Current Comment and Local Food Guidance in Linn County
The piece discusses Comintern dissolution's limited impact on anti‑communist threats and praises local Linn County rationing officials for handling sugar canning stamps amid food conference censorship. It notes Judge Marvin Jones's open access hours, British press outreach at Hot Springs, and urges OPA to set goals while allowing local boards to determine methods. It ends with a brief note on Victory Garden Bulletin No 4 advising tomato planting cues.
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PHE
Marvin Jones
Hot Springs
Beorovoit
Linn County
Washington
OPA
Ictory Garden
Soviet Troops Seize Island in Kuban Area
Soviet forces stormed and captured an island northwest of Novorossiisk in the Kuban estuary after a landing. Radio Moscow said German losses ranged from 44 to 56 planes in the Kursk raid, with nine downed by ground defenses, as the front lines prepare for a major push toward Novorossiisk and the Caucasus bridgehead.
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London
Kursk
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Kuban
Radio
Moscow
Radio Moscow
Kharkov
Orel
Widow of war hero floods market with home offers
Mrs. Colin Kelly Jr widow of the war hero says landlords refuse to rent because of her three year old son Corky. She reports a flood of offers after news of her search, calling it a broader housing ban on children in Los Angeles. She notes Corky is no different than other children and urges men to secure homes for families.
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Los Angeles
INS
Colin Kelly, Jr
Corky
Roosevelt
West Point
America
Taft Widow Dies in Washington at 81
Mrs. William Howard Taft widow of the former president and chief justice died Saturday in Washington at age 81 after about a year and a half of illness. She was mother to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and Charles P. Taft. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Monday with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
President Signs Coal Act Extension
President Roosevelt signed a bill extending the Guffey coal act for 90 days to regulate the bituminous industry and allow time to revamp the law.
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Washington
Sns
Roosevelt
Head of Union Orders Rubber Strike Ended
Sherman H. Dalrymple, international president of the United Rubber Workers CIO, condemned a 52,000 worker strike that halted plants in Akron and ordered a return to work to produce for war. He cited violation of union mandates and the no-strike pledge to the President, while noting a wage ruling by the National War Labor Board fell short of the eight cent request. About 18,000 struck Goodyear, 13,000 at B F Goodrich, and 18,000 at Firestone Tire and Rubber.
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Akron
Ohio
Sherman H. Dalrymple
United Rubber Workers
CIO
United States
Dalrymple
National War Labor Board
WLB
Akron Industrial Union Council
Little Steel
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
B. F. Goodrich Company
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Attu Rat Trap Closed as Kiska Next on Schedule
U S forces have nearly wiped out the Japanese on Attu island and are poised to attack Kiska in the Aleutians. Navy dispatches say Attu was split into three small Japanese groups in the island’s northeastern end, now trapped and facing death or surrender.
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Attu
Kiska
Washington
U. S
Aleutians
Navy
Rommel Reported Suffering Nervous Collapse
Bern dispatch reports Marshal Erwin Rommel has a nervous collapse due to illness from North Africa and the Tunisia defeat. The dispatch says he is in dis grace with Hitler.
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Stockholm
A _ Bern
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
Tunisia
Hitler
Tojo Predicts End Of War In June Interview
Chilean reporter Mario Planet cites Hideki Tojo saying the American navy is destroyed and the war will end soon. Tojo claimed Japan would link with Nazi forces at the Red sea and Europeans would witness an invasion of London. He warned the war would last long enough to sustain a hundred years but victory was near.
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Moscow
New York
INS
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Red Sea
Tojo
Mario Planet
Santiago
Chile
Planet
United States
National Press Club
inter-American Affairs
Tokio
Chilean Regation
Asia
Burma
India
Near East
Egypt
England
Germany
Italy
London
Franted
America
Planet Said
Marine Uses Chicken Bait to Pick Off Japs
San Diego California INS reports Corp Howard H. Hoyt recalls a marine who tied a chicken to a stake on a knoll to lure Japanese forces. The sharpshooter killed 30 enemy soldiers in an afternoon and, after each kill, dragged the body away. He ended the day by eating the chicken for supper.
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San Diego
Calif
INS
Howard H. Hoyt
ITIL
Sutterstreet
San Francisco
Solomons
Dismemberment of Reich Not Solution-Feierabend
Dr Ladislav Feierabend Czech finance minister in exile argues dismemberment would not end conflict and would spur future war. He advocates postwar economic collaboration among Europe and leveling living standards across Germany and neighbors. He predicts an end to the European war by 1944 with Christmas 1943 as possible. He notes surprise at Axis collapse in Tunisia.
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Germany
Reich
Ladislav Feierabend
Feierabend
Czechoslovakia
Tunisia
Spanish Mutineers Said to Sunk Own Fleet
Christian Science Monitor reports that Spanish sailors mutinied against Franco and sank several German ships and most of the Spanish fleet at El Ferrol around May 6. The account cites unofficial sources in Mexico City and warns of lack of official confirmation.
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Boston
INS
el Ferrol
Spain
Francisco Franco
Christian Science Monitor
Selden Menefee
The
Monitor
Mexico City
Menefee
Franco
Axis
Auto Union Strives to End Chrysler Production Halt
Detroit UAW CIO leader R. J. Thomas vows to use weekend speeches to press Chrysler workers to resume full production by Monday after unauthorized strikes crippled about 28 000 jobs. The War Labor Board authorized regional inquiry to assign responsibility amid a day shift lull leaving 12 000 idle and materials scarce.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
CSO
Chrysler Corp
R. J. Thomas
Chrysler Uaw-Cio
War Labor Board
WLB
Washington
Chrysler
Gas Mileage Cut in Eastern Shortage Area
Washington officials cut truck bus and taxi gasoline mileage by 40 percent in the Eastern shortage area effective 12:01 a.m. Monday. The extension of "T" coupons covers commercial vehicles from June 30 to July 25 while passenger car A Y and C coupons stay unchanged. The move aims to ease shortages threatening farming, with DDT estimating a net savings of 20 000 barrels daily.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Price Administration
ODT
Atlantic Seaboard
War Food Administration
Virginia
Maryland
Long Island
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New York
Rochester
Hudson Valley
New England
Cedar Rapids Sees 78 Degree High as Warm Spell Shifts
Cedar Rapids weather recorded a high of 78 degrees on Saturday with a low of 50 earlier and an evening fall to 64. Friday reached 81 degrees, while humidity stood at 30 percent as smoke-like haze settled over the city and rain was hoped to be avoided.
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Cedar Rapids
Havelock Ellis
Weather Authority
Mercury
Mississippi Flood Traps 1,000 Civilians as Mississippi Breaks
Rescue boats were dispatched after the Mississippi surged through levees in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri, trapping about 1,000 people near Cupo and Dupo. Troops and volunteers worked to strengthen levees, evacuate residents, and move stranded civilians while rails and yard facilities suffered major damage.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Illinois
Missouri
Coast Guard
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Cupo
Ill
Carondelet
Capo
Missour Pacific
J A Adams
US Army
Dupo
St Louis
Mississippi River
Ilinois
Adams
Coast
St Charles County
Indiana
Wabash
Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling To Wed Today
Hollywood report says film star Ann Sothern and Air Cadet Robert Sterling will marry in a simple Sunday ceremony at Ventura Community Church. Dr. Theodore Henderson will officiate with a small circle of close friends. Mrs. Ray Milland will serve as matron of honor.
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Hollywood
INS
Ann Sothern
Maisie
Robert Sterling
Community Church of
Ventura
Theodore Henderson
Ray Milland
Comintern dissolves to boost Allied solidarity wartime unity
The Comintern announced its dissolution due to war constraints to advance unity with Soviet Russia’s western allies. The executive committee urged national sections to ratify, saying the international center had become outmoded and hindered strengthening national working class parties.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Comintern
Lenin
Soviet Russia
Communist International
Europe
1944 Farm Plan Aims to End Acreage Limits and Expand Contracts
Washington reports a preliminary blueprint for 1944 food production plans. The master plan calls for removal of all acreage restrictions, higher producer prices, and broader use of contract farming. It envisions $368 million in subsidies and credits, with emphasis on beans, peas, soybeans, flax, and other crops, plus seed and fertilizer grants tied to farmer commitments.
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Washington (Lp
War Food Administration
WFA
Chester Davis
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Great Plains
Floods Force Revisions of Crop Plans per Davis
Food Administrator Chester C. Davis told a senate appropriations subcommittee that midwestern floods may require changes in crop plans. Where corn fields are washed out and replanted grain cannot mature before cold weather, other crops should be scheduled.
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Washington
Chester C. Davis
Senate Appropriations
Pennsylvania Mines To Reopen Monday
Pittsburgh dispatch reports full production in western Pennsylvania mine fields by Monday as strikers return to work after government and union pleas.
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Pennsylvania Mines
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
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