Connally Pepper clash over postwar policy language
In a Senate session Senator Connally accused colleagues of trying to fix definitions in a pending postwar peace declaration. Pepper pressed how the term free and sovereign nations would include France, prompting Connally to say France could join only when free and clear. Eighty senators observed the exchange as debate opened.
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Nation claims record coal stockpile readiness for 1944
The Bituminous Coal Institute said the United States holds a historic coal stockpile totaling about 100 million tons with visible supply near 75.9 million tons and additional floating and invisible reserves. It projected meeting a 600 million ton quota by year end and possibly increasing by 50 million tons for 1944 as the policy committee planned a New York meeting to prepare an industry statement on the coal situation.
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NLRB Won’t Rule On Company Unions
The National Labor Relations Board paused proceedings in most company domination cases after the comptroller general’s reading of a congressional rider on Board funding. The rider bars use of funds for complaints arising from an agreement with management and labor existing three months or longer without prior charges.
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Victor Mature Plans Wedding With Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley disclosed last night she and Victor Mature plan to marry at the first available opportunity. Mature, on furlough from Coast Guard service, had been engaged to Rita Hayworth before her marriage to Orson Welles. Shirley is reportedly divorced, with lines to a prior marriage and stepfamily connections noted in the report.
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Hal Kemp
Misa Shirley
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Joba Pagna
Hull Talks With Stalin at Moscow Conference
Secretary of State Cordell Hull met Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin for 56 minutes marking the highest US official contact with Stalin since 1933. Hull then joined Eden and Molotov for a second week of talks on war and postwar issues as all three powers pursue cooperation.
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Tutor of Draft Dodgers School Pleads Guilty
Stephen Weinberg, 50, admitted in federal court to seven indictments accusing him of organizing a draft dodger school. He taught co defendants to mimic sub normal behavior, feign deafness, and used pills to affect blood pressure during exams. Co defendants to be arraigned Friday. sentence delayed to November 1.
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Stephen Weinberg
Samuel Mandelbaum
United States
James B. McNally
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President Roosevelt Feels Better After Grippe Illness
The White House reported last night that President Roosevelt is improving from grippe with only a slight fever remaining. He has been ill since Friday and remains under medical care at the executive mansion.
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Husband of Slain Heiress Questioned
New York heiress Patricia Lonergan, 22, was found dead in a Beekman Hill triplex. Her husband Wayne Lonergan, 26, a Royal Canadian Air Force cadet, was questioned in Toronto as investigators seek the stolen uniform and clues to a strangulation and skull fracture.
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Jacob Grumet
Patrick S. Kenny
Kenny
Patricia Lonergan
New York Farm Fluid Milk Price Increases 20 Cents
The New York metropolitan milk market raises farm fluid milk price from 3.50 to 3.70 per hundredweight effective November 1. Dr J C Blanford, area administrator, says the increase will add about 475000 to November dairy income in the six state area. The rise ties to higher skim milk powder costs reported by War Food Administrator Marvin Jones.
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Smith College teacher found dead in tub autopsy rules natural causes
Victoria L. Schrager,a 24 year old Smith College English instructor, was found in her suite bathtub in Northampton Massachusetts. An autopsy by state pathologist Dr Alan Moritz and Dr Frank Dutra confirmed an intracranial hemorrhage as the cause of death. Schrager’s father, Dr Victor Schrager, suffered a heart attack upon learning of his daughter's death.
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Allied Planes Hit Rabaul In Heavy Two Day Attacks
Allied air forces destroyed or damaged over 200 Japanese planes at Rabaul New Britain in raids on reinforcements. Saturday Liberators and Sunday Mitchell bombers, escorted by fighters, targeted airfields at Vunakanau Papoapo and Tobera, with ground losses tallied and reconnaissance confirming renewed enemy aircraft activity.
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Costello Aided Aurelio Nomination in Tammany Hall Testimony
Costello testified at Aurelio disbarment proceedings that Tam many leader Kennedy seemed to cool on supporting the Democratic nomination for Supreme Court justice. He recalled a promise from Kennedy after Tam many secretary Bert Stand warned of Kennedy’s waning interest.
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Acrobat Aloys Peters Die Die
A coroner's jury ruled Aloys Peters, famed aerial acrobat, died accidentally after a firemen's hall circus stunt Friday. Witnesses said two detached cords in a four strand rope prevented full stretch, leaving Peters unable to brake his 70 foot fall.
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Crown Cites Missing Shirt in Bahamas Murder Trial
Nassau Bahamas. Bahamas Supreme Court jury hears testimony on Alfred De Marigny accused of murdering his wife’s father Sir Harry Oakes. Captain Malden of the Miami police describes burned hairs and a missing shirt as suggests and a fingerprint method is to be used to place De Marigny in the crime scene the night of July 7 8.
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James ©. Barker
Miami
Harold G. Christie
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Earthquake Jolts San Francisco Area Last Night
A sharp quake lasting about 30 seconds struck the San Francisco Bay area at 9 51 pm shaking Transbay regions and the peninsula. In Ingleside telephone service failed. In San Jose about 50 miles away many plate glass storefront windows shattered and City Hall windows broke. Residents call it the strongest tremor in years.
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Romanian Denounces Mussolini and War
Julius Maniu, Romanian peasant reader, denounces Romania's recognition of the Mussolini puppet regime and says the main wish of Romanians is to quit the war. Howard K. Smith reports from Bern that Maniu told Marshal Antonescu that recognition worsens the situation with the United States and Britain. Once Transylvania Nationalist Party leader, Maniu is described as a key opponent of collaboration with Germany and remains popular with Romanians.
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Owen D. Young Backs Haskell For Lieutenant Governor
Financier Owen D. Young urged New York voters to elect Lieut Gen. William N. Haskell, Democrat and American Labor Party candidate, claiming Haskell has the broadest experience to guide soldiers back to civilian life and calling him the best choice for the state.
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Owen D. Young
William N. Haskell
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Independent Citizens’ Committee
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Postage and Luxury Tax Proposals Tap Revenue
Washington posts a sharp rise in postal rates from three to four cents for first class and raises taxes on liquor cigarettes candy gum and amusements. A new bottle soft drinks tax and higher gasoline levy are included. Rep Knutson says odds favor passage of the plan by the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Sea Burial For Tankers Dead In Florida Collision
Thirty six unidentified bodies of the 88 men killed when two tankers collided off Florida will be buried at sea today. A warship will transport the caskets from a Florida port to the service site in the Atlantic as two chaplains preside. Full military honors will be given.
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Chinese report towns pillaged after recapture near Kwangteh
The Chinese high command said troops retaking Potren and Wangchen in southern Anhwei near Kwangteh found homes burned and many civilians massacred by the Japanese. The Yunnan Burma front also saw continued severe fighting.
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Soviet Offensive Crushes German Front Across Dnieper
Moscow said Soviet forces smashed German defenses along the Dnieper near Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk, punching toward Krivoi Rog and forcing a retreat. They crossed the river near Kaidaki and stormed upper loop positions, seizing large war material as thousands of Germans were killed or captured in a spring counterpincer.
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Nazi rail base falls to Fifth Allied forces at Sparanise
Allied headquarters in Algiers reported Fifth Army troops drove three miles through heavy resistance and repelled four counterattacks to seize the rail junction at Sparanise. The capture threatens German positions from the coast to the Volturno as Montgom ery’s forces push a wider bridgehead near the Tringa.
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Nazis maltreat Soviet prisoners repatriates recall harsh camps
Several thousand wounded British prisoners arrived from Germany aboard the Empress of Russia and Drottningholm. They spoke of Nazi mistreatment of Soviet captives, noting Russian camps like Innebardy suffered typhus and high deaths while British prisoners observed improved conditions in the later war period.
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British-Nazis Duel Over English Channel
British forces and German units clashed across the Channel in a lengthy gun duel centered on the Dove area. The engagement lasted about two hours with British long-range batteries firing heavily around 9 p.m., reportedly delivering three shells for every one returned by the enemy.
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Dove
First Day's Ration Registration Shortage in Troy
Light turnout and a shortage of Ration Book 4 applications marked the first day of registration. Four schools ran out of forms within an hour after opening at 7 p.m., with emergency measures promised to supply more forms this morning for today's registrations.
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Lwow mined as defense plan amid Soviet push to Crimea
Soviet dispatches report in Lwow southeastern Poland the Germans mined the city to blow it up if a Russian breakthrough occurs. Front notes claim Krivoi Rog trapped, Melitopol fell after a 31 day battle, with street by street close combat and massive casualties among German soldiers and civilians.
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