Pay Checkoff For U S Tax Near 10 Percent Deduction
House Ways and Means members expect a plan to deduct 10 percent of taxable income from paychecks to fund high income taxes. Employers would withhold starting January, applying about half to 1942 taxes and the rest to 1943 taxes. The plan avoids a general sales tax and would raise roughly 3.6 trillion dollars annually, with refunds blocked pending further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
House
Ways and
Means
Treasury Committee
Tven
Treasury
Ouster Demanded Of 2 Rubber Men
Harold A. Sims of Ft Worth told a senate committee his firm was blocked from building a scrap rubber reclamation plant because he would not pay a $50,000 fee to an engineer chosen by War Production Board official Dr Harry S Rogers. House committee members revealed an investigation into Sims charges had begun after a secret hearing. Sims and Elliott Simpson of New York criticized WP rubber administrators as a campaign called farce. Senator Wheeler urged removal of Newhall and Rogers and for new leadership in the rubber program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Harold A. Sims
Ft. Worth
Tex
Senate
Harry S Rogers
War Production Board
Andrew J. Somers
D-N. Y
House Coinage, Weights and Measures Committee
Sims
House Committee
Elliott Simpson
New York
Agriculture
Sen
Wheeler
D-Mont
Arthur H. Newhall
WPB
Rogers
Newhall
Game One
Married Men Rule Held Up Delays Draft Policy Change
State officials said a new congressional act allowing deferment for married men will not alter local draft board policy until national headquarters issues directives. At a six county meeting in Kanawha and surrounding areas, Selective Service leaders explained no local changes occur without federal instruction as boards discussed procedures and heard lectures from Lt. Comdr. Paul Brothers and Maj. L. R. Lambert.
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Congress
National Selective Service
Stile Selective Service
National Headquarters
Kanawha
Putnam
Hoone
Clay Counties
Fayette Board No. 3
Raleigh No. 2
State Selective Service
Carleton C. Pierce
Harley H. Thompson
L. R Lambert
Paul L. Brothers
State
Brothers and Lambert
Stores Laud Charleston Retailers For Price Control Compliance
Victor H. Barnes of the Office of Price Administration reported an educational survey of 422 Charleston stores showing 181 adequate, 166 adequate but imperfect, and eight with no compliance. The overall adequate rate was 419, about four times the score of other cities. Barnes praised Charleston retailers for proper price display and called noncompliant stores in need of only minor adjustments.
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Charleston
Victor H. Barnes
Office of Price Administration
Barnes
OPA
Iisted
No Report on Egypt Warned U S Nationals
The State Department said it had no information on reports that U S nationals had been warned to leave Egypt. Diplomatic officials on the spot have discretion to issue precautionary warnings and inform the department, but no notice had reached the department today, so it could neither confirm nor deny the reports.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Egypt
Cubans Sign Treaty For Havana Airbase
Cuba and the United States signed a military cooperation treaty providing for an air base near Havana to train U S and British fliers and to operate against enemy submarines. The pact was signed at 6 25 p m EWT. Cuba’s state department called Cuba a co belligerent ally in the joint war effort against the Axis.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
U. S
Cuban State Department
U S May Buy Private Tires From Nonessential Cars
Washington reports discuss government purchase of tires from owners of nonessential automobiles to support war production. A nationwide treasure hunt aims to collect unused rubber from attics and sheds Saturday and Sunday with drop points at service stations.
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Petroleum Industry War Council
Office of Price Administration
Ohio Rubber Mining Yields Huge War Time Scrapyard Harvest
In Columbus on June 29, wartime salvageers reported booming rubber mining across cities. Adults and youths staked dumps and former plant sites, with 10 million pounds already collected in Ohio and potential doubling by month’s end. Youngstown yielded 200 to 400 tons from a post fire dump at Republic Rubber, Medina saw nearly 4 tons found at the old Medina Rubber site, and Akron reported 12 tons salvaged from a warehouse fire dump three years earlier.
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Columbus
Buckeye
Youngstown
Republic Rubber Co
Medina (C
Akron
Chinese Push Forces Japanese Back In Kiangsi Province
CHUNGKING June 19 A string of Chinese victories seals a ring around the Japanese right flank in western Kiangsi. Chinese troops reach outskirts of Linchwen and threaten Nancheng as they press the center. Kiangsi town Shanechi attacked, 1000 Japanese killed or wounded, and Tinghai captured near Hangzhou Bay. Prisoners taken and garrisons raided across Zhejiang.
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Chungking
China
Kisngsi
Kinki
Linchwen
Nancheng
Kiangsi
Shane Chi
Fukien
Kwangten
Chekiang
Chanashan
Tinghai
Chousan Island
Hangchow Bay
Reds Counter Attacks Near Sevastopol and Tobruk Clash
Axis tank columns moved along the Libyan frontier toward Bardia after Gambut fell, aiming to isolate Tobruk. Rommel deployed two mechanized divisions toward Tobruk and Capuzzo while British forces held a defensive line near Sollum. Tobruk remained besieged with heavy bombardment as the front shifted under night operations.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bardia
Gambut
Mediterranean
Tobruk
Rommel
Srong
Capuzzo
Ivar Sollum
Er |Tion
Rommtel
Afrika Korps
Blamey refutes Tobruk’s strategic ruin claim
Lt Gen Sir Thomas Blamey says Tobruk’s fall would not imperil Egypt’s defense and that Tobruk could be held again if imperial command chooses. He notes his past defense under siege and, as Douglas MacArthur’s deputy in the southwest Pacific, clarifies the wartime position.
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Melbourne
Australia
UNS
Thomas Blamey
Tobruk
Egypt
Blamey
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Turks Convict Russians Over Papen Bomb Plot
Tass reports Ankara court convicted two Russians Georgi Pavlov and Leonid Kornilov of organizing a plot against German envoy Franz Von Papen in an attack Feb 24. The men received 20 years while two naturalized Turkish defendants got 10 years for acting as provocateurs. Moscow papers called the verdict shocking amid strained Soviet Turkish ties.
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Moscow
Tass
Ankara
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Papen
Georgi Pavlov
Leonid Kornilov
Kornilov
Istanbul
von Papen
Aburahan Simon
Suleyman Say
Yugoslavia
Turks Said Firing At U S Bombers
Berlin radio reported from Ankara that 13 or 14 U S warplanes flew over Turkey toward the Black sea coast and were fired on by Turkish anti air batteries. The shooting occurred in the coast district on Thursday evening per Ankara information.
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WEW
York
Berlin
Ankara
U.S
Turkey
Black Sea
CBS
Fage
Lexingtons Ice Cream Moment Amid Lexington Sinking
Survivor Pancake recalls the Lexington sinking in the Coral Sea after torpedo bombers struck. He recounts his crew's calm under fire, the fire onboard, and the moment they sat on the deck eating melting ice cream as a destroyer failed to quell fires. Pancake, 21, later swam to a nearby cruiser and spoke of 174 casualties among 2800 sailors and Marines onboard. He and his family members have multiple relatives serving in the military.
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Lexington
Coral Sea
Stere
Johnny Lenvil Pancake
Gilbert
Beha Hatch
Pancake
BE. J. Lawson
South Charleston
Huntington
Richmond
Hui
Frederick C. Sherman
Young Pancake
Navy
Iva Stella Pancake
Amore
Sam
Pvt
Charles E. Pancake
Johnny
William Alfred Pancake
Buck
Mrs. Lawson
Lisson
U.S. Naval Ordnance Plant
Roosevelt and Churchill Meet in Secrecy on War Plans
Washington, June 1914 Two surprise Roosevelt Churchill conferences spark talk of a British American invasion of Europe and a large American expedition to the Middle East. Details kept secret. White House only confirms Churchill’s arrival for talks on the war and its conduct with Mr Roosevelt. Stephen T. Early said no further statements this week.
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Washington
Congress
Middle East
White House
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stephen T. Early
Churchill seeks U.S. aid to hold Mediterranean front
London dispatch says Prime Minister Churchill urges American reinforcements to stabilize the Mediterranean and delay a second European front until next spring. Axis gains in Libya push the Middle East high in UN strategy, with planned large air raids and coastal commando attacks against Germans.
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London
Churchill
U. S
Mediterranean
European
Middle East
Libyan
United Nations
Roosevelt
Mediterranean Basin
Survivors Demand First Class Rescue After Lexington Sinking
ROCHESTER June 19. Crewmembers of the aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japan stayed in Coral Sea waters awaiting rescue by their own choice. Aviation machinist mate Carl Ferrante said a destroyer picked them up, but they chose to keep swimming, refusing to ride destroyers they called too rough. Ferrante swam about an hour and a half.
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Rochester
Lexington
Coral Sea
Detroyer
Carl Ferrante
Aviation
Germans Claim Decisive Sevastopol Assault Fails
German forces under Fritz von Mannstein press Sevastopol defenses with tanks dive-bombers and heavy artillery but lose units and aircraft as Soviet counterattacks and furious artillery drive them back. Soviet communiques report extensive German losses and continued fighting around the fortress.
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Moscow
Russia
Sevastopol
Fritz von Mannstein
von Mannestein
Inkermann
Great Free Fair Of 42 Cancelled
The Kanawha State Park association cancelled the 1942 Great Free Fair near Dunbar in response to Defense Transportation Director Joseph B Eastman. Association president C Savage announced the decision after Eastman asked fairs and unnecessary conventions be cancelled for the duration.
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Kanawha State Park
Kanawha County
Agriculture Sec
Claude Wickard
West Virginia
Lewisburg
Jackson's Mill
State Department of Agriculture
Department
Eastman
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