State Dept details protests over treatment of captured Americans
The State Department disclosed 89 major protests to Tokyo over how captured Americans are treated, tracing week by week efforts since the war began to force Japan to honor prisoner promises. The latest came last Thursday, paired with an Army-Navy atrocity report, while Senator Chavez urged action and questioned the delay in releasing the official account.
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Washington
State Department
Tokyo
Army- Navy
Filpinos
Battan
Corregidor
Department
Japan
Tts
Army-Navy
Congress
Chavez
D.-N.m
Senate
Bataan
War Department
Pacific
Europe
U. S
Coal Price Rises 45 Cents a Ton for February
The OPA approved a 45 cent per ton increase in anthracite prices for February to cover higher production costs from seven day mining. Dealers may raise consumer ceilings accordingly, with ceilings reverting March 1. The boost applies to coal loaded in February and covers double time wages for Sunday work.
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Washington DP
OPA
Ickes
New England
Middle Atlantic
Payment of Points Doubles Fat Salvage Payment
The Office of Price Administration reports fat salvage receipts are short of minimum needs despite more than doubling weekly fats payments. Renderers estimate housewives now save about 200 million pounds annually, up from before two points per pound, but shortfalls persist by roughly 30 million pounds per year.
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Washington (P
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Boston Lawyers Hold Income Tax School
Nearly 600 lawyers of the Boston Bar Association went back to law school yesterday to learn from experts how to file the 1943 Income tax. So large was the turnout that another lecture room had to be wired with a public address system to handle the overflow of students taking the intensive nine hour course.
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Boston LLP
Boston Bar Association
New Tax Bill Clears Committee
Washington reports a 2.3158 billion revenue bill approved by a joint committee of senators and representatives and sent toward final action. It raises wartime excise taxes, boosts income tax loads, and includes amended War Contracts Renegotiation provisions. The bill falls short of administration requests but aims to push annual federal income above 43.5 billion. pari mutuel betting tax on race tracks was rejected by conferees.
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Washington
House
Senate
Barkley D.ky
George
D.-Ga
Senators Debate Soldier Vote in Senate on Ballot Bill
The Senate debated the Green-Lucas Bill to grant service personnel a federal ballot as President Roosevelt denounced the State Ballot Bill. Senator Langer endorsed the President while Senator Gillette urged limits on executive comments in legislative matters. Leaders met early to push for final action, with final disposition unlikely before tomorrow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Langer
R-N.d
Gillette
D.-Sa
1944 Independent Offices Appropriation Passed by House
The House approved the first regular appropriation bill of 1944 the 8 500 000 352 for independent offices unanimously after cutting 1 654 857 from FCC funds and reducing Home Loan Bank admin funds by 500 000 The measure to further curb FCC funds failed Representative Taber called Fly a menace to the war effort and the bill now goes to the Senate for action.
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Washington
House
Federal Communications Commission
Senate
Federal Home Loan Bank
James L. Fly
Appropriations
Taber
R-N
Mexico's WWI envoy Ignacio Boníl dies in Nogales
Ignacio Bonil Las, 86, Mexico's ambassador to the United States during World War I, died yesterday in Nogales Ariz. This former envoy had served during the wartime years and leaves a legacy in diplomatic history.
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Nogales, Ariz
Ignacio Bonillas
Mexico
United States
Spain May Quit Axis
An informed source forecast Spain will break relations with the Axis this week under pressure from Britain and the United States. The diplomat cited threats of Allied sanctions and a blockade that could cut Spain off from vital supplies and foodstuffs.
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Buenos Aires
Spain
Asis
Britain
United States
Axis
Throngs Attend White Funeral in Emporia Kansas
William Allen White famed editor and author was buried after a large ceremony in Emporia. More than 2,200 people attended the graveside and chapel service led by Rev Stephen J Williams with Welsh Resurrection Hymn. Officials from state and nation attended. A private service preceded the chapel rites.
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Emporia
Kas
William Allen White
Stephen J. Williams
First Congregational Church
College of Emporia
Government reports near elimination of red light districts
Washington AU The Federal Security Agency says 662 red light districts have been eliminated since 1941 and that practically none remain. The agency credits patient groundwork and cities for closing areas, noting routine inspections cannot control venereal diseases. Eliot Ness heads the division guiding police action.
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Washington
Office of
Community War Services
Federal Security Agency
FSA
Social Protection Division
Eliot Ness
Public Safety
Cleveland, Co
Two sisters and brother slain in Albany home
Police and the Albany County District Attorney investigate the deaths of Edward Swarts, 50, and his sisters May, 60, and Haffie, 54, whose bodies were found in their Albany residence after a fire damaged the cellar. Autopsies planned. Authorities suspect a murder followed by arson intended to conceal the crime.
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Albany
Albany County District Attorney’s Office
Edward F. Swarts
May
Haffie
Stanford Court
John T. Delaney
Swartses
Fred Dolch
Whitehall Road
Catherine
Swarts
Dolch
Harry J. Wands
John J. Phelan
William J. Fitzpatrick
So We Surrendered Says Bewildered Nazi
A German soldier, after surrender, told CBS correspondent Farnsworth Fowle that orders varied between dugouts and fighting tactics. He described confusion during Allied tactics on the Rapido River and said he surrendered when infantry and tanks attacked together.
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Nazi
New York
Rapido River
CBS
Farnsworth Fowle
Lie Detector Used in Hotel Slaying Inquiry
Chicago report notes lie detector tests given to Joseph A. Pope stated that Edgar R. Born and Eva Fritz told the truth in prior interviews. No suspicions on Born or Fritz. U S Secret Service verified authenticity of 100000 dollar bills found in Mrs Williams safe deposit box. Source withheld on origin of funds.
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Chicago
UPI
Edgar R. Born
Glain
Frank Starr Williams
Eva Fritz
Drake
Negroes Win Right To Attend White School In Trenton NJ
Two African American children forced to ride 16 blocks to an all Negro junior high school won a court ruling allowing attendance at a nearby white school. Justice Newton H. Porter stated the denial based on race was unlawful and boards cannot exclude pupils from public schools for race.
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Trenton
N. J
UPI
Trenton Board of Education
Supreme Court
Newton H. Porter
Boards of Education
Library of Congress To Receive Cook's Log
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will present a unique copy of Capt. Philip Cook's log of his voyage of discovery of Australia to the Library of Congress in a formal ceremony in the President's study today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Philip Cook
Australia
Library of Congress
Dewey Maps Budget Cut Lower Pay Rates Raised
Governor Dewey proposed a $371,809,000 New York state budget with a $4.9 million cut from the prior year and continued taxes to fund wartime needs. The plan includes an $8.9 million boost to the March 31 surplus, a $17.6 million operating surplus for 144-45, and continued 25 percent personal income tax cuts. It also cuts state aid by $5.16 million, seeks $19.5 million in temporary relief for cities, and urges $5 million from postwar funds for peacetime employment projects. Democratic leader Irwin Steingut condemned school aid cuts as unjust, while Assembly leaders warned upcoming hearings will explore the measure. Dewey hinted revenue may assume an earlier European war end.
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Irwin Steingut
Steingut
Irving M. Ives
Assembly
Dewey
Upper Hudson District
Troy
Rensselaer
Albany
Cohoes
Watervliet
Mechanicville
Saratoga Springs
Schenectady
Glens Falls
Assembly Chamber
Dewey's Executive Budget Aims at War and Postwar Needs
Governor Dewey proposes a fiscal plan for 1944 45 that trims nonessential spending during war while funding rapid postwar expansion. The budget envisions continued war demand, gradual domestic reconstruction, and billions in aid to cities in the Upper Hudson region. Legislative hearings are set for February 9 to hear requests on appropriations and taxes.
Car and Bike Quotas For February Reduced
The Office of Price Administration cut February quotas for cars and bicycles to conserve dwindling supply. Car allocations dropped to 10,000 units and bicycles to 7,500, down from January levels of 15,000 cars and a similar bicycle quantity. The reductions target essential uses amid tight distribution.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Elliptical Star Observed Flattened Shape in Nova Pictorias
Dr J S Paraskevo poulos of Harvard Observatory in Blomfontein reports a celestial phenomenon a star flattened at its poles. He suggests it may illuminate solar system origins and planetary formation. The star in Nova Pictorias is described as elongated and elliptical, a rarity among astronomical records.
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Capetown
South Africa
UPI
J. S. Paraskevopoulos
Harvard Observatory
Blomfontein
Nova Pictorias
Capitol Steps Rebuilding Questioned in Dewey Budget
Governor Dewey disclosed in his 1944 45 budget message that the massive front steps of New York's capitol are deteriorating and require a $638 730 appropriation for capital outlays. Three plans were discussed one repairs the 79 steps to the second floor one eliminates the steps leaving a ground floor entrance and the third would remove the steps and close the front entrance with a small parking space added.
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Dewey
Capitol
Department of Public Works
War Casualties Hit 146 186 Totals for Armed Forces
Washington report from the OWI cites latest War and Navy Department tallies showing 33 153 dead, 49 518 wounded, 33 617 missing and 29 898 prisoner takens since the war began. It notes 1 933 prisoners officially reported by the enemy as having died in camps, chiefly in Japanese territories. The agency says latest Japanese atrocities data push those death figures higher.
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Washington (P
Office of War Information
War and Navy Departments
Owi
Pris Peners
Armi-Navy
Supreme Court upholds Massachusetts child labor curb on street literature
The Supreme Court rules Massachusetts may ban parents from giving religious literature to children for sale on streets, reversing Jehovah's Witnesses favoring religious freedom. The decision, written by Rutledge, states parents may martyr themselves but not their children, and public highways are not their religious property.
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Washington UP
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Jehovah's Witnesses
Sarah Prince
Brockton
Mass
Brockton Streets
Tuethe Rutledge
Jority
Tokyo Reports Landings
Tokyo broadcasting to its people claimed a superior enemy force raided the Marshall Islands since Sunday morning and suggested a large scale operation. American forces extended heavy bombardments to Wake Island and reported new actions in the central Pacific as Tokyo hinted invasion push.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Marshall Islands
U. S
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Associated Press
mid-Pacific
Wake Island
Navy
Tokyo
Coronado
Midway
Gilbert Islands
Wake
Reds Enter Kingisepp in Rapid Soviet Advance
Soviet General Govorov s Leningrad army pushed toward Narva after crossing the Luga River near Kingisepp eight miles from the Estonian frontier. Russian communique says retreating German forces abandon guns and stores as Lipa is captured and Lutsk lines taken along the Luga.
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London
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Kingisepp
Luga River
Narva
Estonia
Lipa
Luga
Bolshoi Lutsk
Maly Lutsk
Solsboye Klenna
Fight Looms for Hattie Caraway's Job
Washington reports a three way contest for the Arkansas seat held by Senator Hattie Caraway. Representative Fulbright announced his candidacy at the January filing period. David Terry also said he would seek the seat, while Caraway openly pursues reelection.
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Washington
Hattie Caraway
D.-Ark
United States Senate
Fulbright
House
David Terry
Arkansas
Caraway
Terry
Senate
Farm Credit Chief Warns on Land Prices Speculation
Gov A G Black of the Farm Credit Administration cautioned that failure to hold the land price line could trigger a speculative surge. He urged measures to curb price rises and protect sustainable farming finance.
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Drew Pearson
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