Byrnes Pressured Over Food Policy as OPA Windup Favored
Congress amplifies demand for action on food prices and subsidies. Rep Patman proposes shifting control to the Food Administration and abolishing the OPA, while Republicans push to transfer OPA duties to the Agriculture Department. OPA subsidies to roll back meat butter and coffee prices are under consideration, with a $400 million annual subsidy plan tied to RFC financing.
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Agriculture Department
Office of
Price Administration
Food
Chester C. Davis
Bornes
Congress
Rep
Patman
D-Tex
Pdity Credit Corporation
Food Administrator
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Republican Congressional Food Study Committee
Department of Agriculture
Rep. Jenkins
Ohio
Jap Convoy Bombed In Banda Sea
Allied announced bombing of a Japanese cargo ship and six barges in the Banda Sea. Liberators attacked near Lombok and Bali as the Allies mounted extensive sorties in waters northwest of Australia.
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Australia
Banda Sea
High Command
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Lombok
Bali
Boeroe
Dutch New Guinea
Darwin
Rambang
Bima
Waingapoe
Timor
Dili
Koepang
Fsk
Penfoei
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Hansta Bay
Wewak
Madang
Alexihafen
Allied air raid targets Leghorn and Foggia in Italy
Allied air forces hammer Leghorn submarine base shipyards and oil refineries as Almost 100 Flying Fortresses hit Italy from North Africa along with heavy Liberator raids on Foggia. British raids also strike Spezia as invasion plans loom.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Italy
Leghorn
Rome
Galeazzo Ciano
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ansaldo
Livorno
Liberators
Foggia
Adriatic
Sicily
Triple Allied Bombers Hit French U Boat Bases In Daylight Raids
Allied heavy bombers from Britain and U S A F blasted Nazi U-boat bases at St Nazaire La Pallice and Rennes in a three pronged daylight assault. The raids caused great damage with Liberators attacking La Pallice and Fortresses hitting St Nazaire and Rennes. Thirteen bombers were reported lost in the operation.
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St. Nazaire
la Pallice
Rennes
France
Sth
Air Ministry
U. S. Army
Th Air Force
RAF
USAAF
Dominion
Coal Dispute Shelved For Week End
Soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers suspended negotiations for the weekend leaving the truce expiration date of next Monday midnight unresolved. The policy committee met briefly but gave no new directive while negotiations resume Monday at 10 a.m. UMW President John L. Lewis offered no statement.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Ezra van
UMW
John L. Lewis
Eisenhower declares U S forces ready for any action
General Eisenhower announced that American British and French troops are prepared for any task and will fight with Allied forces until Germany Italy and Japan are defeated. He warned against German propaganda attempts to split the Allies and stressed steadfast unity under the North Africa command.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Italy
Japan
Tunisia
Europe
Prankster Punctures Tires Across Charlotte
Police hunt a grim humorist in Charlotte after reports of tire punctures on parked autos. The suspect uses a knife and roams the city at large, causing property damage and alarm. Authorities urge residents to secure vehicles and report sightings.
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Charlotte
250 000 Have Died In Seven Wars
A Memorial Day tally shows 250000 American battle deaths across seven wars. Current conflict accounts list 13641 dead, with Army Navy and Marine casualties totaling 6318, 5644 sailors and 1601 marines plus 78 coast guardsmen. Civil War losses dominate prior battles, while World War I and earlier wars add hundreds to thousands of deaths. The Spanish American War yields 700 dead, the lightest.
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Army
Navy
National Geographic Society
OWI Launches All-Out Drive to Recruit Shipyard Workers
The Office of War Information announced an all-out recruitment drive for 8,500 workers in North Carolina Virginia West Virginia and parts of Maryland and the District of Columbia for Hampton Roads area shipyards. Cooperation will come from Civil Service Commission U S Employment Service War Manpower Commission Navy Department and National Housing Agency.
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Raleigh
Office of War Information Today
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Hampton Roads
OWI
Civil Service Commission
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Navy Department
National Housing Agency
Ickes Warns of American Indifference to Uncommon Fish
Secretary Ickes urges Americans to broaden seafood choices beyond salmon and tuna calling herring-boned facts the public prefers monotonous meals. He cites carp as nuisance in the Midwest and promotes lesser known species like sheepshead bowfin gar as untapped food sources with potential to diversify the nation’s diet.
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R. M. Farrington
Washington
Cap
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Mid-West
Butter Subsidy Set to Cut Prices Next Week
Washington reports the government will begin a five cent per pound butter subsidy next week at the manufacturing level, with consumer reductions to start June 10. Retail cuts may reach six cents on some grades, and meat and coffee subsidies, about ten percent, are expected to follow the butter program.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss Brown
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
American Butter Institute
H. A. Ruehe
The
Institute
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
Poisoning Probe Tightens at Danville Cotton Mills
Danville Virginia May 29 authorities from city state and federal levels probe the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills poisoning that has struck more than 150 employees in 30 hours. Dozens more patients arrived at Danville Hospital as the mystery illness publicized with food impounded and mill clinic care noted.
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Danville
Danville Hospital
Riverside
Dan River
L. O. Crumpler
Mills
ODTS Appeals Fail To Stem Holiday Tide
New York May 29 large holiday travel swarmed the city as the Office of Defense Transportation measures failed to curb the Memorial Day exodus and influx. Hotels were fully booked and trains to nearby cities were jammed with patrons in the aisles. Greyhound noted fewer customers could be counted as turned away amid record volumes.
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New York
Office of Defense Transportation
New York City
Greyhound Bus Lines
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Japanese Pictures Of New Battleship At Center Of War Talk
Tokyo reports from Berlin say Japanese newspapers run front page pictures of a new battleship. Foreign naval experts hailed the vessel as likely superior to the United States Iowa type, in what may counter Washington announcements of six new US battleships in service.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Tokyo
United States
Battered Italian Fleet Could Sink Invasion Plans
Washington reports the damaged but still capable Italian fleet may be held in reserve. Possible uses include delaying Allied invasion of Europe or bargaining with the Allies. Italy's Littorio class ships include Littorio and Cesare, with 15 inch guns.
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Italy
Washington
Mediterranean
Hitler
Europe
Littorio
Taranto
Littorio Veneto
Impero
Roma
Red Airmen Pound Axis Supply Lines
Soviet pilots in a broad air offensive struck Axis supply routes across the Caucasus and central front. Moscow reported long range bombers hitting Vitebsk and disrupting trains on the Riga line. German and Soviet communiques spoke of intensified fighting near Novorossisk and Kuban areas with heavy aerial activity and large troop deployments.
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Caucasus
Red Army
Novocrossisk
Black Sea
Taman Peninsula
Temryuk
Moscow
Novorossisk
Kuban
Berlin
Associated Press
Caucasian
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Red Star
Vitebsk
Smolensk
Riga
Latvia
House Report Explains Tax Notch Clause
A joint committee report explains the pay as you go tax notch. It sets that 25 percent of the lesser year's tax or the excess over 50 is due to fix inequities when liability slightly exceeds 50. The measure should receive final approval next week in both chambers.
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Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
House
Senate
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