Price Control Measure Sent To President
Washington reports the War Production Board granted Acting Price Administrator Leon Henderson authority to ration retail commodities as Congress sends a strengthened price control bill to President Roosevelt. The measure expands price control with a single administrator fixing maximums, farm price rules, licensing, penalties, and court appeals, while certain wages and listed publishers are exempt.
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War Production Board
Leon Henderson
Senate
Roosevelt
Henderson
Price Administration
Henerson
America
WPB ‘Board
OPA
Secretary of Agriculture
Federal
Supreme Court
Strikers Form Mass Picket Duty At Selby Shoe Co
PORTSMOUTH Ohio CIO workers at the Selby Shoe Co columned for mass picket duty to press for wage increases and a closed shop. Company officials declined to discuss a Monday meeting with the Ironton Board of Trade which urged reopening of Selby’s branch closed three years.
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Portsmouth
CIO
Selby Shoe Co
Ironton Board of Trade
Selby
AEF Prepares For Possible Nazi Air Raid in Ireland
US troops in Northern Ireland started training for air raid defense on their first full day in camp. Ground batteries had engaged a German bomber near the landing area as officials express concern over potential Nazi bombing. Air raid shelters are provided at all camps and troops will learn to use them quickly.
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Northern Ireland
United States
Lombard Plane Crash Not Due to Sabotage
Rep. Nichols announces the crash of Transcontinental & Western Air flight carrying actress Carole Lombard, 15 ferry pilots, and six others was not caused by sabotage or mechanical failure. Captain Wayne Williams was involved, with prior disciplinary history and later reinstatement by the National Labor Board. A formal report with findings and recommendations will follow.
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LOS Angeles
Carole Lombard
Jack Nichols
House
Nichols
Wayne Williams
National Labor Board
Victory Suit debuts to save wool and belt use
A new streamlined Victory Suit aims to save wool and eliminates a vest cuffs pleats belt or suspenders. Tailors say the design, approved by some leaders and frowned on by others, relies on button waist fasteners to hold up trousers as it hits the market in about 30 days.
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New York
ABDA Named for Allied Powers in Pacific War Zone
President Roosevelt told reporters at a press briefing that the southwestern Pacific area should be called ABDA, abbreviation for American British Dutch and Australian. The term has been in government use for some time.
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Washington
Pacific Area
Roosevelt
Miners Die In Explosion At Mount Harris Mine
In Mount Harris Colorado a mine blast at the Victor American Fuel Company coal mine killed 34 miners. Only four escaped alive as black damp carbon dioxide halted rescue work for almost six hours. Superintendent Henry Johnson said the trapped men were 5,500 feet inside the tunnel on a 10 degree slope.
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Mount Harris
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Victor American Fuel Company
Henry Johnson
Bomb-Proof Vault Planned for Liberty Bell in Philadelphia
Mayor Bernard Samuel announced a concrete and steel bomb proof vault will shelter the Liberty Bell in an emergency. The shelter costing about $20 000 will be donated by the Insurance Company of North America as a contribution to national defense.
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Philadelphia
Bernard Samuel
Insurance Company of North America
Revenue Agents Raid Carrie Nation's Home
Revenue agents and Sheriff Claude Lovett raided the old Carrie Nation homestead in Seiling Oklahoma and confiscated 10 gallons of corn mash and a still. A tenant farmer was arrested at the scene.
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Seiling
Okla
Claude Lovett
Carrie Nation
Huey Long Machine Regains Power With New Orleans Victory
In New Orleans yesterday the Huey P. Long political machine surged back to power as Mayor Robert Maestri and a slate aligned with the Long organization won sweeping reelection. The result marks a renewed influence for the Long faction in city government.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Robert 8. Maestri
Long
Nazis Falling Back to New Defense Line
Soviet forces push toward a 250 mile German line northwest and southwest of Moscow as 79 towns are retaken. Red Star reports encirclements near Rzhev and Velikie Luki while Rommel’s flank hold stalls on the North African front. Churchill pledges future Allied air strikes on Brest and Boulogne.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Velikie Luki
Vyazma
Bryansk
Erwin Rommel
Red Army
Red Star
Rzhev
Upper Volga
Orel
Soviet Information Bureau
United States
Churchill
Brest
Boulogne
Bread Costs S15 in Greece
Famine conditions in Greece described in a Geneva report state Athens saw 2,000 deaths in one day and bread at 15 dollars per loaf. An anonymous December letter from Greece cites extreme hunger, with streets filled by skeletons and scarce wood amid a harsh winter.
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Bern
Switzerland
Greece
Athens
Journal de Geneve
Gasoline Rationing Seen Near as Dealers Predict
Sol A. Herzog of New York for the Eastern States Gasoline Dealers conference says rationing is just around the corner. He links rationing to tanks or torpedoings and argues the program will be hastened by such events.
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Philadelphia
Sol A. Herzog
New York
Eastern States Gasoline Dealers Conference
De Valera Rebuked for Protesting AEF Arrival
Belfast reports Prime Minister John M. Andrews telling parliament that Eamon De Valera had no right to protest the arrival of U S troops in Ulster He said the Irish government resents foreign bases and noted a 1 000 000 U S check opened in a Northern Ireland bank to fund the force landed this week.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
John M. Andrews
Eamon de Valera
Eire
United States
Ulster
de Valera
U.S
Srelana
Andrews
Britain
United States Army
Hess Flight Aimed at Negotiated Peace Says Churchill
Churchill told the House of Commons Hess flew to England to contact groups to overthrow the Churchill government and enable a government that could negotiate a magnanimous peace with Germany. He said Hess believed access to circles here would throw out the Churchill clique.
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ONDON
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Rudolph Hess
England
Churchill
Germany
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Educator Urges Postwar Optimism to Avert Low Mood
In Columbus Ohio State University economist Dr Virgil Wertz warns Americans must support defense bonds and believe in postwar production to avoid a historic low mood. He says wartime power can shift to consumer goods if victory is complete, but a draw would require keeping some war industries. Louis Bromfield calls for a political dictator to direct agriculture and cut red tape as America seeks control of global food markets.
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Uncle Sam
Virgil R. Wertz
Ohio State University
Dr. Wertz
Louis Bromfield
Richland County
Donald Nelson
Washington
America
Wages May Be Partially Paid In U S Bonds
Washington report from the National Resources Planning Board outlines a wartime finance blueprint. It calls for high taxes, broad tax base expansion, steep surtaxes, and partial wage payments in defense bonds amid study of new revenue sources.
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U. S
Washington
National Resources Planning Board
Treasury
Congressional
Capitol Hill
Akron Shops Warned Of Gasses in Sewers
Akron police warned about dangerous sewer gases in an interceptor line forcing about 40 downtown businesses to operate at their own risk. A motion picture theatre had already closed temporarily after refunding 1000 patrons. Two stores posted caution signs for customers.
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Akron
No Nation Strong Enough To Stand Alone Bishop Declares
Bishop Beverly D. Tucker tells the 125th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio that no nation can stand alone. He says wartime proved nations must cooperate and join with others to solve problems and plan for common defense.
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Cleveland
Beverly D. Tucker
Episcopal Diocese of
Ohio
United Nations
Ohio Woman 74 Recovers After Hills Ordeal
Mrs. Belle South of Ironton was found after two days lost in Lawrence County hills. She was without shoes and her clothing was torn but recovered in hospital today.
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Hills
Ironton
Belle South
Lawrence County
Survivors Land in Puerto Rico After Five Days at Sea
A rescue ship captain reported 71 survivors from an Allied steamer torpedoed and sunk near San Juan Porto Rico with about 350 missing. The lifeboat held 63 but 76 crowded aboard. five died during five days adrift. Navy sighted a submarine near Port Aransas Texas.
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Porto Rico
Helgesen
New York
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Ter
Navy
Mexico
Port Aransas
Texas
Corpus Christi
Armanda
Macassar Strait
Strategy Calls for Holding eeamanliae and Dutehouis
Roosevelt outlined a UN strategy to hold Australia and the Netherlands Indies as a Pacific base. Britain and the US reportedly developed a long term land sea plan for surprise field army expeditions to strike across oceans. Churchill announced a December 12 redistribution of Allied forces though details remain unclear. Submarine warfare continued with several sinkings and survivors recounting encounters at sea.
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Roosevelt
United Nations Jis
Australia
Netherlands Indies
Pacific
United States
Britain
Churchill
London
America
Southwest Pacific
Atlantic
Francis E. Powell
Lewes
Del
Navy
Pan Maine
North Atlantic
Fifeboat
Government seeks 85 percent parity corn price ceiling
The agriculture department announced it would use every means to stabilize corn and other feed grain prices around 85 percent parity to encourage livestock production. The move follows futures market advances that pushed prices above the target level.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Million Women Sought for U S Munitions Plants
Washington AP report states more than one million women will be needed as skilled workers in America's arms and munitions plants this year, according to Sidney Hillman, labor director of the War Production Board.
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Washington
America
Sidney Hillman
War Production Board
Allies Send Supplies to U S Forces in Lend Lease Reversal
Washington reports that lend lease has reversed with six eight or ten expeditions drawing some supplies from former recipients. In North Ireland and the South Pacific Britain has provided food housing and some military supplies to U S forces. Roosevelt noted additional expeditions while officials refuse full payment balance forecasts. Cleveland night workers in war industries will not be called for jury duty after sleeping in a jury box.
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Lendlease
Amercia
United States
North Ireland
South Pacific
Roosevelt
Cleveland
James ©. Connell
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