Congress price bill falls short for farmers and workers
A critical review says the price control bill offers limited relief for agriculture and leaves wages unregulated, risking little gain for farmers. Separate notes warn of deadly night driving in First Avenue and discuss Pearl Harbor accountability as officials seek to air defenses lapses. The column also pokes fun at a Disney cartoon idea about war taxes and laments the political tone of national planning.
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Art Disney
New York
Donald Duck
Donald ‘Duck
Donald
Popeye
Disney Orybody
Yanks Sink Transport and Hit Japanese Cruiser in Macassar Straits
Eight American heavy bombers sank a large Japanese transport at Balik Papan Borneo and scored a direct hit on a cruiser. The battle in Macassar strait expanded Japanese losses with transports and warships sunk or damaged across multiple fronts.
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Balik Papan
Borneo
Macassar Strait
War Department
United States
Archibald Wavell
United Nations
Java
Washington
Wavell
London
Vandals Puncture 300 Tires in Denver Downtown
Denver police report vandals punctured about 300 automobile tires across a 12 block stretch downtown on Tuesday night causing property damage and disruptions as residents sought repairs and authorities investigated.
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Denver
Senate approves price control bill in form of compromise
The Senate passed a conference version of price control legislation 65 to 14 after months of debate. The bill empowers the government to set maximum price ceilings on most goods, with farm product exceptions and no wage peg, to curb inflation and avert postwar trouble. Leon Henderson is slated to head the administration, with a licensing system and stiff penalties for violators. The farm bloc won limited veto power over farm prices, but failed to shield those prices from parity pegging.
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Washington
LLP
Senate
Roosevelt
White House
Leon Henderson
Farm Bloc
Claude R. Wickard
Yanks in Burma Hit Jap Planes in aire battle
In Rangoon Burma on Wednesday American fighter pilots shot down six to twelve Japanese planes and damaged nine more. Allied bombers attacked Bangkok and British forces fought invaders east of Moulmein along the Salween river. A one hour and 50 minute Rangoon area engagement reportedly left three American planes lost with pilots safe.
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United Nations
Emmahaven
Sumatra
Ambon
Amboina Island
Celebes
New Guinea
Rangoon
Burma
Bangkok
Thailand
Moulmein
Salween River
Tenasserim
Evacuation of Singapore North Coast Ordered Amid Siege Threat
Singapore news dispatch reports a noon Friday evacuation of the island’s north coast as British forces brace for a potential land assault from Malaya. Japanese advances in Central Malaya shrink the distance to the strait, with four main highways converging toward the peninsula’s tip and a defense ring forming near Johore Bharu.
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Singapore
Malaya
Malayan
Tokio
Johore Bharu
Singapore Island
Charge Nazis Dump Plunder in U S to Finance Propaganda
A federal indictment accuses the German high command and agents in New York of smuggling diamonds seized by German troops in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940. Proceeds were intended to fund propaganda across the Americas. defendants include Werner von Clemm of Syosset, president of Pioneer Corp.
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New York
High Command
New York City
United States
North
South America
New York Corporation
Belgium
Netherlands
Werner von Clemm
Syosset
Sll. 1
The
Pioneer Corporation
von Ribbentrop
von Clemm
Germany
Germans Plan Puppet Norwegian Rule For Child Prince
Berlin dispatches say Germany will install a Nazi backed regime in Norway on January 30 with a constitution and possibly crown 4 year old Prince Harold, while Quisling would be chief of staff or regent. Carl Hambro in Princeton called the plan a desperate Nazi bid to gain support among Norwegians.
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Stockholm
INS
Germany
Norway
Prince Harold
United States
Berlin
Vidkun Quisling
Harold
Haakon
Quisling
Nicholas Horthy
Hungary
Princeton
N. J
Carl J. Hambro
Clark Gable to Tour for Defense Bond Sales
The Chicago Sun reports Clark Gable will launch a national tour to promote defense bonds, a mission linked to the death of his wife Carole Lombard. The article cites sources close to the actor and notes the tour's purpose and timing.
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Chicago
Chicago Sun
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Naylords Consider Boy Names Amid Girls To Follow
In Seattle the Naylords contemplated naming a expected son Stephen or Stanley while noting they could have two girls instead. The remark reflects a lighthearted family moment as the parents await the birth.
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Seattle
George Naylords
Stephen
Stanley
Wedge Mine Disaster Leaves 34 Miners Dead
In Hayden Colorado a mile long shaft at the Wedge mine trapped 34 coal miners who perished from black damp after an explosion near 10 p m Tuesday night. Four of 38 night crew escaped as rescue teams worked through the 5500 foot pit to recover bodies. Families waited at the mine entrance as the tragedy was confirmed. Black damp, a coal dust moisture mix, chokes air but does not explode.
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Hayden
Colo
Wedge
Colorado
Welsh indicted for murder of sister Leila Welsh
Kansas City AP reports George W. Welsh II a 28 year old man was indicted by a county grand jury on charges of killing and mutilating his 24 year old sister Leila Adele Welsh in her bedroom last March.
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Kansas City
George W. Welsh, II
Leila Adele Welsh
Stenographers in Nebraska Office Swear Off Makeup
Women in the University of Nebraska college of agriculture extension service stopped using makeup and will buy a 10 cent defense stamp each day with the savings. The move aims to show thrift and support for defense efforts.
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Lincoln, Neb
INS
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Pedestrian Killed on First Ave by Dark Clothes and Lighting
Cedar Rapids police blamed dark clothing and poor lighting for a 1942 traffic death. Beryl Merrifield, 66, was struck while crossing First avenue at Eighth street by Gilbert Van Antwerp, 19, who said he swerved to avoid a runing pedestrian. Merrifield died from a frontal skull fracture.
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First Avenue
Eighth Street
Sixth
Twentieth
Cedar Rapids
Beryl Merrifield
Henry Frazier
Norway
Merrifield
First Avenue F
Gilbert van Antwerp
Fifth Street
St Luke's Hospital
R E Munden
van Antwerp
Collins Radio Company
Tenth Street
John Hanna
Carrie Nation Homestead Visit Seiling Amid Whisky Bust
Sheriff Claude Lovett and revenue officers inspected Carrie Nation's old homestead in Seiling Oklahoma. They confiscated 10 gallons of corn whisky mash a still and arrested a tenant farmer during the Tuesday operation.
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Seiling
Okla
Carrie Nation
Claude Lovett
Lombard Death Pilot Once Fired for Insubordination
AP reports Rep. Nichols's preliminary findings on the TWA crash that killed Carole Lombard and 21 others. The pilot, Wayne Williams, was previously fired for insubordination but later reinstated by the National Labor Board. the plane was in level flight and off its usual course at impact.
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Los Angeles
Carole Lombard
Jack Nichols
House
Nichols
Wayne Williams
TWA
National Labor Board
Rep
Carl Hinshaw
Las Vegas
Nev
Williams
Army Air Corps
Roosevelt cites six to ten American expeditionary forces abroad
President Roosevelt at a press conference said six eight or ten A E F units were stationed in various world locations and that unity of command was advancing though not due to the Roberts report. He avoided specifics on supplies to the western Pacific and on transfers to North Ireland amid De Valera's protest.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Far Pacific
Roberts
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
Western Pacific
Northern Ireland
North Ireland
United States
Ireland
AEF
Iceland
Dutch Guiana
South America
Trinidad
Newfoundland
Great Britain
Eamon de Valera
Eire
Irish Free State
de Valera
Gillette Presses for Short and Kimmel Hearing in Pearl Harbor Issue
Washington leaders push for a court martial or congressional hearing for Major General Walter Short and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. Senators Reynolds and Gillette say the public deserves specific charges of dereliction of duty and a full accounting of the Pearl Harbor tragedy.
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Gillette
Reynolds
Admiral Kimmel
General Short
Pearl Harbor
Washington
INS
Congress
Walter C Short
E. Kimmel
Congressional
Senator Reynolds
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Len Gillette
Iowa
Naval Affairs Committee
Short
Kimmel
Mercury Stays Up Despite Overcast Weather
Cedar Rapids area forecasts mild conditions with slightly warmer nights. Despite overcast skies, the day reached 36 degrees by noon, matching Tuesday's high, while flowers bloom early as snow drops appear a month ahead of historical timing at the Dunshee residence.
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Mercury
Cedar Rapids
Walter Dunshee
First Avenue NE
Chambers
Famine Claims 2000 in Athens in One Day
From Greece reports famine conditions escalate with two thousand deaths in Athens in a single day as bread prices surge to fifteen dollars a loaf per Cepeve reports.
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Athens
Bern
Switzerland
Greece
Submarine Sighted Near Port Aransas Prompting Patrols
Naval Air Station Captain Bernhard reports a likely German submarine seen about 15 miles from Port Aransas with a possible second sub nearby. Planes and ships scour the area as the craft may have entered at night to attack oil tankers and departed after sighting. ممت
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Corpus Christi, Tes
Alva Bernhard
Naval Air Station
Port Aransas
Bernhard
Mustang Island
Corpus Christi
Navy 5
Gulf of Mexico
Texas Gulf Coast
Gulf
Texas
Survivors of torpedoed ship rescued by Coamo in San Juan
The steamship Coamo arrived in San Juan with 71 survivors from an unidentified vessel torpedoed in the Atlantic with 321 aboard. Sixteen survivors were from St. Joseph Missouri. Five died aboard the Coamo before reaching port. The vessel’s captain and two lifeboats went missing.
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San Juan, P. R
INS
Coamo
New York and
Porto Rico
San Juan Harbor
Atlantic
St. Joseph
San Juan
H O Giffen
Percy A. Kelly
Halifax
Submarine Attacks Hit Atlantic Shipping Ninth Time in Two Weeks
The U S Navy says German submarines have struck Allied shipping along the U S Atlantic coast for the ninth time in two weeks. The tanker Francis E Powell a 7096 ton vessel owned by Atlantic Refining was sunk by a torpedo near the coast late Monday. A tenth ship may have escaped.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Navy
Francis E. Powell
Atlantic Refining Company
Ulster Chief Protests A E F Dispatch
Belfast reports Prime Minister J M Andrews of Northern Ireland clash with Eamon de Valera over the sending of American troops to Ulster. Andrews states De Valera had no say in Northern Ireland affairs while defending the American forces as part of a global strategy to defeat the Axis powers.
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INS
J. M. Andrews
Northern Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Eire
Ulster
de Valera
Andrews
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