Government spending hits record eighty billion in fiscal year
The federal government spent over 80.9 billion dollars in the year ending, with war costs at 71.5 billion and nonwar items near 6.4 billion. Revenue fell short by about 1 billion, while the debt rose from 76 to 140 billion as war bonds financed the deficit.
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Washington
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
REC
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
United States
England
Germany
Roosevelt
Sicilian Allies Aid Allied Invasion Efforts
Allied plans in Sicily include local welcome from some residents and anti fascist Italian Americans aiding from Tunisia. Reports say Sicilians avoid guerrilla warfare against British and American troops while German occupiers face knife attacks. Propaganda broadcasts and underground contact are part of efforts to ease the home front.
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Thomas M. Johnson
NEA
Wrnter
Sicily
Tunisia
Italy
Assolini
Tom O'Brien
Africa
Mussolini
Secret
Ular
State Department
Garibaldi
Cavour
Darlan
Victor Emmanuel
Umberto
Tyrol
Ranean
Pantelleria
Scout Camp Opens At Uwharrie With Activities Planned
The first weekly camping period at Uwharrie Council Camp opened yesterday with more than 10 scouts scoutmasters and directors present and a full week of activities. R W Garrison of Salisbury directed camping activities with staff including Mel Young Bruce Thorburn Jimmie Wilkie Forrest Hedrick Bill Russell Henry Earnhardt Tucker McDaniels Max Whitley and Willie Green. Activities ranged from rowing baseball miniature golf swimming and camp games with a campfire at night.
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Uwharrie Council
R. W. Garrison
Salisbury
Mel Young
Yadkin
Bruce Thorburn
High Point
Bob Hicks
Jimmie Wilkie
Forrest Hedrick
Bill Russell
Henry Earnhardt
Tucker McDaniels
Max Whitley
Willie Green
Board of Review
Court of Honor
Troop
Salisbury Magh
B. Prebble, Jr
Leslie Weisiger
Donald Weisiger
Earle Haynes
Jimmy Rodgers
Bob Hall
Johnny Nettles
Harry Blount
Dale Waiton
Carroll Peeler
Lamont Hess
Paul Cheney
Frank Fry
Bobby Lewis
Jap Positions On Kiska Hit By New Attack
Japanese anti-aircraft positions on Kiska island are struck by a new type of attack using fast Lightning Fighters. The converted fighters dive through fog to drop bombs on Japanese gun emplacements and retreat before defense guns respond. Michigan abolishes capital punishment in 1847.
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Kiska
Alaska Defense Command
Keka Island
Eighth Air Forces
Former U S president pictured for mer U S president
Puzzle style word list with clues spanning politics science geography and language terms. Entries mix abbreviations foreign words and classical references across a vertical puzzle format.
Rotarian talk by Duke coach Wallace Wade noted
June 1933 item recalls Duke football coach Wallace Wade addressing the Rotary Club at noon. Other notes include a tax penalty effective Saturday and a Summer library story hour. Central Friends plan a July 4 picnic at Archdale.
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Wallace Wade
Duke
Rotarians
Central Friends
Archdale
Rome Claims Iraq Proclaims State of Emergency
A Rome radio broadcast reported an alleged state of emergency across Iraq with no verification. The AP noted Iraq joined the war against the Axis last January and Axis propaganda cited the Turkish-Syrian border closure.
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London
Rome Radio
Iraq
Associated Press
Transocean
Ankara
Nuri Pasha Es Said
Levant
Berlin
Violent Air Battles Rage Over Leningrad
Russian and German air duels rage over Leningrad approaches as German losses mount over 25 days. Front dispatches say Nazis boost fighter escort and vary raid timing while weather and near-constant daylight affect battles near the Murmansk area. Small Russian patrols report 200 German troops killed and prisoners taken on the central front.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Rybachi (Fisher) Peninsula
Murmansk
Moscow Radio
Soviet Monitor
London
Persevering Anna Craig S refuses jail entry in Greenville
Anna Craig a 36 year old Negro woman arrested for whiskey possession calmly went with police but resisted elevator into the patrol car and later had to be squeezed through a jail cell door weighing 550 pounds. In other news Brazil's aircraft plants plan to produce 100 light planes this year for clubs, army and private buyers. Navajo National Monument Arizona reports 513 visitors in 1940.
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Miss
Anna Craig
Anna
Brazil
Army
Navajo National Monument
Arizona
Auto Dealers Elect New NC President at Raleigh
C. L. Carrow of Kinston is named president of the North Carolina auto dealers association, elected at the ninth annual convention in Raleigh. He succeeds C. Fred Brown of Asheville, with W. H. Wary of Gastonia as vice president, Penn Marshall of Raleigh as treasurer, and John Gunn of Yanceyville as secretary.
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NEW Auto
Raleigh
C. L. Carrow
Kinston
North Carolina Auto Dealers Association
C. Fred Brown
Asheville
W. H., Wary
Gastonia
Penn Marshall
John ©. Gunn
Yanceyville
Final Rites Held For Mrs E C Pearce In Thomasville
The funeral service for Mrs. E C Pearce a prominent Thomasville resident who died Sunday morning was held at her home 6 School Street Monday at five o clock Reverend Lee F Tuttle officiated Mrs Charles F Finch sang a solo Pallbearers were E F Pepper George D Finch Lewis Crawford C L White Jr Vernon G Snyder and Robert Williams Flowers were carried by friends and in charge of he covington Interment followed in the family plot in the city cemetery
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Thomasville
E. C. Pearce
School Street
Lee F. Tuttle
Main Street
Charles F. Finch
E. F. Pepper
George D. Finch
Lewis Crawford
C. L
Tobacco Meeting in Richmond Sets Sales and Market Talks
Richmond tobacco meeting to discuss opening of sales, market conditions, labor and allotments. The gathering of the United States Tobacco Association opens this afternoon with sessions at 2 and 5 p.m. and continues tomorrow at 10 a.m. Governor Colgate W. Darr of Virginia will speak.
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Richmond
Tobacco Association
A. B. Carrington, Jr
Press
Association
Morrow
Colgate W. Darr
Virginia
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Fatty) Arbuckle
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