War Profits Tax Urged and Defense Levy Approved
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 1.006 billion dollar defense tax plan aimed at funding emergency national defense costs. It urged early enactment of anti war profits legislation and proposed measures to capture excess profits and allow for amortization for defense industries, with potential applicability to 1940 income. The bill would raise about 1.008 billion annually and could affect 1946 tax policy.
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Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Doughton D
N. C
Senate
Harrison
Third Bandit Is Identified
Witnesses positively identify Russell Howell as the third bandit in the November bank robbery in South Charleston. Bank suspects Ivan Phillips and Elmer Whitt were already named, with FBI arrests in Cincinnati on May 3. The district attorney moves to try all three, while a removal order for Howell is filed in Huntington.
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J. W. Warnes
FRY
Russell Howell
Marengo
Ivan Phillips
Marion
Elmer Whitt
Columbus
FBI
Cincinnati
Sai
Warnes
Howell
U. S. Commissioner's Office
Huntington
Ohio
Arms Plant Expansion Just Started
New York June 8 War production shifts drive broad plant expansion across the United States with new facilities and upgrades to meet home defense and Allied needs. Officials say a $4 billion national defense push and private investment will offset any drop from abroad while industry accelerates in airplanes, motors, and munition sectors amid rising war orders.
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New York
America
Hopkins
France
U.S
Waldo G. Bowman
Engineering News Record
Washington
Lone Raider Spotted Through Searchlights Over Southeast Town
A lone German raider battled a British ground crew under searchlights as townspeople watched. The German bomber, at 500 feet, fired on lights while anti-aircraft guns and bursts filled the sky. no casualties were reported. A second plane dropped red parachute flares at sea.
Italy threats of reciprocal bombing in war escalation
Rome based Tl Glornale D'Italia warns that if Allied bombers strike Italian cities five English cities would be bombed for each Italian city attacked. The piece notes Rome could become an open city and that Italy might enter the war with possible early action against targets, with some observers unsure of timing.
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Ford to Study Mass Output Of Warplane
The army sent a fast P-40 pursuit aircraft to Henry Ford in Dearborn to test if his plants, which already produce 10,000 cars daily, can mass produce fighter planes at that rate. The Curtiss-Wright built plane, with an Allison engine, will be flown from Langley Field to Dearborn for teardown and feasibility assessment.
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Ford
Nazi steamroller advances toward Paris high command reports
Berlin says the Nazi drive in north France pushes toward Le Havre while remaining ahead of initial pace. A high command communique claims steady gains with no details and denies French bombings on Berlin suburbs. The plan targets areas from Abbeville toward Paris and envisions a consolidated push south of the Somme.
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le Havre
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Somme
Athens
Perrone
Oise- Aisne Canal
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Oise-Aisne Canal
U-Boat Sinks British Liner Carimbhia
The armed merchant cruiser Carimbhia, a 20 277 ton Cunard White Star liner once popular as a world cruiser, was sunk by a U boat. Two officers and two seamen died. other crew were saved. The ship housed 405 in peacetime. Over 200 rescued.
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London
Carimbhia
Cunard-White Star Line
Admiralty
Builders Offer Strike Parley
Charleston building trades move toward peace talks as the Charleston Building Contractors Association proposes a three member committees from each side to negotiate wages and conditions. If stalemate lasts, a seventh public member would render a binding decision. Hod Carriers union to meet contractors tomorrow to review the plan. The union last week struck the Sacred Heart High School project and two West Side gas stations seeking a raise from six to five cents an hour.
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Charleston
Charleston Building Contractors’ Association
Hod Cartiers, Building and Common ‘Laborers Union
Hod Cars Rers
Building Trades Council
Ito
Had Carriers
Sacred Heart Catholic
West Side
Heroic Nuns Rescue 24 in Hospital Fire
In Prescott Arizona on June 6 the Sisters of Mercy evacuated Mercy Hospital saving 24 patients none fatally. Mother Superior Anatins vista directed the rescue as a 40 year old building burned on hospital grounds.
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Ariz
INS
Lam Pers
Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospital
Unamed
Anatinsvista
Pershing endorses compulsory training and arms for Allies
Gen. John J. Pershing urged compulsory military training for American youth and backed continued arms shipments to the Allies. He said Britain and France are fighting for civilization and holding the Allied front line as Roosevelt seeks congressional approval.
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Washington
INS
John J. Pershing
Roosevelt
Germany Massed Offensive Presses Toward Paris
Paris reports a massive German assault using 1,000,000 infantry and 3,500 tanks pushing along a 60-mile front toward Paris. German advances force a French retirement maneuver as Weygand reshapes the line between Aumale and Noyon to blunt the push.
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Aumale
Noyon
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France
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