Roosevelt plans land army to boost food output
President Roosevelt outlined steps to form a land army to increase farm production. Chester Davis would head the new Office of Food Production and Distribution, coordinating with Wickard and the Price Administration. He noted 550000 farm workers already deferred from military service and considered furloughs to ease labor shortages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tony
Chester C. Davis
Utive
Lewis B. Hershey
War Production Board
Office of Food Production and Distribution
Davis
Mon- Gay
Agriculture Sec. Wickard
Wickard
the Agriculture
Office of Price Administration
Britain
Elt
Senate Returns Farm Labor Bill to Agriculture Committee
A bipartisan Senate coalition sent a House approved measure to include farm labor costs in parity price ceilings back to the Agriculture Committee. The chamber also moved to bar deduction of government payments to farmers in parity calculations, a provision seen as likely to raise food prices and living costs.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
White House
Prentiss Brown
Sen. Lucas
D.-Nl
McNary
Oregon
Lucas
War Labor Board
Barkley
Brown
House
Changed Coupon Values Will Be Revealed Sunday
Washington Sunday newspapers will tell American housewives of new point values for processed fruits and vegetables. The best guess is that coupon costs will be substantially lower with reductions noted in various cans bottles and packages. Increases will be applied to items selling faster than they can be replaced. Trade sources and consumers criticize many of the present point values as too high.
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Washington
CPA
State Rights In U S Draft Questioned
Governor Vivian orders halt of agricultural worker inductions in Colorado citing state authority. National officials study the move while draft boards maintain Washington guidance and individual case review. Governors react with doubts over executive power.
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U. S
Denver
Selective Service
John C. Vivian
H. H. Richardson
Colorado
Hershey
Richardson
Vivian
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Washington
Gen
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
Topeka
Amboina and Rabaul Hit in Allied Bombardment
Allied air forces blasted Japanese bases in Amboina and Rabaul on Thursday. In Amboina harbor quarter ton bombs struck two cargo vessels, with flames rising from wharf areas. Rabaul, a northern New Britain base, endured two hours of heavy bombing causing fires and major explosions. No Japanese interceptors were reported.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Amboina
Darwin
Rabaul
War Bulletin
Rabaal
New Britain Island
Russian Extends Japanese Fishing Rights in Far East
Izvestia reports a one year extension of fishing privileges for Japan in designated Far East waters beyond 1923 terms. The accord, signed at Kuibyshev, was initiated by Soviet vice commissar for Foreign Affairs S Lozovsky and an Am official.
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Moscow
Kuibyshev
Russia
Japan
Izvestia
S. Lozovsky
Hard Blows Against Japs Loom
Washington reports a lull in Pacific fighting is driving American planners to prepare new offensives. Possible targets include Munda beyond Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Truk, Marshall Islands, Carolines, and Wake as strategic moves to regain sea power and tighten pressure on Japanese bases.
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Washington
Pacific
Solomon and
Aleutian Islands
United States
Japan
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Munda
Bougainville
Truk
Marshall Islands
Carolines
Hawaii
Wake
Laval Facing Crisis View of Spanish Press
Madrid reports a looming Laval government crisis in Vichy circles as 14 French diplomats in Spain resign. Albert Lamarre and 13 others left their posts, many aligning with Gen. Henri Giraud in North Africa, while De La Rocque's arrest boosted dissidents and pressure on Laval to defend a foreign service.
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Madrid
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Spain
Albert Lamarre
Renaud Sivan
Boyermas
Francois Pieri
Henri Giraud
North Africa
France
Col
Francois de la Rocque
Social Parity
Croix de Feu
Laval
de la Rocque
Judge Lindsey, Noted Jurist, Dies at 7:30 A.M.
Los Angeles reported Judge Ben B. Lindsey, longtime California and Colorado jurist and founder of juvenile court procedure, died at Good Samaritan hospital at 7:30 a.m. He had been treated since Wednesday night, his widow Henrietta Lindsey said, after serving in the children's court of conciliation in Denver before rising to national prominence.
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Los Angeles
Ben B. Lindsey
California
Colorado
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lindsey
Henrietta Lindsey
Children’s Court of Conciliation
First Calla
Denver
Colo
Sides Clash Over Tax Abatement Plans in Congress
Washington lawmakers clash as Republicans push for a full year’s tax abatement via the Rum plan while Democrats oppose. Debate centers on pay as you go and discounts for prepayment, with Reed warning of loan sharks and a hoped compromise between abatement and no abatement.
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Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Rep. Reed
R-N. Y
Reed
Congress
Early Graduation Set for University of Iowa April 25
Iowa City announces spring commencement at the University of Iowa for April 25 the earliest date in the school's history. The exercises will coincide with Easter.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Wallace Plans Chile Tour During Latin American Survey
Vice President Henry A. Wallace leaves Peru by plane for Santiago with stops at Arica and Antofagasta. A 10 day tour of Chile's agricultural and mining regions follows as part of his aerial survey of seven Latin American nations.
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Lima
Peru
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Santiago
Chile
Arica
Antofagasta
Cali
Colombia
Wallace
Chiclayo
Talara
Zigzag
Juan Antonio Rios
Civilians Evacuated From La Rochelle Port Region
The Berlin radio quoted a Paris dispatch saying civilians in the Atlantic port of La Rochelle are being moved to Rochefort and Fouras as a precaution. Evacuation targets those not needed at the port. Meanwhile, reports say 3,600 British and American nationals in formerly Vichy France were arrested and may be sent to Germany to remove alleged troublemakers amid invasion fears.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Paris
Atlantic
la Rochelle
Rochefort
Fouras
Lorient
St. Mazaire
Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
United States
Legation
Montgomery's Infantry Wins New Ground in Mareth Fight
Allied forces report Gen. Bernard Montgomery's infantry won new ground in the Mareth sector on the southern Tunisian front. American units under Gen. George S. Patton Jr repulsed a German infantry attack at Djebel Berda near Gafsa, holding El Guetaria pass amid ongoing engagements as air forces pressed attacks and Allied sorties set records.
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North Africa
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Mareth
George S. Patton, Jr
Djebel Berda
Gafsa
el Guetaria Pass
Bou Hamran
Eighth Army
el Hamma
Gabes
Maknassy
Iam
Con Wuge
Fancet
Tunisia
London
Gabes, Mareth
Marmata
Reds Press Drive Upon Nazi Base
Soviet forces on the western front pressed toward Smolensk while consolidating elsewhere and fighting heavy German units along the Donets and Kharkov fronts. In the Kuban, the Red Army kept the offensive toward Novorossiysk and Kerch Strait, while freeing 12,000 civilians in Smolensk and crossing the upper Dnieper into a deeper German defense zone with many firepoints and fortifications built by forced labor.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Smolensk
Donets River
Belgorod
Red Star
Germany
Dnieper
Brown Upholds Retail Price Ceilings on Commodities
Washington price administrator Prentiss Brown declared retail ceilings on meat and other foods will stay in effect. He clarified hog price ceilings are separate and under consideration, with new pork prices to take effect April 1 and beef ceilings to follow, along with controls on fruits and vegetables.
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Washington
Prentiss Brown
Brown
OPA
Lewis Attacks Dual Standard On Inflation Policy
John L. Lewis testified that government policies on inflation are inconsistent as long as two different standards exist. He followed AFL metal trades chief John T. P. Frey who urged suspending the Wagner act for the war emergency to boost production. Frey accused NLRB officials of aiding CIO unions and raiding AFL memberships in west coast shipyards.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
John T. P. Frey
AFL Metal Trade
Frey
NLRB
CIO
AFL
West Coast
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Daniel DE Luce
Erwin Rommel
Patton
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Reds
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Donets
Kharkov
Chuguev
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Novorssisk
Kerchstrait
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