Davis Will Study Land Army Plans
President Roosevelt said Chester C. Davis will study forming a land army to boost food production. He noted 550,000 farm workers are deferred and 3,000,000 more may be deferred this year. Davis will control food production and farm price policy, operating with Wickard and the War Production Board.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
War Production Board
Food Production and Distribution
Davis
Agriculture
Wickard
Agriculture Department
Britain
Governor's Order Pauses Farm Worker Inductions
Colorado Governor John C. Vivian directs draft boards to halt inductions of workers engaged in farming stock raising or dairying. Brig. Gen. H H Richardson says boards follow Washington orders and will not blanket defer farm laborers, while Hershey reviews the directive.
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Denver
National Selective Service
John C. Vivian
H. H. Richardson
Colorado Selective Service
Richardson
Vivian
Lewis B. Hershey
Colorado
Washington
General Hershey
School Buses to Get Gas Supply
The Office of Defense Transportation assured the State Department of Education that all school buses would receive adequate gasoline for the balance of the school year. Delbert Woodford said 70 counties drafted schedules, usually reducing mileage by 10 to 15 percent.
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Columbus
Office of Defense Transportation
State Department of Education
Delbert Woodford
Vichy Crisis Seen Looming Amid Diplomatic Shakeup
In Madrid Spanish papers warn of an imminent Vichy government crisis as 14 diplomats resign and align with Gen. Henri Giraud in North Africa. In Columbus, Ruby E. Cremeans, 23, pleaded guilty to kidnapping eight month old Daniel Scanlon from St. Ann's Hospital and was sentenced to 20 years by Judge Mell G. Underwood.
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Madrid
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Spain
Henri Giraud
North Africa
Columbus
Ruby E. Cremeans
U. S
Mell G. Underwood
Cremeans
Huntington
Daniel Scanlon
Jean Scanlon
St. Ann's Hospital
OPA Executive Clarifies Inter State Liquor Rule
Cleveland AP report quotes Edward C. Welsh OPA price executive saying consumers should not bear cross state liquor costs. He argues states may curb outward liquor flow to prevent local shortages for residents.
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OPA
Cleveland
Edward C. Welsh
Price
Office of
Price Administration
Welsh
Refuse Pay Raise to Taylorcraft's Workers
The Regional War Labor Board refused without prejudice to approve wage increases for 450 production workers at Taylorcraft Aviation Corp. North Webb extension in Alliance. The request from the company and Alliance Aircraft Workers Inc sought hourly boosts from 15 to 40 cents.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
North Webb
Taylorcraft Aviation Corp
Alliance
Alliance Aircraft Workers, Inc
Price Fruit Farm Dean Homer C Price Dies at 68
Newark Ohio telegram reports Homer C Price operator of Price Fruit Farm and former dean of Ohio State University's Agriculture College from 1903 to 1915 died at his home aged 68 yesterday.
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Newark
Homer C. Price
Price
Ohio State University
Agriculture College
Curfew Law Revived In Portsmouth For Youths After 8 P.M.
The 4 inch curfew rule, unused 35 years, was revived last night in Portsmouth. Patrolmen warned youths under 16 they could be hauled into court if found on streets after 8 p.m.
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Portsmouth
Ohio Housewives Urged to Join WIGS Wartime Salvage
Columbus announces the WIGS wartime drive led by Lewis W. Hausman of the Ohio Salvage Committee. The goal calls for 2 million Ohio housewives to join the salvage effort, with 300 volunteers already mobilizing women to collect tin, kitchen fats and hosiery for the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Lewis W. Hausman
Ohio Salvage Committee
Ohio
Divorcee Held After Shooting in Tulsa Hotel
Tulsa police held a 44 year old divorcee after Mrs T Earl Simmons a 55 year old horsewoman was shot to death in a hotel altercation. The suspect Mrs Ella B Howard of Fort Worth Texas was questioned after she claimed a gun went off during a struggle over a gun in the Mayo Hotel room.
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Tulsa
Okla
T. Earl ‘Simmons
Ella B. Howard
Fort Worth
Tex
M. S. Simms
Mayo Hotel
Sours endorses hot water to apply 1943 license stickers
Columbus Ohio Highway Director Hal G. Sours said 1943 automobile license stickers will stick if dipped in warm water rather than cold. He advised applying with the red side out and to do it in the owner's garage after the car is parked for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Hal G. Sours
Souis
Wallace Leaves Lima for Chile Trip with Chile Stopovers
Vice President Henry A. Wallace departs Lima by plane bound for Santiago, Chile, with planned refueling and brief stopovers in Arica and Antofagasta along the route.
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Lima
Peru
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Santiago
Chile
Arica
Antofagasta
Lull in Pacific fighting seen as setup for new American blows
Informants in Washington say the current quiet in the Pacific hides strengthening U S forces for powerful offensives against Japan. Objectives may include seizing strategic positions and shrinking Japanese sea power before recovery, with initial moves likely aimed at pressuring shipping and Guadalcanal holding.
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Washington
Pacific
Solomon and
Aleutian Islands
United States
Japan
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
U S May Seize All Jap-Owned Farm Machines
A War Production Board official in Los Angeles says Japan owned tractors trucks and other farm equipment in Southern California warehouses could be seized for American food production. Regional WPB counsel Burnette J Daniels notes the legal hurdles and compares it to confiscating items like a farmer’s tire. An Agriculture Department source estimates 267 Japanese tractors are stored in the region.
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Los Angeles
California
War Production Board
America
Burnette J. Daniels
WPB
Daniels
State Department of Agriculture
Methodist Bishop Plans Tour of Battlefronts
President Roosevelt approved a world tour by Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of the Methodist Church to visit service personnel in Iceland Ireland Scotland England North Africa and possibly India and China to bolster spiritual strength among Protestant chaplains and troops. The journey will start in the next few weeks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Adna Wright Leonard
Methodist Church
Leonard
Iceland
Ireland
Scotland
England
North Africa
India
China
Ohio Housewives Lead Nation in Fats Drive
Ohio women collected 420,635 pounds of waste kitchen fats in January 1943, the War Production Board's Ohio salvage chief Robert O. Weible announced. The fat total could produce 84,217 pounds of high explosive nitro-glycerine, underscoring wartime material reuse efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Robert O. Weible
General Salvage Branch
The
War Production Board
Weible
Japs Assured of Fish Supply by Russians
Moscow reports a one year extension of Japanese fishing rights in Soviet Far Eastern waters through Kuibyshev agreement. The pact secures a key food source for Japan and is seen in London as easing potential tensions between the two nations.
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Moscow
Kuibyshev
Russia
Japan
Far Eastern
London
Malta Hosts First Air Raid Alert in 22 Days
Malta, a British Mediterranean stronghold, heard air raid sirens for the first time in 22 days as RAF fighters engaged enemy planes. One raider was reported downed amid a year with 32 alerts compared to 716 during the same period in 1942.
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Malta
Reds Report Advances in Donets Area
Soviet forces press on in the western front toward Smolensk with renewed activity on the Donets front north of Kharkov and near Chuguev. In Kuban, Red Army moves toward Novorossisk and Kerch Strait while freeing 12,000 Soviet civilians from German labor camps.
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Moscow
Red Army
Smolensk
Donets River
Belgorod
Kharkov
Chuguev
Chuguey
Kuban
Novorossisk
Kerch Strait
Red Star
Germany
Dnieper
Allied Bombers Strike Japanese Bases Across the Pacific
Allied headquarters report raids by bombers led by General MacArthur blasting Amboina, Rabaul, and Lae areas. Direct hits damaged cargo vessels in Amboina harbor while Gasmata wharf and warehouses were hit. A Japanese bomber was shot down over Dyke Ackland Bay during reconnaissance.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Amboina
Darwin
Rabaul
Gasmata
New Britain
Ubili
Lae
New Guinea
Salamaua
Dyke Ackland Bay
Buna
Joan Davis Dies at Columbus in Friday
Mrs Joan Watson Davis 83 died at her daughter Myrtle Sharp home in Columbus. Survived by two other daughters Sadie Ingham and Netty Grandy and four sons William, Charles, Alexander and Abraham. Funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church in New Straitsville with Rev. Hughes officiating.
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New Straitsville
Joan Watson Davis
Myrtle Sharp
Columbus
Sadie Ingham
Netty Grandy
the Plains
William J. Davis
Charles Davis
Alexander Davis
Barberton
Abraham Davis
Cleveland
Methodist
Hughes
Expect Senate To Pass Judges' Retirement Bill
Advocates urged passage of a retirement system for judges in Ohio as the Senate prepared to act next week. The bill would allow a judge earning 12000 dollars a year to retire on a 6000 dollar pension, after a 1 vote defeat cited as hastily considered and unfair socially.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Carl D. Sheppard
R.summit
Bethlehem Shipyard workers return after stoppage
Day shift employees at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company Bethlehem yards resumed work after a multi hour work stoppage yesterday. Union officials said they pledged to make up all lost time and return to normal operations today.
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Baltimore
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Britons Yanks Removed From Vichy to Reich
In Bern Switzerland it was reported that British and American nationals left in the Vichy zone after German occupation have been taken to Germany. The U S legation could not confirm but noted about 3 600 citizens in the area were arrested, including men women and children.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
United States
Legation
North Africa
Point Values To Be Altered For Processed Foods
Washington reports Sunday papers will show new point values for processed fruits and vegetables. OPA officials hint substantial coupon reductions with some increases possible where demand outstrips supply. Changes affect cans bottles and larger packages, with faster selling items raised while others lowered.
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Washington
OPA
Packing House Union Members Aid Farmers
Austin Minnesota report notes Packing House Workers Local 9 representing Hormel plant staff recruit members to work on nearby farms in spare time and vacations. About 600 volunteers already signed up to help offset labor shortages in midwestern livestock and corn belt.
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Austin
Minn
CIO
Packing House Workers Local 9
Hormel Packing
Farm Editor Demands End to Harsh Food Rationing
Wheeler McMillen editor of the Farm Journal and Agricultural Authority urged immediate government action to stop severe rationing set to take effect Monday. He argued farmers can produce enough food if bureaucrats do not interfere with production and distribution, warning that urban workers may be the forgotten man of 1943.
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Chicago
Wheeler McMillen
Farm Journal and Agricultural Authority
McMillen
Soldier Faces Slaying Charge in Canton Woman Death
Prosecutor Leo Scanlon said Glore Bevard a 33 year old soldier at Camp Millard signed a statement admitting he choked Mrs Wilma Reed 40 of Canton Illinois to death in an apartment here Monday Bevard surrendered last night after hiding in a barn east of town without food or water He claimed self defense after Reed bit him during a quarrel and that he fled the scene Bevard is from Canton Illinois.
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Bucyrus
Leo Scanlon
Glore Bevard
Camp Millard
Wilma Reed
Canton
Ill
Scanlon
Bevard
Here
15-Year-Old Held In Grandfather's Death
County Judge E. P. Hill said a 15-year-old boy is in custody over the death of his grandfather E. L. Johnson 74 at Jack's Creek. Johnson died Saturday from a head wound after the boy admitted striking him with a rock in an argument.
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Prestonsburg
E. P. Hill
E. L. Johnson
Jack's Creek
Johnson
Prisoner Hangs Self in Ohio Penitentiary
Warden Frank D. Henderson reports 43 year old life term convict Willard Brucks hanged himself in the Ohio penitentiary Wednesday night. Brucks was sentenced for first degree murder in Highland County in 1935.
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Columbus
Frank D. Henderson
Willard Brucks
Ohio Penitentiary
Brucks
Highland County
Food policy critique urges more farming not more rules
A critic argues penalties and edicts hinder crops, urging White House to cut red tape and let farmers increase production. He asserts rationing harms war effort, saying abundance beats scarcity and no war was won on an empty stomach.
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White House
Allied Forces Press Advance in North Africa Front
British Eighth Army troops push positions south of center Tunisia as Allied air squadrons strike Axis targets near Sfax and Sousse. Casualties and captures rise while Montgomer y and Patton direct operations toward Tunis and Gabes, with American columns advancing toward Maknassy and Mezzouna.
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North Africa
Eighth Army
Gafsa
Maknassy
Algiers
el Hamma
Africa Corps
New York
CBS
Gabes Plain
Mareth
Gabes
el Guetar
Sfax
Sousse
Rommel
Mareth Zone
Rome
Associated Press
Berlin
Bernard L. Montgomeery
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S
Acros
Tunisia
Mezzouna
Messouna
Africa
Morocco
Mareth Line
Reuters
Montgomery
Tunis
Vichy
Mezzouins
Ff Guetar
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Senate
NEA Radio-Telephoto
8Th Army
Afrika Korps
Medenine
Cairo
Reich
Packing House Union
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Tebesso
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Moreth
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