Congressional revolt over wartime powers and agency liquidations
The piece discusses Roosevelt’s cuts to WPA and looming probes of Farm Security and NYA, led by Senator Byrd as Congress challenges federal bureaus and wartime powers. It questions emergency authority for domestic policy and highlights wage equity debates from the War Labor Board, noting higher turnover and reliability issues among female workers.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Rayburn
Senate
Warry Byrd
Virginia
Max. Roosevelt
United States
Wart
Byrd
FSA
NYA
New Deal
WPA
President Reports on War Lend Lease Aid Progress
President Roosevelt informed Congress that by month end American forges overseas will number over 1,000,000 men. The seventh quarterly lend lease report shows $2.467 billion in the last quarter, with Axis powers losing the initiative and United Nations expanding operations in Egypt and North Africa. The president urged uniting production and resources under a single world strategy to aid liberated counties, deliver medicines, food, and clothing, and press toward victory and postwar peace. Total lend lease value since March 11, 1941 reached $7.496 billion by November 30, 1942, up from $5.129 billion three months earlier.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congres
United States
United Nations
Egypt
North Africa
Mediterranean
Stalinrad
Solomons
Chick
Sty Laut
Lend Lease
Rend Lease
Army Officer Arrested Over Subversive Plot at Fort Lewis
Seattle paper reports a young unidentified army officer at Fort Lewis Washington was arrested on sedition charges for mailing radical literature to members of a former America First committee and to William Dudley Pelley’s Silver Shirts. The case prompted debate over press restrictions and military guidance on reporting.
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Seattle
Fort Lewis
Wash
Roosevelt
Post + Intelligencer
America First Committee
Gand
William Dudley Pelley
Silvershirts
Jong
Infant Daughter of Haddix Family Dies at Home
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs A R Haddix died last night. She was christened Laura Belle Haddix. Funeral services are set for 2 40 Saturday afternoon at the Haddix home. New 969 Soda pop gas adopted as life saver in rubber rafts and automatic fire extinguishers used by naval flyers.
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A. R. Haddix
Laura Belle Haddix
San Francisco Returns Home After Battle With Japanese Fleet
The battered cruiser San Francisco arrives under own power at San Francisco Bay after a major Solomons engagement. Capt. Albert F. France Jr. commands amid a home-port welcome as crews prepare for Mare Island repairs and a national tribute marking a key naval victory. Bruce McCandless arrives with his father, Capt. Byron McCandless, at his side.
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San Francisco
Solomons
Golden Gate
Navy
Clyie
Albert F. France
New York City
Daniel J. Callaghan
Cassin Young
Bruce McCandless
Long Beach
Roosevelt
Callaghan
United States
Twa
Mare Island
McCandless
Byron McCandless
San Diego
Bruce
Prisoner of War Norris O Neal Confirmed by U S
Captain Norris O Neal son of Mr and Mrs N P O Neal of Hope was officially reported a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. He entered the Army in 1941, served on the Bataan peninsula, and was missing after Corregidor’s siege. Government telegrams indicate he is alive but held by Japan.
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Norris O'Neal
N. P. O'Neal
Hope
Bataan
Philippines
U. S
O'Neal
Washington
Hope Brick Works
Balan Peninsula
Corregidor
Flashes of Life and Oddities Across America
A collage of brief incidents from various locales: a man finds a five pound bass after a tire catches his eye while fishing. Bridgeport firefighters uncover a ham skeleton in a burned lodge secret meeting room. in Risca Mo a man loses $4200 after a scam demonstration, the police refuse the return of the money or the gadget. in Kilamash Falls Ore a school cook and a janitor suffer broken arms in separate sidewalk incidents.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Yaam
Unanimous
Kilamash Falls
Ore
Margaret Heath
Fremont School
Wolk
Warren Harris
New Commonwealth Party Proposed By Woodring
Topeka December 11 Former War Secretary and Kansas Governor Harry H Woodring proposed forming a new commonwealth party from dissidents in the Democratic and Republican camps He offered to head the organizational drive and said a national ticket could be built for the 1944 election He warned the major parties would test policy in 1848 with internationalism the issue and predicted Bricker of Ohio would be the Republican candidate while Liberal Conservatives would back the Democratic convention.
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Topeka
Harry H. Woodring
Kansas
Woodring
Bricker
Ohio
Phillips Named Representative to New Delhi
President Roosevelt appoints William Phillips of Massachusetts as personal representative near the government of India in New Delhi. The career diplomat will conduct standard diplomatic duties, not a special India plan, and will soon assume charge of the American mission established in November 1941.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William Phillips
Massachusetts
Rome
New Delhi
India
Phillips
London
Thomas M. Wilson
Louis Johnson
United States
Spencer Tracy to tour England for Christmas greetings
Washington reports actor Spencer Tracy will travel to England under government auspices to deliver Christmas greetings to American soldiers and British war workers, reinforcing morale during wartime.
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Washington
Spencer Tracy
England
Fighting Flares Along a Broad Russian Front
Moscow dispatches report heavy fighting across a broad front with gains on the Stalingrad line. Soviet forces push near Velikie Luki Rahev corridor and along the Volga front while advancing toward Kotelnikovski and seizing trenches in Stal ingrad’s southern outskirts.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Muscovite
Stalingrad
Red Army
Velikie Luki-Rahev
Rzhev
Velikie Luki
Stalingrad-Tikhoretskaya
Kotelnikovski
Don
Vola
Volga
Don Rivers
Red Star
State undecided on gasoline tax appeal
Little Rock December 11 Attorney O T Ward of the Revenue Department said the state has not decided whether to appeal a permanent injunction blocking collection of the gasoline tax on fuel in standard tanks of trucks and buses. Santa Fe Trailways Bus Line secured the injunction in Pulaski Chancery Court Wednesday under a 1041 Act exempting 20 gallons of fuel carried by such vehicles from the state tax. The Revenue Department contended the exemption law was invalid.
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Little Rock
O. T. Ward
The
Revenue Department
Santa Fe Trailways
Pulaski Chancery Court
Distribution Change to Hike Price of Beef
The Office of Price Administration announces an order to moderate rises in wholesale beef ceilings effective Dec. 16, aiming for fairer distribution to retail stores. Packaged beef in Kansas City may rise about 1.5 cents a pound, with prices set by zone distance from Kansas City and adjustments for high or low ceilings to maintain market balance.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Basing Point
Kansas Cit
Kansas City
Smackover Pilot Survives 73 Hours Adrift at Sea
Ensign Jefferson H. Tiny Cary, of Smackover Arkansas, survived 73 hours adrift in a life jacket after his bomber fell into the South Pacific during a Guadalcanal air battle. Wounded, exhausted, and nearly blinded, he crawled from a sinking craft and swam toward a remote island, enduring currents, sharks like dreams, and coral cuts before reaching land on the third day. His gunnery mate urged him on as he drifted toward safety.
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Eugene Burns
U. S. Mleet
South Pacific
Jefferson H
Tinys
Tiny
Jiny
South Sea Garden of Eden
Guadalcanal
Tny
Imo
Fittte
Allied shifts southwest in Tunisia theater reach Medjez El Bab
Allied Headquarters reports a renewed push toward Medjez El Bab thirty miles southwest of Tunis as two enemy tank columns strike near Tebourba and Maeuri. Allied losses are light while enemy tanks and infantry take heavier losses, with French forces and artillery aiding the action.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Medjez el Bab
Tebourba
Tunis
Tebourba-Maeuri - Djeidia
Mediéspda
Sfaxi Gabes
Sousse
Edson Raif
Mother of Former Hope Woman Dies
Mrs. Ora Annie Anderson aged 76, mother of Mrs. Charlotte Yates of Little Rock, died December 5 in Kansas City. She also left daughter Mrs. Homer Picket of Decatur Illinois and son Grover Whitt of Idabel Oklahoma. There are 17 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held December 8 at D. W. Newcomer's Son chapel with Rev. John H. Waugh officiating and burial in Forest Hill cemetery.
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Ora Annie Anderson
Charlotte Yates
Hope
Little Rock
Kansas City
D. W
War Stamps Replace Bills for Water in Jonesboro
Jonesboro residents learned that December water and light bills would be replaced by an equal value in war bonds and stamps. City manager Lloyd Rebsamen announced the plan aiming for about 26 000 dollars in the Christmas distribution and a total sale of 100 000 dollars in bonds and stamps if customers purchase matching amounts.
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Jonesboro
Lloyd Rebsamen
Municipal Water and Light Company
Rebsamen
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S. Burton Heath
War Labor Board
WLB
Mary Smith
John Jones
Army
Fort Lewes
Office of Censorship
War Department
Kenyon A. Joyce
Ninth Service Command
Post - Intelligencer
Post- Intelligencer
Associated Press
Norris O’neal
U.S
Andy, Pau
Donald Alger
Cairo, Jr
J. B. Sitter
Risca
New Commonwealth Party
Tracy
Europe
Rin
Gjie
Tunisia
Pacific
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