Senate approves repeal bill to end congressmen pensions
Senate Civil Service Committee voted 4 to 2 to send the repeal measure to the floor, rejecting pleas to delay. The plan would remove from the Civil Service Retirement System pensions for Congress and top federal officials, amid opposition from union spokesmen and lawmakers.
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John W. Henderson
Washington
Senate
House
Senate Civil Service Committee
House Civil Service Committee
Rep. Ramspeck
California
Sonate Committee
Congress
Civil Service
Harry B. Mitchell
Civil Service Commission
Langer
North Dakota
Mead
New York
Eulow
South Dakota
Virginia
Bar
Ohio
Aiken
Vermont
Downey
Glass
Towney
Mail Associaion
United, National~ Associa‘ion‘of ‘Post Office Clerks
National Rural Letter Carriers Association
National Association ‘of, Postal’ Supervisors
Huron Honored with Silver Dollar Dollar Specials Weekend
The Evening Huronite publishes a special edition celebrating Huron Days with four thousand silver dollar coins distributed to merchants and customers. Slips pasted on the coins advertise dozen dollar specials across stores for Friday and Saturday during the event.
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Huronite
New Taxes Seen by Georgia Senator George
Senator George of Georgia predicted Congress must broaden the tax base or adopt a sales tax or payroll levy to raise seven and a half billion dollars in the next fiscal year. He opposes lowering personal exemptions and notes Treasury favors a sales levy with no payroll tax. Roosevelt had urged a general revenue rise of about seven point nine billion in his recent budget. See TAXES Page Two.
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Washington
George
Georgia
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Hart
Roosevelt
Pressure Mounts on MacArthur in Bataan Defense
Washington reports Japan increasing pressure on General Douglas MacArthur's defense lines on the Bataan Peninsula. Telegrams note troop movements suggesting a resumed enemy offensive. Japanese flamethrowers and three pieces of artillery captured in a minor action. Manila Bay batteries shell Corregidor Fort Frank with limited damage.
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Washington
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Philippines
Manila Bay
Corregidor
Fort Frank
France
Discarding OCD offices under Landis reshapes agency
Washington reports the Office of Civilian Defense undergoes major downsizing with the removal of four former mayors and the resignation of Miss Chaney. Landis folds two divisions effective March 1 including the Office of Inspectors General led by T Semmes Walmsley and the Know Your Government division led by S Howard Evang. Also abolished are the associate director ship of the Division of State and Local Cooperation and several regional inspectors general, with several ex-mayors and officials leaving jobs and compensation affected.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Defense
Blonde Mayris
Chaney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
T. Semmes Walmsey
New Orleans
S. Howard Evang
Tha Budget Bureau
Division of State and Local Cooperation
Daniel W. Hoan
Milwaukee
Walmsley
Bernard F. Dieckmann
St. Louis
Joseph D. Scholtz
Louisville
Murrey Stand
New York
Jamez Metzenbaum
Ohio
Tom Cleveland
War Today Lacks Airpower Jeopardizing Allied Fronts
War analyst DeWitt MacKenzie warns that Japan races to outpace Allied reinforcements in the East Indies and Burma. Offensive momentum grows, threatening strategically vital positions as airpower remains scarce for the Allies.
Lake Preston Navy Man Listed Among Probable Prisoner
Four South Dakotans are listed by the navy as probably prisoners of war after Wake Island Guam and Tientsin seizures. Arthur Schrader of Lake Preston is named among the suspected prisoners and his family awaits word as he served as Pharmacist Mate Third Class aboard, while other listed locals include Steven Yellow Hair from Wounded Knee Harold Rogers of Isabel and Joseph Hermes from Firestone. Schrader’s roots and family details are noted with background on his schooling and marriage.
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Minneapolis
South
Lake Preston
Ti¢nisin
Steven Yellow Hair
Wounded Knee
Wake Island
Harold K. Rogers
Isabel
Joseph M
Hermes
Firestech
Civiian
Guam
Navy
Wake
Pacific
Lake’ Preston
Arthur Henry. Schrader
Louis Schrader
Lake Preston High School
Leona Tibbets
Bancroft
Schrader
Burma
Schreder
Phyllis
Panama Ship Hit Off Aruba Amid Caribbean Submarine Activity
A Panama registered lancer was torpedoed off the Dutch island of Aruba in a renewed surge of German submarine attacks in the Caribbean Sea. Earlier, projectiles reportedly landed near the Aruba Standard Oil Refinery, which was shelled with little effect by a German submarine.
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Wali
Curaca
Aruba
Caribbean
Ancta News
Aneta
Widow Becomes Truck Driver In War’s First Years
In Dallas Mrs Jerane Koska widow of two children says women will learn to do jobs once unthinkable. She turns truck driver with a Fort Worth to Dallas haul as she nears 45. Also a Clark county draft tally notes 147 registered by Monday night amid nine other locations.
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Dallas
Tex
Jerane‘ Koska
Koska
Fort Worth
Register
Clark
Oscar Olverson
Dutch Defenders Are Reinforced, Australia Bombed
Secretary of War Stimson warned of attacks along coasts and other spots like Aruba as Navy defense expands. He highlighted rapid army expansion, 90,441 volunteers in January, and three historic divisions ordered into service with Filipino volunteers joining. American ground troops and air units reportedly arrive in Java to bolster defenses against Japan as strikes hit Darwin and Rangoon amid heavy fighting across Burma and Dutch East Indies.
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Washington
Stimson
Netherlands Caribbean
Aruba
United States
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Java
Dutch East Indies
Japan
Sumatra
Aneta
Iland
United Nations
Pacific
Palembang
Batavia
Darwin
Burma
Tokyo
Ofl
Rangoon
Bilin
Aethaet
China
Dutch Indies
Rising Sun
Soma
Soer=e
British ‘Exchange Telegraph
Austrelia
John Curtin
Thal
Burme
Thailand
Soldiers Revise Travel Schedule Lands Four In Jail
Four soldiers who jumped the gun on orders to drive an army recruiting truck from Rapid City to Fort Des Moines were jailed in Sioux Falls after a 14 hour stay. Capt G W Bennett released them at 11 pm Wednesday following Lieut R G Wright’s telegram explanation from Rapid City. Fort Des Moines will handle the matter.
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Sioux Falls
Rapid City
Fort ‘Des Moines
Sioux ‘Falls
Sioux Ralls
I . A.nisit
R. G. Wright
Bennett
Fort Des Moines
Jaws Of Russian Trap Closing On Germans In Napoleonic Corridor
Front line reports tell of Russian forces tightening around German units in a corridor near Jena and the Sozh river south of Smo as other columns maneuver northward. The trap appears to limit German flexibility in the ongoing clash in the eastern front.
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Arthur W. Wermuth
Chicago
Jean
NEA
Bulow
Landis
Dewitt MacKenzie
East’ Indies
The
Mikado's
Price
Leon Henderson
John J. Deving
DR. C
Ata ‘Henry ‘Schrader
Mra. Louis
Chrad
Panama
Australia
America
S. F
Peril
Garman
Warahip
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