House Passes Muster Out Pay For War Veterans
The House approved a flat muster out pay of 300 for veterans discharged after sixty or more days of service, denying higher amounts from the Senate plan. The measure excludes high base pay earners and certain other categories, with a projected cost of about 3.6 billion dollars.
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Washington
House
Senate
United States
May
D.ky
Military Committee
Treasury
Morgenthau Condemns Tax Evaders
Secretary Morgenthau denounces tax avoidance as disloyal especially during wartime and criticizes a Westport industrialist for urging postwar reserves from tax money. He notes the Internal Revenue Bureau will collect Miss Vivien Kellems December 15 taxes amid calls for Department of Justice action. Rep Coffee supports swift legal actions to protect the war program and bond sales. Miss Kellems says she is bewildered by the uproar and will respond in full.
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Washington
Kansas City
Internal Revenue Bureau
Kellems
Rep. Coffee
D-Wash
Justice Department
the Revenue Bureau
Coffee
Justices Department
St. Laws UF
Vivien Kellems
Morgenthau
Airmen Hit Eight Japanese Ships in Rabaul Harbor
Allied air forces blasted eight Japanese merchant ships in Rabaul Harbor using 1000 and 2000 pound bombs despite Zero interception. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported, as U S bombers struck Kusaio in the Caroline Islands. Torpedo and dive bombers, escorted by fighters, damaged three ships and sank one. Air battle left several planes shot down on both sides.
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Associated Press
Rabaul Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Kusaio
Caroline Islands
Bulwark
Japan
mid-Pacific
Rabaul
Leaky wartime baby pants draw most civilian complaints
Washington reports that the Office of Civilian Requirements cites wartime waterproof baby pants as the top civilian gripe in a national survey. OCR director Austin Grimshaw notes 70 percent of complaints relate to the pants material used as a rubber substitute, with elastic tape at 55 percent and women's hosiery at 50 percent.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Requirements
Austin Grimshaw
OCR
Iist
Grimshaw
Emphasis on Larger Warplanes Sears 1944 Production Plan
Charles E. Wilson announced a U S production program for 1944 to build more than 100000 aircraft. The Aircraft Production Board chairman outlined a schedule calling for 50 percent more combat craft than 1943 and stressed emphasis on much larger models.
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Washington (P
Charles E. Wilson
United States
Aircraft Production Board
Saboteurs Wreck Pau Toulouse Express in France
A Vichy radio broadcast says saboteurs wrecked the Pau Toulouse Express in Southern France, causing 25 deaths and 150 injuries amid World War II turmoil.
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London
Vichy Radio
France
British Drive Breaks Garigliano Front To Formia Gaeta
Allied forces drive across the Garigliano River forming bridge heads at three points as British troops push toward the Cassino area. American and French units lead the assault while British units reportedly shift to reinforce the lower river line for a coastal advance on Formia and Gaeta.
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Rome
Garigliano
Cassino
Naz
Gulf of Gaeta
Formia
Gaeta
Senate Committee Approves Ban on Food Subsidies
The Senate banking committee backed a two point bill by Senator Bankhead to end all consumer food subsidies after June 30 and to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation. The vote was 10 to 9 with Taft and Tobey switching to support. the measure also rejects the administration's request for 1.5 billion dollars to curb retail food prices.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Banking Committee
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Tobey
New Hampshire
Drama Center Plans Repertory Theater and New Plays Openings
New York City Center of drama and art president Newbold Morris said the center will establish its own repertory theater a laboratory for new plays and will stage openings of new Broadway productions in May.
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New York
Newbold Morris
City Council
New York City
Unidentified Woman Fires At Mrs Williams In Drake Hotel
Mrs Frank Starr Williams wife of a U S State Department official is shot in the head at the Drake Hotel. Dr TJ Coogan says the bullet penetrated her forehead entering the brain but she remains conscious. A bellboy notes the shooter wore a Persian lamb coat and flowered hat. The daughter recalls the assailant entering the apartment before firing twice.
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Chicago
Frank Starr Williams
U. S. State Department
Drake Hotel
TJ. Coogan
St. Luke’s Hospital
John Quinn
Chicago Avenue
Walter Shanke
Quinn
Williams
Patricia Goodbody
Aide To Ickes To Be Questioned By Federal Jury
George N. Briggs suspended aide to Interior Secretary Ickes is in Washington and available to federal investigators. Tele grams he sent or received have been subpoenaed as the grand jury probes the Hopkins letter case. Ickes hopes Briggs will appear before the jury, but officials have not located him.
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Justice Department
George N. Briggs
Interior
Ickes
Hopkins
District of Columbia
Department
Tom C. Clark
Briggs
Grand Jury
Henry Schweinhaut
Biddle
Senator Langer
RND
Senate
C. Nelson Sparks
Harry Hopkins
Umphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Texas
Wendell Willkie
Probe Jury Challenge Appealed in Albany Court
The Court of Appeals postpones the grand juror selection challenge in the Albany County probe as attorney Reuben H. Kohn files for appellate papers. The Third Department had denied a petition to end the current venire examination system and a stay remains in effect while the appeal proceeds.
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Court of Appeals
Albany County
Reuben H. Kohn
William Shea
Cohoes Jamitor
Kohn
Bombers Wreck German Supply Lines to Rome
American bombers from the U S 15th Air Force report cutting all railways supplying Rome from the north after reconnaissance photos show three major lines reduced to one. The east coast line Ancona to Pescara remains open to German forces opposing the British Eighth Army.
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U. S. 15Th Air Force
Italy
Rome
Air Force
Italian
Ancona
Pescara
Eighth Army
London
Goebbels Predicts Invasion Within Ninety Days
German Propaganda Minister Paul Goebbels predicted an Allied invasion of Europe within ninety days in his Das Reich weekly. He warned against war nerves, saying Germany must prepare for an invasion at any time anywhere in Europe and that surprise is impossible.
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London
Europe
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Das Reich
Washington
Goebbels
Hero’s Mother Pledges More to War Loan
Mrs Harvey J. Howard pledged additional funds to the Fourth War Bond Drive after learning her son, a Mustang fighter pilot, was the airman in the Germany battle. A Boy Scout collected pledges at the door as she spoke.
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Hero
St. Louis
Harvey J. Howard
Germany
Eden Warns Franco Over Spanish Help To Germany
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told General Franco in the House of Commons that Spanish troops aiding Germany on the Russian front threaten Anglo Spanish relations. The warning followed Madrid's alleged involvement in placing time bombs in Spanish orange cargoes shipped to Britain earlier in the week.
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London
Anthony Eden
Francisco Franco
House of Commons
Churchill
Eden
Britain
Germany
Madrid
Spain
Nancy Blisters Hands Preparing for Auction
Nassau Bahamas report states Nancy Oakes de Marigny inheritor of a full share in a gold mine holdings plans auction of about 400 household articles over three days after funds were blocked by Bahamas government. She seeks release of $2,000 to $34,000,000 to send to Cuba for medical and living needs amid a recent typhoid fever illness on a Mexican honeymoon.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Nancy Oakes de Marigny
Nancy
Exchange Control Committee
Cuba
Soldiers and WACS Send Blood for Billy Meers
A 4-A Flying Fortress carrying 200 pints of blood from Chanute Field soldiers and WACs departed yesterday for Calais Texas to aid 4 year old Billy Meers with chronic nephritis. The blood will be plasma processed at Baylor Hospital Dallas and transfused to the boy periodically.
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Chanute Field
II 4
Calais
Tex
Billy Meers
Ius Army Air Force Training Post
Baylor Hospital
Dallas
Russian Fleet Shells Nazis in Leningrad Front
Moscow radio reported Red Banner Baltic Fleet warships including a cruiser shelled German positions on the Leningrad front to back the Red Army offensive. Coastal batteries helped fire and two German objectives were put out of action per Office of War Information monitors.
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New York
Moscow
Red Banner Baltic
Leningrad
Red Army
Office of War Information
Russians Storm Nazi Fortresses Near Leningrad
The Red Army broke through 12 miles of fortifications and seized Krasnoye Selo and Ropsha near Leningrad after a siege of two and a half years. A second drive crossed 19 miles across three railways toward Volkhov Lake Imen, while reporting 20 000 German dead.
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London
Leningrad
Red Army
Volkhov River
Lake Imen
Krasnoye Selo
Ropsha
Oranienbaum
Pulkovo
Heiress Accepts Service of Court Order in Nevada Divorce
Heiress Nevi-Doris Duke, heiress to the Duke tobacco interests, accepted service of a petition testing the Nevada divorce from James H. R. Cromwell. Cromwell, a former U S minister to Canada, seeks to void the decree in a New Jersey suit. Duke appeared at her Reno lawyer’s office at 4 30 p m as process server delivered the papers.
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Doris Duke
Duke Tobacco Munitions
Nevada
James H. R. Cromwell
Cromwell
U. S
Canada
New Jersey
Miss Duke
William Woodburn
Bruce Thompson
Admiral King Urges Buy More War Bonds
Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the U S Fleet, urged strong support for the 14 billion dollar Fourth War Loan. He said in 1944 the money invested in War Bonds is of supreme importance and that this year of attack the importance cannot be overstressed.
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Washington DP
Ernest J. King
United States Fleet
King
G O P Chief of Saratoga County Dies
George N. Ostrander 74 industrialist and civic leader dies at Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs after months in residence. Former Saratoga County Republican chairman since 1938, he also served Hamilton County attorney for forty years. Funeral Saturday at Hylands Saratoga Springs.
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George N. Ostrander
Saratoga County Republican Committee
Gideon Putnam
Saratoga Springs
Saratoga
New York
Mr. Ostrander
Frederick W. Kavanaugh
Waterford
Saratoga County Republian
Saratoga County
Albany
Albany County Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Hamilton County
New York State
Thomas E. Dewey
Finch and Prayn Lumber Co
Glens Falls
Ostrander
Guttenberg
Moscow Jitters Over Rumor of Peace Moves
Moscow minds the rumor of a British Nazi peace offer as Pravda cites Cairo dispatches and locals fear a Berlin led split of Allies. U S Ambassador Harriman working late at Spasso House amid questions over whether Britain and Russia seek talks. press silence persists on official denial.
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Foreign Office
von Ribbentrop
Itew
Yass
Reuters
United States
Sunday Times
Hitler
Soviet Union
Britain
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Spasso House
New Obstacle Seen In Lepke Execution Plan
A defense attorney said he would block Lepke Buchalter’s transfer from federal to state custody. Attorney J Bertram Wegman announced this after arriving from Detroit, signaling a possible new obstacle to the execution of the Murder Inc chief.
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New York
PIA
Lews (Lepke
Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Lepke
J. Bertram Wegman
Detroit
Louisiana Primary Narrows Field As Davis Surges
In a Louisiana primary count from 945 precincts the reform faction candidate Davis leads with 92,026 votes while Morgan trails at 92,8. The split among Long faction and regulars suggests a potential runoff or a dilution of regulars’ control at Baton Rouge. Earl K. Long shows strength as lieutenant governor hopeful with 100,595 votes to Emile Yeriolet’s 64,369.
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Jimmie H. Billy
Long Fac
Ion
Lewis Li
Morgan
Davis
Huey Long
Louisiana
Sam Houston Jones
Parti S
Hic
Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Davia
Emile Yeriett
London Cools After Heat Wave Amid War News
British capital eases from record heat as Pravda Cairo report warns of renewed Nazi agitation. Moscow magazine War and the Working Class echoes concerns and notes Hitler seeks to sway Allies. Soviet publication says hopes tied to conferences are dead and urges allied nations to recognize Nazi subversion.
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Pravda
Cairo
Moscow
Hitler
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