Delay on Promotions Clouds Senate Consideration of Generals
Washington reports Monday night that espionage and subversive activity probes were injected into the Senate military affairs committee's executive review of 14 general promotions. The delay followed talk of destroying army records and protests by senators over erasing investigations linking generals to suspicious activity.
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Senate
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Pro
George S. Patton, Jr
Brehon D. Low
Reynolds
D-N.c
Joseph
Silane
Com
McNarney
Navy Halts Brewster Corsair Contract Plan
The Navy announced a cutback in fighter plane output, terminating Brewster Aeronautical Corp’s Corsair production at its Long Island and Johnsville plants effective July 1. The move, part of broader reductions affecting Goodyear Aircraft and United Aircraft’s Chance Vought, aims to save about 180 million dollars with no dissatisfactions cited toward Brewster’s management.
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Washington
Navy
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
Brewster
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation
Chance Vought
United Aircraft Corporation
Long Island
Johnsville
Henry Kaiser
Allies Divide Axis Italy into 6 Zones
Allied headquarters and Italian high command announced six operational zones in German occupied Italy to coordinate resistance. Zone 1 covers the front line area ahead of the Eighth and Fifth armies, Zone 2 Rome area with instructions to follow, Zone 3 the coastal stretch from the Tiber to Pisa, Zone 4 central Apennines, Zone 5 Adriatic coast from Pescara to Rimini, Zone 6 northern Italy including Milan Venice Turin and Genoa.
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Allied Command
Italy
Harold R. L. G. Alexander
Allied
Pietro Badoglio
No Man's Land
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Tiber River
Arno
Pisa
Apennine
Adriatic
Pescara
Rubicon River
Rimini
Adriatic Sea
Gulf of Genoa
Milan
Venice
Turin
Genoa
AFL Opposes Work Or Fight Measure Across Sectors
The American Federation of Labor denounces the proposed work or fight bill arguing it would tighten regimentation across industry labor and agriculture. AFL official Lewis G. Hines testifies at a senate hearing that opposition aligns with their stance against a national service draft for war work.
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Americ Federation of Labor
Lewis G. Hines
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Senate
Ete Oe
Federation
Navy cites fighter surplus if reserves not reduced
The navy warned that without substantial cuts, there would be an excess of fighters over justifiable reserves, signaling potential overstock in air forces and prompting review of personnel levels.
Division Equivalent In Day's Air Raids
CHICAGO AP Arnold of the United States army air forces said Europe is not a prelude to invasion but invasion in the deadly sense. Speaking at the Economic club of Chicago he claimed a thousand heavy bombers create an army on the wing with 10,000 men en route to deal death and destruction. He added that numerically we send over the equivalent of an infantry division on daily missions.
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Europe
Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Economic Club of
Germany
Quadruplets Born to RAF Officer Family in Southend
Southend on Sea England Tuesday saw the birth of four children three boys and one girl to Mrs Daisy Moxham wife of an RAF Flying Officer. The quadruplets were delivered at a local hospital and the family is reported in good health.
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Southend-On-Sea
England
Daisy Moxham
RAF
Elmwood boy World War II hero seeks re enlistment at 17
Clifford Wherley, famed Elmwood Air Force veteran who enlisted at 14, earned the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and flew 22 missions, plans to re enlist on his 17th birthday while continuing as a student near Peoria. He met with Gen. H H Arnold before an honorable discharge pending his 17th birthday.
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Ill
Clifford Wherley
Army Air Forces
Clifford
Air Corps
War Department
Fae
Pape Becon Union
Peoria
Wherley
James B. Doolittle
Tokyo
Gabes
Sfax
Sardinia
Kasserine Pass
United States
Air Forces
Gen
H. H. Arnold
F R Urges Greeks To Unite Against Axis
Washington reports that President Roosevelt urged Greek leaders in exile to merge their differences and rally to defeat the Axis. In a letter to three delegates at a Near East conference, he called for unity in the national crisis.
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Washington
INS
State Department
Roosevelt
Near East
Institute Ousts Carver Protege Over Royalties
In Charleston West Virginia AP report Dr George W Carver protege Prof Austin W Curtis Jr 32 is dismissed by Tuskegee Institute over a royalties dispute Curtis held a 50 percent share from Carvers life story royalties with 25 percent to Carver and 25 percent to Curtis Patterson Tuskegee president said accepting the share violated Carvers unselfish stance Curtis says he refused to relinquish the share and was fired
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W. Va
Austin W. Curtis, Jr
George W. Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Curtis
Carver
F. D. Patterson
Tuskegee
Institute
Patterson
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