Editorial: More than Moscow pledges
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Background of news –
Moscow military plans
By Col. Frederick Palmer, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Millett: Folks with something to sell are ‘sitting pretty’
Fellow who wants place to live or something to eat must ‘listen’ and like it
By Ruth Millett
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Callahan: Your boy in uniform likes his women smartly attired
New dance frocks are designed to banish blues and make ‘his’ partner look her best
By Rosellen Callahan
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Veteran Navy officer outclasses admirals
Providence, Rhode Island (UP) –
Petty Officer Ephraim King, Negro veteran of the Navy, can outclass an admiral when it comes to decorations.
At 60, King’s left sleeve is decorated with 12 golden hashmarks. He wears 16 of his 24 campaign bars representing service in all parts of the globe, Since he enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice boy at 12, King has served on 25 warships.
Social Security gives unexpected aid to thousands of widows with children
Some refuse ‘charity’ until payments are explained as earned insurance; many think of it only as aid to urged
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Duke heiress asks divorce
Cromwell seeks $7 million, she alleges
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Business drop expected at end of war
Steady decline seen after ‘Nazis’ defeat until well on into 1946’
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Uncle Sam broadcasts lullabies to his boys
African network music is sweet and low
By Si Steinhauser
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Executive plot hinted in pigeon-control plea
Presidential appeal for special ‘war powers’ investigated as dictatorial move
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Völkischer Beobachter (November 4, 1943)
Was das Moskau-Kommuniqué wohlweislich verschweigt
Jud Sulzberger plaudert aus der Schule
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U.S. Navy Department (November 4, 1943)
Communiqué No. 480
Pacific and Far East.
U.S. submarines have reported the sinking of ten enemy vessels and the damaging of three others in operations against the enemy in waters of these areas, as follows:
SUNK:
- 1 large tanker
- 1 medium tanker
- 1 patrol craft
- 4 medium freighters
- 1 large freighter
- 1 small freighter
- 1 large cargo transport
DAMAGED:
- 1 medium tanker
- 1 small freighter
- 1 large freighter
These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department Communiqué.
South Pacific.
On the early afternoon of November 2, 1943 (East Longitude Date), a reconnaissance plane, operating under the command of Adm. Halsey, attacked and sank a 1,000‑ton enemy freighter 30 miles southwest of Ocean Island. The plane was damaged, apparently by anti-aircraft fire, and a number if her personnel were wounded.