Labor Draft Debate Stalls Action In House Panel
The House Military Committee dismissed a joint Army Navy Maritime Commission request for labor draft legislation as unnecessary this year. It backed existing law to compel 4 F and older men to take jobs in essential industries if vacancies exist, urging no new draft measures and highlighting a manpower crisis as overstated.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Army-Navy-Maritime Commission
Army-Navy-Maritime
Congressional Committee
May
D-Ky
Costello
D-Calif
Rep
Harness
Indiana
Army
Navy
Warns Unions Against Labor Monopoly Plans
Cleveland mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank J. Lausche told the Sandusky Rotary Club that unions risk mass citizen disapproval if they pursue labor monopoly expansions that could become more powerful than government. He warned unions to avoid plans that would provoke public backlash.
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Sandusky
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Lausche
New Italian war government formed under Badoglio
Marshal Pietro Badoglio announced a new Italian war government with himself as premier and foreign minister. Key posts from the old cabinet, including the war navy and ministries, remain, with the finance portfolio headed by the minister Badoglio chose. The rest of the posts are shared among Italy's six political parties, the liberation Junta, and independents.
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Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Mician
Badoglio
Italy
Liberation Junta
Soviet Troops Reported Arriving in Southern Italy
London dispatch cites a Vichy radio report that a detachment of Soviet troops had arrived in Southern Italy to fight Italian Fascist forces, with no Allied confirmation.
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London
Vichy Radio
Italy
Drag Creek Search For Missing Nine Year Old Girl
Dover authorities closed Gates of Tappan Dam on Little Stillwater Creek to aid a police drag search for Naomi Freed nine, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Freed of Dennison, who disappeared Tuesday after leaving for a movie in Uhrichsville. Sheriff John McIntosh said the girl did not return and that a grandmother and others heard a cry for help that night. A car was seen driving away along the street.
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Dover
Tappan Dam
Stillwater Creek
Naomi Freed
James Freed
Dennison
Uhrichsville
John McIntosh
Tuscarawas County
Ed Bridgeman
McIntosh
Soft Coal Users Urged To Place Orders Now
Washington War plants and industrial users of soft coal are urged by Donald M. Nelson to place coal orders without regard to seasonal needs to keep mines operating. He warns of a possible deficiency of 25 to 45 million tons over the next year if mine labor drops due to the draft, calling the situation far more serious than last year.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
WPB
Rev Dr George Walker Dubois Dies at 92 in Ohio
The Rev Dr George Walker Dubois 92 oldest living member of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church died last night. He served decades in church leadership and community work across Ohio.
GOP Women Vote on Bill in Ohio Convention
Delegates at the spring Ohio Republican women convention vote on the equal rights amendment pending in Congress. Mrs. Grace P Gordon, secretary, says delegates have instructions on the measure. Balloting results will be sent to the national federation in Washington with those from other states. The credential committee expects to seat 600 delegates each representing 25 members and about 40 alternates.
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Columbus
Ohio
Congress
Grace P. Gordon
National Federation of Republican Women
Washington
State Federation of Republican Women
Lancaster Labor Leader Dies in Car Fire
The charred body of 37 year old Harry Echard a Lancaster labor leader and AF of Glass Workers official was found in a fire damaged car on a country road southeast of Lancaster Coroner J D Dupler said Echard apparently suffocated Sheriff Dudley Crider said the car stalled on a grade then coasted into an embankment and caught fire
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Lancaster
Harry Echard
Here
J. D. Dupler
Echard
American Federation of Glass Workers
Dudley Crider
Ohio Farmers Can Use Men Now in War Work
A committee of 25 reported Ohio farms could absorb nearly all agricultural labor that migrated to industry during the war. Using current farm numbers, about 15 percent more workers could be added, excluding only a minute fraction who left the fields for munitions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Columbus man sentenced to life terms for 14 burglaries
Common Pleas Judge John R. King yesterday sentenced Harry Trimble, 47, of Columbus, to 11 consecutive life sentences in Ohio Penitentiary after being found guilty of burglarizing 14 dwellings.
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Columbus
Common Pleas
John R. King
Harry Trimble
Ohio Penitentiary
Strong Nazi Attacks Meet Stiff Soviet Defense on Fronts
AP dispatches report heavy German thrusts across 800 miles of the Russian front from the Carpathians to Narva, with 4,300 German casualties as Soviet forces hold the line near Sevastopol. Bombers hit Black Sea convoys, sinking transports, while Yugoslav partisans halt a German push in Montenegro and Tito claims recaptured Mojkovac.
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Polish Ukraine
Narva
Estonia
Moscow
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Romanian
Associated Press
Henry C. Cassidy
Odessa
Sergei Fedorovich Belozov
Tarnopol
Ukraine
Anzio
Ortona
Adriatic
Cassino
U. S
Montenegro
Moj
Kovac
Josip Broz (Tito
Sahovici
War Work Causing Ohio Newsboy Shortage
Ohio report shows wartime employment pulling carriers from routes. Smith Witter of the Canton Repository told the Ohio Circulation Managers at their convention that Ohio carrier boys sold 96,187,069 dollars worth of 10 cent war stamps from December 7, 1941, to April 12, 1942, ranking third in the nation.
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Columbus
Smith Witter
Canton Repository
Ohio
Rationing Ends for Used Typewriters Saturday
Washington announces end of rationing for all used typewriters and new machines in dealers hands effective this Saturday. New typewriters in manufacturers stock remain controlled by the War Production Board. Rationing began March 12, 1942.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Turk ish chrome shipments to Germany halted at 7 pm
Ankara reports a delay in chrome shipments to Germany and her Allies will end at 7 pm tomorrow in response to Allied requests. The move signals a pause in exports amid wartime supply pressures.
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Ankara
Germany
Milwaukee general named deputy commander in Allied invasion force
Maj. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg of Milwaukee Wisconsin has been appointed Deputy Commander in Chief of the Allied invasion force. He aided planning of the North African invasion and later served as 12th Air Force staff chief, reporting directly to Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory.
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Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Milwaukee
Wis
Vandenberg
12Th Air Force
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Taft Outlines GOP Program of Legislation
Senator Taft outlines a coordinated postwar and current GOP legislative program. He names George H. E. Smith as research consultant to craft policy on foreign affairs aviation taxes regulation agriculture housing and social welfare. A party conference is planned for late next week or early May to refine the plan.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Senate
George H. E. Smith
Yale University
Charles A. Beard
Ex Dillinger Pal Sentenced in Wisconsin
PALSAM LAKE Wis blustering 49 year old ex convict and onetime associate of the John Dillinger gangsters Tommy Gannon was sentenced to 15 to 40 years for bank robbery after a four day trial. He conducted his own defense and heckled the court throughout the proceedings. The judge Carl H Daley ordered him to Wisconsin State Prison calling an end to his tirade with a blistering remark.
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Palsam Lake
Wis
Tommy Gannon
Gannon
Wisconsin State
Carl H. Daley
Reduction in Butter Point Value in Sight
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration plans a four point cut in butter rationing next week. The change would lower points from 16 to 12 as supplies are deemed adequate to prevent shortages in remote areas.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Sees Socialism Threat In U S Tax Structure
Steubenville forum hears Eric A. Johnston of the United States Chamber of Commerce warn that the tax system is a layered, indecipherable mess. He argues simplification is needed to avoid driving the nation toward socialism and notes plans to visit Russia and possibly China to study business methods.
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U. S
United States
Eric A. Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Steubenville
East Liverpool
Wheeling and Weirton
W. Va
Johnston
Johnson
Russia
China
Japs Launch Major Drive Against Chinese in Honan
Japanese forces press a large operation in Northern Honan to break Chinese defenses and seize the rail line, marking the first major fighting in China since last fall’s Rice Bowl battle. Chinese defenses resist as Japanese aim to advance through the province.
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Honan
China
Sea leader Somerville famed for Dunkirk rescue and Sabang attack
Admiral Sir James Somerville commanded the Allied fleet that struck Sabang, the Japanese base in northern Sumatra. He previously distinguished himself at Dunkirk by rescuing 100,000 French troops and later was ordered to attack the French fleet at Oran to prevent its capture.
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James Somerville
Sabang
Sumatra
Somerville
Dunkirk
Furloughs planned for soldiers in Central Pacific area
New York Times dispatch from Central Pacific Army Headquarters says a limited furlough schedule will be announced on a percentage basis due to crowded transport facilities. Chinese sources count 50,000 to 60,000 Japanese troops entering the fray and new offensives near Lunghai Railway. Allied forces press Kohima and Imphal counter-offensives as monsoon season nears.
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The
New York Times
Central Pacific Army Headquarters
Central Pacific Command
Times
Peiping-Hankow
Manchuria
China
Eastwest
Lunghai
Henan
India
Kohima
Imphal
Bengal-Assam
Japan
Pacific
Woleai Island
Caroline Islands
Satawan
Truk
Carolines
Chester W. Ni
Premiums for Waste Fats Will Continue
Washington reports that used household fats will keep two ration points and four cents per pound at meat markets. The Office of Price Administration, citing ongoing wartime needs, confirms waste fats remain urgently needed for industrial use despite zero point values for lard shortening and oils. Colonel Bryan Houston, OPA rationing chief, emphasizes continued demand.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Col
Bryan Houston
OPA
Launch Largest Ship Built on Great Lakes
The Froemming Brothers shipyard launched the largest ocean going vessel ever built on the Great Lakes. The Chath am is a 4000 ton cargo ship, 338 feet long with a 50 foot beam, first of 14 such ships for the Maritime Commission to supply lines worldwide.
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Milwaukee
Great Lakes
Froemming Brothers
Chatham
Froemming Shipyard
Maritime Commission
Floyd Russell Dies in Ohio Home
Floyd Russell aged 44 a former Coolville resident died Thursday at his home near Delaware Ohio after a long illness Funeral services will be at the Delaware home Sunday at two pm Surviving are his wife Mable four sons and two daughters all at home his mother Mrs Ona Russell of Coolville two sisters Mrs Irma Barton of Middlesboro Kentucky and Mrs Dorothy Day of Clyde Ohio and two brothers nk of Delaware and Victor of Coolville
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Coolville
Floyd Russell
Delaware
Mable Hornsby Russell
Ona Russell
Irma Barton
Middlesboro
Dorothy Day
Clyde, O
Victor
Canada Ford Plant Closed By Strike
Picket lines ring the Ford Motor Company of Canada plant in Windsor Ontario as 14 000 workers are idle after a walkout begun yesterday at 11 am in protest over grievance procedures. The company declares the contract terminated while urging police to break the strike. Union leaders meet to demand reinstatement of four suspended stewards and continuation of the union company contract.
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Windsor
Ont
Ford Motor Company of Canada
United Automobile Workers of America
C.lo
Ford
Wallace R. Campbell
Cotract
Fifth War Loan Drive To Be Opened June 12
Secretary Morgenthau will open the fifth war loan with a radio broadcast from Texarkana Texas on June 12. The drive runs through July 8 and aims to raise at least 6 billion dollars from individuals for a total of 160 billion dollars.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Texarkana
Tex
Corn Scarcity Delaying Production for War
Washington reports the War Production Board and War Department pressing the War Food Administration for immediate action to relieve a serious shortage of corn. The grain is crucial for explosives adhesives sulfa drugs surgical dressings penicillins and starches used in copper aluminum and magnesium castings and bindings for war machinery.
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Washington
War Production Board
War Department
War Food Administration
Relief Director Charged With Misuse of Orders
State examiners find recovery of 825 against Lucille Stewart former Champaign County relief director in Columbus. Report accuses Stewart of using relief orders to buy groceries clothing and fuel for herself and using names of deceased persons. She was relieved from the post last October. An automobile crash near Perrysville Kentucky killed Jefferson Raimey of Bangor.
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Columbus
Lucille Stewart
Champaign County
Joseph T. Ferguson
Air Assaults First Phase Of Invasion
Allied air offensive targets rail hubs in Germany France and Belgium with 1 100 RAF bombers delivering over 4 480 tons of explosives. Cologne emerges as a key invasion transport hub as the first phase unfolds amid coordinated bombardment across Western Europe.
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Eisenhower
Germany
France
Belgium
Cologne
Germans Observe Invasion Activity Across Western Front
Berlin radio reported Allied fleets massing for a western invasion with British, American and Colonial troops dispersing London. raids hit French rail targets including Ottignies, Lens, and La Chapelle while bombers struck Cologne and Venice, Trieste, Livorno and Ancona in Italy.
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Berlin
France
Belgium
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Air Ministry
RAF
Britain
Reich
Eisenhower
Cologne
Ottignies
Brussels
Lens
Pas-de-Calais
la Chapelle
Paris
Coastal Command
Eighth Air Force
Europe
Dominion
Italy
Venice
Trieste
Livorno
Ancona
Beer for Troops Arrives at Fifth Army Naples Base
Twenty thousand cartons of beer brewed in Naples under American specifications from American products have arrived at the Anzio beachhead for Fifth Army troops.
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Naples
Anzio
Fifth Army
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