Roosevelt to address nation on war effort and Allied front
President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced plans to deliver a nationwide war update on networks at 9 30 p m showing progress on all fronts including Tunisia and Sicily. He warned of domestic wage and price pressures and potential 1943 production goals while stressing no change in Allied surrender policy.
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Welfare Department Crops To Be Smaller
Columbus reports the State Welfare Department will harvest smaller crops this year with reductions from four to 44 percent, though acres under cultivation rise by about 1,000. Director Herbert R. Rooney cites unfavorable weather after last year’s record production. The department farms roughly 13,000 acres on 22 institutions. produce feeds over 36,000 in penal institutions and hospitals.
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State Welfare Department
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Soldier Wins Decoration in Hawaii
War Department announces meritorious achievement awards for fourteen Ohio soldiers with the Army Air Forces in Hawaii. Recipients include Sergeant Paul E. Jurgensmier of Logan awarded the Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster and other units honored for exemplary flight service.
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Logan
Rent Division Reported Stabilizing Wartime Rents
A House committee reported that the Office of Price Administration rent controls stabilized wartime rents but exceeded congressional powers, trespassed on states, and discriminated against rental-property acts. It urged trimming the fiscal program to a skeleton.
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Office of Price Admintration
Congress
Hamburg Hit Again by British Bombers
RAF bombers returned to Hamburg in great force last night, the fourth successive night raid on the North German port amid ongoing round the clock attacks since Saturday. American daylight strikes hit Ruhr industries. Mosquito fighters patrolled over Europe. Allied air power targeted France and Belgium with additional bomber and fighter operations. A total of 15 German planes were reported destroyed. In Ohio, 14 year old Louis Lesnak of Campbell drowned after diving from a boat into Lake Milton yesterday.
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Change Ration Point Costs for Several Foods
The Office of Price Administration announced August stamps will overlap September stamps for three weeks and remain valid until Sept 20. Effective Aug 1, point values rise for frozen fruits and berries to nine, certain vegetables to six, and tomato juice to one per pound, while frozen fruit juices drop from four to two.
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State Highway Dept Appeals to Truckers on Wet Highway Paint
The State Highway Department asked truck operators not to drive over freshly painted highway lines until the paint dries.
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State Highway Department
Grange urges rejection of labor demands on food prices
Washington. National Grange urges administration to resist labor calls for food price rollback or general wage increases saying such steps would deepen the food crisis and inflation. The group faults AFL CIO arguments, cites 21 percent income share for food, and seeks reestablishment of the food stamp plan to aid consumers.
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Office of Price Administration
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Allied Air Attacks Seal Back Japanese Holdouts
Pacific forces struck Kiska Island in 19 raids over two days boosting total attacks to 40 in four days. Wake Island raids continued with Liberator bombers destroying several Japanese aircraft while 25 Zero fighters contested the air. In Solomon Islands, U S troops pressed toward Munda air base as New Guinea operations report skirmishes near Mt Tambu and strong bombing on Salamaua Bastion.
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Three Soldiers Die in Desert Endurance Exercise
CAMP YOUNG Calif. Three soldiers died from thirst after a six day endurance maneuver in the Southern California Arizona desert. One soldier is missing presumed dead while two are confirmed dead. The rest of the platoon was rescued with some members severely affected by sun and exhaustion but expected to recover. Names were withheld pending relatives' notification.
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Calif
California-Arizona
Baby Dies in Flash Flood Near Blaine Bridgeport
In St Clairsville area a flash flood struck early today washing out a highway bridge and killing a seven month old baby. The child of Rudolph Butts and his wife from Wheeling was in a car abandoned by parents seeking shelter. Route 40 Chermont Bridge near Lansing washed out. temporary span set for one way traffic.
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Blaine Bridgeport
Justin Halenar
Belmont County
Rudolph Butts
Wheeling
Lansing
State Highway Department
Chermont
Route 40
Texas Hurricane Causes Multi Million Dollar Damage
A hurricane along the Texas Gulf Coast is subsiding with no lives lost or serious injuries. Houston reports about 1 million dollars in damage, Galveston matches that figure, and Goose Creek Baytown and Pelly tri cities area also total around 1 million. Winds averaged 75 mph and peaked at 132 mph in Houston.
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Tex
Texas Gulf Coast
Galveston
Goose Creek
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Tri-Cities
Ohio pork and dairy sent overseas during June
The War Food Administration regional office announced that tons of pork and dairy products were purchased from Ohio processing centers in June and shipped overseas for United Nations use.
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Chicago
War Food Administration
Ohio
WFA
United Nations
Russians Press Near Orel as Germans Retreat
Soviet dispatches say German forces under Field Marshal Von Kluege are retreating on the Central Russian front around Orel. Russians report burning villages and forced labor by civilians, with 50 villages captured and significant tank and aircraft losses for Germany in the latest day’s fighting.
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Orel
Red Army
Guenther von Kluege
Bryansk
State Revenue From Liquor Permits Drops in 1943
The Ohio state liquor department reports revenue from liquor and beer permits fell by 220 755 during the first six months of 1943 compared with the same period in 1942. The total this year is 3 162 835.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Wallace Speech Draws Blast From Vandenberg
U S Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan denounced Vice President Wallace's Detroit speech as pushing an official administration premise that only Wallace loyalists are patriots. He said Wallace implied that any American who opposes his post war philanthropy and domestic plans is a subversive fascist.
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Mich
U. S
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Rmich
Henry A. Wallace
Detroit
Wallace
Epidemic rise of infantile paralysis in the South
The U S Public Health Service reports infantile paralysis reaching epidemic proportions in several southeastern states. Cumulative nationwide figures for the first six and a half months of the year are the highest in 12 years.
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Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
Tragic Drowning of 11 Year Old at Todds Fork Creek
Coroner C E Kinzel reports 11 year old Jackie Hayslip drowned while bathing with his father Oscar Hayslip in Todds Fork Creek at Clarksville. The incident prompted an official inquiry and preliminary findings.
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C. E. Kinzel
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Todds Fork Creek
Oscar Hayslip
Outbreaks Sweep Italian Cities as Fascists Move Out
Reports from Milan Naples and other cities describe a violent uprising with barricades gunfire prison mutinies and fueled by the collapse of fascism. Authorities vow a long hard fight as the new cabinet dissolves the Fascist Party and Italian cities face continued turmoil.
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Mussolini
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Americans Advance in Sicily Reach Cefalu and Messina Corridor
American Seventh Army units swept toward Messina and captured Cefalu on the northern coast while pressing against strong German defenses at San Stefano. Patton’s forces seized Alimena and four other towns as Canadian troops push northeast through central Sicily amid mounting Allied pressure.
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Messina
Cefalu
San Stefano
Palermo
Sicily
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S
Catania
Eighth Army
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Egypt
Mareth Line
Tunisia
War Production Board Allows Shoe Output Increase
The War Production Board authorized a 25 percent rise in output for children's and infants' shoes, a 15 percent rise for men's work shoes, and a 25 percent rise for men's safety shoes. Demand for children's footwear remains well above supply amid rationing.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Yanks in Middle East Face Mental Strain Study
Cairo report by Captain John M. Flumerfleet of Philadelphia notes one in eight American soldiers in Middle East hospitals or evacuated to the U S is a mental case. He outlines character and situational neuroses, with bomber crews and pilots at high risk and limited treatment yielding return to civilian life only as well as possible.
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Cairo
John M. Flumerfleet
Philadelphia
Middle East
United States
Flumerfleet
38Th General Hospital
Dunkerque
Nedigs
Brown Warns Ickes Over Midwest Gasoline Ration Talk
Rep Clarence J Brown of Branchester warns Harold L Ickes that a planned gasoline ration cut without Midwest congressmen’s input could trigger a serious misunderstanding. Brown says Ickes pledged to inform the committee before final action and insists no further rationing is needed now.
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Clarence J. Brown
Republican
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Ickes
Brown
Interior
Ohioan
Plan Federal Loans To Aid Tobacco Growers
Washington news that the War Food Administration will offer federal loans at 90 percent of parity to tobacco growers participating in this year’s AAA program to support prices for 1943 crop. Loans to non cooperators run 54 percent of parity for tobacco beyond marketing quotas and small purchases of barley and bark type will be shipped abroad under lend lease programs. A large amount of flue cured tobacco will also be bought.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Fight Excess Prices For Meat In Cincinnati
Office of Price Administration officials launch a pledge system with Cincinnati meat buyers to curb black market and chiseling. Wholesalers reportedly charged 10 to 15 percent above legal limits and schemes involve inflated weights from wholesalers to retailers, with price boosts passed to customers seeking scarce cuts.
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Office of Price Administration
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