Farm Bloc Backs Higher Parity and Labor Costs
Washington January 9 farm bloc leaders joined four national farm groups in urging Congress to revise the parity formula to include all farm labor costs and raise prices. They pressed for a 54 hour industrial work week and exclude overtime pay. House previously passed related reform but Senate did not act. Senator Thomas pushed 1919-29 as base period for parity.
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Washington
Congress
Thomas
D-Okla
Roosevelt
Administration
Congressional
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Albert S. Goss
National
Ange
Charles C. Teague
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
John Brandt
National Coopertive Milk Producers Federation
House
Senate
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Attendance at 1942 American League Parks Tops Four Million
American League reports 4,15,922 gate after season is below 1941 level but judged satisfactory amid wartime uncertainty. Receipts of 238,205 dollars supported army and navy relief funds. Yankees led with 922,011 in home attendance, Red Sox second at 730,340, while the 1940 record gate stood at 5,433,791.
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Chiacago
Will Marridge
Army
Navy
Harridge
New York Yankees
Boston
Red Sox
Halt on using taxi cabs for pleasure urged
Joseph B. Eastman director of Defense Transportation urged taxi operators and the public in a 17 state eastern aid shortage area to stop all pleasure use of cabs. He noted a rise in cab use due to the Office of Price Administration ban on private cars for pleasure and warned it defeats gasoline saving goals.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Eastman
Office of Price Administration
United States
Economy Drive Planned by Republicans in Senate
Washington January 9. Republican Senators announced a determined drive for economy in government on reinforced appropriations. Senator Nye of North Dakota, ranking Republican, said the drive was decided at an informal conference yesterday of the nine minority members of the appropriations committee.
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Washington
Nye
North Dakota
Appropriations Committee
24000 Hard Coal Miners Are Out
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on January 9 a new wave of idleness hit the anthracite fields as the War Department called striking miners to a mass meeting to press for immediate return to work. About 24000 miners were idle with 8000 more at home creating coal shortages in Philadelphia and a looming famine in other oil rationed eastern regions.
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Wilkes-Barre
War Department
Philadelphia
New England
Ship Crew Saved By Heroic Mate
Survivors credited Chief Mate Van R. McCarty of Houston Texas with saving the lifeboat crew after six days aboard with only six hours sleep and 63 hours of gale as their vessel was sunk by three torpedoes during its maiden voyage off Norfolk Virginia. The navy announced the sinking today.
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Norfolk
vVa
United States
van R. McCarty
Houston
Texas
Navy
War bond sales rise in Winchester and Frederick County
December bond sales totaled 89587 dollars with a monthly quota of 124000, and January’s quota is 151000. Middletown ladies have produced over 30000 surgical dressings and bandages under Red Cross specs, in Woodmen's Hall with rooms donated by Mr. and Mrs. Denis Hoover and later Mrs. C E Cougill.
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W. M. Brise
War Bond
Winchester
Frederick County
Middletown
Red Cross
Denis Hoover
C. E. Cougill
Woodmen’s Hall
Winchester Men Ordered Into Military Service From December List
The sixth registration in December yielded 42 Winchester youths eligible for military service. Frederick County added 64 youths, bringing total eligibles to 106 since the fifth registration. The Winchester roster lists order numbers and names including Ash Winford 11095 and Whiting Edgar Mason 11104.
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Winchester Selective Service Board
William Hollis Clowser, Jr
Raymond Odell Spurling
Winchester
Frederick County
Winchester Veterans Welcome U S Army Visitor
Lieut Marshal Hollis of the U S Army is hosted in Winchester England by local officials and letters show warm reception. A December 14 note from Stanley Clifton, former Winchester mayor in 1922, recounts meeting Hollis and extending greetings to American troops visiting the city.
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Winchester
England
Anderson
Stanley Clifton
Marshal Hollis
Hollis
U. S. Army
Hampshire
Eng
Frank Feinberg Ill in Hospital
Friends in Winchester report Frank Feinberg formerly in local clothing trade and now a Farmville resident is a patient in the McGuire Clinic at St Luke's Hospital in Richmond following an operation. His condition is described as somewhat improved.
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Winchester
Frank Feinberg
Farmville
McGuire
St. Luke’s Hospital
Richmond
Feinberg
Fatal Crash Near Cross Junction Claims Woman
Mrs. Gertrude Kidwell, 38, of Paw Paw West Virginia, died when her car skidded into a Bondurant Motor Lines tractor trailer on Route 522 near Crockett's Run. The driver, Paul Lamar 38 of Mount Airy North Carolina, and the truck were en route to recover a 12000 pound rayon cargo. Authorities called the crash unavoidable after investigation by Dr. H I Pifer. The incident occurred around 5 a m in snowy slippery conditions.
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Gertrude Kidwell
Paw Paw
W. Va
Crockett’s Run
Cross Junction
Memorial Hospital
Eddie Largent
H. I. Pifer
Bondurant Motor Lines
Mt. Airy
N. C
Paul Lamar
Crockett
Earl Shade
Crokett
Lamar
Paul Kidwell
Loryn Crabill Re-elected President of Sarah Zane Pire Co
Loryn M Crabill was retained as president at a meeting last night marking the annual officers election. It is the seventh time he has been chosen. A ring was presented to Captain Crabill as a token of appreciation for loyal service.
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Loryn M. Crabill
Sarah Zane Pire Company
Crabill
George Sumption
Wayne Omps
H. M. Linkous
H. M. Offutt
James N. Moling
L. G. Bridgers
Norman Cooper
H. Pifer
W. Erle Edwards
Grover Cooper
R. B. Brown
Conley Trenary
Douglas Peters
W. Lee Fisher
C. P. McVicar
B. M. Sullivan
Three Judges For Suit Against A. P.
Attorney General Francis Biddle asked Federal Court in New York to expedite the anti trust case against the Associated Press and have it heard by a panel of three judges including at least one Circuit Court of Appeals judge. The suit seeks to open AP membership rolls to newspapers paying a share of news gathering costs. AP replied that news gathering should remain free and its cooperative, non profit structure should stand.
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New York
Francis Biddle
Associated Press
Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal District Court
Bombing Raids Hit Rekata Bay and Bougainville Bases
In a Navy communique No. 245 the January 7 strikes report Liberator bombs on Kiska and Bougainville airfields. Marauder B-26 and P-39 air cover hit Rekata Bay installations on Santa Isabel, starting fires and damaging two enemy float planes. No U S planes were lost.
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Washington
Rekata Bay
Solomons
Navy
Sony
Bougainville
Kiska
North Pacific
South Pacific
U. S
William F Orndorff Dies at 74 in Frederick County
William Franklin Orndorff, 74, died this morning at 6 30 at his home in Fawcett Gap after a one week illness. He was a Mountain Falls native, farmer, and Mountain Falls Methodist Church member. He is survived by his wife Arminta White, a son in the armed services, a granddaughter Mrs Virgil Miller, two grandsons, a brother and a sister. Funeral services set for Tuesday at St Johns Lutheran Church with interment there. Pallbearers named.
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William Franklin Orndorff
Fawcett Gap
Frederick County
Orndorff
Mount Williams
Phoenice
Mary Ann Lineburg
Mountain Falls
Arminta White
William G. Orndorff
Virgil Miller
Charles Robertson
Wilmer Robertson
Pairfax
Edward Orndorff
Winchester
Howard Lock
Lewis Fawcett
Julian Fawcett
Oliver McDonald
RAF strikes hit Rommel transport on Libyan coast
Cairo reports RAF planes attacked Rommel's withdrawing army along the coastal road to Tripoli between Homs and Ziliten. The communique says three Axis planes were shot down and another destroyed by anti aircraft fire as air activity increases over the Libyan battle area. Ziliten lies about 90 miles east of Tripoli and Homs roughly 25 miles west of Ziliten.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Tripoli
Homs
Ziliten
Libya
Middletown Fire Receives Hose and Equipment On Order
Middletown firemen received 300 feet of 1 12 inch hose that had been on order for months. They were also informed the Siamese connection two nozzles and couplings have been shipped and should arrive soon.
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Middletown
Sky Forts Pound Bizerte In Three Separate Raids
The United States air force conducted heavy raids on Bizerte, a key Axis supply port in North Africa, using four motor Flying Fortresses in three attacks. Five P-38 planes were lost. The strikes targeted supply lines from Kairouan toward Gabes, with B-25 and B-26 bombers hitting tanks, railways, and airfields amid ground fire and fighter opposition.
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Sky
Bizerte
North Africa
United States Air Force
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
U. S
Kairouan
Gabes
German Targets Blasted Again in Ruhr Attacks
RAF bombers attacked industrial targets in the Ruhr valley for the fourth time this week. Five British planes were reported missing, suggesting about 100 planes took part. The raid's scope and targets were not specified immediately. British planes also laid mines in enemy waters. Berlin radio confirmed bombers over northern and western Germany.
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London
Germany
Runr Valley
Ruhr
Berlin
Mine Death Toll May Reach 13
Morgantown West Virginia January 9 rescue crews lifted four bodies from the Purselove No 15 mine and planned to remove nine more to reach a total of thirteen dead. Officials said eight of the nine men known to be inside had been located with Frank Robinettee missing. Foreman Guy Quinn perished while aiding ventilation. Three more bodies were recovered overnight, and crews continued battling the fire as families waited for news with guarded hope.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Purszlove No. 15
Frank Robinettee
Purselove
Stewart
Veronica Lake Undergoes Appendectomy in Hollywood
Film actress Veronica Lake had an appendectomy last night after an aching side led to surgery. Dr. Arnold Stevens said her condition is satisfactory and she is hospitalised in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Veronica Lake
Arnold Stevens
American Legion Post Discontinues Bingo Game in Berryville
Lloyd Williams Post No. 41 American Legion in Berryville Virginia says conditions incident to the war force it to discontinue its bingo game immediately.
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American Legion
Lloyd Williams
Berryville
Fighting French Storm Outpost For Axis in Libyan Desert
London Jan 9 A column of French forces led by Jacques Le Clerc has stormed and captured the Axis outpost of El Gatrun southeast of Murzuch in the southern Libyan desert. Murzuch lies about 500 miles south of Tripoli and El Gatrun sits near Umm el Aroueb, a target earlier in the week as Le Clerc’s army advanced north from the Lake Chad area.
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London
Mace N. Jacques le Clerc
el Gatrun
Murzuch
Libyan Desert
Tripoli
E Gatrun
Umm Efi Aroueb
LeClerc
Lake Chad
Red Army
Germany
Rostov
Stantin Rokossovsky
Strakhov
Don River
Yeremenko
Zimoyniki
Stalingrad
Kotelnikovski
Salsk
Tikhoretsk
Rokuma
Genevalp
Vatutin
Likhaya
Sateen
Ayon
Medvezhka
Lower Vyazovy
Upper Vyazovy
Valkovo
Millerovo
Moscow
Monitor
Don Valley
Effort Renewed To End Anthracite Strike
The War Department summoned Pennsylvania’s striking miners to a mass meeting at 2 p.m. to urge a quick return to work. The 11 day old wildcat walkout spread to Hazleton and 16,000 miners were out for higher wages and lower dues. Coal yards in Philadelphia reported nut coal scarce and stove coal nearly gone, risking a broader shortage.
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Wilkes-Barre
War Department
Pennsylvania
Hazleton
Pennsylvania Retail] Coal Merchants Association
Philadelphia
New England
Mark S. James
Submarines Sink Two Japanese Liners Near Shanghai
A Chungking report quoted by Reuters says American submarines sank two Nippon liners off Woosung near Shanghai. About 1,000 aboard each ship, only 42 persons were saved.
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London
Reuters
Woosung
Shanghai
Russians Drive Enveloping Push Across Caucasus Front
Soviet forces press the eastern front advance as four Russian armies push toward Rostov and Stavropol amid mine clearance in the Caucasus. Red Star notes gains in North Ossetia and Kabardino Balkaria, heavy hand to hand fighting near Stalingrad, and continued German retreat with significant losses.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Red Star
Osetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
Stavropol
Stalingrad
Red Sta
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