Baruch outlines postwar plan to ease transition
Prosperity by plan proposes a full postwar blueprint with 30 000 words. It calls for revamped government machinery to secure peacetime jobs taxes cut to peacetime levels and swift wind down of war contracts. Loans for veterans and business public works and orderly disposal of surplus goods. Baruch chairman of the War Industries Board in WWI leads the unit advising President Roosevelt and James Byrnes. publication follows a White House release.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
War, Industries Board
Office of War Mobilization
John Hancock
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
White House
Congress
Veto Seen Likely for Tax Bill
Washington reports indicate the $2,315,000, 600 new tax bill faces a likely presidential veto. President Roosevelt called the revenue measure unreal istic and intends to send it back to Congress next week. Capitol Hill insiders expect the veto to be sustained, while escalation over food subsidies remains unresolved.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Congress
Five Killed in Flour Plant Blast Near Kansas City
Five men died and at least 26 were injured in an explosion and fire at the Larabee Flour Mills plant in North Kansas City. J W Cain of Midland Flour Milling Co reported multiple blasts and a center mill fire that spread to an elevator shaft, blasting holes in storage bins and hurling railroad cars from nearby tracks.
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Kansas City
Larabee Flour Mills
J. W. Cain
Midland Flour Milling Co
Larabee
Nylon Hosiery Ceiling Violators Fined in New York
Federal Judge Vincent L. Bell fined two hosiery merchants forty thousand dollars after they pled guilty to an 18 count information charging violation of OPA ceiling price rules. Irving and David Blakeman sold five thousand eight hundred sixty pairs of nylon hose from October 1942 to January 1943 at prices ranging from nine dollars eighty cents to eleven dollars forty five cents per dozen above ceilings.
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New York
Vincent L. Leibell
U.S. Atty
Amedio IL Lauritano
Irving
David Blakeman
Fire Bombs Hit London in Heavy Nazi Raid
The German air force launched a major attack on London using three waves of bombers dropping tons of explosives and incendiaries. Fires spread across six districts as apartments, a church, and an unused hospital were hit. Anti-aircraft fire and searchlights illuminated the sky while residents and American soldiers described the raid as terrifying.
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London
Rescne
Staraya Russa Falls To Russians in Northern Front Drive
Moscow announced the Red Army captured Staraya Russa and the rail town of Shimsk near Lake Simen as part of a broader push below Staraya Russa. The advance included Lossytina and Svyatogorska with reports of large German losses and many prisoners taken after heavy fighting and German evacuations.
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London
Moscow
Red Army
Staraya Russa
Shimsk
Lake Simen
Russia
Lossytina
Kholm
Svyatogorska
Hillman Defies Dies Committee Challenge to Dies Committee Authority
Sid ney Hillman chairman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America C I O says the Dies Committee has no right to demand the CIOs records and that his committee would welcome appropriate congressional scrutiny. He noted the committee has already agreed to FBI and Attorney General Biddles review and opened its books to investigators.
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New York
Political Action Committee
Dies Committee
America
Martin Dies
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Amalgamated Bank of New York
Co. I. O
Hillman
Dies
Biddle
Eisenhower Praises Red Army Troops on Victory Message
British radio reported Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a message to the Russian Army on the Red Army’s 26th anniversary predicting final victory as Germans are attacked from multiple fronts. The CBS-recorded broadcast quoted the message praising Soviet exploits and resolve.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
CBS
Barrage Opens Cassino Offensive In Italy Fight
Allied forces launched a major assault on Cassino after a six hour artillery barrage. Ground troops moved in as German defenses remained stubborn and heavy fighting continued at the Anzio beachhead with ongoing German onslaughts and thousands of casualties reported.
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Naples
Cassino
Anzio
Casaimo
Mark W. Clark
Lari
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
North
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Cobbler's Son Upsets Churchill Backed Candidate in By election
In West Derbyshire a 22 year old Marquess of Hartington was defeated 16 336 to 11 775 by independent C F White as Churchill backed the peer but local factors helped the outcome. Churchill had recently supported Conservative candidates and faced criticism over wartime ties. White's victory marked a rare setback for Churchill in the by election. Meanwhile a plane crash off the Seattle area left five crew and five Naval personnel missing despite wreckage sighted by search planes.
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Duke of Devonshire
White
Churchill
Britain
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Navy
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Seventeen Aerial Crew Die In B 24 Crash Near Phoenix
Seventeen Army airmen were killed when two B 24 Liberators collided and crashed during a training mission on the Salt River Indian Reservation twenty miles northeast of Phoenix. All aboard the two aircraft based at Davis-Monthan Field Tucson per Williams Field public relations office.
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Phoenix
Ariz. UP
Army Figurs
Salt River Indian Reservation
Williams Field
Davis-Monthan Field
Tucson
Army bomber missing after Lake Ontario sighting
An eight man bomber crew from Westover Field Massachusetts is feared lost in Lake Ontario after Coast Guardsmen and shore residents heard a multi motor plane heading west over the lake toward Canada last night.
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Syracuse
Westover Field
Mass
Lake Ontario
Lake Shore
Canada
Empress of Canada sinks after torpedo off West Africa
The 21,500 ton Empress of Canada was torpedoed 400 miles off Freetown by an Italian submarine. About 400 people perished, many Italian POWs, with 800 saved by British rescuers. Aboard were troops, prisoners, and refugees. Lifeboats saved after 17 hours. RAF Catalina and a British destroyer later reached survivors.
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Vancouver
Admiralty
Ottawa
Emond
Freetown
Spitzbergen
Greece
Army to abolish most college training programs
The Army announced it will end most of its specialized college training, transferring about 110 000 trainees to combat roles due to a 200 000 man shortfall. Advanced medical, dental, and engineering courses remain. Draft boards may tighten and refile deferred cases as urgency climbs.
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Washington
Army
War Department
George F. Zook
American Council On Education
High Command
Compromise on War Ballot Bill Proposed by Senator Green
Washington reports the administration trimmed its Federal War Ballot unit to stay in the race for armed service voting legislation. Senator Green drafted a compromise making the federal ballot secondary to state ballots for all military voters at home and overseas. He presented the measure to Senate and House conferees as they adjourned for the weekend without resolution.
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Washington
States
Green
D-R
Senate
House
Joan Berry Seeks To Be Forgotten After Paternity Suit
Los Angeles report says Joan Berry ends her paternity case against Charles Chaplin and will not hire another lawyer to reopen it. Her mother Gertrude Berry states they wish to live quietly without notoriety and avoid pictures of the baby Carol Ann, hoping to be forgotten.
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Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Charles Chaplin
Gertrude Berry
Berty
Carol Ann
Eisenhower Receives Soviet Valour Order First Class
Russia awarded Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower Allied commander in chief the Order of Suvorov first class, the highest military honor. The broadcast listed 24 other American Army officers and enlisted men, 16 Navy personnel, and ten merchant seamen among recipients. Spaatz received the second class award.
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London
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moscow
Eisenhower
U. S.navy
Alexander Suvorov
Berlin
Mareshal Joseph Stalin
Huch
Murmansk
Carl 4. Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Order of Suvoroy
Musicians Aid Russian Colleagues With Instrument Gifts
Philadelphia Orchestra members donated complete instruments drum heads violin strings bows resin mouthpieces and manuscript paper to war struck Russia where lack of gear forced concert cancellations. Guest conductor Bruno Walter contributed a baton and violin strings while trombone player Charles Gustkoff quipped about sending high notes to Shostakovich.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Orchestra
Russia
Bruno Walter
National Committee
Charles Gustkoff
Shostakovich
Underground Passage To Rome Falls Short
A prose item reports American engineers at the Anzio beachhead uncovering Nero’s villa and an underground channel believed linked to Rome. Despite three weeks of digging they reached a passage ending twenty miles short of the Eternal City, ending the hope of a direct underground link.
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Rome
Nero
Anzio
Eternal City
Famed Biologist Dr Davenport Dies at 77 in Huntington
Internationally known biologist Charles Benedict Davenport, 77, longtime head of the Cold Spring Harbor experimental station, died yesterday in Huntington. A Stamford, Connecticut native, he retired as director in 1934 and founded a Eugenics Record Office serving as a global clearinghouse for tracing heredity in epilepsy and its prevention.
Assault Troops Land on Eniwetok Island
U S and Pacific Fleet reports beachheads established on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls as a major carrier air and naval operation targets Truk. Nimitz silent on Truk results while Secretary Knox signals a significant victory potential and progress on the assault.
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U. S
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
Japan
mid-Pacific
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz
Knox
Washington
Eniiwetok
Nimitz
Caroline Islands
Eniwetok
Kwajalein
Marshalls
Ponape
Carolines
Richmond K. Turner
H. W. Hull
22Nd Marines
106Th
Allied Bombers Squeeze Japanese in Southwest Pacific
General MacArthur announced a three day assault near Mussau Island and New Hanover, with Allied bombers sinking 12 merchants and three warships totaling 36 500 tons. Losses included destroyers, corvettes, tankers, transports, and cargo ships in heavy combat.
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Southwest Pacific
Bismarck Archipelago
Massau Island
New Ireland
New Hanover
MacArthur
Mussan Island
Hanover
Hiccup girl cured after Army surgeon operation
Anna Mayer, 21, endured a 41 day hiccup siege ending with surgery by Capt Lester Samuels of the Army Medical Corps who took emergency leave to perform the phrenic nerve procedure. He said the operation permanently cures the hiccups and she will recover though she remains in critical condition and will rest several days at the hospital.
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New York
Anna Mayer
Lester Samuels
Army Medical Corps
Trooper Denied Reinstatement in Gambling Raid Case
Delhi Supreme Court Justice A Lindsay O Connor yesterday denied the petition of Matthew Haskins a suspended state trooper for reinstatement. Haskins formerly of Troop C at Sidney was suspended in April 1943 after his arrest in a gambling raid at Liberty Sullivan County by BEC I members of Troop C. He was exonerated by a justice of the peace of charges of disorderly conduct in frequenting a gambling establishment.
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Delhi
Pr—Supreme Court
Justitce
A. Lindsay O'Connor
Matthew v. Haskins
Haskins
Sidney
Liberty Sullivan County
BEC I
Skeltons Win Divorce Decree Finalizing Separation
Edna Marnie Skelton, of Los Angeles, secured the final divorce decree from Richard Red Skelton yesterday. She will remain as the comedian's business manager.
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Los Angeles
Edna Marnie Skelton
Richard
Red) Skelton
America First Group Denied Buffalo Hall Rent
Buffalo State Supreme Court Justice Parton Swift denied a request to compel the Buffalo Stadium Board to rent the auditorium to the Economics League for an event led by Gerald L. K. Smith. The judge cited a 1918 ruling affirming the city’s right to control its property. Thomas J. Reese testified the auditorium honors World War I dead and should not host those deemed rabble rousers or critics of region race or nationality.
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Buffalo CP
State Supreme Court
Parton Swift
Buffalo Stadeum Board
Economics League
Gerald L. K. Smith
Detroit
America First Party
Appellate Division
Thomas J Reese
Ooard
Tme
Alley Cat Solves Engineering Problem at Grand Coulee Dam
A clever alley cat helps move 500 feet of cable through a 2 inch winding drain pipe at Grand Coulee Dam. The cat is rigged with a small string attached, a blast of air serves as a tail wind, and the rope pulls the cable to the finish.
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Coulee
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