USES Hiring in for or Plants
The Regional War Manpower Commission issues an employment mobilization plan for 149 critical Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky occupations to be channeled through USES. It bans gate-hiring, requires USES approval for hires in critical jobs, and limits migration while covering skilled roles in aircraft, engineering, shipbuilding, and related fields.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Wmc-Con
Jlec
U. S
WMC
Washington
Ork
Chamber backs federal sales tax proposal as alternative
The United States Chamber of Commerce endorsed a federal retail sales tax to replace the administration's revenue plan. Ellsworth C. Alvord called the administration proposal politically expedient and self-defeating. Dr. J. E. Shepard argued a 10 percent sales tax would not hurt anyone.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Ellsworth C. Alvord
House
Ways and Means Committee
J. E. Shepard
Durham
N. C
North Carolina College For Negroes
Saboteurs Sentenced By Cleveland Judge
Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed sentenced John L. Schmeller former president of National Bronze & Aluminum Co and his brothers Edward and Frank to 10 years in a penitentiary for wartime sabotage law violations. They were fined $10,000 each, denied bail release, and motions for new trials were rejected.
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Cleveland
Emerich B. Freed
National Bronze & Aluminum Co
John L. Schmeller
Edward
Frank
Nazis Claim Fortresses Escorting Allied Bombers
The German radio reports that Allied Super-Fortresses carrying extra guns but no bombs act as fighter escorts for American bombers over Europe. The London Evening Standard notes air experts doubt these claims and say standard Fortresses have been effective in prior raids.
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London
Europe
London Evening Standard
Jenkins Attacks Government as Inflation Source in Ohio
In Columbus AP report Representative Thomas A. Jenkins argues that production growth fights inflation better than taxes. He labels government spending the main inflationary force, cites daily debt rise and war-time debt projected to 300 billion, and expects no general sales tax while tax laws are simplified.
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Columbus
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
Ohio Savings and Loan League
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means
Farm Machinery Rationing Eased by War Food Admin
CHICAGO The War Food Administration plans to cut rationed items from 91 to 31 and halve distribution controls effective Oct 15. Tractors harvesters milking machines and feed grinders stay on the list as WFA officials say improved 1944 production allows a more flexible program. Manufacturing authorization for next year rises to 80 percent of 1940 output, with no quotas on repair parts.
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Chicago
War Food Administration
Lee Marshall
Office of Materials and Facilities
WFA
National Food Producing Equipment Conference
Victim of Japs May Have Been Anzac Flier
Sydney Australia Prime Minister Curtin said the name of the Allied airman beheaded by Japanese forces has been given to his next of kin. The airman's nationality was not stated, but Curtin's wording suggests Australian. The killing was revealed in a diary found by the Allies.
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Sydney
Australia
John Curtin
New Guinea
Curtin
Taft Leads Anti-Bank Opposition in Senate
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio emerges as a leading Republican foe of the administration plan for a world bank. He denounces the proposal as part of the New Deal push for deficit spending and opposes loaning money to other nations under the label of investments.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
World Bank
Senate
Taft
Newspaper subscription list freezes in Lancaster war order
The Lancaster Eagle Gazette will freeze subscriptions on November 1 due to wartime newsprint restrictions, announced by publisher R. Kenneth Kerr.
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Lancaster
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
R. Kenneth Kerr
Britain Drafts Men To Work in Coal Mines
London reports the government will draft men to mine work similar to military service. Fuel and Power Minister Gwilym Lloyd George says voluntary recruitment failed to meet needed levels. A minimum 720000 miners must be kept, with one month initial training and later job specific instruction. Labor Minister Bevin cited a July federation meeting calling for drafts of boys aged 16 to 18.
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Britain
London
Gwilym Lloyd George
House of Commons
Ernest Bevin
Mine Workers Federation
Wake Island Bombardment Records 1051 Tons of Ordnance
Allied forces shell Wake Island with 731 tons from cruisers and 320 tons from land based aircraft over two days. The attack destroys 61 enemy planes, two ships, and numerous shore facilities while suspending Wake’s radio. Air superiority follows as bombers strike Macassar and Madang approaches, with broader Allied actions across the Pacific theater.
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Japan
mid-Pacific
Wake Island
Alfred E. Montgomery
U. S
Wake
Navy
Marshalls
Driblets
Macassar
Celebes
Los
Athan F. Twining
Burma
Mayu Peninsula
Haphong
French Indo China
14Th U. S. Air Force
Chungking
Garbage Collectors End Walkout in Columbus
Columbus garbage workers end a brief strike after the city council approves a raise from 66 to 74 cents an hour and grants a 5 percent general pay increase to city employees. Crews walked off to demand higher wages and back pay.
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Columbus
Ohioans to Get Holiday Liquor Bonus this December
State Liquor Director Don Fisher and assistant Thomas Craig are in New York on a purchasing trip as Ohio plans an extra holiday ration of two pints a quart or a fifth of brandy rum or cordial in December.
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Columbus
Don Fisher
Thomas Craig
New York
Fisher
Ohioan 18 Killed in Colorado Springs B-24 Crash
Sergeant Robert B. Rue, 23, of Piqua Ohio, was among three Army airmen killed when a B 24 bomber crashed near Colorado Springs yesterday. The incident occurred during a training mission. Additional details on the other victims were not released.
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Wake
Wilkes Islands
Wilkes
U. S
Peale
Great Falls
Mont
Robert B. Rue
Piqua
Colorado Springs
Judge offers Hartford man choice to leave country
New Haven police report Stanley Mocarsky of Hartford pleaded guilty to failing to report for induction. Judge Carroll C. Hincks gave him 30 days to decide whether to quit the United States, saying Mocarsky’s attitude left him no reason to “feed him three or four years.” Mocarsky cited breadlines in Chicago as justification for his stance.
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New Haven
Conn
Carroll C. Hincks
Stanley Mocarsky
Hartford
Mocarsky
Mocarsky Doesn't Like This Country,” Said Judge Hincks
United States
Hincks
Chicago
Knox Warns Renewed Sub Activity Is Very Serious
Secretary of the Navy Knox, back from Europe, said renewed German submarine activity in the North Atlantic is very serious and will be so to the war’s end. He cited Tirpitz operations far from home, Naples damage, and submarines moving into the Mediterranean as Allied forces push toward victory.
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Washington
Knox
North Atlantic
Naples
Mediterranean
Pacific
Green Stamps Set for November Validity and Change
The Office of Price Administration announced that War Ration Book Four green stamps will be valid for canned fruits and vegetables starting November 1. A nationwide school registration for Book Four runs Oct 18–30. Green stamps A, B, and C cover Nov 1 to Dec 20, with X, Y, Z stamps from Book Two valid to Nov 20. Green stamps apply to processed foods until a token system begins next year.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Censorship Eased on Weather Forecasts
Washington reports censorship on weather forecasts lifted for the second time this week. Byron Price, director of censorship, says improved defense conditions permit relaxation of publication and radio broadcast restrictions as US continental defenses grow more secure.
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Washington
United States
Byron Price
Hero's Widow to Wed Naval Officer in Los Angeles
Mrs Colin P Kelly Jr widow of the air force hero will marry Dr J Wat son Pedlow Philadelphia chemical engineer and Navy lieutenant in Los Angeles. Kelly died as a bomber pilot to sink the Japanese battleship Haruna after Pearl Harbor. Mrs Kelly and her son Corky had resided in Beverly Hills.
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Los Angeles
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Air Force
J. Watson Pedlow
Philadelphia
Navy
Kelly
Haruna
Pearl Harbor
Boy Scouts Decline Federal War Service Program
The Franklin County Boy Scouts executive council rejected affiliation with the Junior Citizens Service Corps run by the U S Office of Civilian Defense. Scout executive R L Bucher said the board would cooperate with local youth groups for volunteer war projects but not on a federally sponsored basis.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Boy Scouts of America Executive Council
Junior Citizens Service Corps
U. S. Office of Civilian Defense
R. L. Bucher
FFA Mapping War Program At National Convention
Five hundred youths attend the three day Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City to plan a war program for self sufficiency through food production labor replacement machinery repair and scrap collection. Tonight a star farmer of America will be named for outstanding work during the past year. Delegates from the East South Middle West and Oregon attend the sixteenth annual meeting. Pre war gatherings drew 8000 attendees.
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Kansas City
Future Farmers of America
Star Farmer of America
East
South
Middle West
Oregon
Ohio officials urge joint action on fishing rules meetings
Columbus Ohio State Conservation Commissioner Don Waters urges cooperation from rural and urban sportsmen’s groups and farmers to hold county wide meetings to discuss fishing regulations and policy.
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Columbus
Ohio Sportsmen's Organizations
Farmers
Don Waters
Milk Output Falls Prompt New Ration Plans
Washington reports a 3 percent drop in last month’s milk output despite more cows. The Wear Food Administration speeds up plans to limit civilian consumption in metropolitan areas, extending delivery and sales quotas to maintain fluid milk at June levels and milk products at about 75 percent. Officials say civilian rationing may be needed this winter if the dealer quota system fails.
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Washington
Wear Food Administration
Federal Crop Reporting Board
WFA
Kilday Draft Bill Revived in House Military Panel
The House Military Committee revived the Kilday draft bill as a response to agitation against induction of pre war fathers. It would fill quotas on a state basis and create four induction categories with pre war fathers last. Chairman May and others expect it to be added as an amendment to Wheeler related legislation.
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Washington
Kilday
House Military Committee
Armed Services
House
Senate Military Committee
May
D.-Ky
Senate
Management Failure Charged by Bill Jack
William 51 Bill Jack of Jack and Heintz said from a Cleveland meeting that management failed to handle workers. He claimed his firm kept an adequate force, increased women workers to forty percent, and maintained 71 to 84 hour weeks.
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Cleveland
William 51
Bill) Jack
Jack and Heintz
Brining Urged To Ease Wartime Food Shortage
New York report from the American Public Health Association promotes salting and brining vegetables to expand wartime food supplies. Dr. Ivan D. Jones and Dr. John L. Etchells of North Carolina State College led the study, with cooperation from the VA Department of Agriculture and North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. The method suits both home and commercial use, preserving nutrition and minerals while handling various vegetables with weak or strong brines.
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New York
American Public Health Association
Ivan D. Jones
John L. Etchells
North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering
Raleigh
N. C
Department of Agriculture
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Campaign in Italy Slowed by Weather
Allied planes bombed Baltic island barriers guarding the Balkans and moved north of Rome to strike communications but mud and rain slowed the Italian campaign on land.
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Italy
Balkans
Rome
Fifth Army
Volturno
Calore
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Termoli
Algiers
Corfu
Crete
Rhodes
Cos
Turkey
Aegean Sea
Allies Get New Antisub Bases In Azores
Britain wins permission from Salazar to use Azores bases for anti submarine operations. Bombers from the islands will bolster Atlantic cover and serve as refueling stops for convoys as Allied air power expands in the Mediterranean and Aegean theaters.
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London
Portugal
Great Britain
Azores
Churchill
House of Commons
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Atlantic
Churchill declares united air power to defeat Germany
Prime Minister Churchill congratulates the U S Eighth Air Force and the RAF for their achievements and predicts they shall together inexorably beat industrial Germany, hastening final victory.
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London
U. S. Eighth Air Force
RAF
Germany
Churchill
War goods pile up as unauthorized truck strike widens
Thousands of tons of war materiel remain stacked in terminals as an unauthorized truck drivers’ strike broadens across the Southeast and West of the Mississippi River.
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Atlanta
Mississippi River
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Bill
Cassino
Frosinone
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Clark
Gomel
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White Russia
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