The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

iStration; President Roosevelt gives
last minute reprieve to Max Stephen,
sentenced to death for aiding escape
of a Nazi flyer.
7-Gen. Henri Giraud, French COM
mander of Northwest Africa, arrives
in Washington.
15-The Board of Economic Warfare is
abolished. and its functions trans
Corporation; Chester BoWles is
named general manager of the Office
of Price Administration.
19-World's largest pipeline, the Big
Inch,' running from LongvieW,
Texas, to Phoenixville, Pa, is opened.
21-John Lewis, as president of United
Mine Workers, signs two-year con-
tract with Illinois Coal Operators
Association; War Department reveals
IS, 058 prisoners of war in country.
28-Navy asks for more WAVES, stat
ing that enrolment must reach
$1,000 by end of 1914; Coffee rationing
ended by OPA; Blue Network of
Radio Corporation of America sold.
August
2-Race riot sweeps New York, result.
ing in death of five negroes, and in.
juries to 500; Drafting of pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers set to begin on Oc-
tober l.
6-June personal incomes totaled $12..
162, 900, 900, a new record.
13-Gasoline ration in Midwest and South
west reduced from four to three
gallons per coupon.
14-The War ManpoWer Commission es-
tablishes new list of 149 critical &C.
equations for first priority in draft
deferments.
19-The army must be raised to 5000, 900
men by January l, 1914, and the navy
to 1851, 900, the War ManpoWer
Board announces.
23-The Guffey Coal Act, passed in 1887,
to stabilize coal prices, expires. No
move made to renew it.
September
2-The exchange ship Gripsholm sails
with 1910 Japanese, to be exchanged
for 1850 Americans at Goa, Portu-
gese India; Churchill and Roosevelt
confer in Washington.
4-William Jeffers, director of the ma
tons rubber program, resigns.
6-Churchill asks Anglo-American ALI
ance.
7-Republican Postwar Advisory Coun.
ell meets at Mackinac Island, Mich.
s-Drive for Is billion dollar third war
loan opened by presidential address.
14-Col. William Coleman is convicted
by a military court for drunkenness
and careless use of firearms, de.
NOTED to captaincy.
16-U. S. casualties total los, 2O5, owl
reveals; 20,104 dead, 28,226 wound
ed, 32,905 missing, $3.50 prisoners;
Rep. James Curley, Mass, and FIVE
others indicted on charges of having
accepted retainer fees to obtain war
contracts.
17-President Roosevelt reports to Con.
gress on Quebec conference.
20-Arny and navy chiefs of staff ask
full draft quotas, and state delay in
drafting fathers will prolong war.
23-Shoe ration stamp becoming valid
November l, must last six months.
25-Edward Stettinius Jr. moves from
lend-lease administrator to succeed
Sumner Wells as undersecretary of
state.
29-Senators report on war tour.
October
4-Treasury asks for ten and a half
billions in new tax revenue.
7-Merger of Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies is completed
dictatorship of weather news is lifted
12-National Labor Relations Board rules
that labor unions have a moral re-
Sponsibility not to strike in wartime
13-American Federation of Labor votes
to take United Mine Workers back
into fold.
18-Third war loan passes goal of is bill.
lion dollars by nearly four billions.
20-The 48-hour week for war industries
is extended to 80 more localities.
22-Zinc-steel pennies are to be discon-
tinued, Treasury announces.
28-Wildcat coal strikes referred to
President by War Labor Board.
29-Jams and jellies are placed on ra-
toned list, other items raised, few