Congress Opens War Year with Eye on Elections
Congress returns to work amid wartime unity talk and looming fall elections. The 78th Congress faces major bills on soldiers discharge pay votes subsidies taxes and labor strike responses as President Roosevelt prepares a wartime address likely urging national unity and reconversion plans.
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Associated Press
Washington
78Th Congress
Congress
Roosevelt
Capital Hill
Senate
House Military Committee
Three Raleigh County Men Reported Dead in Navy Casualties
Three Raleigh county men were listed among 145 United States naval casualties. Arthur Lee Miller, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Miller of Temple Street, Aviation Pilot First Class. Corporal Fred C Wallace of the Marine Corps, son of Charley Wallace of Odd. Private First Class Paul D Wingler of the Marine Corps Reserve, son of Mrs Laura Wingler of Skelton are named among the dead.
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Raleigh County
Navy
United States Naval Forces
Arthur Lee Miller
Robert Lee Miller
Temple Street
Fred C. Wallace
Marine Corps
Charley Wallace
Qdd
Paul D. Wingler
Marine Corps Reserve
Laura Wingler
Skelton
Food bill seeks centralized control on prices and supply
The Republican congressional food study committee and a majority of the House Agriculture Committee back a bill to create a single administrator to oversee prices, production, and distribution of food, amid wartime disruption concerns.
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Republican Congressional Food Study Committee
House Agriculture Committee
Aluminum Union Seeks Wage Increase Negotiations Begin
Aluminum workers union plans wage talks with Aluminum Company of America starting January 20 in Pittsburgh to push a 15 cent hourly raise for about 60,000 members. A national conference in Pittsburgh on January 18-19 will set the formal demands, including cash and war bond components and elimination of a north-south wage differential.
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Associated Brass Plipsburgil N. A
Zonarieh
Aluminum, Workers of America
Aluminum Co. of American
Atcou
Pittsburgh
Binal
Zeunrich
Auminium
Waddell Charged With Stealing Beef in Raleigh County
Jon Waddell is jailed on a felony warrant after state police arrested him Thursday. He faces charges of stealing the hind quarters of a steer belonging to Ison Goff of Whitby.
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Jon Waddell
Raleigh
Waddell
Ison Goff
Whitby
Deferment curbs target young registrants under new policy
The Associated Press reports a radical limit on occupational deferments for 18 to 20 year olds effective February 1. About 80,000 fathers and 15,680 farm workers face new drafting pressure as student deferments shrink and non-fathers with critical skills face tightened review while older groups retain fewer protections.
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Associated Press
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis HH. Herishes
Proewar
Hershey
Alershes
Gas Deliveries Slashed Ahead of War Gas Ration Plan
The War Production Board restricted industrial and commercial natural gas deliveries in the Appalachian region to conserve scarce supplies. The order covers Virginia West Virginia Maryland Ohio Pennsylvania New York District of Columbia and fourteen western Kentucky counties and requires substitution of other fuels until Texas West Virginia pipeline is completed.
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Associated Press
Appalachian
War Production Board
Maryland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
District of Columbia
Hert
Kentucky
Quota Plan Divides Funds Among Schools by Feb Fifteenth
The quota of funds will be capped at 10,000 and allocated to schools by the W.MLC. Each school will receive an allotment after notification by February 15.
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