American Overseas Force Aims 4.75 Million Men by End of Next Year
Senate investigators questioned manpower, agriculture and war production chiefs on how to build a 4.75 million man overseas force and meet food and equipment needs this year. Officials warned that lowering physical standards or raising the 38 year age limit might be required.
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Joint Committee of Non-Essential Expenditures
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WPB
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National Housing Agency
Bill Would Defer Pre-War Fathers In War Draft Debate
Senator Wheeler proposes exempting men married before Pearl Harbor from induction to ease home disruption. Hearings reveal Army aims for Axis parity in air power by 1943 and 4.75 million overseas by 1944, with 22 million men 18 to 38 registered but only about 11 million likely fit. Some lawmakers warn manpower shortages risk supplies and lend-lease.
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Pearl Harbor
Wheeler
D-Mont
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Germany
Japan
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Army
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Marine Is Decorated For Killing 200 Japs
Private Albert A. Schmid 23 received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism at Guadalc alanal on August 21 last year. He manned a machine gun after teammates were killed or wounded and halted an enemy night assault across the Tenaru River. A grenade in his hole disabled the gun and blinded him in one eye and partially in the other.
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Albert A. Schmid
Guadalcanal
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Tenaru River
Pennsylvanian Heads Miners of District 50
John Kmetz of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines became president of District 50 the United Mine Workers unit, stepping in as John L. Lewis sought a shakeup and stronger organization for his labor movement.
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John Kmetz
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
Kmetz
District 50
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Wooster Restores War Time Policy After Leaders’ Request
Wooster city council, heeding business leaders, voted to return to War Time status effective October 3. The action aligns local measures with wartime civil defense and economic controls awaiting further guidance from state and federal authorities.
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Wooster
Allies Prepare for Attack on Salamaua in New Guinea
General Douglas MacArthur’s forces and Australian troops clear the path for a climactic assault on the Salamaua base in New Guinea as Allied planes bomb towns and trails in the Mubo region. United Nations airmen hit the Rabaul shipping center for the fourth night, while RAF fighters target river craft and towns in Burma and fighters claim 29 Japanese planes destroyed in Assam.
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Fire Claims Glick Family At Nickle Plate Home
Logan area tragedy as Charles Glick 76 and his grandson Dean 4 die in early morning blaze that destroyed Arthur Glick’s house two miles south of Logan. Arthur’s daughter Martha 19 is badly burned and expected to die. two other children escaped after linemen forced entry. Martha is believed to have started the oil stove fire leading to the explosion.
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Falls Township
Martha Glick
Cherrington Hospital
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Heine Packing
Methodists Plan Nationwide Week of Dedication
The eight million Methodists launch a Week of Dedication starting Sunday to urge renewed self service and substance amid world state and church crisis. For first time services will be held in all 42 000 churches on March 7 with laymen filling rural pulpits as pastors conduct circuits.
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Chicago
Army Camp Mackall Named for Fallen Paratrooper
Washington reports Private John T. Mackall son of Mrs Alda Newton of Wellsville Ohio was one of the first paratroopers killed in the North African invasion. Camp Mackall at Hoffman North Carolina has been named in his honor as a paratrooper training site.
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John T. Mackall
Alda Newton
Wellsville
U. S
Mackall
Hoffman
N. C
Germany halts beer consumption order issued in Zurich dispatch
Reuters reports that Germany ordered a halt in all beer consumption beginning March 15, according to a Zurich dispatch. The action, described by AP as issued today, reflects wartime restrictions affecting German populace and markets.
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Reuters
Zurich
Germany
President Roosevelt Remains In White House Sick Quarters
On doctor advice President Roosevelt stayed in his White House quarters to fight an intestinal illness this day.
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Roosevelt
White House
Ohio Increases March Tire Quotas For Grades 1 2 3
The Office of Price Administration announced a March quota of 16 277 Grade 1 tires for Ohio nearly double February. Grade 2 tires are set at 17 729 and Grade 3 at 36 178, with tube allocations at 44 128, reflecting a temporary rise to clear backlogs before month end.
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Office of Price Administration
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Five Ohio Counties Report No Rural Traffic Deaths in 1942
The State Highway Department said five of Ohio 88 counties had no traffic fatalities outside cities in 1942. Darke Meigs Mercer Morgan and Highland counted zero rural deaths while total rural fatalities statewide fell to 550 from 869 in 1941, a 37 percent drop.
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State Highway Department
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Darke
Meigs
Mercer
Morgan
Highland
Three Executed for Slaying of Golfer Miley
Eddyville Ky three men were executed in the electric chair for the robbery slaying of amateur golfer Marion Miley. Robert H Anderson 37 Tom Penney 33 and Raymond Baxter 29 died in rapid succession at Eddyville Prison.
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Eddyville
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Marion Miley
Robert H. Anderson
Tom Penney
Raymond Baxter
Eddyville Prison
FD Calls Get Acquainted Meeting for New Solons
Washington news shows fresh Democratic lawmakers forming a group to aid admin decisions as they attend a White House get acquainted session. Lending issues, relief spending, and agency operations are discussed along with potential HOLC liquidation and civil service simplification plans.
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Washington
White House
Inflation and 48-Hour Week Sparks Warnings in House
Secretary Wickard told the House Agriculture Committee that a 48-hour work week could raise wages and fuel inflation though he has not been told the plan would raise wages by 30 percent. He noted farm prices on Jan 15 were 115 percent of parity with only corn and wheat below parity. He urged parity but warned against abandoning price controls.
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Wickard
House Agriculture Committee
Wickard d
Congress
Work Resumed At Plane Plant In Seattle After Tense Day
Thousands of Boeing workers return to the job at Seattle area plants amid warnings from union leaders of possible general walkouts unless the War Labor Board speeds a wage dispute decision. Three plants closed for three hours as 20 000 attended a mass AFL meeting and parade.
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Boeing
War Labor Board
Protest Halts Mining Over Draft Deferment
Pittsburgh miners at Montour No. 4 Mine walk out for a third day delaying 4700 tons of coal. About 650 idle workers call it a patriotic protest against Harold Cass draft deferment, targeting Walter E. Chaffon who says he never sought deferment and would rather join the Army.
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Montour No. 4
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Harold Cass
United Mine Workers
Walter E. Chaffon
Canonsburg
Chaffon
Cleveland Aluminum Plant Strike Nears End
A strike by smelter workers at the Aluminum Co of America in Cleveland neared resolution as about half of 150 workers complied with the War Labor Board order to work or be fired. Forty four on the first shift were discharged, while 19 others completed the last two hours of their shift, according to WLB disputes director Fred H. Bullen.
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Aluminum Co. of America
Regional War Labor Board
Fred H. Bullen
WLB
Trouble in Africa: Ernie Pyle on the Tunisian front
Pyle reports on American setbacks in Tunisia, noting heavy losses and misjudged British roles, but asserting confidence that Germans will be driven from Tunisia. He criticizes American smugness and overreliance on production, praising troops who keep fighting despite losses.
Daylight US Bombers Hit Northern Germany Coast
Allied air raids targeted Nuernberg and other Western German sites with a daylight push by US bombers and Liberators alongside RAF night attacks. The Nuernberg strike aimed at submarine engine works, a key U boat production center, amid heavy losses reported on both sides.
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Germany
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England
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Air Ministry
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Naples
Crotone
Ionian Sea
Gandhi's Condition Unchanged on Fast Day Seventeen
An official bulletin reports Mohandas K. Gandhi remains in unchanged condition on the seventeenth day of his twenty one day fast in Bombay. Medical officials indicate no appreciable change in his health as the fasting continues.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Farm Price Policy Settlement Nears Approval
Senate approved a farm policy bill 78 to 2, backed by administration leaders, nullifying part of Roosevelt stabilization order on price ceilings. Senator Bankhead predicted House committee approval that night. Settlement aims to limit farm price increases to under 5 percent.
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Congressional
Senate
Roosevelt
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Captured Jap Zero Plane Yields Secrets
A captured Japanese Zero fighter salvaged in the Aleutians is yielding secrets of Nipponese psychology and technique to U S experts at Anacostia Naval Air Station. The plane is subjected to minute tests and study, revealing a plane with no armor and a pilot facing a kill or be killed choice in combat.
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Washington
U. S
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Aleutian Islands
Daughter of Nelsonville Man Dies in Columbus
Mrs. Clara Allen age 50 daughter of Charles Skiver Nelsonville died Thursday at her Columbus home. Funeral Monday at one o clock burial in Lancaster. Survived by husband Harry Allen a son Richard with the Army Air Corps at Albuquerque N M a daughter Patricia at home three brothers William Edward Charles and one sister Florence Saum
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Clara Allen
Charles Skiver
Columbus
Lancaster
Harry Allen
Richard
Army Air Corps
Albuquerque
N. M
Patricia
William
Edward
Charles
Florence Saum
OPA Halts Canned Meat in Restaurants
Washington announces an OPA order banning opening canned meat or fish in restaurants. Canned products were banned from public sale and sales suspended February 18 for an indefinite period. Rationing of those products and fresh meat is expected within about 60 days.
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Washington
Rommel in Full Retreat Toward Sea
Allied forces reported a decisive shift in Tunisia with the Kasserine Pass in Allied hands. Rommel was said to be retreating toward the sea as British and American units pressed from Sbiba toward Gafsa and Sbeitla, while Allied air power bombed targets across the front. In Russia, Soviet troops closed on Novorossisk and advanced around Angelinskaya and Staronizhe-Steblievskaya, with hundreds of enemy dead and many prisoners reported.
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Brown Lands Papers' Service on Rationing
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown praised the American press for its invaluable assistance in explaining canned goods rationing. He called for special recognition of the press as newspapers face paper, manpower, and transportation shortages.
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Prentiss M. Brown
American Press Today
Brown
Two Ton RAF Bomb Traps 2700 Miners
Belgian refugee report cites Berlin agency on a Duisburg raid that dropped a two ton bomb trapping 2700 miners in a coal pit. It was not clear if all perished.
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Germany
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