Senate Committee To Hear Protests Against Flynn Nomination
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered public hearings on protests to Edward Flynn's nomination as minister to Australia. Chairman Connally said hearings would begin next week, likely Wednesday or Thursday, with testimony limited to substantiated charges. Senator Bridges attacked Flynn, while other items note tax proposals and labor unrest amid broader wartime policy debates.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Connally
D.-Tex
Flynn
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Senator Bridges
R.-N.h
Bridges
New York
New York City
Senate Banking Committee
Prentiss Brown
D.mich
Wagner
D.N.Y
Senate
Leon Henderson
Professor William Matheny Dies at 60 in Athens
Dr. William Alderman Matheny, 60, longtime Ohio University botany professor and museum curator, died at Sheltering Arms Hospital of pneumonia after a three week illness. Born in Hamley Run, he built a 30 year OU career including museum growth to 75 000 specimens and authorship in botany.
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William Alderman Matheny
Ohio University
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Matheny
Hamley Run
Athens County
Plains
Trimble
Thurston
Sardis
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Beta Theta Pi
American Association For the Advancement of Science
American Nature Study Association
Western Hemisphere
New York Academy of Science
William A. Matheny
Seismologists Record New England Quakes
Seismologists report two earthquakes originating about 125 miles apart in a 10 second interval shaking all six New England states. Vibrations lasted about 15 minutes giving the impression of a single disturbance though damage was minimal.
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Boston
New England
65 000 Women Needed For Nurses Training
Washington announces 65 000 young women must enter nursing schools between June 30 1943 and July 1 1944 to meet civilian and military needs. Paul V. McNutt director of defense health and welfare services says the quota exceeds 1942 43 by 10 000.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Defense Health and Welfare Services
Strike Chiefs In Washington Strike Chiefs In Washington
Hazelton Pa AP insurgent union leaders travel to Washington to explain a 17 day old wildcat strike involving 17000 miners in Pennsylvania anthracite fields. The tri district committee postpones a decision on calling additional strikers until Sunday after WLB hearings. The board had urged both operators and UMW leaders to justify the walkout amid wartime policy.
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Capitol Hill
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Labor Board
Wilkes-Barre
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Associated Press
Congress
Dies Committee
Roosevelt
Hazelton
Washington
WLB
United Mine Workers
Tax Deadline Is Unchanged
Senate and House tax committee chairmen state that the first 1942 quarter tax payments and the March 15 filing deadline remain in force despite any anticipated tax law changes. They cautioned that taxpayers cannot assume 1942 returns will be waived and must file by March 15, 1943.
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Washington
Senate
House
George
D.-Ga
Coughton
D.-N.c
Convoy of Allied Troops Reaches British Port Unharmed
A large number of American forces along with air personnel from New Zealand Australia and Canada arrived at a British port yesterday. Authorities said the voyage was uneventful and the convoy arrived safely.
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British Port
London
New Zealand
Sales Tax Collections Dip in 1942
Columbus report shows state sales tax receipts for 1942 at $6,178,112, down $5,955,069 from 1941. Don H. Ebright, state treasurer, released the figures noting the decline amid wartime business.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Scout Training Praised by Rickenbacker in New York
Captain Ed Rickenbacker told 450 Greater New York Council Boy Scouts workers that scout teachers fostered the self-reliance of soldiers serving worldwide in many hell holes. He urged continued support for the youth initiative and rugged individualism essential to Americanism.
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New York
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
Greater
Boy Scouts of America
Hess Is Named On Committee
A state food industry committee to counter wartime food dislocations was announced by the Food Distribution Administration in Columbus. S. H. Darragh of Columbus chairs. members include R. C. Hess of Athens and others from Akron Canton Newark Mansfield Port Clinton Massillon and Middletown.
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Columbus
Food Distribution Administration
S. H. Darragh
Ohio
R. C. Hess
Athens
Ivan W. Albrecht
Akron
Rep Shafer Assails AP Anti Trust Suit
Rep Shafer of Michigan denounces the Justice Department suit against The Associated Press as a bureaucratic attack on a free press. He calls for investigation and punishment, labeling the action a misdeed against the life of the body politic and a blow to editors nationwide.
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Shafer
Washington
Justice Department
Associated Press
R.mich
Free Association of Editors
Free Press
Congressional Record
Simplified Retail Price Ceilings Go Into Effect
Simplified price ceilings for poultry cheese fresh citrus fruits and bananas took effect yesterday. The ceilings set fixed margins over retailers net cost replacing peak price based curbs used in March 1942 and similar periods.
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Washington
Coogan Plans Glider Airline After War
Dalhart Texas reports Staff Sergeant John L. Coogan the former child actor aims to start a glider airline in South America after the war as part of his plan.
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Dalhart, Tex
John L. Coogan
Southrica
Eleanor Roosevelt to continue gadding despite travel ban
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says she will not curtail her travels while she can earn enough from writing My Day to pay her own expenses. She answered a question about stopping gadding due to the OPA ban on pleasure driving.
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Red Bank
N. J
Eleanor Roosevelt
OPA
Two Enemy Supply Ports Are Blasted
Allied air and sea actions across North Africa and the Mediterranean reported heavy bombings of Sousse and Sfax in Tunisia. RAF and American aircraft hit rail lines, ports, and supply bases, with British submarines destroying Axis ships near Naples and at Lorient, while ground fighting flagged no change in the Tunisian front.
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Sousse
Sfax
Mahares
Gulf of Gabes
Marshal Rommel
Tripolitanian
Tunisia
Cairo
Mediterranean
Italy
British Admiralty
London
Naples
Admiralty
North Africa
Pont du Fahs
Tunis
British
Air Ministry
Lorient
France
RAF Bomber Command
Brittany
Brest
Ohio Soldiers Receive Distinguished Service Cross
Allied Headquarters in Australia announced two Ohio soldiers earned the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in New Guinea. Lieut. Col. Melvin L. McGeary of Youngstown in the field artillery and First Lieut. James I. Hunt of Lima in the infantry refused to leave their posts despite being wounded.
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Australia
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Melvin L. McGeary
Youngstown
Field Artillery
James I. Hunt
Lima
Infantry
Russians Forge Ahead on Lower Don Front as German Counterattacks Fail
Soviet dispatches report Red armies driving more than 125 miles toward Rostov amid heavy snows and stunned German counterattacks. Berlin radio warned of morale strain in 22 divisions trapped near Stalingrad while Soviet troops retook key positions in the factory district and near Mineralnye Vody.
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Lower Don
Adolf Hitler
Don
Rostov
Berlin
Don-Volga
Stalingrad
Lower
Great Gereman
Kalmyck Steppes
Hitler
Mid-Caucasus
Caucasus
Mozdok
Nalchik
Mineralnye Vody
Red Army
Red Star
Caucasus Army
Sotnikovskoye
Zuhrovskoye
Mineralnye Vody-Rostov
Suvoroyvskya
Grazhdansky-Pervy
William H. Standley
U. S
Moscow
United States
Russia
Standley
Europe
Stockholm
Semeon ‘Timoshenko
Leningrad
Pleads Guilty to Draft Evasion in Cleveland
Stephen Kish 22 of Youngstown pleaded guilty to draft evasion before Federal Judge Emerick N. Freed. Kish, a member of a religious sect opposing military service, said he was ready to join the armed forces and would be inducted rather than jailed. Judge Freed commended the plea and offered a chance for induction.
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Cleveland
Stephen Kish
Youngstown
Emerick N. Freed
Freed
To Consult Housewives On Rationing of Food
Washington reports that five to ten thousand American housewives will be enlisted to help the government run food rationing. Selected by census takers, they will represent regions races and income levels. They will report to the Office of Price Administration via the Census Bureau which foods are eaten and how many ration points items cost.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Census Bureau
Kenneth E. Stauffer
OPA
Stauffer
Allies kill 116 Japanese at Salamaua in New Guinea
Allied ground forces in New Guinea reported killing 116 Japanese in a surprise strike near Salamaua while air and sea raids targeted Salamaua Lae Madang Finschhafen and Gasmata. RAF bombers hit villages near Akyab in Burma as operations continued amid bad weather.
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Japan
South Seas
Burma
United Nations
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Mubo
Lae
Madang
Finschhafen
Solomon Sea
Gasmata
New Britain
Timor Island
Papua
Sanananda Point
India
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Two Sentences to Penitentiary in Hocking County
In Hocking County common pleas court Judge Phil A. Henderson sentenced Murray F. Lane of near Logan to one to five years and Lloyd B. Martin formerly of Zanesville to one to seven years for breaking and entering and grand larceny respectively. Herbert Anthony pleaded guilty to petit larceny and received 30 days in the Hocking County Jail.
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Logan
Ohio
Hocking County
Common Pleas Court
Phil A. Henderson
Murray F. Lane
Near Logan
Lloyd B. Martin
Zanesville
Lane
Martin
Herbert Anthony
Three Electrocuted for South Carolina Murder
In Edgefield County a feud linked to five violent deaths ends as the state executes Davis W T Timmerman neighbor murder plot three defendants killed. Mrs Sue Logue 43 former teacher dies first alongside brother in law George Logue 55 and Clarence Bagwell 34.
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Columbia
8. C
Edgefield County
Sue Logue
George Logue
Clarence Bagwell
Davis W.timmerman
Teen Dies in Gasoline Line Explosion Cleanup
Columbus AP reports 15 year old Wayne Neft died from burns after an explosion of the gasoline line he was attempting to clean the previous day. Authorities described the incident as a fatal accident in Columbus.
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Columbus
Wayne Neft
Price Administrator Defends Voluntary Donations in Violations
Price Administrator Leon Henderson defended voluntary contributions to the Treasury in settling price control violations as well established precedent. He said the practice, originated by Herbert Hoover in World War I, rests on consent and admission of overcharges and is not extortion, responding to Rep. Herter’s accusation of hush money.
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Washington
Treasury
Leon Henderson
Rep
Herter
R-Mass
Henderson
Herbert Hoover
OPA
Miss Hannah Lemon 91 Dies in Logan
Miss Hannah Lemon age 91 died at her home in Logan Thursday night. Funeral services set for Saturday at four at Iron Street Church with Rev. Charles Newcomb officiating. Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by four brothers Samuel Columbus William Logan Wesley Iowa and John Kansas.
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Logan
Hannah Lemon
Iron Street
Charles Newcomb
Oak Grove
Lemon
Samuel
Columbus
William
Wesley
Iowa
John
Kansas
Rural Electric Lines Are To Be Extended
War Production Board authorizes rural electric co operatives to use on hand materials to extend service to 120 000 new farms to boost food production Clyde Ellis Bentonville Ark general manager NR E Co-Operative Association discloses
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ST. Louis
War Production Board
Rural Electric Co-Operatives
Clyde Ellis
Bentonville, Ark
National Rural Electric Co-Operative Association
Fire at Huntington Airport Destroys Hangar and Planes
A spark from a welding torch started a blaze at the Huntington Ironton Chesapeake Airport destroying a hangar four airplanes three spare motors and shop equipment valued at 20000 dollars. Four airplanes were wheeled from the building undamaged.
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Huntington
Huntington-Ironton Chesapeake
Laura Richards dies at 92 author and Howe daughter
Mrs Laura E Richards 92 a noted author and daughter of Julia Ward Howe died at her Gardner Maine home yesterday Her father is not listed in the record but she is linked to the famed Battle Hymn of the Republic author.
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Gardner
Laura E. Richards
Julia Ward Howe
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