Farm Workers May Be Called To Arms Soon
Chicago dispatch reports selective service warns farm workers deferred from military duty could lose deferments if personal production does not substantially boost national food output. Commander Winston cites crop goals. about 1,000,000 of 1,700,000 deferred farm workers are older than 22, with 400,000 under 22.
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Chicago
Selective Service
Patrick H. Winston
National Detective Service
National Council of Ahe Motor Truck Owners, Inc
Winston
Vnston
Tydings
Com
One Killed, Score Hurt as Gastonia Bus Turns Over
A bus carrying U S Rubber plant workers from near Charlotte overturned on Wilkinson boulevard. Lucille Lynch, 30, of Kings Mountain, died. Two seriously injured included Pauline Sparkling, 19, also of Kings Mountain, and William Barnes, 28, of Rock Hill. Dozens more injured and hospitalized. Police said the Heath Spring bus line of Rock Hill operated the vehicle that swung from a sideroad into the boulevard near a concrete bridge.
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Gastonia
U. S. Rubber Company
Charlotte
Wilkinson Boulevard
Lucille Lynch
Kings Mountain
Pauline Sparkling
William Barnes
Rock Hill
B. T. Collins
Heath Spring
Lowell
Southern Railway
Mussolini health worsens as specialists visit Italy leader
Benito Mussolini's condition has deteriorated in recent weeks. Doctors visited him at a villa near Como and advised against surgery due to his overall health, according to La Suisse of Geneva.
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Mussolini
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Como
la Suisse
Geneva
Argentina Slated To Ask Lend Lease Request
Argentina plans to seek lend lease assistance as the nation faces postwar economic pressures. The move signals continued Allied support amid reconstruction needs and regional stability concerns.
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Argentina
Treasury To Simplify Tax System
Treasury officials push for tax simplification while seeking a revenue bill likely under 2.3 billion. The plan highlights halting automatic Social Security rate hikes and offsetting new forms with reduced paperwork. Argentina’s stance on lend-lease arms and relations with Germany and Japan figures into hemispheric defense and aid. Brazil expands its Allied support with an expeditionary force and ongoing arms shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Sig Roenevelt
Senate
House
Senat
Acto
George
Dga
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Entina
Ameritas
Djenes Ailes
Germany
Japan
Brazil
United States
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Latin America
Hemisphere
Eden reaffirms British policy on postwar map changes
War analyst notes Peculiar focus on Foreseer Eden's pledge not to recognize wartime territorial changes without free consent and goodwill. The statement reportedly underscores the Atlantic Charter beyond the Polish crisis, amid growing doubts in the Orient and calls for clear assurances.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Eden
Europe
Orient
Assur
Japan Seeks Retaliation After Hospital Ship Sinking
New York dispatch quotes Moru Shigemitsu, Japan's foreign minister, warning Japan is ready to take adequate measures in retaliation over Anglo American sinking of Japanese hospital ships. Berlin radio relays Shigemitsu protest to the Diet with no satisfactory response.
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New York
Japan
Hos Apt
Berlin
Mamoru Shigemitsu
NRG
Aeemitsu
Diet
Britain expects Argentina to sever ties with Axis and expel enemies
In a Commons session Secretary Eden stated the British government expects Argentina to break off diplomatic relations with the Axis and take swift action. He said German and Japanese officials and their associates would be expelled from Argentina and all enemy activity halted on Argentine soil.
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London
Clared
House Commons
Argentina
Axis
Britain
Eden
Von Ribbentrop criticizes Argentina over Axis relations
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop denounces Argentina for severing ties with the Axis and claims England, not Germany, loses from the rupture. He was quoted by Berlin radio, saying the United States pressed for the break with blackmail.
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von Ribbentrop
London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Argentina
United States
England
Germany
Axis
Berlin
Spain Reaffirms Neutrality Policy Amid War Pressure
Madrid January 27 The Spanish foreign minister Count Francisco Gomez Jordana reaffirmed Spain's neutrality despite belligerents' nerve warfare. He told Arriba that Spain is determined to respect its neutral rights and will persecute foreigners who disturb internal order and its policy.
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Madrid
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Spain
Arriba
Soviet Offensive Drives Deep as Leningrad Front Crumbles
Russian forces under Govorov report 40 000 Nazi deaths and 10 enemy divisions routed on the Leningrad front in the fourteenth day of the great offensive. Troops push toward Krasnogvardeisk and Tosno to sever the Vitebsk railway, with Warsaw rumored to begin economic evacuation by Nazi leadership.
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Caputre Gon Eera SD
Vitebsk
Pskov
Riga
Baltic
Leningrad
Govorov
Leningrad - Moscow
Tosno
Vokhovo
Warsaw
NBC
Ukraine
Nikolai Vatutin
Vinnitsa
Kristinovka
Vatutin
Isa-Warsaw
Dnieper River
Olives Grow Bigger as Martins Shrink City Bars
A Baltimore Evening Sun reporter checked downtown bars to test a claim that martinis were shrinking. He found the glasses unchanged while the olives appeared larger, altering the perceived drink size.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Evening Sun
Cost Increase Is Inevitable Says Bowles
Bowles testifies before the Pepper committee that further price rises are inevitable without strong public support. He cites heavy pressure to raise prices and notes quoters on subsidy use hampering price control. He warns of economic threats to white collar workers and criticizes firms for resisting production of inexpensive clothing despite high wartime profits.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Bowles
Pepper
Congress
OPA
Liberia Declares War on Germany and Japan
The British foreign office announced that Liberia, the West African republic, declared war on Germany and Japan yesterday, signaling its entry into global conflict alongside Allies.
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London
Dan
British Foreign Office
Liberia
Africa
Germany
Japan
Seaboard Railways to form new company in Norfolk
Virginia charter grants Seaboard Air Line Railway a new company name Seaboard Railway Company with home offices in Norfolk. The plan:{SAL} system covers 4178 miles of track including 178 in Virginia. SAL under receiver since 1930. In North Carolina Governor Broughton reports Dairy Products to halt wholesale milk deliveries amid OPA rollback disputes affecting Cable Dairy.
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Richmond
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Virginia State Corporation Commission
Seaboard Railway Company
SAL Records
Norfolk
Raleigh
Jan
Broughton
Cable Dairy Products Company
Lexington
Office of Price Administration
George Coble
Coble
OPA
North Carolina
James C. Derieux
Atlanta
Agriculture de
Washington Opa
Derieux
Columbia
Cable Company
South
Yeste
Eton
Navy
Charleston
Briggs To Be Arraigned Next Monday Morning
George N. Briggs indicted on forgery false pretense and mail fraud in the Hopkins letter case. He will be arraigned at 10 a m Monday before Chief Justice Edward Eicker in Federal District Court and is free on a 3000 dollar bond.
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Washington
George N. Briggs
Hopkins
Edward Eicker
Federal District Court
Justice Department
Briggs
Ickes
Liberty
Chinese Troops Close In On Taiphaga Base In Burma
In northern Burma the Chinese forces converge on the Taiphaga strongpoint as Japanese supply lines to Hukawng valley come under attack. Maj. Gen Sun Li-Jen guides reporters through the Yupland battlefield where American air drops and engineers support the operation against time as rains threaten the monsoon.
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U.S
Burma
Thoburn Wiant
Taiphaga
Tanai River
Hukawng
Ledo
Sun Li-Jem
Yupland
Hukawng Valley
Yu G
Barbers Seek Higher Haircut Fee Amid Critique of Add-ons
Philadelphia barbers press for a price rise from 65 to 75 cents and urge public support. Union president Mini Pasquale Lougon says the move will stop sham offers of unnecessary treatments like massages and shampoos.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Barbers
Mini Pasquale Lougon
Barbers’ Union
Counterattack by German Armor Thwarted Near Rome
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports German armor counterattack south of Rome during the initial push to clear the beachhead has been beaten back. American and British forces hold the wedge as men and supplies flood toward the area amid heavy fighting and reinforcements.
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Allied
Algiers
Rome
Battle Looms as Germans Press Nettuno Front
Secretary of War Stimson warned a heavy battle would unfold south of Nettuno as German forces attempt to push the allied amphibious landings back into the sea. He said allied positions were favorable but expected a violent German reaction to cut lines to Rome and the southern front.
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Washington
Nettuno
Stimson
Rome
Italy
Marshalls Next On U S Invasion List In Pacific
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports a pattern of intensified Allied air strikes on the Marshall Islands as pre invasion action tightens. Adm Nimitz notes 103 raids since Gilbert Islands fell, with 183 Japanese planes lost and 22 American aircraft down.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
mid-Pacific
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Marshalls
Gilbert Islands
Gilberts
Wotje
Maladee
Mili
Kwajalein
Jaluit
Nimitz
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John M. Highlower
Seaboard
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Hermann Goering
Littoria
Pontine Marsh
Fifth Army
Cassino
Liri
Nchaw
Sun
Goering
Beachhead
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