Four to One American Air Forces Trounce Foe
The OWI reports American air forces hold a four to one advantage over Axis aircraft in wartime losses through Sept 1 1943. Army and Navy air arms claim 4 5 enemy planes for every U S loss, with improvements in fighters bombers and tactics. Major General Chennaults China air group racked up 442 Japanese planes destroyed and 41 000 tons of shipping sunk in 13 months.
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Washington
Navy
Office of War Information
OWI
United States
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Germany
Japan
Glaire L. Chernault
China
Saltonstall Ejects New York Reporter at Press Conference
Massachusetts Governor Saltonstall angrily expelled Arnold Beichman of PM from his press conference and the state house after Beichman wrote a piece accusing Boston Jews of terror by Christian front hoodlums. A state police sergeant escorted Beichman out. Saltonstall demanded truth.
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Boston
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
New York
Arnold Beichman
State House
Saltonstall
Beichman
Theodore Stavredes
Hull at Teheran Berlin Reports on Diplomatic Move
Berlin radio reported Cordell Hull U S secretary of state arrived in Teheran Iran en route to the tripartite conference in Moscow Anthony Eden British foreign secretary and W Averell Harriman US ambassador to Soviet Russia were also in Teheran en route to Moscow The Teheran radio credited the report There has been no Washington confirmation of Hulls Moscow trip The distance from Washington to Moscow via Brazil Egypt and Iran is about 12000 air miles.
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London
Berlin
Cordell Hull
U. S
Teheran
Iran
Moscow
Anthony Eden
W. Averell Harriman
Soviet Russia
Washington
Hull
Brazil
Egypt
Persia
London Paper Criticizes Talking American Senators
The London Daily Mail blasted five talking American senators for creating anti British and anti American sentiment over lend-lease. It argued the senators are ignorant of facts and noted America has received credit for material Britain supplied. It cited 1942 Milk aid to North Africa, distributed by American Red Cross from America, but sourced from British stocks.
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London “P
London Daily Mail
America
Britain
The
Daily Mail
North Africa
Red Cross
Wounded Sailor Kills Abnormal Son and Self
Joseph Keane, a 45 year old sailor with a lung injury from the Aleutians, shot his year old son near a lakeside golf course then killed himself. A note on his uniform explained love for his son and fear the child would be kicked around after his death. Keane’s wife had left the child in a home for abnormal children and obtained a final divorce decree last Tuesday.
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San Francisco
Joseph Keane
Joseph, Jr
Uean
James A. Keane
Keane
Turkey Threat Shrinks Ithaca Turkeys Amid Disease Woes
In Ithaca New Jersey growers faced heavy losses as trichomonads struck flocks. Officials warned culture measures are needed to save Thanksgiving turkeys. E Y Smith cited danger to twelve week old birds and urged control to prevent further declines.
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Turkey
Ithaca
N. J
Ins
E. Y. Smith
State College of Agri
Adams Street Man Waives for Grand Jury
Salvatore Presutti aged 34 of 71 Adams Street was arraigned in Troy Police Court on a charge of attempted felonious assault against his 18 year old stepdaughter. He pleaded not guilty and waived exam. the man had been confined since Oct 9 following a knife wound allegedly inflicted by his wife Mrs Margaret Presutti.
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Salvatore Presutti
Adams Street
Samari
Margaret Presutti
James F. Byron
Troy
Presutti
Benjamin Marsicano
Examina
Grand jury probes man as wife faces assault charge
Presutti's wife awaits grand jury action on a first degree assault charge after reportedly admitting stabbing her husband but saying it was in defense of her daughter from a prior marriage. A freight car blaze near the Meat Dealers on Canal Avenue and First Street caused minor exterior damage to a Great Northern Railroad eight car. firefighters extinguished it quickly.
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Tion
Grand Jury
Presutti
Pumper 3
Canal Avenue
First Street
Great Northern Railroad
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Joseph A. Walkinshaw
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