Wickard urges farmers to boost 1943 crops nationwide
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard called for a dawn to dusk effort to raise 1943 food output for the United Nations. He aims for a 10 percent rise in livestock products without increasing cropland and outlined production goals across meat milk poultry eggs vegetables corn peanuts potatoes dry beans and cotton. He warned shortages and rationing lie ahead and pledged price supports to ensure farmer returns without raising consumer costs.
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United Press
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
United Nations
Wickard
Hitler
Department
Chicago
Ithaca Legion Dinner Honors Selective Service Boards
Members of Selective Service Boards 495 and 496 in Ithaca will be entertained by the American Legion at a dinner in the VFW home at 7 PM Monday December 7. The event, part of a nationwide observance urged by President Roosevelt, is organized by County Commander Robert Coolbaugh with a committee headed by Leon D. Rothschild and including Hobart Sears R A McKinney Earl Boyd William Rolston and Louis Pickering.
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Ithaca Legionnaires
Selective Boards
Ithaca
Selective Service Boards
American Legion
V.F.W
Roosevelt
Roane Warng
Legion County
Robert Coolbaugh
Leon D. Rothschild
Hobart Sears
Trumansburg
R. A. McKinney
Dryden
Earl Boyd
Groton
William Rolston
Louis Pickering
Caterpillar Club Expands With 100 New Members in New Guinea
In New Guinea the Caterpillar Club adds over 100 pilots navigators bombardiers and gunners who bailed from stricken aircraft to fight again Two civilians join the ranks including an aircraft factory representative and a winter jumper Vern Haugland recounts his 43 days in Papuan jungles and many others describe perilous escapes during Japanese air assaults with no parachute failures reported and extensive chute maintenance ongoing.
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New Guinea
America
Caterpillar Club
Aircraft Factory
Haugland
Port Moresby
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Frank Angier
Baltimore
Angier
W. R. Marlatt
Caldwell
N. J
James Foster
Philadelphia
Fort Moresby
Marlatt
Lieut
Walter Beane
Norfolk
Lieu
Carl T. Rauch
Cadillac
Mich
Don J. Green
Anaconda
Mont
Henry H. Bartlett
Boston
T. J. Lynch
Catasqua
Ralph C. Carey
Valley Stream
N. Y
Lantry Plunkett
Lynchburg
Plunkett
Jim Miller
Salinas
Calif
Wiggins
Mass
E. J. Alderdan
Willis
Mrs. Mary E. Scee Dies in Watertown
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Scee, 70, wife of William E. Scee of 549 West Main Street, died yesterday at home following a heart attack.
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Mary E. Scee
Watertown
Mary Elizabeth Scee
William E. Scee
West Main Street
One 3 Dinner Waiter in Capital Dining Scene
Washington reporter Duke Shoop describes high food prices in the capital. A Westerner ordered a $3 dinner and asked for bread choice, with the waiter replying Yes sir On white or rye as part of a restaurant anecdote.
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Kansas City
Duke Shoop
Washington
Shoop
Sergeant Koneeny Returns From Guadalcanal To Duck Hunt
Marine Staff Sergeant Rudolph F. Koneeny earned a furlough after two months of stalking Japanese on Guadalcanal and returned home to pursue his favorite sport, duck hunting, a long hard and dangerous campaign noted by reports from St. Louis.
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St. Louis
Marine
Rudolph F. Koneeny
Guadalcanal
Koneeny
Emergency roadside airstrip saves life on Alaskan highway
Whitehorse Yukon Territory reports an improvised operating room set up in a barracks after an emergency landing. Sergt James West was near death from a ruptured appendix and received life saving surgery from Capt William T Joyce and Lieut Eugene Moskowitz who flew from base hospital in a blizzard to perform the operation.
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Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
James West
Northwest Service Command
William T. Joyce
Scranton
Eugene Moskowitz
Mt. Vernon
Exterminator’s Cyanide Fume Fatality Shocks Barber Shop
Kansas City report details a exterminating company worker giving warning at a restaurant then fumigating a nearby barber shop. Cyanide pellets released by mistake killed Fred R. Kelley, 41, who returned Sunday for a shotgun and died from fumes hours later.
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Kansas City
Fred R. Kelley
Cottages Ordered Vacated Near Naval Training Staten
Geneva dispatch reports all John A. Johnson Contracting Co employees and Navy civilian workers living in cottages along Seneca Lake must vacate by Monday. The Navy demolishes other nonessential buildings on the reservation while decisions on the cottages remain unresolved. Barret Philip, Alfred Jepson and several superintendents are named among cottage residents.
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Geneva
John A. Johnson Contracting Company
Naval Training Staten
Navy
Seneca Lake
Barrett Philip
Alfred Jepson
The
Johnson Company
William E Barton Dies at Malone After Sudden Illness
William E Barton aged 51 died at his Malone home at 123 Fort Covington Street shortly after midnight Friday from coronary thrombosis. Last rites were performed today as his family rushed for medical help but could not reach a physician in time.
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William E. Barton
Malone Malone
Fort. Covington ‘Street
Troop B
Mr. Battenpee
Allied Drive Cuts Between Buna Gona in New Guinea
Australian ground troops supported by planes and artillery seized a beach area about 900 yards east of Gona and pushed toward Sanananda. U.S. Flying Fortresses and P-40 fighters bombed and strafed the beachhead, aiming to sever Japanese links between Gona Buna and Sanananda while Allied forces pressed the coast drive.
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New Guinea
Gona
Sanananda
Buna Gona
United States Flying Fortresses
Buna
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Milne Bay
District Deputy Visits Auburn Lodges for Annual Meeting
Denton J. Watrous district deputy of Cayuga Tompkins Masonic district will visit Auburn on Wednesday at 7 30 P M for a joint meeting of Auburn Lodge 431 F A M St Pauls Lodge 124 and Sea and Field Lodge 3974 at Masonic Temple. The gathering marks the annual meeting and election.
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Auburn Auburn
Denton J. Watrous
Cayuga- Tompkins
Masonic Temple
Auburn Lodge
A. M
St. Paul’s Lodge
Sea and Field Lodge
Auburn Reports 2921 Tons Scrap Gathered
Auburn salvage committee reports 2921 tons of scrap collected since Sept 14, nearing 3000 tons. The three month total exceeds the original 1800 ton quota set for the city.
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Auburn
Axis Expected To Speed Up U-Boat Drive
London dispatch reports First Lord A. V. Alexander may announce new measures after Churchill warnings that the U boat war remains undiminished. Hitler overestimated Allied shipping earlier and now rushes to deploy a larger submarine fleet, while Allied operations push toward a Mediterranean route to Russia and a potential reopening of shorter sea supply lines.
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London
A. V. Alexander
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Germany
South Atlantic
West Africa
Middle East
Iran
Mediterranean
Churchill
Ankara
Russia
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Turkish Straits
Balkans
Turin
Italy
Tunis
Naples
Algeria
Tunisia
Himmler Directs Toulon Roundup by Nazis
London dispatch says Heinrich Himmler arrived in Toulon to oversee reprisals after the French fleet’s destruction. Nazi efforts target French citizens in the former occupied zone accused of opposing German authorities or illegal affiliations. Courts martial may sentence those involved, including officers resisting demobilization.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Toulon
Moscow
Geneva
Himmler
French Mediterranean
Tass
Thox- Inc Thoxine Ad Promises Quick Throat Relief
An advertisement urges taking a single swallow of Thox- Inc Thoxine for fast palliative relief. It claims soothing action on the throat, internal smoothness, loosened phlegm, and near immediate cough stop with a pleasant taste for adults and children.
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Thox- Inc
Hopkins Commissioned as Army Second Lieutenant at Fort Oglethorpe
Joseph T. Hopkins son of Mr and Mrs P Augustus Hopkins of 207 Highland Avenue has received his commission as second lieutenant in the Army at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia He is assigned to the Provost Marshal General's Office in Washington D C Hopkins graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1941 and worked briefly for American Mutual Liability Company He left Syracuse on April 10 He is 25 His brother P Augustus Hopkins Jr is an aviation cadet at Greenville Army Flying School in Mississippi He is 24 last Friday
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Joseph T. Hopkins
P. Augustus Hopkins
Highland Avenue
Fort Oglethorpe
Washington, D.C
Hopkins
Ated
College of Law
Syracuse University
American Mutual Liability Company
Syracuse
P. Augustus Hopkins, Jr
Greenville Army Flying School
Mississippi
Health work reported for Seneca County wartime camps
Dr Don M Griswold reported extensive public health efforts around Seneca County military projects. A health center operated at Floral Hall Waterloo Fair Grounds with 200 government trailers. Census counted 1393 adults and 206 children in the trailer park. Nurses, physicians and child health services supported mothers and infants across 18 permanent tourist camps and 52 trailer camps with immunization and maternity focus.
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Seneca Falls
Seneca County
State Department For Health
Don M. Griswold
United States
Griswold
State Commissioner of Health
Floral Hall
Waterloo Fair Ground
Fair Ground
Government Thermometer Reaches 32 Degrees at Owasco Lake
Auburn reports the government thermometer at Owasco Lake registered 32 degrees above zero early today. The reading confirms a cold start to the day's weather.
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Auburn
Owasco Lake
Watertown youth dies after car crash near Adams Center
Emory McIntosh 19 of Bradley Street Road died at Mercy Hospital from a fractured skull after his car left the Adams Center State Road and overturned four miles from Watertown. He said he fell asleep at the wheel returning home from a barn dance in Oswego County. Harold Fay Thomas 22 of Sackets Harbor is in critical condition with a fractured skull. Keitha Aldrich 17 of Orwell and Eva Kablin 20 of Lacona are also injured. Kenneth Dennee 17 was treated and discharged.
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Watertown
Emory McIntosh
Bradley Street
Mercy Hospital
Adams Center State Road
McIntosh
Raymond Sharkey
Oswego County
Harold Fay Thomas
Sackets Harbor
House of the Good Samaritan
Keitha Aldrich
Orwell
Eva Kablin
Lacona
Kenneth Dennee
Bradley Street Road
Natural Bridge Driver Injured In Car Crash
Carl Collier of Natural Bridge was injured when his car skidded on the Natural Bridge Carthage Highway and left the road. He suffered chest and abdominal injuries and a knee bruise, was taken to Community Hospital, West Carthage, by Dr. John Ecklman. Collier, a Carbola Chemical Company employee, planned to enter the Army Friday.
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Carthage
Carl Collier
Natural Bridge
West Carthage
Natural Bridge- Carthage
John H. Ecklman
Harrisville
West Carthage Hospital
Collier
Carbola Chemical Company
Rotary Club Speaker Warren Brigham to speak at Hotel Osborne
Aburn November 30 Warren Brigham director of Brigham Associates New York City will be the guest speaker at tomorrow s meeting of the Rotary Club in Hotel Osborne His subject will be old and new problems in industry.
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Rotary Club
Aburn
Warren Brigham
Brigham Associates
New York City
Hotel Osborne
Roosevelt Eyes Three-Way Cabinet Shakeup Over War Roles
President Roosevelt considers a plan to shift Harold Ickes to Labor with manpower control and renominate Paul V. McNutt to Interior and Frances Perkins to the Federal Security Administrator. Critics in Congress anticipate vigorous debate on cabinet performance during wartime and labor policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Senate
Paul V. McNutt
Interior
Frances Perkins
Interior Department
McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Perkins
Congress
Byrd
D-Va
Miss Perkins
Navy
Frank Knox
Dairy Feed Schools Set for Penn Yan Area Next Week
Dairy men are invited to three feed and feed crop production schools in Yates County. Programs run 10 30 a m to 3 30 p m with a noon lunch. Professors Crandall and Serviss present topics on milk profits grain use new crops and fertilizer recommendations for 1943.
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Penn Yan
This County
Crystal Valley Grange Hall
Penn Yan Grange Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Middlesex
Ceme
W. T Crandall
George Serviss
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U. 8
Vern Haugland
Naval Base
Allied
Buna, Gona
VERN
Uaugland
Warren
Victor Gordon Lennox
Chicago Daily News, Inc
J.T. Hopkins
Loeut
P. Augustus Hopkins, IR
Bellans
Herald-Journal
S. Salina ST
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