Wallace Trip to China Expands U S View of Asia
James D. White outlines Mr. Wallace's high level Chinese mission with Roosevelt's message of aid to China. The report notes Wallace’s expected meetings with Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese officials, plus a parallel reporting task on China’s political tensions and postwar future.
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Mr. Wallace
China
Roosevelt
Pacific
Wallace
Asia
United States
Barryman
Washington Star
Sticks and Stones and Wartime Propaganda
A radio Berlin commentator Otto Kriegk claims an American airman was lynched by an angry German mob, while calling British and American airmen the scum of the times. The piece denounces enemy propaganda and urges parents to consider the dangers faced by air crews from England.
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Radio Berlin
Otto Kriegk
Germany
Herr Kriegk
England
Victory Gardens Morale and Hope From a Nation at War
A year into the victory garden program citizens built 20 million gardens producing 10 million tons of food and four billion cans. The push continues with a goal of 22 million gardens and 25 percent more output to support troops and allies. The hoe is praised as an honorable weapon. French railways may curtail passenger service while allied bombers target Germany.
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United States
Victory Gardeners
Victory
Germany
War Plant Values Estimated by Executives
Time magazine reports a Fortune Forum poll showing executives believe the government can recover only 27 cents on the dollar of its 16 billion wartime plant investment. They say 37 percent of the plant can be used after the war, with top executives more pessimistic about its peacetime usefulness.
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New York
Time Magazine
Fortune Forum
U. S
Early Turkish Stand Seen by Allies
William B. King reports from New York on Turkey weighing a move against Germany after Churchill's blunt speech. Turkish leaders, including Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu and President Ismet Inonu, may declare war or maintain neutrality, balancing Allied leverage and promises in a tense postwar position.
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Turkey
New York
Churchill
Nazi Germany
Balkan
Numan Menemencioglu
Ismet Inonu
Spain
Franco
Germany
Biddle Attacks Ward's Defiance of Labor Board
Boston June 5 Attorney General Francis Biddle declared that Montgomery Ward's defiance of government wartime labor policy threatened peaceable settlement of labor disputes. He cited Ward's resistance to the War Labor Board and the no strike no lockout pledge as contrary to national wartime aims and warned of consequences for production and war effort.
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Boston
Francis Biddle
Montgomery Ward
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
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Ward
War Labor Board
Labor Board
Continental Carbon to Open New Furace Black Units
DUMAS June 5 Supt Russell Weekley says new furnace black units for Continental Carbon Company plant near Sunray are nearly ready for operation. They join the existing channel black plant with labor issues met by hiring women as welder helpers carbon pullers and loaders.
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Dumas
Big Continental Carbon Company
Sunray
Russell Weekley
Big Channel Black
Weekley
Tulsa Slaying Appeal Denied
Jackson Mississippi dispatch reports Aaron Heffner of Coffeeville was to begin a life sentence for the 1943 murder of Tulsa resident Jimmie Deskin after the Mississippi Supreme Court overruled an error suggestion. Co-defendant A J Shaw Jr and witness Margaret Hunt are noted in the case.
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Miss
Aaron Heffner
Yalobusaha
Coffeeville
Jimmie Deskin
Testi
Fragmentary Crime Sentence From Coffeeville Road
A damaged clipping reports a fatal incident on a road near Coffeeville involving a tire tool and a vehicle. The circuit court decision had been affirmed several weeks earlier.
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Coffeeville
Circuit Cent
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