Meat Butter and Cheese Rationing Plans Announced
Washington AP reports beef pork lamb and mutton will be rationed at about two pounds per person per week for home consumption starting Thursday March 29. Butter cheese edible fats oils and canned fish rationing will begin the same day.
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Harold B. Rowe
Office of Price Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Prentiss M. Brown
America
Wickard
Drive to Prevent Rationing Aims to Ease Meat Shortage
A wartime drive in Cincinnati opposition to meat coupon rationing surfaces as packers limit slaughter and shortages loom. Officials outline new meat allotments, weekly 16 point starts, and potential meal costs, while restaurants remain noncouponed under the program.
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Cincinnati
Greater Cincinnati
Record War Loan Drive Will Start Next Week
Washington announces a $3,000,000,000 goal for the next war loan drive the largest in world history to be launched in a month. The Treasury will seek $8,000,000,000 from non bank sources as Secretary Morgenthau urges every American to invest to the limit of his ability.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Morgenthau
Russians Say Nazis Have No Fears in West
Moscow's English radio monitor reports Hitler moved troops from Western Europe toward the Russian front. The commentator Viktorov says Germany faces a manpower squeeze but can scrape more divisions from satellites if given time. He notes Hitler aims for a new offensive in Russia with 3 to 4 million men.
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London
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Viktorov
Hitler
Turkey
Russia
Predicts Army of 15 Million to Win War
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker told a meeting in Indianapolis that the United States must mobilize 15 million men in uniform to secure victory for the United Nations. He claimed the US has unique fighting manpower among the Allies and stressed the scale of manpower required.
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Indianapolis
United States
United Nations
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
National Foundation For Education In
Operators balk at union wage demands in 1940s coal fields
In New York the Northern Appalachian District coal operators rejected United Mine Workers wage increase demands as unmerited. Spokesman Charles O'Neill stated profits after 1940 did not justify extra allowances, echoing industry-wide views that unions should curb pay hikes.
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New York
Appalachian
United Mine Workers Union
Charles O'Neill
Lewis
Peevish Arsonist Held By Police in Cleveland
Cleveland police hold 30 year old John Rothmiller on arson charges with a $1000 bond after he confessed starting 50 fires on the east side. Det Insp Frank W. Story says Rothmiller admitted he tossed matches into objects when unable to see his former will.
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Cleveland
John Rothmiller
Frank W. Story
Rothmiller
East Side
War tax defiance by Cleveland workers hits income filings
Thousands of war plant workers in Cleveland resist filing income tax returns as refunds fall 30 percent from last year. Tax collector Frank Gentsch warns of fines up to 10000 and possible imprisonment, liens on wages and property, urging workers to obey the law. Returns totaled 277,365 to date, far below 1942 levels despite expectations of higher filings with more workers and lower exemptions.
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Cleveland
Frank F. Gentsch
Internal Revenue
Gentsch
United States
Roosevelt opposes Ruml skip-a-year tax plan
President Roosevelt declared the Ruml plan would reduce government tax intake this year arguing higher earners would save more under the scheme. He cited England as a contrast and stressed the math shows the plan lowers overall revenue.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Warns U.S. To Move Quickly In Peace Planning
William C. Bullitt told the Philadelphia United Nations Forum that Russia will dominate the post war order unless the United States leads in peace planning. Eleanor Roosevelt echoed warnings that the rest of the United Nations could proceed without U.S. involvement if Washington fails to act and speak their language.
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Philadelphia
Russia
United States
William C. Bullitt
France
Philadelphia United Nations Forum
United Nations
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kerosene and Oil Rationing Extended in Ohio
Ohio rationing officials extended kerosene and fuel oil rationing for farm vehicles and non heating uses to six months to cut consumer trips to rationing boards. Non heating industrial commercial and government uses stay on three month cycles. Period 5 coupons now valid for 11 gallons and extended from March 8.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert F. Boda
OPA
Equipment Sharing Plan Claused Removed by Wickard
Agriculture Secretary Wickard ends the government recapture clause in farm machinery purchase agreements. He told Senator Millikin the clause is unnecessary and would grant the government title to equipment if a farmer fails to operate it on neighboring farms as well as on his own.
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Washington
Wickard
Millikin
New Crisis Is Reported In Morgan's Condition
BOCA GRANDE Florida January reports say banker J P Morgan critically ill with heart ailment again worsened. Doctors ordered oxygen equipment from the mainland to the island resort where the financier has been staying for more than a week.
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Boca Grande
Fla
J. P. Morgan
FD Puts Jobs Up to Solons
President Roosevelt said Congress must decide postwar unemployment policy as the nation faces demobilization and the closure of war plants. He cited the National Resources Planning Board proposal totaling about 7 billion dollars in public works to absorb laid off workers but did not discuss its recommendations at the press conference.
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Roosevelt
Congress
National Resources Planning Board
Jap Planes Knocked Down In New Guinea
Allied headquarters in Australia reported fourteen Japanese planes were shot down yesterday in an Oro Bay raid. The effort involved twelve bombers escorted by sixteen fighters, while Allied forces claimed light losses and conducted supporting air strikes at RabauI New Britain and Finschhafen New Guinea with operations in the Mubo sector.
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Australia
Oro Bay
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Finschhafen
Mubo
Mareth
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Ksar Rhilane
Ksar Ahilane
Foum Tatahouine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Mareth Line
Maginot’ Line
France
RAF
Stuttgart
Germany
English Channel
London
Thames Estuary
Nazis Ignore Poor Health in French Labor Draft
Dispatches from France report that France is being bled for manpower as medical exams select youths for German war industries. Young men claim they are railroaded and deemed fit with minor illnesses, with only paralysis or serious tuberculosis allowing exception.
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Bern
Germany
France
Marseille
Tribune de Geneve
British Convoys To Be Guarded by Helicopters
London reports that Britain plans to guard shipping convoys with helicopters. Undersecretary H. H. Balfour told the House of Commons that these wingless aircraft, supported by an overhead propeller, can land and take off vertically from a ship's deck, enabling cross ocean travel with convoys.
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London
H. H. Balfour
House of Commons
Ohio Hill Counties seek joint effort to build industrial empire
Representative Walter E. Brehm of Logan promotes a cooperative plan among 30 southeastern Ohio counties to advance mineral timber and agricultural resources. He urges House members Thomas Jenkins P W Griffiths Henderson Carson J Harry McGregor Paul Lewis Edward McCowen and others to coordinate for regional development and shared economic goals.
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Washington
Ohio
Hill Counties
Walter E. Brehm
Logan
Hocking County
Congress
Thomas A. Jenkins
P. W. Griffiths
Henderson H. Carson
J. Harry McGregor
Paul R. Lewis
Edward O. McCowen
Brehm
Ohio Hill Counties Association
House
Adams
Athens
Belmont
Brown
Carroll
Clermont
Columbiana
Coshocton
Fairfield
Gallia
Guernsey
Harrison
Highland
Hocking
Holmes
Jackson
Jefferson
Lawrence
Meigs
Monroe
Muskingum
Morgan
Noble
Perry
Pike
Ross
Scioto
Tuscarawas
Vinton
Jenkins Presses Quick Action on Pay-As-You-Go Taxes
Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins urges immediate Ways and Means action on pay-as-you-go and collection at the source tax plans. He says the nation demands swift policy, warns against two-year tax collection, and calls for continuous committee session to adopt a plan. He emphasizes fairness for 1942 profits and places tax debate among top public issues after war and rations.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
House
Ways and Means
Jenkins
Ohioan
Treasury
Rudolf Hess Rejects Return to Germany to British Guards
In London soldiers guarding Rudolf Hess reveal that after his parachute landing in Scotland on May 10, 1941 he refused any return to Germany, shouting no repeatedly. Hess, Adolf Hitler's former deputy, is a prisoner of war and the incident is described in Roof over Britain, the official account of Britain's anti aircraft defenses.
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London
Rudolf Hess
No. 2
Adolf Hitler
Scotland
Germany
Hess
Britain
Liquor Smugglers Face Court Action in Ohio
Eaton prosecutor John Kiracore said affidavits would be filed charging motorists with importing liquor from Indiana into Ohio illegally. About 175 bottles were confiscated after two roadblocks halted several cars nearly two weeks ago, with warrants charging possession of liquor lacking the Ohio seal.
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Eaton
John Kiracore
Indiana
Ohio
Kiracore
Draft Deferment for Officer Sparks Probe
Washington looks into draft deferments as David Ginsburg 30 year old general counsel at the Office of Price Administration faces possible commissioning as an Army officer. A congressional committee orders a thorough look at PA worker deferment practices.
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Washington
David Ginsburg
Office of Price ‘Administration
Spartan Life Advocated for Entire Nation
Marriner S. Eccles, head of the Federal Reserve Board, urged Americans to cut living standards to Spartan levels and to raise taxes plus compulsory savings equal to at least half of expenditures. He proposed Congress authorize a withholding tax on income over exemptions at 25 percent if the 5 percent Victory Tax stays, or 30 percent if it is repealed.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve System
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
Congress
French Guerrilla Bulletin Details 300 Attacks on Nazis
London report cites a December 20 1942 to January 20 1943 guerrilla operation run by French rebels and partisans. The communiqué claims 282 German officers and men killed 14 trains damaged 94 locomotives and 436 coaches destroyed 26 trucks 12 major fires 10 labor exchanges or collaborationist buildings wrecked and 1000 tons of fuel seized along with food requisition.
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London
France
Army to Commission Physicians From Civil Life in 1943
Secretary of War Stimson announced plans to commission 9,900 physicians from civil life during 1943. No one will be taken until the War Manpower Commission certifies availability and no hardship results. About 3,000 will be hospital internes and residents. the army also plans to commission 4,800 dentists and 900 veterinarians from civil life this year.
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Washington
Army
Stimson
War Manpower Commission
Ohio League protests wartime labor bill
The Ohio League of Women Voters added its protest against a Senate Commerce and Labor Committee bill relaxing female labor laws to ease wartime manpower shortages.
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Columbus
Ohio League of Women Voters
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Nazis Admit Loss of Vital Russian City Vyazma Falls
Nazi forces abandoned Vyazma 20,000 residents left without defense as Soviets press toward Smolensk. In Kharkov the third battle rages with 375,000 German troops in reserve, while Soviet counterattacks recapture towns west of the city.
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Adolf Hitler
Vyazma
Moscow
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Red Army
Berlin
Hitler
Smolensk
Orel
Bryansk
Vyazma-Smolensk
Napoleon
Bely
Rommel
Severe Weather Takes Heavy Toll of Pigs
Columbus reports say Ohio will meet its 1943 pork quota despite newborn pig deaths from severe cold. An Ohio State University farm specialist estimates thousands may die soon after birth, with official death toll figures not yet available.
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Columbus
Elimer F. Kruse
Ohio Agriculture War Board
Ohio
Ohio State University
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