Possible American as World Supreme Commander Speculated
Washington sources speculation centers on an American possibly General George C Marshall becoming supreme commander of all United Nations air and sea forces. No official move exists but several high officials foresee a single global command to direct strategy and standardization amid a democratic process. Other contenders include Admiral William D Leahy and General Douglas MacArthur.
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Washington
George Carshall
States Army
United Nations
Marshall
William D. Leahy
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Wavell
India
Auchinleck
Middle East
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Russia
Great Britain
Egypt
Australia
Libya
End of Jukes Now in Sight
The 130000 members of the American Federation of Musicians will make no more radio transcriptions and juke box records after Aug 1. The order, signed by President James C. Petrillo, went out June 25 to end competition from canned music. Juke box operators cannot obtain new records once current supplies wear out.
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New York
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
James C. Petrillo
Portstown Fair Cancelled as Government Requests Tire Conservation
Portsmouth AP report says the Seci oto County Fair Board canceled its 1942 exhibition in compliance with federal requests to aid motor vehicle tire conservation.
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Portsmouth
Secioto County Fair Board
Army Begins Deductions Under Family Allowances Law
The Army has started deducting from soldiers pay to fund family allowances for wives and children under a June law. Dependents will receive payments starting November with lump sums up to 250 dollars for a wife. Initial deductions commence with June pay due July 1, delayed for posts with late payrolls.
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Washington
Thruston Hughes
Louisville
Red Cross Aid Invaluable to Service Men
Roy Hershey of the American Red Cross Military and Naval Welfare Service told a wartime institute that solving soldiers home problems quickly is vital to morale. He noted ways are found for emergency home returns and settling unforeseen financial issues after enlistment. Miss Mary E. DeLaskey urged a home nursing course for at least one family member.
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Mb Ye
Red Cols
National Organization
Roy Hershey
American Red Cross Military
Naval Welfare Service
Red Cross
Hershey
Mary E. DeLaskey
Red Cross Nursing Service
Fire at Goodyear air dock halts none of the workers
A $10,000 blaze destroyed rubber sealing strip along the south door of Goodyear Aircraft Corporation's vast air dock in Akron. An acetylene torch sparked the fire late yesterday but the 1,175 foot dock kept operating as about 3,000 workers per shift continued production.
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Akron (P
Goodyear Aircraft Corporations
Mammoth Air Dock
Armbruster Reports on Rotary Convention in Canada
Dean A H Armbruster Athens Rotary Club president told Athens noon club of the Rotary International convention in Toronto. He represented the Athens Club as delegate among Rotarians from 31 countries. Retiring president L G Worstell received a jeweled Rotary pin from H C Pendry, another past president.
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Rotary International
Toronto
Canada
Dean A. H. Armbruster
Athens Rotary Club
Dean Armbruster
Athens Club
L. G. Worstell
H. C. Pendry
Railroad Trains Pause for Willard Funeral Honor
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad operations paused for one minute at two PM as private funeral services for Daniel Willard, longtime B and O president, began at his Baltimore home. All trains and telegraph keys stopped across the system in tribute.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Daniel Willard
Willard
Ohio Farmers Build Bins for Early Wheat Harvest
Ohio farmers race to complete the earliest harvest in years by constructing wooden storage bins. Lumber companies report many farmers building temporary bins as elevators are already full with prior surpluses.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pipeline Funds Approved for Florida and Gulf Waterway
The Senate Commerce committee approved 11 to 3 a House bill authorizing 93 million dollars for an oil pipeline across Florida a second line from Mississippi to the East Coast and expansion of the gulf intracoastal waterway. The measure bans petroleum coordinator office limits on shallow wells 3 300 feet or less until eastern coast shortages ease. It also plans a navigable barge canal across Florida with an estimated cost.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
House
Florida
Mississippi
Gulf Intercoastal
Petroleum Co-Ordinator
Mexico Bombs Sub In Gulf War Move
Mexico declare war last month and reports of a dive bombing attack in the Gulf of Mexico cripple an enemy submarine off Tampico. Patrol planes sighted the submarine and pilots said bombing runs scored numerous hits.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Army General Staff
Tampico
Ethier Wins Interlocutory Divorce After 46 Years
Edward Ethier, 82, obtained an interlocutory divorce decree from Illda Beauchamp Ethier. The couple married in Lake Linden, Michigan in January 1894, and Ethier left two years later for the Alaska gold rush.
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Seattle
Edward Ethier
Exilda Beauchamp Ethier
Lake Linden
Mich
Alaska
Premier Saydam Dies in Ankara at 61
Prime Minister Refik Saydam died in Ankara after a heart attack. He was 61 and had held the post since January 4239.
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Saydam
Ankara
Turkey
Refik Saydam
Japanese Forces Surrounded After Kiangsi Drive
The Chinese Nationalist Army under Chiang Kai-shek said it closed in on Japanese advance troops that entered Fengchang and Changshu as part of a new push to seize the Kiangsi Hunan Railway.
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Chiang Kai- Shek
Fengchang
Changshu
Kiangsi
Hunan
British oil in wells taints water for Nazis in desert
In Cairo dispatch, British forces allegedly poured fish oil into Western Desert wells to render water undrinkable for German troops. The report claims widespread contamination across multiple wells, aiming to disrupt logistics and morale.
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Cairo
Japanese efforts to seize Kiangsi Hunan rail loop in China war
Allied reports say fierce fighting near Kiangsi and Hunan as Japan presses to secure a rail trunk linking Shanghai to Singapore. Australian front activity notes intermittent air reconnaissance while U S Army Air Service in Australia logs 5 million miles flown in five months to rush vital gear with only one plane lost to accident.
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Kiangsi
Hunan
Shanghai
Singapore
Horn Island
Torres Strait
Australia
New Guinea
MacArthur
South Pacific
Canberra
Francis Forde
United States Army Air Service
Farm Dispute Sets Agreement on July Farm Funds
Senators and House members again clash over a 680 million farm bill amid a temporary accord to fund July for the Department of Agriculture. The Senate authorized full parity loans on wheat corn cotton rice tobacco and peanuts, a move Cannon calls unrelated to the dispute.
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House
Department of Agriculture
Senate
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Russell
D-Ga
Bankhead
D-Ala
Freeze Price Lines On Summer Clothes
Washington AP Leon Henderson ruled that a seller of men and boys summer clothing may not introduce new lines with prices higher than his current top price. The price freezing aims to prevent manufacturers and merchants from pushing up overall price levels on apparel.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
OPA
War bargains, tires, and a fading gas ration plan
Roosevelt warned U S motorists of possible tire confiscation if the war worsens while seeking to save the nation not fuel. He noted no decision on nationwide gasoline rationing and urged reduced fuel use to aid war production. Soviet and Allied reports describe fierce Voronezh fighting and Rommel’s raids near Malta as Britain fights Axis in Africa and Europe.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Alexandria
Cairo
Stockholm
Cape Wtal
Rommel
Malta
Mediterranean
Nile
Suez Canal
Staryt Oskol
Voronezh
Don
Staryi Oskol
Crimea
Ukraine
U-Boat Toll Mounts to 344
The Navy reports 344 Allied and neutral ship losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. A Dutch cargo vessel sank in the Caribbean after a 10 minute attack. all 37 aboard were rescued. Also reported are three merchantmen destroyed in the Caribbean: a U. S. vessel, a small British tanker, and a Norwegian cargo ship.
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Caribbean
Navy
Associated Press
United and
Neutral Nations
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
U U. S
Reynoldsburg Publisher Reported Missing
The State Highway Patrol said George A. Clark Reynoldsburg publisher and Democratic candidate for the State Senate had been missing since June 24 but had communicated with a brother in Gallipolis.
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Columbus
State Highway Patrol
George A. Clark
Reynoldsburg
State Senate
Gallipolis
The War Today: Allies and Hitler's Western Europe risk
The piece warns that neglecting the Caucasus, Middle East, and Egypt invites ruin but stresses the Allies can still win with a strong Western Front. It argues a rapid European front and intensified bombing are likely if Hitler secures oil and resources, though a land invasion remains unready.
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Egypt
Middle East
Caucasus
Europe
Middle Eastern
United States
Britain
Generals Will Decide Fate of Nazi Agents
Eight men trained in Nazi sabotage face a full and fair trial on charges of violating the Articles of War. A military court, empowered to pass the death sentence, convenes in the Justice Department building under wartime secrecy with seven generals named to the commission. The defendants, all German-born, include two naturalized Americans.
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Washington
Justice Department
Capitol
FBI
Long Island
Florida
Bund Members Held on Bail
Eleven of 29 defendants in the German American Bund case were jailed on high bail as the FBI said all are in federal custody. The last of 26 named in indictments for conspiracy to evade the draft, counsel band members to resist service, or conceal membership in alien registration was arrested in New Haven. Former band leader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze faces bail up to $50,000 after capture in Mexico.
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Fritz Kuhn
New York City
Kunze
Mexico
Hartford
Conn
New York
Bund
FBI
New Haven
Wilbur J. Keegan
Teaneck
N. J
Charles W. Howard 74 Dies After Illness
Logan service notices report Charles W. Howard 74 died after weeks of illness. A retired blacksmith, he is survived by son Arthur of Columbus and daughters Mrs. Gladys Zeisler of Chillicothe and Mrs. Ruth Schisler of Mansfield. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Logan
Charles W. Howard
Arthur
Columbus
Gladys Zeisler
Chillicothe
Ruth Schisler
Mansfield
Woman Sworn as Army Officer Candidate in Minneapolis
Hor tense Mae Bouteil aged 29, supervisor of 16 women in an arms plant, was believed to be the first woman army officer candidate sworn in. She assumed her rank at a ceremony at the Army recruiting station after completing a final medical checkup.
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Minneapolis
Hortense Mae Bouteil
Argentina Orders Vessels To Avoid U S East Coast
Buenos Aires bans Argentine merchant ships from the U S east coast amid Germany declared blockade. Officials say Argentina asserts freedom of the seas while steering ships clear of potential conflict zones.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
Germany
Lpg Wighy
Industry Aids In Decreasing Relief Cases
State Welfare Director Charles L Sherwood reported a drop in June relief cases to about 31 800 from winter levels 32 782 formerly unemployables The nine year low was 34 693 in May The June relief cost was 956 000 compared with 974 504 in May and 1 181 335 in June 1941 First six months total about 6 881 101 a decline of 2 851 345 from 1941 period
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Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Ohio Farmers Yield 95 000 Tons of Iron
Ohio farms have produced about 95 000 tons of junk iron for wartime needs per U S Agriculture war board chair Elmer F Kruse. Clark County leads with 4814 tons donated, while Kruse notes junk metal and junk rubber are important wartime crops and much remains in barns and fields.
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Ohio
Columbus
Elmer F. Kruse
U. S. Department of Agriculture War Board
Clark County
Kruse
Top Tool Production Not Enough Knudsen Says
Flint Michigan Lieut Gen William S Knudsen former General Motors president tells Flint wartime manufacturers that current tool production is insufficient We are making the greatest number of machine tools any country in the world has ever made and it's still not enough He adds goods produced in the next 60 days will be more valuable than twice the amount produced next year
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Flint, Mich
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Flint
Michigan
Knudsen
Ohio Haulers Plan Nine City Information Offices
The Ohio Commercial Haulers' Association asked the Office of Defense Transportation for approval of a plan to set up information offices in nine cities to speed up efficient use of equipment.
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Columbus
Ohio Commercial Haulers’ Association
Office of Defense ‘Transportation
Earthquake Recorded 4 400 Miles From New York
A rather severe earthquake in an undetermined direction 4 400 miles from New York was recorded early today on the seismograph at Fordham University.
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New York
Fordham University
Columbus dealers to cut beer price to ten cents a bottle
Columbus beer dealers have agreed to reduce prices to 10 cents per bottle, down from 13 cents, after Ohio OPA investigations found some sellers charged two for 25 cents. James W. Huffman reported the action, noting it is the first price reduction since the Ohio OPA office was established.
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Columbus
James W. Huffman
Ohio Office of Price Administration
Ohio Opa
Profiteers whipped as Egypt enforces profiteering penalties
In Alexandria 13 convicted profiteers received 30 lashes and three months in prison. In New York Lake Champlain area Miss Edyth Magee, 25, Canton Ohio, drowned when a canoe capsized in Lake Chatauqua yesterday.
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Egypt
Lake Jamestown
N. Y
Edyth Magee
Canton
Lake
Chatauqua
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