Willkie Becomes World’s Foremost Reporter on Russia War
Willkie’s Russia tour included a Stalin meeting and front-line visits, providing deeper insight than most officials. He questioned soldiers workers and journalists, warned of winter shortages in food fuel clothing, and urged building a bridge of supplies to Russia while stressing the shared fight against Nazi aggression.
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Harry L. Hopkins
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America
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Rzhev
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Eapland
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Willkle
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Roosevelt
Defenders Stab Back at Stalingrad Amid House to House Fighting
Russian forces hold Stalingrad center as urban combat rages with grenades bombs and machine guns. Reports say 600 Germans killed in one building drive while 1 000 tommy runners died elsewhere. German attacks press siege from the Mozdok Caucasus to Novorossisk and Leningrad front gains.
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Red Army
Lower Volga
Izvestia
Red Star
Verdun
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Caucasus
Grozny
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Voronezh
Sinyavino
Leningrad
Hot Dog Supplies Mount as Other Meat Dwindles
The Natural Casing Institute reports to Secretary Wickard that hot dogs will be more plentiful while T-bone steaks and prime rib may be limited by coupons. Army Navy lend-lease demand and growing consumer use push beef and pork trimming into sausage production.
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Washington
Natural Casing Institute
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Army
Navy
Lend-Lease
Institute
Erie County Bans Political Banners Across Streets
Erie County Democrats and Republicans ban hanging political banners over city streets this fall. County Republican Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle announced the decision saying during the war rope and cables for temporary banners are not justifiable.
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Erie County
Buffalo
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Taylor Quits Vatican On Return to U S
Rome radio reports Myron C Taylor Roosevelt's special representative to the Vatican left Rome for Barcelona and Lisbon on the first leg home to the United States. He had three audiences with Pope Pius XII and conveyed Roosevelt's war and peace aims.
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London
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Rome
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Vatican City
Queen Recovering From Bronchitis in Bed
London Sept 28 Queen Elizabeth II is reported to be recovering from an acute bronchitis attack that kept her in bed for a week. A royal communique says she is making good progress and there is no cause for anxiety.
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London
New World's War Front Is Found Solid
Nelson Rockefeller reports a solid hemispheric front against aggression after tours of Brazil Peru Ecuador Colombia and Panama with brief stops in Argentina and Chile He praises Getulio Vargas and governments of Peru Ecuador Colombia and Panama as strong Allied supporters ready to act for defense and war prosecution.
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Fla
New World
Nelson Rockefeller
Inter-American Affairs
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South America
Brazil
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Panama
Argentina
Chile
Uruguay
Roosevelt
South and Central America
United States
Rockefeller
Getulio Vargas
San Francisco Papers Raise Subscription Rates
San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner announce rate increases effective Oct. 1. Monthly subscriptions rise to 1.50 dollars from 1.40 for daily and Sunday editions. Sunday papers will cost 15 cents each. Daily copies stay at five cents.
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Examiner
Japan Warned of Sustained U S Raids by Tokyo Official
Kisaburo Ando, chairman of the Third Cooperative Conference, warned in a Tokyo broadcast that Japan should expect sustained air and submarine raids by the United States. He urged mobilization of every source in Japan to the utmost.
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U.S
London
Kisaburo Ando
United States
Tokyo
Ando
Laval dismisses Benoist Mechin amid Nazi France plans
Reported dismissal follows rumors Laval aimed to replace Benoist Mechin with a younger collaborationist group pushing a quicker pro German program. Some observers say the ouster compromised Laval’s strategy as he discusses sending more skilled workers to Germany in exchange for French prisoners.
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Benoist-Mechin
Frankfurter Zeitung
Benoist- Mechin
Paris
Germany
Weygand recall reported from London front
London dispatch says Gen Maxime Weygand has been summoned from retirement to advise the Vichy government on North Africa defense an unconfirmed report by the Daily Mail correspondent at the French frontier. Mollison sued for divorce in London court by his second wife Phyllis Hussey. he was previously divorced from Amy Johnson Mollison who died in a plane crash last year.
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Max. Ime Weygand
Vichy
North Africa
Daily Mail
French Frontier
Mollison
Jimmy Mollison
Atlantic
Phyllis Hussey
Amy Johnson Mollison
Bombers Hit Bengasi Docks As Axis Bases Targeted
U S bombers attacked Bengasi harbor wreckage used by Axis forces as landing stages. RAF planes strafed supply and ammunition convoys along the Gambut Bardia road west of the Egyptian front. One British plane was lost and a German aircraft shot down in the Suez area as land actions were limited to night patrols.
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Bengasi Harbor
Gambut-Bardia
Suez Canal
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