13 Dec 1944
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Newspaper
Del Rio News Herald
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1944
Page
1
The piece discusses elite senators and executives weighing support for President Roosevelt’s policies, with emphasis on cabinet strength and wealth influence. It notes reliance on traditional figures like Morgentau and the cabinet’s capacity to advance domestic and foreign programs, while signaling cautious optimism about future policy outcomes.
Puzzle style item lists fill with mismatched phrases such as Former Actress and horizontal hints, then a sequence of numbered clues like Writing implement and Lease. The stray terms mix profession, Latin term, legal instrument, directions and ordinary nouns, creating a jumbled, incomplete crossword-like entry without a cohesive narrative or clear solution.
Washington December 12 The War Labor Board by a 5 to 4 vote ordered Beck Castings Co Betten dorf to place its 400 employees on higher wage ranges with automatic increases within ranges. The decision not effective until price increases are granted to cover payroll hikes and was opposed by public member Dexter M Keezer who called automatic raises strong medicine possibly wrecking wage stabilization. Old rates were 69 to 73 cents for common labor 81 to 87 cents for core makers and grinders to 81 to 89 for other classifications with new ranges 70 to 90 cents for common labor and 96 cents for core makers and grinders.
Eric Johnston, president of the U S Chamber of Commerce, to head a new cancer drive in the United States. He will lead an all layman executive council of the American Cancer Society, planning to raise 5 million dollars with members including B Brainard of Acroma Life, James Carey of C I C, David Dubinsky of ILGWU, Emerson Foule of Cane and Belding, Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution, George Merck of Merck & Co, J Robert Shortgul of UC, Sen Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, and Albert J Lasker of New York.
A quiz style exchange covers illiteracy rates, new airplane wing material magnesium, Pacific war dead ratios with 227,090 Jap deaths and 42,000 American, a coarse grass used for emergency landings in the Philippines, and bull breeding sites in Andalusia and Salamanca Spain.
A War Labour Board section advances pay equity by letting unions bargain to reduce regional wage gaps in steel mills. The ruling signals potential nationwide effects, enabling intra plant and area by area bargaining to close north south pay disparities, with broad implications for auto and other industries. A tragedy interrupts news as Norman Buster, 12, dies in Idaho in a bunkhouse fire.
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