Senators urged to adopt 5 per cent retail sales tax
A National Retail Dry Goods Association spokesman urged the Senate finance committee to adopt a 5 percent wartime retail sales tax on tangible personal property, excluding services, with revenues estimated around two and a half billion dollars. Senators noted opposition to inflation claims and discussed extending the tax to services. The plan also proposes repealing some manufacturers and retail excise taxes, aside from tobacco, liquor, gasoline, and oil.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Department
Jay Iglater
Association
Taxation Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Iglauer
Brown
D-Mich
Beaubien’s body recovered after Round Lake drowning
The 71 year old war plant worker Joe Beaubien drowned Sunday night in a speedboat accident on Round Lake. His body was found Monday afternoon at 2 45 by dragging near Island Park on the west shore. Beaubien survived by his widow Beverly and a daughter Peggy Jane. Funeral set Friday at 2 in the Everiss Funeral Home with burial in Oakwood Cemetery."}
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Beaubien
Round Lake
Beaubien
Island Park
Round Jake
Leonard Harsh
Route 3
Adrian
Frederick Harsh
Kenneth Waters
Morenci
James Hood
Everiss Funeral
Paul Mott
Beverly Beaubien
Peggy Jane
Oliver Beaubien
Fairfield
Cecelia Fox
Mary
Margaret
Robert
Paul
Everiss
Harley Bowerman
Oakwood Cemery
Household Auction in Busan Village Aug 8
Household auction scheduled for August 8 at Busan Village conducted by ALA Ee Auctioneer. See advertisement on Barkut Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busan Vilage
ALA Ee
Adv
Barkut
Siren Found. Adrian Records Restored at Church
A missing batch of Adrian air raid siren records was found in a Baptist Church basement cupboard after Mrs. Q A Westgate reported seeing them on a Sunday school record player. John F R Graham oversees the recovered items and keeps them in his bedroom for safekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian
Baptist Church
John Graham
CAA Official Here for Airport Talks
E H Briscoe of Warmington Civil Aeronautics Authority met Adrian city officials and Ken Morey about keeping the Division Street airport open. City leaders pledged to run it on a businesslike basis while Morey develops a private field south of the county farm. A five member commission will oversee airport operations once new ordinances take effect. Morey is moving gear to his 80 acre field. runways are complete with cross runways grading to finish in about ten days.
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E. H. Briscos
Warmington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Adrian
Ken Morey
Briscoe
Division Street
Louis ¥. Germond
H. W. Lundahle
City Commission
Mr. Morey
Melvin Beebe
Henry Stetlen
Morey
State Board of Aeronautics
Andy
Warren Graham
Maurice Gall
Adrian Flying Entrustae
Adrian Flying Club
E Air
Likesman
New Guinea
Adrian Air
Constabulary
Merchants Informed Of Local Blackout Plans
City police visited 325 establishments within Adrian to brief owners on blackout procedures for Friday. Officers Harrington and Stites reported universal merchant willingness to cooperate and noted some business night lights observed during recent inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian
Robert C. Stites
Norman E. Harrington
Harrington
Stites
Japanese Halted In Kokoda Area Of New Guinea
General MacArthur's headquarters reported Allied reconnaissance shows Japanese forces halted in the Kokoda area near Owen Stanley range two weeks after Buna Gona landings. Allied control of approaches to the 6,000 foot gap persists while airfields and coastal footholds remain contested and field operations limited by mountain weather and dense jungle.
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MacArthur
Australia
Kokoda
New Guinea
Owen Stanley Range
Buna-Gona
Port Moresby
Indian group drafts civil disobedience resolution
The All India Congress working committee drafted a resolution enabling Gandhi to lead a civil disobedience movement if Britain rejects independence. A second draft pledged armed resistance against Japanese aggression and supported a future independent India aligning with the United Nations. Gandhi reaffirmed support for negotiations with Japan after freedom, while denying victory by Germany or Japan if Britain clings to imperialism.
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Associated Press
Bombay
All. India Congress Party
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Britain
India
United Nations
Gandhi
Japan
Germany
All-India
Congress Party
Congress Working Committee
Allahabad
Working Committee
Jawaharlal Nehru
Tokyo
Telephone workers strike hits Ohio in wage dispute
About 2 100 maintenance, installation and repair workers of Ohio Bell Telephone striked in Cleveland and other Northeastern Ohio cities over union demands for the Little Steel wage formula. Pollock said 1 100 idle in Cleveland area and 1 000 in Akron Canton Youngstown and other cities. Barber said service remained normal and recent raises exceed the 44 cent Little Steel boost. The federation pledged continued service to war plants hospitals and emergency operations.
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Cleveland
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Ohio
R. G. Pollock
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Akron
Canton
Youngstown
Ohio Bell System
Pollock
War Labor Board
Hi. J. Barrer
Telehone Company
Uinion
Owen Schaeffer
Barber
Roosevelt weighs veto in rubber and fuel policy clash
President Roosevelt plans to address Congress and the nation as he weighs a veto of a grain alcohol driven synthetic rubber agency. WPB weighs nationwide mileage checks to ration fuel, while Henderson links separate gas and rubber issues. A plan to log car mileages outside rationed areas may curb driving to save tires for the Atlantic region.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
War Production Board
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Mississippi
Atlantic Sea Board
Hartley
R-Neb
Grain Alcohol Agency
WPB
Unemployment decline halts in Michigan amid rising claims
Michigan unemployment claims rose from 40029 to 43979 for the week ending August 1, with increases from outstate areas while Detroit’s metropolitan district fell slightly. Commission chairman Henry Chattner blamed layoffs due to material shortages in outstate industry. In the eastern Mediterranean, heavy Allied bombers attacked three large enemy merchant ships, scoring direct hits and near misses, as air activity intensified with targets including Bardia and Axis fighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan
Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission
Henry Chattner
Commission
Cairo
Mediterranean
Bardia
Com
Saidy
British Bombers Raid Ruhr Valley In Overnight Attacks
British bombers attacked targets in Germany's Ruhr valley last night while RAF fighters swept railways and other objectives in occupied territory. Two RAF planes were lost. Overnight raiders from Germany reached south and southwest England with six bombers destroyed, and new anti-aircraft defenses claimed a high score.
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London
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Air Ministry
RAF
English Channel
England
Wales
Britain
Circus Fire Damage Told At 200000 Loss
In Cleveland on August 3 UR Medicines treated scorched circus beasts after a Ringling Bros. blaze destroyed the menagerie tent. Thirty animals died or were euthanized. nine others were saved. A bull elephant perished overnight, and overall damage was estimated at 200000 with no insurance. The fire, likely started by a discarded cigarette or live coal, broke out between tents as workers ate lunch.
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Cleveland
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
J. J. Henderson
Ringling
Louis P. Pritsch
Fire Prevention Bureau
Pritsch
John Ringling North
Frank Braden
Germans Land Paratroopers as Russians Withdraw in Caucasus
Aug 3 report from Red Star describes German parachute troops of 100 to 150 with small tanks dropping near populated points and railways to seize communications while Russians retreat from Belaya Glina and defend the Don River approaches.
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Associated Press
Moscow
North Caucasus
Belaya Glina
Red Star
Messerschmidt
Caucasian
Russia
Tsimlyansk
Red Army
Don River
Caucasus
Pravda
Steel Black Market to Be Investigated
New Orleans August 5. Congress promised two investigations into a steel black market described as bulging warehouses with immediate delivery. Price Administrator Henderson ordered an immediate OPA probe into charges by Frank Higgins related to shipbuilding, while Rep. Peterson said the committee will question Higgins in executive session about warehouses and premium prices. Higgins claimed warehouses nationwide supply steel at priority orders, legal profiteering not illegal, with deliver schedules tied to war contracts.
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New Orleans
Leon Henderson
Washington
OPA
Frank Higgins
A. J. Higgins
Henderson
Roosevelt
Rep
Peterson
Dpla
House
Maritime Commission
Higgins
Unaccounted for in cruiser tragedy details emerge
Bay City August 5 search continues on Saginaw Bay and shorelines for bodies from Sunday’s ill fated fishing cruise to the Charity islands in which 12 people drowned. Eight bodies found. four missing believed dead. Survivor Dorothy Repkie, 23, recovering from a seven mile swim, mourns husband Louis 29. Names of recovered victims listed. others still sought include Eugene and Fern Sauve, Abraham and Dorothy La Bean. The boat towed ashore. hull ripped and cabin smashed.
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Bay City
Saginaw Bay
Charity Islands
Dorothy Repkie
Louis
Au Gres
Martha Hatcher
William
Linwood
John Zametzer
Ole Zametzer
Rephie
Cecil Day
Arenac
Eugene Sauve
Fern
Kawkawlin
Abraham la Bean
Dorothy
Point Au Gres
War At A Glance: Frontline Movements Across Europe and Asia
AP reports paratroop efforts and trench shifts as Kropotkin changes hands and Rostov region withdrawals are admitted. British RAF raids hit Ruhr while Swansea is bombed. Allied air and sea actions touch Africa and Asia as India moves toward independence and Japan’s advances face Allied resistance.
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Sen. Vandenberg
Michigan Council of Defense
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Oceana
Newaygo
Mecosta
Isabella
Midland
Bay
Huron
Adrian Defense
Siren
CAA
Ussr
Sevkay
Daikgp
Astalingrad
ANSK
Maya
Zhilovsk
Astrakhap
Turkey
Kletskaya
REDS
STEEL
Kropotkin
Rostov
Sea of Azov
Stalingrad
Crimea
Ruhr
Swansea
Egypt
all-India Congress Party
Gendhi
China
Kyyeilin
Mountain Pass
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