Gen Marshall for global command in Allied war plan
Gen George C. Marshall is tentatively slated to head a global Anglo American field command coordinating ground sea and air action under Quebec directives. If London approves he would outrank Eisenhower MacArthur and Mountbatten in a unified strategy connecting Europe Asia and the Pacific. The White House would veto changes Marshall opposes and the aim remains Germany first then Japan.
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Associated Press
Washington
George C. Marshall
Quebec
London
Marshall
Churchill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Lord Mountbatten
Asia
Britain
Canada
Roosevelt
White House
Germany
Japan
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France
Low Countries
Berlin
Joint Chiefs
Staf
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India
China
Central
Maryland Leads Bond Drive Amid Treasury Shortfall
Maryland reached 107 percent of its bond quota while Rhode Island stood at 98 and New York Ohio Minnesota Illinois New Hampshire and West Virginia showed 76 to 79 percent. The Third War Loan, at 15 billion dollars, fell to 425.0 million, leaving the nationwide drive short by 33.93 million as Treasury urged broader participation by small buyers.
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Washington
Treasury
Maryland
Rhode Island
New York
Ohio
Minnesota
Illinois
New Hampshire
West Virginia
Japan Amends Draft Law For Immediate Reexamination
The German news service DNB reported that Japan amended its military service law to reexamine and recruit Japanese rejected between 1925 and 1930. The dispatch noted U S monitoring of such changes and mentioned a food and drink ad context in the same clipping.
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New York
Japan
United States
Offensives Ahead Says Marshall at Legion Gathering
General George C. Marshall warned at the 25th American Legion convention that great offensives were about to begin in Europe and Asia. President Roosevelt urged stronger civilian defense, stressing the war is not won until unconditional surrender. Omar Bradley and Simon Buckner accompanied Marshall, noting Germans are cunning and must be exterminated. Marshall said Allied operations will shift more forces overseas to end the conflict sooner.
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Omaha
George C. Marshall
American Legion
Europe
Asia
Roosevelt
Omar Bradley
Sicily
Bradley
Simon B. Buckner
Alaska
General Marshall
Marshall
Mediterranean
Japan
Recaptured Nazi Dies in Prison Camp
One of three German war prisoners captured near Clayton on September 1 after fleeing Fort Henry prison at Kingston Ontario died in the Kingston camp of pneumonia contracted during the break. Identity withheld pending relatives contact through the Red Cross. Burial with full military honors held at Fort Henry after death a week ago.
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Watertown
Clayton
Fort Henry
Kingston
Ont
Border Patrol
Germany
Red Cross
Major Sentenced For Embezzling
Washington D C Major Garland Fielding Smith was convicted by a court martial of padding bills and embezzling government property. He is dismissed from service sentenced to two years at hard labor and fined 2500 dollars according to the War Department.
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Washington
UPI
War Department
Garland Fielding Smith
Washington, D. C
Department
Allies Occupy Aegean Islands Amid Mediterranean Push
The Allies announced British forces seized the islands of Coo, Lero and Samos, breaking Hitler’s Aegean ring. RAF planes operate from Coo. Greeks and Italians reportedly cooperated, with no German forces on the three. The events grant airfields in the Dodecanese and a naval base at Leto, near Crete, plus blasts on Venice yards, Crete, and Scarpanto.
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Egypt
Cao
Lero
Samos
Hitler
Aegean
Coo
Dodecanese
Royal Air Force
Rhodes
Crete
Leto
Malta
Inal‘ian
Gulf of Kereme
Mediterranean
Venice
Canals
R A. F
Scarpanto Island
Charge Two WPB Officials With Bribery
Washington reports WPB investigators Francis Capell and Richard Atherton were arrested in New York on bribery charges. FBI agents seized a package containing 1000 dollars after the officials allegedly advised a clothing manufacturer he violated WPB rules and could be allowed to proceed for a payment.
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Francis A. Capell
Richard C. Atherton
The
War Production Board
New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Capell
McLean Critiques War Dept On Shortened E Awards Ceremony
Washington congressman complains to Undersecretary Patterson that the War Department cut allotted time for ceremonies coloring the E awards for war production plants from 31 to 21 minutes. Patterson says he issued the order and McLean says the cut effectively cut him from the program.
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Washington
McLean
R-N.j
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Ducks begin record southward migration from Alaska
Dr Ira N Gabriel s son director of the Fish and Wildlife Service reports the major southward flight of migratory waterfowl since 1910 has started. He recently returned from Alaska where he observed the ducks demonstrating this historic movement.
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Washington
Ira N. Gabriel
Fish and Wildlife Service
Alaska
Contral Assails War Contract Profiteering Scheme
Senator Hatch denounces scandalous profits in war contracts and calls for a single government board to oversee negotiations. Undersecretary Patterson questions need for renegotiation if excess profits could be taxed away. House panel weighs eliminating current law for a postwar super tax and credits. Patterson cites inflated plant salaries and favors cost plus fixed fee contracts in rare cases.
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Seer Veeres
House
Ways and Means
Robert P. Patterson
Rep Maas
R.minn
Patterson
Skyroc
Army
Hateh
War, Navy and Treasury Departments
War Shipping Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cossacks Water Horses In Dnieper
Soviet front reports describe Red Army advances toward Smolensk and Kiev as Cossack patrols Water horses in the river. Moscow says hundreds of German troops killed, tanks destroyed, and air force shot down, with rail lines bombed and trains blown up.
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London
Dnieper
Desna River
Smolensk
Kiev
Moscow
Red Army
Melitopol
Crimean
Moscow Radio
Vitebsk
Gamel
Dzhankai
Spigot WPA Urged As Job Solution
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming Federal Works Administrator urged a public works reservoir to curb postwar unemployment. He told the District of Columbia chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers that federal control could turn the spigot on and off without competing with private business for workers and materials.
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Washington
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works
District of Columbia
American Society of Civil Engineers
Fleming
Decentralization Plan for WPB Earns New Council Backing
A newly formed WPB operations council announced a decentralization program to ease Washington workload. It aims to cut businessmen travel by up to 38 percent, reduce paper work, and speed WPB responses while addressing long standing tensions in dealing with the capital.
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Washington
WPA
War Production Board
WPB Operations Council
WPR
Fulbright Postwar Policy Bill Passes House Narrowly
The House voted 360 to 23 to back a postwar policy of international collaboration. Sponsored by Rep. Fulbright, the resolution urges establishment of international machinery to secure a just lasting peace with other nations and U S participation through constitutional processes. The vote marked a strong congressional endorsement of global engagement after Pearl Harbor debates.
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Congress
United States
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
America
Rep
Fulbright
D.-Ark
House of Representatives
MacArthur Accepts Subordinate War Role in Pacific
Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific reports General Douglas MacArthur is agreeable to a subsidiary role in the war. He said it makes little difference who wields the weapons as long as the United States wins. He added he has no personal military ambitions and is content with the prescribed role.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Lord Mountbatten
Southwest Asia
Postwar Car Styles To Be Conservative
W F Hufstader Buick general sales manager predicts postwar buyers will stay conservative and reluctant to buy flashy future cars. He says there are enough spare parts to last through the war and that show parts like chrome, fenders, and hubcaps will remain hard to obtain.
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Pittsburg
W. F. Hufstader
Buick
General Motors Corp
Hufstader
Argument on Aurelio Scheduled for Today
Efforts to remove Lagistrate Aurelio from both Democratic and Republican ballots were appealed to the Appellate Division yesterday after a Supreme Court ruling allowed his bid for the first judicial district Supreme Court seat. A 2 p.m. hearing is set. District Attorney Frank Hogan said many grand jury witnesses testified in the nomination investigation.
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New York
Lagistrate Aurelio
Supreme Court
First Judicial District
Frank Hogan
Aurelius
Fog grenade described as Nazis new weapon on Berlin radio
A Nazi colonel described a fog grenade as Germanys newest weapon on Berlin radio last night. He said the device creates a cloud up to 600 yards radius to dazzle the enemy and hide Nazi troop movements. The grenades are motorized, lighter than artillery, and fire from multiple barrels with electrical fuses for mass use.
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London
UPI
Berlin
Germany
Hawkes Accuses Fed Planners of Postwar Job Takeover
New York reports Senator Albert W. Hawkes of New Jersey charging that federal planners rely on private business failing to supply sufficient postwar jobs, forcing the government to step in on a major scale.
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New York
United States
Albert W. Hawkes
R-N. J
Allies Push For Naples Take Islands
Allied forces surge toward Naples as they push to seize Corsica Sardinia and Greek island Samos while Fifth Army expands from Naples toward the inner lines. German resistance concentrates on Corsican towns Bastia and Bonifacio as warships bring in commandos and Italian guerrillas join the fight.
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North Africa
Corsica
Sardinia
Mediterranean
Fifth Army
Naples
Eboh
Adriatic
Italy
Venice
Pescara
Middle East
Sa Itatus Dodecanese
Coa
Lero
Samos
R. A. FL
Cae
Ajaccio
Napoleon
Genoa
Henri Girauds
France
Bastia
Bonifacio
Salerno
Confession Solves Wife Slaying in Detroit Homicide
Detroit Pi-Inspector John O Whitmore reported Emyrs Richards, 51, confessed to stabbing Mary Gallian, 18, wife of his stepson, whose body was found in a basement lavatory by Richards' estranged wife. Richards said he confronted Gallian when she ordered him out, then followed her to the basement and killed her during a quarrel. Gallian’s throat was cut and a pink underslip tied around the neck. The discovery followed Mrs Richards returning from war plant duty.
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Detroit
John O. Whitmore
Police Homicide Squad
Emyrs Richards
Mary Gallian
Richards
German Air Raiders Bomb East Anglia News Item
Scattered German raiders struck across the Channel last night, dropping bombs on the outskirts of an east Anglian coast town with no casualties reported. Anti aircraft guns in a south east coast zone were in action. American bombers yesterday hit Beauvaisville, between Paris and the coast, in the second raid in two days while RAF Mitchells bombed Lens coke ovens. One Marauder and two Mitchells failed to return.
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London
Channel
Beauvaistille
Paris
R. A. F. Mitchells
Lens
WPE Releases Nylon Not For Stockings
Washington announced that about 600000 yards of parachute nylon cloth rejects and seconds will be released for civilian use this week. The War Production Board said no restrictions on nylon use, but the material is not suitable for hosiery manufacture as it has already been diverted into cloth.
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Washington
War Production Board
Labor and Management Must Agree, Bard Says
New York Navy official Ralph A. Bard told the ninth annual convention of the CSO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers that postwar veterans will not endure labor management strife. He urged friendly understanding and mutual responsibility to sustain the wartime production plant.
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New York CP
Ralph A. Bard
Bard
C. S O. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Willkie Stumps for Hanley in Syracuse Campaign
Wendell Willkie to speak in Syracuse October 21 endorses Republican lieutenant governor candidate Joe Hanley. Governor Dewey also plans to back Hanley, who faces Dem and American Labor rival Lieut. Gen. William N. Haskell. Willkie’s involvement adds national flavor to New York campaign ahead of 1944 presidential contest.
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Albany LLP
Syracuse
Wendell Willkie
Joe FR. Hanley
Dewey
Willkie
Hanley
Senate
William N. Haskell
American Labor Party
Archbishop Leads Crowded Madonna Nativity Service in Moscow
Archbishop of York officiated at Moscow’s Yelakhov cathedral for the Madonna Nativity fete as crowds filled the church and streets. Four metropolitans attended in lavish robes while the British ambassador and foreign notables watched. Incense filled the air as two choirs sang Slavic hymns and Red Army guards stood nearby.
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York
Moscow
Yelakhov
Sergei
Red Army
Russia
Churchill Pledges Second Front In Allied Offense
Churchill told Parliament a second front in France and the Low Countries will be opened with a mass Allied attack when the time is right. He outlined Allied progress in air and sea warfare, noted American troops landed in Sardinia, and spoke of a planned three power conference with Stalin and Roosevelt before year end.
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London
Winston Churchill
France
Low Countries
Commons
Churchill
Sardinia
Mussolini
Gran Sasso
Great Britain
United States
Hitler
Germany
HK. A. F
R.A.F
North Atlantic
Russia
New German Remote Control Bomb Described in Commons
The report notes Churchill described a remote controlled glider launched or released by a parent aircraft. Powered by a rocket, the pilotless craft carries bombs to a target and is steered remotely. Previous experiments show feasibility of remote bombardiers, though details of target accuracy are not explained.
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New York
Churchill
Commons
Nelson in London For War Production Conference
Donald Nelson chairman of the U S War Production Board arrived in London and met Oliver Lyttelton to speed up weapon and supplies output for the Eastern and European theater. They may set a six month production schedule detailing each country’s duties.
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London
Donald Nelson
L U. S. War Production Board
Oliver Lyttelton
Nelson
Lyttelton
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