Axis Losing Six To One In Planes
The War Department reports American four engined bombers downed six Axis planes for every loss by U S forces in Europe. The release lists 18 heavy German-target missions since May 14 and 1 600 England based sorties. It notes 106 U S planes lost and 571 German craft destroyed with 187 and 231 damaged. Major milestones under Maj Gen Ira C Eaker include hits on Wilhelmshaven docks and naval bases and Kiel and Emden damage through mid May.
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Washington
Axis
Europe
War Department
Churchill
Germany
U.S
England
Department
United States
U. S
Carm
U. S. Air Command
Ira C. Eaker
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Hama
Pwvegesack
Rocke- Wulf
Kiel
Great Naval Base
Helgoland
Flensburg
War Agencies Get $2.94 Billion Budget for 1944
Washington reports enactment of a $2,939,441,504 omnibus appropriations bill covering 18 war agencies including OPA WPB OWI and WSA. The House appropriations committee praised gains and warned of mistakes while cutting many allocations and adding $18 million in contract authorizations.
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Washington
Congress
Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Production Board
WPB
House Appropriations Committee
Donald Nelson
North Africa letter from Pontotoc farm boy
Pvt Walter L Clouse of Pontotoc county writes of North Africa life with the American forces. He describes green fields Arab farming methods hand blades wheat bundles camels and oxen hooked to a McCormick binder the German and Italian loot still scattered and locals singing Yankee songs. He notes Tunis looks intact and soldiers discuss rest periods while awaiting further travel plans.
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Pontotoc County
North Africa
Walter L. Clouse
Leo Clouse
West Eighteenth
Walter
Clause
France
Africa
Tunis
Eighth Army
Tojo Warns War Growing More Tense
Japan's premier Hideki Tojo warned Parliament the war situation is increasingly tense and signals mount that a British American offensive is near. Allied drives in China and the Southwest Pacific press the Japanese, with MacArthur reporting 90 miles from Lae and 23 tons of bombs on Rabaul. The China front sees Chiang Kai Shek's forces cutting rail to Yochow as Burma airstrikes hit Akyab and other targets.
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Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Yangtze River
South Seas
Tojo
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Lakunai
Bena Bena
Salamaua
Huon Peninsula
China Front
Ben Hampton Dies Long Indian Leader at 90
Ben Hampton 90 born in Oklahoma and a member of the 1889 Dawes Commission that allotted Indian lands will be buried in Chickasha this afternoon. A Choctaw legislator elected in 1873 he translated house minutes from Choctaw to English before the body dissolved in 1890. Survivors include daughter Mrs. Charles Lincoln White of Oklahoma City and three sons Perry Hampton of San Diego Howard Hampton of Pampa and Sgt. H Hampton listed as in New Guinea.
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Chickasha
Ben Hampton
Oklahoma
Dawes Commission
Hampton
Oklahoma City
Dawes Group
Charles Lincoln White
Perry H. Hampton
San Diego
Calif
Howard T. Hampton
Pampa
Tex
Sgt. H. Hampton
New Guinea
Ada Pilot Harris Receives Air Medal for Attu Missions
Lieut. William G. Harris of Ada Oklahoma, a Yale graduate and geophysics worker, is among 75 decorated in the Alaska defense command for 100 hours of cargo plane missions over Attu. He was recently transferred back to the states after marrying in early June and is now stationed in Austin Texas.
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William G. Harris
John R. Harris
Ada
Alaska Defense Command
Attu
Ada Flier
Yale University
Austin
Texas
Death of Dr. Donald R. Macleod in Wichita
Dr. Donald R. Macleod 68, a Kansas and Oklahoma physician of 44 years, died yesterday in Wichita. A native of Emporia he came here last September to run his son Dr. Sherburn Macleod’s practice while his son served in the army. Survived by his widow another son and three daughters.
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Wichita. Kas
Donald R. Macleod
Kansas
Oklahoma
Emporia
Sherburn Macleod
Williamson urges county attorneys to use discretion in prosecutions
Oklahoma City June 1 Attorney General Mac Q Williamson said county attorneys must use their own discretion in prosecuting public officials who file untrue campaign expense reports.
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Oklahoma City
Mac Q. Williamson
Woman Dissuades Mob At Beaumont Jail Riot Warning
In Beaumont Texas a crowd gathered at the city jail seeking a suspected rapist. A war plant wife claimed a negro entered her West Beaumont home and assaulted her. The mob dispersed after the woman said the suspect was not at the jail. Mayor asked defense guard mobilization. three companies stood by while a posse searched for the assailant.
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Beaumont
Tex
George Gary
Texas Defense Guard
Remembering 1933 When Men Sought Jobs In Ada
The Ada newspaper sketches 1933 unemployment era with CWA FERA and HOLC loans, noting low 1932 building permits at 12400 dollars and a series of emergency efforts. It highlights local canning, cotton programs, and repair campaigns to provide work, amid bank holidays and relief measures.
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Ada
CWA
FERA
Red Cross
Massive Allied Bombing Raids Across German Fronts
London reports RAF bombers ranged from Denmark to France in a fifth night of air attacks on Germany. Berlin says alert endured but no major events or damage. Whirlwinds hit an airfield near Dunkirk and other British aircraft engaged targets in France and Belgium.
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London
Denmark
France
Berlin
Associated Press
Reich
North Germany
Dunkerque
Bruges-Ghent
Lys
North Sea
Aalborg
Nantes
Brittany
Ostend
England
Price Panel Board Organized For Pontotoc County
The Pontotoc County price panel completed organization on June 15 with new assistants including Mrs. Bonnie Allen Ada Mrs. W. S. Bagley Ada Walter E. Black Ada Clem Gibson Stonewall Mrs. H. D. Harbeson Allen Ada Mrs. Zera Lee Landrith Ada and others appointed to carry out the price program under Jack Conn. Unavailable attendees listed.
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War Price and Ration Board
Jack Conn
Office of Price Administration
Pontotoc County
Bonnie Allen
Ada
W. S. Bagley
Walter E. Black
Clem Gibson
Stonewall
H. D. Harbeson
Allen
Zera Lee Landrith
Ollie McBride
W. W. Price
Roff
Anthony Roe
O. G. Rose
Francis
W. T. Simpson
John Sparks
J. E. Teague
Alyen Trammell
Fittstown
Herman Scott
J. D. Willoughby
Cool Front Brings In Thunderstorms
A cool front swept Oklahoma bringing thunder showers, heavy in the northwest where harvest operations may pause. The weather bureau forecast a break in heat with a state high of 92 degrees at Elk City yesterday, except for the panhandle, by tonight.
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Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Elk City
Panhandle
FBI says thefts of government property double in 11 months
Director J Edgar Hoover of the FBI reported that convictions and recoveries of government property thefts have approximately doubled in the last 11 months compared with the same period of the prior fiscal year.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
War Prisoners Freedom Brief
Two German prisoners of war escaped an internment camp near Tishomingo Oklahoma for a brief air break but were quickly recaptured by Colonel H E Fisher and his soldiers the day before. Rudolph Arens 21 and Jacob Brown 22 spoke only broken English and were identified by the commander with no further details from the FBI.
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Tishomingo
H. E. Fisher
FBI
Oklahoma City
Rudolph Arens
Jacob Brown
Union pleas for veto of Connally-Smith anti strike bill
Washington June 16 union leaders continue to press the White House for a veto of the Connally Smith anti strike bill. The appeals underscore labor agitation amid ongoing negotiations and political pressure.
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Washington
White House
Prices Set for Additional Wheat For Livestock Feed
The War Food Administration announced that another 50 million bushels of wheat for feeding livestock will have the same prices and terms as the 100 million bushels sold earlier. Prices vary by region from 95 cents in North Minnesota to 1.11 dollars in New England Florida and Southern California, with other regional prices listed. The extra wheat, authorized by a Roosevelt signing, will lift total feeding wheat to 275 million bushels since July 1, amid shortages blamed on slow corn movement into trade channels.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Minnesota
New England
Florida
California
Pacific Northwest
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Romania Extending Peace Feelers Weary Of War
Semi diplomatic sources in Ankara say Romania, an axis satellite, sent peace feelers to learn Allies’ reception of withdrawal from the war. They hint Romania would leave the Nazis at the start of 1943 in exchange for retaining parts of Bessarabia Bukovina and possibly Transylvania if capitulation occurs before Hungary. London Washington Moscow review reports with no confirmation.
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Ankara
Turkey
Rumania
Soviet Russia
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Russia
Transylvania
London
Washington
Moscow
Allied Planes Hit Airbases In Sicily Offensive
Allied air forces based in North Africa launched a continuous attack after a brief rest, targeting five Sicily airfields and radio stations near Marsala. Enemy losses included 16 aircraft in combat with 11 shot down and 12 damaged. Allies lost seven planes.
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Joseph Morton
North Africa
Mediterranean
Sicily
R.A F
Wants Young Demos To Drop Convention
Washington June 16 The nation s organized young democrats will forego their biennial convention this summer if Primm Jr chairman of their national committee has his way The son in law of Senator Bailey says focus should be on the war not meetings and cites transportation difficulties as a reason for cancelling this year s gathering
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Cannon
Missouri
Congress
OPA
Louis J. Kroeger
Spartanburg
S. C
Spartanburg Herald
South Carolina
Democratic Executive Committee
National Executive Committee
Herald
National Committee
Columbia
Winchester Smith
Barnwell County
National Party
Washington
W. J. Prim Jr
Primm
Bailey
N. C
Old Saree Called Ideal Marine
Lou Diamond a 53 year old veteran sergeant and Marine Corps legend received a letter of commendation from Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift for his 24 years of service and role in the Solomon Islands invasion as announced by Marine Corps headquarters in Washington.
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Washington
Lou Diamond
Marine Corps
Diamond
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Solomon Islands
The Pessimist by Rob Blanks Jr
A humorous verse by Rob Blanks Jr mocks gender expectations as the speaker jokes about women’s concerns with hair and the egotism of the average man. The piece portrays social critique through light satire and playful dialect.
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Pontotoc
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Harris
Air Medal
Coton
HOLC
Hitler
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