Roosevelt Eyes Expedite Excise Tax Action In House
Washington reports a second administration request for imitation of individual incomes to 25,000 after taxes. The House Ways and Means Committee studied a plan to split the pending tax bill, placing first focus on excise levies capable of producing at least 1,000,000 daily. Secretary Morgenthau had presented a 7.6 billion program in March, with action not expected until mid next month. Randolph Paul formally requested the 25,000 flat imitation after federal income taxes.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Wuld
Congress
Morgenthau
House
Randolph Paul
Pig Delivers Tea Party Disruption On Main Line
A 600 pound pig wandered into Mrs. Thomas G. Ashton’s estate near Philadelphia on June 16. It charged the afternoon tea, scattered guests, toppled glasses, devoured cakes and cones, and ended by eating petunias. Patrolman Philip Minnis captured the animal after a garden chase. the pig had fallen from a passing market truck.
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Philadelphia
Thomas G. Ashton
Philip Minnis
Theatre invite for Ruth Kester to Dixie and Strand showings
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Ruth Kester of West Washington Street to tonight's screenings of The Wife Takes a Plyer at the Dixie and Woman of the Year starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn at the Strand featuring Franchot Tone and Joan Bennett.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Ruth Kester
Washington Street
Franchot Tone
Joan Bennett
Dixie
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Strand
Bossy Survives 50 Foot Plunge After River Rescue
Oswego Kansas June 16 a high diving cow named Bossy fell from a 50 foot bluff into the river after a nudge from a companion. An auto wrecker retrieved her and she walked away unhurt showing remarkable resilience and dignity.
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Oswego
Kan
Hubert Rhodes
WLB Controls Textile Firm in Fall River Strike
The National War Labor Board ordered replacements to break a wage strike at Arkwright textile mill in Fall River Massachusetts where 125 workers refused to end eight day walkout seeking raises totaling 81.81 weekly. Six loom fixers and two changers were hired while 125 strikers and 98 sympathetic loom fixers remain idle. The plant employs about 1,280 workers and production halted as war needs rise.
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Mass
United States
National War Labor Board
Arkwright Corporation
William F. Clark
U.S. Employment Service
WLB
George H. Bradbury
Mac's Pilots Rip Nip Aircraft Over Darwin
Allied Headquarters in Australia reports that during a third raid in as many days on Darwin, approximately 27 heavy bombers accompanied by 15 Zero fighters struck, with six enemy planes shot down by Allied interceptors. Two Allied craft were lost. damage and casualties were slight in residential areas and the harbor.
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Australia
Darwin
Douglas MacArthur
Rubber Drive Gains Steam Across Nation
Washington reports show the scrap rubber campaign gaining pace as discarded tires and other rubber items flood the pile. Army cuts rubber use by 25 percent in clothing and equipment and warns civilian supplies may not return until 1944. Many adults refuse the penny per pound offer, stations lack scales, and efforts surge in Cincinnati Minneapolis Louisville and across Kentucky and the Southeast.
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America
Patterson
Army
Cincinnati
Pearl Harbor
Minneapolis
Louisville
Kentucky
Alderson Inmate Confesses Murder Inmate Confesses Murder
Jefferson City Mo June 16 A woman serving life in Alderson West Virginia reformatory has confessed the Cecil Curd killing for which Kenneth David Conway is under a death sentence in Missouri. Warden Paul Kaiser said Mrs Ramon a Still signed a statement admitting she fired the shot at the Gower Maryland filling station October 25 1939. Still is jailed on a Oklahoma bank robbery sentence.
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Alderson
W. Va
Reformatory
Kenneth David Conway
Missouri
Paul Kaiser
Kaiser
Ramona Still
Cecil Curd
Gower
Still
Oklahoma
Red Defenses Absorb Nazis Heavy Thrust Near Kharkov and Sevastopol
Soviet dispatches report a three day German push to cross a Kharkov river halted by hill defenses, with Germany claiming a bridgehead on the Donets. In Sevastopol, seven artillery regiments massed for an assault as the Red Army and air force claim heavy German losses including tanks, trucks, and infantry. Tass said the garrison destroyed 40 tanks in a single day and claimed 950 enemy bodies in a reported engagement.
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Kharkov
Donets
Sevastopol
Crimean
Paris
Red Army
Tass
West Virginia Prisons Could Aid War Effort
Charleston June 16 In a statement Attorney General W S Wysong said the state board of control can contract with the federal government to produce war commodities by inmate labor. He cited a Biddle opinion supporting government purchase of prison made goods without bids.
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Charleston
W. 8
Wysong
State Board of Control
Robert F. Roth
U. S
Francis Biddle
Former School Leader Dies in Victory Garden
Spencer reports J. K. Snodgrass a 66 year old school teacher and former Roane county school superintendent collapsed and died of a heart attack yesterday while working in his victory garden at Gandeeville.
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Spencer
J. K. Snodgrass
Roane County
Gandeeville
Girl Charges Scandal Used to Evade Service
Cornelia Van Ree an 18 year old mother sues for 100000 in damages alleging her sister and brother in law conspired with a man to seduce her so he could dodge the draft by claiming the baby as his dependent The baby girl was born last Saturday and is the result of the alleged seduction in San Francisco on June 16.
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San Francisco
Cornelia van Ree
Miss van Ree
Japan bleeding in third Pacific air assault at Aleutians
Washington reports continued American air pressure on Japanese forces in the Aleutian front after attacks across Coral Sea and Midway. Japanese losses include at least three cruisers and several support ships with severe damage. American losses not reported. Attacks persist as ships batter Attu and surrounding areas.
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Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Middle Pacific
Navy Department
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Rocky Island
Alaska
Navy
Attu
Aleutian Chain
Dutch Harbor
Japan losing Cabin Creek oil strike may end early
Charleston June 16 A CIO oil workers official said an early settlement of the Cabin Creek refinery strike near Charleston could end the stoppage at the Pure Oil refinery. About 200 workers were affected by the strike that began yesterday as negotiations with management continued. The refinery is among the largest in West Virginia and the issues remain undisclosed.
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Pure Oil Company
Cabin Creek
B. J. Schaffer
Fort Worth
Texas
CIO Oil Workers International Union
West Virginia
Miners Plan Long Vacation Unless Fines Are Returned
Charleston June 16 Thousands of southern West Virginia coal miners will begin a ten day vacation on June 27 unless their employers refund fines collected during the captive mine strike of November 1941 Percy Tetlow new provisional president of United Mine Workers District 17 says repayment of the fines is a condition to modify the contract to cut the vacation to three days as already approved in northern fields See MINERS PLAN Page 4
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Charleston
West Virginia
Percy Tetlow
Tetlow
United Mine Workers
Trict 17
van A. Bittner
TIRED ENGLISH TROOPS TAKEN OUT OF FIGHT
British forces withdraw from Ain El Gazala Bir Hacheim line as Rommel presses toward Tobruk The withdrawal repositions two divisions signaling possible British regrouping for a counterattack while denying confirmed Axis breakthrough to the coast.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Ain el Gazala
Acroma
Ain el Gazala- Bir Hacheim
Rommel
el Adem
Neil M. Ritchie
London
Lon ‘Don
Eighth Army
Public Works Board authorizes extra 750000 for roads
Charleston June 16 The state board of public works has authorized an additional 750000 from contingent funds for the road commission. Of this 250000 goes to primary highways and 500000 to secondary roads. Earlier allocations from 1941 appropriations totaled 1000000 for primary and 2000000 for secondary. The commission aims to spend 1000000 annually on rural secondary routes while the 250000 for primary roads may cover debt service contracts and federal match on defense routes.
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Charleston
State Board of Public Works
State Roads Commission
Road Commission
Mother Nature Helps Ray Seeley With Damaged Spud Field
ARKANSAS CITY Kas June 16 The storm aided farmer Ray Seeley by exposing a hill of potatoes his windblown vines and tubers remained intact atop the ground He inspected the field and found the crop undamaged beneath the soil and vine cover
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Arkansas City
Kas
Ray Seeley
Columbus mayor slashes police and fire ranks
In June 18 1942 Columbus Ohio Mayor Floyd F Green announces layoffs of half the police and fire departments amid a municipal crisis. He cites the need to raise funds as voters recently rejected a 2.5 mill levy. Green denies waste and pledges restored service when finances allow.
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Floyd F.green
Ohio
Green
Columbus
WAAC girdles and gear draw for 339 women at Fort Des Moines
The Army to provide two girdles per candidate plus annual replacements and an extensive list of clothing and equipment for WAAC officers training school entrants, with 339 women reporting in mid July. Additional stockings, bathrobes, undergarments, and assorted personal items are to be issued.
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Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Army
Quartermaster's Department
Waac Officers Training School
Milady
G. I
Lady Soldier
Dunbar Test Alert Scheduled For Tonight
Charleston June 16 A plan by the state Office of Civilian Defense conducts a second blackout at Dunbar Kanawha county tonight as part of a month long test series through June 26. Previous blackout occurred at Montgomery Payette county with others planned in Grafton Welch and Hinton on June 19 23 and 24 respectively.
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Dunbar
Kanawha County
State Office of Civilian Defense
Montgomery
Payette County
Grafton
Welch
Hinton
Woman Follows Hint, Thieves Take Spare Tires
Mrs. E. E. Young woke at 3 am to an aspirin, thought she saw three men near her daughter's car, investigated only by going back to bed. In the morning the spare tires were missing from the vehicle, suggesting a theft prompted by her hunch.
State Supreme Court Grants Cline Appeal
The state supreme court granted yesterday an appeal to I. I. Cline of McDowell county, a former justice of the peace, who was twice convicted of carrying concealed firearms. Cline contends that on June 23, 1941, he carried an unloaded pistol for an arresting officer for safekeeping in a pending case and was transferring the gun from his office to his home.
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State Supreme Court
Cline
Iseger
McDowell County
Teroil
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