Warner Retires as New York State Police Chief
Major John A. Warner, superintendent of the state police for twenty years, retires to enter the United States Army. The article lauds his leadership, professionalism, and standards, praising his careful selection of troopers and the department’s evolution, while hoping his wartime successor maintain the high traditions established since 1923.
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John A. Warner
United States Army
Commonwealth
Major Warner
Constabulary
New York State
Chandler
John Warner
Warner
Albany
Well Merited Praise By Governor in State Labor Address
Governor Dewey praised New York labor organizations at the 8th annual State Federation convention in Buffalo for wartime harmony and absence of strikes since Pearl Harbor. He credited enlightened leadership and cooperative spirit among unions and employers, noting no major work stoppages in essential industries. He cautioned against curtailing labor’s bargaining rights before the war ends and contrasted Allied governance with occupier aims. Mention of Italian units in Crete and grim outlook on Germany and Japan follow.
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Dewey
State Federation
Buffalo
Pearl Harbor
America
New York State
West
Middle-West
Politics and Patriotism in the Lieutenant Governor Nomination
The Democratic State Committee nominates Lieutenant General Haskell for Lieutenant Governor, praising his wartime service in Europe but accusing him of abandoning his essential national duties for party aims. Senator Hanley, the Republican candidate, is portrayed as a principled, capable leader with deep knowledge of state government. The piece argues patriotism over politics and urges voters to choose Hanley.
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Haskell
Democratic State Committee
Europe
Lehman
Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
United States
Senator Hanley
Albany
Washington
Senate
Hanley
Swing versus youth and culture in wartime America
A New York pastor argues that celebrated band leaders and swing music corrupt youth, while Lincoln, Socrates, and Shakespeare would be unheard of if born in the modern frontier. He concedes excess in adolescence but says swing and jazz do not reflect or weaken the era or the fighting American youth, citing the Seventh Army’s Sicilian landings and the broader moral chaos around us.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Socrates
Shakespeare
Illinois
Lincoln
Mozart
Hendel
Seventh Army
Sicilian
Are These Men Needed in the Draft Debate
A columnist questions wartime draft assumptions and policies. He cites Maj. Gen. Hershey on drafting 446 000 fathers, warns against relying on military figures, and recalls Pearl Harbor era age changes. He argues many middle aged draftees proved unsuited to active duty and advocates wiser allocation.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Marshall
Fish Talk Warns Of War Language Aids
Washington Star notes Secretary Ickes raises a wartime issue with interpreters for diverse allied and neutral languages. It cites a new language among neutral tribes of fish, where drums and croakers chatter in a sea of sounds. Submarine crews would benefit from a fish translator to cut false alarms and misreadings.
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Washington Star
Ickes
Allied Gunners who keep Jop ground crews idle
Allied planes and pilots are praised as highly effective in the fighting fronts. A sergeant mechanic at the captured Munda base humorously asks to transfer to the Japanese air force, noting Allied planes are so reliable that Japanese crews have little to do while Allied fighters continually shoot down enemy planes.
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Baltimore Sun
Munda Au Prit
Munda
Beards On the Ears and Postwar Debt Questions
A lively letter column discusses barbering myths about shaving ears and imagines future ear hair trends. Readers also debate postwar debt, predicting massive American liability and interest payments while noting potential overseas financial restructurings. An inquiry confirms Howe’s Caverns near Cobleskill are open this summer.
Production Crisis at Wright Aeronautical Plant in Ohio
The Truman Committee questions a drastic 85 percent drop in monthly engine output at Wright Aeronautical, a leading World War I era engine maker with major government contracts. Army Air Corps blame, internal inspection fears, and morale issues converge as Senators allege interference, urging rapid fixes to restore production momentum for wartime needs.
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Washington
Truman Committee
Senate
Wright Aeronautical
Ohio
General Motors
Army Air Corps Command
Army Air Corps
Guy Vaughan
War Department
Mr. Vaughan
Vaughan
Pany
Army
Echols
Wright Company
High Command
Survey of occupied Europe shows rising anti Nazi sentiment
Washington experts assess conditions in key occupied states from Bulgaria to Poland, noting Bulgaria's underground activity, Hungary fearing Allied invasion, Yugoslav and Albanian shifts toward the Allies, Greece resistance and German ruthlessness, and morale and propaganda dynamics inside Germany as the home front braces for potential collapse.
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Bulgaria
Turkey
Austro- Hungary
Germany
U. S
Romanta
Italy
Antonescu
Hitler
Neutrails
Rumania
Boris
Hungary
Kallay
Balkans
Europe
Jugoslavia
Mussolini
Sicily
Juga- Slavia
Albania
Greece
Poland
Austria
Denmark
Norway
Quisling
Finland
United States
Russia
Holland
Mussert
Ruhr
Berlin
Goebbels
Himmler
Gerany
Welsh rabbit or rarebit debate sparks language trivia
A Dorchester discussion privileges Welsh rabbit as the true name for melted cheese dish while noting rarebit as erroneous per dictionaries. It also reviews origins of the term fastidious from Latin fastidium and cites Hamlet as the source of to the manor born.
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Dorchester
Merriam-Webster
Winsto Macmillan
Long Beach
R. S
Fly from here to Moscow fuels public curiosity
Reader voices question the private travel of Joseph Davies and its cost to taxpayers. They urge a brief, public accounting if the trip served a national business, noting the high taxes and gas costs borne by civilians during a time of shortage.
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New York
Joseph Davies
Moscow
Mr. Davies
Roosevelt
Seaboard States
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