Tuna Fleet Warps San Diego History of Catch and Contracts
The piece describes how World War II rationing and naval control have disrupted San Diego tuna fishing, shifting cargo away from civilian fleets as navy and army take a large share of catch. It notes a 15 year old tuna industry, earlier albacore runs, and the rise of large tuna clippers sailing up to 15,000 miles for the share system.
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San Diego
United States
Army
San Juan
Tune
Peru
Russians Push Ahead in Area of Leningrad Front
Reports from London say the Red Army has thrown 1.56 million troops into a southern front attack near Kharkov Staline and Taganrog with breakthroughs and heavy Soviet tank advances north of Kharkov near Orel Simultaneously Soviet forces broke through near Smolensk and at Lake Dimen on the Leningrad front trapping remnants of the German 16th Army amid dwindling food supplies and growing Nazi distress.
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London
Red Army
Kharkov
Staline
Taganrog
Moscow
Orel
Berlin
Associated Press
Smolensk
Moncow
Lake Dimen
Leningrad
Starays Russa
Lake Kimen
16Th Army
Moslems Call for Split of India in Two States
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, head of the All-India Moslem League, said the only acceptable solution is an autonomous Hindu and Muslim partition. He spoke amid talk of a Cripps mission to Britain and warned against any settlement harming Muslim interests.
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Bombay
India
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
All-India Moslem League
Jinnah
Stafford Cripps
War Cabinet
British Production Mission to U S Cancelled
London reports that Churchill announced the planned joint production coordination mission led by Lord Beaverbrook in the United States is cancelled. It remained unclear if Beaverbrook would travel to Washington as Britain's counterpart to Donald M. Nelson while the labor ministry retains general control of labor supply and the production ministry sets demand precedence.
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London
Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
Beavrbrook
Washington
Ministry of Production
Oliver Lyttleton
Beaverbrook
House of Emmons
Britain
Donald M. Nelson
United States War Production Board
Ministry of Labor
Free Europe
British Isles
Kirkenes
Norway
France
Scandinavia
United Nations
Russia
Finland
Germany
Europe
Soviet Union
Australia Sends Prisoners Food To Singapore
Premier John Curtin announced Australia is sending foodstuffs to Japanese-occupied Singapore to feed Australian prisoners. London observers note the action is unprecedented and unclear how fair distribution will be, with Red Cross officials unspecified.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Singapore
London
Red Cross
Military doubles civilian aviation training for war effort
Washington March 12 The CAA civilian aviation training program is to more than double in size and align with the war effort. Elementary pilot training rises from 25 000 to 45 000 annually while secondary flying courses triple to 30 000. Ground technician training begins at about 31 000 annually. All trainees must commit to army air service or related aviation roles.
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Washington
CAA
War Department
Army Air Forces
Army Air Cargo
Tojo Says Main Pacific Fleet Has Disappeared
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo told the Diet that the United States and Britain have vanished from the Pacific surface. He claimed all southwest Pacific strongholds are in Japanese hands after three months of war and the Java invasion. He warned decisive battles lie ahead and urged further victories to establish a new order in Asia.
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Tokyo
Dutch East Indies
Hideki Tojo
United States
Britain
Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Tojo
Java
Japan
Germany
Italy
Diet
Greater
Asia
China
Rangoon
Chungking
America
Drafting Full Manpower to Aid War Effort
Representative Priest proposes a draft act amendment to place civilians in government roles for those deferred by occupation dependents or disability. He suggests the possibility of registering women for war-related tasks and notes alignment with Eleanor Roosevelt’s recent ideas, though he cites no formal link.
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Washington
Representative Priest
Democrat
Tennessee
Priest
Eleanor Roosevelt
Manufacturers Seek Tax Plan With Sales Levy To Fund Revenue
The National Association of Manufacturers urged Congress to approve a 7.6 billion dollar tax program featuring a 4.4 billion dollar sales tax and modest individual and corporate tax increases. J Cheever Cowdin presented the plan to the Ways and Means Committee, arguing for revenue while warning against excessive taxation that could curb output.
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Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
J. Cheever Cowdin
Morgenthau
Cowdin
Treasury
NA. M
Dies Committee Granted Nine Month Extension
The Dies committee was renewed for nine months and will pursue its probe into Falangist activity in Latin America and Puerto Rico. House members voted to extend the committee from March 31 to January 3, with Chairman Martin Dies asking for 300000 dollars for expenses.
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Washington
Dies
South America
House
Martin Dies
Texas
Thomas
New Jersey
Puerto Rico
Committee On un-American Activities
New War Front Near Norway Motivates Allied Push
March 12 report points to imminent operations between North Cape in Norway and the Murmansk coast. German capital ships and British aircraft undertake actions with UN convoys as analysts debate a western offensive in the far north this summer.
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New York
North Cape
Norway
Murmansk
United Nations
Archangel
Europe
Italy Claims Sea Successes In Mediterranean Clash
Rome reports that three British cruisers were hit in the eastern Mediterranean with one probably sunk. Italian recon planes followed the British squadron for days as torpedo bombers attacked in waves, supported by German planes and submarines. An Italian submarine is listed as missing.
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Axia
Rome
Mediterranean
Scriptures for and against new tires
A Texas minister sought new tires and quoted scripture in a letter to Mark McGee, the rationing administrator, who replied with a scripture driven stance refusing the request. The exchange centers on compliance with rationing rules and religious justification.
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Austin
Tex
Mark McGee
Heavy U S Bombers Hit Japanese Armada Off New Guinea
U S Army bombers cripple part of the Japanese invasion fleet off New Guinea as Tojo claims Allied sea power crushed. Tokyo reports sunk or beached ships and damaged vessels including a cruiser and destroyers. American forces scored a devastating blow with 18 tons of bombs sinking two ships and setting others aflame.
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Associates Press
New Guinea
Australia
Tokyo
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Far
Pacific
Imperial Tokyo
United States
Britain
Tojo
Dutch East Indies
Washington
Royal Australian Air Force
Gasoline ration cards favored to ease wartime shortage
Washington reports oil industry proposes a 25 percent cut in gasoline use for the East and a 7 pm to 7 am curfew on 100,000 service stations as Ickes weighs interim rationing. Industry urges pipeline expansion from the Southwest to New York Philadelphia and railcar cuts to boost Gulf port supplies.
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Washington
East
Ickes
Gulf Ports
Seaboard
New York-Philadelphia
District of Columbia
Midwest
Missing Men Families Will Receive Money
Washington reports new law authorizes war and navy secretaries to order dependency allotments from sailors and soldiers pay for families of those captured or missing. The system allows original or adjusted allotments, covers insurance, and continues pay for six months after disappearance with potential six month extensions.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Secretaries of War
Roosevelt
Honolulu
Secretary of War
Secretary of Navy
Brazil Seizes Axis Assets Over Sinking Ships
President Vargas orders confiscation of Axis assets in Brazil after four Brazilian ships were sunk. Tax on German Japanese and Italian deposits ranges 10 to 30 percent, as Brazil suspends merchant sailings to the U.S. and recalls ships. Foreign Minister Aranha urges calm while signaling necessary steps toward hemispheric defense.
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Rio DE Saneiro
Gerald Vargas
Deereed
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Japan
Ialy
Axis
Oswaldo Aranha
Getulio Vargas
Aranha
United States
Globo
Inland Steel freezes executives salaries during war emergency
Inland Steel chairman Edward L. Ryerson announced the company will not raise executive compensation for the war emergency. The move, described as a conservative policy, will reduce net income after taxes, yet executives accept the sacrifice to aid the war effort.
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Chicago
Inland Steel Company
Edward L. Ryerson
Board of
Inland
Soldiers seek volunteers to join MacArthur on Bataan
Anxious quartermaster soldiers in Livingston seek approval to enlist for Bataan duty. Staff Sgt James T Walker of Fort Ord writes the idea could “shoot the eyes out of a fly at 0 yards” and others say the plan aims to prove quartermasters aren’t “goldbricks.”
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Camp Livingston
MacArthur
Bataan
James T. Walker
Fort Ord
Calif
Recreation centers to be dedicated in southeast
Atlanta March 12 three new military recreation centers in the southeast will be dedicated this week leaving only four of an original 30 unfinished Lester M Marx regional director of the Federal Works Agency announced centers serve sailors soldiers and marines A 90000 center will be dedicated at Pensacola Florida Saturday and one at Biloxi Mississippi costing 110000 also Sunday a 200000 center will open at Hattiesburg Mississippi The four remaining centers are in Atlanta Columbus Georgia Columbia South Carolina and Anniston Alabama
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Atlanta
Southeast
Lester M. Marx
Federal Works Agency
Pensacola
Fla
Biloxi
Miss
Hattiesburg
Columbus, Ga
Columbia
S. C
Anniston
Ala
Six Brazil ship survivors land in New London
Six crewmen from the Brazilian weaver Cayru, suffering exposure, plus a passenger's body, landed in New London by the navy. The six were the sole survivors of 21 who left in lifeboat No. 4 after Cayru was sunk off Ambrose Light. The lifeboat was spotted by a naval vessel with aircraft assistance. 38 Cayru crew and passengers still unaccounted for.
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New London
Conn
Cayra
Ambrose
Six Soldiers Die In Army Bomber Crash Near Yoakum
At Duncan field nine miles east of Yoakum Texas an army B 2 medium bomber crashed and burned killing six soldiers from Camp Beauregard Louisiana. The crew included Second Lieutenants Bradford and Hocking First Lieutenant Johnston and Sergeants Frazier Ricks Smith with the pilot and co pilot among the dead.
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San Antonio
Tex
Yoakur
Duncen
Camp Beauregard
D. W. Bradford
RK. C. Hocking
A.M. Johnston
C. G. Frazier
E. F. Ricks
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