Inflation battle looms as labor leaders clash with price controls
The piece argues inflation policy dominates war-time concerns with AFL CIO pressure to scrap wage controls and John L Lewis seeking higher coal wages. It notes OPA Brown's stance against yielding and questions political courage to hold the line. It also discusses Iowa politics and a farm credit appointment padding the New Deal’s Forgotten Man theme.
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Eaders
AFL
CIO
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Philip Murray
William Green
OPA
Brown
Jarammany Itall
Iowa
Nels Kraschel
Nels
Farm Credit Association
FCA
Convoy Submarine Battles Raging Along Atlantic
Allied escorts and RAF clash with German U-boats in a mass campaign. At least three U-boats sunk in 72 hour battles. US Coast Guard cutter Campbell rams, shells and sinks one big submarine and depth bombs five others. Campbell damaged but reaches port. Commander James A. Hirshfield wounded but in command.
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Washington
Germany
North Atlantic
R.A.F
London
United States Coast Guard
Campbell
Navy
Atlantic
James A. Hirshfield
San Antonio
Tex
Burza
Dunkirk
Hirshfield
Plan May Cut Civilians Meat Further Across Nation
Chicago reports that large meat packers will set aside a government specified percentage of total production for the March 15 to April 30 period. The new ruling abolishes the 70 percent civilian quota, potentially reducing civilian meat supplies. Government aims to direct more of all meats to federal buyers, including 80 percent of canner and cutter beef, shrinking cheaper beef for civilians.
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Chicago
Lend Lease
Jap Offensive South of Burma Road Reported
Chinese military spokesmen said about 2000 Japanese troops opened an attack west of the Salween river in southwest Yunnan. Four enemy columns over 31 miles advanced from Lungling toward the Salween's west bank, marking their first major push south of the Burma road. Japanese forces were described as generally retreating along the Hupeh Hunan border while still holding several southern Yangtze positions.
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Chungking
Salween River
Yunnan
Lungling
Salween
Burma Road
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Mareth Works
Ksar Rhilane
Mareth
Mareth Line
Navy Withholds Army Navy "E" Awards Over Absenteeism
The navy announced that army-navy E awards for war production will be withheld from plants failing to show a good employee attendance record.
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Washington
Navy
Patton Takes Command of U S Forces in Western Tunisia
Allied headquarters in North Africa confirms Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, 57, has succeeded Major Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall as commander of American troops on the western Tunisian front. Dispatches note the change became known Wednesday and formalized Thursday. Patton, nicknamed Blood and Guts, is seen as a premier armored force leader since Adna Chaffee’s death in 1941.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
George S. Patton
Lloyd R. Fredendall
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patton
Adna R. Chaffee
Fredendall
Tunisia
Lieut Jump Dies in California Aircraft Crash
Lieut Benjamin W Jump age 23 son of Mr and Mrs W H Jump 396 Twenty-fifth street SE was killed Wednesday night in an aircraft accident near Blythe California A 1941 graduate of Coe college he was president of the student council and received his wings at Stockton field California a week ago Wednesday No accident details were available at once
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Cedar Manids News
Benjamin W Jump
W H Jump
Twenty-fifth Street
Blythe
Calif
Coe College
Jump
Stockton Field
Generals Invited Footwear Fracas On Miami Beach Grass
A soldier shouted Get off the grass at two men in fishing clothes who turned out to be Gen George C Marshall and Lieut Gen Henry H Arnold. The pair were inspecting air force training sites and joined in the fishing outing before returning to shore. Marshall laughed off the incident.
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Air Force
Miami Beach
Fla
George C. Marshall
Army
Air Forces
Marshall
Henry H. Arnold
End Driving Ban and Gas Ration Cut in East
The Office of Price Administration lifted the eastern pleasure driving ban effective March 22 and halved the basic A gasoline ration from eight to four coupons per two months. East coast drivers without occupational use are limited to about 90 miles a month, with A-5 coupons valid four months. supplemental rations may be available for workers.
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OPA
Washington
Office of Price Administration
United States
Prentiss M. Brown
East
Petroleum Administrator For War
District of Columbia
Oline
Harold L. Ickes
Brown
Ickes
Red Cross Rally Sunday to Feature Colorful Program
Cedar Rapids Red Cross war fund kickoff rally Sunday at 3 pm in Memorial Coliseum features martial band music a uniformed service groups procession talks by Lieut Arthur T Hodges Major J S Lorr and Roger Holden. Event aims to acquaint public with Red Cross efforts since Pearl Harbor with no solicitation.
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Red Cross
Memorial Coliseum
Arthur T Hodges
Hornet
J S Lorr
Air Force Reserve
Coe Eollege
Roger Holden
St Loui
Ray J Mills
Thomas L. Crabbe
Red Cross War Fund Campaign Committee
Mills
Pearl Harbor
Three More U S Attacks on Kiska
The navy reports three additional American air assaults on Kiska in the Aleutians targeting the Japanese submarine base. Liberator bombers struck four Solomons bases including Munda, as eight Lightnings fought eight enemy planes near Kiska. Two enemy planes were shot down and two probably destroyed with no American casualties.
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Washington
Kiska
Aleutians
Navy
Solomons
Munda
Reds Stave Off Attacks In Ukraine
Soviet dispatches report a fierce tank battle in the Donets valley near Kharkov as German forces mount a comeback offensive. Soviet and Red Star accounts say Reds repelled six waves in the Chugaev sector and recaptured towns on the Donets west bank while continuing to press toward Smolensk and Staraya Russa.
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Donets
Kharkov
Chugaev
Red Star
Bely
Smolensk
Moscow
Lake Hmen
Semeon
Timoshenko
Naz
Staraya Russa
Berlin
Hitler
Kursk
Treasury Chief backs 20 percent withholding tax plan
Secretary Morgenthau said the administration is 100 percent behind the withholding income tax plan approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. The remarks came as the plan moves toward final congressional action.
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Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mead predicts Roosevelt will be drafted for a fourth term
Len Mead of New York predicts in a Syracuse interview that President Roosevelt will be drafted and elected to a fourth term to serve for the duration of the war and the securement of the peace. He says, in his judgment, it will be Roosevelt until the job is done and the job will be well done.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Len Mead
Roosevelt
Kosek Battles Over Parks Funding With Burgus
City council session centers on the $15 000 dam rental fund allocation to the parks department. Kosek demands 5 000 while Burgus cites 500 of the dam rental fund in the new budget and notes the department carries a 7 500 debt with a 2 500 cash balance. He warns the next fiscal year will start with a 5 000 deficit despite efforts to trim costs.
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Charles Kosek
L. D Burgus
Parks Department
Kosek
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Kock
Burygus
Burgus
Kosceks Arithmetie Burgus
Washington High School
Ellis Park Bath House
Gafsa Base Recaptured as 30 Mile Push Mainland Tunisia
Allied forces announce the recapture of the strategic German held air base at Gafsa central Tunisia after a 30 mile drive. American troops commanded by Lt Gen George S Patton seized Gafsa with no casualties. The First Infantry Division and others pressed toward El Guetar and Sened as ships bombed and blocked German counterattacks along the Mareth line.
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Allied
Gafsa
Tunisia
Berlin
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
George S. Patton
el Guetar
Gatsa
Gabes
Ag Sened
Wallace Arrives in Costa Rica Amid Latin Tour
Vice-president Henry A. Wallace and his party arrived in San Jose Costa Rica by plane from Panama as part of a Latin American tour.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Henry A. Wallace
Panama
Docility of Once Mighty Luftwaffe Puzzles Allies
Edward W Beattie reports from the Tunisian front that the Luftwaffe shows limited willingness to contest Allied airpower. He cites few German planes in the air, scant mass formations, and explanations ranging from overextended supply lines to strategic strain from the Russian campaign and raids on western Europe.
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Luftwaffe
Tunisia
Bone
Alamein
Tripoli
Europe
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