The Pittsburgh Press (October 4, 1942)
Director Byrnes ordered to put limit on profits
President says 90% of nation’s grocery bill will be stabilized
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Henderson’s order hits most items
Quotations frozen at highest point between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2
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Aleutian base seized by Army
U.S. occupies position 250 miles nearer Japan
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Allies blast 5 Jap ships in Solomons
3 cruisers believed hit; Aussies seize village in New Guinea
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Byrnes, 63 and energetic, noted as troubleshooter
Ex-Justice who served 10 years in Senate came up the hard way
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Seven burn to death in Akron plane crash
Akron, Ohio (UP) – (Oct. 3)
Art least seven crew members of a medium Army bomber were burned to death tonight when the plane crashed and burned as it took off from Akron Airport.
Airport officials said seven bodies had been removed from the wreckage and that there might be another body in the plane.
Witnesses said one of the plane’s motors sputtered just after the takeoff. A flash followed, they said, and the bomber plunged about 100 feet to the earth just beyond a knoll at the west end of the field and burned fiercely.
Great naval battle
Tokyo, Japan – (Tokyo broadcast recorded in San Francisco)
A great naval battle is going on in the Solomon Islands, Capt. Hideko Hirade, Japanese Navy spokesman, announced Saturday.
Chrysler employees get wage increase
Washington (UP) – (Oct. 3)
The War Labor Board tonight awarded 90,000 employees of the Chrysler Corp. a wage increase of 4¢ an hour, which would add an estimated $7,488,000 to the company’s annual payroll.
This award came on the heels of President Roosevelt’s economic orders which in part specified that “inequalities” would be a determining factor in the granting of wage increases.
Chrysler employees, represented by the United Auto Workers (CIO), had asked an increase of 12.5¢ an hour.
Dealers doubt coffee supply can be boosted
Decrease in shipments from South America is main factor
By the United Press
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Tax increase due to boost whisky prices
Nation’s supply expected to last at least 3½ years
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Get ready!
Army cooks given menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas
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Broadcasters rap Petrillo’s ban on records
Action of musicians’ boss described as ‘more than intolerable’
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U.S. fliers bomb Japs at 30 feet in Burma
New Delhi, India (UP) – (Oct. 3)
American medium bombers, swooping down to within 30 feet of the Jap air base at Tingka, near the China-Burma border, destroyed one building with a direct hit and scored near misses on other installations, Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bissel, commanding United States Army Air Forces in India, Burma and China, announced today.
The attack was made Sept. 27, by planes based in India. Natives and soldiers were working on runways, and a shower of high explosive and fragmentation bombs sent them flying.
On the way home, the bombers dropped to 100 feet and blasted tractors parked along railroad tracks at Katha, in northeast Burma, 135 miles from the Indian frontier. Another bomber attacked Jap barracks at Myitkyina, also in northwest Burma.
Fighters and bombers machine-gunned and dropped fragmentation and firebombs on Washawng and two adjoining villages in the Myitkyina area Sept. 28. The villages were left in flames. All the American planes returned.
Fourth Red Feather Night will be dedicated to China
Americans imprisoned by Japs in Hong Kong will speak
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Male stars leaving so girls take over major screen roles
Film writers turning out scripts suitable for women as men join fighting ranks
By Hedda Hopper
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Maidens in uniform a good idea but it fails to pan out in play
Inexpert farce, Vickie is yarn about females in wartime groups
By Jack Gaver, United Press drama editor
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‘Aussies’ get phony ideas about us through movies
They think this is a nation of glamor girls and swaggering cowboys
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