Congress Orders AAA Investigation
Congressional probes were ordered into alleged coercion of farmers to join the Agricultural Adjustment Agency program under threat of draft or loss of rationed fuel. Rep. Harness and Rep. Hirley alleged measures tying Selective Service deferments to AAA registration, with May and Smith signaling formal inquiries and OPA coordination.
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D. W. Dittmer
Washington (P
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Forest A. Harness
Ind
Ross Hirley
Okle
Andrew J. May
House Military Affairs Committee
Howard W. Smith
Special House Committee On Government Agencies
Office of Price Administration
AAA
Selective Service Board No. 2
Grant County
County War Board
Harness
Jay County
Agriculture Conservation Committee
Selective Service Board
OPA
Various Local Social Events In Round Lake Area
Round Lake events feature Mrs. Thomas N Derby of Corinth visiting her son-in-law and daughter, plus a 2 30 p m silver tea at Mrs Ada M Harwood’s home for the Woman's Society of Christian Service. Lenten lectures at All Saints' Episcopal Church library reading room begin Fridays at 2 30 p m with Rev W E Fielding Haylor speaking on The Prayer Book Reason Why. The Methodist group met with Ada M Harwood as chairmen for April May and June plan food sales March 29 May and June chairmanships announced. Malta Grange hospitality committee hosts a card party Saturday at 8 p m at 221 South Third Street Mechanicville with prizes and refreshments for Malta Grange. Home Bureau to join Malta Grange meeting with covered dish supper and a guest speaker Miss Alice Warren of Skidmore on Planning the Postwar World. Families asked to bring sandwiches and a covered dish. supper at 6 90.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas N. Derby
Corinth
Harold Moshier
Ada M. Harwood
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Richard Bond
Addison Kingsley
Women's Auxiliary
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
W. E. Fielding Haylor
The
Lester van Horn
H. Beecher Williams
Howard Knapp
Va Bennett
Cora ‘Winter
G. Fred Bond
W. N. Underhill
Malta Grange
Stewart Martin
Emiline Brownell
Ray Weed
Earle Edmonds
Franklin Brownell
South Third Street
Mechanicville
Home Bureau
Willam McDermott
Reginald MacKinlay
French Raid on German Island Capture 36 Prisoners
French commandos struck a German held island between Corsica and Italy Saturday night with complete success taking 36 prisoners and reporting several German deaths. General Henri Honore Giraud announced the operation yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Corsica
Italy
Henri Honore Giraud
Americans Saw Frenchmen Shot By Nazi Guards
Reports from inside Nazi camps detail American civilians and POWs held under harsh conditions. Norman Lewis, a Paris banker and Eastman Dillon representative, was shot in the leg at Compiegne by a German guard. Americans witnessed French captives shot and starved, with families separated and repatriation delays noted.
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New York
Eastman Dillon Co
R. E. Lewis
Moultrie
Lewis
Val-de- Grace
Paris
Bordeaux
Compiegne
Germany
France
Wheer
Gripsholm
Vittel
Liebenau
Laufen
Tottmoning
Tojo Sees Jap Dilemma as Serious in New Dangers
London dispatch quotes Premier Marshal Hideki Tojo warning that Japan faces decisive struggles that could decide its destiny amid six weeks of deteriorating war prospects. He claimed Japan repelled outer attacks while enemy efforts intensify with superior materiel, as American advances near Truk and in the Southwest Pacific include new island bases and key landings. Tojo said there is no longer a gap between fighting lines and home front mobilization and promised to reinforce living standards with minimum guarantees. FALL PROVES FATAL. Buffalo news item reports Charles Heberlein, 35, dies from a fractured skull after a roof fall at National Insulating Co.
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London
Hideki Tojo
Japan
DNB
Tokyo
Tojo
South
Southwest Pacific
New Island
Truk
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty Islands
Rabaul
Kavieng
Buffalo (P
Charles Heberlein
The
National Insulating Co
Flyers Rescued From Ice Floe
Three men were rescued after spending a week on a floe when their plane crashed in the lower Gulf of St. Lawrence. The trio were picked up by the Canadian navy ice breaker Sorel about sixty miles east of Anticosti Island and brought to Sidney, Nova Scotia aboard a heated CP Air plane. Emergency gear and supplies aided their survival during a week-long aerial search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Sidney
N. S
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Canadian Pacific Airlines
E. J. Carlisle
C. P. A. Here
Sorel
Anticosti Island
Carlisle
New American Fire Bomb Causes Havoc
Washington reports a new 500 pound incendiary bomb named the M76 or Goop. The War Department says it cannot be extinguished once ignited, a tremendously destructive fire agent developed by the U S chemical warfare service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nazi Europe
War Department
Department
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service
Driver Sentenced in Negegence Death Case
Frank M. Wilson of Schenectady received nine months in Albany County Penitentiary and a $300 fine in Albany County Court on Tuesday after a trial convicting him of criminal negligence in connection with the death of Joseph DiBella in Albany.
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Frank M. Wilson
Schenectady
Albany County
Albany
Wilson
Joseph DiBella
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Seagram
Renin
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Frears
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Blue Ridge Mountains
Mason
American Limoges
Ninn
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