Laurel outlook., 1944-01-05

January

January
among Allies. stresses 1.-THE supreme ne
cessity of planning what is to come
after the war"
~. S. Supreme court frees Thomas
Pendergast, Democratic political leader
of Kansas City. under statute OF hmita-
tons ruling.
6-78th Congress convenes: Samuel Ray
burn speaker of house for third term:
pleasure driving banned in eastern
states; Fuel oil ration reduced % per
cent.
1l-U. S. and Britain relinquish extraterri-
torial rights in China.
12-OPA sets corn ceilings at approximately
81 a bushel.
28-Joint draft system, by which men can be
indicted into navy, marines and coast
guard as well as army, announced.
February
8-National income in 1912 was s1l3. 824,-
900. 900 as compared with S94. 500. DOC. 600
in 1941.
s-Roosevelt orders 48-hour work week
minimum in labor shortage areas.
12-President Roosevelt promises stepped
up attacks on Europe and Japan.
18-Mme. Chang .Kai-Shek addresses Con-
gress asking for more vigorous prose-
cution of the war on Japan.
20-Dried foods rationed, effective March l.
23-Secretary of Agriculture Wickard sus.
ponds wheat quotas.
March
2-U. S. and Chile representatives sign
lend.lease agreement:
7-Draft classification "4H" for men be-
tween 80 and As ended.
11-Lend-lease extension to July. 1914, signed
by President.
establishment of naval base at Casa
blanca announced by navy.
25-Chester Davis named Food Admins
29-A "%critical shortage of doctors is devel-
oping." an owl survey reveals.
April
s-President moves to check initiation by
executive order freezing wages and for
bidding war workers to change jobs.
10-Feed corn ceiling. prices raised from
S1.02 a bushel to S1.07.
ia bill permitting the national debt limit
to rise to 210 billion dollars, and a rider
repeating the SIS. 900 net salary limit be-
comes law without Presidents signature:
20-President Roosevelt confers on war and
postwar problems with President Ca
macho of Mexico.
30-Soft coal miners of United Mine Workers
union reject President Roosevelts order;
U. S. breaks relations with Martinique.
May
federal government takes over closed
coal mines.
11-Churchill arrives in Washington for war
conference.
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Postal Telegraph is announced.
26-NLRB approves eight cent an hour
raise for more than a million non-oper-
ating railway workers.
27-Machinists' union, with 565 900 members,
withdraws from the AFL.
June
3-United Nations food conference ends.
Goal miners of the United Mine Workers
union return to work.
10-President signs "pay-as-you-go" income
tax bill.
21-Riots in Detroit between white and
colored mobs are suppressed by Federal
troops, after more than "a hours of
disorder. Twenty-Five killed, 700 injured;
Coal miners strike for third time since
May l.
2s-President Roosevelt threatens to draft
strikers in essential industries.
28-Judge Marvin Jones succeeds Chester
Davis as War Food Administrator
29--Federal court Of appeals in Chicago
grants new trials to six persons convicted
of aiding Herbert Haupt. executed spy.
30-Five senators appointed to visit war
zones and report on U. s. Army and
reach a three-year high.
July
House rejects amendment to Labor-Fed.
eral Security bill, thereby cutting off
funds for National Youth Administration;
President Roosevelt gives last minute
reprieve to Max Stephen, sentenced TO
death for aiding escape of a NaZi flyer.
Gen. Henri Giraud, French commander
of Northwest Africa, arrives in WASH
ington.
abolished, and its functions transferred
to the Reconstruction Finance C0rnOra.