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September 11, 1942

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1942Lola Falana, American actress, singer, and dancer^[†]

Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana, better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1975 for her performance as Edna Mae Sheridan in Doctor Jazz.

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Headlines from September 11, 1942

All College Students Face Call To Active Army Duty at Age of 20; Stimson Warns Those Now in Reserve That Their Manpower Is Needed as Fast as They Can Qualify for Induction STUDENTS AT 20 FACE ARMY CALL

By Charles Hurdspecial To the New York Times

Sec Stimson on War Dept plan to replace coll quasi-mil programs with revised ROTC program

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REPUBLICANS PRESS PRICE-CURB GRANT; House Banking Minority Asks Waiver of Hearings on Inflation Bill for President REPUBLICANS PRESS PRICE-CURB GRANT

By C.p. Trussellspecial To the New York Times

Ditter offers bill to disallow wage and salary increases under cost-plus-fixed-fee plan, House

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U.S. SUITS CHARGE WORLD-WIDE TRUST IN VITAL PLASTICS; Monopoly in War Materials Is Laid to Du Pont and Other Firms in Indictments BIG FIRM ACCUSED AS PLASTICS TRUST

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

5 Amer cos and officials and 3 foreign cos named in 2 indictments charging anti-trust violation in plastic materials; trial postponed; Rohm & Haas Co defends practices

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Foe Checked Nearer Port Moresby; Both Sides Lose Heavily in Battle; BITTER FIGHTING RAGES ON NEW GUINEA JAPANESE SLOWED IN NEW GUINEA PUSH

By Byron Darntonwireless To the New York Times

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, Sept. 11 -- The fighting between Australians and Japanese on the trail that leads from Buna to Port Moresby. New Guinea, is approximately midway between the Gap, high point of the trail, and the southernmost ridge of mountains above the rolling valley at the coastal end of which Port Moresby is situated.

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NAZIS ADD TO GAINS; Stalingrad's Defenders Give Up Three More Points Near City SOVIET FLIERS BATTER FOE Novorossiisk Bitterly Contested -- Germans Claim Vital Heights on Two Main Fronts RUSSIANS RETIRE FOR A FOURTH DAY

By the Associated Press

st fighting reptd, Novorossiisk

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INCOME TAX LIFTED 18 MIDDLE RANGE; While Easing It in Lowest Brackets Senators Put Net Revenue Gain at $33,000,000 INCOME TAX LIFTED IN MIDDLE RANGE

By Frederick R. Barkleyspecial To the New York Times

com lowers income rates in lowest brackets, raises them in middle brackets, increases personal transportation tax, rejects increase on cigarette papers and tubes, rejects increases on internatl telephone and telegraph messages, removes $3 gal tax on indus alcohol imported from Cuba and rejects beer tax increase

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SOVIET BOMBS SET MORE BERLIN FIRES; Industrial Suburbs Hit, Along With Budapest, Koenigsberg -- New Allied Raids Seen A Close-Up of What Happens When the R.A.F. Sweeps Germany and the Bombs Fall SOVIETB BOMB SET MORE BERLIN FIRES Nazi Arms Production Centers in Occupied France and the Reich Visited by the R.A.F.

By Daniel T. Brighamby Telephone To the New York Times

raids on Ger mil objectives in Czechoslovakia hinted

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NATION-WIDE GASOLINE CURB PLEDGED SOON BY ROOSEVELT AFTER BARUCH ASKS ACTION; DANGER' IN RUBBER Special Committee Asks Speed of 35 M.P.H., Big Cut in Mileage ASSAILS RUBBER AGENCIES ' Military and Civilian Collapse' Looms Unless We Save Our Supply Now, Report Warns PRESIDENT PLEDGES RATIONING OF 'GAS'

By W.h. Lawrencespecial To the New York Times

Baruch com rept submitted to Roosevelt; increased synthetic production, program adm reorganization and rubber admr recommended; govt agencies and officials assailed for problem muddling; failure to use USSR synthetic process cited; pub conservation urged; com members illus

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CHURCHILL BARS INDIA COMPROMISE, STANDS BY OFFER; Prime Minister Calls Gandhi Move 'Revolutionary,' Perhaps Intended to Aid Japan CHURCHILL BARS INDIA COMPROMISE

By Raymond Daniellwireless To the New York Times

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U.S. Is Fighting 'Soft War,' Clare Luce Tells Republicans; Giving 'Keynote' of Connecticut Convention, She Pictures Party Role as Cooperation and Criticism -- Asks Unified Command MRS. LUCE CHARGES WE FIGHT 'SOFT WAR'

By James A. Hagertyspecial To the New York Times

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Fleet and Planes Assaulting Three Ports on Madagascar; AIRPORT AT KEY MADAGASCAR TOWN BRITISH ATTACKING MADAGASCAR PORTS

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORX TIMES

Madagascar; Brit attack Ambanja, Majunga and Morondava to check aid to Axis; Fighting French aid attack; Vichy rept; strategic value of ports cited; US supports action; Brit and US State Dept statements text; Majunga base illus; map

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