House Appropriations Panel Approves Record War Bill
The House Appropriations committee sent to the floor a 71.51 billion dollar War department supply bill to equip and sustain an army of 7.5 million enlisted men and air power. It marks the largest appropriation in history, boosting total defense outlays since July 1940 toward near 200 billion and expected to cover 12 months starting July 1.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Joseph T. McNarney
Farm groups back anti subsidy measure in Congress
Washington reports farm organizations back an anti subsidy bill to curb price declines by blocking CCC funds for subsidies. Rep Wolcott introduced the House measure to amend the CCC bill with a ban on subsidy use unless Congress authorizes it. Sen Gillette may offer a companion in the Senate. Supported by the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation American Farm Bureau and National Grange.
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Washington
House
Wolcott
R.mich
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Gillette
D.tewa
Senate Banking Committee
Ksie
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
The
American Farm Bureau
National Grange
Completion of Pipeline Curb Reaches Midwest
Washington reports completion of the eastward extension of the big inch oil pipeline around Aug 1, expected to tighten midwestern motorist restrictions. An un named source says Midwest relief comes only if rail capacity can move oil east, as the 24 inch line now supplies Norris City Indiana with 250000 barrels daily from Texas. After the east leg opens, throughput rises to 300000 barrels a day, likely hurting Midwest refinery supplies until September or later.
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Washington
Micwests
Norris City
Texas
Seaboard
Midwest
Southwest
Train Wreck Narrowly Averted By Engineers
Logan June 18 news reports a near train wreck thanks to quick action by an engineer after three boys placed a tie on tracks near Godby crossing. The incident occurred late Saturday night and was discovered Sunday morning before a passenger train passed.
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Logan
Grand
Leslie Avis
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
12 & O
John Spell
Godby Crossing
Chungking
F Ling
Hunan Rice Bowl
Owchihkow
Ichang
Yochow
Yangtze
Yangtze Valley
China
Legislators seek cooler meeting in Virginia mountains
The House Ways and Means panel debated moving wartime tax talks from hot Washington to a lodge near Hot Springs in the Alleghenies. Rep Robertson urged 24 colleagues to convene at 2,000 feet, with ranking Senate Finance members and tax officials invited. He noted better sleep and quieter work amid the heatwave, and proposed members pay their own travel. Fishing water nearby was mentioned.
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Washington
House, Ways and Means
Virginia Mountains
Rep
Robertson
D.-Va
Alleghanies
Hot Springs
Senate Finance Committee
Allegheny Mountains
Memorial Named For Dr. D C Peck Suggested For Hospital
Judge Ira E Robinson, friend of Dr. D C Peck, suggests naming the new hospital in Grafton “The Peck Memorial Hospital” to honor his lifelong service. He recalls Peck’s dedication and a past offered money for his work, urging community memorialization.
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Ira E. Robinson
Supreme Court of ‘Appeals
D.C. Peck
Adaland
Grafton
Peck
Peck Memorial Hospital
State History Traced On Radio Sunday in West Virginia
West Virginia’s history from 1863 to its 80th birthday will be traced in a Sunday radio dramatization. The program, announced by the state publicity commission, replaces a statewide celebration cancelled due to the war.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Publicity Commission
Rationing Roundup Reports Meat Price Rollback Plan
Huntington district six will head the new D P A regional plan starting July 1. Van Horn will lead Mason Cabell Wayne and Lincoln counties with a statewide rollback in meat costs. The average reduction is about 10 percent for most meats with cured pork excluded until July 5. Zone 7 includes many West Virginia counties with varying prices. See Rationing Page 3.
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Huntington
W. Burl van Horn
Hamlin
Department of Public Assistance
Homer W. Hanna
van Horn
Wayne Coun
West Virginia Housewives
DPA
Will
Mason
Cabell
Wayne
Lin
Office of War Information
OWI
West Virginia
Hancock
Brooke
Ohio
Marshall, Wetzel
Tyler
Doddridge
Pleasants
Ritchie
Wood
Chaplin Honeymoon Aims Under Price Admin Probe
Los Angeles reports say Charlie Chaplin and his 18 year old bride Oona O Neill are being sought by Office of Price Administration investigators to determine the source of gasoline used for their Santa Barbara elopement. Investigators also check claims of two cars and a 35 mile speed limit breach. Joan Berry disputes perturbed family claims and notes the marriage is her business.
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Los Angeles
DPA
Charlie Chaplin
Oona O'Neill
Samuel Leask, Jr
Southern California
OPA
Leask
Office of Price Administration
Chaplin
Miss O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Santa Barbara
Joan Berry
Joan
Axis talk of Allied groups near invasion
Allied forces concentrate in the Mediterranean region as Axis broadcasters discuss possible landings. Goebbels orders Nazi critics to keep quiet on German radio amid signs of dissatisfaction with recent war events.
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London
Mediterranean
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Suiet
Rothe
Grafton Man First Advocate Of A New State Of Virginia
Charles Brinkman revisits how George R. Latham of Grafton sparked the movement to separate Western Virginia from Virginia. The piece notes the 1860 political climate and Lincoln’s election as pivotal to West Virginia’s creation, tying it to the state's upcoming 80th birthday commemorations.
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Grafton
Virginia
Charles Brinkman
West Virginia
George R. Latham
Abraham Lincoln
United States
New Republican Party
Carolinas
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Letcher F
Tne
Yanks Blast 78 Jap Army Planes In Med Campaign
Allied air forces struck Naples, two Sicilian airfields, and shipping off Greece in fresh operations. Raids hit Mt. Vesuvius area including Pompeii. Turkey Syria border reopened after 48 hours of troop screening. Axis claimed British Indian forces moved to Cyprus as a invasion base option for Balkans Crete or Dodecanese.
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Italy
Naples
Greece
Mediterranean
Axis
Europe
Mt. Vesuvius
Vale Ands
Pompei
Turkey
Ankara
Syria
Cyprus
Balkans
Crete
Dodecanese Islands
War Labor Board to rule on portal pay in coal wage dispute
Sources forecast a WLB decision on the portal to portal pay issue in the soft coal wage dispute. The vote is expected 8 to 4 with one labor member dissenting, potentially affecting United Mine Workers rights to sue under the standards act. Majority and minority rulings could be issued late today.
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Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
Buch S
Ti Ve
United Mine Workers
South
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Grafton Lodge
Clarksburg
Chas, G. Turner
John Proctor
Suggest Hospital
D. C. Peck
Taylor County
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