Wage dispute settles for three rail unions
A War Department notice says three railroad operating brotherhoods have accepted a wage agreement and the strike vote loses force. The action, announced by the White House, covers terms for carriers later government takeover and aligns with previously signed contracts.
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Washington
Ap) Ree
Noti
War Department
Kite House
Jehon B. Somervell
Army Service
Stimson
Somervell
Senate
Hits New Business
Barkley
House
Thomas
Okla
Lucas
Miners Likely to Rejoin AFL This Week
John L. Lewis led United Mine Workers faces a winter AFL executive council meeting in Miami where the union's long pending reaffiliation application will be reconsidered. The move carries major labor and political significance.
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Washington
John L
Bricker Confident of Republican Victory in 1944
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio told South Texas Republican leaders in San Antonio that a 1944 GOP victory was assured. He cited Ohio’s fiscal turnaround from a 40 million dollar deficit to solid finances and said that policy could be expanded nationwide.
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San Antonio
Tex
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Young Girl Finds Work In Cleveland War Plant
A 12 year old Columbus girl who ran away from home was reunified with her widowed mother after months working in a Cleveland war plant. Jo Ann Marshall described living in a furnished room and acting grown up while earning money by making crates in an East Side factory.
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Cleveland
Columbus
Jo Ann Marshall
Cecile Heidinger
Farmer Orville Wood reports for Army duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison
Orville Wood a 36 year old farmer from Camden Ohio who had resisted induction for a year reported for duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison yesterday. The case highlights ongoing conscription efforts and local resistance patterns in Indiana.
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ARMY
Indianapolis
Orville Wood
Camden
U. S. Army
Ft. Benjamin Parrison
Winter Storm Sweeps Across Deep South
Cold weather blankets the Deep South with snow sleet rain and wind. Nine inches of snow fell at Greenwood Mississippi while Crowley Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Arkansas and Tennessee faced ice and freezing rain snapping power lines and slowing traffic.
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New Orleans
Deep South
Greenwood
Miss
Crowley
Arkansas
Louisiana
West
Tennessee
Meridian
Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Texas
Florida
Blood of Cattle Used As Plasma Substitute
London doctors report successful use of UP treated blood from heifers and bulls as a substitute for human plasma in 26 cases. The British Medical Journal released the finding on Saturday detailing the experimental transfusion work and its outcomes.
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London
British Medical Journal
RAF sets record concentration in Brunswick raid
RAF bombers dropped 2 000 long tons in 23 minutes on Brunswick in central Germany, achieving a record 87 tons per minute amid Mosquito feints on Berlin and Magdeburg. The attack came as British fighters and rocket-armed Luftwaffe engaged, with fires seen for miles and 38 British planes lost across raids on Germany and Northern France.
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London
Berlin
Magdeburg
Brunswick
Germany
France
British Press Association
Luftwaffe
RAF
Air Ministry
Norway
Black Sea
War hero dog Chips awarded hero medals questioned
The War Department probes reports that three year old Husky named Chips received the Distinguished Service Cross the Silver Star and the Purple Heart for single handedly blasting a machine gun nest in Italy. Maj Gen Lucian Truscott credited the dog with clearing the nest and forcing surrender of its crew.
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War Department
Lucian Truscott
Italy
Central Offices to Issue Gas Coupons
The Office of Price Administration announced a nationwide extension of its gas coupon mailing system from central issuing stations. The plan, tested since July, will start in Philadelphia on Monday and New York around January 22, with other cities over 106000 population to follow. Car owners still apply to local boards. coupons will be mailed to motorists, improving coupon checks and relieving local boards. Issuing stations will have 24 hour safeguards and be in protected locations.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Alleninatda
Vesizneglo
Philadelphia
New York
OPA
Issu
Peruvians Announce Deportation of Nazis
The Peruvian government said several conspirators including Germans and Japanese plotting a New Year s Pro Nazi coup were detained and would be deported Experts say others were given notice to leave The conspirators allegedly staged anti Jewish outbreaks the day before New Year s to cloak their subversive activities
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Lima
Peru
Knox Urges 17 Year Old Military Training Plan
Navy Secretary Frank Knox spoke at the Cleveland Boy Scout Council banquet advocating a three point program for youths. He urged early physical exams in schools, outdoor training for city youth, and a year of service for 17 to 19 year olds to prepare for potential wartime duties. He warned of physical unfitness and projected millions of returning soldiers seeking duty after the war.
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Cleveland
Navy
Frank Knox
America
Cleveland Boy Scout Council
Knox
Marine Corps
Jobs for Discharged Veterans To Be Needed
As new Allied invasions unfold and U S troops suffer more wounded the regional War Manpower Commission predicts greater need to place discharged veterans in home front jobs. Robert C Goodwin regional WMC director notes more returned service men registered last year with U S Employment Offices in Ohio Michigan and Kentucky.
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Cleveland
U. S.S
Regional War Manpower Commission
Robert C. Goodwin
WMC
17 Year Old Slayer Dies in Electric Chair
Louis Vernon Hand, 17, who killed six year old Richard Stober on a Mercer County farm last July 3, was executed in the Ohio penitentiary death chamber at 8 01 p m. The youth prayed from entry until the first lethal shock.
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Columbus
Louis Vernon Hand
Hammer
Hand
Richard Stober
Mercer County
Ohio Penitentiary
Civilian Draft to Curb Fathers' Induction
Washington 44 The civilian draft would slow induction of pre war fathers by supplying replacements for non fathers in essential roles. Selective Service told Congress that to reach 11 million in armed forces by July 1 1944 about 700 000 must be drafted in the first six months of 1944 in addition to monthly replacements of 810000.
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Washington
Selective Service
Congress
Army
Navy
Flier Drowns as Plane Crashes Near Grandview Ohio
In Washington County Ohio a British officer parachuted from a trainer aircraft that crashed and burned on a hillside near Grandview. His companion landed in West Virginia. the missing flyer is Flight Lt. B. B. Howe. Squadron Leader Robert S. Harman is identified as the safe survivor.
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Marietta
Ohio River
Grandview
Washington County
Sistersville
W. Va
Wright Field
Dayton
Bolling Field
Washington
D. C
Clem Starkey
U.S. Dam No. A6
West Virginia
British War Commission
Robert S. Harman
B. B. Howe
Halsey Promises Quick Victory Formula
Admiral William F. Halsey, resting at his sister’s Greenville home, outlined a war plan to swiftly defeat the enemy. He compared Japanese troops to rats, saying they are tough when well supplied and uniforms exist, but easy to beat when not.
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Greenville
Del
William F. Halsey
Preston Lea Spruance
Halsey
Sub Menace Is Being Overcome on Atlantic
Amersham England four German submarines have about given up molesting Allied convoys in the Atlantic Air Vice Marshal R H M S Saundby deputy chief of the RAF Bomber Command said Saturday The RAF Coastal Command and escort carriers with Azores bases cover the Atlantic and have made it very difficult for submarines to attack convoys and they have largely given up trying
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Amersham
England
Atlantic
R. H. M. S. Saundby
RAF Bomber Command
RAF Coastal Command
Azores
Central Pacific
U. S
Seventh Airforce
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Mili
Marshalls
Wotje
Roi
Namur
Kwajalein Atoll
Washington
George C. Kenney
Southwest Pacific
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Four-year-old Billy Meers Needs Plasma Donations
Four-year-old Billy Meers, suffering chronic nephritis, has received 227 pints of plasma since September at a Dallas hospital. He is now told to be cut off until 100 donors provide a pint each to raise the blood bank to a safe level, leaving his days numbered.
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Billy Meers
Dallas
Tex
Gas Emergency Lifted In Ohio But Supply Still Tight
Officials of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co announced the gas emergency across much of Ohio had ended after Saturday night. They urged careful use as the supply remained serious and every cubic foot saved would ease future shortages. Some glass and pottery plants remained shut, while most war work industries were less affected.
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Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Ohio
Faith in Leaders Dented by Tax Form Says Kennedy
Former U S ambassador to England Joseph P Kennedy says the federal income tax form is muddled and drives public trust down. The Boston Globe quoted him calling the form scandalous and urging revision to simpler wording.
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Boston
Joseph P. Kennedy
United States
England
The
Boston Globe
Fire Sweeps Marietta Storage Building Campion Block
A three story block long storage building of the American Iron Supply Co. in Marietta’s business section burned Saturday. Fire Chief D E Dreenen estimated damage at 125 000 with Parkersburg and Williamstown West Virginia firefighters assisting. the blaze was the worst here in years.
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Marietta
American Iron Supply Co
D. E. Dreenen
Parkersburg
Williamstown
W. Va
Russians mount major offensive near Leningrad says German high command
Soviet forces launched a north front push near Leningrad in the Oranienbaum area and north of Nevel while the Red Army drove deeper into the Pripet Marshes and advanced toward Pinsk. Red Star reports Soviet cavalry surprised German garrisons as they retreated, with loot reported and German defenses strained along the crumbling front.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Oranienbaum
Lake Simen
Nevel
Pripet
Pinsk
Kovel
Poland
Kalinkovichi
Vinnitsa
Uman
Bug River
Rumania
Red Star
Sluch
Horyn
French Forces Break Through On Cassino Front In Italy
French troops attached to the Fifth Army push two to five miles along their sector near Cassino and seize Acquafondata and three key mountain bastions. They beat five counterattacks and take 250 prisoners while American units press toward the Gustav line defenses. In New Guinea and the Pacific, U. S. forces strike at Sio Ion, Hill 660, Cape Gloucester, and the Marshall Islands as air and sea actions intensify against Japanese positions.
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Fifth Army
Cassino
Acquafondata
Viticuso
Douglas MacArthur
Sioion New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Saidor
Sio
Seven Die as Bomb Hit London Theater
A lone enemy air raider dropped a bomb into a crowded suburban theater on Friday night in London. Seven were killed and 31 injured as no alert or gunfire preceded the blast, prompting speculation of a near noiseless aircraft.
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London
Secretary Perkins Predicts Peak in Wartime Employment
Secretary of Labor Perkins said wartime manufacturing employment may peak soon with a gradual decline, while total employment stays high thanks to construction and non manufacturing activity. She noted manpower shortages from armed forces needs and worker shifts, citing December factory drops and a 38,335,000 non agricultural jobs, bolstered by a 250,000 seasonal trade gain.
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Washington
Perkins
Miss Perkins
Mies Perkins
Labor Department
Steen
Congress
Canada’s CCF Leader Sees Socialism Near in Canada
M. J. Coldwell, head of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, says Canada is well along the road to socialism and his party likely to win the next election. Though holding 11 of 245 Commons seats, the CCF shows the largest share of public support in a Gallup poll. He cites close ties with the British Commonwealth and migration of British trade unionists as factors.
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New York
M. J. Coldwell
Canadian Commonwealth Federation
Canada
League For Industrial Democracy
Coldwell
CCF
House of Commons
British Commonwealth
Hope of Polish Soviet Agreement Is Raised
London officials and presses hailed the Polish government in exile reply to Russia's boundary offer as improving the odds for a settlement. Poland did not accept or reject the Curzon Line but urged the United States and Britain to bring Poland and Russia together to discuss all outstanding questions.
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London
Russia
United Nations
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Reams Enters Democratic Gubernatorial Race in Ohio
Toledo on his 47th birthday Frazier Reams former internal revenue collector declared his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He becomes the fourth to enter the race joining Clarence H. Kinsley Walter Baertschi and Frank A. Dye.
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Toledo
Roosevelt
Frazier Reams
Internal Revenue
Reams
Clarence H. Kinsley
Walter Baertschi
Frank A. Dye
Columbus
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