Senate hones medical standards over physical or Army Navy
Washington AP dispatch reports the Senate maunders toward a medical commission to review armed forces physicals to grant deferments for thousands of men now 4-F. Senate votes to back an administration substitute aimed at funneling federal workers into the armed forces and tightening industrial deferments to delay pre Pearl Harbor inductions.
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Washington
Senate
Army
Navy
Armed Reef
Wheeler
Mont
Pearl Harbor
Senor Clark
D-Mo
Keeler
Bilthout
Lator Wheeler
D-Mont
Seax Bailey
D-Nc
Clark MO
Bailey-Clark
Congress
Seek Support For Federal Farm Policy
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urged Congress to back administration farm and price policies as he outlined a plan to bring the largest crop acreage into food and feed production next year. He sought a $500 million CCC borrowing authority to support farm price supports and subsidies while aiming for 380 million acres of crops and high output in meat dairy products and eggs.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
WFA
Jones
House Agricultural Committee
House Banking Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Ask Support Of War Fund For 125 Million Appeal
President Roosevelt appealed from the White House for a 125 million dollar National War Fund to support American service agencies. The drive consolidates welfare and relief groups excluding the Red Cross, including community chests, USO, war prisoners aid, United Seamen’s Service, and foreign relief agencies.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
National War Fund
American Red Cross
United Service Organizations
United Seamen’s Service
Abolish Union Initiation for Veterans Proposed
In Boston the AFL convention hears a proposal to grant veterans an honorable discharge as admission to unions, replacing initiation fees. The Santa Cruz Central Labor Union backs the advisory resolution citing anti union propaganda aimed at service members and wartime material production concerns.
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Boston
AFL
Santa Cruz
Calif
Central Labor Union
WVOW Production Upturn At West Virginia Ordnance Works
Point Pleasant reports a modest rise in production at the West Virginia Ordnance Works. Commander Leland J. Culbertson says the upturn should stabilize employment with only a few hires, focusing on upgrading experienced workers and improving efficiency and conservation of manpower.
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Point Pleasant
Westirginia
Hoover Asked To Aid Plan To Feed Europe
A note committee on foreign relations asks former President Hoover to help devise a postwar plan to feed Europe’s starving millions. Hoover led the American Commission for Relief in Belgium from 1915 to 1919 and is invited to testify November 4 on a resolution urging immediate action in Belgium and several other European nations.
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Washington
Albert Hoover
Europe
Commission For Relief
Belum
Belgium
Theetherlands
Czechoslovakia
Noray
Poland
Greece
Yugoa
Ohio cigarette tax receipts rise to 1943 September
Ohio tobacco tax brought in 8,297,087 dollars in the six months ended October 1, compared with 7,891,644 dollars in the same period of 1942.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hog price cut in Circleville by OPA
The Office of Price Administration lowered hog prices in Circleville Ohio from 14.80 to 14.75 per hundredweight. This price adjustment affects local producers and markets in the region during this period.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Circleville
Ohio
Australians Reach Ramu Valley Near Madang in New Guinea
Allied reports say Australian troops have penetrated into the Ramu Valley about 60 miles from Madang, New Guinea, after crossing the divide with the Markham River, while American air and sea actions press Kolombangara Island. The梟 communique noted Americans sank six barges near Vila as Japanese efforts to evacuate the garrison continue.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Ramu Valley
Madang
Solomons
Kolombangara Island
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Army
Pacific
Honolulu
Ernest W. King
United States Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
William F. Halsey
King
Halsey
Markham
Ramu
Kanglin
Finschhafen
Kolombangara
Vila
More Farm Machinery Available Next Year
COLUMBUS four times as much farm machinery will be available for 1944 as this year, a War Food Administration official told Ohio farm leaders meeting to set state production goals.
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Columbus
War Food Administration
Ohio
Dependency Allotments Will Be Paid Husbands
A liberalized scale of benefits for dependent husbands of service members heads to House action next week. The plan would allow husbands to prove dependence on their wives for chief support, granting them and their children the same monthly amounts as wives. New scale rises to 16 for a spouse, 72 for a wife and one child, 90 for a wife and two children, with 16 extra per additional child, while existing law pays 50 for a wife, 62 for a wife and one child, and 10 per additional child. Deduction for primary dependents remains 22 and 27 for primary and secondary dependents. Government cost could rise by 446 million annually.
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Washington
House
Sparkman
D-Ala
Women Army Corps Officer Is Murdered in Sioux Falls
In Sioux Falls South Dakota police and Army authorities investigated the death of 25 year old Women's Army Corps Second Lieutenant Naomi Kathleen Cheney of Jasper Alabama. Cheney a personnel officer at the radio school was found near a railroad overpass after a reported struggle. She was last seen Monday night after visiting a fellow WAC officer in the hospital at the Army air forces training command.
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Sioux Falls
8. D
Women’s Army Corps
Army Air Forces Training Command
WAC
Naomi Kathleen Cheney
Jasper
Ala
Cheney
Luther Evans
Army School
Ohio farm groups outline wartime food plan
President Perry L. Green of the Ohio Farm Bureau and Master Joseph W. Fichter of the Ohio Grange issued a joint statement prioritizing grain vegetables and fruit for wartime production in Ohio. The leaders announced the program as state farm officials met with federal officials to set 1944 crop goals locally for the first time, replacing Washington quotas.
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Columbus
Ohio
Perry L. Green
Ohio Farm Bureau
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio Grange
Ohio Farmer
Washington
Holy See Tightens Security Around Vatican City
Berlin radio, citing Osservatore Romano, reports the Holy See has adopted security measures to guard papal property inside and outside Vatican City amid potential renewed hostilities in Rome.
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Holy See
Vatican City
London
Berlin
Vatican
Osservatore Romano Today
Rome
Ringwald Firm Wins 600000 Airfield Contract in Ohio
The War Department announced that W H Ringwald and Son Company of Chillicothe Ohio secured a 600000 contract to build an additional airfield runway and taxiway in Fairfield County.
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Washington
W. H. Ringwald and Son Company of
Chillicothe
Fairfield County
War Department
Five Million Dollar Tax Plan Demanded In Congress
Lawmakers revolt against large tax increases push for a $5 billion substitute to the administration’s $10.5 billion plan. Rep. Dingell declares the committee will not follow Treasury estimates and demands a revised $5 billion program. Vinson argues the case before committees as supporters push a 10 percent federal retail sales tax to replace higher income and luxury levies. The New York Board of Trade backs a 10 percent sales tax claiming $6 billion yearly.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Capitol Hill
Rep
Dingell
D-Mich
Ways and Means
Fred M. Vinson
The
Hill
Vinson
Jeffers Urged To Return to Rubber Post
Former Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers says the government may need to manufacture tires and rubber goods to prevent interference and infighting in the rubber program. He responds to a Philadelphia Record telegram citing Akron executives warning of a potential motor transport collapse. Jeffers notes the Baruch Report's big job is done and urges focus on tire production for military and civilian use.
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Omaha
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
Philadelphia Record
Akron
Allied Planes Attack France In Air War
Allied fighters and fighter bombs pressed operations over France and the Low Countries. Typhoons penetrated toward Paris near the Eiffel Tower and shot down two Junkers 88s and two Fieseler Storch planes south of Paris. Additional strikes hit communications, factories, and military sites, destroying locomotives and an oil refinery near Ghent. Six Allied planes missing.
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London
Europe
France
Low Countries
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Ghent
Belgium
Low Flying Planes Probed After World Series Opener
New York authorities opened an investigation after Mayor LaGuardia complained a four engine B-17 bomber flew dangerously low over Yankee Stadium during yesterday's World Series opener. He said the aircraft dived over the stands three times and warned many could have died if an incident occurred.
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New York
First Air Force Headquarters
F. H. LaGuardia
Yankee Stadium
Woman Dies From Gas Fumes In Dayton Home
Coroner A P Mc Donald cites carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty hot water heater as the cause of death for 72 year old Mrs. Robert Zimmack, an invalid, in Dayton.
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Dayton
Robert Zimmack
A. P. McDonald
Army seeks high school youths summaries for service
In Cincinnati Major Harold W. Kent says 3,000,000 transcripts cards were distributed to high schools for students to record educational and extra curricular achievements. The summaries will help induction officials classify youths and aid returning soldiers in finding suitable postwar jobs.
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Cincinnati
Army
Harold W. Kent
U. S. Office of Education and Selective Service
Court Approves Liquor Purchase Advance by State Director
The Ohio Supreme Court ordered State Auditor Ferguson to honor a voucher for a $1,000,000 advance on 100,000 cases of whisky to be bought by the State Department of Liquor Control. The court ruled the contract by Liquor Director Don A. Fisher with the American Distilling Co. and Foster and Co. valid and Ferguson cannot question the advance.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Joseph T. Ferguson
State Department of Liquor Control
Don A. Fisher
American Distilling Co
Foster and Co
Ferguson
Fifth Army breaches Volturno and advances north in Italy
The American Fifth Army forced a Volturno crossing and pushed along the coast south of Rome after taking Aversa and Maddaleni near Naples. Eisenhower reports heavy fighting as German divisions retreat north of the Volturno with Allied air forces targeting Bologna and Brenner Pass lifelines. The Cairo radio notes German rearguards and rapid bridge and road repairs as the advance continues.
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West Virginia
Switzerland of America
Brenner Pass
Italy
Volturno River
Fifth Army
Fifth
Volturno
Rome
Aversa
Maddaleni
Naples
Gulf of Gaeta
Mark W. Clark
Calore
Cairo
Cao
Turkey
Middle East
Berlin
Dodecanese
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Termoli
Biferno
Eisenhow
Germany
Bologna
Calore River
Bensevento
Rhodes
Lero
Coo
Samos
Aegean
Crete
Soviet Troop Moves Near Leningrad and Azov Fronts Reported
Berlin dispatches claim Red Army massing to turn Nazi flanks as mud and rain slow advances. Soviets reportedly captured 46 towns and reached within 25 miles of Vitebsk while liberating about 90 000 square miles and advancing up to 280 miles.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
Berlin
Vitebsk
Turkey
Dodecanese
J Islands
Rhodes
First Lady Pictured In Costume on Trip
The Chicago Tribune published a photo of Mrs. Werner Roosevelt on her Pacific tour showing a grass skirt over her street clothes. The image, taken by the air transport command, had circulated in Australia but was withheld from U.S. readers.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Werner Roosevelt
Pacific
the Tribune
Air Transport Command
Australia
United States
Republican Women Meet in Columbus Pre Campaign Rally
The Ohio Federation of Republican Women organizations met in Columbus to hear state and national party leaders speak. Scheduled speakers included Sen. Harold H. Burton Rep. George H. Bender Rep. Frances P. Bolton and Mrs. Ann Scott Wilson vice president of the National Clubs.
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Columbus
Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Organizations
Harold H. Burton
George H. Bender
Frances P. Bolton
Ann Scott Wilson
National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs
FDR Defends Pacific Aid While Praising MacArthur
President Roosevelt, at a press conference, argued the South Pacific campaign is going well with what MacArthur has, and that Japan struggles to supply its forces. He cited Kolombangara losses and noted Allied air power tightening the Solomons. He also criticized Japan for beheading a captured pilot and spoke of plans to boost tanker support to Iran.
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Washington
Roosevelt
South Pacific
MacArthur
U. S
New Guinea-Solomons
Kolombangara
Solomons
Tokyo
Italy
Middle East
Iran
French Rebels Hold Back Nazis in Pyrenees Skirmish
Guerrillas in the Plantaure Mountains near the Pyrenees repelled Vichy gendarmes and German troops in a pitched fight, inflicting heavy losses and forcing a retreat to Pamiers. Other rebel columns attacked Annecy after the Thonon hostage incident, killing the regional Vichy police chief.
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Madrid
Plantaure
Pyrenees
Ariege
Pamiers
Thonon
Lake Geneva
Annecy
Manpower Crisis Is Rapped by Workers
Delegates at the CIO United Auto Workers convention in Buffalo demand immediate inauguration of a comprehensive national war manpower program. They accuse the War Manpower Commission of lacking understanding to promulgate a broad plan and urge President Roosevelt and WMC chairman Paul V. McNutt to end the debacle.
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Buffalo
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
War Manpower Commission
Rooseevlt
WMC
Paul V. McNutt
Cooper dies at 58 as brothers may form Cards battery
Robert J. Cooper 58 father of Morton and Walker Cooper died today. He may join the St. Louis Cardinals battery for today's World Series game against the New York Yankees.
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Kansas City
Robert J. Cooper
Morton
Walker Cooper
Yankees
First Lady Remarks Prompt Prompt for Probe
Representative Ploeser calls for a congressional investigation into newsreels shown in theaters claiming they politicize Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. He notes the film, made by the Marine Corps in the South Pacific, ends with a Marine deciding not to shoot a group of Japs who taunt a Republican.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ploeser
Marine Corps
South Pacific
Roosevelt
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