War Time Answers to Wartime Questions Daily Feature
Public service feature printing in Gazette with OWI help answering common war related questions. Topics include waste fats, essential work eligibility, store goods distribution, and ice cream prices tied to March 1942 rates.
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Office of War Information
The
Gazette
O.W.1
Council of Defense Salvage Committee
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
Food Distribution Administration
Lawmakers propose wage, highway and education bills
The article outlines proposed changes including experience rating for compensation, increased unemployment benefits from 7.5 to 10 dollars minimum and 18 to 20 maximum, and a highway act suspension. It notes measures to abolish mosquito control via referenda, state audit exemptions for the workers compensation board, and limits on combined vehicle overhangs. House measures seek mental hospital funding, bridge rebuilding, United States history in schools, and voter registration changes after elections.
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Wilson
Reuben Cohen
Philadelphia
John G. Snowden
Rlycoming
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
John H. Dent
Westmoreland
State Workmen's Insurance Board
Bernard B. McGinnis
Dallegheny
Joseph M. Barr
Allegheny
O. J. Tallman
Lehigh
Reim
Durse
Frel P
Hare
Ira T. Fiss
R-Snyder
United States
C. A. Auker
Emer
Renegald
Cies
Walt'ne
Unclear passage on driving for emergencies and meetings
Fragmentary text from WOOR Keerser chief counsel discusses driving for emergencies and transportation needs. Mentions civilian defense meetings and demonstrations, but content is garbled and lacks clear facts, dates, or entities to identify a coherent news item.
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WOOR
Keerser
Alates
Pa Legislature weighs higher salaries for teachers
Harrisburg March 3 fAP The Legislature debated 60,000 public school teachers pay raises with senators warning higher salaries may require new taxes. Calls grew for funding via state appropriations and revenue schemes as postwar planning and budget issues dominated sessions.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Weldon B. Heyburn
Senate
Martin
Assembly
Reprs
Robe
Fort D. Fleming
Alleghany
John H. McKinney
Venang
House
Bersons
Frank Parker
Philadelphia
Public Utility Commission
Quarter Sessions Court
Public meetings and street dog concerns addressed by borough
Meeting notes discuss OCD training and emergency meetings with ration use only when no transport alternatives exist. Council reviews dog pond conditions, proposes a stray dog house. Lighting changes loom as bulbs and costs are outlined by the lighting engineer. New fire pumper truck discussed with purchase and borough support. Soldiers sleeping quarters sought in borough rooms with provisions for food and police cooperation.
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Thomas Bar
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Indiana Fire Company
Hive Company
Dickie
Fire Company
Perhuissmand
India
Aouncht Sax
Prea
Municipal Budget Flushed Out in Borough Council Hearing
Borough council members reviewed the proposed expenditures across departments including Street Police Community Center Municipal Building and Fire. Key costs listed include labor materials sewer projects library insurance health board salaries night watchman and borough dog control actions under the budget planning exhibit.
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Board of Health
Sia
Wadighmaster
Uhidveman
Harry A. Burland
Esample
Hob
Eumedia
Indiana
Woah Bane Ntuls Jetter
J. Ray Mularey
Tawi
Jady
Bethel
World War II battle fronts shift as Allied forces push west
Fragmented OCR report describes heavy fighting near Beja and Sedie nane with Axis positions under pressure. American troops reportedly drive the enemy toward Porhina area as Central sector operations continue and Allied lines bend toward Tamersa, amid heavy convey difficulties and signals of ongoing bombardment.
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Tousy
Ales
BNP Tie
Beja
Sedie
Nane
Arnint
Orth
Amereins
Recap
Porhina
Tamersa
Reuters
Comberty
Bam
Iis
Mide
Seenamunique
Cairo
Anmistey Eprom Ue
Hally
U S Scored on Paper Waste
Representative Kunkel of Pennsylvania urged government agencies to curb paper use before ordering newspapers to cut newsprint. He argued agencies including Treasury and the Office of War Information send out costly materials that mainly serve as propaganda and duplicate newspaper publicity.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Kunkel
The
House
Treasury
Office of War Information
Office of Civilian Defense
Marines Battle in Solomons and Tours of Duty
Corporal Chambers describes brutal jungle fighting on the Solomons from August to December. He recalls land sea and air shelling, starvation days, rain and mud, malaria and ants, and near constant combat. He collected souvenirs and a Japanese watch entrusted for delivery to a father. Two brothers served. Chambers to report to San Diego after furlough.
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Chambers
U. S
Solomons
Costello
Gaughey
Wallace McGaughey
Air Force
Blythe
Cal
Robert McGaughey
Navy
Great Lakes
Cpl
San Diego
Gal
Allied gains in Tunisia push toward Rommel’s troops
Allied forces in North Africa pressed Axis positions north of Beja and east of Sedjenane, advancing toward the Beja-Sedjenane area as Rommel’s defeated armor receded. British eighth army activities centered near the Mareth line with limited central sector action, while air and artillery strikes hit Tunis and La Goulette.
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Tunisia
North Africa
Beja
Sedjenane
Rommel
Ebeidla
Tunis
Eighth Army
Mareth
Haces Bur
la Goulette
First Army
Disturbed Woman Reports Gasoline Coupon Mix-Up
A distressed resident in Salt Lake City claims officials seized gasoline ration coupons by mistake, taking the wrong documents and leaving her with gasoline purchases but no liquor support, while seeking clarity from the ration board.
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Salt Lake City
Ratoning
Draft Boards Meet in Johnstown to Discuss Classifications
Members of all draft boards and the board of appeals plus chief clerks and appeal agents of District 7 including Indiana will meet tomorrow at 8:00 PM in the American Legion Home Johnstown 114 Main St Lois A Sheehan chairman presiding Clyde Slick of the Appeal board has been notified that Lt Col B F Evans acting state director Lt Col Hafer chief of the legal division and Mrs Dodds occupational adviser will be present to discuss occupational and other classification problems.
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Board of Appeals
Indiana
American Legion Home
Main Street
Johnstown
Lois A. Sheehan
Clyde 8
Slick
Appeal Board
B. F. Evans
Hafer
Ma. Dodds
RAF Fliers Hit Germany Again
London reports confirm Western Germany raids by RAF last night with three Allied aircraft missing after the seventh consecutive night of attacks. Mines were laid in enemy waters while Berlin broadcasts noted few planes due to bad weather. Berlin claims some damage and casualties, including one British bomber. Reuters cites major fires in Berlin from the raid with 191 killed and 268 injured.
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London
Germany
RAF
Air Ministry
Berlin
Reuters
Stockham
Ber-lin
Service Cadets Complete Training and Move to Next Stage
Cadet Temehulla Frank Temehulla of Rochester Mills completed nine weeks of primary training at the Army Air Forces 68th Flying Training Detachment in Jackson Tennessee and advances to basic training. Arcadia High School alumnus Donald A Steele, now at a basic flying school near Walnut Ridge Arkansas, trained first at Camden Arkansas. Daldoss Levio, from McIntyre, Kansas, attends Advanced Flying School at Dodge City Kansas and joins the 1695th Guard Squadron Vogel in Africa. Corporal Paul Eugene Vogel of Indiana Pennsylvania, promoted to Sergeant for duties and soldierly qualities, previously worked as an inventory clerk for Whiteman Company.
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Temehulla
Frank Temehulla
Rochester Mills
Army Air Forces
68Th
Jackson
Tenn
Arcadia High School
Daldoss
Kansas
Army Air Forces Advanced
Dodge City
Sergi
Levio Daldoss
Antonio Daldoss
McIntyre
1695Th Guard
Vogel
Africa
U. S
Fifth Army
North Africa
Paul Eugene Vogel
John W. Vogel
North Fifth Street
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Armed Forces
Whiteman Company
Red Cross: Army Morale Link and Humanitarian Gift
A connected story extols the American Red Cross as a humanitarian force for soldiers overseas. Generals MacArthur and Eisenhower praise its service on European fronts, in British clubs, and on military reservations. The piece highlights Red Cross volunteers aiding morale, housing, recreation, and communication between service members and families.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Great Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Indian Crisis Amid War War Analytic Dialogues on Jinnah Plan
Dewitt Mackenzie reports on Mahomed Ali Jinnah proposing a wartime coalition with Hindus and a conditional partition plan for Pakistan. He notes Sikh minority safeguards and urges a federal Indian government to preserve unity while allowing provisional war governance if Brit ish guarantees a postwar partition plebiscite.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
India
Pakistan
Mr. Jinnah
Indus
Jinnah
Jinnyah
Partition
Amity
Tej Bahadur Sapru
Punjab
Canada’s Pay As You Go Tax Plan Outlined
Ottawa March 3 4 A Pay As You Go income tax plan will forgo 50 of 1942 tax liability on individuals earned incomes as Canada's fiscal structure for the new year begins April 1 Finance Minister J L Asley proposed Parliament will debate but rejection may trigger a vote of non confidence The plan aims to currentize finances ending an eight month lag in tax collection by shifting payments to the year of earning reducing timing differences from September 1942 to August 1943 and cutting the lag from eight months to near real time
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Ottawa
Canada
J. L. Asley
Beardsley Rum
United States
Dominion
High Inc
Congress Still Worries Taxes in Rumi Plan Debate
Washington March 3 A majority of the House Ways and Means Committee held firm against the Rumi plan despite a modified tax proposal to tax windfalls and require 20 percent withholding on Wayasumi salaries. Rep Carlson IR offered a substitute for the Beardsley Rum plan to tax 1942 year on a current basis, but opponents remained against an all-out forgiveness of a year’s taxes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Auning
Rey ‘Carlson IR
General Marshall Quote on Red Cross Service in Army
General George C. Marshall emphasizes that a soldier’s absence grows lighter when he knows his family’s welfare is cared for by others and that Red Cross service is available to every man in the Army.
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Dier
Red Cross
George C. Marshall
Zandt seeks 10 percent raise for retired railroad workers
Representative Van Zandt of Pennsylvania urges HR 2028 to boost Railroad Retirement Act annuities and pensions by ten percent, citing rising living costs. He notes 129,257 annuitants and 25,688 pensioners as of January 31, 1943, with average monthly checks of 66.01 dollars for annuitants and 59.021 dollars for pensioners.
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Washington
van Zandt
R-Pa
House
Obituary notices from city church services and births
Obituaries and funeral notices list several residents and family relations. Infant Mary Louise Beers of Indiana died at home with services at Chevy Chase and interment Oakland Cemetery. Theresa Risci nto viewed at St Louis Church with burial at St Bernard's. Dr William Bovard, long-time physician born 1851, Marion Center, died in New Kensington Hospital. survived by multiple children and grandchildren. Services for Elmer Rankinewing and other local figures noted with church rites and interments in local cemeteries.
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Mary Louise
Haveld
Mabel
Gramley) Beers
Indiana
A.F. Gromley
Belly Jang
Salvation Army
Oakland Cemetery
Theresa Riscinto
St. Louis
Father M. Rosenda
St. Bernard's Cemetery
William
Marion Center
Mary Bovard
New Kensington Hospital
Marin Center
Elders Ridge Academy
Hester
Lafayette College
University of Philadelphia
Travolo
Kansas City
Mathen i Elderfest
Poke Run
Poke Run Presbyterian Church
de. Bovard
BR. D Young
Apollo R. DB
Robert Skelton
San Francisco
Cal
F. YH. Bovard
Akron
W. P. Bovard
Mansfield
J.C. Bovard
Marion J Center
R. D. Young
Apollo R. D. 1
John M. Fife
A Garvey O'Harrah
R. D
Elmer
Merlet
Ellet
Otio Deafenderfer
Alice Layton
Elizabeth O’harrah
Pittsburgh
Montgomery Church of the Brethern
Church
Josephine (Stuchell) Trainer
Trainer
Arch Street
Bowser
Plumville
J. W. Fraser
New
Smicksburg
Robert
Hannah
Thompson) Stuchell
South Mahoning Township
Methodist Church
Homer Bedson
Maurice Trainer
Inez Morrow
DuBois
Blanket Farm Draft Nearing Passage in Senate
Senate sponsors push a blanket farm deferment with 43 senators backing it as opponents craft a narrower version. The measure would defer all farm workers until January 1, 1944, despite War Department opposition. House delays stall the Kilday bill on deferment priorities. Hearings on the Austin-Wadsworth homefront service bill continue through tomorrow as the Senate takes a brief recess.
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Washington
Arch
Bankheat
D-Ala
Military Committee
War Department
Selective Service
Rules
Senate
Obituary notices from a Tarentum region paper
Funeral services for Mrs. R. D. Young of Apollo and several other local residents are announced with dates and church affiliations. Stumpf and Petrarca obituaries note service times, church memberships, and interment at local cemeteries. Additional items include tributes to O’Harragh, Fisher, Trainer, and a World War II missing in action notice for Victor Bianucei.
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Butler
Victor Bianucei
North Africa
Dari
Bianucei
War Department
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Indiana, PA
Capitol
Floyd Chalfant
Commerce Department
Richard Maize
John Freeman Cox
Cox
Harry Shapiro
D-Phila
Earl £. Howitt, Sr
William R. McMillen
Council
Pake
U.S
Sweden
England
Channel
Douglas MacArthur
Indiana Gazette
Calummn
Mackenzie
Congress
Ivan Zandt
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Stumpy
Stumpf
Rayne Township
Tarentum
Tate
East Seventh Avenue
Prospect Cemetery
Convmaugh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Aspinwall
First Methodist Church
Freeport Lodge I. O.O. F
Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers
Nellie
Ross) Stumpf
Marietta (de Luca) Tetrarca
James S. Petrarca
Torrance
SS Simon& Jude's Church
Blairsville
Salvatore
Anthony J
Blairsvile
Amada
U. S. Navy
Mary
Chesters
Lewis
Raymond
Carl
Detroit
SS Simon & Jude's Church
Lemuela, Fisher
Union Church Burness
Church Cemetery
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