Balkan tensions rise as armistice rumors swirl
Reports from Ankara indicate Romania sought armistice terms with the Allies While Turkey leans closer to the United Nations Brig Gen Richard G Tindell is named US military attaché in Ankara and Turkish fliers head to the US for training Axis observers note British and Italian troop movements near Turkey Syria serves as a launch point for operations in the eastern Med WW II home front bureaus receive a generous appropriations package totaling about 2.94 billion for 18 civilian war agencies including OP A and OWI with a guarded praise from the House appropriations committee for their wartime performance.
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House Appropriations Committee
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
United States
Corn Loans Called Amid War Drive and Front News
The government called 47 million bushels of 1942 corn loans effective July 15 as part of a short term solution to the corn supply crisis. Privately owned corn in elevators may be seized to support war products, while grain price controls face review. On the battlefield, Soviet forces repelled eight German counterattacks near Orel and targeted German rail lines. in the Pacific American pilots shot down 77 Japanese aircraft over Guadalcanal with 6 losses, the heaviest air action to date, as Liberator bombers attacked Kendari. Chiang Kai-shek alleged use of poison gas in Suiyan Province and claimed strategic town recaptures south of the Yangtze.
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Postwar Assurances in Soviet Polish Talks
Stalin promises Soviet aid to restore a strong independent Poland after the war in a message to Polish patriots in Russia. Observers note the Polish government-in-exile has no role. Britain and the United States hammer Axis targets across Europe and the Mediterranean with heavy bombings of nine German cities and Sicilian air bases.
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Roosevelt Essays The Little Prince as Postwar Philosophy
President Roosevelt discusses Antoine de Saint Exupery and The Little Prince as a hopeful guide for postwar Italy and world order. He notes the tale's themes of friendship and essential truths learned from fox and prince, amid Pantelleria bombardment and a postwar vision.
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Navy cancels Elk Hills oil contract with Standard Oil
Secretary Knox announced cancellation of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve agreement with Standard Oil of California after a Justice Department ruling found the arrangement exceeded legal authority. Assistant A G Littell testified the department report called the contract illegal and invalid, while Knox said no improprieties were found in negotiations.
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Week in review highlights and wartime notes
New York laundries say dirty shirts may become fashionable as they limit to five shirts per family weekly. Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer reports Pantelleria conquest cost the United Nations forty airmen. Munitions Minister C. D. Howe announces a Canadian transatlantic air service to carry mail and officials. Argentina seeks closer ties with the United States, says War Minister Edelmire J. Farrel.
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Treasury trims tax boost to 12 billion for 1944
Secretary Morgenthau disclosed the treasury would cut its request for new taxes to 12 billion dollars, down from 16 billion, yet the total tax bill for the 1944 fiscal year would reach 50 billion. He said the goal would cover half the war costs and was 4 billion below Roosevelt’s January budget objective with recommendations to Congress before summer recess.
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Roosevelt
Rationing Plan Details Emerge From OPA Official
Louis J. Kroeger announces eight new rationing programs in preparation by the OPA with two set for immediate effect. Six others, including coal, depend on directives from other agencies. Planned measures cover cooking and heating stoves and a unified allotment system for institutional buyers.
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OPA
Office of Price Administration
Kroeger
Government payroll waste sparks calls for personnel cuts
A joint congressional committee urged the Civil Service Commission to cut nonessential federal staff arguing the payroll has more than tripled since World War I and a 300,000-employee reduction is feasible. It faulted wasteful practices and urged a complete reorganization to restore merit system integrity. Also, WPB head Donald Nelson cited UN war production at 125 billion yearly versus Axis 65 billion, with US output projected to hit 90 billion in 1944.
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United Nations
WPB
Donald Nelson
House Appropriations Committee
Briefs On War Moves and German Home Front Orders
Soldiers average eight railroad moves between induction and overseas embarkation. Radio France reports a Gestapo agent in every German university as students stir. The Baltic Gauleiter orders removal of church bells for total mobilization. Air raid shelters prove inadequate against heavy bombs. Germans urged to speed new underground shelters construction.
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Gercne
Gestapo
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