Indications Seen That Price Control Failing
Wall Street sees inflation controls wavering as market activity spikes and canning fruit prices rise. Analysts cite wage panel recommendations, parity loan talks, and new price ceilings as signs, while officials warn of mounting purchasing power and the risk of a larger inflation surge.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Wall
Henderson
Firther
Jesse Ines
Joan
Wall Street
Warnbor Board
Office of Rice Administration
Senate
British Hold Rommel About 65 Miles West of Alexandria
British forces report continued pressure on Rommel with night patrols striking German right flank as Axis troops retreat westward. Observers say Rommel seeks to avoid a major engagement while Ausleck aims to deny a decisive offensive, hoping to rest and reinforce. A US trade commissioner for India operates from Calcutta.
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el Alamein
Alexandria
Claude Auchinleck
Auchinleck
Nazi Arrival Aid Sparks Treason Probe In U S
FBI chief Hoover labeled anyone aiding the eight Nazi men who entered the country as traitors and hinted at treason charges for those involved. Officials in the case suggest the government may wrap its testimony by Saturday if cross examination narrows the defense. Some aides to the group have been arrested, but authorities have not disclosed how many or who they are.
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J. Edgar Hoover
NBC
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Victory Bird Held After Parakeet Flight Claim
In the Bronx a scene of arrest was observed from a yard vantage as a parakeet formation reported beyond authority. A communique denied parakeet flight to 13 stories while observers doubted release for a prisoner who allegedly saw too much. the tentative name for the prisoner is Victory Bird.
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Bronx
Invasion Expands as Soviet Fronts Hold Ground near Voronezh
Soviet information bureau reports the triangular invasion salient advancing 120 miles east toward the Don near Voronezh with fighting west of Voronezh and around Rossosh. It notes heavy German losses forcing redeployments from France, while supply lines along the Moscow Voronezh Rostov railway face threat from German bombardment.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Roman Karman
Red Feet
Weather Summary for Carolinas and Georgia
Continued warmth prevails across North Carolina with scattered thundershowers today and in the mountains and northwest tonight. South Carolina and Georgia remain warm tonight with no significant cooling expected. Charlotte area reports official 24 hour data through 7:30 a.m. including temperature and rainfall in cotton districts and ports. A Baltic sea note mentions a tanker of 22 000 tons and claims of German Finnish air and naval actions.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
Baltic Sea
Berlin
Baltic
Pinckney Executed In Electric Chair For Berkeley County Case
In Columbia South Carolina Cyrus Pinckney a Berkeley County Black man was executed in the state penitentiary for an assault with intent to ravish a Berkeley County white woman. The chair was activated at 1 34 am and he died after about 3 minutes 54 seconds. A white minister and a Black preacher attended the passing room. Pinckney claimed he died for another man's crime and mentioned Al Christ Grant who has been reprieved until September after being judged mentally ill. They were convicted in October 1940 and appeals were denied.
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S. C
Cyrus Pinckney
Berkeley County
Pinckney
Federal approval for Wilmington duration dormitory plan
Henry R. Emory of the Wilmington Housing Authority announced final federal approval for a duration dormitory project to house shipyard workers in Wilmington. The plan clears the way for construction and aims to provide housing for yard employees during the shipbuilding period.
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Wilmington
Henry R. Emory
The
Wilmington Housing Authority
House Opposed To Sales Tax
Washington July 10. First returns from a poll of the House show a majority opposed to a sales tax when the revenue bill reaches the floor next week. Rep Robertson Virginia reported many members answered no to a 5 per cent retail levy. Ways and Means Committee has refused to consider a tax and aims to bring the bill to the floor under a rigid rule. Chairman Doughton NC hopes final committee action by tomorrow night for floor debate Tuesday.
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Canada
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Robertson
D-Va
Rules
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-Nc
Plan Inspection Tobacco Markets Plan Inspection Tobacco Markets
The Agriculture Department announced that Federal inspection service will debut this season on nine additional flue-cured tobacco markets in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, with openings from July 28 to Oct. 1. Voter approval in May favored free and mandatory inspection on 49 markets not yet covered, but inspector shortages limit expansion this year. The service will remain on the 26 southern fine cured markets from last year.
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Federal Inspection Service
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Mullins
Wilson and Ahoskie
Winston-Salem
Chinese Repulse Jap Kiangsi Push Recapture Chungshu Tsungten
Chungking reports recapture of Chungshu 45 miles southwest of Wanchang in a fresh repulse of Japanese along the Wiangsi rail line to Hunan Province. Also retaken was Tsungten, 70 miles south of the Nanchang base, marking a sharp setback for the invaders.
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Italians Claim Sinking of Allied Merchantman
Italian high command said an Allied 5,000 ton merchant ship in a convoy with armored cars and other vehicles in the eastern Mediterranean was torpedoed and sunk by an Italian plane. The communique also claimed Italian and German planes shot down six British aircraft over Malta and destroyed two more over North Africa.
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High Command
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North Carolina War Round Up Digest Highlights War Aids
A Raleigh OWI digest outlines price controls and regulatory steps including ice price baselines set by OPA for April. It notes Wa r Manpower promotes easier job access in factories with no birth certificate proof. It covers sugar allowances for hired workers, scrap rubber market data, school schedules to midweek, container deposit pricing, inventory studies, and new deferment policy for those with dependents.
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War Manpower Commission
Canning Sugar Allotments Linked to Home Canning Plans
Public institutions previously canning fruit on premises will receive sugar allotments for canning similar to consumer home canning. The policy aims to keep low priced goods available to consumers while introducing new lines of men and boys summer tailored clothing priced above March levels.
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