Senate move on tax abatement bill after House defeat
Ruml and allies pressed the Senate to pass the year tax abatement plan as the House backed Robertson Forand compromise wiping 1942 income tax liabilities for about 90 percent of filers. The plan lowers 1942 taxes, imposes a wage levy, and shifts to pay as you go with amended filing dates and new declaration schedules.
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Washington
Rumlyn
Senate
George
Senate Finance Committee
Ing
Robertson
D-Va
D-Ri
House
Armed Services
Iame
End of Ohio Free Lunches Food Distribution Soon
Ohio State Welfare Department says the free food distribution program begun in 1933 will end on June 30 per U S Department of Agriculture guidance. Program peaked in 1937 serving 300000 people with 60 counties active in 1942. The school lunch effort reached over 1200 institutions and about 160000 children in 1942-43. Commodities distributed since 1935 valued over 35 million dollars.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Welfare Department
Carl M. Graves
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Graves
Rev James V Cook dies in Marion train collision
The Rev James V Cook of Marion an evangelist with the Nazarene Church was killed Tuesday when his car was struck by a passenger train. Survived by his wife and three daughters, funeral plans were not yet set. In separate news, war industries in Ohio Michigan and Kentucky announce plans to hire 529 400 workers over six months ending August 31, per War Manpower Commission regional director Robert C Goodwin at a regional conference.
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Cook
Marion
James V, Cook
Marn
The
Nazarene Church
Thens
Ohio
Doyle Beecher
Ashland
Helen Cook
Galion
Thelma Cook
W. E. Music
New Marshfield
Cleveland
Michigan
Kentucky
Robert C. Goodwin
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Two Navy Men Killed In Ohio Plane Crash
Columbus reporters say two Navy servicemen died in a plane crash near Route 256 close to Perry Fairfield County. Ensign Claude Ray Bassam aged 22 from Hot Springs Arkansas was the pilot and Chief Quartermaster Walker Holcomb aged 39 from Los Angeles was aboard. Commander Earle C. Peterson of the naval aircraft delivery unit at Port Columbus identified the victims.
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Columbus
Perry-Fairfield County Inc
Earle C. Peterson
Naval Aircraft Delivery Unit
Port Columbus
Claude Ray Bassam
Hot Springs
Ark
Ting
Walke Tlontee Holcomb
Los Angeles
Train collision claims life of job seeker at crossing
A man identified as James V. Cook was killed yesterday in a train auto collision shortly after applying for a crossing watchman position. The incident occurred near Marion, raising questions about crossing safety and local train traffic procedures.
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Marion
James V. Cook
Down Seven Japanese Planes in Twenty Minutes
At Guadalcanal Lieut James E Swett of San Mateo California downed the first seven Japanese planes he saw, becoming the island’s No 1 hero. The 22 year old Marine Corps officer achieved the feat in a record 20 minutes of single combat, a distinction no other flier is known to have matched.
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Guadalcanal
James E. Swett
San Mateo
Calif
Suadalcanal
Marine Corps
Solomons
Charges Filed Against Parents in Child Fire Death
Youngstown authorities charge Mr and Mrs Theodore Williams after a fire at their home killed two children aged 5 and 8. Fire officials say evidence shows the kids were locked inside the apartment while parents were away at a theater.
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Youngstown
Theodore Williams
Bobby
Jimmy
Michael J. Mellillo
Coordinated Direction Sought for War Production
Senate war production hearings push for centralized control under a single authority. Nelson creates Office of Civilian Requirements. Jeffers warns his role may be reduced. Davis signals new field food program. Brown launches nationwide campaign against pleasure driving with stricter checks on rationed gasoline.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
D Mo
War Investigating Committee
Donald M. Nelson
A. D. Whiteside
William M. Jeffers
Chester C. Davis
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Agricultural War Boards
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
United States Denied Over Easter Island Occupation Report
A high Chilean government source could not confirm axis radio reports that the United States occupied Chilean Easter Island in the South Pacific. Easter Island spans about 45 square miles and is known for its massive moai statues and polynesian tablets.
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Santiago
Chile
United States
Easter Island
South Pacific
Flying Forts Prove Ruggedness Under Fire
A group of 70 Flying Fortresses left the United States nearly a year ago and 44 remain in operation over Tunisia. Each plane has logged over 240 hours, many exceed 300 hours and one reaches 399. They are patched with bullet holes yet continue missions.
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North Africa
United States
Tunisia
United States Liberators Bomb Taranto and Reggio Calabria
United States liberator aircraft bombed the Italian naval base at Taranto and the Italian town of Reggio Calabria in daylight yesterday.
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Cairo
Taranto
Reggio Calabria
Drys To Test Ohioans Attitude on Prohibition
The Anti Saloon League plans to survey Ohio ministers as inquirers to gauge public mood on liquor laws. S. P. McNaught said data will guide whether to push statewide prohibition or fund education efforts. The move follows the House defeat of a dry measure and seeks statewide sentiment.
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Columbus
Anti- Saloon League
S. P. McNaught
Ohio League
McNaught
Ohio
House of Representatives
L. H. Myers
R-Allen
House Reference Committee
Myers
WCTU
House
Allied forces close to Bizerte and Tebourba frontlines
Allied dispatches report American and French troops within ten miles of the Bizerte fortress and about four miles from Tebourba on the central Tunisian front. A separate American column from Mateur is within five miles of Ferryville near the Bizerte dock area.
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Bizerte
Mediterranean
Bizerte N
U. S
Tebourba
Mateur
Ferryville
Two U S Army Leaders Die in Iceland Air Crash
General Frank M. Andrews commander of all U S Army troops in Europe and Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Washington perished in an Allied plane crash in Iceland. Andrews, 59, was the highest ranking U S general lost in the war and Leonard, 68, headed the Methodist Church in Washington and had just completed a tour of U S troop centers abroad.
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London
Frank M. Andrews
Adna Wright Leonard
Washington
U. S
Iceland
Andrews
Leonard
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
North Africa
Middle East
Methodist Church
Roosevelt
Francis J.) Spellman
New York
Liberators Hit Japanese Base in Pacific Attack
Allied air and sea actions reported across the Pacific include a Babo New Guinea raid destroying defenses and two Japanese destroyers sunk by U S submarines. MacArthur says heavy Liberator bombers flew 1400 miles from Australia to strike Babo while RAF planes inflicted casualties near Rangoon. In Newport Kentucky, Charles Reed, 79, steamboat builder and paddlewheel expert, died after a long career on the Ohio River.
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Washington
Japan
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
U. S
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Arafura Sea
Australia
RAF
Rangoon
Newport
Charles Reed
Ohio River
Civil Air Patrol described at Athens meeting
Lieutenant Colonel Earle E. Johnson, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol, told about 100 members of Group 10 Ohio Wing at a Hotel Berry dinner that aviation will become the nation’s greatest industry. He outlined the CAP’s 17 month history, its transfer to the War Department, and its 75,500 volunteers patrolling 1,000 airports to aid the Army, Navy, and public agencies. He noted 26 CAP members killed in service and recalled CAP’s creation days before Pearl Harbor.
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United States
Earle E. Johnson
Civil Air Patrol
Group 10
Ohio
Hotel Berry
Zanesville
Cambridge
Marietta
Portsmouth
Athens
Johnson
Office of Civilian Defense
War Department
Army Air Forces
TAP
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Wage Truce Yet Open on Coal Mine Pay Talks
Washington reports a 15 day wage truce in the coal industry might be extended indefinitely with Harold Ickes directing government mines. Some see no new walkout imminent, though John L. Lewis signals no board approval. Officials stress War Labor Board as route to a lasting settlement and note six day weeks with time and a half could ease tensions while wage increases await board approval.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Uncle Sam
UMW
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Lewis
Ickes
Raf Loses 30 Planes in Dortmund Raid
A heavy saturation raid by Britain's four motored bombers struck Dortmund last night. Thirty planes failed to return, according to the Air Ministry. Dortmund is a key Ruhr Valley transport and industrial hub with major oil works and a large industrial combines site.
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RAF
London
Britain
Dortmund
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Ems
Dortmunden Union
Germany
Weirton Leads Nation In Bond Sales Drive
Hancock County announced its second war loan bond purchases exceeded quota by 321 percent. Weirton reported a per capita sale of 126 dollars, challenging Middletown Ohio for the national record which Middletown claimed by 112 percent above quota with 77.36 dollars per person.
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Weirton
Hancock County
Middletown
Findlay Bus Truck Collision Injures Sixteen
Sixteen persons were injured, none seriously, early today in a bus-truck collision three miles north of Findlay on Route 25. Greyhound driver Carl Cossick, 29, of Detroit, said he did not see the parked truck andrammed its rear while swerving to avoid it.
Union Halts Columbus Transit Strike Plan
Columbus transit faced a 12:01 a m strike after union operators agreed unanimously to call off the walkout. The action would have disrupted street car and bus service in the city.
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Columbus
Diplomat To Arrange FDR Stalin Rendezvous
New York dispatch says Joseph E Davies former U S ambassador travels to Moscow to invite Stalin to meet President Roosevelt for talks on mutual interests. Davies served as ambassador to the USSR from 1936 to 1938.
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Stalin
New York
The
New York Times
Washington
Joseph E. Davies
U. S
Moscow
Roosevelt
Davies
Ussr
Girl 10 Electrocuted at Ohio Trailer Camp
Coroner reports Barbara Lee Birt aged 10 died from electrocution by a guard wire at a trailer camp in Troy Ohio. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. King Birt who resided in the camp.
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Ohio
Troy
Barbara Lee Birt
Charles Kiefer
King Birt
Fifteen Die in Powder Blast Near Elkton
Rescue crews combed charred ruins of Triumph Explosives plants near Elkton Maryland seeking more victims after a blast killed 15 and injured 54. Five of the injured were in serious condition and 19 remaining hospital cases included thirty women given first aid and released. Employers returned to work in other buildings as military and plant officials urged continued ammunition handling.
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Triumph Explosives, Inc
Army
Navy
Soldier Son Returns For Father's Funeral
Albert Mees died Saturday while mining at home in Pomeroy. His son Richard Mees, on a troop train to California, learned of the death and headed home. Funeral at St. Pauls Lutheran Church Pomeroy at three o clock Thursday with Rev. W F Sodt officiating. Interment in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Albert Mees
Richard Mees
California
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
W. F. Sodt
Beech Grove
Landing Force Will Be Needed for Job of Throwing Japs Out of Aleutians
American troops must land under fire to drive Japanese forces from the Aleutians, with charges of heavy fighting as bases at Attu and Kiska are targeted. The push could come this spring or summer as air attacks expand, while weather and rugged caves aid Japanese defenses.
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Aleutians
Washington
Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Kurile Islands
Japan
Solomons
Glen Marie
Neill
Wyandotte
Mich
New York
Attu Island
Ford Miles
Willow Run
Attu
Tokyo
Aleutians Command
Islands
Germans Abandon Stores as Allies Push Toward Tunis
Allied updates report retreating German forces leaving behind military stores in Mateur Tunisia including 800 cases of California prunes. American efforts under General Eisenhower say progress toward Bizerte continues with gains by French troops and 4,000 Germans plus 1,000 Italians captured since April 21. In Russia, ground fighting NE of Novorossisk and heavy Soviet artillery press the enemy as Red Army lines hold near the Kuban Delta and Sea of Azov.
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Mateur
Tunisia
California
Harvey O. Williams
Parmington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bizerte
Tebourba
Tunis Bizerte
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Sardinia
Sicily
Paris
la Linea
Spain
Ferryville
Masseur
Lake Bizerte
Tunis
Zaghousa
Cape Bon
Novorossisk
Russia
Kuban
Black Sea
Red Army
Sea of Azov
Krymnskaya
Showdown in House Taxation Committee on Food Tax
Legislation to remove sales tax from restaurant meals advanced to a House Taxation Committee vote after a public hearing. Gov Bricker supported the proposal which the Senate had passed on January 26.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
House Taxation Committee
Senate
House
Seek wage rise in Ohio canneries amid labor shortages
Ohio canneries seek government permission to boost wages from 26 to 67 percent above last year’s scales to avert production shutdowns and ease shortages in the processed food industry.
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Clueland
Ohio
Cano Neries
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