New Tax Measure Promises One Third of Nation’s Income
Chairman George of the Finance Committee said Senate plans would levy about 36.537 billion dollars in taxes, equaling one third of the national income, to fund the coming year under the pending legislation.
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Washington
George
D., Ga
Finance Committee
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Senate considers tax bill with Vandenberg amendment
The Senate opens debate on a new tax bill with an amendment by Senator Vandenberg that would save employees and employers at least 895 million dollars annually by preventing the 1943 automatic 2 percent social security tax rise. The proposal follows Morgenthau’s push for new levies and broader tax base amid wartime finance.
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Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
R.mich
War Chest Campaigns Open Across the Nation
Washington reports community and war chests launched nationwide under a presidential appeal to give generously as proof that the American people keep faith with democracy.
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Washington
Bobby Seeks Birthday Car in Parent Ad
Four year old Bobby pleads for a car and his father answers with a want ad in the Messenger. The tale shows a family, a child’s wish, and a newspaper request intertwined with a birthday countdown.
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Bobby
Jimmie
Wanted to Buy Child's Pedal Car Ad Script
A wanted to buy notice seeks a child’s pedal car in good working order. A respondent offered a maroon colored pedal car described as like new and a date was set. buyers are urged to begin Christmas shopping with a wanted buy ad and a 81e three-line three-times rate. Dial 0242 for results.
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S.peddie Auto
Boboy
Tide of revolt against Nazis rising in Scandinavian states
Reports from London describe growing resistance to Nazi rule in Norway Denmark and Sweden amid civil emergency in Trondheim and Danish dissent after the Free Corps parade. Berlin broadcasts note opposition tied to plans for a Greater Germany and Danish king limits on a trans Danish highway to aid Norway.
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Scandinavian States
London
Scandinavia
Trondheim
Denmark
Reich
Finland
Sweden
Hitler
Germany
Holland
Norway
Free Danish Council
Arctic Circle
Danish Free Corps
Christian
Jutland
Roosevelt Praises U.S. Workers At Labor Convention
President Roosevelt commends American workers for a splendid production record and vows they can take whatever it takes to win the war. He notes workers' readiness for hard, continuous, precise and dangerous tasks as their duty and part in the war effort.
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Toronto
Roosevelt
United States
American Federation of Labor Today
Willkie and Chiang Confer in Chungking Talks
Wendell Willkie spent six hours in conference with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Chungking. The meeting was the longest of an ongoing series and followed by a 1 a.m. bedtime with an early schedule today. Officials expect discussion to emphasize the Pacific front alongside Europe and may touch India's status.
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Chungking
Wendell Willkie
Chiang Kai-Shek
Willkie
India
B and O Surpasses Freight Car Service Record
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced a new freight car service record for August at 50.1 miles per car per day excluding unserviceable cars, beats prior high of 47.2 miles per car per day set in June.
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Baltimore
The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Today
Union Fee Investigation Threatened by May
Chairman May of the House Military Committee said a nationwide probe of union fees charged to job applicants on Army project work could be launched if concrete evidence of excessive charges is found.
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Washington
May
D.-Ky
House Military Committee
Cleveland Transit Workers Get 2 Percent Pay Increase
A threatened strike by Cleveland municipal transit employees ended as the city council approved a 2 percent hourly raise. The approval came after the labor dispute over pay was settled by the council.
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Cleveland
37th Vets To Send Cigarettes To Ohioans
The 37th Division now overseas will receive Christmas gifts of cigarettes and other items from the AEF 37th Division Veterans Association. Col. C. W. Goble reports a $1 691 donation from Warren Williams to fund purchases.
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Columbus
AEF
37Th Division
Veterans Association
Col
C. W. Goble
Selective Service
Veterans’ Organization
Warren Williams
Toledo
Veterans' Group
Goble
Rationing of Rubber Boots Begins Today
The Office of Price Administration lifted a five day freeze ending sales of rubber boots and rubber work shoes. Ordinary civilian rubber footwear made from reclaimed rubber remains purchasable without rationing. The Ohio Welfare Conference opened in Columbus to study social work responses to wartime changes.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
EMS
Columbus
Ohio Welfare Conference
Bricker Criticized by Dems Over State Surplus
Columbus Democrats led by Darrell S. Jones attack Gov. John W. Bricker for praising the state treasury surplus in a radio speech read for him. Bricker, seeking a third term, says the balance could reach 20 million by year end to guard against tax hikes amid shrinking revenue. Attorney General Herbert read the remarks as Bricker, ill with a cold, spoke.
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Columbus
Darrell S. Jones
Democratic State Committee
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Thomas J. Herbert
Cleveland Public Hall and Stadium to Enter War Service
Cleveland's Public Hall and Stadium, valued at 25 million dollars, will be taken over by the Army Air Force in about a month for use as a maintenance school. City property on the lakefront is also slated for wartime use, announced by J. H. Mertz, automotive officer of the Air Service Command.
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Cleveland
Army Air Force
J. H. Mertz
Air Service Command
German Attacks Beaten Off at Stalingrad as Winter Nears
Soviet dispatches credited Red Army forces with repelling 22 German assaults in the 43 day siege of Stalingrad. Nazi front reports claimed advances north and in the Caucasus while Churchill urged caution on a second front as winter approaches.
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Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
Caucasus
FDR Suspends Eight Hour CAA Work Day
Washington President Roosevelt issued an executive order suspending the eight hour work day for laborers and mechanics employed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in building landing areas air navigation facilities and other public works essential to the war effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Stalin’s call for greater Allied aid to Russia in war
Dewitt Mackenzie reports Britain receives Stalin’s claim that Allied aid to Russia has been limited. Observers acknowledge Soviet combat action and foresee a future Anglo American push to open a second front in France to defeat Hitler, a hard but direct path.
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Dewitt MacKenzie London
Stalin
Russia
United Nations
Britain
Hitler
America
Norway
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Europe
Sam
John Bull
France
Germany
Ohio draft boards report one third exhausted of 1-A registrants
State selective service director Col. C. W. Goble says about one third of Ohio’s 330 draft boards have run out of 1-A registrants. Boards are told to recheck lists for potential 1-A material and consider revised rules for unmarried men with dependents, post 1941 marriages, or reclassifications under looser physical standards.
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Columbus
Col
C. W. Goble
Selective Service
Ohio
Goble
Columbiana
Trumbull
Allen
Butler
Clark
Coshocton
Crawford
Delaware
Fairfield
Fayette
Hancock
Hocking
Jefferson
Lawrence
Licking
Lorain
Madison
Marion
Miami
Muskingum
Portage
Richland
Ross
Sandusky
Scioto
Stark
Allied Convoys Reach Russia Amid Atlantic Losses
Navy spokesman Captain Leland P. Lovette said North Atlantic convoys still reach Russia despite heavy German air and sea attacks. He noted 50 percent through would count as a success while losses run lower than expected. The AP tally lists 483 neutral and Allied losses in the Western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor, including one American merchantman destroyed last month off South America with one life lost.
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United Nations
Atlantic
Navy
North Atlantic
Russia
Leland P. Lovette
South America
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Five Jap Prisoners Captured in Aleutians
A Pacific Northwest port received five Japanese prisoners of war landed from naval action in the Aleutians. They were transferred to Army custody by the Navy and taken to a prearranged detention site. They are the first Japanese POWs to arrive in the Pacific Northwest and possibly in the continental United States.
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Pacific Northwest
Aleutians
Army
Navy
Continental
United States
Western Germany Hit By Strong RAF Raids
A strong force of RAF bombers attacked targets in Western Germany last night. RAF formations also swept the southeast coast in a steady procession and attacked the occupied channel coast. Explosions and flashes were seen along the British coast.
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London
Germany
Channel
Ravenna Civil War veteran James Graham dies at 105
James Graham a Civil War veteran who claimed he once lit a pipe for Abraham Lincoln died at age 105 in Ravenna. His long life spanned multiple eras, and he remembered early Union Army days and Lincoln era anecdotes with neighbors.
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Ravenna
James Graham
Abraham Lincoln
Mine Workers Look to Lewis For Leadership
United Mine Workers delegates from 26 states and Canada open a two week convention in Cincinnati seeking guidance from John Llewellyn Lewis. He says locals favor about a $2 wage increase and notes wage freezes leave inequality and substandard pay unaddressed while mining wages lag behind other industries.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers of America Today
John Llewellyn Lewis
UMW
States
Canada
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
CIO
Lewis
Roosevelt
Life-Long Straitsville Resident Dies Monday
New Straitsville obituary for Elizabeth Orndorff 87 a life long resident who died at home. Funeral set Wednesday at 2 PM at the Methodist Church. She leaves nine children including Elizabeth Fridely and Alice Freasure of Columbus and Gladys Miller of Crooksville.
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New Straitsville
Elizabeth Orndorff
Orndorff
Elizabeth Fridely
Alice Freasure
Columbus
Gladys Miller
Crooksville
Elizabeth Webb
Lancaster
Walter
Frank
Raymond
Joe
Sam
Conference To Discuss Transport Problems
Ohio state and local officials plan an Oct. 13 conference in Columbus under the Ohio War Transportation Committee to tackle wartime transport issues. Sessions will cover staggered working hours to ease congestion, share the ride movements to cut wear on vehicles and tires, and highway safety measures.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio War Transportation Committee
Steam Switch Engine Soon To Be Replaced
MOUNT VERNON An industrialist said the old steam switch engine is obsolete and soon will be replaced by a diesel powered midget locomotive. B B Williams president of Cooper Bessemer Corp noted no new steam engines are being built.
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Mount Vernon
B. B. Williams
Cooper-Bessemer Corp
Ruth Weir sues Alliance district for 50000 over gym injury
Ruth Weir, 19, sues the Alliance Board of Education for $50,000 alleging a permanent back injury from a pyramiding exercise during a high school gym class.
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Alliance
Ruth Weir
Alliance Board of Education
Australians Advance in New Guinea Front
The Associated Press reports U. S. Marines en gaged with Japanese patrols and holding Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands while Australian jungle troops near the Owen Stanley Mountains summit after advances ranging from three to six miles on the New Guinea front.
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U. S
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
Owen Stanley Mountains
Italians Claim U S Battleship Sunk By Submarine
Italian high command reports sinking a U S battleship of the Mississippi class off Freetown, West Africa, by Barbaarigo type submarine. MacArthur says Australian counter-offensive advances past Kagi as Japanese convoy attacked near Buna in New Guinea. Allied air and sea actions across the Pacific, Aleutians, and Southwest Pacific claim multiple enemy ships, planes, and bases damaged.
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London
United States
Atlantic
Freetown
West Africa
High Command
Douglas MacArthur
Kagi
New Guinea
MacArthur
Buna
Owen Stanley
Washington
Solomons
Aleutians
Navy
U. S
Andreanos Islands
Kiska
Southwest Pacific
Raebaul
New Britain
Britain unveils new tank praised as superior to rivals
War Secretary Sir James Grigg announced in Parliament that Britain has produced a new tank. A member of Parliament said it is superior in performance to any other tank in use by any belligerent nation.
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London
James Grigg
Britain
Civilians Die in England and Wales War Years
The health ministry reports 49,752 civilian deaths in England and Wales for the year ending March 31. Deaths were caused by bombings fires and building collapses with a rate of 11.7 per thousand, slightly above 1939 and below 1940.
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London
England
Wales
Health Ministry
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