FDR Orders WPA Demise By Next July
President Roosevelt announced the dissolution of the Work Progress Administration by June 3, with remaining workers transitioned to state and local programs. The agency had spent over 10 billion dollars aiding about 38 million people, facing partisan critique and charges of political influence as it winded down by mid 1933.
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Agency
Washington
Work Projects Administration
Congress
Roosevelt
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works Administrator
WPA
WPA Dewan
Works Progress
Tewes Sageree
Teart A
Repul
Critica
West Virginia WPA Ready to Liquidate says administrator
Huntington dispatch reports Administrator Carl Riggs stating the West Virginia WPA with 9,728 employed as of December 1 is ready to cease operations under Roosevelt’s liquidation order. He said no official word has been received yet and plans to wind down focus on minor construction or sponsor carried work, with some major projects in Wheeling Parkersburg and Bridgeport Harrison County at risk.
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Huntington
Carl Riggs
West Virginia
WPA
Roosevelt
Mwe
Wheeling
Bridgeport
Harrison County
Parkersburg
Disaster Threatens Rubber Program Declares Jeffers
William M. Jeffers rubber director warned lawmakers that vital equipment for synthetic rubber plants is being diverted to other war uses. He said without instruments forgings valves heat exchangers and other gear the program cannot reach production goals and rubber stocks could run critically low for heavy tires self sealing gasoline tanks and other military needs. He urged immediate provision of priorities and materials and cautioned that time is running out to meet the Baruch committee’s target of 390000 tons of synthetic rubber by end of 1943.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Rubber
House
Jeffers
Ithig
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
Wickard Named Food Czar In New War Setup
President Roosevelt planned to assign Wickard broad wartime food and production authority and set up a centralized manpower system under Paul V. McNutt. The plan would transfer federal employment services to the War Manpower Commission and shift power away from James Byrnes. An official announcement was anticipated soon, with further press remarks expected.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevalt
Wickard
Manpower Commission
Commission
McNutt
Inerior
Harold L. Ickes
Roosevelt
Tanpower
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
White House
Irnows
Neely Proposes Nonpartisan Judicial Nominations Bill
Gov Neely announced a Soma recommendation to the 1943 legislature for nonpartisan nomination and election of judges to end judicial nominating conventions. The plan would cover all courts of record except justices of the peace and aims to prevent factional corruption and political contamination in justice administration.
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Neely
Soma
State Bar Association
Wheeling
Nelson Regains Full Authority On Production
The War Production Board under Donald Nelson has taken control of war production, with WPB regaining supervision over aircraft, ships, guns, and a balanced role for Wilson in general supervision. Secretaries Stimson and Knox, along with Nelson, say past differences were methods not aims as the 1943 production program moves to successful completion.
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Washington
INS
Pabne
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
WPB
Sipervision
Charlie E. Wison
General Electric
War Stimson
Ivy Knox
WEB
Nelson
Roosevelt
Armed Services
Wilson
Hr. mm
Navy Accuser Haled Before Grand Jury
Attorney General Biddle called U S Commissioner Sidney Friedman’s charges about irregularities at the Mechanicsburg naval supply depot ridiculous and ordered Friedman to testify before a grand jury. Friedman claimed a solid basis for reports of wholesale irregularities in the $40 million project and warned of serious offenses involving higher-ups.
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Washington
Biddle
U.S
Sidney E. Friedman
Harrisburg
Mechanicsburg. Pa
Friedman
Harr Rg
FBI
Naval Intelligence
Army's Newest Problem Is Strip-Teasing Waac
Des Moines dispatch reports a Waac case involving Kathryn Doris Gregory of Fort Worth Texas, a former chorus girl who went AWOL and appeared as a strip teaser at a Des Moines theater. Post officials say the case is not yet disposed of and disciplinary action may follow. The missing auxiliary has been recovered by military police with a noncommital post response.
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Des Moines
Waacs
Aw.o.l
Ware Press Relations
Kathryn Doris Gregory
Fort Worth
Tex
George White
Eat Carroll
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training School
Fort Des Moines
Amber Georg
Hollywood
Pete DeCenzia
Forrest
Pease
U S Entering Third Stage of War Mobilization
Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, told the National Association of Manufacturers that the United States is entering the third stage of the war with all out mobilization and centralized direction. Gen George C Marshall defended planning and operations, warning against the belief that the army is too large to transport or deploy. He noted some fear of overreach and called for understanding military logistics and international relations as the war moves into total mobilization.
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New York
Donld M. Nelson
War Production Board
National Association of Manufacturers
U. S
George C. Marshall
Welsor
Pearl Harbor
Club Decorations Yield Deadly Gas in Cocoanut Grove Fire
Boston inquest heard chemist Andrew Landini report two of 14 tested club decorations released deadly fumes. Officials say three people to be indicted by Suffolk County grand jury next week in connection with the disaster that killed 494. The gas theory aligns with physician claims that mysterious fumes felled many victims.
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Boston
INS
Cocoanut Grove
Suffolk County Grand Jury
Andrew Landini
Battle Lull May Decide Campaign
Cairo dispatch reports an Allied air offensive in the Mediterranean as long range bombers and fighters strike Axis shipping and lines of communication. Malta based planes have sunk four ships and damaged others while fighters target troop carriers. The campaign aims to tilt the war in Africa and push Axis forces toward Europe.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Mediterranean
Desert
Africa
Europe
Contrel Bea
Axis
Malta
Middle East
Tuere
Lou Wehrle Sr Dies in Hospital Charleston Banker Dies after Brief Illness
Lou Wehrle Sr 47 of 854 Chester road Charleston a banker and realty developer died last night in a local hospital after a brief illness. He founded Edgewood development and was president of Peoples Exchange Bank. He served on the city council and was active in Republican affairs. Survived by widow Anne Mohler Wehrle two daughters and several siblings. Body moved to Burlaw mortuary for arrangements.
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Uenty Louis
Loud Werle
Chester Road
Charleston
Burlaw
Fife
Edgewood
Peoples Exchange Bank
Annie Alexander
Wehrle
Reprisals Threatened After Hankow Air Raids
Japanese and German reports accuse American air raids on Hankow on November 25 of mass killings and injuries. The Japanese publicized by German radio warn pilots captured in the raids will be punished severely under military law for inhuman deeds.
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London
INS
Japan
Hankow
London Evening News
Knox Says U S Won Round 3 at Guadalcanal
Secretary of the Navy Knoxsaid Japan’s latest attempt to deliver troops and supplies to Guadalcanal was costly and futile, indicating Japanese forces were short of material. He described Monday night’s action as a failure, with American forces sinking six warships and other vessels and Japan failing to land reinforcements for weeks.
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Washington
Japan
Guadalcanal Island
Knox
Solamans
Reds seize 11 more villages near Stalingrad front
Soviet forces report capturing 11 villages in the Stalingrad area and advancing inside the city by 200 to 300 yards. Russians claim two key points northwest and southwest of Volga city and say they are closing in on enemy strongpoints near Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the Latvian border, as German reserves rush to the central front.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Don River
Velikie Luki
Volga River
Rzhev- Velikie Luki-Vyazma
Sev
Axis counterattacks threaten Tebourba and Mateur
British and American forces in Tunisia faced renewed Axis counterattacks as German troops reportedly recaptured Tebourba and pressed toward Mateur. Reuter’s correspondent noted tank wreckage across the Tebourba area while Allied headquarters claimed troops in the Tebourba neighborhood were consolidating. Berlin said 40 Allied tanks lay destroyed after 48 hours of fighting.
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London
Djedeida
Mateur
Tebourba
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Reuter
Hizerte
K. A. N. Anderzon
Morocco
Berlin
Spitfires Sweep Occupied Europe in RAF Raid
Royal Air Force Spitfires crossed the channel in extensive sweeps over German occupied France and Belgium. One enemy fighter was destroyed and several others damaged in attempts to intercept the formations. Four Spitfires were reported missing.
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London
Royal Lair
France
Belgium
Air Ministry
Ford Bomber Plant Teems With Full Blast Production
Ford Willow Run war plant in Detroit speeds to town churning out complete four engine B 24 bombers and sub assemblies as workers fill the giant facility. The plant now shows double last year’s employment and full machine tool activity with finished bombers moving out and sub assemblies rising to meet peak 1943 outputs.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Henry Ford
Colossus
Atte
Axis Still Holds Superiority in Air Over Tunis Front
Allied pilots fought back at the Tunisian battlefront as Axis air forces kept pounding Allied fields by night. Flying Officer Alister Smith of Vancouver, BC, in a Spitfire, engaged more than a dozen enemy fighters and shot down two Focke Wulfs before his aircraft was damaged and he crash landed on the battlefield.
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Tunisian
America
Britain
Jerry
Alister Smith
Vancouver
B.C
Smith
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