Production Is Resumed In Mines
Washington reports a back to work movement after the United Mine Workers and Secretary Ickes reached a wage pact ending the three day general strike. Soft coal miners gain 1.50 a day. full mine restoral may take until week end. War Labor Board moves quickly to review the agreement.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Ickes
Jacob Dennis
Uniontown
War Labor Board
Ilinois
WLB
United Mine Workers Policy Committee
I Covernment
Interior Ickes
John L. Lewis
John O’leary
Thomas Kennedy
Interior Department
Ickes accuses coal official of denying shortage
Interior Secretary Ickes denounces Bituminous Coal Institute head Harry M. Vawter for public statements denying a coal shortage to aid producers. He warns that miners and the public will suffer next February as reliance on Vawter’s assurances proves wrong and warmth falters amid the coal crunch.
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Washington
UPI
Ickes
Harry M. Vawter
Bituminous Coal Institute
Vawter
Interior
Only One Proposed Amendment in Doubt
Albany New York faced a delayed decision on one of six proposed State Constitution amendments. Unofficial returns from a large portion of districts showed this amendment trailing 321,860 to 316,828 while the others enjoyed strong margins. The measure would allow splitting a county into an assembly district, a practice currently forbidden.
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Albany
New York
Fifth Army Pierces Axis Defense Line
Allied Fifth Army under Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark pierced Massico Ridge and San Croce in Italy, forcing a breach in the German frontier and threatening a retreat path toward the Aurunci range and Rome. Eighth Army meanwhile crossed the Trigno River as German resistance remained stiff across fronts.
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Algiers
Rome
Massico Ridge
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Clark
San Croce Mountain
Formia
Terracina
Fifth Ammy
Gargliano River
Massico
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Trigno
San Salvo
Bernard L. Montgomery
Volturno
Venafro
Hull Eden Take Leave Of Moscow
London and U S Secretary Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden have left Moscow after tri partite talks. Soviet radio reported their departure while a Cairo dispatch noted Turkish foreign minister Numan Menemencioglu arrived in Cairo and British envoy Knatchbull Hugessen was there. Widen and Hull were seen at the airfield with Molotov and Litvinoff observing.
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London
U. S
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Moscow
Cairo
Nurman Menemencioglu
Turkey
Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen
Hull
Eden
Menomencloglu_ Vyacheslav Molotov
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
Widen and
Huill
Senate Group Bases Policy on Moscow Parley
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted language from the Moscow four power declaration to guide its postwar peace policy. The clause, drafted under Chairman Connally, proposes an early international organization based on sovereign equality of peace loving states open to all, to maintain international peace and security.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
Connally
D-Tex
United States
Britain
Russia
China
Senate
Elderly Woman Strangled in Bronx Apt. Grandson Sought
Mrs. Jennie Flicker, 75, was found dead in a Bronx four room apartment with a pillow case tied around head and neck. $65 missing from desk. Autopsy ruled strangulation. Grandson Leonard Marcus, 15, sought after eight state alert. Ruth Marcus, 18, employed at Brooklyn Navy Yard, slept in unit.
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New York
Jennie Flicker
Bronx
Anna Marcus
Ruth Marcus
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Christmas Lights For Home Trees Only
Washington. The public was asked to confine ornamental Christmas lighting to the trees inside private homes. King, director of the Office of War Utilities, urged omitting lighting this year from community trees street decorations exterior home decorations and all commercial display.
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Washington (P
King
Office of War Utilities
Russians Inch Toward Kherson After Large German Losses
Soviet forces pressed to 21 miles from Kherson as German retreat devolved into heavy casualties. Russians claimed 3,000 Germans killed in the area, with a wiped out entire regiment. Advances included 16 tanks and 34 artillery pieces captured, plus thousands of cattle and ammo dumps taken.
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London
Kherson
Black Sea
Dnieper
Moscow
Karkinit Bay
Intry Divisgioan
Rabaul
Solomon Islands
SS. Marine
Bougainville
MacArthur
Rabaul Harbor
Simpson Harbor
Vast Bomber Armada Levels Wilhelmshaven
The largest force of American heavy bombers, possibly 500 plus Flying Fortresses and Liberators, attacked Wilhelmshaven and other northwestern German targets to dent the port and naval base, with RAF raids on Cologne noted. German defenses claimed 34 German planes down, while Allies reported five Allied aircraft losses. Luftwaffe counteractions included night raids on Britain with various German two engine fighters and bombers, including a Junkers 188 and a Messerschmitt 410.
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London
United States
Airforce
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Berlin
Reuters
Cologne
Rhineland
France
Holland
Air Ministry
United Air Force
England
R.A.F
Decapitated Australians Reported in Indo China
Travellers from French Indochina say 22 Australian prisoners have been decapitated by Japanese forces in occupied territory. They were among 965 held in Indochina, with 350 still interned near Saigon and others used for road and railroad labor. Eight US officers escaped Philippines via the China Sea but were captured at Whittan, then fled into China. Names given: Ralph Frolick, H. Stevenson, Robert Hughes, James Ladson, A. H. James, R. T. Trion, E. A. Peterson and H. B. Brandt.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Indo- China
Saigon
United States Army
Philippines
China Sea
Whittan
China
Aimen
Ralph Frolick
H. Stevenson
Robert Hughes
James Ladson
A. H. James
R. T. Trion
E. A. Peterson
H. B. Brandt
Cromwell Denies Charge in Nevada Divorce Suit
James H. R. Cromwell rejects Doris Duke Cromwell accusation that he demanded control of seven million dollars or any portion of her hundred million fortune. He calls the claim utterly without proof amid her Nevada divorce filing in Newark New Jersey.
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Cromwell
Newark
N. J.P
James H. R. Cromwell
Doris Duke Cromwell
Nevada
Dramatic day ends as De Marigny testifies in Oakes murder trial
In Nassau Bahamas, Alfred De Marigny, charged with murder of Sir Harry Oakes, declares he will testify as Crown rests. Lady Eunice Oakes describes family turmoil after Nancy Oakes’s marriage and illness. Court adjourns after cottage tour and dramatic witness lineup as defense readiness builds.
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Wassau
Bahamas
Harry Oakes
Alfred de Marigny
de Marigny
Oscar Bedford Daly
Eric Hallinan
Oscar
de Maligny
Wader
John Cox
Victoria Street
Deee
Bedlam
de Matigny
Hallinan
Eunice Oakes
Redhaired
Nancy
Debonair
Sir Harry
Mexico
Wallace Urges Unity of Labor And Agriculture
Vice President Wallace urged unity of labor and agriculture under wise government leadership at the sixth annual CIO convention in Philadelphia. He warned that if labor and agriculture fight each other or their government there is no hope, while Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt echoed calls to end provocation of strikes and to remove causes tempting violations of the pledge.
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Philadelphia
Wallace
Congress of Industrial Organizations
C.I.O
Franklin D. Roosevelt
OPA to Curb Milk Costs in Dunkirk
Buffalo district OPA chief Milton H. Friedman said action would be swift to curb a one cent milk price rise by eight Dunkirk Fredonia dealers who voted to lift per quart from 14 to 15 cents. Investigators are at work and enforcement will be strict.
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Buffalo
Milton H. Friedman
WMC Sets Threshold for Essential Establishment Status
Washington The War Manpower Commission ruled that 75 percent of a firm’s production must be in essential work for it to qualify as an essential establishment for Selective Service and manpower purposes. If essential work varies by section, a plant may receive essential rating only for that portion.
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Washington (P
War Manpower Commission
Dewey Denies 1944 Presidential Bid Amid Hanley Win
Governor Thomas E. Dewey reiterated he will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 1944 as New York voters gave Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley a solid lead over Democrat William N. Haskell. Hanley plans to take office December 15 after soldier ballots are counted, while Dewey faces questions about his national prospects.
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Albany
Dewey
Joe R. Hanleys
New York
New York City
Hanley
William N. Haskell
Democrat
American Labor Party
Haskell
Weill
Perry
Wyoming County
State Senate
Thomas W. Wallace
Dewey Stile
Army generals average age drops to fifty one
Washington reports the U S Army now has 21114 generals with an average age of 51 years. The group includes 971 regular officers and the rest from reserve, National Guard or civilian-commissioned ranks. In June 1940 the count was 104 generals and the youngest is Brig Gen Edward J Timberlake who turns 34 next week.
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Washington
National Guard
Edward J. Timberlake
Withholding Tax Policy Change Latest from Washington
The House Ways and Means Committee fixed the wage levy at 20 percent and removed toilet soap from the new excise tax list. The move tightens tax collection while easing soap itemization, signaling a shift in federal revenue measures.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Willis Wins Kentucky Governors Race In Tight Victory
Republican Simeon Willis extended his lead over Democrat J L Luter Donaldson to 4933 votes in Kentucky governor race. Unofficial totals from 324 precincts showed Willis 256240 to 251307, with Jefferson County still reporting. Willis, Ashland attorney and former state appeals judge, led early then fell behind before final tallies.
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Louisville
Simeon
Willis
J. Luter Donaldson
Kentucky
Donaldson
Jefferson County
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ashland
State Court of Appeals
Carrollto
Office Boy Could Run Networks Declares Fly
FCC Chairman James L. Fly told Senate investigators that the two major networks have prospered under FCC rules to the point that an office boy could run them. He attacked attempted legislation by NBC and CBS to curb regulatory authority and said presidents have left for Africa or elsewhere, implying they can still operate with broad profits.
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Washington
James L. Fly
Federal Communications Commission
Senate
National Broadcasting Co
Columbia Broadcasting System
Commission
Fry
Interstate Commerce Committee
Africa
You Can't Shove This Baby Around
Georgie Joe the 1,000 pound rhinoceros resists removal at Brookfield Zoo for over thirty hours. Buyers, the Pritsles, fail to load him into a padded crate and the sale collapses. Robert Bean, the zoo director, announces the deal is canceled and the animal is sent to Pittsburgh Zoo.
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Chicago
Georgie Joe
Pritsles J
Brookfield
Georgie Jars
Robert Bean
Pittsburg
Georgie Joe Meeks
Lnto
Tratn
Mother appeals for missing Moore girl in Columbus
The distraught mother of Margaret Leigh Moore, 14, missing since Sunday, issues a public plea as reports say she left Columbus yesterday after spending three days there. Police say a girl matching her description checked in at the Hotel Jefferson Monday with a sailor who registered as Edward Moore and claimed she was married. destination listed as Norfolk, Virginia.
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Columbus
O. New York
Margaret Leigh Mooe
David Moore
Park Avenue
Paverseas
Army Medical Corps
Leigh
Thomas
Hotel Jefferson
Edward Moore
Gueater
Norfolk
Liner Lafayette Hauling to Secret Drydock for War Refitting
The 83400-ton U. S. 3. Lafayette was tugged from its North River pier at 48th Street for the first time since arriving as the Normandie. Fifty-nine thousand dollar value, refit for war service at twenty thousand dollars by the Navy, while pumps kept pumping bilge water aboard as two hundred yard workers and Coast Salvage men boarded the tugs.
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New York
Governor Edge Wins With Large Victory in New Jersey
Unofficial returns show Edge of Virginia winning a strong plurality in New Jersey’s election, securing the governor’s chair and directing a draft of a new state constitution. Clarence Edge led Democrat opponents as votes reported late with Edge at about 832,315 to 96,507 for Murphy, the results marking the highest plurality for the office since 1931.
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Newark
SN. J
New Jersey
Republlican
Wailer
Edge
Venina
Viresa
Teta Amayor Newath
Murphy
Tremor Shakes Lima and Nearby Cities
An earthquake tremor rattled Lima and adjacent areas yesterday, jolting residents and prompting brief alerts. No serious damage reported as authorities assess aftershocks.
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Lima
Peta Upi
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