War Era Aviation Growth Surges Beyond Cars in 1943
The OWI 30 page report shows American aviation production to reach 100 billion dollars in 1943, a major share of the war budget, with 2½ million workers turning out planes. Civil flying nearly vanished, airliners in service dropping from 434 to 256, and civil aviation conversion possible. Pearl Harbor-era wartime aviation is celebrated as a model for postwar reconstruction. In South America, Ramirez signals potential Axis break and Pan American solidarity, while Argentina’s policy remains wary of Axis ties, hinting at new UN prospects contingent on detaching from Axis influence.
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Office of War Information
Owl
OWI
Argentina
Pedro Ramirez
Associated Press
Buenos Aires
New York
Montevideo
Uruguay
Axis
Ramirez
PanAmericant Brotherhood
South America
United Nations
Rumirea
Fathers Chances of Not Being Drafted Are Slim
Washington report on June 10 outlines a harsh draft forecast for fathers, with about 17 of 100 likely to be inducted before next year and further declines anticipated unless large replacements occur. Occupational deferments protect most fathers, but many will face pressure as 1.5 million new soldiers are needed between August 1 and January 1, 1944, amid heavy competition from single and childless men and expanding female service roles.
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Washington
Armed Services
Pershaps
Mumy
Jess
Wis I
Capital Man Charged With First Degree Murder
Little Roel June 10 article reports C nh sradshaw of Little Rock facing a first degree murder charge in Circuit Curt for the fatal head injury to Searmn Robet B. Dexter from a melee at Bradshaw's establishment last Saturday night. Dexter died several hours later at Robinson Hospital. Bradshaw had been arrested on an assault charge, upgraded to murder as of today. Trial set for June 22 according to Fibinson.
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Little Roel
Proaseculor
Sant Robinson
Curt
Nh Sradshaw
Little Rock
Gafe
Alarm clocks scarce as Knoxville thief steals clock
A Knoxville resident Harold Miller reported a home break in where only his alarm clock was stolen, highlighting a sudden clock shortage in the area and prompting police attention.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Harold Miller
Air battles rage across front as Luftwaffe and Soviet planes clash
Moscow reports intensified air combat as German and Soviet air forces trade strikes in a prelude to a 1043 land offensive. From Bataisk near Rostov the Don valley fights flare with Junkers and Heinkels downed by anti aircraft fire while Valkryyo front raids near Leningrad leave 24 German planes shot down. Russians claim 26 losses in bombing raids on German airfields as a major armament plant at Yaroslavl is targeted by heavy bombers. Continued on Page Three.
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Moscow
Bataisk
Rostov
Non
Don
Valkhyo Front
Leningrad
I Russan
Greman
High Command
Yaroslavl
Mos
Arkansas Women Enter Invitational Golf Tourney At Hardscrabble
Early arrivals for the Arkansas Women's Golf Association Invitational at Hardscrabble Country Club include defending champion Jane Whitmore of Little Rock and Tulsa’s Alice Daniels. Association president Mrs Saul Porter Willard Port Smith said about 30 entrants were expected. Qualifying rounds are tomorrow with two rounds Saturday and semifinals and finals Sunday.
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Ort Smith
Hardscrabbie Country Club
Jane Whitmore
Little Rock
Alice Daniels
Tulsa
Saul Porter Willard Port Smith
Association
Gait
Curtin Says Allies to Go on Offensive
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin said the Allies in the Southwest Pacific may shift from defense to limited or full scale attacks on Japan as pressure builds. He spoke after meetings with General Douglas MacArthur in Sydney on June seven, outlining revised strategy agreed with Churchill and Roosevelt and praising U S naval victories at Midway and in the Solomons.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Southwest
Pacific
Sydney
Douglas MacArthur
Mie
Carlin
MacArthur
Curthy
Washington
Churchill
Roosevelt
Curtin
Tn Sipport
Southwest Pacific
United States Navy
Victor Les
Midway Island
Solomons — Islands
Stimson Denies Immorality Rumor Aimed at WAACs
Washington June 10 Secretary of War Stimson dismissed rumors of immorality and claims of contraceptive aid to WAACs as absolutely false. He stressed such gossip harms recruitment, erodes confidence, and aids the enemy while noting the WAAC strength has reached 65,000 and frees front-line troops for combat.
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Washington
Py— Sanyetary of War
Stimson
WAACS
War ’Department
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Thas Cyntistan
Jung
No Acts Filed for Election Ballot in 1944 Referendum
The record notes no acts were filed for the election ballot as the deadline for referendum petitions expired at midnight. Since the initiative and referendum amendment took effect in 1975 no general election ballot has carried a referred legislative act.
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Little Rock, Dime
Baloot
Piecemeal Pact Splits UMW's Solid Front
Washington June 16 miners who joined the June 16 walkout face fines under their contracts. Secretary Dukes said penalties of 1 per day apply for five days absence, with fines deducted from next day envelopes. The UMW claims contracts were extended. government mine boss says they were extended only pending new terms. A separate peace emerged between Central Pennsylvania Producers Association and the UMW, with a $1.40-a-day wage boost, stirring further confusion in the wage talks.
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Washington
Iune
Jukes
Tekes
Mmines
John J. Lewis
United Mine
Dukes
UMW
Wickes
Lewis and Home Pennsylvania
Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Central Pennsylvania
Producers Association
U.M.W
Lewis
Pperiulots
Charles O'Neill
Divorced Wife of Col Barton Held on Dallas Slaying Charge
Nora Garton 64 to be held on a murder charge after the shooting of her friend Mrs. Upshaw 60 in a Dallas hotel near the sixth floor elevator. Detectives said a .38 revolver was used and Barton stated I am in ill health while visiting from Teague and Little Rock. The case ties to Teague and Ark.
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Dallas
Nora Garton
W. M. Upshaw
Teague
Texas
Jack Archer
Newton Kennedy
Justice of the Peace
W. L. Steven
Barlon
Col
T. H. Barton
The
Lion. Ol) Company
el Daradd
Ark
Ui Health
Friends of Teague
Barton
Little Rock
Upshaw
Treasury Presents Revenue Plan to Byrnes
Washington reports that the Treasury delivered to War Mobilization Director James Byrnes a plan to raise 16 million dollars in added revenue. The program, centered on a spending tax, would raise individual and corporate income taxes and add new excise levies to curb inflation. Byrnes, meeting with Randolph Paul Hold D Smith and Fred Vinson, discussed near term pay as you go tax bill and future tax policy directions.
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Washington
Treasury
James S. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Byrnes
Randolph Paul
The
Hold D. Smith
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Economic Stabilization
Adkins to Plea for Flood Area Aid
Governor Adkins plans a Washington appeal on June 24 for federal aid to flood damaged areas in western Arkansas. He will travel from Columbus Ohio after a governors conference to present losses from the Arkansas River Valley to the congressional delegation to request funds and manpower for replanting crops and restoring bridges and highways.
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Little Rock
Adkins
Washington
Arkansas
Columbus
Statehouse
Arkansas River
Roosevelt
German Morale Decline Spurs Gestapo Crackdown Report
Stockholm reports morale sagging under Nazi rule with the Gestapo tightening control. Goebbels and Ley praised while opposition grows in Austria. hundreds reportedly executed or silenced as the regime battles unrest amid food shortages and wartime strain.
U S Air Force Doubles Bomber Presence in England
London reports that the Eighth United States Air Force has doubled its size since March and will roughly match the RAF bomber strength by summer end. Maj. Gen. Baker says daylight precision raids will continue with smaller, flexible formations as U.S. fighters and medium bombers also grow, aiding the European invasion effort.
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London
Eighth
United States Air Force
England
Germany
Tra C. Baker
Taker
RAF
Baker
Britain
RAE
Laker
Europe
Exaker
Eaker
United States
Haker
Haler
Great Britain
United States Army Air Force
Little Rock Officer Is War Prisoner
First Lieut Robert W Kennedy son of Steele T Kennedy of 2720 State Street Little Rock Ark is missing in action in the European theater according to a War Department casualty list of 280 American soldiers. Also notes Arkansas Pharmaceutical Association auxiliary officers elected at Stuttgart and Hope.
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Washington
Robert W. Kennedy
Steele ‘T. Kennedy
State Street
Little Heck
Ark
War Department
United States
Walthy Ruel
Howard Morphew
Stuttgart
Arkansas Pharmaceutical Agnoviation
Josiyh Harforenyan
Mas
Frank G. Ward
Hope
Treasiecs
Jack Hofmeister
Little Rock
Milk Looms As Ration Possibility
Sacramento June 10 milk may be next commodity to be rationed the War Food Administration Office of Price Administration and dairy industry study ways to limit civilian consumption expecting a supply decline later this year said T G Stills WFA chief of dairy and poultry in a speech for the California Dairy Council Stills said officials have concluded the government must curtail consumption of milk or cut production of butter cheese evaporated and dried milk the latter option is out of the question as manufactured products now meet essential military and civilian needs.
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Sacramento
Calif
War Food Administration
WFA
Office of Price Administration
Dairy Industry
T. G. Stills
WIA
Stills
California Dairy Council
Three Chinese Survivors Reach Allied Base After Burma Death Ordeal
Three bedraggled Chinese survivors reached an American base in India after eight months since Japanese bayonets pierced their hospital beds in Shinghywanyang Burma. Liu Ping Wu Lin Sung Lin and Wei Hei Fen crawled to safety despite bayonet wounds, leg fracture and temporary blindness, urged by American, British and Chinese officers who verified the tale and noted the Japanese burned the hospital. They pledged to fight the Japanese again.
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Thoburn H. Wiant
Intlis
Figsh
Shinghywiyang
Burma
Aremy
India
Liu Ping Wu
Lin Sung Lin
Wei Hei Fen
Jap Munda Base Bombed in New Georgia Campaign
The Navy reports a new air attack on the Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia in the central Solomons. Flying Fortress bombers escorted by fighters hit the target with no U S losses. In the North Pacific, 19 attackers were killed on Attu and five prisoners were taken. The strikes aim to keep Munda from operating near Russell Island and Guadalcanal.
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Washington
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Isand
Solomans
South Pacific
Attu Islard
Aleutians
Flying Fortress
New Georgia Island
Solomons
United States
North Pacific
Attu
Aleutian
Russell Island
Guadalcanal
Allied Assaults and Air Raids Target Pantelleria and Sicily
Allied headquarters report steady Allied offensives in the Mediterranean. Allied forces attacked Pantelleria and Sicily with commandos, air strikes and naval reconnaissance, achieving light equipment losses and damaging Italian outposts. Royal Air Force long range bombers and American Liberators conducted daytime raids, while Italian vessels and shore installations sustained damage.
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N Rica
Alli
Ean
Alr
Pantelleria
Sicily
Ilon
Sih
Lduga
Maltan
London
Ciaroanean
Rome
RAF
la Spezia Naval
Italy
Oanth
Littorio
Veneta
Roma
Middle East
Cormina
Caira
John R
Shreveport
Catanai
Valors
Messerschmitt
Acquitted in Tulsa Slaying of Oilman's Wife
Mrs Howard 5 was acquitted by a Tulsa jury after an hour of deliberation in the slaying case of Mrs T Earl 5 wife of a local oilman. Ela B Howard, 44, wept as the verdict came in and then leaned in the courtroom doorway into the arms of Louis Howard Jr. The proceedings followed demands and a $20 000 figure linked to the alleged crime.
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Mrs. Howard
Tulsa
Okla
Ela B. Howard
T. Earl
Hs Louis Howard, Jr
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Alex. H. Washburn
Capital Man
Russia
Col. Barton
Gestapo
Erwin Shanke
Stockholm
Heinrich Himmler
Cerny
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Robert’ Ley
Josef Wagner
Alsace
Erih Koch
Ukraine
Hmmler
Austria
U.S. Airforce
Jap Munda
New Georgia
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