Railroads Return To Owners After Wage Settlement
President Roosevelt announced a wage settlement ending the government seizure of railroads. War Secretary Stimson ordered the lines returned at midnight, with raises for operating and non operating workers and retroactive pay adjustments. Senator Wheeler warned manpower shortages threaten war transport needs and urged action to attract workers.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Roosevelt
Stimson
Association of American Railroads
Dinner Launches War Loan Drive
About 250 bankers committee members will meet at 6 30 p m Thursday at Hotel Stoddard to start bond solicitation for the Fourth War Loan. Brig Gen William R Schmidt of the 76th Division Camp McCoy will speak and a film War Department Report will be shown. The Hollywood theater will sponsor a bond premiere of What A Woman at 7 30 p m Wednesday with County Judge R W Ahlstrom and a Camp McCoy World War II veteran. A second bond premiere will be Feb 3 at the Rivoli with Best Foot Forward. Admission to both shows is by war bond purchase.
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Bankers’ Committee
Hotel Stoddard
William R. Schmidt
76Th Division
Camp McCoy
War Department
Army General Staff
Hollywood Theater
R. W. Ahlstrom
Rivoli Theater
Gysbert van Steenwyk
County War Finance Committee
Harry Spence
Onalaska
A. T. Thompson
J. E. Brudos
W. W. Aiken
Permission To Market Plan For Chicago Hogs
The Chicago hog market announced a permission to market plan effective Jan 24 requiring farmers to list hog numbers with selling agents before loading. Agents receive quotas based on business during 1943s first 11 months to smooth weekly receipts. Farmers must contact their agents for shipping dates as hogs require prior shipment permission.
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Chicago
Senate Nearing Final Action On Tax Plans
The Senate rejected an exemption for farm cooperatives from a provision requiring annual financial returns to the treasury by a 44 to 26 vote. Majority Leader Barkley voiced hope to finish action on the $2,275,600,000 tax bill, with changes to the war contracts renegotiation law under review by a finance committee special session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Treasury
Majority
Barkley
Finance Committee
Congress
Federal grand jury resumes probe in Berry Chaplin case
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles reopened its inquiry into whether Joan Berry, who claims Charlie Chaplin is her baby's father, was deprived of constitutional rights after a Beverly Hills vagrancy arrest a year earlier. U S Attorney Charles H. Carr said agents would testify.
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Joan Berry
Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Beverly Hills
U. S
Charles H. Carr
Near Final Balloting On Soldier Pay
Washington house votes on soldier mustering out payments as bill by Rep. Ploeser fails 113 to 19. Costello warns the proposal could cost up to 10 billion. merchant seamen eligibility also defeated. Committee measure aims to grant 300 dollars to honorably discharged service members with 60 or more days served. 100 dollars for under 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ploeser
R-Mo
House
Military Committee
Costello
Calif
Senate
Seek Probe Of Waupun Trouble
Madison Wisconsin senators propose a three to seven member legislative committee to investigate unrest at Waupun prison. The move follows guards being disarmed and inmates seizing control at times, with critics blaming former welfare director and calling for a hard look at prison management and policies.
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Madison
Wis
Waupun
Senate
Assembly
Panzer
Oakfield
Fellenz
Fond du Lac
Department of Public Welfare
Frank Klode
Milwaukee
A. W. Bayley
Buchen
Sheboygan
Wisconsin General Hospital
American Legion
Dodge
Fond iSee Waupun
Labor Draft Urged By See Stimson In Senate Hearing
Secretary of War Stimson urged national service legislation amid labor unrest and fears it will affect troop morale. He warned that strikes in railroad coal and steel risk prolonging the war and harming unity, urging Congress to back all-out backing for troops. Senate hearings reopened with Stimson first administration witness as Knox visits next.
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Washington
Stimson
Congress
Senate Military Committee
Roosevelt
Administration
Navy
Knox
House
Senate Committee
Johnson
D-Cole
German Public Debt Reaches 240 Billion Marks
The total German public debt reached 240 billion marks at the end of the last fiscal year on August 31, up from 47 billion marks at the outbreak of hostilities, according to the Munich Muenschener Neueste Nachrichten quoted by the Office of War Information.
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New York
Germany
Office of War Information
Munich
Muenschener Neueste Nachrichten
Two-Year Village Election Bill Passes
The Wisconsin assembly approved a Senate backed bill to elect town and village officials every two years instead of annually. It ends a 1943 law and sets biennial elections starting next year. The vote was by voice. Gov. Goodland will decide on the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Assembly
Goodland
City Skating Rinks Shut by Warm Weather
All skating rinks in La Crosse were closed Wednesday by the Be department due to current warm weather. The move affects public skating sessions and local recreation facilities.
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la Crosse
Be Department
Red Army Drives Ahead In New Smash To End Leningrad Siege
Soviet forces on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts launched a new offensive aimed at breaking the German siege. They captured Krasnoye Selo 15 miles southwest of Leningrad and seized Roksha road junction while advancing seven to twelve miles in five days.
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Red Army
Leningrad
London
Krasnoye Selo
Joseph
Stalin
Moscow
Roksha
Pulkovo
Oraniebaum
Henry C. Cassidy
Volkhov
Russia
Soviet Union
Versailles
Baltic
Kronstadt
Novgorod
Lake Ilmen
Schlesselburg
Berlin
Ukraine
Peace feeler to Soviet talks reported in Stockholm dispatch
NBC Stockholm correspondent David Anderson relays Geneva La Suisse claim that German representatives went to Ankara to discuss a separate peace with the Soviet Union. The report links a 1944 plan to split Russia from the western powers amid propaganda tied to Pravda rumors.
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New York
David Anderson
NBC
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Ankara
Russia
Geneva
la Suise
Anderson
Macow
Pravda
Britain
la Suisse
Andersén
Berlin
von Papen
Turkey
Press reports deny British peace proposal meeting
Moscow dispatch notes Pravda Cairo correspondent reports the British foreign office denial of a peace proposal meeting with no editorial comment. The same issue carries a London Sunday Times piece from Ankara stating Papen did not propose peace, but claims peace proposals had not been recently made.
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London
Pravda
Moscow Radio
Moscow
London Daily Mail
Communist Party
News Chronicle
Britain
London Sunday Times
Times of London
Ankara
Russia
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Reuters
British
Foreign Office
Cairo
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Senate Banking Committee Backs End of Food Subsidies
The Senate Banking Committee rejected the 1.5 billion subsidy request for 1944 and favorably reported Bankhead’s bill to terminate all food subsidies by June 30 1944. The panel sent the issue to the Senate floor amid near party line votes and a pending floor clash.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Bankhead
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
D-Ala
House
Chamber
Commodity Credit Corporation
Taft
Ohio
Tobey
New Hampshire
Maximum Fine Ordered For Anaconda Company
Providence Rhode Island four defendants jailed and a fifth placed on probation in a war fund conspiracy case against Anaconda Wire and Cable company of Pawtucket. Judge Hartigan calls the company the chief culprit. Sentences range from 1 year to 18 months with two years probation for Robert L. Wright.
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Providence
R. I
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
Pawtucket
War Fund
John P. Hartigan
William H. Horley
Jacob Eagleson
Lowell K. Morrow
William Eagleson
Robert L. Wright
Signal Corps
Doris Duke's New Jersey court appearance decision pending
Doris Duke, tobacco heiress, may return to New Jersey to face Cromwell's charges after a Reno divorce. Her Reno attorney William Woodburn said she has agreed to accept service in New Jersey. The final decision will be made by her attorney in New York.
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Doris Duke
Reno
New Jersey
James H. R. Cromwell
New York
William Woodburn
Miss Duke
Woodburn
Assembly Passes Soldier Vote Bill in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Legislature approves a bill to let service members vote in primaries and general elections next fall. The measure, passed 68 to 0 in the Assembly, shifts election dates to August 15 and speeds up nominating filing timelines. Senate rules suspension fails. continued debate on federal plan compatibility ensues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Republican Steering Committee
Eeeate
Attorney General’s Office
Senate
Byrnes
Green Bay
Tehan
Dem
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Congress
Assembly Committee On Public Welfare
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Anaesthetic Takes On Leopard At Staten Island Zoo
At the Staten Island Zoo, nine year old African leopard Tommy underwent an operation after a 24 hour struggle to sedate him adequately. Dr. Patricia O Connor reported success after administering anesthesia via his food and performing the procedure in his cage, where the forefoot operation was completed without mishap.
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New York
Tommy
Staten Island
Patricia O'Connor
O'Connor
British Crossings Of Garigliano Open New Front In Italy
Allied forces under Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark cross the Garigliano River at three points near Suio Capua and Argento as heavy resistance and German counterattacks challenge the advance toward Rome. British forces push along the coast while American French troops probe Gustav lines near Cassino. Canadians fight to hold gains in the Adriatic sector amid renewed air bombardment of Tuscany.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
5Th Army
Garigliano
Rome
Suio
Tyrrhenian
Capua
Argento
Italy
Gulf of Gaeta
Pie Mang
Minturno
Cassino
8Th
Adriatic
Iatic
Rovigno
Istrian Penin
Tuscany
Demands Move Against Woman Industrialist
Rep Coffee urged the justice department to file summary action against Vivien Kellems of Westport Connecticut a war industrialist who promised to follow her example. He said her statements aimed to injure the nations war program and discourage war bond purchases at the start of the fourth loan drive and accused her of unconstitutional taxation and unreasonable seizure.
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Washington
Coffee
den of Justice
Ien Kellems
Westport
Conn
Department of Justice
Vivien Kellems
British 50 Passenger Plane Aimed At Civil Air Supremacy
Britain plans a 50 passenger trans Atlantic transport plane named Brazazon to project postwar air power. The craft would fly 250 miles per hour, weigh over 100 tons, and cover the Atlantic in about 15 hours. It would carry 50 passengers and two tons of mail, Beaverbrook said coordinating peacetime civil air policy.
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London
Britain
Brabazon
Atlantic
Beaverbrook
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