Food Muddle Needs Enforcement Method Says Ex Chief Davis
Washington correspondent Peter Edson reports former War Food Administrator Chester C. Davis argues there is no magic fix for wartime food troubles. He calls for detailed blueprints and a piecemeal, policy driven approach to manage civilian demand and supply, including education campaigns and targeted protein shifts.
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Davis
Peter Edson
Ada News
Washington
Chester C. Davis
Chester Davis
Department of Agriculture
Congress
OPA
Govern
David
Byrnes Tackles U S World Economy Coordination
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes leads a conference of six overseas agency officials to harmonize U S foreign economic policy. He aims to prevent public squabbling as discussions proceed, with participants from the state department lend lease administration and other allied offices.
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Washington
South Carolina
Supreme Court
U. S. Senate
Uncle Sam
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Byrnes
Henry Wallace
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Leo T. Crowley
Economic Warfare
Wallace
Board of Economic Warfare
Jones
State Department
Lend-Lease Administration
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
inter-American Affairs
Budget Bureau
Men Of 45th Praised By Newsman With Them
INS war correspondent Clark Lee, with the 45th Division during Sicily, lauds their low casualties and tireless advance. He notes Oklahoma National Guard roots with strong Native American soldiers like Mack Tiger and Mose Harjo. Corp. Benny Rhodd from Shawnee earns special praise for rescuing 10 wounded under fire.
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Clark Lee
INS
45Th
Oklahoma National Guard
Lee
Oklahoma
Mack Tiger
Okemah
Mose Harjo
Chilacothe
Postwar GOP Urges Hard Line on World Peace Policy
Eastern conference of the Republican Post-War Policy Association adopts five resolutions urging total victory over the Axis, continued Allied unity and peacetime conversion of war industries. It calls Republicans in Congress to back international cooperation and world peace organization, amid debate on isolationism versus the New Deal.
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New York
Eastern Conference
Republican Post-War Policy Association
Marc Shattuck
Massachusetts Bar Association
New England
United States
State to Collect Inheritance Taxes From Restricted Indians
Oklahoma officials estimate that a recent U S Supreme Court decision will allow the state to collect about $500000 in inheritance taxes on the estates of restricted Indians. C W King of the tax commission says statehood prevented collection until the ruling was final last weekend. He predicts the state will gather millions over the next decade.
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Oklahoma City
Tax Commission
U. S. Supreme Court
C. W. King
Commission
Oklahoma
High Tribunal
Circuit Court of Appeals
King
Mitchell Death Found Accident Near Stevenson Alabama
J G Mitchell was found dead near railroad tracks by Stevenson Alabama after a fall from a train on a two span bridge. His sons Tylor and David Mitchell travelled to Stevenson to learn the circumstances and reported he likely died instantly from a skull fracture after a 15 to 20 foot fall onto a rock embankment. The body was found by two fishing boys and he had been visiting Oliver Springs Tennessee, where he was buried.
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J. G. Mitchell
Stevenson
Ala
Tylor Mitchell
David Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Ada
Oliver Springs
Tenn
Driver Asleep Hits Woman in Tulsa Street Crossing
Mrs. R. H. Phillips, 44, visiting Tulsa, was struck by a car driven by A. E. Ayers who said he had been asleep at the wheel. He was charged with reckless driving after the incident, which occurred as Phillips crossed a busy street with friend Mrs. Hudson Mead. The driver posted bond at $500.
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Tulsa
R. H. Phillips
Casper
Wyo
Hudson Mead
A. E. Ayers
Government Purchase Plan Hailed To Stabilize Crops
Senator Burton of Ohio urged government buying of principal food crops and resale at below ceiling prices as an alternative to the administration price rollback. He opposed subsidies but backed a Taft amendment to fund limited rollback and said government purchase of entire crops could halt price rises, with the issue to return to lawmakers this fall.
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Washington
Burton
Ohio
Commodity Credit Corporation
Ration stamps valid Aug 1 to Sept 7
Washington announces blue stamps R S and T in Ration Book 2 will be valid from August 1 through September 7. N P and Q remain valid. OPA urges households with unused blue stamps to destroy them promptly as fresh fruits and vegetables become plentiful. It is illegal to gift stamps without receiving equal value in food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Copeland Faces District Court Trial for Knife Assault
Bob Copeland was bound over to district court after a preliminary hearing before Percy Armstrong. He is charged with assault with intent to kill for allegedly slashing Murry Golden in a pickup near a Sandy area grocery, injuring him with three knife wounds and prompting shots fired near Copeland’s home.
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Bob Copeland
Percy Armstrong
Copeland
Murry Golden
Sandy Bridge
Golden
Jim Rogers
Hog price ceiling set at 14 75 per hundred pounds
The Office of Price Administration and War Food Administration announced a live hog price ceiling of 14.75 dollars per 100 pounds on the Chicago basis to curb fluctuations. It sets a ceiling about one dollar above earlier supports and aims to protect packers from squeezes between live hog costs and pork ceilings.
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Washington
Chicago
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
OPA
Clark proposes basin wide flood control plan for Mississippi
Senator Clark of Missouri outlines a new flood control bill to replace patchwork projects. The plan would govern the Mississippi river basin with engineers selecting dams and levees and agriculture directing terracing on farms. Estimated base cost around 400 million dollars with separate allocations for tributaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
Senate
Imis-Sissippi
Army
Secretary of Agriculture
Mississippi Valley Authority
Mississippi Basin
Ohio
Missouri
Arkansas
Disnois
Congress
Shortage grows in safety boxes across the U S
Reports from the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company show wartime wage earners holding war bonds flood banks and rent safety deposit boxes for the first time. Prewar occupancy was about 50 percent of 11 million boxes. now 75 to 80 percent with many regions near full. Officials predict many areas will have no small boxes left by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
U. S
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
United States
BBC Teaches English to Occupied Europeans
The BBC begins broadcasting English lessons to listeners in occupied Europe to prepare Europeans for the Anglo American invasion and postwar reconstruction. Two series air, including How Good is Your English and Whats The News explaining words likely in BBC news bulletins.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Europe
Vichy Radio Urges French Workers to Report for Duty
The Vichy radio in a Reuters recorded broadcast urged French workers to report for work in Semany or be branded as outlaws in what authorities called a last minute appeal.
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Vichy
London
Vichy Radio
Reuters
Semany
Car Use Stamp Urgency Prompts Penalty Warning
E Curry of the Internal Revenue Collector's office warns that buying the $5 federal car use stamp after July 31 incurs a $5 penalty and that, from August 1, stamps are available only at the Tulsa and Oklahoma City offices. A state-wide car-to-car canvass will issue warnings about the July deadline and August penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
E . Curry
Miscellaneous Tax Division
Internal Revenue Collector's Office
Curry Sai
Curry
Tulsa
Cutty
Oil Man B Shaffer Dies At 84 In Chicago Home
C B Shaffer 84 oil operator with Pontotoc county properties died Sunday in Chicago after a three year illness. Born in Franklin Pennsylvania he opened the Cushing oil pool in 1912 and led the Barbara Oil Co with Allen field assets. He formerly headed Shaffer Oil and Refining Co later becoming Deep Rock. Survived by widow a son and a daughter. A sister Frances McMillan is in Tulsa.
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C. B. Shaffer
Pontotoc County
Chicago
Franklin
Oklahoma Oil Operations
Cushing Oil Pool
Barbara Oil Co
Allen Field
Shaffer Oil and Refining Co
Deep Rock Company
Frances McMillan
Ada
Tulsa
Jack Shaffer
Simpson
Passenger Tubes Still Rationed
Ben L. Morrison of the War Price and Rationing Board denies rumors that tire tubes have been released from rationing. He says quotas for both new and used passenger tubes will likely be reduced soon. To obtain a tube a person must apply for a certificate at the local board at 123 South Broadway and present it to the dealer before purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben L. Morrison
War Price and Rationing Board
Mr. Morrison
South Broadway
Survivors Rescued From Sunken Vessel Near Santos
Mejico, an Argentine ship, rescued 26 survivors from a vessel towed miles off Santos Brazil. The sunken ship's identity was not disclosed.
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Buenos Aires
Mejico
Santos
Rome raid precision bombing praised by U S general
Brigadier General Uzal G Ent of the Ninth Air Force reports after Rome raid photographs show the Littorio railway yards fully covered by bomb patterns. He notes extreme damage to tracks rolling stock and shops, a central marshalling hump, and two large explosions with all bombs hitting military targets and no civilian property affected. He calls it a premier example of high altitude precision bombing.
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Cairo
Uzal G. Ent
Ninth Air Force
Rome
Ninth Bomber Command
Littorio
County Judge to rule on 3.2 beer license request
Oklahoma case grows from a Cushing man seeking a 3.2 beer license in Stillwater. Judge Myrick was ordered by District Judge Hoel to decide the permit, after previously declining action citing constitutionality. Parties anticipate appeal to the State Supreme Court on the 1933 beer sales statute.
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Stillwater
Paul L. Myrick
Clyde Cochran
Cushing
Myrick
Oklahoma
Henry W. Hoel
Cochran
Hoel
State Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Italian Anti Aircraft Shells Boosted Damage in Rome Bombing
Unconfirmed reports from Italy claimed that anti aircraft shells, failing to explode in the air, caused extra damage on Rome under allied bombing. By early afternoon, Italian officials had not commented beyond noting the attack and undetermined damage. The Rome radio aired a musical program after the command note.
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Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Rome
High Command
Rome Radlio
Senate Panel Opens Fuel Hearing Amid Ration Debate
Kansas City July 19 A special senate committee plans a hearing next Tuesday to probe midwest gasoline allotments and distribution while rejecting Harold Ickes call for further curtailments. Senator Clyde Reed and others aim to expose rationing inequalities and iron out red tape in fuel supply.
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Kansas City
Senate
Midwest
Kan
Clyde M. Reed
Sas
Harold L. Ickes
Middle West
Atlantic Seaboard
Bennett C. Clark
Missouri
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Reed
Washington
Last Joint Welded Big Inch Takes Oil to Seacoast
Big Inch, the oil carrier said to be unsinkable, neared completion in Phoenixville as 15,000 workers finished the 95 million dollar pipeline. Secretary Ickes and Secretary Jones joined War Emergency Pipelines head W. Alton Jones for the final weld and route the broadcast program while oil moved from Longview Texas toward Atlantic refineries at three miles per hour. The line aims to deliver 12.6 million gallons daily, enhancing eastern fuel supplies and possibly triggering stricter rationing in the Midwest.
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Phoenixville
Big Inch
Pennsylvania
Harold Ickes
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
W. Alton Jones
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Longview
Texas
Ohio
Atlantic Seaboard
East
Ickes
Mic
Gas Ration Shifts Favor East as Pipeline Opens
Washington reports mixed gas news with the Texas to east pipeline ready. Ickes announces equalized rationing boosting eastern supply while midwest and southwest face cuts. west coast unchanged. OPA bans new spare tires for months. existing tires only with allowances. B gas coupons extended to renewals, three month reissue tests apply east coast four month B books continue.
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Washington
Texas
Ickes
Midwest
Southwest
West
Office of Price Administration
William Jeffers
OPA
Jeffers
East
Hartley
N.J
Middle West
Republicans Seek Lead as Bride in 1944 Election
In Washington July 19 the GOP forecast victory in 1944. Chairman Harrison Spangler said Republicans rise in strength from private polls among labor and rural voters. He argued the race hinges on northern states with a less solid south, citing gains of 3 percent among labor and 5 percent in northern farms.
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Spangler
G.O.P
Hanford McNider
Nye
N. D
Washington
Republican
Roosevelt
Harrison Spangler
GOP
National Committee
North
Yukon banker Dudley Phillips dies at 76
Dudley B. Phillips, 76, longtime president of the First National Bank of Yukon, died yesterday of a heart attack. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in 1893, the institution's second year, and came to Oklahoma to claim a homestead on April 22, 1889.
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Yukon
Dudley B. Phillips
University of Oklahoma
Phillips
First National Bank of Yukon
Oklahoma
Bombers Demolish Tank Targets In Open House Display
About 2000 people from Oklahoma and Texas attended a Frederick army air field open house. Senator E. H. Moore of Tulsa and Congressman Victor Wickersham of Mangum joined the crowd to see a parachute drop from a dummy and precision flight on 36 planes.
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Frederick
Oklahoma
Texas
Frederick Army Air Field
E. H. Moore
Tulsa
Victor Wickersham
Mangum
Hargrove Drowns While Saying Goodbye Near Sister’s Home
John Hargrove 18 Lawton was to join marine corps today but drowned in a lake near his sister Mrs. Mary Ellen Ryan’s home while bidding goodbye. Firemen and patrolmen recovered his body about an hour after he disappeared as two unidentified swimmers tried to aid him.
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John Hargrove
Lawton
Marine Cops
Esterly
Mary Ellen Ryan
Hargrove
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