Farm Bloc Wins Point On Two Crops
Washington Jan 5 The farm bloc claims a partial victory as the price control program on two major crops wheat and corn faces changes. The office of price administration set parity prices for hard wheat while keeping flour and bread prices controlled via subsidies to millers. The article notes potential higher consumer prices if subsidies are eliminated and Congress returns from recess.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Congressional Farm Bloc
Office of Price Administration
Congress
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Farm Bloc
AAA
Economic Law of Supply and Demand
Senate
New Muster Out Plan Suggested
Washington January 5. Representative Ploeser proposed a muster out plan to guarantee discharged servicemen an average minimum of 85 dollars monthly for 12 months after discharge. The plan includes a flat 100 to 150 dollar payment and aims to avoid removing incentive to work.
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Washington
Ploeser
Loeser
May
House Military Committee
Setting Quotas on Fourth War Loan in Oklahoma
Quotas for the fourth war loan in Oklahoma run to 46,954,000 for 40 western counties and 43,046,000 for 30 eastern counties from the 90 million dollar drive starting January 18. Western district group leaders met to confer group and county targets with H C Green noting counties may expect about 45 percent of the district share.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
H C. Green
OWI Warns Axis War Effort Still Strong Despite Setbacks
The Office of War Information says Germany and Japan can withstand heavy Allied pressure. About 550,000 square miles of Axis territory have been liberated, but only a fraction of what was conquered. Germany holds 300 divisions and Japan 80, with strong air and industrial capacity and large slave labor reserves.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
Office of War Information
OWI
France
Belgium
Nippon
Hitler
Tulsa hearing deferred in eight indictments on schoolbook deals
In Tulsa county court a delayed hearing on motions to quash an eight defendant grand jury indictment alleging a conspiracy to control state textbook dealings. Judge Webb adjourned for ten days as County Attorney Dixie Gilmer fights influenza. 36 witnesses remain. Defendants include Henry G. Bennett Panhandle A&M president J. T. Daniel former speaker Willis Smith and Ed Morrison.
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Tulsa
Dixie Gilmer
Eugene Chaffin
A. R. Swank
Stillwater
Chaffin
Swank
John Ward, Jr
Leslie Webb
Ward
Henry G. Bennett
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Webb
A. L. Crabb
Gilmer
Bennett
Crabb
Ed Morrison
Panhandle A
J. T. Daniel
Willis Smith
Board To Reconvene Over Non-Ops Wage Claims
President Roosevelt orders an emergency Shaw board reconvened to consider unsettled wage claims of 1 100 000 non operating railroad employees. The panel will study pay adjustments including overtime in lieu, with a report due soon and actions taking effect 15 days after filing.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Elwyn R. Shaw
Springfield
Ill
White House
Shaw
Shaw Board
Fred M. Vinson
National Mediation Board
Allies Seize Two Heights in Sammucro Ridge Drive
Allied troops pushed into Sammucro ridge near Venafro capturing a 2,300 foot high position as Fifth Army advances along the Rome road. U S air forces bombed Dupitsa railway yards near Sofia and Doboj and Travnik in Yugoslavia, while fighters claimed several enemy aircraft.
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Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Italy
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Fifth Army
Venafro
Sammucro
San Vittore
Rome
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Dupitsa
Sofia
Doboj
Sarajevo
Travnik
Dupnitsa
Jerry
Maj
Harry L. Smith
Bethesda
Skinner
Claude A. Skinner
Pinehill
Ala
Smith
Leese Takes Monty’s Place In Allied Commands
Allied headquarters in Algiers announce Lt Gen Oliver Leese as new commander of the British Eighth Army in Italy replacing Gen Bernard Montgomery. Leese, 49, led the 30th Corps in North Africa and spearheaded the Sicily invasion.
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Allied
Algiers
Oliver Leese
Eighth Army
Italy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Leese
el Alamein
Egypt
Tunis
North Africa
Montgomery
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Falope
30Th Corps
Coldstream Guards
D.S.O
Staff College
Camberly
War Office
Eton
Oxford
France
Viscount Gort
Sicily
Nickerson Navy Sailor Talks to Mother as Dog Howls
Kas Nickerson Kansas. A Nickerson lad in the navy phones home from New York to chat with his mother Mrs Merle Mc Farland. During the call the town siren wailed and Popeye the family dog began to howl fulfilling his habit. The sailor asks to listen as Popeye and the siren sound together over the long distance call.
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Nickerson
Harold McFarland
Navy
New York
Merle McFarland
Nickerson Town
Popeye
McFarland
Kansas
One Ton Cider Apples Produce 140 Gallons Juice
A shipment of cider apples yields 140 gallons of juice from one ton of fruit. The orchard process highlights efficient pressing and high juice return from surplus apples.
German Offensive Smashed In Bosnia
Tito announced a successful push in eastern Bosnia with Yugoslav forces retaking occupied areas including Vlasenica, while fighting continued in Banjaluka and western Bosnia along the Bosanska Nove Prijedor railway. The battle for Banjaluka entered its fifth day as rival forces battled in house to house fighting. Morocco radio cited Budapest dispatch on Hungarian Romanian border tensions amid Red Army advances.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Vlasenica
Sarajevo
Free Yugoslav Radio
Bosansky Nove- Prijedor-Banja Luka
Brisk 10 Minute Cannonade Sparks East Coast Wakeup
London reports a ten minute cannonade in the English channel early today, likely not from naval forces, startling residents along the east coast before dawn.
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London
English Channel
Anti-Saloon League Stays On Sidelines In Prohibition Fight
Washington January 5 Anti-Saloon League chief Dr George W Crabbe said the group would not actively back the Bryson prohibition bill in Congress preferring a presidential order as a war measure He argued drink hindrance to war production and noted he would testify if called while keeping pressure on the president to act via decree.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Anti-Saloon League of America
George W. Crabbe
League
Bryson
S. C
House Judiciary
Crabbe
Mothers Publish Monthly Paper for Local Service Vets
Mothers of Hot Springs county publish a four page four column newspaper sent to local boys in the armed services each month. The paper carries home county news exclusive to its readers in Thermopolis Wyoming.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
Hot Springs County
Armed Services
Home County
Planes Smash Jap Positions In Pacific Front Fight
Allied air forces blast Japanese positions across the Pacific as new landings near the enemy bases loom. U S and Australian aircraft hit targets from Lampang in Thailand to Pingka in Yunnan, while Ra bol airfields and Marshall defenses face continued pressure and Cape Gloucester operations intensify.
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Morrie Landsberg
Associated Press
Pacific Battle Front
Pacific
China
Japan
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Thailand
Lampang
Pingka
Yunnan
Marshalls
Marshall Islands
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
MacArthur
Taroa
Wotje
Rabaul
Lakunai
Sixth Army Air Force
Saidor
New Guinea
Schoolmasters To Meet Saturday In Pontotoc
The Pontotoc County Schoolmasters club will hold its monthly meeting at the Aldridge hotel Saturday at noon, with Ray a county superintendent as host. Harvey M. Black of Oklahoma teachers retirement will speak on retirement phases. music from the Rott school under W. C. Gregory.
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Pontotoc
100 Miles Of Planes Used In Allied Blitz To Berlin
RAF Mosquito bombers hit Berlin and targets in northern France and western Germany as part of a massive daylight assault. About 3,000 Allied aircraft, including U S bombers, attacked Kiel Muenster and invasion coast targets with 25 total Allied losses and heavy German fighter losses.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Berlin
France
U. S
Iel
Muenster
Germany
Air Ministry
Kiel
RAF
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Chinese Ready For Counter Offensive
Chinese armies are prepared to launch a general counter offensive this year according to Minister of Information Liang Han Chao at a press conference. He said Allied operations elsewhere and boosted Allied air strength in China would influence the timing and feasibility of any major ground action.
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Chungking
Liang Han-Chao
Liang
China
Chinese troops surround Owchihkow move on city outskirts
Chinese forces have captured villages around Owchihkow the Japanese port on the Yangtze north of Lake and are advancing toward the city suburbs with allied units pressing from multiple directions as part of the ongoing Yangtze front operations.
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Chungking
Owchihkow
Yangtze River
Lake
Syees
Sapulpa Publisher John Weir Young Dies at 66
Sapulpa Herald publisher John Weir Young died at 66 after a career covering Sapulpa since the oil boom era. He joined the Herald in 1914, bought the paper in 1916, and witnessed turbulent times including an attempt to threaten the office and the 1916 election victory that thwarted the aggressors. Funeral services are planned for 4 pm at First Church, with burial at South Cemetery.
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Sapulpa
John Weir Young
The
Herald
Law and Order
Bloody Creek County
Young
Lamar
Neath the Light
Sapuipa
Nazi railroad workers faced trials in Geneva dispatch
A Moscow radio dispatch quoted from Geneva claiming 1000 Nazi railroad workers were put on trial for defeatism and 200 sentenced to death. The arrests, said to be ordered by Heinrich Himmler, were broadcast and recorded by U S government monitors.
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New York
Moscow Radio
Geneva
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
U. S
Miss Fanny Frail Postes Lost Fountain Pen Notice
Lost fountain pen reported by Miss Fanny Frail for yesterday. Description notes blond hair blue eyes and height unknown. Contact after 5 30 p m Maple 2678 for information or pickup. Shortages referenced in notice.
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Fanny Frail
Telephone Maple
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