Army chiefs push for broader draft as losses rise in invasion plan
In a Cairo Teheran briefing the army warns of heavy losses and urges expansion of home front wartime labor drafts. Congress may act quickly to mobilize millions for civilian production and military needs, with talks of widening the draft to include more service branches and WAVES.
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Ashington
Hitler
Cairo
Teheran
Armed Services
May
House Military Affairs
Congress
Balkans
Ford Estate Filed in Hancock County Court Maine
A $66,000,000 estate action for Hisel Ford son of Henry Ford was entered in Hancock County Court. The will and affidavit by widow Clay Ford executrix were filed under inheritance tax procedures.
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Worth
Hisel Ford
Henry Motor
Hancock 2 Pe
Clay Ford
Senators Back Aid Plan for Nazi Victims
The Foreign Relations Committee urged the State Department to coordinate with Britain and Switzerland a system to supply food and aid to Nazi occupied Europe. The Senate supports action in Norway Poland Greece Yugoslavia and other countries.
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Washington
Sen- Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Switzerland
Sen
Senate
Tellef
Norway
Poland
Greece
Jugoslavia Ovakia
Air Men Rally for Major Assault Preparations
The Polish air force, backed by RAF units, mobilizes for a large invasion. Officials expect about ten thousand men and equipment to be ready, with fighting formations at full strength as operations near.
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Britbreak
RAF
Ett
Est
Alr Gt
Eth
Rail wage crisis grows as nonoperating workers weigh strike
A subcommittee of nonoperating railway unions moves toward setting a strike date as mediation resumes with operating brotherhoods. Clerks and telegraphers have voted strike, delaying returns. Transportation officials warn a strike could disrupt wartime travel, while Roosevelt discusses overtime pay systems.
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Washington
Congress
George M. Harrison
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Harrison
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
Bolivia to Supply Tin for Allied War Needs
Bolivia's Nationalist junta, after overthrowing Gen. Penaranda, guards tin ore mines used in U S and British arms. Victor Paz Estensoro, new finance minister, says Bolivia will honor the Atlantic Charter and UN obligations. Maj. Alberto Villaroel, new president, echoes commitment to international stance.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
United States
United Nations
Victor Paz Estensoro
Maj
Alberto Villaroel
New Army Head Named at Ohio State University
Col. George R. Middleton, 48, who has led training for the Army's Fifth Service Command since September, became military commandant at Ohio State University. He succeeds Col. Otto L. Brunzell and will direct all Army personnel at the campus, including about 3,000 ROTC trainees and civilian students.
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Columbus
George R. Middleton
Army
Fifth Service Command
Ohio State University
Otto L. Brunzell
Middleton
Sore finger not valid draft excuse Army finds
A draftee offered a medical excuse for deferment claiming convalescence from a traumatic petrosynovitis of the flexor digitorum sublimus in profundus muscle at the metacarpophalangeal joint. The Army rejected the reason as not sufficient for deferment.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Treasury Chief Attacks Senate Tax Bill
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau blasted the Senate Finance Committee measure as dangerous and flawed warning it could foster war profits and a national scandal. He called the bill extremely disappointing revenue wise and urged reconsideration during the holiday recess while reaffirming a target of 10.5 billion dollars in additional revenue. He criticized renegotiation amendments that would remove manufacturers and retroactively exempt subcontractors whose goods do not enter final settlements.
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Washington
Congress
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Retary
Capital Hill
War Trophies Are Sent to Ohioans
Seventy two Ohioans will receive Japanese machine guns as Christmas gifts from soldiers abroad. The assortment also includes vases slippers sandals pajamas cigaret cases pins rings silk apparel and foreign made ice tongs as appraised by the customs office before delivery.
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Cleveland
Ohio
C. W. Pollock
Pleas Fail To Move Strikes Pleas Fail To Move Strikes
About 1200 workers at Firestone Rubber and Metal Products in Wyandotte stayed on strike as Army labor officer Captain Foris urged UAW President Thomas and leaders to secure a return to work. He warned that talks on transfer disputes could not resume until all employees were back.
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Detroit
Firestone Rubber and Metal Products Co
Wyandotte
Army
J. Z. Foris
Detroit Army Ordnance District
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Thomas
Foris
Protest on Botany Worsted Mills Vote Over Absentee Ballots
Vic tory by a CIO union among Botany Worsted Mills employees is protested to the National Labor Relations Board. The company claims 800 former service members were not given absentee ballots, making the ballot void. Louis Hall Jr said the service member count exceeds the union’s majority.
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Passaic
CIO
Botany Worsted Mills
National Labor Relations Board
Armed Services
Louis Hall, Jr
Call Medical Men To Examine McCoy Slayer
Defense attorneys in an unexplain ed move summoned two Columbus physicians to examine slender James M. Collett, charged with the gun deaths of three relatives whose bodies were found on their farm Thanksgiving Day. The doctors will see Collett, but the purpose of the visit was not disclosed.
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Washington C. H
Columbus
James M. Collett
James N. Linton
George T. Harding
H. M. Brundage
Collett
Second Seaman Leech Dies After Crash
Second Class Seaman James Robert Leech, 19, of Pasadena California, died from injuries in the automobile crash that also killed Robert F. Wolfe II, son of Edgar T. Wolfe, publisher of the Ohio State Journal.
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Delaware
James Robert Leech
Pasadena
Calif
Robert F. Wolfe II
Edgar T. Wolfe
Ohio State Journal
Former Heidelberg College dean Viola Griffith dies at 90
Mrs. Viola Griffith, 90, former dean of women at Heidelberg College in Tiffin Ohio, died recently and will be buried here Wednesday.
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Tiffin
Viola Griffith
Heidelberg College
Allies Break Jap Defense In Pacific Island Campaigns
Allied forces drive Japanese back in New Guinea and Bougainville amid land and air assaults. British and American bombers strike Bangkok docks and arsenals while Chinese and Allied units recapture key bases in the Rice Bowl and Tunengting Lake region.
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Bougainville
New Britain
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rice Bowl
Lake Tungting
Yangtze River
Huan Peninsula
Masawang River
Finschhafen
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
U. S
Arawe
Capberry
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Army Air Force
Mili Atoll
Navy
Marshalls
Bangkok
Thailand
Eastern Asia Air Command
Burma
USAAF
RAF
Joseph W. Stilwell
Chungking
14Th Army Air Force
Hunan
Nanhsien
Ansiang
Japan
India
Ohio liquor stores well stocked for holiday trade
State Liquor Director Don A. Fisher said Ohio stores are well stocked for the holiday trade. Supplies left over from last week and new shipments due from warehouses today or tomorrow will give customers a good selection this week.
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Columbus
Don A. Fisher
Landmark of Hartford Area Swept by Fire
Fire swept through the Juhling Store in Hartford around ten o clock Monday night causing over 25000 in damages. The blaze destroyed the store and nearby residences including Mrs Hugo Juhling and occupied Bulmer home as well as Mrs C L Smiths house and an unoccupied market building. Nearby homes and the post office sustained damage though the post office reported no loss. Fire departments from Point Pleasant Middleport Pomroy and Mason City aided in controlling the blaze.
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Point Pleasant
Juhling
Hartford
Hugo Juhling
Walter Bulmer and
C. L. Smith
Senate Blocks Patton's Rise
Washington reports the Senate will delay promotions for 14 Army officers including Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. until differences are settled. The president nominated raises in permanent ranks but senators balk at Patton for striking an enlisted man and berating two others. The Senate may approve upgrades for the other officers if new nominations are submitted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
George, S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Parachute saves Lt Earl D Ody in Bay crash near Oakland
Hamilton Field California reports Lt Earl D Ody age 23 from Mogadore Ohio survived when his fighter plane crashed into San Francisco Bay near Oakland Airport during a combat training flight. A parachute deployed to save him as the aircraft went down and rescue crews recovered him unharmed.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Earl D. Ody
Mogadore
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
Massive Allied Raid Pounds Frankfurt In Major Air Assault
Allied bombers struck Frankfurt with over 800 heavy planes in a massive attack that deposited more than 2,000 long tons of explosives. The raid hit Mannheim Ludwigshafen and targeted Sofia and Eleusis airfields, with fires blazing in Frankfurt and casualties reported as air operations continued.
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Rhineland
Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
Sofia
Coesese
Pal
Viner Panes
Eleusis
Athens
Balkans
Air Ministry
Tis
Bremen
France
Berlin
Cologne
Hamburg
Kassel
Germany
Rome under German assault as Italy and Nazis push revolt
Reports from Naples indicate revolt against German command and the puppet Italian government in northern Italy. Germans evacuated parts of Rome to allow engineers to plant mines and dynamite, suggesting a possible abandonment of the city amid heavy bombing on the southeast coast toward France.
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Naples
Italy
Rome
France
Fourth Great Attack in Month Darkens Berlin Bombing
The RAF staged its fourth major raid in a month dropping over 2300 tons on Berlin the night of November 22. December losses reached 136 aircraft. Allied and Soviet operations pushed on in Europe as Russian forces neared Vitebsk and encirclement threats grew around Leningrad and the Central Front.
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Frankfurt
Berlin
RAF
Leipzig
Russia
Vitebsk
Dnieper
Lenin
Stalin
Italy
Influenza Outbreak Closes Ohio Schools Ahead of Christmas
Influenza and cold outbreaks led to early holidays for Lima and Hamilton pupils and forced cancellation of a Findlay-Lima South High game. Health officials, including Dr. R H Markwith, estimate about 700000 Ohioans ill in two weeks. Westerville schools closed two days early due to ongoing cold epidemic.
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Columbus
Lima
Hamilton
Findlay
Lima South
R. H. Markwith
Westerville
Second Strike Starts In City of Montreal
Montreal's second strike of municipal employees began today with about 2000 city hall clerks and stenographers demanding higher wages. Workers rejected a provincial offer to set up arbitration to study their wage demands after a previous 14 hour city-wide walkout led to union recognition for police fire and public works staff.
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Montreal
Quebec Municipal Commission
Police, Fire and Public Works
Canadian Congress of Labor
Ration Tokens Set to Change Food Distribution Mechanics
Washington announces 2 billion ration tokens begin circulating February 27 changing how meats and processed foods are purchased. Tokens worth one point replace multiple stamp values, with red tokens for meat and blue for processed foods. Tokens plus stamps set new monthly and biweekly validity, aiming to keep program balance over about two years.
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Washington
OPA
Capital Printers Told To Return To Work
War Labor Board ordered Capital printers to resume daily newspaper publication in Washington after a 24 hour stoppage. Four plants idled as Columbia Typographical Union members disputed wage talks with the Washington Publishers Association, which had failed to reach an agreement.
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Washington
War Labor Board
National Capital
Columbia Typographical Union
Washington Publishers Association
Ohio Plant to Lay Off 1100 at Springfield Works
Supt. J W Armour of International Harvester Springfield plant said about 1100 workers would be laid off in the coming weeks due to changes in motor trucks built for the Marine Corps. Approximately 150 would depart before year end, with the remainder early next month.
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Springfield
J. W. Armour
International Harvester Co
Springfield Works
Marine Corps
Armour
Funeral Services for Fats Waller Held at Abyssinian
Thousands attended the funeral of Thomas Waller at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and adjacent community house. The Negro musician and composer, known as Fats Waller, was honored on his birthday with more than 4,200 people present.
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Waller
New York
Thomas W
Fats) Waller
Harlem
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Wheat acreage large in Washington Ohio winter wheat seed
Washington and Ohio show large winter wheat plantings. Ohio seeds 2 075 000 acres with an indicated production of 38 388 000 bushels, reported by the Agriculture Department late yesterday.
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Washington
Ohio
Agriculture Department
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