Wallace Urges Opposition to Corporations in Postwar Era
President Wallace told the Iowa State Federation of Labor that a postwar capitalism of scarcity would fail. He urged opposition to large corporations seeking to profit by suppressing production, saying agriculture and labor must lead all-out production and that a “glorious fight” is coming. He warned powerful groups would push politics aside to aid war efforts but insisted the war must not curb domestic gains.
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Des Moines
Wallace
Iowa
Walace
Labor
Agriculture
Hitler
Three Rail Workers Feared Dead in Albany Wreck
Searchers in Albany Indiana sought the bodies of three Nickle Plate railroad men after a head on crash of two freight trains. The missing men were Ferman Barber and Robert Denny of Lima Ohio and Henry Eilerman whose address was not learned. Five crew members were injured and treated at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie.
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Albany
Ind
Ogden Pierce
Frankfort
Ferman Barber
Robert Denny
Lima
Ohio
Henry Eilerman
Walter St. Clair
Indianapolis
Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie
Elmer L. Phillippo
Dutch) Conrad
Charles Plougher
Basil Gordon
Francis Minor
Modak Employees Food Poisoning Victims
Forty seven of sixty Eastman Modak company employees were ill after eating corned beef and remained in hospital. One patient was in critical condition. Health officer Dr. Arthur M. Johnson attributed likely staphylococcus contamination from room temperatures to the meat.
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Rochester
N. Y
Eastman @odak company
Arthur M. Johnson
city _ealth
Teacher of Draft Evasion Is Held
The Justice Department announced the arrest of Stephen Weinberg 50 on charges of teaching New Yorkers how to evade the draft by feigning deafness mental incompetence and organic disorders. He operated as Stanley C Weyman with offices in a midtown hotel and charged up to more than 2000 dollars for services. Hoover said Weinberg previously impersonated a Kabul diplomat in 1941 and served two years in Atlanta federal prison for that offense.
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Washington
Department of Justice Today
Stephen Weinberg
Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Fatima
Sultana
Kabul
Afghanistan
State Department
Federal
Atlanta
Hoover
Weinberg
New York City
C' S
Stanley C. Weyman
New York
Justice Department
Milwaukee train crash near Warden claims seven lives
Seven military personnel were killed and 12 injured when a westbound Milwaukee passenger train side swiped a Moses Lake branch line train near Warden Washington at 1 AM. Both locomotives overturned, according to M A Meyer transportation superintendent.
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Seattle
Wash
Warden
Washington
M. A. Meyer
Meyer
Milwaukee
Moses Lake
Vine Street Church of Christ to appeal after expulsions
Vine Street Church of Christ in Mount Vernon plans to appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court after Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Wickham denied a restraining petition to bar 16 expelled members from entering the church. Attorney C. B. McClintock said the case could go higher, arguing about church governance and legal rights.
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Mount Vernon
Vinestreet Church of Christ
Common Pleas
Fred B. Wickham
Delaware
C. B. McClintock
Canton
Ohio Supreme Court
McClintock
H. C. Mayhew
Fathers' Chances For Army Commission Decline
Washington August 4 the army warns that fathers facing conscription have a much tougher path to an officer rating quotas for officer candidate schools fall sharply basic training times lengthen by about a third and overseas service is favored amid new retirements designed to open lower grade vacancies for candidates.
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Washington
Army
Victory Gardener Killed Pulling Up Stakes
In Toledo Ohio on August 4 Mrs. Bertha L. Siewart, 53, died after pulling up a stake in her victory garden. Lucas County coroner Dr. Frank G. Kreft ruled a fatal head injury from an eye wound as the stake slipped and struck her.
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Toledo
Victory Garden
Bertha L. Siewert
Lucas County
Frank G. Kreft
Siewart
Nelson Promoted to Chief of Construction Bureau in State Department
R O Nelson of Columbus rises from assistant to chief of the bureau of construction in the state era department. He succeeds T W Kinnear who resigns to join the construction executive staff of the Horvitz Company Cleveland highway contractor.
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Columbus
R. O. Nelson
Bureau of Construction
T. W. Kinnear
Horvitz Company
Cleveland
Hershey asked army's view on draft impact on production
Los Angeles August 4. The House subcommittee on manpower invited Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey to present the Army’s side of the personnel picture at hearings. Douglas Aircraft President Donald Douglas warned that new selective service regulations would draft 57,000 Pacific coast aircraft workers, risking loss of 20,400 weekly man-hours and a drop in new bomber design progress to seven percent of prior rate. Vega Aircraft officer H E Ryker said tool and die maker inductions and material shortages could impede B 17 production.
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Los Angeles
House
Military Affairs Subcommittee
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Army
John M. Costello
D-Cal
Subcommittee
Hershey
Sacramento
Donald Douglas
Douglas Aircraft Co
California
Douglas
Navy
H. E. Ryker
Vega Aircraft Corp
Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Salute From St Pauls
The bells of St Pauls Cathedral rang out in London to mark Queen Elizabeth II turning 43 years old. The birthday salute underscored a ceremonial commemoration observed in the capital.
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London
St. Paul's
Queen Elizabeth
Ohio Farm Chickens Jump 14 Percent in 1943 Output
Columbus report shows Ohio farmers produced about 38 631 000 chickens this year, up 14 percent from spring 1942. State ranks eighth in 1943 chick production. Prices for many farm products rise, with hog prices down 60 cents per hundredweight from July 1942. Wheat oats barley rye apples hay chickens butter butterfat and milk among biggest gains.
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Columbus
Ohio
Coast Guard Magazine Predicts Japan’s Fall in 1944
The semi official Coast Guard magazine marks its 153rd birthday by forecasting Japan would fall before December 1944 and Germany soon after. Editor Edward Lloyd predicts Japan will strike Russia, US forces will flood Siberia, and Japan will be bombed into submission despite heavy Navy losses. He notes the U S entry into the war in 1941 remains on record.
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Annapolis
U. S. Coast Guard Magazine
Japan
Germany
Edward Lloyd
Coast
Lloyd’s
United States
Two Akron motorists barred from gas until 1943
Akron motorists Richard Taylor and Jesse B Darragh were forbidden further gasoline rations until December 31 1943 after an Office of Price Administration hearing found them in possession of a stolen ration book. Other suspensions were imposed on drivers from Mansfield New Philadelphia and Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Akron
Office of Price Administration
Richard Taylor
Jesse B. Darragh
C. A. Rogers
OPA
Rogers
Mansfeld
New Philadelphia
Mansfield
Clifford E. Tuttle
Mansfield Municipal
Robert Wenger
War Finance Cash Sought
Francis M. Lemay reports that Congress weighs two paths for wartime revenue. An income tax increase with possible excess profits levy vs a federal retail sales tax up to ten percent. Chairman Doughton seeks protection for fixed income earners amid tax-change debates.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Treasury
Congressional
Congress
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Morgenthau
Wheeler Attacks Draft of Fathers Plan
Senator Wheeler of Montana denounces the Selective Service draft plan for pre Pearl Harbor fathers after October 1, saying it is political theater aimed at Russia. He cites congressional sentiment and his bill to exempt fathers until January 1, 1944, arguing Army figures show enough manpower through 1944.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Russia
Bebbon
Mont
House
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Army
Allied naval bombardment aids Sicily invasion drive
American cruisers destroyers and torpedo boats bombed Axis positions along Sicily's northern coast as fresh American troops sparked the final Allied push. Heavy German air forces attacked from other fronts while U S and Allied HQs report German defenses cracking around Mt Etna and Milazzo near Messina as the push toward Mesina proceeds.
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Sicily
Messina Strait
Sicilian
Cape Orlando
Messina
U. S. Army
Mt. Etna
Milazzo
Harold V. Boyle
Associated Press
U. S. 7Th Army
Boyle
Analyst Fired From Dew Job In Washington
John Bovingdon, described by Rep Dies as a ballet dancer, was fired today from his $5,600 a year post as principal economic analyst for the Office of Economic Warfare. He disputed the director’s suggestion to resign, signaling a clash over wartime policy and political scrutiny.
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Washington
John Bovingdon
Rep. Dies
Ofice of Economic Warfare
Bovingdon
OEW Post
Leo T. Crosley
OEW
Crowley
Bavingdon
Office of Economic Warfare
Crowley Bovingdon
Dies Committee
Union Local Expelled In Strike At Homer Laughlin Co
James M. Duffy head of the AFL union suspended a Newell West Virginia local for rejecting an order to end a walkout at Homer Laughlin China Co The strike began in the kiln dept over seniority with 200 quitting and 300 others in sympathy Production slowed and the company warned of a near 3200 worker impact if the 500 do not return.
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National Union
Duffy
Joseph M. Wells
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Eby held near Laurelville
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the residence on Route 56 south of Laurelville for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Eby 75 widow of Lafayette Eby who died Saturday Survivors include two sons Thomas Black South Bloomingville and William Black Huntington West Virginia
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Eby
Route 56
Laurelville
Mary Elizabeth Eby
Lafayette Eby
Thomas Black
South Bloomingville
William Black
Huntington
W. Va
Convictions for Draft Violations Rise under FBI
In a Washington briefing dated August 4, J Edgar Hoover announced 877 convictions for failure to register with draft boards during nearly three years of enforcement under the conscription law. He contrasted this with World War I, noting widespread willingness. He cited FBI figures: 7,190 complaints from Oct 1940 to Jul 1, with 5,455 nonwillful violators, 435 ineligible, and 282 electing immediate induction without prosecution.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
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Francis M. Lemay
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