Reclassify All 3-A Registrants for Induction Promptly
Local draft boards will reclassify all remaining 3-A registrants to 1-A or other categories and may call pre-induction examinations in Baltimore. A first group will depart Winchester Hall at 7 30 a m for the exam, with deferment requests pending possible. The new policy guarantees at least 21 days civilian life after passing the exam and aims to build a reservoir of 1-A men for future calls.
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Pearl Harbor
Baltimore
Winchester Hall
Armed Services
Selective Service
Navy
Army
State Headquarters
Named To Head Middle East British Air Force
Cairo January 13 Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park 51 veteran of the battle of Britain named commander of British Air Forces in the Middle East He will succeed Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas now head of Coastal Command Park has been leading the British Air Forces at Malta.
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Cairo
Keith Rodney Park
Britain
Middle East
Sholto Douglas
Park
Malta
Leave Lancaster Without Getting Tobacco Crop
Lancaster Pa Jan 13 tobacco buyers retired from the Conestoga valley and told farmers to signal when ready to sell their 37,000,000 pound crop. Growers had resisted over 700 buyers since the War Food Administration lifted the freeze, refusing to sell until the Office of Price Administration raises price ceilings.
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Lancaster
Conestoga
Lancaster County
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
War Bond To Be Ticket To Salvage Center
Frederick High School Victory Corps sponsors Sunday exhibit of captured war materiel at the Salvage Center on Jefferson Street. Admission is by war bond ticket purchased Jan 14–23 at the high school or local banks. bonds also fund sale events Jan 23–27 with class participation. The exhibit features German arms, a Russian front rocket projector, German personnel carriers, field guns, anti air craft guns, half track ammo carriers, an Italian light tank, and a recaptured Russian field gun.
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Jefferson Street
Frederick High School
Victory Corps
Charles W. Willis
Labor And Big Steel Moulding Agreement
Pittsburgh January 13 A new collective bargaining agreement between labor and big steel may become a wartime pattern. Negotiations began December 14 in secrecy led by Philip Murray of USWA and CIO and John A Stephens of U S Steel. About 200000 steel workers directly involved. 800000 national impact if contracts win War Labor Board approval.
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Pittsburgh
Graying
Philip Murray
United Steelworkers of America
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Dapiper
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel
Murray
War Labor Board
Rations Increased for Polish Armament Workers
Berlin radio broadcast to Nazi forces in Norway announced an immediate rise in rations for workers in Poland's armament factories and other vital industries. Also noted: a chimney fire at 332 East Church Street was contained with minimal damage. Four Army airmen died in a bomber crash at Sioux City air base, two injured, one survived with minor bruises.
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New York
Berlin
Norway
Poland
Independents
Citizens Truck Company
United Rescue Truck
East Church Street
Sioux City
Losses In Big Air Assault On Germany Are Replaced
London January 13 American bombers prepared to replace 59 losses from Tuesday’s raid on Central Germany. An Eighth Air Force spokesman said replacements were plentiful as crews returned from the three hour clash that saw more than 100 enemy planes shot down. Generals and air leaders hailed the battle as a precursor to air supremacy ahead of Western Europe invasion.
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London
Germany
Eighth Air Force
Europe
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Wichita
Kas
Central Sofia Is Destroyed by Bomb Attacks
From Bern Switzerland Jan 13 Sofia suffered extensive bombardment destroying the central district. The Russian and former British legations were ruined. The Parliament building near the American legation was heavily damaged and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was hit. Communications collapsed and officials reported a mass evacuation amid a high death toll.
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Bern
Switzerland
Sofia
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten
Alexander Neveki
Court rules AP guilty of bylaw restraint in news gathering
A special three-judge federal court in New York perpetual ly restrains the Associated Press from observing by laws that let members weigh competitive effects of membership applications. It allows AP to restrict admission on other grounds. The ruling stays pending appeal, with 60 days to seek Supreme Court review of the civil anti trust suit filed in 1942.
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New York
Associated Press
Supreme Court of the United States
Coast area to hold air raid tests quarterly on Sundays
War Department and Office of Civilian Defense announce tests in coastal areas occur at most once every three months and only on Sundays. OCD headquarters notes Frederick is within a coastal region, though local confirmation was not yet received.
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War Department
National Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
Frederick
VA reports over ten thousand beds available in hospitals
Washington today announced the Veterans Administration has more than 10,000 vacant beds in its installations as of the last official count and that facilities for an additional 4,667 beds are under construction across VA hospitals.
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Washington
Veterans’ Administration
100 Billion Budget Sent To Congress By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt announced before Congress a second 100 billion wartime budget covering at least 18 months of global conflict. The plan provides 90.0 billion in war expenditures for the coming fiscal year, with total war program peaking at 397 billion through mid 1945. Aimed at victory and preparing for peace, it calls for at least 10.5 billion in new taxes and includes social security and procurement measures while stressing limitations if European victory arrives earlier.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
United States
Inj
Greatest Spender Roosevelt Sees Huge Budget Increase
Washington reports that President Roosevelt has sent 12 budget messages to Congress totaling 99.789 billion for the next fiscal year beginning July 1. His projected spending drives total federal outlays to over 378.6 billion, with roughly 295 billion for defense through 1945. War-time appropriations add 105 billion. Since Hoover’s era, national costs top 112.9 billion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Herbert Hoover
White House
No Word From Missing Boy Kenneth Shaw Missing
Kenneth Shaw, 15, son of Chester and Mrs. Shaw of West Patrick Street, has been missing since Monday. His mother said he disobeyed them, and the family fears he may have feared punishment. Father aids Baltimore police and Missing Persons Bureau in search. enlistment ruled out due to an arm operation. The boy is believed to be at a hospital in Baltimore, though he has not been seen by a friend or the family.
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Kenneth
Shaw
Chester Shaw
West Patrick Street
Armed Service
Baltimore
Greatest Production Of Food Called For By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt urged the United States to maximize farm output to meet growing war needs. He warned 1944 could outpace 1943’s record and proposed cutting agriculture department spending by 314 million dollars for the 1945 year, ending major crop payments under AAA for the first time since 1933.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Congress
Agriculture Department
Senator Lucas Moves to Strike Union Financial Report Clause
Washington January 13 Senator Lucas announced he will move to strike from the tax increase bill a clause requiring labor unions and similar organizations to file annual financial reports with the Treasury. Armarda Gathering London January 33 A DNB broadcast from Berlin said that new arrivals at Gibraltar include 62 Allied merchantmen the British battleship Warspite two French and two British torpedo boats 10 corvettes and one submarine.
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Washington
Lucas D-Ii
Treasury
London
DNB
Berlin
Gibraltar
Warspite
War Production Cuts and Mass Demobilization Report
The message notes contract terminations totaling over 12 billion dollars and the discharge of about a million men and women as war production expands, while addressing surplus property disposal, reconversion, manpower demobilization, public works planning, veterans affairs, social security, and international readjustment.
Fifth Army Opens New Forward Drive In Italy
Allied forces widen offensive from Cassino toward central Italy as American infantry push to within three miles of Cassino after capturing Cervaro. French troops seize peaks near Roccheta and Monina Casale range while Eighth Army reports patrols and heavy artillery. Air battle over Sofa yields 28 German planes down with two American losses.
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Cassino
Cervaro
Italy
Alphonse Juln
Roccheta
Cervara
Feernia
Colli
Atina
Monina Casale
Mellino U
Acquafondata
Mt. Raimo
Viticusa
Duin
Europe
Cassino-Atina
Eighth Army
Sofa
Backs Larger Oyster Production In Bay
President Roosevelts budget to Congress supports continuing the federal fish and wildlife service program with Maryland and Virginia to restore Chesapeake Bay oyster production. Initiated with funds from defense supplemental, the plan aims to reach at least 70,000,000 pounds of oyster meat annually and ties to national food production goals.
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Washington
Raid on Bangkok by Allied planes follows earlier raid
Tokyo radio reported Allied planes raided Bangkok for over an hour last night but said only non military facilities were hit due to swift Japanese interception. The broadcast described the attack as a follow-up to a three hour raid on January 10.
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New York
Tokyo
Bangkok
Thailand
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Turkey orders Berlin students to relocate for study
Turkish Education Minister Hassan Ali Yucel told Turkish students in Berlin to move to Switzerland to finish their studies because of the delicate world situation, according to a Reuters dispatch from Ankara. The directive reflects heightened caution amid global tensions and affects ongoing academic arrangements for Turkish nationals abroad.
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London
Reuters
Ankara
Hassan Ali Yucel
Berlin
Switzerland
Death Wave Declines After Five Week Influenza Peak
Washington reports the nation’s influenza death wave, which lasted five weeks, reached a peak with the New Year and began to recede last week, according to Census Bureau figures released today.
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Washington
Jan
Census Bureau
Your Share Of Budget From War Spending
The article presents per capita budget figures for 1945, noting total war and peace spending of $99,769,236,900 and a national debt projection of $258,200,000,000 by June 30, 1945. It estimates a per person share of $1,877.59 if debt grows, with a 137,410,000 population used by the Treasury.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
The
Treasury
Stillman, Longtime National City Bank Director, Dies
James A. Stillman, 70, former National City Bank of New York chairman and noted financier, died today at New York Hospital after a brief illness. He had just celebrated his 40th anniversary on the bank’s board, the longest tenure on record.
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New York
James A. Stillman
National City Bank of New York
New York Hospital
Stillman
National City
Typhus Threat Grows in Naples during War
Brig. Gen. Leon A. Fox, field director for the US Typhus Commission, reports Naples faces a rapidly expanding typhus epidemic now 50 times October levels. Refugees from northern Italy and Nazi destruction worsen conditions though troops remain unaffected. Vaccination and civilian delousing proceed, with aims to raise daily delousing from 30,000 to 50,000 as vaccine supply suffices.
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Cairo
Naples
Leon A. Fox
Birmingham
Ala
Fox
United States Typhus Commission
Italy
Military Goods First Budget Message States
Washington January 13 President Roosevelt said civilian goods production would resume only as fast as munition needs permit He noted some labor and materials are released for urgent domestic needs of indirect war importance We shall release facilities manpower or raw materials for civilian production only when sure the war effort remains uncompromised First Lieut James Ernest Stoner Jr of Woodsboro ordered to active duty War Department AP report Isabel Mackey Perkins of Dickerson named second lieutenant Army Nurse Corps
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Washington
Roosevelt
James Ernest Stoner, Jr
Woodsboro
War Department
Associated Press
Isabel Mackey Perkins
Dickerson
Army Nurse Corps
Leaders Slip On Tepid Trading In New York Market
New York January 13 stock market opened softly with buying timidity replacing urgency to sell. Leaders generally slipped fractions to a point or so as trading thawed.
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SUIPF
New York
Front drives threaten three Nazi strongholds in Ukraine
Soviet forces under General Vatutin and Rokossovsky pressed oper ations along the Pripet marshes and modern Ukraine. Vatutin’s first Ukrainian Army advanced toward Rovny Pinsk and Kovel while crossing toward Sarny Dombrovitsa and Rovno. Rokossovsky’s White Russian Army moved on Mozyr as German troops pulled back toward Pinsk with Korovograd and Belaya Tserkov seeing further clashes. Ivan S. Konev’s Second Ukrainian Army pushed to join Vatutin’s drive, achieving gains in the Korovograd salient.
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Moscow
Dan
Nikolai Vatutiin
Sarny
Old Poland
Rovny
Pinsk
Kovel
Vatutin
Dombrovitsa
Rovno- Sarny-Baranowicaze
Gurmel-Brest-Litovsk
Pripet
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Mozyr
Gomel
Rokossovsky
Strumen
Pina
Rovno
Kiev-Warsaw
Nikolai Vatutin
Sluch River
Warsaw
Kiev
Belaya Tserkov
Ivan S. Konev
Korovograd
Suit Settled In Housing Project Civil Action
Settlement ends long civil suit by W. Lee Elgin trading as Potomac Healing and Supply Co. of Hagerstown against Sofarelli Brothers and Frederick Housing Authority over low rent colored housing units built by Sofarelli. Earlier verdicts awarded Elgin $2,320.25 plus costs. case moved through local and federal courts and was to be reviewed in Richmond, Virginia before settlement. B. B. Rosenstock and W. C. McSherry were attorneys for the parties.
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W. Lee Elgin
Potomac Healing and Supply Company
Hagerstown
Sofarelli Brothers
U. S
U. S. District Court
Baltimore
Elgin
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Frederick Housing Authority
Sofarelli
Richmond
B. B. Rosenstock
W. C. McSherry
Housing Authority
Eclipse Visible Over New York Jupiter Shadow
Clear skies let astronomers view the Jupiter occultation by the moon in New York. The event, unseen in the eastern United States for 48 years, began at 8 01 a m and Jupiter reappeared at 9 03 a m Eastern War Time.
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New York
Jupiter
United States
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el Ya
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Turkey
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