Compromise Tax Plan Hunted After Ruml's Proposal Is Rejected
Washington moves shift from Russia to manpower food and tax policy as Ruml plan for a pay as you go income tax is voted down 16 to 9. House leadership seeks compromise to cut 1942 taxes while critics prepare to press the case on the floor. International matters loom with Wallace warning of a possible third world war if not a satisfactory understanding with Soviet Russia. Vorys and Fish push to attach Atlantic Charter language to lend lease to restrain governments from suppressing self rule. Senate debates drafted farm and military manpower bills and a farm labor deferment issue surfaces as housewives end bread slicing ban after Wickard lifts the restriction.
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Washington
Beardsley Ruml
House
Wallace
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Poland
Bessarabia
Latvia
Lithuania
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Finland
Ukraine
Vorys
International
Representatives Fish
Ohio
Capitol Hill
Senate
Claude R. Wickard
Puerto Rico Vote Question Faces Congress
Washington asks Congress to speed action on legislation to let Puerto Rico elect its own governor. Rexford Tugwell defends his administration amid opposition from rival parties accusing attempts to create a Communist state. supported by Secretary Ickes and the Popular Democratic Party in the islands.
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Washington
Welt
Congress
Legion
To Rico
Puerto Rico
Senate
Rexford Gugwell
Tugwell
Sen
Ickes
Poplar Democratic Party
Insular
Legislaa
Patriots Battle Gestapo and Vichy Police Shock France
Fragmented reports describe French patriots marching in streets while collaborationist forces move 50 contingents of workers from Marseille. Unrest grows as Gestapo and Vichy police clash with resistance, amid Laval's wartime promises. The War Office says a land office will offer 3100 acres near a munitions plant to aid food production.
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INDON
Gavment
Ich
Marseilles
France
Gestapo
Ihy
Germany
Pierre Laval
Hitler
INT
Avendusky
Taxpayers May Get 60 Day Tax Extension If Justified
Taxpayers can obtain an extension of 60 days or more for filing income tax returns if they prove the need to the Internal Revenue Bureau. Each case is decided on its merits with district collectors authorized to grant extensions up to 60 days. Further time requires the commissioner’s approval. The commissioner also warns that failure to pay the first quarterly installment can accelerate the entire tax due.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Helvering
Internal Revenue
Third School Fire Reported in Cleveland Area
The third school blaze in Greater Cleveland within 10 days caused about 15000 dollars in damage at Shaker Heights Junior High School. Police arrested a 30 year old man suspected of setting multiple fires in east side apartments and cars. Fire officials called all three fires incendiary and blamed a gang of youths for the latest.
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Cleveland
Greater
Shaker Heights
East Side
J. W. Main
Taft
Lakewood
Ridge Road
Parma
Hunger Strikers at Danbury Reformatory Are Force-Fed
Two conscientious objectors at the Federal Reformatory in Danbury Connecticut have been on a hunger strike for a month. They are being force-fed through tubes and are described as all right. James V. Bennett, director of the Bureau of Prisons, said the men began the strike over claims of not being constructively treated.
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Washington
Federal Reformatory
Danbury
Conn
James V. Bennett
Bureau of Prisons
Prison Bureau
CIO Seeks Unionist Address in State Assembly
Akron AIUC secretary Paul Fessenden said the CIO central body asked the Ohio Legislature to invite a National Maritime Union representative to address the assembly the day Capt Eddie Rickenbacker is scheduled to appear. The resolution called Rickenbacker a mouthpiece for NAM. A freight train auto crash in Lockland killed Ben Lee Taylor, 36, and injured three aircraft factory workers.
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Akron
Paul Fessenden
Akron Industrial Union Council
CIO
Ohio
National Maritime Union
Eddie Rickenbacker
AIUC
Rickenbacker
National Association of Manufacturers
Cincinnati
Lockland
Ben Lee Taylor
Man Fined for Pension Fraud
Columbus reports Benny Thomas Smith of Dayton pleaded guilty in Hillsboro to obtaining money under false pretenses. He was fined 100 dollars and jailed 60 days after promising pension increases for an elderly Highland County couple. Officials say other counties including Scioto Jackson Meigs Athens Butler and Lawrence saw similar schemes.
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Columbus
Karl R. Babb
Division of Aid For the
Ohio
Edward Gockenbach
Benny Thomas Smith
Dayton
Hillsboro
Gockenbach
Smith
Highland County
Scioto
Jackson
Meigs
Athens
Butler
Lawrence
Babb
Huntington Golf Club Transformed into Livestock Farm
Huntington West Virginia reports that the former Spring Valley Golf Club course, once among the sportiest in the district, will be turned into a 120 acre cattle and hog farm. Builder F C Sammons announced he purchased the property to breed thoroughbred cattle and swine.
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Huntington
W. Va
Spring Valley Golf Club
F. C. Sammons
Woman Indicted for Kidnapping of Infant in Columbus
Mrs. Ruby Evelyn Cremeans, 23, indicted by a federal grand jury under the Lindbergh Law for allegedly kidnapping eight month old Daniel Scanlon from St. Ann's Infant Asylum in Columbus on Oct. 12. She is to be arraigned Friday before U. S. Judge Mell G. Underwood. The panel also considered cases of another woman and four men tied to the incident but took no action.
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Columbus
Ruby Evelyn Cremeans
U. S
Mell G. Underwood
Daniel Scanlon
St. Ann's
Huntington, W. Va
No Sale To Neighbors Under Point Rationing Policy
Washington report notes it is illegal for a homemaker to sell home canned goods to neighbors unless licensed under the point rationing system. Senator Gillette of Louisiana announced this ruling for the OPA legal department after a farm woman asked about selling to town friends unable to can.
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Washington
Gillette
D-la
OPA
Earth Tremor Rattles Cleveland Homes but Causes No Damage
The first Cleveland area earthquake in six years shook thousands of residents last night but caused no injuries or structural harm. The tremor, lasting about two and a half seconds, was recorded near 11 26 p m by Seismologist Rev J S Joliat S J from John Carroll University and felt across Northern Ohio.
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Cleveland
Circle Hill
Rice Thomas
Thomas
Ohio
Zanesville
Dayton
J. S. Joliat
S.J
John Carroll University
Father Joliat
Curtailment of Newsprint Sparks House Probe
Rep. Dondero of Michigan calls for a House committee to determine if the federal government is curtailing its printed matter. He argues curtailment of newsprint is an indirect attack on press freedom and urges Washington to set an example before freedom is strangled by indirection.
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Washington
Rep
Dondero
Mich
House
United States
Bolton urges U S to limit postwar burden abroad
Granville Ohio Rep. Frances Bolton tells a Denison University war activities meeting that the United States should not become a WPA to the world nor shoulder the entire postwar reconstruction and feeding burden after the war.
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Granville
Frances Bolton
Cleveland
United States
Denison University
War Activities Committee
America
Columbus Accepts New Gas Rate Order
Columbus city council approved a public utilities commission order setting an average gas rate of 56.22 cents per thousand cubic feet for Ohio Fuel Gas Company, replacing the 48-cent rate proposed in 1939, ending years of rate litigation.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Rommel Retires After Mareth Line Losses in Tunisia
Allied reports say Rommel’s forces pulled back into the hills along the Mareth Line after six attacks failed to break through and 50 German tanks were lost. British Eighth Army advances and air power claimed success with 21 Axis planes shot down. Tozeur and Sedjenane areas saw Allied gains.
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Rewon Pichon
Feriana
Faid
Gafsa
Gafsa-Sfax
Marshal Rommel
Medenine
Mareth Line
Erwin Rommel
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Tamera
Sedjenane
Bizerte
Chott Djerid
Tozeur
Rommel
United Nations
Mediterranean
Sicilian Straits
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mareth
Bernard L. Montgomery
Russian people misled about American aid, says U.S. ambassador
Admiral William Standley, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, told a press conference that Russians are not informed of the extent of American help. He said trucks and "planes by the thousands" are sent, while Soviet leadership frames the war as fought alone. Standley plans to meet Premier Stalin soon.
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Moscow
William H. Standley
United States
America
Standley
Stalin
Willkie urges restraint on Soviet relations remarks
Wendell L. Willkie blasted government statements on U S Soviet ties as drastic and ill advised saying they harm dialogue. He argued no one wants to double cross Russia and noted aid is clear and ongoing while a new lend lease bill awaits Congress. Standley warned Congress must not seem ungrateful or indecisive.
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New York
C?p
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
Soviet Russia
America
Russia
Standley
Congress
Washington
American Congress
Bricker Sees Ohio Farmers Boosting 1943 Output
Gov John W Bricker and Elmer F Kruse head the Ohio War Agriculture Committee forecast higher 1943 production despite shortages. They reported a telegraphic survey showing most crops would meet or exceed goals with cooperation from government and people. Labor machinery and fertilizer issues will be discussed at the meeting.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Elmer F. Kruse
Ohio Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Farmers Aa
Bricker
Ohio War Agriculture Committee
Kruse
Henry A. Wallace
Post-War Unemployment Outlook in Ohio
Columbus reports Herschel C. Atkinson of Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation estimates about half of the state's 2 million industrial workers may be temporarily unemployed after the war. He urged a bill for a $5,000,000 yearly surtax on expanded war industries to bolster the unemployment fund. Business support for the measure was noted.
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Columbus
Herschel C. Atkinson
Ohio
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Rejections of Draftees Run Over 40 Percent
Washington reports that more than 40 percent of draftees fail the physical and mental examinations under selective service. Early data show about half of the first two million registrants rejected, with dental defects, eyesight, and other ailments leading causes. The Army notes older and married men rising in rejections. the rehabilitation program for rejects is stalled due to doctor shortages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Selective Service
Japanese Supply Problems Increasing Declares Knox
Secretary of the Navy Knox said American forces are stronger than ever in the Solomon Islands area while Japanese supply difficulties grow in the South Pacific. He cited Bismarck Sea losses and ongoing submarine attacks as the attrition shaping Japan's future, noting the submarine campaign remains successful. He described the Pacific as in a state of suspended animation and cited improved Soviet convoy throughput in the Atlantic.
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Washington
Knox
Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Japan
Pacific
Atlantic
Russia
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Rests Before Tour Resume
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek returned to New York from New England for a few days rest before resuming her cross country tour. She left Wellesley College after weekend reunion events marking 25 years since she became the college’s famed alumna.
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New York
Chiang Kai-Shek
New England
Wellesley College
London suffers first daylight alert in month ends with no threat
London issued its first daylight alert in nearly a month during mid afternoon. The all clear followed shortly after with no gunfire or bombs heard in the downtown area.
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London
RAF Night Murders, Inc. Down German Raiders in North Africa
Allied reports that an RAF night Beaufighter squadron in North Africa has adopted the name Night Murders Inc and has shot down 11 German raiders. The unit operates against Axis air raids and supports Allied ground actions in the region.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Night Murders, Inc
Small Vessel Sunk by Japs Off New Guinea Coast
An air fleet of nine bombers and 13 Zero fighters attacked south of Buna on New Guinea coast and sank a small cargo vessel in Oro Bay. Allied planes claimed a medium bomber and a Zero were shot down. Ninety Japanese survivors from the Battle of the Bismarck Sea were reported killed ashore by Allied patrols.
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RAF
Nuernberg
Germany
Western Reich
Air Ministry
U. S
Rouen
Rennes
France
Red Army
Moscow
Smolensk
Vyazma
London
Dnieper
Sychevka
Kursk-Kharkov
Australia
Buna
Oro Bay
New Guinea
Japan
Southwest
Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Wallace urges higher world living standard
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told Ohio farmers that Americans can raise living standards after the war by helping peoples of all nations. He warned isolationist policies would not secure the nation and warned propaganda promoting isolationism could lead to World War No 3.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
Film Star Promoted to Lieutenant Commander
Henry Robert Montgomery known as Bob Montgomery, once a movie star, has been promoted from lieutenant, senior grade, to lieutenant commander in the South Pacific. He serves on a cruiser in the Pacific war zone after time with the American Embassy in London, Atlantic convoys, PT boats and special assignments.
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South Pacific
Henry Robert
Bob) Montgomery
Montgomery
London
Atlantic
Peacetime Universal Military Training urged by official
Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson argues in a Maryland Historical Society talk that the United States must maintain a sound system of universal military training in peace to be ready in time of war. He emphasizes readiness and national defense.
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Baltimore
Robert P. Patterson
Maryland Historical Society
Hitler orders stripping of French able-bodied men 18 to 40
London Daily Express reports Hitler commanded that France be stripped of every able bodied male 18 to 40 who could join Allied forces in case of a landing in France. New York obituary notes soprano Alice Nelson, 66, former Metropolitan Opera star who sang with Enrico Caruso, died yesterday.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Hitler
France
New York
Alice Neilsen
Metropolitan Opera
Enrico Caruso
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