leaned from a second floor window to wave goodbye to her father who left for work and fell to her death in Lancaster Pennsylvania on August 22.
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Youth Draft Legislation Faces Delay
Washington reports delay in action on Hershey's plan to draft all youths aged 18 and 19. Senate Military Affairs members urged caution, warning against depleting reserves and stressing need for full manpower data before voting. Hershey urged universal registration but exemption from service, while predicting widespread induction of single men before Christmas and many married men by November.
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Dane Fishing Craft Seized by the British
British seizure of a Danish fishing vessel reported in London. Admiralty warned vessels entering coastal waters in the North Sea risk seizure and loss of access, with the incident occurring amid ongoing patrols and enforcement actions in contested waters.
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Harijan Newspaper Banned in Bombay by Officials
Bombay officials ban Mohandas Gandhi’s Harijan weekly for printing objectionable articles about the civil disobedience movement. The English edition was halted before Gandhi’s arrest with Congress leaders.
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All-India Congress
Brazil Enters World Conflict and Breaks Ties With Axis
The article notes Brant severing relations with Axis powers, internment of espionage agents in Rio de Janeiro, and multiple Brazilian ships attacked or sunk. It cites conferences led by President Getulio Varga and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, plus U.S. and British air and sea pursuit of Axis submarines.
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Tin Salvage Leader Killed by Truck
Chelsea Massachusetts August 22 James S Hanlon 58 chairman of the citys tin salvage campaign was killed when a truck he helped unload cans from backed up and crushed him against a building authorities said the accident occurred last night at the salvage site
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The War Today by Glenn Babb
The five year old war in China shows a turning point with Japanese gains in East-Central China largely reversed. Analysts cite renewed Chinese vigor or shifts in Japanese plans as factors. A bold Shanghai to Singapore rail link appears shelved, signaling a new phase in the Pacific war.
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