Allies Never Pay War Debts Says Acheson at UVA
Dean Acheson, assistant secretary of state, urged UVA speakers that Americans should not demand repayment of wartime debts. He argued allied finances belong with trade and a lasting peace, stressing victory and a secure world order over money. He warned against punitive settlements and called for India and peace conference issues to guide postwar policy.
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Dean Acheson
We University of Virginia
Institute of Public Affairs
Britain
France
Acheson
America
Versailles
Great Britain
India
Oour
Learning From Experience Assuming rationing in the cards
By S. Burton Heath the article discusses the possibility of rationing as a nationwide measure. It analyzes lessons from prior occurrences and weighs policy options while signaling ongoing planning. The piece hints at further discussion continued on Page Two.
Front Urged as China Begins Sixth Year War
In Washington July 7 AP Major General Chu Shih Ming urged focusing UN effort on a Pacific second front. He claimed 500 warplanes could help China launch an offensive, noting bases and fuel remain and warning Japan could be driven out this year with full American power in the Pacific.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
China
Pacific
Europe
United Nations
Chungking
Chu Shih- Ming
United States
Ching
Japan
Avery Joni
Russia
Hitler
Chusaberry
Trestoney
Shanghai
Singapore
Siberia
Khokestan
Pokesman
Tokyo
Imperial
Stimson
Navy
Knox
America
Australia
Bouglas MacArthur
Tulagi
Salumon Islands
Fort Moresby
New Guinea
Scoggin Emerges As Top Aggie Prospect In Notes
College Station Tex AP Any scouts say Texas A&M outfielder John Scoggin is among the best collegiate majors prospects coach Lil Bimmit has seen. Scoggin hit .500 in a title game and drove in runs in 15 games amid a strong season. Temperature at Murmansk mirrors Moscow’s, about 30 miles south.
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College
Murmansk
Moscow
One Killed in Auto Accident Near Mena Arkansas
One person was killed and three others injured when a pickup with nine aboard failed to negotiate a curve on U S 71 north of Mena Arkansas this morning. William Buffington 20 of Olio Arkansas was killed instantly when the vehicle overturned several times and the top of his head was torn off. The injured were not seriously hurt and include Buffingtons father Dave Buffington 50 and brothers James and Joseph of Olio along with two others.
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Mena
U. S&s
Dave Buffington
James
Joseph
Olio
U S Delivers Blow Against German Bund
Federal agents seize on new indictments charging conspiracy to evade the Selective Service Act and to counsel Bund members to resist U S service. Fritz Kuhn and Gerhard Kunze face denaturalization and espionage act charges as authorities press to dismantle the German American Bund. Kunze held on bail after return from Mexico.
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New York
Bund
United States
Mathias Correa
Fritz Kuhn
National Bund
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Mexico
Kuhn
Kunze
Hartford
Conn
Fed
Pipeline Pump Station Planned Along 35 Million Dollar Arkansas Segment
Congressman Clyde Ellis says six pumping stations will line the 35 million pipeline from Longview Texas to Salem Illinois with Arkansas hosting stations near Prescott in Nevada county and several others across Miller Lafayette Hempstead Nevada Clark Dallas Hot Spring Grant Saline Pulaski White Independence Lawrence Randolph and Clay counties from Miller county north of the Missouri line to Pocahontas and back toward the state line.
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Arkansas
Longview
Texas
Illngis
Washington
Clyde Elis
Prescott
Nevada
Mount Motiah-Dale-Ralston
Miller County
LaFayette County
Hempstead
Patmos
Nevada and
Clark
Tex
Salem
Ellis
Red River
Garland
Hempstead County
Nevada County
Clark County
Dallas County
Hot Spring County
Grant County
Saline County
Pulaski County
Little Rock
White County
Independence County
Lawrence County
Powhaala
Randolph County
Pocahontas
Clay County
Spaatz Named Commander in Chief of US Air Forces in Europe
London reports Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz of Boyerstown Pa has been appointed commander in chief of the United States air forces in the European theater. He awards the Distinguished Flying Cross to three crew members from the first American raid on German-held Western Europe. The general, already decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross and Flying Cross, has led preparations for U.S. bombing of Germany from England since June.
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London
Carl Spaata
United States Army Air Forces
Spaate Laday
Amercan
United States
Europe
Spaatz
St. Mihiel
Los Angeles
England
Germany
Boyerlawn
Spratz
Britain
Air Forces
Fleig
Carl Spaatz
Boyerstown
General Spaatz
Charles C. Kegehn
Randall M. Dorton, Jr
Long Beach
Calif
Robert L. Golay
Bredonia
Kas
Bennis B. Cunningham
Tupelo
Migs
Kegelman
el Reno
Oklo
Netherlands
Air Corps
Frederick Loehr
Seattte
Marshall Draper
Beverley Hills
James W. Wright
Stockton
Robert Whitham
Centralia
Wash
William C. Lynn
As Angeles
Boyd Grand
Louisiana
William Murphy
Baltimore
Charles Kramarewicz
Norwich
Conn
Kegeman
William Odell
Mansfield
Ohio
Leslie Birle- 80
Muskegon
Mich
Fari: Thompson
Caan
N. H
Leo Hawes
Seattle
Frank Donatly
Jersey City
N. J
Earl McGinnis
Foss
Thomas Andrews
Newport
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Flashes of Life Associated Press Digest
News in brief from across the country on wartime home front quirks and small-town misadventures. Items include misread donations of binoculars to the Navy, a beans-for-receipts burglary clue, Augusta’s large enlistment, cattle feed mixups in Iberia, canned sugar confusion in a farming family, and a miner learning of America’s war from his draft board.
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Associated Press
New York
Navy
Binucukus
Office of War Information
Iberia
Henry Shackleford
RAF U S Planes Force Axis to Retreat at El Alamein
British communique reports Axis invaders of Egypt pulling back on their southern flank near El Alamein under continued Allied air and ground pressure. Allied daylight bombers hit Bengali Libyan shipping while raids behind lines spread fire and confusion. Despite some tailing, no major land battle occurred as Rommel’s forces appeared reluctant to engage.
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Egypt
el Alamein
Bengali
Libya
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Romimel
Nile Delta
al‘Ned
el Daba
Matruh
Tobruk
Alexandria
Asphalt Deliveries Banned After July 22 in Arkansas
Public Roads Administration orders halt on new asphalt highway work in Arkansas. Deliveries to ongoing projects allowed until July 12 with essential certification. Kent Brown reports crews race to complete 9.8 miles on State 29 South before the deadline, while three other Hempstead County projects face cuts.
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Public Roads Administration
Hempstead
Proving Ground
Hope
Lewisville
Kent Brown
Pat
Little Rock
Arkansas
State Highway Department
Department
E. N. Jenkins
Pine Bluff
U.S. Public Roads Administration
PRA
Agriculture Measure Passed by House
Washington July 7 AP The House passed and returned to the Senate stopgap legislation to fund operations of the agriculture department for July. After abandoning earlier prohibitions on below par government grain sales to secure Senate agreement, the roll call was 185 to 59 defeating Chairman Cannon's bid to insist on the prohibition opposed by Roosevelt and administration leaders.
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Washington
House
Senate
Cannon
D-Ma
Roosevelt
Claim Toll of 29 U.S. Ships in Arctic Convoy Battle
Berlin cites German broadcasts claiming the sinking of a U.S. heavy cruiser and 28 merchant ships from a convoy north of Norway, with submarines and air forces involved. The claim notes 122,000 tons from 19 ships plus 70,400 tons from nine ships, totaling 192,400 tons, while some vessels are said to remain dispersed and the battle ongoing.
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Berlin
Ger Mans
Arctic
Spitsberzen
Norwegian
North Cape
Hitler
Archangel
Red Cross
Must Turn in Old Auto Parts Policy Imposed
Washington orders a July 15 turn in worn auto parts before supplying new parts. The WPB's blanket restraint affects 400 manufacturers of replacement parts for autos in the second half of the year. The goal is to stockpile scrap metal by matching parts consumed in production. The order bans selling a new part to replace a part that can be restored by the distributor.
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Washington
WPB
U Boats Take Heavy Toll
The Navy reports another U S merchant ship torpedoed in the Caribbean bringing total western Atlantic sinkings since December 7 to 341. The daytime attack lasted seven minutes before the ship sank, two lifeboats lost, survivors aided with position and mileage to land.
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Associated Press
U.S
Caribbean
Navy Today
Wed
United and
Neutral Nations
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Navy
120 Mile Nazi Push Endangers Vital Rail Town
Moscow dispatches report a major German thrust toward Voronezh threatening the Moscow Rostov rail axis. Red Army counter moves and heavy losses accompany the advance as German tank forces push 50 miles beyond earlier lines toward Stari Oskol and the Caucasus.
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Roger. C. Greene
Associated Press
Voronezh
Unks
Russia
Paris
Provino
Don River
Moscow
Rotov
Rostov
Caucasus
Red Army
Heinz Guderin
Don
Red
Stari Oskol
Great Caucasus
Sir Claude Auchinleck
Egypt
el Alamein
Alexandria
Hitler
Germany
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