De Marigny Freed in Bahamas Murder Case Verdict
Alfred De Marigny was acquitted in the Bahamas Supreme Court of the murder charge in the Sir Harry Oakes case. The jury, after about an hour and forty minutes of deliberation, recommended deportation from Nassau. De Marigny embraced his wife Nancy as the courtroom erupted, while Chief Justice Daly had outlined weaknesses in the prosecution's evidence.
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Bahamas Supreme Court
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Oscar Bedford Daly
Harry Oakes
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Gift Jars of Jams Not Rationed for Holidays
Washington announces zero point value for jars weighing five and a half ounces or less, aimed at gifts for servicemen as stocks remain small. Larger jars up to eight ounces stay rationed with two to three point values, and point-free sales end after the holiday season while February will reestablish chart values.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Slavs Say Nazis Use Reds As Jap Volunteers
Advices from Tito's Partisan HQ claim Germans conscripted Russian POWs for Balkans service and dubbed them Japanese volunteers. Yugoslav guerrillas reportedly damaged key lines, prompting a three day non military traffic blockade on Croatian corridors. Rail disruption from Villach to Gorizia persisted after German repairs, as Partisans blew a 65 foot bridge.
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Josip Broz
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Balkans
Italy
Austria
Yugoslavia
Villach
Gorizia
Drum urges finish the fight in Armistice Day address
Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum U.S. Army Retired asked New York audiences to let the armed forces finish the job this time. He said the 1918 Muese Argonne cessation was his one real lasting regret and urged not to interfere until the conflict is finished.
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Hugh A. Drum
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Muese-Argonne
Women's Overseas Service League
Flyer killed in crash near San Diego
Pi-One flyer was killed yesterday and another parachuted safely when Army officials said their P-38 Lightnings broke up in a power dive started unwittingly by the squadron leader who had lost consciousness.
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Cal
Army
Red Army advances threaten central Ukraine rail hub
Soviet forces push westward burning through towns toward Korosten Berdichey railway hub. Radomysl retaken near Zhitomir as Gomel offensive yields 2,000 German deaths and six strongpoints. Berlin comments on the display of Soviet power as snow freezes the front. Continued on Page Nineteen. In Lebanon, martial law follows arrests as French troops clash with protesters and Lebanon’s leaders are detained amid regional protests and severed lines with Syria.
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Edward Spears
Syria
Jean Heileu
Levant
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Mustapha Nahas Pasha
Beirut
Tripoli
Shoukri el Kuwaili Bey
Riad el Solh
WLB Members Deplore Coal Wage Agreement
Washington GP Three War Labor Board members deplore the Ickes Lewis coal mining wage agreement, warning it may spark another coal crisis. They say the crisis will test whether current government powers can curb recalcitrant unions. The delayed concurring opinion was joined by industry members urging tougher legislation against current power.
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War Labor Board
Ickes-Lewis
William H. Davis
George W. Taylor
Frank P. Graham
Nazis Move Troops To Southern France
Reports say German forces halted scores of scheduled troop movements in southern France for five days due to heavy relocations to the coast from Marseille to the Pyrenees. A French traveler noted widespread suspensions of civilian rail transport across Bordeaux Montauban Toulouse Carcassone Montpellier Perpignan.
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France
Marseille
Pyrenees
Bordeaux Montauban
Toulouse-Carcassone- Montpellier- Perpignan
Eden Presents Moscow Conference Promise to Commons
Anthony Eden told the Commons that the Moscow three power talks by Britain the United States and the Soviet Union reassured the world and wrecked a German bid to fracture Allied unity He said there was a useful exchange on economic questions and that all sides now understand each other’s views while cautioning that total agreement would be the millennium not reality He addressed France and Poland indirectly noting they were not included and asserted the three powers bear responsibility for lasting peace after the war.
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London
Anthony Eden
Commons
Moscow
Ofurope
Europe
Eden
France
Poland
Strike Precaution Buffalo UP
An Army transport officer said yesterday the federal government will operate rail carriers if a nationwide railroad workers strike occurs to ensure a steady flow of war materials to battle fronts.
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Army
Raised Eyebrows Fly at Soap Operas in Radio News
FCC Chairman James L. Fly blasted radio networks for soap operas and alleged attempts to scare Congress with dramatic cries of dictatorship. He mocked changing programs by raised eyebrows and criticized money-giveaway and lottery shows as filling daytime hours with cheap drama.
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Washington
James L. Fly
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
William S. Paley
Columbia Broadcasting System
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Fly
Germans Smash Italian Ports As Fifth Advances
Naples reports a series of mutilation murders as a killer is sought among German released patients. As Allied forces press a drive toward Mignano, German engineers begin demolishing Leghorn and Pescara to blunt the Allied advance. American troops seize heights near Mount Reotondo, opening routes to Cassino while Rome radio cites Clark’s Fifth Army attacks in the Volturno valley.
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Reotondo
Cassino
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Mark W. Clark
Volturno
Robert Dunnet
Ftalian Ports
Hoover Urges Food to Europe Plan Again
President Hoover reiterated a proposed food aid program aimed at easing hunger among women and children in western European democracies. British official Dingle Foot warned shipping food to occupied areas would worsen shortages, saying Europe is not wholly famine-stricken and Britain will not revive the WWI plan.
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Europe
Washington
Britain
Herbert Hoover
Europa
House of Commons
Dingle M. Foot
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Belgium
Williams to Share Thomas Nast Cartoons
Drawings by the late Thomas Nast are divided into sets for distribution to American libraries and colleges. Cyril Nast and Mrs Mabel Nast Crawford of New Rochelle announced institutions to receive sets including Williams College Morristown public library Hamilton College Colgate Yale Princeton and New Rochelle library.
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Thomas Nast
America
Cyril Nast
Mabel Nast Crawford
New Rochelle
Williams College
Morristown
Public
Hamilton College
Colgate University
Princeton University
Yale University
Wake Curtain Raiser Says Bard on Wake Island Planes
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard said the October 5 and 6 Wake Island operation featured more aircraft carriers than ever assembled in one place. He warned the Wake action is a curtain-raiser for larger operations to come, noting Japan’s four carriers faced Midway in June 1942.
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Chicago
UPI
Ralph Bard
Wake Island
Midway
Wake
Ghostly orange hand puzzle solved by Chicago Times reader
Chicago Times reporter Eddie Throm spent three nights in the Howard Johnsons house in Sterling uncovering the source of a local haunting. He concluded the orange hand effect came from an electric sign across the street, blue and red bulbs refracted by car headlights, with creaks from nails and hammering on the stairs.
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Chicago Times
Howard Johnsons
Eddie Throm
the Times
R. E. Shanger
Johnson's
Throm
Moctecuma
Prohibition Party Nominating Conven tion Today
Indianapolis delegates at the 19th presidential nominating convention of the Prohibition Party adopted a platform opposing centralization and totalitarian government. They pledge to decentralize the national administration and restore states’ constitutional role, reduce bureaucratic waste. Presidential and vice presidential nominees will be chosen today.
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Indianapolis
Prohibition Party
United States
Revamped Tax Bill Set For Debate On House Floor
The Ways and Means Committee approved a $2.1429 billion wartime tax measure headed to debate. Revamped liquor tax cuts to $9 a gallon, new revisions on renegotiation of war contracts, and no extra tax burden on individuals or corporations were proposed. The plan boosts postal rates and excises to raise about $1.375 billion, adds $616 million from altered excess profits tax, and saves $140 million by disallowing certain excise deductions. Continued on page twenty four.
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Washington LLP
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lord Woolton Heads British Reconstruction Effort
Churchill creates a Ministry of Reconstruction to rebuild Britain after the peace. Lord Woolton shifts from food ministry to lead the vast program with supreme control and war cabinet seat, praised for wartime rationing successes and the famous Woolton Pie.
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London
War Cabinet
Truck Production To Be Increased In 1944
R L Vaniman director of the automotive division of the War Production Board announced that 123 492 civilian trucks will be produced in 1944. The figure nearly quadruples the previously announced civilian truck production plan. Vaniman spoke after a meeting with automotive industry leaders and said non military truck manufacture would receive top priority to support war needs.
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R. L. Vaniman
Automotive Division
War Production Board
Vanitson
Lehman Elected UNRRA Director General in Atlantic City
Former New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman was unanimously chosen as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Delegates from nations praised his fitness for rehabilitating occupied areas with food clothing medicine and other aid as liberated armies move in.
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If Nations
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Lehman
Tungfu F. Tsiang
Anders Fridegen
United States
Owen Dixon
Australia
P. A. Kerstene
Netherlands
Rafael de la Colina
Mexico
Dixon
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Oceania
Kerstene
Steater
Dean Acheson
France
Norway
Acheson
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Abdication of King Vittorio Expected in Italy
Indications point to King Vittorio Emanuele's abdication within days. A regency would govern for his one year old grandson, the Prince of Naples. Count Carlo Sforza, back from exile in the United States, is seen as likely to replace Marshal Pietro Badoglio as premier.
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Vittorio Emanuele
Prince of
Carlo Sforza
Italy
United States
Pietro Badoglio
Grange Warns of Milk Shortage in Winter Time
Grand Rapids Mich convention of the national Grange warned yesterday of a serious milk shortage this winter and urged Congress to direct the Office of Price Administration to raise ceilings to spur production. The action soon, dairymen need better prices, the Grange said, and the OPA would bear responsibility for consumer shortages.
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National Grange
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Sinatra Warns Teens Over Lunch Line Crisis
Frank Sinatra and his management faced disruption as teen fans crowded theaters delaying shows. With a December three week tour planned in Boston Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at 15000 dollars weekly plus profits, the star faces 1-A draft status. The agent suggested two solutions: demand lunch checks or escort fans outside to sing. Sinatra opposes a brash move.
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Frank Sinatra
Amny
Gettir
Boston
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Sinatra
George Evans
H “T
Frankie
Frank
Evans
Marine Landing Secured Bougainville Victory Declared
Allied troops reinforced by Army forces secured a six mile beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville in the southwest Pacific. General MacArthur's spokesman dismissed Tokyo claims of sinking ships as baseless and noted the beachhead firmly in Allied hands.
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Bouganville
Douglas MacArthur
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Rabaul
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Buin
Postwar Auto Travel Will Be Hazardous
The National Safety Council foresees a perilous postwar driving era. Back from combat, millions of veterans will resume driving with renewed speed, drivers will face full tanks after rationing, worn cars and tires will raise danger, and many motorists will be rusty and slow to react to emergencies.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Sidney J. Willliams
No Rest for Japs Declared by Nimitz in Speech
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, declared last night that our time has come to strike and that the Jap will receive no rest anywhere. The bold message was read as signaling an early invasion of Japan’s defended Pacific bases after recent raids at M arens Nauru Tarawa and Wake.
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Pearl Harbor
T. H. Gpr
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Japan
Nauru
Tarawa
Civilians Flee Bucharest Amid Government Move
Radio reports panic in Bucharest as civilians flee the Romanian capital. Government offices were moving to Braila, a grain export port 183 miles northeast near the Danube delta, as panic spread through the city.
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Radio France
Alegiers
Bucharest
Braila
Danube
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