Quinine Pool Aid For Army And Navy Unveiled
Logan druggists urged to release quinine for an American Pharmaceutical Association pool at the request of the Army Navy and War Production Board. Ohio State University Dean Bernard V Christensen notes armed forces need the drug where malaria is common. Ohio State has contributed quinine to treat 50 to 75 men for 30 days preventive or remedial use. Meanwhile the Chesapeake and Ohio local train out of Logan to Pomeroy carried the Shriner brothers Jud Tubby and Earl with Bert Wilson as conductor in a rare three Shriner day.
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American Pharmaceutical Association
Army
Navy
War Production Board
Bernard V. Christensen
Ohio State University
College of Pharmacy
National Association
Java
Holland
Ohio State
Pharmacy College
Chesapeake and Ohio
Logan
Pomeroy
Tee Brothers
Jud Shriner
H. H
Tubby
Earl
Shriner
Draft chiefs drop 38 plus 4-H farm deferments
President Roosevelt faces a manpower memo from Byrnes and a panel including Baruch Hopkins Leahy Rosenman on war goals for 1943. Draft rules shift men over 38 toward farming, reclassifying those in farm work to 2-C or 3-C deferments if they meet criteria. Senate debate follows Bankhead push to bar farm workers from service. administration favors individual exemptions rather than blanket policy.
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Byrnes
Bernard M. Baruch
Harry Hopkins
William D. Leahy
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Selective Service
Army
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate
Allied Forces Break Nazi Lines Across Tunisia and Russia
Allied forces regain initiative in northern Tunisia driving through torn German lines while the Eighth Army repels Rommel and advances in the south. Moscow reports Red Army columns pushing behind German lines toward Vyazma after capturing settlements. Weather halts Western air offensive but RAF and USAAF prepare new widespread air operations.
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Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
Mareth
Russia
Moscow
Vyazma
Harold H. Balfour
RAF
U. S. Army Air Forces
Medenine
Mareth Line
Sicilian
Photographs Recall Shenandoah Crash Near Cambridge Ohio
Miss Thelma Keyes Hocking County clerk of courts owns several photographs from the Shenandoah air disaster near Cambridge Ohio on September 3 1925. The pictures taken before Army restrictions capture debris close ups including the ship commanders hat impaled on a stake and a survivor explaining the tragedy to a bystander.
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Shenandoah
Cambridge
Ohio
Thelma Keyes
Hocking County
Keyes
Cheap clothing from plastics predicted by Polish chemist
Philadelphia report outlines that cheap clothing from plastics, better tires and building insulation could reshape postwar America. Dr Waclaw Szgukiewicz says synthetic and natural rubber will both be needed, with rubber from grain alcohol a key stabilizer of the economy.
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Philadelphia
Waclaw Szgukiewicz
Szukiewicz
OPA Announces New Provisions On Food Rationing
Washington March 8 The Office of Price Administration grants allowances for seed planting dry peas and beans without coupons. Local boards may authorize such purchases. Baby sick and disabled persons can obtain extra coupons with doctors certificates. Servicemen with seven days or more of furlough may get temporary ration books. shorter furloughs yield no ration support. Special occasions permit coupon retrieval from boards. Coupon exchange allows more than one month’s supply for shoppers unable to visit often.
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Washington
Victory
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Threatened Strike May Close Dayton Schools
Dayton Ohio March 8 The local AFL union representing 97 of 135 non teaching staff votes to strike March 15 over wage demands. Firemen engineers and janitors join the strike risking a complete school shutdown. Demands include 10 to 25 percent increases and weekly pay rather than bi weekly. School officials declined to comment.
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Dayton
Charles J. Bauer
American Federation of State
AFL
Bard
Bauer
Paul F. Schenck
Board of Education
Emison F. Landis
Debris of Lockbourne Bomber Found Near Tucson
Wreckage located about 50 miles northeast of Tucson is identified as a B-17 from Lockbourne Air Base near Columbus Ohio missing since Wednesday with nine crew aboard. Lockbourne officials will release names after identification and next of kin notification. A separate B-24 with 11 aboard missing since January 18 is presumed downed in the same general area.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis-Monthan Field
Here
Lockbourne Air Base
Columbus
Portland
Ore
Lockbourne
Allies Launch Pacific Offensive Across Solomons and Burma
Allied air power floods the Pacific from the Solomons to Burma as MacArthur reports a 22 ship Japanese convoy destroyed near New Guinea. Tokyo admits some losses but downplays the extent while Allied air strikes hit Japanese airfields from Kai islands to New Britain. Big bombers strike Rangoon causing ship damage in Burma.
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United Nations
Solomons
Burma
United States Pacific Fleet
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Australia
Solomons- New Guinea
MacArthur
Tokyo
Kai Islands
Gasmata
Gloucester
New Britain
Mubo
Salamaua
Goodrenough Island
Rangoon
Ohio scrap collections top two million tons in 1942
Ohio's salvage committee reported scrap collections for the second half of 1942 at 2,131,500 tons, achieving 98 percent of the state quota. The statewide total accounted for about 13 percent of the national aggregate.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hose prices cut by OPA in Washington
The Office of Price Administration announced price cuts on women’s rayon stockings effective April 15, reducing prices by five to 40 cents per pair.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Wallace Foresees Third World War If Western Allies Fail
Vice President Henry A. Wallace warned that a third world war seems inevitable unless western democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding as World War II nears end. He spoke at Ohio Wesleyan University on the Christian bases of world order, outlining risks if Prussia rearms, if Russia is double crossed, or if full employment and anti Russia fascist interests seize power.
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Delaware, O
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Wallace
Ohio Wesleyan University
Prussia
Drowning of 14 soldiers near Florida during storm maneuvers
The Fourth Service Command announced the probable drowning of 14 soldiers after a landing barge ran aground near Carrabelle, Florida during night maneuvers in rough Gulf of Mexico waters. Two officers and three other men were rescued from Camp Gordon Johnston garrison.
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Ico
Florida
Fourth Service Command
Carrabelle
Fla
Gordon Johnston
Bricker Urges U S Moral Leadership In World War II
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker told a Nebraska founders day audience that America must provide a new moral leadership for tomorrow to honor the sacrifices of World War II. He warned against bureaucratic bickering and urged citizens to reclaim control of government and strengthen internal unity.
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Lincoln
Neb
John W. Bricker
Ohio
America
Bricker
Nebraska
Washington
Australians Seek Strong Postwar Alliance With U S A
Sir Keith Murdoch argues in the Melbourne Herald that Australia must form a firm postwar alliance with the United States. He urges closer relations and supports American involvement in strategic Pacific islands and parts of the Asiatic mainland to ensure white defense.
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Melbourne
Keith Murdoch
Australia
United States
America
Southwest Pacific
Melbourne Herald
Applicants Pass County Home Exam for Hocking Post
The State Civil Service Commission reported Monday that Charles Buckingham Edwin Barker Clarence Skinner Joe L Funk all of near Logan and Virgil Hite Gore passed the examination for superintendent of the Hocking County home. County commissioners will appoint from this list to fill the vacancy caused by Bert Arnold's resignation. The post pays $1 080 per year.
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State Civil Service Commission
Hocking County
Charles Buckingham
Edwin Barker
Clarence Skinner
Joe L. Funk
Logan
Virgil Hite
Gore
Bert Arnold
Hunt Young Firebugs After $20,000 Blaze
Cleveland report states young vandals suspected of setting a basement fire at Captain Ralph C. Geckler’s Lakewood home causing about $20,000 in damage. Fire crews battled flames for four hours. Chief Delaney links the blaze to the Taft school fire last Saturday that did $10,000 damage and many books burned.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
Ralph C. Geckler
Charles A. Delaney
Huge Quantities Of Raw Materials Sent to Russians
Washington reports Lend Lease head E R Stettinius Jr says US aid to Russia extends beyond weapons to vast volumes of raw materials and industrial gear. The list includes 3,000,000 pairs of boots 18,000 tons leather 72,500 trucks 17,500 jeeps and armored cars 7,700 motorcycles 1,300 tractors 75,000 tons rails 140,000 field telephones and extensive wire rail and chemical shipments.
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Tor E. R. Stettinius, Jr
House
Stettinius
Russia
Ohio Office Lists Ceiling Prices on Meats
The State Office of Price Administration listed maximum prices per pound for 26 pork cuts effective April 1. The guide covers smoked hams bone in shank half butt or round center slices and ready to eat hams with various specifications as well as fresh picnics calf whole hams smoked pork loin shoulder chops loin chops center chops and other pork products with price points ranging from 25 to 62 cents per pound.
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Columbus
State Office of Price Administration
Ohio
War Manufacturers Discuss Tax Measure
Columbus march 8 manufacturers whose plants greatly expanded in war production will present views to the Senate commerce and labor committee on a bill to tax them an additional five million dollars annually for unemployment insurance. The proposed administration measure would levy a surtax from one tenth of one percent to one percent on about 1 000 employers, with at most 20 paying the full amount.
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Columbus
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
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Germany
Carl C. Cranmer
Pacific Front
Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt Sted
Office of War Information
Taber
New York
Congress
Elmer Davis
OWI
International
Atlanta
Gulf of Mex
Fied
Hunt Young
Lend-Lease Administra
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