State basketball tickets go to Bill Sauer Jr in Columbus
Bill Sauer Jr receives state tournament tickets from D O Davis Union Fur face school superintendent and district athletic board member. Harry Shorty McVey will accompany him to the games as spring arrives in Hocking County with birds, frogs, crocuses and jonquils signaling the season.
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Bill Sauer, Jr
Columbus
Bill
D. O. Davis
Union Furface
Harry
Shorty) McVey
Union Cage
Hocking
Hocking County
Logan
Japanese owned farm machinery presents problem
A War Production Board official in Los Angeles notes many Japanese owned farm implements and vehicles sit idle in Southern California warehouses. Burnette J. Daniels says reclaiming them is a legal challenge but argues the government should seize unused Japanese owned farm machinery. He warns contacting each owner individually would delay wartime needs.
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Los Angeles
California
War Production Board
America
Burnette J. Daniels
Daniels
Roosevelt names Davis to head new food office and land army
President Roosevelt said Chester C. Davis will lead a new autonomous food production office and immediately study forming a land army to boost farm output. He noted 550,000 farm workers have been deferred and 3,000,000 more may follow. war boards will expand farm machinery production and distribution while Davis cooperates with Agriculture Secretary Wickard on final decisions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
War Production Board
Wickard
Office of Food Production and Distribution
Davis
Agriculture
Governor Green Attacks Mayor Kelly in Talk
Gov Dwight H Green of Illinois accuses Chicago of harboring gangsters and police apathy in a radio broadcast. He says defeating Mayor Edward J Kelly on April 6 would end the city’s “greediest and most ruthless” political machine and urges votes for Republican challenger George B McKibbin.
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Chicago
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Green
Edward J. Kelly
America
Kelly
George B. McKibbin
CIO union offers help to corn belt farmers
In Austin Minnesota on March 26 the Packinghouse Workers Local 9 a CIO union representing about 4500 Hormel plant workers invited members to work on surrounding farms during spare time and vacations to relieve the manpower shortage in midwestern livestock and corn belts. About 600 men have already signed up.
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Austin
Minn
CIO
Packinghouse Workers Local 9
Hormel Packing
Farm editor urges end to food ration plan
Wheeler McMillen editor of the Farm Journal urged the administration to end severe wartime rationing set to begin Monday. He warned production and distribution are being hampered and that farmers can supply enough food if bureaus are cut and red tape slain.
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Chicago
Wheeler McMillen
Farm Journal and Agricultural Authority
McMillen
White House
Orchardist Homer Price Dies in Newark Ohio
Homer C. Price, operator of the Price Fruit Farm and former dean of Ohio State University College of Agriculture from 1903 to 1915, died at his Newark home yesterday at age 68.
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Newark
Homer C. Price
Price
Ohio State University
Agriculture College
Hope Seen For Judge's Pension Bill In Ohio Senate
In Columbus on March 26 advocates urged passage of a retirement system for judges. The measure would allow a judge earning 12000 dollars a year to retire on a 6000 dollar annual pension. It failed by one vote amid criticism of being hastily considered and unfair. Co author Sen Fred G Reiners blamed misunderstandings for votes against the bill and a reconsideration move was planned when the Senate reconvenes Monday.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Carl D. Sheppard
Summit
Fred G. Reiners
Hamilton
Senate
Draft authority question raised in Colorado
A governor’s move to halt military induction of agricultural workers raises questions of authority. Governor John C. Vivian directed Brig. Gen. H. H. Richardson Colorado selective service director to notify all parties yesterday.
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Denver
National
Selective Service
John C. Vivian
H. H. Richardson
Colorado
Many Married Women Available for War Work
Washington reports the census bureau estimates 10,600,000 married women in over 100 industrial centers could be potentially available for war work. The figure, based on 1940 census data, but the bureau notes most are still likely outside the labor force.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Russians Extend 1943 Fishing Privilege for Japan
In a Kuibyshev signing Soviet vice commissar S A Lazovsky and Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato confirmed a one year extension of fishing rights for Japan in Soviet Far Eastern waters. Rentals rise five percent. the pact mirrors prior renewals based on the 1923 agreement. London observers see the move as easing potential friction.
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Moscow
Kuibyshev
Russia
Japan
Soviet Far Eastern
Izvestia
S. A. Lazovsky
Soviet
London
Army Private Admits Strangling Woman in Canton Ohio
Prosecutor Leo Scanlon said Glore Bevard a 33 year old soldier at Camp Millard signed a formal statement admitting he choked Mrs Wilma Reed aged 40 of Canton to death in a Canton apartment on Monday He will be charged with murder in the case now under state investigation.
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Bucyrus
Leo Scanlon
Glore Bevard
Camp Millard
Wilma Reed
Canton
Scanlon
Wallace Quits Peru for Chile on Plane Flight
Vice President Henry A. Wallace departed Lima Peru by plane heading toward Santiago Chile with brief stops planned at Arica and Antofagasta en route, as announced on March 26.
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Lima
Peru
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Santiago
Chile
Arica
Antofagasta
Veteran Physician James Reynolds Dies at 84 in Columbus
Dr. James F. Reynolds, 84, who practiced in Columbus from 1898 until his 1928 retirement, died at his home yesterday after a long medical career in the city.
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Columbus
James F. Reynolds
WIGS Eyes 2 Million Housewives for Salvage Drive
Columbus reports detail the WIGS program led by Ohio Salvage Committee head Lewis Hausman aiming for 2,000,000 housewives in the state. About 300 volunteers already assist with salvage of tin fats and hosiery to aid the war effort, with Ohio ranking high nationally for collected kitchen fats and scrap. A Chillicothe salvage meeting is planned as farm salvage efforts receive emphasis.
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Columbus
Lewis W. Hausman
Ohio Salvage Committee
Ohio
Hausman
Chillicothe
Joseph H. Liston
Washington
War Production Board
Ohio State Grange
Paul Cabot
Allied Forces Seize Key Hill West of Gabes
Allied forces push deeper into the Mareth Line in southern Tunisia as British troops claim control of a hill near El Hamma, 20 miles west of Gabes, with Gabes plain in view. American troops hold mountain positions after advancing from the El Guetar oasis toward Gabes, while AEF reports repulsing a German attack at Djebel Berda heights southeast of Gafsa. The German high command notes British American thrusts on the Tunisian front collapsed and a German counter thrust succeeded.
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Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
Tunisia
8Th Army
Mareth Line
Algiers
el Hamma
Gabes
Gabes Plain
el Guetar
Gafsa
Djebel Berda
el Guetaria Pass
Horsewoman shot in Tulsa hostelry
In Tulsa Oklahoma March 26 a 44 year old divorcee was held without charge after horsewoman Mrs T Karl Simmons 55 was shot to death in a hotel room during an altercation. Mrs Ella B Howard of Fort Worth Texas the divorcee questioned said she told police she entered on business and heard Telegram at the door then Simmons appeared with a gun It fired twice during a struggle and she saw Simmons fall to the floor with multiple bullet wounds and two bullets in the wall Police continue inquiries and Mrs Howard declined to comment until advised by counsel.
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Tulsa
Okla
T. Karl Simmons
Ella B. Howard
Fort Worth
Tex
M. S. Simms
Mayo Hotel
Fire wipes out village business district in Pa
A fast moving blaze tore through Meshoppen destroying 14 structures in the business district and damaging several others including a three story hotel. The village of 600 residents was left with most of its commerce wiped out. The cause remained unknown.
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Meshoppen
Pennsylvania
Solons Extend Scope of Labor Bill Hearings
Washington March 26 In a shift for the labor field the house military committee merged four manpower measures into one hearing chaired by May. Rep Smith’s work or fight bill would bar unionization of supervisory workers and curb strikes, linking to selective service act changes. Coal industry spokesmen backed the bill to avoid placing 90,000 supervisors under United Mine Workers, arguing it would undermine collective bargaining.
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Washington
Naval and
House Military Committee
Rep
Smith
D-Va
Military Committee
Labor Committee
Selective Service Boards
John L. Lew
United Mine Workers of America
Students' Shame Campaign Backfires at North Park College
In Chicago on March 26 male students dressed in feminine clothing to shame the coeds at North Park College. The plan backfired as women welcomed the brigade with laughter and roars. Dean Peter Person ordered the men back in trousers and threatened disciplinary action while girls kept wearing slacks and pulling their shirt tails out in defiance.
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Chicago
North Park College
Peter Person
Life term inmate hangs self in prison ward
Warden Frank D. Henderson said Willard Brucks, 43, a life term prisoner, hanged himself in the penitentiary psychiatric ward Wednesday night.
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Columbus, O
Frank D. Henderson
Willard Brucks
Penitentiary
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