Roosevelt vetoes Bankhead bill to raise farm prices
President Roosevelt stamps down a Bankhead Bill proposal to raise farm parity prices by excluding benefit payments. He calls the measure inflationary and dangerous, warning it would increase the cost of living and burden war efforts. He cites potential boosts to consumer prices and military costs while urging adherence to the stabilization program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Congress
Fresh Troops Flown To Tunisia In Rommel's Last Stand
British First Army forces have advanced deep into the Tunisian defense zone and drive toward Mateur, 18 miles from a potential Dunkerque port at Bizerte. Reports from Algiers and Allied HQ describe continued northward and eastward pushes beyond Sedjenane as Von Arnim’s retreated lines hold.
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Tunisia
Rommel
Algiers
Mateur
Dunkerque
Bizerte
K. A. N. Anderson
Sedjenane
Allied Headquar
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Allied
Jurgen von Arnim
French Morocco
Anderson
Berliners Struck by RAF Raids as Housing Beginnings Reported
Dispatches from Bern say wooden barracks are under construction outside Berlin to house the homeless after the March 1 RAF raid. A Stockholm report notes Berliners were stunned and fear renewed air attacks as 20, 90 people reportedly received new housing.
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London
Bern
Berlin
RAF
Stockholm
Conscientious Objectors to Work on Ohio Farms
AP report says conscientious objectors will be released from camps to work on daily farms in Cuyahoga Wayne and Summit Counties and in ten other states. A spokesman said the Marietta camp would close before May and men not released would be sent to other camps.
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Washington
Dai
Cuyahoga
Wayne
Summit
Ohio
Agricultural Labor Administration
Marietta
Congress sidetracks labor draft legislation in Washington
The stalled labor draft bill awaits White House guidance as Congress delays on the Austin Wadsworth National Service measure. Officials predict fathers may be drafted around July 1, with talks of shifting draft classes and maintaining job-based deferments amid wartime needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Austin
White House
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
War Probers Flay Lewis Denouncing Wartime Unity Duty
The Senate War Investigating Committee urged labor leaders to show patriotism as well as advocacy. It condemned John L. Lewis for implying his no strike pledge was not binding and said labor has duties as well as rights during war.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman
D.-Mo
Lewis
Ohioans Pay $381 Million in March Income Taxes
Ohio contributed $381,301,772 to the national income tax collections in March. The state total exceeded the 1942 period by $160,468,557, compared with $220,833,215 for the same period last year. The national March total was $3,077,931,976.
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Washington
Treasury
Ohio
Soybean price up in Ohio loan support program
The Ohio AAA Committee announced a loan and purchase plan to bolster 1943 soybean prices with a 10 cent per bushel boost over the 1942 base, aiding farmers.
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Columbus
Ohio Aaa Committee
Ponder Nazi Plans London
AP reports that a large raid on Sardinia signals Nazi intent to resist Allied invasion and possibly fight to the last man under Hitler to delay Europe’s defense. Bern sources say Rommel may be named commander of southern defenses, changing prior policy.
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London
Sardinia
Dunkerque
Tunisia
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Jurgen von Armin
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
North
Africa
Bern
Marshal Rommel
Rommel
Churchill
Europe
Spain
Gerganfuehrer
Higher Pay Denied for Miners in WLB Ruling
The War Labor Board approved time and a half overtime for several Ohio and West Virginia firms but denied requests to raise straight-time hourly rates for 245 miners not covered by UMWA contracts. Ohio Coal Association and four WV firms sought wage hikes. six day 42 hour weeks with overtime were used to justify higher earnings.
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Cleveland
Ohio
West Virginia
Regional
War Labor Board
Ohio Coal Association
United Mine Workers
Edison L. Bowers
WLB
New York Coal Co
Chauncey and Tropic, O
Negro Leaders Charge Prejudice in War Work
Representatives of black organizations told the Senate Military Committee that race prejudice kept vast man and womanpower pools from war industry. They argued against the Austin-Wadsworth labor conscription bill, saying discrimination in war industry and government wastes manpower.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
War Industry
Austin-Wadsworth
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Morris Milgram
Workers Defense League
Voluntary conservation explained to livestock feed sector
Columbus AP reports a series of meetings has been scheduled by the State Department of Agriculture to explain the need for voluntary conservation of feed supplies. The aim is to prepare manufacturers dealers and feeders for demand in the coming months.
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Columbus
State Department of Agriculture
British February bomber output surges fourfold
Britain reports February 1943 heavy bomber production four times February 1942 levels while munitions output rises 40 percent. Minister Oliver Lyttelton announced the gains in London.
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London
Britain
Oliver Lyttelton
Rutgers Professor Explains Garden Plot Returns
In New Brunswick Rutgers University Professor F G Helyar said a 25 by 50 foot garden plot properly managed could yield produce valued at 2 772 ration points at current rates.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Roperly
F. G. Helyar
Rutgers University
Republicans Reject Dem Campaign Plan in Capitol Clash
Washington AP report says Republicans rejected a high plane campaign idea from National Democratic Chairman Frank Walker as New Deal leaders already backed Roosevelt. Rumors floated a Dixie rendezvous between House Ways and Means Chair Doughton and Rep. Knutson to resolve income tax abatement disputes and seek a compromise pay-as-you-go plan.
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Washington
Capitol
Frank Walker
Roosevelt
I Morrison Ppangier
Gur
National Committee
New Deal
Walker
Dixie
Doughton
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Knutson
Minn
South
North Carolina
Knutson
Florida
Flow of Pigs To Stockyards Disappointing
Chicago Stockyards faced a mystery as the pig flow lagged while hog prices hit record highs not seen since October 1940. March receipts were modest yet insufficient to meet demand, with analysts unsure why supplies aren’t expanding. some say farmers hold back to fatten hogs, others speculate about black market siphoning.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Lewis Charges Army Threats
John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers said agents of military intelligence threaten miners. He reported to newsmen after talks with Northern Appalachian soft coal mine operators that agents asked for company names mine locations and union officer names with hints of a second military front in the coal fields.
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NEW York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Biennial Appropriation Bill Up for Vote Soon
The Ohio House may vote next week on the $369 million biennial appropriation bill funding state departments for 1943-44. The House finance committee has worked weeks to prepare the measure for introduction and action.
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Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
House Finance Committee
Bender Champions Bricker Amid Criticism
George Bender of Cleveland Republican representative at large defended Governor John W. Bricker against an editorial by William Allen White. He called Bricker the outstanding Republican nominee and rejected claims Bricker lacks qualifications. He argued Bricker’s rivals show a national campaign of nullification more than a year before the convention.
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Washington
George Bender
Cleveland
Ohio
William Allen White
Kansas
Bender
Buckeye Gay
John W. Bricker
Bricker
John
Fear of Reynolds Cited in Kent State Tragedy
Akron authorities report ongoing investigation into motives behind the double murder of Lucille D Aprano a Kent State senior and a Cleveland native who had feared George W Reynolds an African American ex convict whose body was found with hers in a car Reynolds who later killed himself is named by deputies as the primary suspect Coroner Amos stands by a double murder verdict despite police claim of Reynolds role
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Akron
Lucille D'Aprano
Kent State University
George W. Reynolds
Robert L. Smith
Cleveland
Reynolds
R. E. Amos
Sheriff's Deputies
Miss D'Aprano
Outnumbered British Defeat Jap Squadron
British Home Forces report that eleven Hurricanes intercepted thirty Japanese bombers with escort and engaged in combat over southeast Bengal. Five enemy aircraft were destroyed and several damaged, with at least three not returning. One Hurricane was shot down and the pilot bailed out.
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New Delhi
Feni
Bengal
Mayor Killed by Train in Sharonville Suburb
Claude Perkins aged 49 mayor of Sharonville a Cincinnati suburb fell beneath a switching engine near Osborn and was killed yesterday. Perkins was a brakeman on the train.
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Dayton
Claude Perkins
Sharonville
Cincinnati
Osborn
Perkins
Jap Destroyers Blasted By Yanks In Pacific Action
American bombers struck a Japanese force of five destroyers southwest of Kolombangara as fighter aircraft battled 30 to 40 Zero fighters, shooting down 16. In Europe, Eisenhower reported a generally quieter front with active patrols, while Rommel ferried in fresh troops to contest dwindling North African positions.
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Washington
Kolombangara
Navy
Sardinia
Sicily
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Erwin Rommel
Yanks Drive East Toward Sea Face Montgom ery in Tunisia
Allied forces push toward the sea from Gafsa meeting the British Eighth Army as Rommel’s forces reel north along the coast. American armor advances threaten Kairouan and Sousse while RAF bombers attack German towns. Soviet forces close on Novorossisk as mud slows operations along the Caucasus.
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Algiers
U. S
Gafsa
Eighth Army
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Rommel
Mareth Line
Russia
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Tunisian
Kairouan
Sousse
Gulf of Gabes
Cow-Salvage Plan Averts Dairy Slaughter Across Nation
Cincinnati dispatch notes the Farm Security Administration cow salvage program saves dairy stock as labor shortages threaten disposal. By March 19 the FSA had purchased 4,988 cows 2,260 heifers and 737 calves for resale to farmers.
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Cincinnati
Farm Security Administration
Clark Tate
FSA
Jenkins on Committee To Study Coal Issues
Rep. Robertson of Virginia is named to head a Ways and Means subcommittee to review extending the bituminous coal act expiring this month. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton is placed on the committee.
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Jenkins
Washington
Robertson
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Reports of Native Sabotage Rise in Occupied Lands
London reports note British parachute operatives in Denmark and Norway while observers view Nazi spin as masking growing native sabotage. Curfews in Norway, guerrilla activity in Lithuania, and executions in Vilna accompany sabotage claims across Greece and Black Sea ports.
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London
Denmark
Norway
Hardanger Vidda
Stockholm
Liquor Ration Plans Upheld in Ohio
In Columbus, distillers backed a plan to ration shrinking liquor supplies. E F O'Brien of Frankfort Distilleries and other executives met with Liquor Director Don A Fisher and Gov John Bricker. Fisher said rationing could begin after Senate approval of House-backed bill, with action expected next week.
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Columbus
Ohio
E. F. O'Brien
Frankfort Distilleries, Inc
Don A. Fisher
John W. Bricker
Fisher
State Liquor Department
Senate
First All Synthetic Tire Shown By Goodyear at Hearing
Rubber Director William M. Jeffers told Senate investigators that synthetic rubber meets all requirements without crude oil blends and Goodyear displayed the nation's first all synthetic heavy duty truck tire. The tire used Butadiene from alcohol produced at a West Virginia institute plant that uses grains, as officials debated curtailing the Guayule program.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Senate
Goodyear
W. Va
Red Stamps Only Legal Change Warned by OPA
The regional Office of Price Administration declared that only one point red ration stamps may be used as legal change. Shoppers were told not to accept any other stamps in change at stores participating in meats and fats rationing.
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Cleveland
Regional
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Women Donate Millions of Stockings for War Effort
The War Production Board reports that women have contributed 19,000,000 pairs of old silk and nylon stockings in four months as parachutes and powder bags. Pennsylvania led with 120,855 pounds, while Ohio contributed 46,149 pounds for the period.
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Washington
War Production Board
Pennsylvania
Ohio
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NEA
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U.S
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Flay Lewis
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Stalingrad
Caucasus
Kerch
Daily Express
Josef Terboven
London Daily Herald
Vilna
Kovno
Nya Dagligt Allehenda
Greece
Athens
Reuters
Zurich
Sozopol
Istanbul
Casablanca
Adana
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