U.S. Plans 400 Million Synthetic Rubber Drive
The Roosevelt administration and major oil, rubber, and chemical firms unveiled a 400.9 million program to boost synthetic rubber output to 400000 tons annually within 18 months. The plan aims to supply military needs, including tires for tanks and aircraft, while reducing dependence on Malay rubber.
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Washington
Germany
Italy
Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
Jones
Texas City
Tex
Steamship Sunk Off Nova Scotia In Battle of Atlantic
A large steamship was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 160 miles off the Nova Scotia coast. Survivors report about 94 dead and 89 saved, with 66 Chinese and 23 white among the rescued. Four white crewmen and roughly 90 Chinese aboard were lost amid near zero weather.
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Nova Scotia
North American
FBI Accuses Man of Having Nine Wives
In Los Angeles AP reports John William Melville, jailed by the FBI, protests he had only two wives not nine as officers allege. FBI says he violated parole from a four year Leavenworth bank robbery term and lists at least nine wives and 28 aliases.
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LOS Angeles
FBI
John William Melville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Melville
Leaven- Worth
Kas
Newspapers Raise Subscriptions Across Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania publishers report 25 of the state’s daily papers have increased subscription rates in the past year to cover higher operating costs.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Messenger Want Ad Captures Room For Rent
Nicely furnished front room with gas and furnace heat private entrance 93 M Congress. Dial 24071. A 3 line ad run 3 times will cost only. A vacant room as much for three years and phone your ad in now.
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Congress
Dew Hotel Gutted by Fire in Nelsonville
Fire heavily damaged the more than a century old Dew Hotel on Nelsonville Public Square after a blaze began under the roof. Firemen say a defective flue started the attic fire, and after an hour they controlled it. Water damage obscured loss estimates, with destruction mainly on the west front facing the Public Square.
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Nelsonville
Dew
Public Square
Stanley Dew
New War Labor Board Established with Arbitration Role
President Roosevelt selected Wendell L. Willkie to serve as an umpire on a new 12 member War Labor Board that will replace the Defense Mediation Board. The board, led by William H. Davis, can submit disputes to binding arbitration and will absorb most functions and staff of the former board as part of wartime industrial peace efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
War Labor Board
Willkie
William H. Davis
Defense Mediation Board
Industry-Labor Conference
Firestone to Build Air Raid Shelter in Akron Plant
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co announced immediate construction on its Akron South plant of an air raid shelter for 50 people modeled after the latest London design. Officials say it will mainly acquaint the public with the shelter while usable by 50 employees during an alarm.
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ARRON
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
South Akron
Government Reports Deny Deposit Confiscation Rumors
Secretary Morgenthau stated that rumors of government plans to confiscate savings deposits are utterly devoid of truth and warned that spreading such rumors harms national welfare.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Government holds $50,000 in canned milk at warehouse
Federal authorities report more than fifty thousand dollars worth of canned milk stored at a government warehouse. The stock remains unaccounted for as investigators review inventory and security measures.
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Toledo
200 000 Trapped as Red Advance Pushes on in Russia
Reports quote Berlin sources that Orel has fallen back to Soviet control and a 200000 strong German force near Smolensk is encircled by a Soviet pincer. Hitler relocates field HQ to southern Russia amid promising Red advances in Ukraine and Kharkov.
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Red Advance
Russia
Orel
Moscow
Smolensk
British Exchange Telegraph Agency
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Valdai
Fuehrer
Ukraine
Semen Timoshenko
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Special Session May Give Bricker Headache
In Columbus a proposed special session to rewrite unemployment insurance laws could trouble Gov. John W. Bricker. Lawmakers may discuss the surplus and city aid despite being limited to governor-submitted topics. The session would also serve as a public platform for broad concerns.
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Bricker
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Draft Board Chairman Gets Year Probation
Willis E. Bauer 49 former chairman of draft board No 12 in Cuyahoga Falls received a one year probation after a federal judge suspended his sentence on a bribery charge. Bauer was convicted yesterday of arranging with clerk Frances Moody to raise her salary from 125 to 150 dollars a month and pay him the difference for three months.
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Cleveland
Willis E. Bauer
Cuyahoga Falls
Bauer
Frances Moody
Soldiers to carry own war medicine in field care
Dr. Guy A. Caldwell of Tulane University Medical School says gas gangrene in compound fractures was controlled experimentally by immediate sulfathiazole application. Soldiers may carry their own medicine into battle for prompt wound treatment.
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New Orleans
Guy A. Caldwell
Tulane University Medical School
Bricker Field Named for Gov Bricker at Bowling Green
A 120 acre airport will be built beside Bowling Green State University and be named Bricker Field in honor of Gov. and Mrs. Joan W Bricker.
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Bowling Green
Bricker
Joan W. Bricker
Gowns Green State Asversity
FDR Blocks Concessions on Farm Price Control
President Roosevelt personally intervenes to halt concessions for agriculture in wartime price control legislation. He holds a White House conference with five House members as joint committees work on the Senate bill. Conferees seek accords on daylight saving time civilian defense appropriations and defense housing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
House
Senate
Senate House
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
War Department
Rep
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Rmass
Herbert Hoover
Price Control Agency
Captive States Plot Revenge
In a St James Palace ceremony, eight Axis occupied nations and the Free French pledge postwar punishment for occupation officers and accomplices. Eden cites oppression and brutality as grounds for future war crimes actions. Prime ministers condemn mass executions expulsions and massacres by Germans and Italians.
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London
Free French
Anthony Eden
Europe
St. James’ Palace
Netherlands
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Norway
Greece
Luxemburg
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Free French Committee
Tax Exemption Move Opposed in Congress
Treasury proposed ending the tax exemption on most bonds to raise 300 to 400 million dollars annually. Senators faced strong opposition from the Senate Finance Committee led by Taft who said the plan was unlikely to win approval.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Roosevelt
Congressional
Taft
Ohio
Senate Finance Committee
Lincoln statue in Parliament Square stripped of fence
London report says Abraham Lincoln statue in Parliament Square lost its protective iron fence to boost Britain's scrap supply. The move aims to recycle metal from the statue as part of a government metals drive.
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London
Abraham Lincoln
Parliament Square
Britain
Loss of Army Transport Clevedon in Alaskan Waters
War Department reports the army transport Clevedon and cargo destroyed by fire in Alaskan waters. No further details provided.
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Washington
War Department
Clevedon
Alaskan
Master Farmer Urges End to AAA Subsidies
Ohio AAA chairman Elmer F. Kruse dismisses a proposal by Master Farmer O A Dobbins of Cedarville to end federal subsidies. Dobbins says patriotism demands refusing aid as subsidies would fund 8000 fighter planes or 10000 tanks. Kruse notes farmers need advisory agencies and parity payments while prices improve.
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Columbus
Elmer F. Kruse
Ohio
AAA
O. A. Dobbins
Cedarville
Kruse
Dobbins
Ferndale Farms
Argentina's stance blocks unanimous anti Axis front
In Rio de Janeiro an official said Argentina's reluctance to join a military alliance threatens hemispheric unity at the Pan American conference. Nineteen republics back a severing of ties with the Axis, with Chile expected to join. Argentina's neutrality remains its only deviation.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Argentina
Chile
Buenos Aires
Panama
Havana
United States
U. S
Nazis Arrest Norwegian Naval Officers and Airmen
Berlin broadcast reports Germany ordered the arrest of all former Norwegian air force and navy officers after about 100 escaped to England to resume combat. A second decree targeted 20 former high court officials allied with the Norwegian royal house in reprisal for the kidnapping of eight members of the Quisling National Unity Party by English forces.
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Berlin
England
Germany
National
Samling
Bricker Creates State Salvage Committee for War Materials
Gov. John W. Bricker announced the appointment of a state salvage committee to spur collection of scrap metals waste materials and waste paper. The goal is to enable local defense councils to obtain funds through sale of scrap while stressing scrap as vital war material.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Arrest of Italian Alien in Cleveland Linked to Short-Wave Set
Alliance police seized a short‑wave radio a shotgun and a loaded revolver from Tony Falvo an Italian in custody in Cleveland. FBI identified him and noted 26 enemy aliens are held locally. Federal rules forbid enemy aliens from owning radios and firearms.
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Cleveland
Alliance
FBI
Tony Falvo
Youngstown milk distributors adopt new biweekly home delivery
Youngstown district milk distributors announce a new schedule to deliver milk to homes every other day instead of six and seven days per week, starting this week. The move shifts operations to alternating day deliveries across the city.
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Youngstown
Reinforcements Reported En Route to Battle Zone
Allied reinforcements move toward the Far East front as Dutch bombers strike Tarakan off Borneo. Indons army bombers score hits on transports while British reports hint at a major announcement that could shift the Malayan war. MacArthur’s forces in the Philippines report artillery success against Japanese positions near Batangas. Dutch Tarakan garrison surrenders while Tokyo claims gains on Celebes as war moves toward Timor and possible Australian invasion.
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Tarakan
Dutch North Borneo
Far East
Dutch East Indies
Indies
Britain
Washington
Malaya
China
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
War Department
U.S
Batan Peninsula
Manila
Batavia
Borneo
Imperial
Tokyo
Kakas
Menado
Mimahassa
Celebes Island
Celebes Sea
Celebes
Dutch Indies
Australia
Timor
United Nations
Singapore
Rising Sun
Seremban
Kuala Lumpur
Federated Malay States
Reuters
Advance Date For Sale of Auto Stickers
Ohio delays selling green automobile and motor boat stickers to avoid crowding at post offices. The Feb 1 start replaces Jan 26 and stamps cost 2.09 for autos trucks and motorcycles, valid to July 1 with 5 stamps for a full year. The government expects 4 million in Feb July sales and 10 million annually to aid wartime financing.
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Columbus
Internal Revenue
Ohio
U S Army Air Corps High Altitude Flight Gear
The article explains the U S Army Air Corps approach to outfitting high altitude pilots with special sheep skin garments. It notes that all sheep skin produced in the United States may be allocated for these suits and related gear.
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U. S. Army Air Corps
U. S
Ask Immediate Training for Auto Workers
The OPM regional labor supply committee urged round the clock seven day a week use of training facilities for auto workers in war production. Acting Chair Edward L Keenan said available training equipment is insufficient. He proposed concentrating day vocational courses to free equipment for workers losing autos factory jobs. Lockheed and Vega began recruiting 1500 men from Cleveland's 5000 displaced auto workers as employment offices opened after a three day Help Wanted campaign.
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Cleveland
OPM Regional Labor Supply Committee
Edward L. Keenan
Ohio
Michigan
California
Lockheed
Vega
Liquor Dealers Urged To Run Clean Business
Members of the Buckeye Retail Liquor Dealers Association, closing their annual convention, were cautioned to protect themselves from public criticism. Thomas Craig, chief of the state liquor department bureau of permits, urged operators to run a clean upright and legal business.
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Middletown
Buckeye Retail Liquor Dealers Association
Thomas Craig
State Liquor Department
Bureau of Peremits
Mother's Dream Hears From Navy Son In Honolulu
Elwood Indiana mother Mrs William Hughes dreamed of hearing from her son Leslie Balser 25 in the navy at Honolulu. She later found his letter postmarked Jan 1 saying he was safe. In Cleveland he wrote he was safe. Meanwhile a presidential allocation funds two hundred demountable housing units for war plant workers in Sandusky worth 153 million dollars.
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Cleveland
Sandusky
Departing Soldiers Get Surprise Gifts
MILWAUKEE witnessed a stranger pay two soldiers a $50 fare at a railroad station and buy 10 cartons of cigarettes for Marine recruits. He told a spectator his son in the last war did not receive medals, only machine gun bullets.
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Milwaukee
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Cyrus Ching
United States Rubber Company
OPM
Firestone
THE
Associated Press
Salum
Mussolini
Salam
Libya
Malta
Mediterranean
Theer
Stockholm
Dagens Myhetter
FDR
Raymond Mathers
U. S. Navy Yard
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Pacific
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NEA
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Navy
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