Confusion in God Market as Hourly Prices Driven by Subsidy Rollback
Packers and dealers report market activity tied to government subsidy terms for livestock. Rollback to reduce retail meat prices by 10 percent triggers uncertainty about payments to packers beginning June 7, with payments 11 cents per pound cattle calves, 1.3 cents per pound hogs, and 0.95 cents per pound sheep and lambs.
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Chicago
Packers Commission
Ers
Rejes Rice
Livestock Exchange
Department of Agrifigures
Dairy Products Market Association
DPMA
Severe Loss Reported in Night Storm
A night storm lashed parts of Ohio causing damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Strong winds and lightning accompanied heavy rain that toppled trees and damaged roofs in scattered communities.
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Ohio
German Cities ration transport amid Allied bombing raids
Stockholm reports Germany imposes rationing on trolley and bus transport across cities due to heavy Allied air raids. Berlin dispatches say equipment is being moved from towns to others, creating passenger shortages at peak periods and prompting talk of retaliation against Britain.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Britain
New Deal Said to Use Tugwell as Puerto Rico Guinea Pig
Puerto Rico spokesman for the Puerto Rican Farmers Association said Rexford Tugwell’s land and sugar regulation and minimum wage experiments would be transplanted to the U.S. mainland. He testified before the Bell Congressional Committee on Puerto Rican affairs.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Uel Gonzales
Erto
Portland Sailors Face Starvation and Telephon e Delays
An Atchison Navy first class reports a small lifeboat torpedoed in the South Pacific with survivors near starvation. The piece notes limited communications as Dayton residents struggle to obtain telephone service and wait for connections while facilities run short.
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Portland
Ore
Uum
South Pacific
Atchison
Navy
Dayton
Ohio Bell Tele
Congress battles over summer recess amid funding fights
Congress fights to reach a July 10 recess as the Senate nears a clash on subsidizing price rolls by the Office of Price Administration. In the House Republicans threaten to block OWI and OPA funds as debates over agency appropriations threaten the holiday. The massive War Department bill complicates plans for a congressional break.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Office of Price Administration
Banking Committee
House
Office of War Information
OWI
OPA
Pleas of Dems Being Turned Down in the South
Georgia Democrats refuse to fund the national campaign unless national leaders cease dealings with Republicans and Willkie supporters. Louisiana officials say requests from headquarters would likely be ignored. South Carolina committee denies refusing funds, says reports are untrue.
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Atlanta
J. Lon Duckworth
Georgia
Democratic Executive Committee
National Committee
National Party
Francis J. Whitehead
Louisiana
Democratic Central Committee
Democratic Party
Spartanburg
S.C
South Carolina
Winchester Smith
Ohio Infant Death Rate Hits New Low
Ohio’s 1942 infant mortality rate dropped to 37 deaths per 1000 births, the State Health Department reported, down from 42 the previous year. The vital statistics note that earlier years before 1914 had mortality rates in the hundreds, marking this as a historic low.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
Department
Merchant Dies At Langsville
Langsville, Meigs County Floyd Miller 58 leading merchant died suddenly at his home after a heart attack following a show in Pompey. Survived by widow and four children Corporal Carl Miller Camp Wolters Texas Mrs Chester Erwin Langsville Mrs Dwight Brown St Albans WV and Mrs Cecil Bolin Akron. Funeral Sunday at Langsville Church if son arrives from Texas.
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Langsville
Floyd Miller
Meigs County
Pomeroy
Miller
Carl Miler
Camp Wolters
Texas
Chester Erwin
Dwight Brown
St. Albans
W. Va
Cecil Bolin
Akron
Langsville Church
Soldier
King George VI Visits Allied Forces in North Africa
King George VI toured allied units in the Mediterranean, inspecting American Fifth Army and Second Army troops. He praised cleanliness of uniforms, spoke with generals Mark W. Clark George S. Patton Omar Bradley, and noted Army cooks who prepared a luncheon for President Roosevelt, including roast beef creamed corn string beans canned fruit salad and hot biscuits with tea.
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North Africa
Europe
King George VI of
England
Mediterranean
Mark W. Clark
U. S. Fifth Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Tunisia
Omar N. Bradley
United States Second Army
James D. Johnston
Barnum Springs
N. D
Johnston
Frazier Woodard
Alabama
Rescue Worker Rescued After 13 Hour Sewer entombment
Gordon Tempany, 54, a construction foreman, was trapped 65 feet underground in a rain flooded sewer for over 13 hours before being rescued by city firemen. He emerged unharmed, joking that he had a good time as his wife embraced him. The storm caused about 250000 dollars in damage across Cleveland and disrupted rail and street traffic, with bridges closed and areas including Fairview Village, Garfield Heights, Zanesville, Newark, and Cincinnati hit by flooding and high winds.
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Cleveland
Gordon Tempany
Fairview Village
Garfield Heights
Pennsylvania
Nickel Plate
E. 34Th Street
Pittsburg Avenue
Broadway
S.E
Harvard-Denison
Zanesville
Newark
Cincinnati
Keck Funeral Home
Moxahala Park
Newark City Hospital
Texas Troops Patrol Riots After Fatal Notre Coup
In Beaumont Texas state guards patrolled after a riot that left two dead Ellis Cleveland Brown and John Johnson age 44 gunshot wound and skull fracture ten hospitalized and 25 houses damaged in a Negro neighborhood martial law declared to prevent further outbreaks following a rape accusation against a Black man.
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Beaumont
Texas
Ellis Cleveland Brown
John Johnson
Two Drivers Are Fined By Mayor Woodworth
Charles L. Colby of Watt Street was fined $10 and costs for parking on a highway near the North Y after a flat tire on U S 50. Carl Evener of Lorain was fined $5 and costs for failing to stop at a stop light in Athens.
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State Highway Patrol
Franz Woodworth
Athens
Charles L. Colby
Watt Sr
Colby
U. S. 50
Carl Evener
Lorain
Tax receipts fall compared to 1943 in motor vehicle tax
Net receipts from the three cent motor vehicle tax for the first four months of this year totaled 9,420,372, down from 12,418,371 in the same period of 1943, according to the State Tax Department.
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Columbus
State Tax Department
Allied air raid damage reported at Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven
Secretary Stimson says 85 to 105 German fighters were destroyed by American and British fliers in last Friday raid on Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven. US planes aiding Chinese forces burned fires and caused extensive damage in Owchihkow Tuesday.
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Washington
War Stimson
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Chungking
United States
Hupen Province
Owchihkow
Resistance grows in Axis satellites in Southeastern Europe
Information from Cairo reports rising opposition activity in Romania and Bulgaria. Underground leaders in collaborationist states become more outspoken, with Bulgaria showing renewed pro Soviet sentiment tied to old Mother Russia views.
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Cairo
Europe
Rumania
Bulgaria
Russia
Evatt predicts quick Japanese collapse after Hitler defeat
London dispatch reports Australian external affairs minister H. V. Evatt says Japan would collapse swiftly once Hitler is defeated and that the Pacific outcome should mirror Europe. He argues Allied resource use could shorten any interval between defeats.
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Japan
Adolf Hitler
Pacific
Europe
Evatt
Hitler
Fire destroys large Blue Ribbon Hatchery in Atlanta area
A blaze today at the Blue Ribbon Hatchery near Atlanta severely damaged the facility as about 50 000 newly hatched chicks and 350 000 eyes of eggs were destroyed. Local authorities are assessing the loss at one of the Southeast’s largest hatcheries.
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Atlanta
Blue Ribbon
Platform debate at Ohio parley called off by GOP chief
National GOP chairman Harrison E Spangler canceled plans to attend the Ohio governors conference where a 1944 platform might form. Gov John W Bricker said time constraints ruled out a formal gathering of 45 state executives. Spangler cited heavy news and other business as reasons for his postponement.
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Columbus
National
G.O.P
Harrison E. Spangler
Spankler
John W. Bricker
Spangler
Bricker
Cedar Rapids
Cuyahoga Quota Question Sparks Draft Dispute
Cleveland report states that 24 460 more men from Cuyahoga County were called for service than population percentages would allow. George B Harris leader of the county draft board committee accused state headquarters of discrimination in drafting 103 000 men by June 1.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
George B. Harris
Middleport Resident Dies at Home Today
Middleport interim obituary reports R. A. Martin, a retired carpenter and longtime resident, died at his Rutland Street home this morning. Funeral arrangements are being made. He is survived by his sister Bartha Martin of Detroit, who arrived last night due to his illness.
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Middleport
R. A. Martin
Rutland St
Bartha Martin
Detroit
Bees Driven Off by Mirror Flash in Springfield Intersection
An unidentified young woman assisted Police George Ford by using a mirrored beam to scare a swarm of bees away from a busy Springfield intersection. Ford directed the light to a nearby wall, sending the bees away and allowing traffic to resume.
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Springfield
Ill
George Ford
Ford
Urge Cut in U.S. Payroll
A congressional committee urged trimming the government payroll by about 300000 positions. The workforce rose from 917,760 in 1918 to 3,008,519 last April and payrolls climbed from 141,522,234 to 552,700,300 monthly over three years.
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Washington
Congressional
Joint Committee On
Byrd
D-Va
Roosevelt
Congress
Engineer Students Are Needed in Industry
The War Manpower Commission urged that armed forces release to industry some of the 6,400 engineering college seniors now in enlisted reserves. A roster warned essential activities face an acute engineer shortage without transfers from less critical work. Columbus Governor Bricker vetoed a bill granting local officials power to write fire insurance contracts for subdivision property.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Political Subdivisions
Testimony Details Hoarded Food By Japanese at Heart Mountain Camp
Earl A. Best a former Heart Mountain associate steward testified to a Dies committee about secret pantries and hidden stockrooms in 36 of 42 kitchens. He described large lard drums, multi-year supplies of canned tomatoes, mayonnaise excess, and doughnut making with wasteful use of lard. The tale depicts misused rations and unsanctioned storage during relocation center operations.
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Los Angeles
Dies
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Wyoming
Earl A. Best
Dunkerque
Heart Mountain
Poston, Ariz
Heart Mountain Camp
Best
Bombers Suffer Losses in Night Guadalcanal Clash
In a major Pacific air battle, American planes shot down 77 Japanese aircraft over Guadalcanal while losing six of their own. British forces bomb Cologne and disrupt targets in Holland and Belgium as Allied air offensives continue.
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Washington
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Navy
U.S
Rhineland
Cologne
Holland
Belgium
English Channel
Mediterranean
Middle East
Aegean Sea
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest Africa
Sicily
Malta
Italy
Davis Boy Drowns in Muskingum River Tragedy
Fourteen year old Robert Lee Davis son of Mr and Mrs Harry Davis drowned yesterday in the Muskingum River. Local authorities investigated the drowning and issued no further details at this time.
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Mcconnellville
Robert Lee Davis
Harry Davis
Muskingum River
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