Burns Tells How State Officials Split Profit In Deal
In Aberdeen on March 24, Phill Burns testified in a $15 421 embezzlement trial that he and state treasurer W G Douglas and state commissioner Earl Hammerquist arranged in November 1940 to split 1800 profit from selling 810 000 in U S Treasury bonds owned by the state The trio allegedly split 800 with Burns getting 800 others Moodie and Warner named in testimony with records and checks cited The case traces bond exchanges and payments including a 28 813 96 check and concerns income tax adjustments before the balance of the profit was divided. The defense began with Burns as the first witness after the state rested.
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Aberdeen
Mar
Phill T. Burns
W. G. Douglas
Earl Hammerquist
U. S. Treasury
Pierre
Burns
E. B. Harkin
Burns Co
A.J. Moodie
State Rural Credits Department
Moodie
W. W. Warner
Harkin
C. F. Childs and Co
Chicago
Clarence J. Burns Co
Paill
Burns Co. Cash Journal
Childs and Co
Phill Burns
Douglas
Burns Company
R. L. Morgan
Morgan
A. J. Moodie
Busnes
Moodle
Nelson seeks 30 day limit to suspend double time pay
War Production Chief Donald Nelson urged Congress to grant a 30 day window to secure voluntary suspension of double pay for overtime through labor leaders before new legislation. He warned abolishing the 40 hour week by law could worsen labor relations and trigger wage distortions. He noted war industry hours average 55 in machine tools, 49 in aircraft, 48 in shipbuilding, and argued against broad curbs without labor agreement.
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Washington
Mar
Donald Nelson
Congress
Organized Labor
House Naval Committee
Vinson
Georgia
Smith
Virginia
George
Nelson
Italy Reels Off Naval Successes Claims 19 British Ships Sunk
Rome reports from Italian broadcasts that the high command claims 19 British warships and merchant vessels were sunk damaged or hit in air and sea operations stretching from the Gulf of Sirte to the Eastern Mediterranean. Italian torpedo planes and German bombers credited with sinking a cruiser a 10 000 ton merchant ship and damaging three cruisers a destroyer and three merchant ships.
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Italy
High Command
Rome
Mar
Italian High Command
Gulf of
Sirte
Libyan
Mediterranean
Malta
East- Mediterranean
Recapped tires to be available next month
Nearly 500000 recapped tires will be made available next month for limited numbers of taxi drivers defense workers traveling salesmen and certain other civilians according to the office of price administration announcement.
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Washington, Mar
Office of Price Administration
Congress Faces Probe Into Big Bonuses at Jack and Heintz Inc
In Washington on March 24 a House floor demand sought criminal action against those behind government contracts after disclosure that Jack and Heintz Inc of Bedford, Ohio paid $600000 in bonuses last year. Secretary Adelaide Bowman earned 391295 in bonuses first weeks of 1942, drawing scrutiny over cost reductions and profit limits amid war production.
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Washington
Mar
Jack& Heintz, Inc
Cleveland Airplane
Andresen
Minnesota
Rep. Young
Ohio
Jack & Heintz
House
Congress
Jack & Heintz, Inc
W. S. Jack
Jack and Heintz, Inc
Bedford, C
House Naval Committee
Rep. Vingon
Georgia
Adelaide Bowman
Edmund Toland
Vinson
Bowman
Poker Players To Help War Effort In Leonardtown
Leonardtown Poker Club members pledged to use winnings to buy defense stamps and, if they lose, to buy stamps equal to twice their losses. The plan ties local gaming to wartime support in Maryland.
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Leonardtown
Uncle Sam
Bonding Company Verifies Figures To Spur Appointment
Beadle County expected to appoint a successor to Paul Bittner after New Amsterdam Casualty Company representative W S Anderson verified auditors figures showing 1141.15 missing from the food stamp fund. Officials said a new food stamp head would be appointed today and State’s Attorney Luby planned charges soon.
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Beadle County
Food
Paul Bittner
W. S. Anderson
New Amsterdam Casualty Company
Agricultural Marketing Administration
Andersen
Board of Commissioners
Bittmer
Vand
Shen
Banding’ Company
Page
Bittner
T. Luby
Bond Company
Schumacher Guilty In Municipal Court Term
A municipal court jury found Ray mond Schumacher guilty of assault and battery after a short deliberation. The trial featured rival accounts of a fight over a deceased rat in burlap and farm disputes between Schumacher and Nels Christianson. Sentencing is set for a later date, with States Attorney T H Tuby prosecuting and George Longstaff defending.
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Raymond Schumacher
Schumacher
Nels Christianson
T. H. Tuby
George Longstaff
George Miller
William Tschirley
C. N. Hall
Tschirley
Ronald Cutter
Miller
W C. Peterson
City of Huron
Coy Danley
James Byrnes
L R. Crawford
War Today Turkey At Center As Germany Shapes Offensive
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes World War II frontlines with Turkey in focus and Germany guiding a spring push. He notes Bulgaria's King Boris meets Hitler in Berlin while Count Von Papen travels to Turkey for talks, signaling broader Axis coordination and uncertain risks for Allies and Turkey alike.
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Turkey
Germany
Dewitt Markenzie
Bulgaria
Boris
Herr Hitler
Count
von Papen
Germany Ramps Up Reserves Against Russia Front
Reports from Stockholm and London describe Hitler pouring hastily trained reserves and Balkan levies into the fighting with Russia while Britain warns of a potential cross channel invasion this spring. Soviet bulletins claim heavy fighting near Leningrad and Moscow with German losses, and Nazi bombers strike the English southeast as home guards respond.
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Near East
Turkey
Adolf Hitler
Balkan States
Russia
British Isles
Sweden
Tass
Istanbul
Bulgaria
Stockholm
Scandinavia
London
Leningrad
Moscow
Staraya Russa
Hitler
Donets
Ukraine
Kharkov
English
Body found in wrecked car near Sioux Falls
The body of O. J. Swenumson of Minneapolis, an insurance adjuster for General Exchange, was found in a wrecked car north of Sioux Falls on Highway 77. He had been dead for hours after the auto left the road, and his widow later identified him.
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Sioux Falls
O. J. Swenumson
Minneapolis
Swenumson
Minnesota
General Exchange Insurance Corporation
South Dakota
Watertown
Corregidor Hit by Large Japanese Air Attack
Washington reports a heavy bombing raid by 54 Japanese heavy bombers on Corregidor and American positions in Bataan with only slight damage. Three bombers were shot down, and Japanese losses are believed high. The attack marks the first large-scale raid on Corregidor since January with prior smaller raids noted in the two months before.
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Washington
Mar
Corregidor
Bataan
War Department
Set Price Ceilings On Several Items
The government set maximum retail prices for new refrigerators typewriters vacuum cleaners washing machines ironers radios phonographs and cooking and heating stoves to curb profiteering. The Office of Price Administration imposed ceilings the first nationwide retail price limits and placed temporary ceilings at March 19 levels for several items excluding used goods.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Heavy New Blows Inflict On Enemy Vessels
Submarines were credited with major blows on ships in Japanese waters as U S reports and German broadcasts frame Japan’s war stance. In Australia Gen Douglas MacArthur mobilizes inland defenses while World War II news from Port Moresby and the Markham Valley shapes the near term outlook for invasion plans.
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United States
Japan
Tokyo
Indian Ocean
Australia
Hideo Hiraide
Netherlands East Indian
Hiraide
Washington
Douglas Mac‘Arthur
United Nations Generalissimo
Port Moresby
New Guinea Island
Torres Strait
Markham Valley
Bankers Discuss Farm Program in South Dakota
A South Dakota Bankers Association meeting opened a state wide effort to back the Food For Freedom wartime program. About sixty bankers from across the state heard EK Morris chair, with A R Barnes and A M Eberle detailing goals and county level plans for bank cooperation and farm labor placement. See DANKERS Page Two
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South Dakota
Agricultural Committee
South Dakota Bankers Association
Brookings State College
Vu. SD. A. War Board
Committee On Agriculture
EK. T. Morris
Watertown
Association
Alfred R. Barnes
Huron
U.S. D. A. War Board
A. M. Eberle
Brookings
College of Agriculture
U. S. Employment Service
Dankers
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Douglas, Moodie
Hammerquist
Hall
Harbin
England
The
Associated Press
Lucy Boehmler
Federal Court
New York
Buka Island
Roger D. Greene
Food-For-Freedom Center
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