Compromise Tax Plan Hunted After Ruml's Proposal Is Rejected
In Washington the clash over policy shifts from foreign issues to domestic matters as the Ways and Means Committee rejects Beardsley Ruml's plan to erase last year's income tax and searches for a compromise to cut 1942 taxes. President Wallace warns of a potential third world war unless a satisfactory understanding with Soviet Russia is reached. Capitol Hill debates lend-lease clauses and expanding the armed forces while housewives rush to bakeries as Wickard lifts the bread ban after months of restrictions.
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Washington
Ways
Beardsley Ruml
Wallace
Soviet Russia
Russia
Moscow
Poland
Bessarabia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Finland
Ukraine
Vorys
Fish
Rys
Ohio
Capitol Hill
Conrons
Expan
Claude Wickard
Puerto Rico Governor Election Requested by President
President Roosevelt asks Congress to permit Puerto Ricans to elect their own governor as the current official is appointed by the president with Senate confirmation. Rexford Tugwell faces opposition from insular parties accusing him of aiming to establish a communist state, with support from Ickes and the island's Democratic Party.
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Washington
Osevelt
Congress
Orto Rico
Puerto Rico
Execu
Senate
Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell
Inr
Ickes
Popular Democratic Party
Insular
Legisla
French Patriots Battle Gestapo and Vichy Police
French patriots fight openly in streets of Paris and other cities as collaborationist government ships 50 contingents of workers from Marseilles to Germany. Reports say fighting between Free French and Vichy forces, while unrest grows as Gestapo and Vichy police strive to fulfill Laval’s promise to send 400,000 French workers to Germany.
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London
Govert
Marseilles
Germany
Vichy
France
Gestapo
Pierre Laval
Adolf Hitler
War Department to Rent 3100 Acres for Food Production
The War Department announced a landing office will rent 3100 acres at the nearby Brook Ordnance Plant to farmers as aid to food production in Sandusky.
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Sandusky
Warrtment
Brook Ordnance Plant
Rommel retreat after Mareth Line assault in Tunisia
Allied reports say Rommel withdrew into the hills near the Mareth Line after six fierce attacks failed to break the British Eighth Army. In Tunisia French forces advanced near Tozeur as Allied air units claimed substantial Axis aircraft losses.
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Rewon Pichon
Feriana
Faid
Gafsa
Gafsa-Sfax
Marshal Rommel
Medenine
Mareth Line
Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Tamera
Sedjenane
Bizerte
Chott Djerid
Tozeur
United Nations
Mediterranean
Siceilian Straits
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mareth
Bernard L. Montgomery
No Sale Homemakers May Not Sell Canned Goods
Washington reports that under point rationing it is illegal for a homemaker to sell home canned foods to neighbors unless licensed. Senator Gillette of Iowa announced the ruling for the OPA legal department after being asked by a farm woman who wished to sell to friends in town who cannot can.
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Washington—C
Gillette
D-Ia
OPA
Earth Tremor Shakes Cleveland Homes After Long Gap
The first earthquake in six years rattled Cleveland area residents last night with no damage or injuries reported. Rice Thomas family in Circle Hill felt their house shake as walls moved, while seismologist Father Joliat logged a two and a half second quake near 11:26 p.m. lasting from 20 to 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. The tremor was felt across Northern Ohio to Zanesville and Dayton, with earlier quakes last recorded in 1937.
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Cleveland
Circle Hill
Rice Thomas
Thomas
Ohio
Zanesville
Dayton
J. S. Joliat
S.J
John Carroll University
Father Joliat
Taxpayers May Obtain Extensions for Filing Returns
Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering announced that taxpayers who cannot file by March 15 may receive extensions up to 60 days if justified. Extensions are not automatic and must be approved by district collectors or the commissioner. If quarterly payments are not enclosed, the full tax becomes due on notice.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Helvering
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Curtailment of Newsprint Is Hit by Solon
Representative Dondero charges that curtailment of newsprint is an indirect attack on press freedom. He urges a House resolution to appoint a seven member committee to determine if federal agencies have reduced printed material sent to Congress and to set a public example to preserve press liberties.
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Washington
Rep
Dondero
Mich
House
United States
Third School Fire Reported in Greater Cleveland
The third school fire in 10 days caused about 15000 dollars in damage at Shaker Heights Junior High School. Fire officials call all three fires incendiary. A 30 year old man was arrested for setting multiple blazes in east side apartments and autos.
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Cleveland
Greater
Shaker Heights
East Side
J. W. Main
Taft
Lakewood
Ridge Road
Parma
Man Fined for Pension Fraud In Ohio Case
Karl R. Babb urged pensioners to report fraud schemes as Benny Thomas Smith of Dayton pleaded guilty in Hillsboro to obtaining money by false pretenses. He was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to 60 days in jail for allegedly arranging pension increases for an elderly Highland County couple. Gockenbach cited other counties affected including Scioto Jackson Meigs Athens Butler and Lawrence.
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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
Force Feeding Hunger Strikers At Danbury Prison
Two conscientious objectors at the Federal Reformatory in Danbury Connecticut have been on a month long hunger strike. They are being force fed through tubes and are reported "all right" by James V. Bennett director of the Bureau of Prisons. The strike arose over claims of lacking constructive treatment.
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Washington
Federal Reformatory
Danbury
Conn
James V. Bennett
Bureau of Prisons
Prison Bureau
Huntington Golf Club Converted to Livestock Farm
Huntington West Virginia 120 acre former Spring Valley Golf Club property bought by builder F C Sammons will become a cattle and hog farm. Cattle will graze and swine will fatten on the grounds once famed as a sport course in the Huntington district.
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Huntington
W. Va
Spring Valley Golf Club
F. C. Sammons
US Should Limit Post War Reconstruction Says Bolton
Granville Ohio AP report quotes Rep Frances Bolton of Cleveland urging the United States not to become a global WPA after the war. She told a Denison University war activities committee meeting that America should not assume the burden of feeding the world or handle too large a share of postwar reconstruction.
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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 voted to accept a public utilities commission order for an average gas rate of 56.22 cents per thousand cubic feet from the Ohio Fuel Gas Company, replacing the 48-cent rate proposed in 1939 and ending years of rate litigation.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
CIO Seeks Unionist Address Amid Rickenbacker Appearance
Akron Akron Industrial Union Council executive secretary Paul Fessenden said the CIO central body has forwarded to the Ohio Legislature a request that a National Maritime Union representative address the Assembly on the same day Capt Eddie Rickenbacker appears. The resolution calls Rickenbacker a mouthpiece for the National Association of Manufacturers. In Cincinnati a freight train auto crash in Lockland killed 36 year old Ben Lee Taylor and injured three other 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
Woman Indicted for Kidnapping of Infant
Mrs. Ruby Evelyn Cremeans a 23 year old Huntington West Virginia woman faces arraignment Friday before U S Judge Mel G Underwood on a federal kidnapping charge for abducting eight month old Daniel Scanlon from St Ann s Infant Asylum in Columbus last Oct 12 A federal grand jury indicted her under the Lindbergh Law while no action was taken on cases involving another woman and four men tied to the incident
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Columbus
Ruby Evelyn Cremeans
U. S
Mel G. Underwood
Daniel Scanlon
St. Ann's
Huntington
W. Va
Russian aid to Russia misrepresented, says U S envoy
Admiral Standley, U S ambassador to Moscow, told reporters the Russian people are not informed about the breadth of American assistance. He cited Russian generals saying US aid is not at the front, while planes and other war material are flowing. Standley plans to meet Stalin and avoided specifics on a second front.
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Moscow
William H. Standley
United States
America
Standley
Stalin
Willkie Urges Caution Over Soviet Aid Comments
Wendell L. Willkie condemned recent government statements on U S Soviet relations as drastic and ill considered saying they harm dialogue and deny the reality of American support. He noted no political motive and warned Congress to avoid misperception as a new lend lease bill moves through Washington with broad backing.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
Soviet Russia
America
Russia
Standley
Congress
Washington
American Congress
Bricker Expects Record Farm Output in 1943
Gov. John W. Bricker and Ohio A A A chairman Elmer F. Kruse predicted Ohio farmers would set new production marks in 1943. They announced a War Agriculture Committee meeting to discuss boosting output amid labor, machinery and fertilizer shortages and emphasized government and public cooperation.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Elmer F. Kruse
Ohio Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bricker
Ohio War Agriculture Committee
Kruse
Henry A. Wallace
Post War Unemployment Sparks Ohio Tax Plan
Columbus reporters quote Herschel C. Atkinson of Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation estimating that half of the states 2 million industrial workers may be temporarily unemployed after the war. He backs a bill to tax expanded war industries by 5 million dollars yearly to bolster the unemployment fund. Business support the surtax.
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Columbus
Herschel C. Atkinson
Ohio
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Rejections of Draftees Top 40 Percent
Washington reports selective service rejections exceed 40 percent of examined draftees. Early figures show about half of the first 2,000,000 registrants were rejected for physical or mental unfitness, with 21 percent due to dental defects and 14 percent for eye problems. An eye and dental standard loosening in 1941 is noted.
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Washington
War Manpower Commissiin
Army
Japanese Supply Problems Increasing Declared by Knox
Secretary of the Navy Knox said American forces are stronger in the Solomon Islands while Japan faces growing difficulty supplying its South Pacific bases. He described the Pacific situation as a state of suspended animation and noted successful Allied submarine campaigns. He added convoys to Russia have been getting through with fewer ship losses.
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Washington
Knox
Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Japan
Pacific
Atlantic
Russia
Small Vessel Sunk by Japs
Allied headquarters in Australia reported a Japanese air fleet attacked south of Buna on the New Guinea coast and sank a small cargo vessel in Oro Bay. Allied planes shot down one medium bomber and one Zero, while eight or nine Japanese survivors from the Battle of the Bismarck Sea were killed by shore patrols. General Douglas MacArthur cautioned against underestimating Japanese air power in the Southwest Pacific.
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Australia
Buna
Oro Bay
New Guinea
Japan
Southwest
Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Mme. Chiang Takes Rest Before Resuming Tour
Madame Chiang Kai Shek returns to New York from New England for a few days rest before resuming her cross country tour. She leaves Wellesley College after a weekend of reunion programs honoring her 25 year reunion as the college’s most famous alumna.
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New York
Chiang Kai-Shek
New England
Wellesley College
Wallace urges higher world living standard
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told Ohio farmers that Americans can raise living standards after the war by aiding other nations. He warned isolationism or excessive nationalism would not yield security and cautioned against pro isolationist propaganda that could lead to World War II.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
London first daylight alert ends without incident
London issued its first daylight alert in nearly a month during mid afternoon before an all clear was sounded. No gunfire or bombs were heard in the downtown area and residents resumed normal activity.
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London
Film Star Promoted to Lieutenant Commander
Henry Robert Montgomery known as Bob Montgomery has been promoted from lieutenant senior grade to lieutenant commander at a South Pacific base. He served with a cruiser in the Pacific, previously in London, Atlantic convoys, PT boats, and special assignments. officials call him an excellent officer.
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South Pacific
Henry Robert
Bob) Montgomery
Montgomery
London
Atlantic
Night Beaufighters Down 11 German Raiders in Africa
An RAF squadron of night Beaufighters, nicknamed Night Murders, Inc., reports shooting down 11 German raiders over North Africa, signaling effective night fighting work by Allied heavies in the theater.
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Heavwuanlers
North Africa
Night Murders, Inc
Peacetime Universal Military Training Urged
Under Secretary of War Robert P Patterson urged the nation to maintain a sound system of universal military training in peacetime. He told the Maryland Historical Society that readiness in war requires such preparation.
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Baltimore
Robert P. Patterson
Maryland Historical Society
London Daily Express reports Hitler plan to conscript French men
The London Daily Express claims Hitler ordered France stripped of all able bodied men aged 18 to 40 who could join the Allies if France faced a landing. In New York Alice Nielsen former Metropolitan Opera soprano who sang with Enrico Caruso died yesterday at age 66.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Hitler
France
New York
Alice Neilsen
Metropolitan Opera
Enrico Caruso
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