Meat and Dairy Rationing Tightens for Americans
Washington AP reports beef pork lamb and mutton will be rationed at about two pounds per person per week for home use starting Monday March 29. Butter cheese other edible fats oils and canned fish will begin rationing at the same time.
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Harold B. Rowe
Office of Price Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Prentiss M. Brown
America
Wickard
Meat rationing drive faces stiff opposition in Cincinnati
The Greater Cincinnati Retail Meat Dealers Association led a campaign against coupon based meat rationing as packers fail to meet quotas. Officials warned many dealers would lack beef next week while some packers lose money per head due to price ceilings. The plan includes weekly meat points and a shift toward two meatless days, with un rationed items including milk and produce remaining available without coupons.
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Cincinnati
Greater
Record War Loan Drive To Launch Next Week
The Treasury sets a $13 billion goal for the second war loan drive, the largest in world history, to start a month from today. Morgenthau urges all Americans to invest to the limit of their ability, with $8 billion from non-banking sources planned.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Morgenthau
Russians Say Nazis Have No Fears in West
A Moscow English broadcast quoted by Soviet radio monitor Viktorov saying Hitler moved troops from Western Europe to the Russian front and is confident the western front will hold for some time. It notes Germany’s manpower strain and Hitler’s plan to press a new offensive against Russia with 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 troops, with calls from Turkey for satellites to supply more troops and labor.
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London
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Viktorov
Hitler
Turkey
Russia
Predicts Army of 15 Million for Allied Victory
Capt Eddie Rickenbacker told a Indianapolis audience that the United States must mobilize 15 million men for victory. He claimed the U S is the only Allied nation with surplus fighting manpower and urged rapid, full wartime mobilization.
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Indianapolis
United States
United Nations
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
National Foundation For Education In
Operators Balk at Union Wage Demands
Northern Appalachian District coal operators rejected United Mine Workers wage rise demands as unwarranted saying profits after 1940 do not justify extras. Charles O'Neill, spokesman for the operators, echoed the industry stance against anticipated increases.
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New York
Appalachian
United Mine Workers Union
Charles O'Neill
Lewis
Peevish Arsonist Held In Cleveland
Cleveland police hold 30 year old John Rothmiller on arson charges with a $1000 bond. Detective Inspector Frank Story says Rothmiller confessed to starting 50 east side fires, saying he tossed matches into things when he could not see his former wife.
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Cleveland
John Rothmiller
Frank W. Story
Rothmiller
East Side
War tax defiance grows among Cleveland workers
Thousands of war plant workers in the Cleveland area defy the income tax as returns fall 30 percent from last year. Frank F. Gentsch, collector of internal revenue, warns willful nonfilers face fines up to 10,000 dollars or 1 to 10 years imprisonment and possible liens. Only 277,365 returns filed to date, far below the 1.5 million expected with more workers and lowered exemptions.
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Cleveland
Frank F. Gentsch
Internal Revenue
Gentsch
United States
Ruml skip-a-year tax plan draws FDs opposition
President Roosevelt asserts the Ruml plan would reduce government revenue this year as wealthier individuals would save more in taxes under a pay-as-you-go system. He contrasts this with Beardsley Ruml’s testimony and cites mathematics as the decisive factor.
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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 hold the real postwar club unless the United States urgently leads peace planning. Eleanor Roosevelt echoed concerns that the rest of the United Nations may proceed without the U.S. unless Washington engages in talks.
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Philadelphia
Russia
United States
William C. Bullitt
France
Philadelphia United Nations Forum
United Nations
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kerosene and Oil Rationing Set on Six Month Basis
Columbus Ohio rationing officials announced six month basis for kerosene and fuel oil used in farm vehicles machinery and non heating commercial and governmental needs. Non heating industrial and commercial uses retain three month rationing periods. Period 5 coupon now valid for 11 gallons and extended to March 8.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert F. Boda
OPA
Equipment Sharing Policy Revisions End Recapture Clause
Agriculture Secretary Wickard removes the government recapture clause from farm equipment purchase agreements. He told Senator Millikin the clause is unnecessary and would have given the government title to machinery if the farmer did not operate it on neighboring farms as well as his own.
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Washington
Wickard
Millikin
Morgan Health Crisis Deepens On Boca Grande
Banker J. P. Morgan, critically ill for over a week, suffers a new crisis his physicians rush oxygen to Boca Grande Florida. Doctors report he is gravely ill and fighting for his life as he receives intensive care on the island resort.
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Boca Grande
Fla
J. P. Morgan
FD Puts Jobs Up to Solons
President Roosevelt said at a press conference that it is squarely up to Congress whether to delay postwar job creation for returning servicemen and war workers. He did not discuss NRPB recommendations, but noted the board proposed about 7 billion dollars in public works to reduce unemployment after demobilization and plant closures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
National Resources Planning Board
Fourteen Jap Planes Shot Down Over New Guinea
Allied headquarters in Australia said fourteen Japanese planes were shot down in a raid on Oro Bay, New Guinea. The attack involved twelve bombers escorted by sixteen fighters, with Allied losses light. MacArthur air units raided Rabaul and Finschhafen and attacked enemy positions in the Mubo sector.
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Australia
Oro Bay
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Douglas Macasteur Fliers
Bom J
Nazis Seize French Youth for War Industries
Dispatches from Marseille report Germany is mobilizing French workers for its war industries. Medical exams in France seek to fill German labor demands, with youths claimed fit despite illness. Only paralysis or severe tuberculosis reportedly grants relief from the program.
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Bern
Germany
France
Marseille
Tribune de Geneve
British Convoys To Be Guarded by Helicopters
A British plan to protect shipping convoys with helicopters was disclosed by H. H. Balfour in the House of Commons. The vertical takeoff craft can operate from a ship's deck, potentially traveling across the ocean with the convoy.
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London
H. H. Balfour
House of Commons
Jenkins Urges Swift Pay-As-You-Go Tax Action
Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio, on the Ways and Means Committee, calls for immediate adoption of pay-as-you-go and collection at the source tax plans. He insists the committee stay in session until a workable bill is produced, arguing the issue is second only to war and rationing in public importance.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
House
Ways and Means
Jenkins
Ohio hill counties urged to form industrial development group
Representative Walter E. Brehm of Logan outlines a plan for a united effort by 30 southeastern Ohio counties to foster full development. He notes common mineral resources timber potential and need for diversified industries and coordinated state and local actions.
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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
Meigs
Monroe
Muskingum
Morgan
Noble
Perry
Pike
Ross
Scioto
Tuscarawas
Vinton
Rudolf Hess Refuses Return to Nazi Germany
London reports reveal that Rudolf Hess, once Adolf Hitler’s deputy, rejected returning to Germany after parachuting into Scotland on May 10, 1941. Guards recall Hess shouting no as they offered repatriation. Hess remains a prisoner of war and details appear in Roof over Britain, the official RAF defense history.
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London
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Scotland
Germany
Hess
Britain
Liquor Smugglers Face Ohio Court Action
Prosecutor John Kiracore said he will file about a dozen affidavits charging motorists with importing liquor from Indiana into Ohio illegally. About 175 bottles were seized when two roads were blocked and several cars halted by authorities nearly two weeks ago. Warrants will allege possession of liquor lacking the Ohio seal.
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Eaton
John Kiracore
Indiana
Ohio
Kiracore
Draft Deferment for Officer Starts Probe
A congressional committee decided to investigate BPA worker deferment practices while David Ginsburg 30 a draft deferred general counsel of the Office of Price Administration is considered for commissioning as an Army officer.
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Washington
David Ginsburg
Office of Price Administration
Spartan Life Advocated for Entire Nation
In Chicago Marriner S. Eccles head of the Federal Reserve calls for cutting American living standards to Spartan levels. He urges raising taxes and compulsory savings to at least half expenditures and warns of an economic whirlwind if citizens do not divert income to war efforts through taxes and savings.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve System
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
Congress
300 Attacks by French Rebels Reported in World War II
London report from General Headquarters of French Guerrillas and Partisans says 300 attacks on Germans in France between December 20, 1942, and January 20, 1943. The bulletin notes 282 enemy officers and men killed, 14 trains wrecked or damaged, 94 locomotives and 436 coaches destroyed, 26 trucks destroyed, 12 major fires started, 10 labor exchanges or collaborationist buildings wrecked, and 1000 tons of fuel destroyed or requisitioned for food.
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London
France
Army plans to commission physicians from civilian life
Washington AP reports Army plans to commission 9,900 physicians from civilian life in 1943. Secretary Stimson said commissions occur only after War Manpower Commission certification and no hardship in the local area. About 3,000 will be hospital internes and residents. The plan also calls for 4,800 dentists and 900 veterinarians from civilian life this year.
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Washington
Army
Stimson
War Manpower Commission
Ohio League of Women Voters oppose wartime labor bill
The Ohio League of Women Voters today joined protests 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 Vyazma and Kharkov Battle Heats Up
Nazi forces abandoned Vyazma 130 miles west of Moscow as Kharkov battle intensifies with German reserves estimated at 375,000. Soviet lines hold despite heavy hammering while Red forces recapture towns near Smolensk and drive toward Orel and Bryansk amid frontline fighting.
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Adolf Hitler
Vyazma
Moscow
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Red Army
Berlin
Hiteler
Smolensk
Orel
Bryansk
Vyazma-Smolensk
Napoleon
Bely
Rommel
Severe Weather Strikes Pigs in Ohio Births
Ohio pork quota may still be met says Elmer F Kruse as severe cold causes piglet deaths. An Ohio State University farm specialist estimates thousands of newborn pigs died after birth amid the extreme temperatures.
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Columbus
Elmer F. Kruse
Ohio Agriculture War Board
Ohio
Ohio State University
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