Japs Reported Preparing To Attack Russia
Reports from Chungking and abroad describe Japanese forces in China and Burma focusing on India and Soviet targets while Manchukuo reinforcements bolster 33 divisions. Secretary Stimson said Pacific threats to the coast lessen temporarily despite ongoing Midway and Aleutian engagements.
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China
Chungking
Burma
Calen
Japan
Cheklang
Chueng
India
Manchukuo
Malaya
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
Stimson
Washington
Pacific
War and Navy
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
North Pacific
Midway
Pacific Ocean
Aleutians
Sevastopol Defenses Smashed and Tobruk Held by British
German forces claimed a breakthrough into Sevastopol’s ring and near the harbor as Soviet and Allied lines clashed in Crimea and North Africa. British troops reportedly withdrew from Sidi Resegh and El Adem returning to Tobruk’s fortifications while Axis air power and U boats threatened Allied lines.
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Sevastopol
Africa
Associated Press
North Africa
Adolf Hitler
Crimea
Fort Gorky
Liwan
Sidi Resegh
el Adem
Cairo
Tobruk
Egyptian
Egypt
Stockholm
Benefits Bill Before Senate
Senator Pepper introduces a broad wartime civilian aid bill with administration support to provide monthly cash payments for injury disability or death of civilians in the United States and possessions including military bases. Disability payments range from 10 to 85 dollars monthly, with a minimum of one third disability.
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Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
Senate
United States
Sugar Stamp Values Change in Longer Four Week Coverage
The Office of Price Administration announced higher values for Sugar Stamps 5 and 6 to two pounds each while extending coverage to four weeks per stamp, keeping weekly ration at a half pound. Stamp No. 4 expires June 27. No. 5 valid through July 26. No. 6 valid until August 22.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Bergen's 1941 Pay Totals $282000 for Radio Work
Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy drew $282000 from Standard Brands in 1941 for radio work. The amount was nearly four times the $75000 paid to former president and current chairman Thos L Smith, according to annual reports filed with the SEC.
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Philadelphia
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Standard Brands, Inc
Bergen
Thos. L. Smith
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wday
Allied losses in Coral Sea and Midway exceed US by ten to one
Admiral Chester Nimitz reported heavy Japanese losses in the Coral Sea and Midway battles, with 19 Japanese airmen killed for every American casualty. He said US carrier crews faced strenuous conditions but praised the growing battle strength and the improving air and ship guidance as victories unfold.
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Coral Sea
Midway
U.S
Pear
United States
Coral
Chester W. Nimits
Pacific Fleet
Boughton Dies in New York City After Teaching Career
Thomas Boughton longtime Ohio University faculty member and former Detroit Daily Tribune reporter died Tuesday in New York City. He helped establish English clubs for creative writing and taught in Cincinnati public schools. He authored Mythology and retired from Gedicios aotacene of Arts. Wife Martha Arnold Boughton died in May 1928.
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Ohio University
Detroit Daily Tribune
Cincinnati
Ie Gedicios Aotacene
Martha Arnold Boughton
Cambria Clay Products Fined for Labor Violations
The Cambria Clay Products Company of Oak Hill Jackson County was fined 4500 in U S District Court for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. The firm pleaded guilty to 33 counts and individual officers were fined ten dollars each. About 20 workers may receive roughly 10000 in back wages.
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Cincinnati
Cambria Clay Products Company
Oak Hill
Jackson County
U. S. District Court Today
Ohio
Simon P. Reitz
Henry Scott
Ralph Flowers
Washington Township
Lloyd Shire
Atkinson Shire
Blackford
Verne H. Wilson
U. S
Salvage Campaign for Cooking Fats Ordered
Washington AP reports the War Production Board will launch a salvage campaign in early July to recover household cooking fats used to make explosives. Lessing J. Rosenwald, head of industrial conservation, urged housewives to save fats and sell them to local chain stores, meat markets, and frozen food lockers.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Protest Filed Against Hoover's Candidacy
Columbus AP reports Herbert Hoover of Akron faced a double threat to his gubernatorial primary bid. A protest against his candidacy petitions was filed, and officials say Hoover may lack the 1,000 valid signatures required by state rules.
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Columbus
Herbert Hoover
Akron
John M. Bricker
Hoover
John E. Sweeney
Election Board
Ohio Retailers Urged To Prepare Two Price Lists
Director H. T. Beckmann of the Ohio Office of Price Administration urged Buckeye retailers to prepare two price lists required by maximum price regulations. One lists ceiling prices for all costing commodities the store carries and the other shows a base period of maximum prices charged in March.
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Columbus
H. T. Beckmann
Ohio Office of Price Administration
Ickes Warns Public to Stock Coal for Winter
Washington's Fuel Coordinator Harold L. Ickes urged Americans to fill coal bins now to avoid heatless homes next winter. He warned supplies may be tight and called for a full winter stockpile this summer, noting possible transport costs could strain availability.
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Ickes
Washington
America
Harold L. Ickes
Icke
In Lancaster BIS Inmates Rise in Six Months
Welfare Director Charlies L. Sherwood reports a 3 percent rise at the Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster from 774 last December to 767 this month, caused mainly by improper home supervision as wartime work pulls parents into industry. The superintendent notes a prior wartime spike to 1,350 and a 60 percent jump in truancy and theft commitments. average entry age is 16 years and three months.
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Cletus Scheetz
State Board Declines Action in Water Fight
Columbus AP report says the State Water Board refused to intervene in a dispute over proposed water diversion from south of Hamilton to Mill Creek Valley industries. Alfred L. Lefeber of Hamilton warned the underground water table had fallen 15 feet in three years and urged concern if further drainage occurred.
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Columbus
State Water Board
Hamilton
Mill Creek
Alfred L. Lefeber
Ohio State Report: Payrolls Rise Faster Than Jobs
The Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research found Ohio industrial payrolls growing more quickly than employment due to higher wages and overtime, indicating rising compensation despite a slower jobs increase.
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Columbus
Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research
Ohio
Pomeroy Youth Receives Naval Ensign Commission
Ohio’s 25 graduating midshipmen at the U S Naval Academy will receive naval ensign commissions during June Week. The group includes Ronald A. Miller of Pomeroy among the Buckeye graduates in the first three year class.
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Annapolis
Ohio
U. S. Naval Academy
Buckeye
Ronald A. Miller
Pomeroy
Steubenville Blackout Declared Total Success
Steubenville and nearby steel towns darkened the area in a first major Ohio industrial blackout. Reporters in a civil air patrol plane noted a near total absence of landmarks, with furnaces shielded and trains, river traffic, and billboards dimmed. Gov. Bricker praised the effort, citing Ohio employment gains in war plants and new or converted facilities.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Civil Air Patrol
John W. Bricker
Mutual
Pennsylvania
Billion Weekly Arms Spending Surges in U S
Budget Director Harold D. Smith said government war expenditures rose to about 1,000,000,000 per week, signaling a fiscal year ending soon with a projected 70,000,000,000 in wartime outlays and a pace that dwarfs rival nations' costs. Treasury war-age spending rose from 409.4 million weekly before Pearl Harbor to 944.1 million last week.
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Washington
Harold D. Smith
America
Treasury
Smith
Pearl Harbor
Sales Tax Proposal Faces Slim Odds in House Panel
Washington report says sales tax advocates concede only an outside chance of approval as the Ways and Means Committee nears final action on a tax bill aimed at about 650 million in new revenue. The panel must still vote on the four sales tax items and two other provisions, while administration pressure mounts against remaining sales tax support.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Wheat Allotment Set at 55 Million Acres for 1943
The Agriculture Department announced a 55,000,000 acre national wheat planting allotment the minimum under the farm law with guidance to shift part to other crops vital to the war effort. The department seeks a reduction below the allotment due to a projected two year wheat supply as 1943 begins.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Congress weighs shift of rubber program to new agency
A draft bill proposes placing control of the rubber program under an independent Rubber Supplies Agency. The plan aims to coordinate activities now run by separate units under Donald M. Nelson as congressional pressure grows for synthetic rubber and farm alcohol production.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Rubber Supplies Agency
Unis
Nelson
Mrs. A. W. Kasler Dies After Illness at 64
Mrs. A W Kasler 64 died at home 340 Richland Ave Wednesday after a major January operation. Survived by husband A W Kasler and four children Vaughn Clifton Clinton and Mack Sauer plus Don who died ages ten. 11 grandchildren. Funeral Saturday 2 PM at home with ministers Frank Donaldson and Gilbert Courtney. Burial in W Union Street Cemetery.
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A. W. Kasler
Richland Ave
Kasler
Nellie Eddy
Vaughn Kasier
Clifton Kasler
Athens
Clinton Kasler
Jeffersonville
Western Construction Co
Coloredo Springs
Mack Sauer
Leesburg
Don
Athens County
First Christian Church
South “Y
Frank Donaldson
Gilbert Courtney
Chauncey
W. Union St
Easler
Cleveland Tops Wartime Business Growth Among U S Cities
The Cleveland chamber of commerce reports a weekly industrial payroll of 7.3 million dollars, leading all American cities in wartime increases in business activity.
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Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce
Rubber Mine Found by Akron Children and Adults
In Akron a heap of rubber scrap dumped after a warehouse fire was unearthed by about 100 people including 10 year old George Kolasky who dug two feet and found years old rubber. City officials had covered the site two years earlier to reduce fire risk. Clarence Holt reported taking in tons of the scrap nearby.
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AKRON
George Kolasky
Andrew Kolasky
Kolasky
Clarence Holt
Changes demanded for War Production Board by Truman
Sen. Truman chairing a Senate defense committee issued a 32 page report criticizing the WPB for damaging delays in converting civilian industries to war production. He urged organizational and personnel changes in parts of the WPB to meet its responsibilities.
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Washington
War Production Board
Truman
D.-Mo
Senate
National Defense
WPB
Robert P. Guthrie
Kiwanis Warns Histories Foster Hatred and Distrust
At the 27th Kiwanis convention, Harold M. Diggon of Victoria B C urged correcting historical inaccuracies taught to youth. He cited widespread examples where biased history fosters suspicion and divides peoples who should share friendship, stressing correction as a Canadian committee priority.
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Cleveland
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Committee On Public Affairs
Canada
Harold M. Diggon
Victoria
B. C
Willkie says he has no political aspirations
Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, said he doubts he will ever aspire to public office again. He added he is interested in causes that he does not want to see tainted by self interest, amid talk of a possible run in the New York gubernatorial race.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Berlin Says 15 Million Women In War Work
Berlin announced that fifteen million German women are now in war work. Nine million four hundred thousand are in compulsory service, six million are married, and two million five hundred thousand have children cared for by Nazi institutions. Since June 1 women have taken over many police duties.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
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