Baruch plan faces Senate clash over postwar demobilization
Washington February 19 Baruch plan to demobilize industry and return workers to civilian life sparks a sharp Senate dispute. Senator Vandenberg argues Congress must set policies and be accountable to the people, not leave decisions to executive orders. Baruch’s proposal to create a single administrator and broad postwar powers is criticized as too executive, while calls for immediate comprehensive demobilization measures grow.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Baruch
Congress
George
D-Ga
Bernard M. Baruch
Vandenberg
R-Mich
George Charg
Justice Byrnes
F. Byrnes
Senate
Byrnes
Murray D-Mont
Ferguson
Colmer
Radio Program Schedule Update and Corrections
A dense list of radio time slots and program names across networks CBS NBC and others. The guide notes corrections by networks for late changes and lists programs from 12:30 p.m. to late evening, including The Paul Lavalie Concert The Church of the Air Labor for Victory The Shadow The Catholic Radio Service and more with varied hosts and musical acts.
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Paul Lavalie
Cbs
Orephine Houston
Church of the Air Serme
Stanley Vixon
Labor For Victory
A. of
Chicago
Murrow
Sammy Kaye
John Chas
Ruey N. Y
Catholic Radio Service
Nbe
Bie
CBS Sunday Theater
Gildersleeve
America
Upton Close
Mbs
Tmodack Renny-Mary
Abe Drew Pearson
Alexander and Mediation Board
Ink Spote Negro Quartet
Gabriel Meatter
Walter Winchell
Conrad Nagel
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Basin Street
Fred Allen
Jimmy Fidler
Hollywood
Phil Spitainy
Girl Groh
Gertrude Lawrence
Poli Baker
Jim
Cedric Foster
Wil
Hob
Hob Crosby and Company
Adventures of
Dhs
Guy Lombardo and Orchestra
Che Blu
Savages Drive Away Soldiers Searching For Missionaries
Bolivian troops tracking five American missionaries were attacked and driven back toward the jungle while leaving traces of the men, amid tales of possible robbery or death. The mission, including Cecil A Dye and Robert Dye, Hers, Eldon Hunter, Davis Bacon of Saginaw, and George Hosbach of West Branch Mich, entered in November with a message of brotherly love for the Yanamigua Indians.
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Buenos Aires
New Tribes
Chicago
Cecil A
Robert Dye
Eldon Hunter
Davis Bacon
Saginaw
George Hosbach
West Branch
Mich
Suqlid
Robore
Herman Huth
Quito
Huth
Walter Baron
Walter
Baron
Col
P. H. Fawcett
Fawcet
Jack
Raleigh Rimmel
Fawcett
Amazon
Royal Geographic Society of Great Britain
Jack Fawcett
Xingu River
Nina Fawe
Draftee Charged With Drunken Disruption at Fort Bragg
Wilson Hunt a Thomasville draftee was taken from a bus in a drunken state instead of going to Fort Bragg for a physical. Judge Carl Wilson presided and imposed a suspended 30 day sentence with a $25 fine and costs, conditioned on reporting to the next group heading to camp. An earlier Polish clockmaker spent 12 years on a masterpiece that ran 16 months on one winding.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Wilson Hunt
Fort Bragg
Hunt
Carl Wilson
Ottis Koontz
Wilson
Broughton to Speak at Baptist Convention in Atlanta
Dr Pat M Neff of Baylor University will deliver the opening address for the Southern Baptist convention in Atlanta on May 16 announced by arrangements chairman Dr Louie D Newton Also named as speakers are John H Buchanan of Birmingham and Governor J M Broughton of North Carolina The report also notes family anxiously awaiting word from a missing colonel and his wife.
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Atlanta
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
Southern Baptist Convention
Louie D. Newton
John H. Buchanan
Birmingham
Ala
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
Roosevelt approves stamping flag on relief shipments
President Roosevelt approved stamping replicas of the United States flag on relief shipments sent abroad. He said other countries must have a proper understanding of the source of such aid, essential to the effective prosecution of the war. Stamp use requires Foreign Economic Administration approval and covers labels packages cartons cases and other containers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Foreign Economic Administration
Wounded Soldier Frost Death in Open Air Warned
In a Russian winter, a wounded soldier left exposed may die of frost within ten minutes to thirty minutes, underscoring the peril of open-air exposure in freezing conditions.
McCormick Not Named on GOP Presidential Nomination Ticket
Chicago April 11 ballot will not list Col. Robert R. McCormick as a Republican presidential candidate. An official in the secretary of state's office confirmed the omission despite McCormick’s declination. Grace of the Republican Nationalist Revival Committee urged the secretary of state to give no legal effect to the withdrawal.
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Chicago
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Illinois
Secretary of State
Springfield
Col. McCormick
William J. Grace
Republican Nationalist Revival Committee
Duke Chapal Sermon Set by Navy Captain
Captain William N. Thomas of the United States Naval Academy will deliver the spring commencement sermon at Duke University Chapel at 11 oclock this morning. His topic is The Great Decision.
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Durham
William N. Thomas
D. Plain
United States
Nave Academy
Duke University
Allied Subs Sink 32 Enemy Vessels
U S Navy reports submarines operating from deep Japanese waters to the Atlantic and Mediterranean have sunk 32 enemy vessels and damaged eight more with thirteen Japanese merchantmen among those sunk. Two American subs conducted the two patrols in Japanese empire waters revealing broad areas of operation.
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Washington
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Southeast Asia
Japan
Rankin Name Squawks and Native Names Stir Controversy
Winchell recalls Rankin belittling foreign sounding names as Judge Brand recounts a bigot who objected to name changers. The critic quips about naturalized citizens and questions which “good old American names” exist, joking about Pocahontas, Hiawatha or Sitting Bull as examples.
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Rankin
Brand
Sitting Bull
Arctic to Indian Ocean sunken convoy losses
The admiralty reported sunken vessels extend from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. Among the losses were the largest supply ships, part of convoys escorted by trawlers minesweepers and aircraft, with a major wreck off the coast of Norway.
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Arctic Circle
Indian Ocean
Admiralty
Norway
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