Byrnes Promises Price Cut
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes promised a substantial reduction in the cost of living as part of a home front program. He indicated ongoing stabilizing efforts for food prices and noted President Roosevelt approved longer coal mine shifts. He also warned against overconfidence about Axis weakness and stressed mobilization for war as crucial, with continued Allied efforts ahead.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Congress
Italy
Asis
Americans Capture Jap Island in Solomons Drive
Allied headquarters disclosed that American forces landed in force on Vella Lavella in the Solomons, bypassing Kolombangara and trapping the garrison at Bairoko on New Georgia. About 35 enemy personnel were captured as prisoners of war, many survivors from vessels sunk in the Kula Gulf battles.
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Southwest Pacific
Vella Lavella
Solomons
Kolomiangata
Japan
Bairoko
New Georgia
Douglas MacArthur
Kula Gulf
United States
Vila
Kolombangala
Guadalcanal
South
Banoko
Munda
Youth Lied About Third Murder
Henry William Hagett, charged with killing 13 year old twins last week, admitted late yesterday he was lying when he told of slaying a third boy. Hagett signed a confession Sunday night claiming that March 9 or 10 he killed Edgar Bowen, but changed his story after a lie detector test yesterday afternoon and conceded the tale was false.
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Cleveland LLP
Henry William Hagett
Frank W. Story
Hagett
Edgar Bowen
Story
Hagert
Bowen
U S Senators Tour Algiers Visit On Investigation Trip
A delegation of U S senators led by Richard B Russell and including A B Chandler James M Mead and Ralph C Brewster arrived from Algiers yesterday afternoon on an official investigating tour of U S installations in Cairo and nearby areas.
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Cairo
United States
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
A. B. Chandler
D-Ky
James M Mead
D-N.y
Ralph C. Brewster
R.-Me
Algiers
U. S
Scoreboard National and American league results with postponements
The scoreboard shows National league scores with Brooklyn seven to three over St Louis and Cincinnati five to two over New York among others. American league results list New York seven to zero over Chicago and Boston nine to zero over St Louis, with Washington six to three over Cleveland. Eastern schedule lists Albany at Elmira postponed and Utica at Binghamton postponed as Beranton led Hartford to 11 and Springfield to eight.
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National
Brooklyn
St. Lows
Cincinnati
New York
Pittsburg
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
American
St. Louis
Washington
Cleveland
Albany
Elmira
Beranton
Hartford
Springfield
Wilkes-Barre
Utica
Binghamton
U S Sees Lead in Gas Protection Claims
Lieutenant Colonel Enlee ton D Willis, chemical officer at the American base in New Guinea, said yesterday that in chemical warfare the evidence shows the U S holds a long lead on the enemy in individual protection.
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New York
Enleeton D Willis
New Guinea
Last Ditch Sicilian Defense Crumbling
Aerial photo shows a large group of United States Flying Fortresses during an Eighth Air Force bombing raid on Kiel and Wilhelmshaven Germany. The wing of the plane is visible as bombers targeted French airfields near Paris and Axis Sicily evacuation bases from England.
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Eighth Air Force
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Paris
England
Sicily
Allied Bombers Hit Paris and French Airfields in Major Raid
Allied air forces bombed Le Bourget near Paris and multiple French airfields while Marauders and Fortresses attacked Poix Abbeville Bernay and Tricqueville Aiens Gilly. RAF raids over London continued amid reports of heavy fighting and German losses in Paris air battles.
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London
Italy
Milan
Thunderbolts
Eighina
Paris
le Bourget
Charles A Lindbergh
Atlantic
Poix
Abbeville
Bernay
R.A. Verturas
Tricqueville
Aiens-Gilly
Vichy Radio
Pars
Bowles names business chief as OPA price head
Chester Bowles announced a cooperation plan for the Office of Price Administration and named James F. Brownlee of General Foods to replace Donald H Wallace as price chief. He urged voluntary compliance, outlined a four department simplification, and weighed consolidating price control and rationing while ruling out profit control.
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Washington (P
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Williams College
OPA
James F. Brownlee
General Foods Corp
Donald H Wallace
Bowles
Practice Bombs Hit Village in Nebraska Night
Six practice bombs fell on Tarner Nebraska early yesterday, causing no casualties or major damage. Officials say planes likely overshot a practice range during a routine flight. One bomb entered the Ciecor home, burying in the basement near sleeping children. no injuries reported.
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Tarner
Neb. VP
Nebraska
Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Ciecor
Harry Brooks Dies Prominent in Union and Politics
Harry M. Brooks longtime Troy resident dies suddenly at 875 Seventh Avenue after months of declining health. native of Brockville moved to Troy in 1886 and became a union labor, Republican legislator in 1925, later an American Labor Party candidate for Congress in 1938. He was active in Masonic circles through Phoenix Lodge 58.
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Harry M. Brooks
Troy
Seventh Avenue
Brockville
Mr. Brooks
Rensselaer County
American Labor Party
Brooks
Congress
Harold Cluett
Phoenix Lodge
Moffat Quits to Join Federal Post
Assemblyman Abe Moffat of New York resigns from the Fifteenth District after eight years as Ways and Means chair to join the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination. He says the new role offers greater national service and will begin Monday. The OFEC coordinates lend lease economic work and other abroad duties under Lehman’s direction.
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Albany
Ulp
Aberot Low Moffat
New York
Office of Foreign Economic Coordination
Assembly
Oswald D. Heck
Fifteenth Assembly
Moffat
Ways and Means
OFEC
Office of Economic Warfare
Office of
Lehman
Rubber Crisis Believed Passed
New York and the United Nations have passed the rubber crisis for military and civilian use. P W Litchfield of Goodyear says synthetic rubber will meet prewar U S demand by October and UN demand by January, claiming the crisis is over for essential needs.
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New York
United States
United Nations
P W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Yerday
England
Litchfield
Rattlesnake in Home Kills Baby in Macon County
A 13 month old baby died in a Macon County hospital twelve hours after a rattlesnake bite at the parents home in the Cowee mountain area. The father Roy Messer saw the strike as the child crawled under a bed where the snake lay after entering through a knothole.
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Franklin
C. GP
Cowee Mountain
Macon County
Roy Messer
Rowe Questions U.S. Sicily Campaign Pace
A Rome radio quoted in German via AP as saying Americans would need over two years to conquer the Italian mainland if their Sicily tempo continued. The Allied Sicilian campaign, begun five weeks earlier, was nearing a successful end.
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London
Rome
Associated Press
Sicily
Execution of Norwegian police chief triggers military rule in Norway
Nazi authorities executed police chief Gunnar Enhersen in Oslo over alleged disobedience. A roundup ordered of Norwegian military officers for transfer to Germany. Quisling decree places police, troops, and Hird under armed control amid fears of Allied invasion. Oslo expelled Swedish correspondent Benkt Jerneck after dispatches on the incident.
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Stockholm i
Norway
Gunnar Enhfsen
Oslo
Germany
Vidkun Quising
Quisling
Hird
Osolo
Russia
Benkt Jerneck
Eilifson
Allied Drive Reaches Near Messina in Sicily Push
Allied forces press through Taormina and Castiglone toward Messina as bombardment tightens the noose on German troops in Sicily. Americans advance from the Patt Gulf, capture Barcellona and push toward Milazzo while coast artillery and air power blast coastal exits. Evacuation beaches narrow the German escape corridor. the end of the Sicily campaign appears within reach.
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North Africa
Wessina
Sicily
Corrdor
Raly
Tmath Aerovane
Wile
Messina
Baina
Milazzo
Taormina
Castignone
Maggi
Randazzo
Algiers
Windriven Surf
Cape Bon
Italy
Patt Gulf
Barcellona
Cape Milazzo
Cancel
Churchill Denies Six Month War End Prediction
Reports claimed Prime Minister Churchill forecast the war against Germany would end in six months. Official denial came from Britain as Quebec and Montreal papers published the asserted remark after a French news service attributed the forecast to Churchill.
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Quebec (P
Churchill
Germany
Quebec War Council
Roosevelt Returns From Hudson River Talks With Churchill
President Roosevelt, after three days of conferences with Prime Minister Churchill at Hyde Park New York, returned yesterday to the White House and briefed Secretary Hull at luncheon on the results of the Hudson River talks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hyde Park
New York
White House
State Hull
Hudson River
Predict Approval Of Peace Plan By Bipartisan United Front
Senators Barton and Norton and Representative Ed yesterday predicted Senate and House support for the Fulbright resolution when Congress reconvenes in September. They argued for international machinery to sustain permanent peace and shared their views after a 14 day Midwest tour with 37 speeches in 22 locations before about 7,500 attendees.
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Washington
GPI
Baton
Congress
Midwest
Last Nazi Train Crosses Sweden
For the first time in three years no trains transported German war materials to Norway and Finland through Sweden yesterday. The last such supply train rolled Sunday.
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Stockholm
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Red Smash Topples Zhizdra Amid Kharkov Push
Soviet forces captured Zhizdra forty miles northeast of Bryansk after a night battle as the Kharkov operations neared a climax. Tass described Kharkov as the largest German base on the Soviet front while reports said Russians breached minefields and advanced six miles toward Zhizdra.
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London
Red Army
Bryansk
Zhizdra
Moscow
Kharkov
Red
Tass
Zhizdin
Zikyeevo
Moscow-Bryansk
Zhizdta
Smolensk
Sevi Monitor
Spas Demansk
Green Sees No Labor Unity On Horizon
Chicago March 1 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor states labor unity is not likely within six months and expresses uncertainty about progress within a year. He cites many difficulties ahead before organic unit formation can be achieved.
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Chicaro
William Green
Ametican Federation of Labor
Green
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