Wickard Takes Over Farm Policy as War Shifts Roles
President Roosevelt assigns Claude R. Wickard full responsibility for food production and distribution. The president also consolidates manpower control under Paul V. McNutt and directs the selective service system to coordinate civilian and military staffing for 18 to 38 year olds.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Roosevelt
Wickard
Pres- Roosevelt
Paul V. Nutt
War Manpower Executive
Utt
Wolun
The
Navy
McNutt
United States Employment Service
Army
War Production Board
WPB
Agriculture Department
Manner
Maj.n. Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey Long
Labor Piracy Charges In Northeastern Ohio
Wade Hammond of the U S Employment Service told Massillon Canton area wartime plant personnel representatives that labor turnover and absenteeism must be controlled locally or no voluntary solution exists. He estimated the area would need 8 200 additional workers by August.
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Canton
Emyers
Massillon-Cantonance
Wade Hammond
Ohio
Cir
U. S
Oldest VMI Grad John L. Waring Dies at 95
John L. Waring aged 95, the oldest living Virginia Military Institute graduate and a Civil War courier for General Robert E. Lee, died at his son Dr. J. B. Waring's home in Wilmington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
John L. Waring
Virginia Military Institute
Robert E. Lee
J. B. Waring
Stalin Promotes 180 Generals in Largest Red Army List
Moscow reports Premier Joseph Stalin announced 180 new generals and promoted 13 others in the longest Red Army general list since the war began.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Navy shows Pearl Harbor missed chance to finish US fleet
Navy review marks Pearl Harbor anniversary with figures on 86 ships in Hawaii, 2,117 Navy deaths and 226 Army deaths. Arizona listed as only total loss, salvage praised, Japanese fleet losses noted including three subs sunk.
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Navy
Pearl Harbor
Arizona
Army
Teen Age Draftees Will Fill January Draft Quotas
Ohio's January Selective Service quota will be filled mainly by 18 and 19 year olds who registered last June. Col C W Goble says younger men will be used before drafting married men, with deferments possible for essential industry or agriculture. Boards are to discontinue induction of men 38 and older and classify them as 4 H while 38 plus registrants are no longer eligible for volunteer officer training.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. W. Goble
Goble
War Department
Washington
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
Peak Farm Turnout urged for wartime egg and poultry goals
Chicago AP report notes farm women asked to play a major role in meeting next year's targets of nearly 4.8 billion dozen eggs and 4 billion pounds of chicken meat. W D Termohlen, assistant chief of USDA dairy and poultry, says farm wives can boost output under supervision of inexperienced help.
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Chicago
W. D. Termohlen
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Dairy and Poultry
Election Ordered in Dispute at Oak Hill
The National Labor Relations Board ordered an election within 30 days to determine a bargaining agent for Cambria Clay Products Company employees in Oak Hill QC. The AFL United Brick & Clay Workers had lost a similar election there last August per the NLRB report.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Cambria Clay Products Company
Oak Hill
AFL United Brick & Clay Workers
NLRB
Famous Old Pitcher Of Big League Dies
SEATTLE Amos Rusie a pioneer of the fastball and one of baseballs great pitchers dies in a Seattle hospital at 71 after never fully recovering from an automobile accident ten years earlier. Cincinnati Judge Francis M. Hamilton aged 71 died late last night of a heart ailment after 25 years on the First District Ohio Court of Appeals bench.
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Seattle
Amos Rusie
Rusie
Cincinnati
Francis M. Hamilton
First District
Ohio Court of Appeals
War Today previews decisive clash with Rommel in North Africa
Dewitt Mackenzie describes a lull in Libyan fighting as evidence of preparation for a major renewed assault. He notes Rommel maintains a strong, reinforced line near El Agheila while Montgomery’s Eighth Army gains momentum, signaling a hard, bloody battle ahead with high morale but persistent Axis strength.
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Eighth Army
Libya
Bengali
Africa
Erwin Rommel
el Agheila
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Sgheila
Dollars for Victory in December Victory Loan drive
A wartime appeal urges Americans to buy nine billion dollars in Victory Loan securities to fund military might. Citizens are asked to invest savings, not current earnings, avoiding bank borrowing to curb inflation. The drive seeks broad support against Berlin and Tokyo and frames purchases as vital contributions to victory.
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Enemies of Freedom
Berlin
Tokyo
Jap Dead on Guadalcanal Tops 6 641 Figure
Washington reports 6 641 Japanese killed on Guadalcanal with thousands more destroyed by sea action artillery and air bombardment. Navy says count based on bodies. Marines wiped out 400 Japanese soldiers and five bases while losing 17. Operations occurred across weeks in jungle terrain.
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Washington
United States
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy
Cost of Poor Relief Still Falling in Ohio
Ohio welfare officials estimate next biennium relief costs at 12 million dollars due to war employment. Appropriations were 18.5 million in 1941 42 and 25,015,655 in 1939 40. Officials project 1942 costs below one million with the state share.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bodies Recovered From Sunken Cleveco Disaster
In Cleveland two more Crevecoo crew members were found on Lake Erie. Arthur Nettleton, 27, from Detroit, and John J. Sawed, 41, from Buffalo, N Y, among the 32 lost when the Cleveco barge and tug Admiral sank in a recent storm.
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Cleveland
Cleveco
Lake Erie
Arthur Nettleton
Detriot
John J. Sawed
Buffalo
N. Y
Admiral
Obituary: Dr Sus an P Nichols Oberlin botany head dies at 69
Portland Maine report notes Dr Susan P Nichols former head of the Oberlin College botany department has died at age 69. She retired in 1938 after thirty years on the Oberlin faculty.
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Portland
Susan P. Nichols
Oberlin
U S Navy Stronger Than Ever Before
New York AP reports that after Pearl Harbor the U S Navy is stronger than ever as Japan has lost 394 ships in the Pacific while the United States has lost 86 vessels. The tally lists 101 Japanese ships sunk in battleships carriers cruisers and destroyers combined and notes U S losses include one battleship the Arizona and the Oklahoma may be out of service. Four American aircraft carriers seven cruisers and 23 destroyers also destroyed.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Hawaii
Hawaiian
Oahu Island
New York
Japan
U. S
Arizona
Oklahoma
Guadalcanal
Navy
Frank Knox
United States
London
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Roberts
Masayuki Tani
America
East Asia
Sankichi Takahashi
Melbourne
Sydney
Seattle
San Francisco
Jap killed in Manzanar Riot at relocation center
At Manzanar California one Japanese man was killed and nine wounded when soldiers fired on a rioting crowd of about 10,000 residents. Project Director Ralph P Merritt said the flare up followed his request to place the camp under martial law amid a Pearl Harbor celebration by a pro Axis faction.
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Manzanar
Calif
Manzanar Relocation Center
Ralph P. Merritt
Merritt
Pearl Harbor
Catholic Chaplain Fatler Killed in Morocco Invasion
Rev. Clement Fatler, a native of Landeck Ohio and Catholic chaplain, is reported by the military ordnance as the first American Catholic chaplain known to die in offensive operations on foreign soil during the war. Fatler attended Burketsville and St. Charles Seminary Carthagena before his death in the invasion of Morocco.
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NEW York
Clement Fatler
Landeck, O
Father Fatler
Burketsville
St. Charles Seminary
Carthagena
Morocco
Fire Destroys Portstown Block Including Smith Drug Store
Fire swept a three story business block in Portsmouth housing Smith Drug Store and Roberts Jewelry Shop. Damage was estimated at about 50,000 dollars. The cause was not determined.
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Portsmouth
Smith Drug Store
Roberts Jewelry
FBI Locates Kidnapped Baby and Arrests Abductors
Ten month old Daniel Scanlon, kidnapped at gunpoint Oct 12, was recovered and reunited with his mother. Five Huntington residents face federal kidnapping charges. others charged with conspiracy. Cremeans and Chapman held for arraignment in Columbus after arrest in Cincinnati and Ashland.
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Portsmouth
Daniel Scanlon
Huntington
W. Va
Feredal Bureau of Investigation
Raymond C. Suran
Cincinnati
FBI
Lloyd Cremeans
St. Ann's Infant Asylum
Columbus
Jane Scanlon
St. Ann's
Columbus Hospital
Mercyee
Suran
Cremeans
Carl Chapman
Preble Chapman
William K. Kimble
Irene
Cries of Young Child Trigger Fire Escape
The cries of ten month old Robert Palazzo Jr served as a fire alarm allowing 35 people to flee a burning building. The blaze damaged 12 apartments but no one was injured.
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Cleveland
Robert Palazzo, Jr
Robert
Missouri Solon Bennett Dies in Washington
Rep. Philip A. Bennett of Missouri died of a heart ailment at Naval Hospital in Washington. A first term Republican representing Missouri's 6th district, he lived in Springfield and was 61.
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Washington
Philip A. Bennett
Missouri
Naval Hospital
Springfield
Disappointing October Munitions Output Report
Washington AP said October munition production rose three percent from September, the smallest gain of 1942. War Production Board Chair Donald M. Nelson called the rise disappointing, noting increasing difficulty in sustaining the rate and warning against a notable slowdown in growth. Prior gains were 4, 8, 10, and 12 percent in earlier months.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Slower U-Boat Sinkings Reported In Atlantic
The Associated Press notes a seven day lull in enemy activity after the United States entered the war. Since then 548 ships of allied and neutral nations have been sunk, with thousands of seamen and passengers killed. In the last week only five ships were reported sunk.
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Associated Press
United States
Atlantic
Grange Meet To Take Up Production and Labor
Ohio State Grange delegates convene in Columbus for two days to discuss farm production amid labor shortages. Governor Bricker is scheduled to address one session of the annual meeting.
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Grange
Columbus
Ohio State Grange
John W. Bricker
Warship Launchings Open War's Second Year
As the new year begins, U S shipyards launch several warships in quick succession. The 45 000 ton New Jersey sails from Philadelphia Navy Yard while seven ships are launched at Tampa Florida and the carrier Bunker Hill debuts at Quincy Massachusetts. Sigsbee, a destroyer, leaves Kearny New Jersey with more vessels planned at Cramp Philadelphia and Bath Iron Works.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S
New Jersey
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Tampa
Fla
Fore River
Bethlehem Steel Cor
Quincy
Mass
Bunker Hill
Sigsbee
Kearny
N. J
Miami
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Philadelphia
Belleau Wood
Delaware
New York Shipbuilding Yard
Camden
Bath
Bath Iron Works
Thatcher
Boston
Sig
Battle May Be Start of Allied Drive
The war front in Tunisia heats up as Allied forces near Tebourba west of Tunis clash with Axis units. British and American troops hold strategic heights while fighting rages near Mateur and approaches to Bizerte. In the Pacific, American Marines advance on Guadalcanal as Japanese losses mount. NATO and Russian fronts show renewed pressure as the Red Army eyes a final push in the north.
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Tunisia
Teebourba
Tunis
War Department
Kenneth A. N. Anderson
First Army
Pear Harbor
United Nations
North Africa
Tebourba
Mateur
Bizerte
Sicily
mid-Mediterranean
Russia
Red Army
Rzhev
Vyazma
Stalingrad
Karlsruhe
Pforzheim
Germany
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Buna Village
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Great Naval Base
Anchorage
By Dewitt MacKenzie
U. S. Navy
Solon
National Capital
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