Misleading Rumors Against War Effort Cloud Washington
President Roosevelt and the War Department voiced deep concern over reports that Gen. George C. Marshall might gain a new global command. Marshall told House members there is harmony and cooperation with the administration, while critics warned such speculation could obstruct the war effort.
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Dewey May Call Special Session to Address Nominations
Governor Dewey and state leaders discussed a special legislature session to nullify New York City Magistrate Aurelio's two major party nominations for the Supreme Court. Eight NYC citizens asked the legislature to authorize Republican and Democratic judicial conventions in the First Judicial District to reconsider the nominations after the Court of Appeals upheld Aurelio's rights. The group included Samuel Seabury, who led the Walker administration inquiry.
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Prelate Returns From Moscow After Nine Day Visit
The Archbishop of York completed a nine day visit to Moscow and left the city, as reported by the British radio in a NBC broadcast heard last night.
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Scoreboard snapshot from National and American leagues
National games show Chicago 3 New York 2 through 10 innings. Chicago 2 New York 1. Pittsburg 5 Brooklyn 2. Pittsburg 4 Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 3. Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 0. Boston 6 St Louis 5 in 2 St Louis 7 Boston 0. American results list Cleveland 11 New York 3. Philadelphia 8 St Louis 3. Boston 6 Detroit 1. Only games scheduled. Ad copy for Utica Club XXX Cream Ale and Pilaner Lager endorses ale.
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National Service Law Urged to Shift Labor to War Work
Fort Belvoir Va War Department official James P Mitchell urged national service legislation to channel labor into war industries. He said increasing productivity by 10 percent could equal a 10 percent labor force gain and outlined gaps in civilian labor, underused war workers, and uneven regional distribution.
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Gas Cheating Charge Brings Libel Indictment
Princess Anne Maryland weekly publisher Rives Skinker Matthews 37 was indicted by the Somerset County grand jury on criminal libel for articles in the Somerset News accusing Maryland State Comptroller J Millard Tawes of misusing gasoline ration coupons. Matthews released on 500 bond, trial expected before a three judge court next Tuesday.
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Heir to 70 Million Buys War Bonds
Marshall Field III, heir to a fortune valued between 70 and 75 million dollars, marked his 50th birthday by purchasing 10 million dollars in War Bonds. He signed receipts for checks and deeds, then handed a check for the bonds to Harold H. Swift, chairman of the Illinois war finance committee, in a move described as one of the era’s largest individual purchases.
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Will Freeze Rents in New York City
The regional Office of Price Administration announced rents for New York City dwellings will be frozen on November 1. Rents on houses and apartments stay at the March 1, 1933 level while hotels and rooming houses are capped at the highest charge in the 30 days ending March 1.
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Flooding Swamps Benares as Varuna Rises Narrowly
The Varuna River overflowed its banks in Benares flooding sections of the holy city. About fifty houses collapsed in a single section but no deaths were reported. Local authorities surveyed damage and urged caution for residents.
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Wilson Named To Commission For Allied Mediterranean
Washington announces 50 year old American ambassador to Panama Wilson will represent the United States on the Allied Mediterranean Commission. The body will gather and report Mediterranean insights to member governments with no decision making powers. Wilson, a career diplomat from Palatka Florida, has served in South America Europe Uruguay Paris and as observer on reparations and Rhineland evacuations. Since February 1941 he has been ambassador to Panama.
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Farm Parity Bill Gains House Committee Consent
Washington LPI A bill to set a 100 percent parity floor on basic farm commodities won approval from the House Agriculture Committee sparking a debate on whether it would curb or intensify the government food subsidy program. Chairman Fulmer said full parity would erase subsidy payments, while Rep Hope called it another form of subsidy and questioned the need for the measure.
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Child Killed in Fall While Mother Works
A 21 month old boy, John McNell, died after falling from a fourth floor Bronx window while his mother worked in a war plant. His sister Kathlee, 3, told detectives she opened the window as he sat on the sill. An elderly housekeeper cared for the seven McNell children in the mother's absence.
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Senate approves aid bill for enlisted men's wives mothers
The Senate yesterday passed and sent to the White House a bill appropriating 18,620,000 dollars for aid to enlisted service men's wives who become mothers.
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Senate
White House
WAVES not sent overseas after Senate pressure
The WAVES will remain stateside as the Navy dropped support for legislation that would have allowed overseas assignments for its women. The WACs, the Army counterpart, have no at home restriction in place.
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Navy
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Bill to Ban Dads' Draft Seen Lost
Senate debates Wheeler bill to postpone induction of pre Pearl Harbor fathers as crowds fill galleries. Wheeler taunts lawmakers while Byrd signals a 30 000 federal payroll cut inquiry. Administration backs votes to recommit and access to a final decision remains outstanding.
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Tough Time Ahead Warns Churchill in Britain War Talk
Prime Minister Churchill warned Britain the current war effort must be kept up for two more years if needed. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin echoed a hard winter ahead as 6,000 British women were urged to sustain the peak home front effort amid reports of larger armies and stronger air forces in the coming year.
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Foggia Falls Reds Bend To British Nazi Lines
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported the capture of the Italian air base at Foggia and its 13 airfields after a swift 25 mile British armored advance. Roosevelt hailed the victory as pivotal for air cover over Italy and the Adriatic, with air bases now opened to Allied air forces. The attack disrupted German positions around Naples and aided the Fifth Army’s push eastward toward Salerno, while German resistance in Foggia appeared light. A Berlin broadcast claimed German troops had landed on Corfu as the war widened in the Mediterranean theater.
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Giraud's Authority Cut as French Command Split
The Algerian national defense committee named Gen Paul Le Gentilhomme as commissioner of national defense and split French troops into two categories. Giraud retains only ops troops while other forces fall under the commissioner's direct control, a move likely to affect Eisenhower's stance in North Africa. Gentilhomme, formerly Madagascar high commissioner, joins Gaulle era Free French, while Henri Hoppe is named delegate to the United States.
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Washington
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Nazi Chief Assassinated In France
A Berlin broadcast recorded by Reuters said Julius Ritter, head of the German Manpower organization in France, was assassinated last night. The 50 year old official, formerly chief of the labor department at Nuremberg, was shot by several assailants as he left his home by car.
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France
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New Stamp on Sale Honors Nations Overrun by Axis
A five cent stamp featuring the French Flag as its central subject began sale yesterday in Washington. It is the seventh of eleven in a commemorative series honoring nations overrun by the Axis.
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Soybean Based Shoe Soles Boon For Winter Footwear
Chicago shoe trade predicts strong demand for innovative footwear with soles made from a soybean base and transparent plastic. The Chicago Shoe Travelers Association notes rationing will extend six months, while retailers buy up garden variety shoes, foreseeing popularity this winter.
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Pittsfield Lawyer Pleads Innocent In Baby Electrocution Case
Berkshire County lawyer John F. Noxon Jr. pleaded innocent to a murder charge in the death of his six month old son. The case was continued to Friday before Judge Charles Hibard. Autopsy reports were pending. Prosecutors say Noxon admitted burning wires and clothing in connection with the infant’s death, initially described as an accidental electrocution from a loose radio wire.
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Duce Returns To Italy Says Axis Radio
Axis radio reports Mussolini returned to Rome protected by Nazi guns and promised a kingless state with a new constitution. Rome dispatch quotes him addressing puppets and threatening punishment for those who ousted him. Vichy radio lists regime measures including dissolution of the senate and centralized syndicates. Reports mention German control of police in Italy and partisan activity in the north.
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Fall of Foggia Seen as Key Allied Victory
President Roosevelt called the fall of Foggia in southern Italy one of the most important Allied successes for strategic value. It brings Allied air forces closer to Germany, enables air cover for forthcoming operations in Italy and the Adriatic coast, and underscores German plans centering on Foggia.
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Plane Forced Down at Lisbon Airport
A United States four engined plane made a forced landing at a Lisbon airport yesterday. The crew surrendered to authorities for internment.
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Sixty Jap Airplanes Destroyed at Wewak Raid
Allied headquarters report a surprise heavy air attack on the Japanese shipping roadstead and airdromes at Wewak New Guinea. The strike lasted about ninety minutes destroying about sixty planes most on the ground and sinking seven ships while 3 American raiders were lost.
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Germans occupy Corfu and Split in balkans push
Berlin announced that German forces occupied Corfu after an ultimatum to Badoglio troops was refused and then seized Split in the Ionian region. The moves aim to bolster the Balkan front amid the Allied advance toward Foggia. Several thousand prisoners were reported taken on Corfu.
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House Studies Dependency Boosts
The House Military Committee opens hearings on proposals to raise government allowances to dependents of enlisted service members. Chairman May 10. The Senate approved bill would lift allowances by an average of ten percent.
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Nazis Order Greeks To Expel Italians
The Nazi high command in Greece has issued a decree ordering the immediate expulsion of all Italians who have sought refuge in Greek homes. Refusal to obey carries the death penalty, according to advices received yesterday from Greece.
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New York Exceeds Bond Quota in War Loan Drive
New York City and State surpassed their Third War Loan quotas with large parades and governmental figures leading celebrations. Dewey and La Guardia joined the march as 20,000 spectators watched and war bonds sales surpassed targets by tens of billions. city and state goals were adjusted upward amid appeals for continued purchases. The Treasury reported $14.225 billion raised with four days left to reach the remaining $775 million national goal.
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Marine Landing on Nanumea Unopposed
Pacific Fleet headquarters released pictures of an unopposed Marine landing on Nanumea on September 4. United States Marines reportedly secured a position likely near an airfield about 450 miles southeast of the Gilbert Islands as part of offensive operations against Japan.
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