Final Reports Push Drive to Victory for Y Building
Campaign volunteers raised 420000 to buy the Gallia and Union streets YMCA building, with Mrs Grant Williams pledging to match each 1000 until the total 420000 is reached. Total reported on Tuesday night was 37644 with additional pledge support and special gifts aiding divisions led by L D Heustis and E Foehr.
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M.C. A
Galliand Union Streets
Grant Williams
Ofering
Anther
Cammon Army
Vsign
Mrs. L. D
E. Foehr
Frank
C. W
ISION
Dr. Babcock
C. L. Ferguson
PA Demands City Pay $27 000 Claim
Municipal records show a demand for $27 000 by the American Legion unit from the city for WPA construction funds. The district manager requests payment to the United States and notes the memorial hall project on Legion Memorial Road. Office communications reference Mayor Harold and city officials.
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Legion Memorial Rd
Harold
Gill
United States
City
James
American Legion
Memorial Hall
Pickets On Job Action At Ravenna Arsenal
A strike was called by the Arsenal Workers of America and three unions at the Ravenna shell loading plant. About 1,000 to 1,500 workers were affected on two production lines plus transport and maintenance staff. Atlas Powder Co said production was not seriously interrupted and 90 percent of workers reported for duty. The fight centers on Atlas refusing to sign a contract previously deemed satisfactory. The strike followed earlier calls and postponements amid disputes over war department delays.
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Ravenna
Atlas Powder Co
R. R. Walker
Independent Arsenal Workers of America
Credit Rule O Regulation W Discussed In Portsmouth
Portsmouth Clearing House association hosted a Cameo meeting to brief lenders and vendors on Regulation W. Henry N. Ott of the Cincinnati Fed and Clyde Harrell regulation W supervisor spoke after introduction by C. A. Brown, president of the association.
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C. A. Brown
Association
Henry N. Ott
Cincinnati
Clyde Harrell
Senators weigh aid to little business in defense program
Senators discussed aiding small business as the victory program tightens access to steel copper zinc and other strategic materials. Senator O Mahoney said the senate navy committee favors giving small business a share of materials while Senators Lucas and Truman support a definite percentage of copper steel and other metals set aside. About 150 000 small business concerns could continue operating with 2 to 5 percent allocations.
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Washington
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Senate Navy Committee
Lucas
Ilinois
Truman
Missouri
Temperatures Reported For Today And Past Year
Observer Schirrman reports today's 11 am temperature at 56 with a 51 degree low. The previous day reached a maximum of 64. One year ago today the high was 40 and the low 17.
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Schirrman
Regulatory W rules in Paul Mallon column note limits
Paul Mallon explains Regulation W on the Cincinnati Federal Reserve editorial page. The meeting drew over 150 lenders and vendors. It details installment maturities not exceeding 18 months, a 20 percent down payment, and a $1500 credit cap with terms previously seen up to 36 months in Portsmouth territory.
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Paul Mallon
Cincinnati
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Portsmouth
Knudsen blames strikes amid wartime production push
William S. Knudsen, co-director of the Office of Production Management, told thousands of industrialists that in a declared national emergency strikes are foolish. He said the nation is in good wage and working condition shape and warned against jurisdictional and organizational disputes halting essential work.
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New York
William S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
New Price Hikes Seen Ahead Says Henderson
Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson warned at an Economic Club meeting that living costs will rise about 20 percent by next spring from the start of the national emergency. He said prices have already climbed roughly 11 percent and are expected to advance another 4 months at a similar pace.
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New York
Federal Price Administration
Leon Hen
House Debates Anti Strike Act in Major Vote Preview
Washington December 3 The House moves toward its first vote on several proposals to keep defense plants operating amid labor tensions. The Smith bill seeks strict arbitration, open and closed shop status, union registration, and ban on certain strikes. If defeated, Ramspeck plan would empower a national defense mediation board with 60 days for mediation and possible plant seizure if needed. Halleck and others consider amendments to remove seizure and add Smith style provisions.
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Washington
Smith
Virginia
Representative Ramspeck
Georgia
Labor Committee
Ramspeck
National Defense Mediation Board
Labor Department
Halleck
Indiana
Agreement raises railroad workers pay scale nationwide
President Roosevelt announced terms ending a threatened general strike. About 900,000 nonoperating workers will gain 60 cents per day, while 350,000 operating workers receive 76 cents more daily. The new nonoperating pay averages 73 4 cents per hour, with operating rates added to existing scales, starting from 5.06 dollars per day.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roundhouse
Gillis Campaign From Jail Fails To Win Mayor Post
Gillis, jailed inmate and three term Newburyport mayoral candidate, lost to John M. Kelleher a 47 year old dance hall proprietor. Kelleher won the Newburyport mayoral race on December 3 with Gillis securing only a thumbs down from voters in this seacoast city.
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Newburyport
Mass
Andrew J
Bossy) Gillis
Gillis
Seacoast
John M. Kelleher
Portsmouth Business Leader Earl Pursell Dies at 67
Earl Tracy Pursell 67, president and general manager of Citizens Budget Co., died at home after a six week influenza illness followed by a heart condition. A Portsmouth native, he graduated from Portsmouth High School and led the Tracy Shoe Co. before joining Citizens Budget. Survived by wife Bertha Reed Pursell, three children, three sisters, and three grandchildren. funeral Thursday at Bigelow Methodist church with burial at Greenlawn.
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Earl Tracy Pursell
The
Citizens Budget Co
Micklethwait Road
Mr. Pursell
Portsmouth
William McClain
Clara Morris Pursell
Pursell
Seventh
Washington Streets
C. P. Tracy Shoe Co
Tracy Shoe Co
Sixth Street
Bigelow Methodist Church
Bertha Reed
William McClain Pursell II
Berkeley
Calif
John M. Fain Jr
Mt. Vernon
N. Y
Edward Reed Pursell
Louisville
James Bannon Jr
J. D. Owen
Lynchburg
Ralph B. Sullivan
Cleveland
William M. Pursell II
Wallace Gates Pursell
Berkeey
Ann Reed Fain
A. K. Wilson
Bigelow Church
Greenawn Cemetery
Daehler
Owen
Sullivan
Germans Claim Moscow Gains Amid Blizzards on Front
Soviet dispatches countered with news of German advances near Moscow and in the south as German reinforcements rush toward the Mariupol road. Rostov and Rostov-on-Don were focal points in the fighting with large German losses reported in the southern sector.
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Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Rostov-on Don
Ukraine
London
Gerd von Rundstedt
Hitler
Mariupol
Rostov
Prisoners Arrive at Alexandria in Large Axis Transfer
Seven thousand axis prisoners captured in the Libyan desert, including many German fliers, arrived at Alexandria today and were moved to internment camps. They traveled by warships, truck convoys, and a 14 coach train.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Soviet and German clash across front near Moscow and Mozhaisk
Amid harsh winter on the central front Soviet forces claim recaptures of three villages in the Mozhaisk sector and gains near Stalinogorosk. German reports say tank infantry and dive bombers push fresh salvos toward Moscow while denying winter quarters. In Leningrad area Soviet losses and gains cited, with 1,000 Germans reported killed over two days and equipment captured. North Africa front referenced.
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Sea of Azov
Moscow
Hitler
Gregory K
Stalinogorosk
Capital
Leningrad
Sixty face trial in plot to kill Mussolini in Trieste
A large revolutionary conspiracy alleged assassination attempts against Premier Mussolini in Trieste. Sixty defendants, described as anti-Italian terrorists, stand before a Fascist court as part of a 71-member group. eleven others are missing, likely abroad. The dispute concerns an uprising in the northeast region annexed from Austria after World War I.
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Rome
Mussolini
Trieste
Austria
German Officer Shot in Paris Sparks Curfew in 10th Arrondissement
Paris dispatch reports a German medical corps officer was shot last night on Boulevard Magenta. In response, German authorities imposed a 6:30 p.m. curfew across the entire 10th arrondissement.
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Paris
Boulevard Magenta
10Th Arrondissement
U K receives 6 billion arms boost to defense drive
The House Appropriations Committee approved an $8.243 billion defense package with end lease aid to expand tank and gun production for British and Russian forces. Total defense authorizations since July 1, 1948 rise to nearly $67.99 billion. Army enlistment would climb to 1,840,934, up 277,026.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Robert P. Petterson
Conspirators Aimed at Soviet Republic Across Europe
The state contends conspirators sought a Soviet style republic spanning Slavic Italy Austrian Carinthia and Yugoslavia. It cites definite proof of espionage three powder factory explosions derailment attempts and an assassination attempt on Mussolini at Caporetto in 1938.
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Italy
Austrian
Carinthia
Yugoslavia
Mussolini
Caporetto
Ford plans world federation from war
Henry Ford envisions a postwar world federation arising from the European conflict. He says barriers of nationality would vanish, politics would be discarded, and a universal currency economy and market would prevail. He cites the United States as a practical federation example.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Europe
United States
Ford
Roosevelt asks Japan about aims in French Indo China
President Roosevelt sent a blunt inquiry to Tokyo asking Japan to reveal its purposes in increasing forces in French Indo China. Officials expect a formal Japanese reply soon, which could either escalate the Pacific crisis or offer a temporary pause.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Pacific
Thailand
Tokyo
Marshal Petain
Reichsmarshal Goering
Hull
United States
190 Bushels An Acre Yield Sets Corn Mark
Herman Barrett, a 53 year old farmer from southern Indiana, claims a probable world record corn yield of 190.1 bushels per acre on his 568 acre farm in Lafayette. He prepared drained marshland, planted May 17, used fertilizer and rock phosphate, and cultivated twice as the plant grew.
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Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Herman Barrett
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