Home Front Gas Cut and OPA Shakeup Rumors
Washington buzzes over three looming events affecting the home front. First, stricter orders may curb local deliveries by stores, dairies and breweries due to the gas shortage after the 15 luxury items ban. Second, mass resignations in the OPA food price division are feared, possibly moving to Chester C. Davis. Third, Congress may fail to pass a pay as you go tax bill, with blame on the Democratic majority.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Chester C. Davis
Price Boss Denies Mass Resignations
OPA head Prentiss Brown denied mass resignations and moves to transfer price fixing to Davis. Deputy J K Galbraith refused comment on eight officials planning to quit over rejected price controls. Galbraith later said Charles Fleincher offered his resignation and it was accepted. Rep Herter warned of a near breakdown in food distribution and a coming catastrophe.
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Prentiss Brown
Davis
Brown
J. K. Galbraith
Galbraith
Charles Fleincher
Herter
Massachusetts
House
Roosevelt seeks $35 million for postwar public works plan
President Roosevelt urged Congress for authority to spend up to 35 million dollars to fund a coordinated postwar public works program with state and local authorities to ease unemployment after demobilization. The appeal was sent to Vice President Wallace outlining the aims and need for rapid action.
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National Resources Planning Board
Roosevelt
Congress
Wallace
Democratic Tax Conferees Face Possible Deadlock
Democratic tax conferees split over a current revenue bill with fear of deadlock and political backlash. Chairman George of Georgia cautioned no final decision before tomorrow while the group weighs a compromise proposed by Senator Vandenberg to tax on a current basis and abate the first $50 of liabilities.
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George
D.-Ga
Vandenberg
R-Mich
1930 Model 4-Door Sedan Seeks Buyer in Watervliet
A Watervliet man advertises a 1930 four door Oldsmobile in excellent condition with 745-R listing. He notes about 20 inquiries daily from classified ads in The Record News and says he could have sold several cars, even 1990 models, if given a chance. Phone Trey 6100 to inquire.
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Watervliet
Record
America
Population Shift Urged by Food Conference Delegation
Hot Springs Va United States delegation urges population adjustments to feed the world including emigration of surplus workers internal resettlement farm labor shifts to factories or combinations. They note temperate zone production areas are limited to one fifth of humanity and emphasize need for action. Rep Bradley demands congressional inquiry into food conference claiming risk to constitutional rights and potential creation of a super world state. Soviet Russia seeks more food not provided by lend lease to win the war and after, Krutikov states with urgency for wartime and postwar needs.
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United States
Washington
Bradley
R.mich
House
Russia
Soviet
A. D. Krutikov
Comintern Action Wins Approval in Britain
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain endorsed the Moscow presidium’s dissolution of the Comintern. It pledged to intensify efforts to strengthen the national front against fascism and to seek unity within the labor movement. The committee also renewed its application to affiliate with the British Labour Party now that the Comintern barrier has collapsed.
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War Production Strike Nears End Across Plants
Optimism rose that the war production strike at six Chrysler plants and four rubber firms would end today after a weekend session. Output at Chrysler facilities neared normal as workers returned and machines hummed. In Akron, leaders voiced hope all workers would resume by day’s end amid intra union clashes over leadership and alleged political motives behind the walkout.
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War Labor Board
Chrysler
Corporation
CSO
United Auto Workers
Akron
George Harter
United Rubber Workers
Clo-United Automobile Workers
Leo LaMotte
Dodge
LaMotte
Walter P. Reuther
Fights Break Out in Akron Over Goodyear Picket Line
Sporadic clashes erupted as 44 000 idle Akron rubber workers joined mass picketing of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co No 1 plant on East Side. Gates blocked the 2 pm shift as United Rubber Workers leaders claimed workers from Goodyear and other firms joined in protest of a War Labor Board wage decision. A company spokesman said many protesters were not Goodyear employees, and insisted the action involved broader union support.
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Goodyear iTire & Rubber Co
War Labor Board
Goodyears
Akron
Willam S. Vaught
C. I. O. United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Goodrich
Firestone
Edsel Ford Gravely Ill At Lake Saint Clair Home
Edsel Ford of Detroit president of Ford Motor Co and Henry Ford's son is gravely ill at his Lake Saint Clair home. His condition improved materially over the weekend and he will turn 50 on November 6.
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Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford
Lake Saint Clair
Ford
Transportation Officials Brace for Gas Ration Cut Chaos
Troy Albany and Schenectady transit heads report they lack official orders amid a proposed 40 percent cut to conserve gasoline. Niles Person of United Traction Co. warns such a reduction would spark general chaos, shorten hours, and cost workers to other industries during the critical shortage period.
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Albany
Schenectady
ODT
Niles
United Traction Co
Watervliet
Cohoes
Green Island
Traction Company
Persons
French Unity Seems Assured As Giraud De Gaulle Plan Emerges
In Algiers both Giraud and De Gaulle anticipate forming a central authority by selecting a six member executive plus three others. Spokesmen say letters settled differences and De Gaulle plans to join soon to seal the arrangement. The move would unify liberated French areas and resistance under a provisional authority.
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Henr Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Giraud
North Africa
London
United States
Great Britain
France
Pole Belittles Split with Reds
Teheran Poland ambassador to Russia Tadeusz Romer said that despite differences between Russians and Poles both nations are in the same camp, fighting for final victory over Germany, after the United States severed relations with the Polish Government in Exile and Romer arrived from Kuibyshev with his staff.
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Teheran
Iran
Tadeus Romer
Russia
Germany
Kuibyshev
Poland
Big Inch Oil Flow Resumes After Flood Breach
GP-W Alton Jones, head of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc., said oil is again flowing toward the petroleum-starved northeastern seaboard through the Big Inch pipeline. The line, breached last week by Arkansas River floods, resumed at 7 pm central time, per a telegram Jones sent to Petroleum Administrator Ickes.
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W. Alton Jones
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
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Arkansas River
Big Inch
Jones
Petroleum
Ickes
RAF Attacks Set World Record in Allied Air War Effort
Allied air forces rained decisive blows across Europe and the Mediterranean. The RAF unleashed the heaviest raid on Germany dropping 2,000 tons of bombs on Dortmund as defenses buckled. Italian island Pantelleria suffered renewed bombardment from both Italian American and British crews, raising the five day destruction tally to 317 planes. A Japanese bomber wave against Attu was repelled by Army fighters, likely from Amchitka, halting the raid.
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Germany
Dortmund
Europe
Italy
Pantelleria
Attu
Aleutian
Amchitka
Pantelleria Bombed Again by Allied Air Forces
Allied air forces blasted Pantelleria three daylight raids and night attacks using US medium bombers Warhawks and RAF Wellingtons. The island near Sicily endured heavy pounding that reportedly crippled its military air field, with attacks continuing Sunday despite no announced destruction of Axis planes.
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Pantetleria
Malta
U. S
Tunisia
Sicily
Pantelleria
Sardinia
Wednesda
Red Army Feeler Thrust Near Rostov Reports Soviet Action
Sparring preliminaries to a summer offensive saw Red Army troops push into German western front positions and smash a strong reconnaissance group near Rostov. Soviet artillery and air power hammered concentrations of enemy tanks and troops while two German air attacks on Soviet targets at opposite ends of the front were repelled.
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Red Army
Rostov
RAF Bomber Command Racks Up 100000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped
The British flyers reached a milestone in the European air war as new Air Ministry figures show Bomber Command has dropped 100000 tons of high explosives on Germany since the war began.
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Dortemund
Europe
Air Ministry
Germany
R.A. F. Bomber Command
Reds Bomb Dortmund in Hourlong Raids Over Ruhr
Reds bombed Dortmund and other Ruhr targets as Britain’s air war intensified. Vichy and Budapest radios went silent ahead of possible new raids. Churchill’s plan unleashed a sustained barrage with over 38 tons of explosives per minute for an hour amid massive fire and destruction.
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Moehne
Eder
Vichy
Budapest
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Churchill
Amis
Dortmund
Second Futile Jap Raid on Attu Forecasts Attack
Desperate counterattacks on Japanese troops on Attu were repelled as a second large scale air assault neared the island. Navy reports say 13 bombers on Saturday and 16 on Sunday failed to achieve their objectives, with US land and air forces, including Army Lightning fighters, turning back both groups.
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Navy
Aleutian
Amehitka
Battle near Ichang signals push toward Chungking
Japanese troops attacked sectors near Ichang, 460 miles down the Yangtze from Chungking. The Chinese high command said the offensive may prepare operations against Chungking or consolidate key river territory.
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Ichang
Yangtze River
Chungning
Chung- King
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