23 Oct 1943
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1943
Page
1
Albany and Gov. Dewey's administration pause a bitter feud after a Supreme Court ruling blocks a Grand Jury probe into Republican expenditures until after the November lieutenant governor election. Judge Russell grants two weeks for briefs while Delaney and Goldstein clash over the delay and subpoenas.
Memphis police accepted city proposals for two days off monthly civil service and higher pay 165 to 180 dollars monthly plus a three member hearing board ending a week long strike threat. Fort Smith Arkansas police planned mass resignations over pay demands as protests continued.
London reports former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, aged 80, secretly marries his longtime confidential secretary Frances Stevenson in a union noted after his first wife died in 1941. He lives quietly on a 700 acre Surrey farm and seldom visits London.
Pearl Buck urged the American Civil Liberties Union to back a federal anti discrimination law. She argued such a law would not end discrimination but would reduce its effects and advance toward its destruction.
Efrem Kurtz, a Russian American conductor from St. Petersburg, will conduct the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra for the 1943-44 season. He has lived in the United States 15 years and is a naturalized citizen, succeeding Karl Krueger of the Detroit Symphony.
The United Nations radio at Algiers urged Italians in Nazi-occupied Italy to move movable art objects from localities likely to be bombed so that after the war Italy retains the treasures the civilized world admires.
Screen actor Robert Cummings must appear in Federal Court to show cause why he should not be barred from a Monday radio appearance. Universal Pictures claims he is under exclusive contract and that the broadcast is unauthorized. Cummings has filed suit to break the contract.
Allied air forces attacked Lae Salamaua Finschhafen front lines in New Guinea with bombers targeting supply routes along the Ramu River Valley and Madang. They also struck a light cruiser north of New Ireland and pounded Bougainville airfields Kara Kahili and Ballale, destroying planes and runways while claiming several enemy fighters shot down.
Edward Healey 41 of Otego is in Otsego County Jail awaiting arraignment on first degree murder charges in the death of John Kokal 61 whose body was found among ashes after a barn fire. Healey allegedly started the blaze by kicking a lantern and attacked Kokal with a pitchfork to stop him from naming the arsonist. He reportedly confessed to 29 other fires across Otsego and Delaware Counties. He was arraigned before Justice F A Murdock in Oneonta.
Jorge B. Vargas, former secretary to President Manuel Quezon, was announced by Tokyo radio as appointed Philippine ambassador to Japan. Vargas, who became Manila mayor in January 1942, had previously held posts as secretary of national defense and secretary without portfolio, and was noted to have been honored by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in May.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek donated 25000 to the Mayling Soong Foundation honoring the 25th anniversary of her Wellesley graduation. Lt. Com. Mildred H. McAfee announced the gift during exercises at Wellesley College Memorial Chapel and named Ruth H. Lindsay dean of residence as G. Justice Ewing retires.
The column argues that Nazi and Japanese savagery worsened as Allied defeats mount. It notes German and Japanese brutality, Russian advances on the Dnieper and Stalingrad memory, and warns that the Nazis face retribution as Soviet advances threaten Eastern Europe and the Baltic.
The War Department orders infantry divisions reduced in manpower and motor transport while increasing firepower. Divisions will be transported by troop transport battalions and armored divisions will gain three tank and three armored infantry battalions with stronger artillery. A new lighter division type for amphibious airborne mountain and jungle fighting is established focusing on light weapons.
Mrs Roosevelt spoke at Vas sar College describing hardships of U S troops abroad. She urged returning servicemen to be given a country with a future they will want after visiting army outposts in the Southwest and Pacific theaters.
Knox outlines a plan to build three new super carriers designated CVBs that would be far larger and more heavily armed than existing ships. Mitchells flew from the Hornet but could not safely land there, prompting emphasis on ships able to launch and recover planes. The program targets a 45 000 ton class far bigger than Saratoga Enter prise and Essex type ships, rivaling and surpassing British and Japanese carriers of the era.
Nazi defences crumble as Soviet engineers bridge the Dnieper under heavy air raids. Red Army tanks and infantry push forward beyond Kremenchug, cutting German escape corridors and rendering Hitler's shock divisions ineffective. Stalin outgenerates Hitler amid torrential rains.
The War Department announced plans for twelve large warehouses and 41 miles of railroad sidings near Auburn Washington to store lend leased supplies and war materiel for foreign shipment. Known as a holding and reassignment center it measures half a mile wide and two and a half miles long and will be among the largest depots in the United States. Stored supplies will be sent through Seattle Tacoma and Portland ports and the sidings will handle about 1400 cars.
Fifth Army reports German tanks and infantry thrust repelled with heavy losses as Allied big guns hold line near Volturno. British destroyers sink a Yugoslav trawler with German guards off the Albanian coast while convoys are intercepted near Leghorn. Almost half of Italy’s 85,000 Corsican troops move to Sardinia by small launches.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard warned 300 members of the Loyal Legion in Philadelphia that postwar years must not be used by management to wage war on unions. He cautioned that union labor cannot overstep and threaten private enterprise or itself, or risk government control. James Vernor of Detroit attended as guest of honor.
Capt Gordon McAlpin Pyle wealthy yachtsman and Civil Air Patrol pilot was at the controls of a CAP plane that disappeared last Monday while on patrol off New York City First Air Force disclosed.
Washington reports a House Military Committee plan to strip Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt of all authority over Selective Service administration. The measure would delegate to Gen. Hershey full control, centralizing policy and deferment authority, while supporting father deferments after nonfathers are placed.
Washington reports the Army and Navy Register calls retiring Gen. Douglas MacArthur a politically explosive issue. The South Pacific commander turns 64 next January 26, amid debate over age policy and his potential bid for the 1944 Republican nomination.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York warned that the world faces a turning point amid wars and rising hatreds. He urged Catholics nationwide to give generously to the annual missions fund, saying religion is needed to revive and deepen human life.
Portland reports a wax dip method transforming turkey processing for mass military supply. Birds are waxed after scalding and feather removal, then hand checked before packaging in 100 pound boxes. The wax coating speeds processing to meet expected 000.000 pounds for Army and Navy demands.
Brig. R. E. Lucky Laycock 36 named Britain's chief of combined operations the Commandos succeeding Adm. Mountbatten. Laycock once led raids near Rommel's Libyan HQ and earned the DSC for Sicily. He rose from acting major general in 1941 to commandos in Southeast Asia duties.
Stockholm reports a Swedish DC-3 flying from London to Stockholm was shot down near Haalo on Sweden's west coast. Thirteen people died including Dr. T. C. Hume of Claremont California, a clergyman. One crew member and a Swedish sailor survived.
Burnet Hershey of the Overseas Press Club announced the board would send a resolution to Congress and the War Department urging recognition of American war correspondents with service medals. He cited 17 reporters killed in the present war and said reporters face the same dangers as combatants, noting they are not yet entitled to campaign ribbons.
An all white jury found Charles "Little Willie" Lyons and Leo Tipton guilty of inciting the Detroit race riots that cost lives. They face sentencing October 29 under Judge John J. Maher who instructed the jury to weigh the facts without bias.
Testimony described a blood stained towel brought into evidence and placed on the witness rail. Witnesses discussed bloodstains on doors in the bedroom where Sir Harry was attacked and the room where Harold Christie slept.
President Avila Camacho announced that next year’s budget will include funds for the international highway from Nogales Arizona south along the Pacific Coast. Money will pave the completed sections and repair storm damage.
General Henri Giraud co-president of the French Committee of National Liberation returned to Algiers after a five day Corsican tour. He expressed satisfaction with the work accomplished as Radio France broadcast from Algiers noted. De Gaulle had visited the island weeks earlier.
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