Soviet War Writer Arrives in Australia Alert on India Riots
Vladimir Mikheyev Tass war correspondent arrives in Australia to report on the Southwest Pacific front and Indian Nationalist demonstrations. He rejects Axis charges that U S troops aided British efforts in India and notes limited American arrests and subsidies via Congress seats.
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George Weller
Chicago Daily News
Australia
India
Vladimir Mikheyev
Tass
Mikheyev
Soviet Union
London
Washington
All-India Congress Party
Britain
Bombay
Congress
Congress Party
Mohandas K. Gandm
Southwest Pacific
Moscow
Mikhesevv
Tom Fisher
Fisher
Russia
Miikheyev
Khabarovsk
Amur
Vladivostok
Moscow Journalists’ School
Chungking
Bering Strait
Arctic Ocean
Aleutians
Arctic
Murmansk
Archangel
Siberia
Lena River
Yakutsk
Japan
Bulgaria
Douglas’ MacArthur
Binghamton Flier Receives Distinguished Flying Cross
London report that Lieut. Sam Maurello, 36, of Binghamton New York City, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Maurello is the oldest member of the Royal Air Force American Eagle Squadron.
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Binghamton Flier
London
Sam Maureillo
Binghamton
N. Y
New York City
Maurello
I Royal Air Force
Japanese internees at Purana Quila Detention Camp in New Delhi
Reporter A. T. Steele visits Purana Quila to observe 2,153 Japanese inmates held in tents and cavernous rooms within the fortress. The camp complex includes shops, a hospital, and self-run kitchens with religious services, a canteen, and organized internal police. Repatriation has begun with 784 already sent via Luanda Mozambique port. few wish to remain in India.
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New Delhi
Asia
Government of
India
Purana Quila
British Borneo
Egypt
Calcutta
Bombay
Heary Sher Mandel
Humayn
Indraput
Japan
Loureinco
Mozambique
South East Africa
J. M. McKenzie
Postal Workers Allowed to Help Harvest Crops
Postmaster General Walker authorized all postal employees to assist in harvesting crops if it does not interfere with their postal duties. The department employs over 330,000 staff, including 2000 rural route deliverers and 873 village carriers, under the revised regulations.
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Washington
Walker
Postoffice Department
The War Today continues with Nazi labor drives and slave workers
The article reports mass foreign labor in Nazi Germany, with near 3,000,000 workers inside Germany and 1,600,000 prisoners of war. It lists nationalities and notes women among the slaves, while Germany struggles to man factories and farms. It describes plans to force more labor from France and Russians, depicting the system as oppression.
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Germany
Hitler
Reich
Iler
France
Grew warns nation to stop groping and win the war
Former U S ambassador Joseph C Grew urges America to end hesitation and mount an extraordinary wartime effort. He stresses Japan as a ruthless foe and calls for mobilizing industry manpower and resolve beyond basic transformation to secure victory.
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Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Herman W. Schull
Bridgeport
Conn
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United States
America
Remington Arms Company, Inc
Nazi Germany
Grew
China
Republicans Win All Maine Offices in War-Era Vote
Republicans swept Maine’s statewide general election as War winds marked the first wartime vote. Gov Sumner Sewall defeated banker George Washington Lane Jr. U S Senator Wallace H White Jr won re election. Robert Hale defeated Louis Brann for the House. Margaret Chase Smith and Frank Fellows clinched their districts. Final tallies show White with 108,443 to Redman 54,111 and Sewall 114,674 to Lane 56,034.
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Portland
Maine
Roosevelt
Sewall
Fort Kent
Sumner Sewall
George Washington Lane
United States
Wallace H. White
Fulton J. Redman
Robert Hale
House of Representatives
Louis J. Brann
Margaret Chase Smith
Bradford C. Bedennett
Frank Fellows
Brann
Senator White
White
Redman
Lane Hale
Mrs. Smith
Redonnett
Hot Primaries Shape November Field Across Five States
The Associated Press reports today’s primary balloting in Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey Michigan and Wisconsin with a Democratic nominating convention in Connecticut a Mississippi run off between James Eastland and Wall Doxey and Rhode Island and Louisiana political events. Republican leaders praise Maine results predicting a favorable national trend as Governor Sewall wins by 58000 and major candidates secure decisive margins.
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Washington
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
R-Mass
House
Republican National Committee
Maine
Sewall
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Michigan
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Wall Doxey
Parties Hold Wide Range Of Primaries Across States
The article surveys Democratic and Republican contests in multiple states. It notes Clare Boothe Luce winning the Connecticut Republican nomination by an 84 2 vote, with Lester Barlow as an Independent challenger. Massachusetts focuses on Lodge Crocker disputes while Wisconsin eyes Heslin third term. New Hampshire sees Styles Bridges opposed. New Jersey houses a broad Senate and House candidate field. Connecticut Dems rally to renominate Gov Hurley.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Congress
Connecticut
Lester Barlow
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Courtney Crocker
Boston
Clare E. Hoffman
Benton J. Burton
South Haven
J. T. Hammond
Benton Harbor
Brown
Wisconsin
Julius P. Hesl
House
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Arthur J. Gruenler
Francis P. Murphy
Alvin R. Lucier
Sheriff patrol finds quiet camp amid bean picker tensions near King Ferry
Sheriff Willard Wilcox and Deputy H. L. Davie checked a camp of Negro bean pickers near King Ferry after a complaint of trouble. No open incidents or arrests occurred. Some workers were urged to move to Sampson naval base south of Geneva, but farm supervisors protested and there were minor scuffles.
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Auburn
King Ferry
Willard Wilcox
H. L. Davie
Sampson Naval
Geneva
U S Airmen Strike Tobruk and Bengasi Ports
United States bombers backed by British forces conducted a major raid along Tobruk and Bengasi shores. The attack targeted port facilities, airfields, and shipping with fires and several explosions observed for miles. Axis anti aircraft fire was heavy but no night fighters were reported.
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United States Army Air Forces
Middle East
United States
Tobruk
U. S. Air Force Command
Bengasi
R.A.P
United States Air Force
Eighth Army
Doughnut Shortage Affects U S Troops Abroad
Albert W. J. Dodd, managing director of the British Doughnut Company, says British food restrictions on dried milk and fats have made large scale doughnut baking impossible. He arrived from London and notes American soldiers abroad crave doughnuts.
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New York
Albert W. J. Dodd
British Doughnut Company, Ltd
London
Ministry of Food
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