Ration Book Three Issuance Tied to Military Assignments
OPA director for North Alabama explains no denial of ration book three to armed forces members in the United States. Postponement aims to align with when the book is needed and future military reassignments may affect eligibility. Service families may still apply between June 1 and June 10.
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m_ Board
Joe Short
OPA
North Alabama
United States
Army
Navy
Coal Strike Expands as Miners Idle Across States
As miners across Pennsylvania Virginia Kentucky Ohio and neighboring states stay home amid contract disputes and a looming shutdown leaders warn the nation faces a major halt. Gov fuel chief Ickes notes a 45 day soft coal stockpile and slower production in week ending May 23.
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Lewis
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Ioal
Clinchoan
Dante
Clinchfield Coal Co
Alabama
West Virginia
Aso
Ickes
Solid Fuels
Charleston
W. Va
West Kentucky
UMW
Markets Waver as War News Shapes Trading Tone
New York June 1 buyers favored peace stocks while war news and coal mine strikes weighed on steels and rails. Cables show 1,200,000 shares traded amid mixed cotton futures and wage dispute tensions with miners in hard and soft coal fields and ongoing government talks.
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New York
Nashville market reports show cattle hogs and sheep steady
Nashville stock market notes cattle 100 calves 150 hogs 1100 sheep 1100 with little change. Cattle weak on cows and bulls but good fed steers yearlings quoted 15.25 15.50. Hogs steady with good and choice 190 275 lbs 13.75 13.85. Sheep active and steady with spring lambs 15.00 16.00 and bulk shorn ewes 5.50 6.50.
Grain futures mixed as rye leads with July contract highs
Chicago grain trading opened with rye futures surging to new season highs before profit taking trimmed gains. Wheat closed near session lows, down 1 to 2 cents. rye eased 1 4 to 3 4 cents. oats and corn held near unchanged with corn at ceiling.
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Chicago
WPB imposes citric acid freeze for military civilian use
The War Production Board ordered a citric acid freeze effective July 1 due to six months of supply shortfalls. After July 1 no supplier may use citric acid except for refining or deliver it without specific WPB authorization.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Manpower Chief predicts fewer fathers kept from duty
Washington reports that by year end dependency will be nearly ended as 22 of every 100 able bodied fathers remain deferred for family support. Induction of family heads starts August 1 with Navy easing standards noted as causing only a delay. If 1944 draft pace continues, further lowering requirements or changing ages may be needed.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Navy
McNutt
Mc-Nutt
Community births and movements report from Decatur area
Announcements list births at Benevolent and deliveries at home hospitals. References to Brown and Lamon families, travels to California and Knoxville, new job for Mary Weekly, and transfers of Pfc Howard Hovis. No city docket cases. War Price and Ration Board 122 panel meeting slated. Frank Sandlin in Birmingham.
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Commodity Panel of War Price and Ration Board 122
WPB
Fallout from wage disputes and labor bills in Congress
The Smith Connally bill faces House opposition and calls for amendments to outlaw strikes in government run industries and expand War Labor Board powers. A compromise pay as you go tax bill gains cross party support. McNutt says only one in five heads of families will be deferred from induction by year end. Galbraith resigns from OPA price control post. Republicans eye Midwest as campaign battleground with talks of a national platform meeting.
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House
House Military Committee
War Labor Board
Senate
White House
Paul V. McNutt
OPA
J. Kenneth’. Galbraith
Middlewest
Chicago
Byrnes Promises Unified War Effort In Speech
James F. Byrnes, named director of war mobilization, pledges coordinated civilian and government action to back military fronts. He cites production gains such as 100 000th aircraft, quadrupled merchant ship building, and 100 fighting ships completed in five months of 1943 while offering few details on how agencies will be unified.
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Romney Wheeler
Spartanburg
James F. Byrnes
America
Spartanburgs
Army
Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
United States
Washington
Enterprise's Story Pacific War
The Enterprise has sunk 19 Japanese ships including three carriers and damaged 13 others in the year since Pearl Harbor. Her air groups downed at least 185 planes, with tonnage sunk and damaged totaling hundreds of thousands. The ship has 96,000 miles of seas traversed and fought in every major Pacific action except Coral Sea, earning the nickname Big E for her sustained pluck and pivotal battles from Wake to Santa Cruz.
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Eugene Burns
Enterprise
Pearl Harbor
Jutland
Burns
Navy
Washington
Guadalcanal
Pacific Ocean
Coral Sea
Wake Island
Oahu
Marshall Island
Marcus Island
South Pacific
Australia
Efati
New Hebrides
Solomons
Santa Cruz
Pacific
Alabama Senate OKs 10 Percent Wine and Liquor Tax
The Alabama Senate approved a 10 percent excise tax increase on wine and liquor to raise about a million dollars for counties and cities. The effective date was set for July 1 pending House concurrence to adjust from June 1. Senator Vernon L. St. John opposed the final rate but voted yes. House action on a referendum to raise the state sales tax for old age assistance was delayed due to low attendance.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
House
Vernon L. St. John
Lawrence
Senate Temperance Committee
Rep. J. H. Deason
Walker
Honors Roll By Senior Class At Local School
The list shows students receiving first and second honors across Senior 1 Senior 2 and Senior 3 groups including names such as Imogene Lee Mary Lee Poole and Betty Lowery plus perfect attendance recognitions for Virginia Lewis John Patterson and others. The names appear alongside classroom divisions and indicate academic distinctions reported from the page one continuation.
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Mary Alma Pearce
Nelle Frank Moore
Betty Lowery
Horace Dryden
Bobby Trimble
Jacqueline Burleson
Peggy Wilds
Marvin Sims
Bonnie Park
Marguerite Hovis
Betty Landers
Roy Wyatt
Nell Cloud
Sybil Free
Martha Ann Gregg
Betty Jean Gassoway
Judson Hawthorne
Lady Cheri Chandler
Thelma Gillespie
Martha Witt Rogers
Betty Wyatt
Virginia
Nazis reveal attack fear and defencive phase talk
Berlin observers see hints that Germany fears a renewed summer offensive against Russia and may shift to a defensive strategy. Dietmar argues the initiative is lost and suggests delaying moves until a Russian advance or Western invasion pressure. Some say Germany cannot sustain a six month campaign in Russia amid Allied air attacks.
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London
Germany
Russia
Reich
Berlin
Kurt Dietmar
Dietmar
Hitler
Moscow
Tunisia
Dietmar S Ted
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Tax abatement plan for 1942 and 1943 income taxes
The proposal outlines monthly payroll deductions and a 20 percent withholding to cover income and victory taxes. Abatement ranges include 100 percent for those owing up to 50 dollars, 50 dollar flat for 50 to 66.67 dollars, and 75 percent for above 66.67 dollars with 25 percent due in two installments in 1944 and 1945.
War Propaganda Forecast As June Offensive Looms
The article notes Nazi losses in May exceeding 2000 wave planes and pilot depletion, while the Red Air Force strengthens. It describes intensified aerial war from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov and argues offensive land operations depend on air campaigns. It forecasts coordinated German, Soviet, and Allied actions with June seen as a critical period.
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Moscow
Luftwaffe
Red
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
Hitler
Seif
Sta
Fuehr
Mississippi suspends intercollegiate athletics for duration
State college board members voted to suspend all intercollegiate athletics at state controlled colleges in Mississippi for the duration and ordered conforming reductions in athletic department salaries. This action comes as a broad reduction across state higher education programs.
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Jackson
Miss
State College Board
Mississippi
OPA Cuts B and C Gas Coupons in Northeast
The Office of Price Administration reduced the value of B and C gas coupons in ban areas from three gallons to two and a half gallons, affecting drivers in Northeastern states with non-essential travel restrictions.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Senate rejects amendment to trade bill in 51 33 vote
The Senate voted 51 to 33 against an amendment to reciprocal trade legislation approved by the House. The proposal would have let Congress terminate trade pacts six months after the war ends.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Hymns and Help On War Bonds War Welfare
In church pews a sense of loss sits as missing young sailors and soldiers appear to be serving abroad. Chaplains and choir leaders are aboard ships and Army posts while hymnals reach the fighting forces and savings from War Bonds support their spiritual welfare.
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U.S. Treasury Department
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