Senate backs Moscow declaration for world peace
The Senate voted 85 to 2 to back the Moscow four power declaration and join free nations in establishing and maintaining international peace. Senators Johnson Langer Reynolds Shipstead and Wheeler opposed. The vote closed two weeks of tense debate on postwar American role in world affairs.
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United States
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Moscow
Foreign Relations Committee
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Reynolds
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Britain
Russia
China
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New Battle With Japs Expected In Solomons Drift
Allied headquarters report Japan rushing heavy and light cruisers destroyers from Truk to Rabaul to block the Allied Solomons advance. Convoys sighted southbound 800 miles from Truk toward Kavieng New Ireland and Rabaul New Britain include five heavy cruisers three light cruisers five destroyers two corvettes a whaling ship and three freighters with one a transport.
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Rabaul
Solomons
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New Treland
New Britain
OPA Enjoins Milk Dealers in Dun kirk Fredonia Area
The Office of Price Administration obtained a temporary injunction restraining four milk distributors in the Dun kirk Fredonia area from buying and selling milk in violation of OPA price controls. Federal Judge John Knight ordered them to show cause next Thursday why they should not be permanently enjoined.
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Office of Price Administration
Dunkirk
Fredonia
John Knight
Hitler Still Inspires Nazis Says Buffalo Colonel
Lieut Col Maurice Lutwack, returning to Buffalo after a year in North Africa, said most Germans captured there still regard Adolf Hitler as a great ideal misled by officers. He spoke as chief of the prisoners of war division of the provost marshal general section.
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New Ration Coupons Trigger Spending Spree in Britain
London reports clothing sales in Britain rose to the highest in three years during September as new ration coupons for a 12 month period spurred a widespread spending spree. The Board of Trade notes overall sales climbed about 80 percent from August, the final month of the old coupon book.
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Board of Trade
Fragmentary note on Reer intake and beverages
Incomplete OCR fragment mentions moderate intake of Pilsner Laser or NX beverages in a friendly influence. No clear persons places or dates. Further readable text needed for a concrete item.
De Marigny Faces Harsh Cross Examination In Murder Trial
In the Bahamas Supreme Court, Alfred De Marigny endures hours of cross examination by Attorney General Eric Hallinan as he testifies under oath about his alibi the night Sir Harry Oakes was killed and about his relations with the elder Oakes. The defense remains calm and composed despite probing questions as the courtroom tightens around him.
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Bahamas
Eric Hallinan
Alfred de Marigny
Supreme Court
Sir Harry Oakes
Sir Harry
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Hallinan
Contol
Oakes
Nancy
Stern
Oscar Bedford Daly
Owl Stinks Says Rep Taber
The House rejected a proposed $4 million cut from a $5 million fund for the Office of War Information in a deficiency bill by a teller vote 146 to 139. Rep Taber CR-N offered the amendment, calling OWL a stench as Republicans largely supported the cut and Democrats opposed it.
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House
Office of War Information
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Taber
Berlin Says Vatican City Is Bombed
Berlin controlled Rome radio claimed Vatican City was bombed last night with four bombs damaging historic sites including Labora torio Del Mosaici near the governor’s palace. No Allied confirmation yet. The broadcast suggested Allied aircraft conducted the raid.
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Rome
Vatican City
Ministry of Information
Laboratorio del Mosaici
Berlin
Vatican
St. Peter's Cathedral
Victory Will Be Ours Says Eisenhower in Algiers Message
Allied commander in North Africa General Dwight D. Eisenhower declared that Germany faces utter defeat and vowed victory in the Pacific as the North Africa landings anniversary is observed. He emphasized that Allied forces are already on the offensive and strong prospects prevail for final victory.
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Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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North Africa
Pacific
Parrot Confesses Clues Lead to Murder Arrest in Baltimore
In a New York led case, Robert Buttler, 28, a former taxi driver, is arrested for homicide after the Green Parrot bar killing of Max Geller in July 1942. A talking parrot repeatedly shouted Buttler’s name, aiding police who questioned patrons and, with evidence including French testimony from two women, identified him. Buttler fled to Baltimore where he had worked in a shipyard before being arrested.
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Talking Parrot
Robert Buttler
Max Geller
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Robert
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Lowss
Pagnueco
Buttler
Pagnucco
Baltimore
Geller
Battle for Kiev Reopens as Soviet Forces Drive In
Soviet forces launched a northern and western push into Kiev, breaking two German lines and advancing 16 miles in 24 hours from a Dnieper bridgehead. Priorka fell, Svyatoshin was captured, and rail and road routes to Korosten and Zhitomir were cut. Moscow said eleven counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses. About 3,000 German troops were killed or wounded.
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CPI
Kiev
Moscow
Dnieper
Priorka
Svyatoshin
Korosten
Zhitomir
Soviet Monitor
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Curran Reclassified to 2-A by Selective Service
Joseph Curran president of the National Maritime Union has been reclassified from 1-A to 2-A for six months by order of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey national Selective Service director Local Board 18 announced Curran 37 was placed in 1-A last September 17 after his deferment as a seaman was revoked He will be 38 next March and was previously 27-B civilian essential to the war effort.
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New York GP
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
CG. I. U
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Curran
New York City Selective Service Appeals Board
Maritime Union Chieftain
General Hershey
Francis K Shepherd
Marines Land on Totokino Island in Bougainville Action
United States Marines occupied Totokino Island off Cape Totokino in Bougainville’s Empress Augusta Bay two minutes after midnight Thursday. A few Japanese were killed with no prisoners taken. Twenty-nine Japanese bodies were found on Puruata Island, occupied Tuesday. A few prisoners were taken on Bougainville, but only minimal patrol action reported there.
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South Pacific
United States
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Empress Augusta Bay
Puruata Island
Bougainville
Mino 1
Waterspout Sighting Over Casco Bay Near Portland Me
A tall waterspout rose over Casco Bay near Portland, lasting about 15 minutes. Army observers reported a cloud-formed top, with cloud base around 3,000 feet and top near 6,000 feet, extending from seven miles offshore toward the shore before dissipating.
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Weather Bureau
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Halfway Rock
London Nightcap Air raid alarms and anti aircraft fire
London endured another night air raid warning with anti aircraft guns firing at an approaching enemy plane. Reports say the target may have been a new German ME-41G type flying at high speed over the suburbs.
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London
Wita
Eden Confers In Cairo With Turkish Foreign Minister
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemenoğlu met at the British Embassy in Cairo in what appeared to be the first in a series of talks The undisclosed topic fueled London belief that Ankara could offer Turkish concessions to the Allied war effort potentially including air bases and even possible Turkish entry into the war The meeting follows Eden's trip from the Moscow tri power talks and aims to ease Turkish concerns about Soviet influence in the Black Sea and Balkans.
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Anthony Eden
Numan Menemenologlu
London
Cairo
Turkey
Eden
Dirst
Tripower
Moscow
Iest
Black Sea
Balkans
Allies Near Rome as Fifth Army Advances toward Salvation
Allied headquarters report the Fifth Army pressing from Salerno toward the Garigliano and the Adriatic sector where the Eighth Army reaches toward the Trigno River. Rome remains about 75 miles away with possible Christmas or New Year’s capture. Germans flood plains and prepare a new defensive line along the Au runc mountains as they retreat across the Galigliano plain.
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Salerno
Fifth Army
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Adriatic
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Ime
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Venus
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Au Lunci
Volturno
Naples
C I O Considers Change to Little Steel Wage Formula
United Steel Workers plans to press for a wage increase at the Monday meeting of the steel workers executive committee in Philadelphia as the C I O sixth annual convention closes. President Philip Murray signaled caution while noting support for a wage stabilization program.
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United Steel Workers
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Japs May Evacuate Rabaul Say Knox
Secretary of the Navy Knox raised the possibility that Japan might evacuate the Rabaul base in the Southwest Pacific. He cited the Bougainville campaign, where Marines hold the islands and airfields, as potentially forcing an evacuation without a fight. The scenario remains remote but possible.
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Rabaul
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Southwest Pacific
Knoox
Bougaville Island
Bougainville
Finns Plan Peace Bid
Finnish diplomat Dr Juhu Paasi kivi, who helped broker peace with Russia before, travels to Moscow again seeking an end to the war. London and Swedish sources note secrecy, possible new Finnish efforts, while Dagens Nyheter warns time is against Finland. The war drags on at a halting pace.
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Stockholm
Juhu Paasikivi
Russia
Moscow
London
Dagens Nyheter
Finland
Finnland
New Board To Probe Living Costs
President Roosevelt named a labor industry public board to investigate wartime living costs amid union complaints that costs outpaced wage gains. Board members from the War Labor Board will report in sixty days, beginning Monday, to clarify what the cost of living means across regions and families. The AFL, railroad men and miners back the move while opposing Congress farm bloc pressure to raise food prices.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
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Congress Farm Bloc
Steel Plant Strike Grows in Buffalo
About 1,800 to 2,000 Republic Steel Buffalo plant workers were idle after an unauthorized walkout by 373 blooming mill employees protesting unsafe practices. Union leader David R Sneddon of Public Local 1743, United Steel Workers, cited 7,200 idle workers, and said the company informed most workers there was no work due to the stoppage in the blooming mill.
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Republic Steel Corporation
Blooming Mill
David R Sneddon
Republic Local
United Steel Workers of America
Sneddon
Czechs Ally With Soviets
Washington reports the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia agreed on a twenty-year military alliance to deter German aggression. President Edvard Benes will sign in Moscow, with terms similar to the 1942 British-Russian pact. Poland eyes resuming relations, and an eastern European commission idea is proposed to handle future crises as the Red Army advances west.
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Washington
UPI
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Edward Benes
Moscow
Poland
Soviet Union
Hull
Anthony Eden
Eastern European Commission
Allied Council
Italy
Germany
Allied Air Bombardment Hits German Industrial Centers
American bomber fleets as large as 700 aircraft attacked Wilhelmshafen Gelsenkirchen and Muenster with heavy escorts. The raid involved Thunderbolts and Lightning fighters and aimed at western German targets including rail yards and synthetic plants. Estimated 2000 tons of bombs may have fallen with several bombers missing. Overnight raids and daylight missions over northern France continued, signaling a sustained round the clock attack.
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London
Wilhelmshafen
Gelsenkirchen
Europe
Muenster
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
France
Belgum
Wilhelmshaver
United States
Adolf Hitler
U.S
Eighth Air Force
War Labor Board approves coal wage scale with qualifier
The War Labor Board voted eleven to one to approve the Ickes Lewis coal wage scale with one unresolved point. The seven month dispute shut mines four times and cost over 40 million tons of coal. The new deal, arranged by John L Lewis and Interior Secretary Ickes, sets daily earnings at 50 dollars, up 1.50 from the prior contract.
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Washington
Eastern Allies Reach Agreement On Strategy
Washington reported that American, British, and Chinese military leaders reached full agreement on conduct and supply of continental operations against Japan during a Chungking conference. President Roosevelt described the talks as extreme and successful, though he declined details and noted no changes to plans for Bougainville Island and Rabaul operations. A Moscow conference reportedly altered nothing about General Marshall’s role.
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Chungking
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Deni
Bougainy
Rabaul
George C Marshall
Army
Coal Strike Shapes Alabama Deal With Wage Increases
Operators in Alabama say several mines will not reopen until the government sets new coal ceiling prices. An agreement grants pay hikes totaling about twenty to 23 cents a day for miners and extends the work day. The anthracite section passed with no objections, while the board approved a shift toward tonnage or piecework pay in other areas. Wayne Motse dissented lone.
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Ala
Alabama
Wayne L. Motsefied
Wols
Don’t Swoon Frank Sinatra 1-A reassessment sparks doubt
The 26-year-old singer Frank Sinatra, still popular with fans, says he fears little mass mourning if drafted. He details his health as underweight at five feet ten and 136 pounds, and notes his wife Nancy and growing family as he awaits his final physical exam before continuing his work. He jokes about hoping for a Christmas baby.
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New York
Sinatra
Nancy
Hasmouck Hershts
N. J
Nazis Will Get Bill For Pillaged Art
A wartime note from Richmond states that Nazis will be billed for property damage and pillaged art during the conflict. It references German seizure of treasures and a claim for restitution tied to wartime occupation.
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Germies
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