U S Winning U Boat War Says Mead
Senator James M. Mead and Senator Charles O Andrews in Miami praised U S Navy progress against the submarine menace after observing trials of two tiny submarine chasers. They cited major U S victories at Macassar Straits Coral Sea and Midway and noted growing naval unity and gains.
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Miami
Fla
James M. Mead
D-N.y
United States Navy
Charles O. Andrews
D-Fin
Mead
General Appropriations Committee
Truman
Andrews
Naval Amfairs
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Senator Andrews
Philippines
Macassar Straits
Coral Sea
Midway
Senator Mead
David M. le Breton
Board of Inspection and Survey
Miami Beach
National Boat Builders’ Association
Forest E. Johnson Boat Yard
218 German Cargo Ships Lost in War
United Nations reports 218 Nazi merchant vessels sunk or seized, over 1,000,000 tons, since war began. Losses hinder German war effort. plans include salvaging ships and building standardized merchantmen akin to Liberty ships. Notable blows include Hansa and Steiermark, with Donau and Bahia de la Paz torpedoed by British forces. Crew scuttled the Columbus off Virginia to avoid capture.
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New York
United Nations
Europe
Hansa
Stelermark
Indian Ocean
Cornwall
Australia
Sydney
Steiermark
Atlantic
Bahia Saura
Donau
West Indies
Virginia
War Production Board to divert gold miners to other fields
Washington Oct 7 The War Production Board is expected to order the discontinuance of gold mining and divert miners and some equipment to nonferrous mines considered more urgent for the war effort. A WPB spokesman said action will likely begin within a month or two. Skeletal crews may stand by to prevent mine flooding and damage. Senator Johnson and other Western lawmakers opposed the move but were told it is necessary to relieve a critical labor shortage in nonferrous mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Johnson
D-Cole
Albany Trucking Union Votes to Return to Work
Albany October 7 union members of Local 294 International Brotherhood of Teamsters voted unanimously to end a five day “holiday” and resume work. About 25 percent were back at trucks last night as talks for a pay raise from 75 to 90 cents an hour resume.
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Albany
A.F. of S. Teamsters
Peter Postma
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
John Vogel
Postma
Dieppe Raid Captives to Be Fettered
British raiders struck Sark off the Normandy coast injuring two Germans and wounding a third. The German High Command charged British troops would fetter Dieppe prisoners as reprisal and warned that Allied fighters not acting as soldiers would be treated as bandits. The note claimed a British assault on a German working party led to deaths and injuries and accused Britain of false reporting.
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London
Channel
Sark
Normandy
Dieppe
Germany
War Office
Berlin
British War Office
Plant-Protection School Opened by Poletti at Union
Lieut Gov Charles Poletti opened the first plant protection school at Union College Schenectady Oct 7 to train workers against sabotage in war factories Attendees included labor Industry Army Navy and federal agencies The session underscored that carelessness causing a factory fire is as harmful as enemy bombing Additional sessions will be held in Rochester Oct 21 22 and New York City Nov 4 5 The address praised foreign press for defending democracy against anti democratic and anti American groups.
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Poletti
Union _ Schenectady
Charles Polletti
Industry
Army and Navy
Union College
Office of War
William N. Haskell
Rochester
New York City
Poletth
Foreign Press
Australia Grants Dairy Subsidy to Boost Butter Prices
Canberra reports the Federal Cabinet will pay the dairy industry a yearly subsidy of 2,000,000 pounds starting Jan 1, 143. The payment goes directly to producers and raises butter price by about two pence per pound. A recent committee recommended a three-pence increase.
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Australia
Canberra
Boy Scout Delivers Deliberate Deed for Day
In New Bedford Massachusetts a Boy Scout scrap collection truck blocked a city bus. The bus driver demanded movement and the scout replied with a calm line noting his two brothers overseas who want to come home too.
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Bedford
Mass
CMS
New Bedford
British destroyer Hyperion seizes ships and destroys goods
The report notes Hyperion seized the Uruguay and Tacoma, and intercepted the War tenfeig at Diego Suárez after dynamite attempts. It tallies 56 Nazi ships captured totaling 316 420 tons, with losses of 42 merchantmen to scuttling 35 to surface ships 32 to submarines 15 to aircraft 14 to mines and 24 to other causes.
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Hyperion
Graf Spree
Wartenfeig
Diego Suarez
Hitler
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Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
OPA
W.T. Grant Co
S. Salina ST
MONAR
Monarch
SILK
Jay-Gobbs
Millinery
Isa
Jay-Cobbs
Lunc
Ipswich
Howard Johnson
Genesee St
Dewitt
Jay Cobbs
Army
Defense
Ae Gretestat
Central New
York
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