FDR Proposes Supertax In High Income Brackets
A House Military Affairs Committee vote backed the Kilday Bill to give draft deferment priority to men with children, while outlining state-wide draft quotas and occupational group protections. Roosevelt’s plan for a special war supertax faced bipartisan opposition as Congress debated tax and salary limits and farm policy amid food supply concerns.
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FDR
Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Elston
Ohio
War Manpower Commission
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Office of Price Administration
Roosevelt
Doughton
D-Nc
Jhouse Ways and Means
Anxiety Over Gandhi's Health During Fast in Bombay
India government communique says anxiety deepens over Mohandas K Gandhi's health as he enters the second week of a planned 21 day fast. The report notes concern from officials and observers about his condition.
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Gandhi
Bombay
India
Mohandir K. Gandhi
Smokescreen Protects Panama Canal Zone
The article explains a new defense line for the Panama Canal Zone using dense vapor to obscure the canal and key areas. It notes journalists were allowed to report on this measure for the first time, though many details must stay secret.
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Panama Canal Zone
U. S. Army
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Chiang tells House to crush Japanese threat in UN efforts
Mme Chiang Kai-shek told the House of Representatives that Japan must be crushed as a threat to the United Nations. She warned that Japan holds greater resources in occupied areas than Germany and urged continued pressure, noting U S Navy victories at Midway and Coral Sea as steps toward the Guadalcanal fight's ultimate victory.
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Washington
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
House of Representatives
United Nations
Japan
Damocles
Germany
China
United States Navy
Midway
Coral Sea
Guadalcanal
U S Subs Sink Five Jap Ships
American submarine forces added seven more enemy ships to their tally in the Pacific. Five sunk, one damaged, and one probably sunk, bringing total ships sunk or crippled to 184. Most victims were Japanese fleet auxiliaries carrying men and gear to island bases. a cargo ship was damaged and a cruiser probably sunk.
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Washington
Pacific
Illegal Liquor Sale Probed at Cleveland Store
A state liquor department probe followed The Cleveland Plain Dealer report that manager Basil O Keller sold liquor unofficially to special privilege customers. District Supervisor W P Harris notified State Liquor Director Don A Fisher, who suspended Keller after Keller admitted irregularities.
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Cleveland
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Don A. Fisher
Basil O. Keller
W. P. Harris
Fisher
Harris
Keller
Ohio industrial payrolls rise 38 percent in 1942
Columbus reports that Ohio 1942 industrial payrolls climbed 38 percent above the previous 12 months. Akron led with payrolls up 85 percent and employment 44 percent higher, per the Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research
Akron
Bricker Blames Poor Program for Food Shortage
Gov. John W. Bricker tells Ohio Hardware Association that a poorly prepared program caused the food problem and called for using every resource in the next ten months to stave off famine.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio Hardware Association
Fire destroys Goodyear tire plant warehouse
A large fire destroyed a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co facility in Kansas City burning between 10 000 and 15 000 new car tires and damaging a recapping plant at the site.
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Kansas City
Goodyear Tire and
Ubber Co
Broaden Eligibility List For C Gasoline Cards
The Office of Price Administration broadened C book eligibility to thousands more motorists. Previously limited to a preferred list of physicians and essential war workers, the order allows C books for those who cannot obtain enough gas on a B book to travel to and from work, under specified circumstances.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Time issue may reappear in Ohio Legislature
Ohio lawmakers seem poised to reopen the time change dispute before adjournment. Senate Republican leader Frank Whittemore of Akron预计 a renewed repeal effort as confusion grows. Cities including Portsmouth Marian Lima keep wartime Eastern Time. Columbus considers staying on Eastern War Time through September 26 with clocks set back Sunday pending action.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Frank E. Whittemore
Akron
Whittemore
Bricker
Portsmouth
Marion
Lima
Columbus City
Government halts sale of canned meat and fish nationwide
The Office of Price Administration ordered an indefinite stop on wholesale and retail sales of most canned meats and fish citing threatened supply. Pets get a brief exemption as dog foods rely on by products. Some items like frozen goods and non sterilized cans are unaffected.
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Washington
Fido
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Agriculture
Wickard
Atlantic and Gulf Coast
Female Labor Laws Hinder Arms Output
In Columbus a representative of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association said production suffers as women workers exceed hourly limits. The Senate panel weighs a wartime relaxation bill that would suspend many female labor laws in war production and related sectors, with a 54 hour cap in other jobs.
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Columbus
Ohio Manufacturers’ Association
Ralph Miner
Akron
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Joseph I. Ross
R.montgomery
Organized Labor
More French Ships To Join Richelieu Here
Vice Admiral Raymond Fenard, head of the French naval mission, said the battleship Richelieu would be joined by all other French fleet units in the United States. He listed expected additions including three battleships three heavy cruisers six light cruisers an aircraft carrier nine destroyers 14 submarines and 10 auxiliary craft.
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Philadelphia
Raymond Fenard
United States
Richelieu
Fenard
Montcalm
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Knox Seals Winchell on Inactive Navy Duty
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the House Naval Committee he ordered Walter Winchell, columnist and radio commentator, placed on inactive duty as a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve. Rep. Hoffman had accused Winchell of inflammatory remarks about members of Congress in broadcasts.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Walter Winchell
Naval Reserve
Rep
Hoffman
R-Mich
Winchell
House
Congress
Watchman Hurt in Blast at Williams Manufacturing Co
An explosion at the Williams Manufacturing Co in Portsmouth injured one employee, fireman-watchman Walter Denning, who suffered third degree burns. The blast damaged windows and chimneys within six blocks and halted work until repairs finish. Fire Chief Robert Leedom said gas between walls caused the explosion in the sole leather storage room on the second floor.
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Portsmouth
Williams Manufacturing Co
Walter Denning
Robert Leedom
Glouster Youth Held Prisoner by Italians
Mr and Mrs A M Healey of Glouster received a telegram from the War Department stating their son Sgt Alfred Healy is a prisoner of the Italian government. He had been reported missing in action on the North African front earlier in January.
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Glouster
A. M. Healey
War Department
Sgt
Alfred Healy
East Liverpool Pilot George Poe Dies at 98
George Poe 98 longtime river boat pilot and claimed descendant of Andrew Poe Indian fighter died at his Georgetown Pennsylvania home. He was known in East Liverpool and Georgetown circles and remembered for his years on the river trade.
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East Liverpool
George Poe
Andrew Poe
Georgetown
War Workers' Job Insurance Plan for Ohio Considered
Ohio Senate debates a plan to guarantee unemployment benefits for wartime workers. Gov Bricker proposes a surtax from 0.1 to 1 percent on payrolls at about 1000 firms to fund an unemployment insurance fund. Atkinson estimates over 20 firms would pay the max 1 percent and the plan would add about 5 million dollars annually to the fund.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
John W. Bricker
H. C. Atkinson
Atkinson
War Plant President Favor V Victory for Axis
FBI official reports the president of a New York war plant earning 75000 a year who runs nearly all armed forces contracts was among 11 aliens rounded up. He admitted he favored Axis victory. his wife son and daughter were also detained.
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New York
E. E. Conroy
FBI
New York City
Conroy
New England
Ohio Soldier William Wither Wounded in Africa
War department lists three Ohio officers and 28 enlisted men wounded in action in North Africa. Some have recovered and returned to duty. Included is Private William D. Wither of Glouster, listed with his mother Mrs. Lucille W. Wither.
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Washington
War Department
Ohio Army
North
Africa
Glouster
William D. Wither
Lucille W. Withem
Three Women Die As Train Strikes Auto in Loudonville
At the Spring Street crossing in Loudonville a fast train hit an automobile killing three Perrysville women. The vanished victims were Edna Beechler 35 Margaret Conrad 25 and Reva Hartshorne 38 the driver all enroute to work.
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Loudonville
Perrysville
Spring Street
Edna Beechler
Margaret Conrad
Reva Hartshorne
Writer predicts German defeat in 1943, says Hitler broken
Miami columnist Mackenzie reports from a four and a half month world tour that Nazi power is shattered and will be finished by year end. He cites Allied strength, supply lines to Russia, and the aim to annihilate the German army as the path to victory and predicts Japan will fall once Axis forces are crushed.
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Miami
Fla
DeWitt, Mackenzie
Associated Press
Germany
Chungking
China
Hitler
Lower
Caucasus
Russia
Iraq
United States
Great Britain
United Nations
MacKenzie
British Isles
Persian Gulf
Emo
Orient
Defeat in First All-Out Tank Battle in Tunisia
Allied reports describe German Mark VI tanks routing American armor in central Tunisia as British Eighth Army advances at Mareth Line. Secretary Stimson calls the Tunisian setback serious but not fatal, noting heavy casualties and ongoing Allied offensives.
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Tunisia
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Tebessa
Algeria
Tuni
R. A. N. Anderson
Washington
Stimson
U. S
First Army
Philppines
Rommel
Sidi Bouzid-Sheitla
Germans Sweep Into Sbeitla Kasserine and Feriana
A Eisenhower briefing reports the Germans swept into Sbeitla Kasserine and Feriana in Tunisia, driving a 66 mile thrust from the Faid Pass in four days. Rommel fields tanks in force as Allied lines withdraw to a shortened front while medenine and the Foum Tatahouine area see British advances. In Russia the Red Army advances toward Kiev as Soviet forces press the Dnieper region and Rostov’s escape corridor opens.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Feriana
Faid Pass
Churchill
Rommel
Tunisia
Africa
Russia
Kharkov
Ukraine
Kiev
London
Orel
Moscow
CAP Fliers Awarded Medals for Heroism
Major Hugh R. Sharp Jr. of Wilmington Delaware and Ensign Ed wards of Newark Delaware were awarded Army Air Medals for rescue at sea of a fellow Civil Air Patrol member. They saved Lieut Henry Cross of Columbus Ohio after his plane was forced down aiding Atlantic Submarine menace reduction.
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Washington
Civil Air Patrol
Hugh R. Sharp, Jr
Wilmington
Del
Edmond 1. Edwards
Newark
Roosevelt
Atlantic Seaboard
Lieut
Henry Cross
Columbus, O
Goodyear Builds Navy Fighter Plane For Test Flights
The first navy fighter from the Goodyear Aircraft Corp plant near Akron is ready for test flights at Akron Airport. The FGI, built to the Vought Sikorsky Corsair design, is labeled by the Navy as the fastest fighter in the world.
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Akron
Navy
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation
Absentee Workers To Be Given LA Status
Philadelphia draft board overseeing a Navy Yard heavy district announced that draft eligible workers habitually absent will be reclasified and given 1-A status.
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Philadelphia
Navy Yard
Will Employ Japs on Farms
The Agriculture Department said Japanese evacuees relocated from the West Coast will be used to fill farm labor shortages next summer. Cooperation with the War Relocation Authority will place evacuees in communities that accept them. Over 40,000 evacuees remain in inland relocation centers as field placement offices open in Salt Lake City Denver Kansas City Chicago and Cleveland.
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Senate
National Resources Planning Board
Frederic A. Delano
House
Budget Bureau
Federal Home Loan Administration
Congress
Agriculture Department
Washington
The
War Relocation Authority
Salt Lake City
Denver
Kansas City
Chicago
Cleveland
Dollar Days In Athens Store Ads Prompt Weekend Bargains
The Athens Messenger promotes Dollar Days in Athens on Friday and Saturday February 19 and 20. Merchants advertise rare bargains as spring and summer items approach, with many sought items on store counters during the two day event despite wartime scarcity.
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Athens
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