Poll tax outcry in congress stirs sailor with outcry
Our Daily Bread notes Evan Owen Jones Jr a Los Angeles second class signalman drew attention in the House gallery shouting You don't have to pay to Gobt why should you have to pay to vote The piece argues the poll tax remains a South controlled local policy as reformers push federal action and southern legislators oppose change while wartime unity dominates debate
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evan Owen Jones
Los Angeles
Horning
Congress
Jones
House of Representatives
House
Sailor Jones
Suilor Jones
Brown
Georgia
South
Jority
Arlaingas
Senate
Arkansas
East
America
Kelly Nash
Chicano
Tammany Mall
New York
Quick Passage of Compromise Tax Plan Seen
Washington May 26 The House and Senate conferrees reached a compromise on a tax plan to start by July 1. The measure would erase full year liability for those under $30 and cut 7 percent for others, with the remainder paid in two installments. A 20 percent withholding on wages and salaries would cover current liabilities, with quarterly payments for non wage earners and high earners. Chairman Doughton hopes for swift passage. Senator Vandenberg says there should be no serious opposition now that talks ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
House and Sonne
Senate
House
Doughton
D-Nc
Mouse Ways
Meeus
Vandenberg
Two Big Plants Threatened by Flood Waters
Flood waters from the Mississippi and its tributaries threatened two large plants and surrounding communities in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. At Walt Lake the powder plant, 2,000 acres of land, faced danger as levees broke nearby. Grand Tower and the Minnis Central Public Service Generating Plant, a $9 million facility supplying power to mines and towns south of Tuscola, were ringed by sandbags with evacuation urged for residents. The crest of the Illinois river also advanced, prompting mass evacuations in Beardstown while engineers and soldiers monitored the rising Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ulingis
Gion
Missouri
Mississippi
Walt Lake
St. Louis
Vanusand
Aeros Pana
Preston
Aldridge
Wollake
Grand Tower
Minnis
C. D. Gardiner
AL Beardstown
Flood Crest Reached in Arkansas River. 30 Feet
Floodwaters crest at 30.48 feet on the Arkansas River near Mourville, ahead of schedule. Camp Robinson cuts water use to 1–2 million gallons as river ruptures an underwater pipeline. Engineers at Fort Smith build a pontoon bridge for emergency lines. Governor Adkins orders Pine Bluff guards to patrol the Prenebton area below Pine Bluff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
White
St. Francis
Camp Robinson
Fort Smith
Homer . Adkins
Pine Bluff
Racial Disorders Trigger Guard Action at Shipyard
Federal and state troops were deployed to Pinto Island yard of Alabama Deck Shipbuilding Co in Mobile Alabama after clashes between Negro and white workers. Eight injuries were reported and about 1900 Negro workers idled. Company president D R Dunlap cited rumors of black welders joining white crews as the spark. Brig Gen James A Mallison said troops would safeguard government property and protect the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Tony
Pinto Island
Alabanm Deck Shipbuilding Co
D. R. Dunlap
James A. Mallison
Mobile Air Depot
United States
Township Votes to Outlaw Liquor in Hackett Area
Bart Smith reports that Cole township voted 77 to 27 to outlaw sales of liquor beer and wine. It marks the third Sebasdat county township to move toward local option prohibition after Big Creek and Mont Sanders. Center township including Greenwood plans to vote on June 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bart Smith
Cole Township
Hackett
Sebasdat County
Big Creek
Mont Sanders
Center Township
Greenwood
Summer Parley on Production of Food Likely
At Hot Springs Virginia on May 26 the United Nations fund conference moved toward creating an interim commission this summer. The body would plan a future international agency to boost food production postwar, with Washington as a likely headquarters and focus on statistics, agricultural research, nutrition, coordinated production policies, buffer stocks, and funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovid A. Martin
Hot Springs
United Nations Fund
Nctions
United States
Washington
Interiny Commission
Bars Must Separate Beer and Wine Business
Tabla Meek reports that beer and native wine sales must occur in separate business establishments with distinct entrances and a connecting door. The 1943 law bars beer dealers from selling native wines, a rule in effect since passage, though wine sales by beer dealers continued until their 142-43 permits expired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revenue
Leo
Revenue Department
Poll Tax Bill May Be Killed in Senate
Washington May 26 The poll tax bill, stalled in the Senate after House passage 265 to 133, faces strong Southern opposition and uncertainty with Senator Norris out of action. The measure aimed to protect voting rights for about 10 million citizens, including 4 million Negroes, by outlawing poll taxes in seven states. An incident in the visitors’ gallery featured a veteran sailor shouting against poll taxes, later identified as Ryan Owen Jones from Los Angeles, who said he came on leave to see what makes the country click.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtony
Senate
Ue House
House
George Norris
Nebraska
Marcantonie fAma
Lha-Ny
United States
Nimbly
Fle
Tyan Owen Jones
Los Abe Goles
Singapore
Jones
Conmess
Hitler Pressures Romania to Send More Troops to Russia
Antara reports that Germany under Baron Manfred von Killinger seeks to compel Romania to deploy a large army to the Soviet front. Romanian sources note potential divisions over a 1941 Balkan and Ukraine thrust, with disclosures of a demand to remove a pro Allied Romanian leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antara
Stalingrand
Leetstern
Ukih
Spr
Ukraine
Russia
Islands Bombed Constantly Off Italian Coast
Allied air forces hammered Sicily Sardinia and Pantelleria in a daylong strike. Northwest African units razed docks airfields and naval sites while Libera tors dumped 175 tons of bombs on Messina and other targets. Eleven Allied planes failed to return but official notes praised the heavy damage to Axis defenses and industrial sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Pes
Northwest African Command
Raibnast
Messina
Middle East Command
Oan
Talian Islands
Messin
Edsel Ford Dies at 49 in Detroit Home
Edsel Ford, 49, president of the Ford Motor Company, died at his Swarthbar Grasse Pointe home in Detroit at 1:30 p m after months of illness. His wife Eleanor Lowichan Clay and their four children were present. Death was due to a stomach malady and undulant fever following an operation 18 months earlier. Henry Ford and family were not present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroi
Edsel Word
Ford Molar Company
Swaurbar Grasse Pointe
Eleanor Lowichian Clay
Tuee
Ileary Fore Hospital
Henry Ford
Jour Py Arried
Adsel Ford
Ford Company
Roscoe RB. Graham
University of Toronto
Hia
Uneasy Calm Continues on Russian Front
Moscow reports four settlements captured in the south have not ended the uneasy calm along the Soviet front. Air battles persist as Red airmen attack German rail hubs and supply lines while Soviet bombers hit behind enemy lines and coastal operations near Leningrad. Colonel Nikolai Akimov says Germans have yet to recover from strikes at Stalingrad the Middle Don and the Northern Caucasus and may prepare for a summer 1942 offensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Rosvavl
Volnya
Wid
Spas
Demenskov
Vila Salient
Mosquw
Taok
Rostav
Ligiehansk
Donets
Leningrad
Nikolai Akimov
Pye
Staline Grad
Midde Don
Caucasus
FDR and Churchill to Issue Joint War Council Statement
The White House said President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are preparing a joint statement on their war councils. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early noted no timing is set and it would not be released today. The allied leaders spent much of their time on weather and other matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stephen Early
Manning
Duesseldorf Bombed by Large RAF Bomber Force
May 26 news reports describe a massive RAF air raid on Duesseldorf. Observers estimate hundreds of bombers participated, targeting arms centers, with clouds hindering damage assessment and 27 bombers reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
RAF
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Germany
Portlaund
Air Iministry
Dormund
Bomber Command
Fighter Command
Holland
Belgium
France
Telephone Rate Hearing Set for June 22 in Arkansas
The Utilities Commission will begin hearings June 22 on its statewide rate investigation of Southwestern Bell Telephone. The session consolidates the general inquiry with seven local rate cases in Rogers Helena West Helena Bentonville Walnut Ridge Hope and Batesville, arising from city ordinances lowering rates. The company appealed each ruling, triggering automatic suspensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
The
Utilities Commission
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Rogers Helena
West Helena
Bentonville
Walnut Ridge
Hope
Batesville
Japanese Position Cleared In Attu Island Valley Fight
Washington reports United States forces have cleared the Chicaghof valley on Attu, part of three major Japanese strongholds on the island. Navy and Army planes bombed and strafed enemy positions while ground troops pushed north and south along the ridge. Casualties not disclosed, but the enemy dwindling and retreating toward harbor for a final stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chicago
Attu
Navy
Chicagh of
Harbor
Chicaghof
North Pacific
Chicagh
Habor
South Pacific
Unite States
Niagar
Cape Surville
San Crsil¢bal
Damag
Rekaia Bay
Santa Isabel
United Stat Army
Uni States Army Air Forces Cons
Chichagol
Istaiv
Million Rail Workers to Get Pay Hike
Washington May 20 Emergency board of the National Railway Labor panel recommends a general wage increase for more than a million rail workers. The 15 unions sought 20 cents an hour rise to 79 cents, but the board declined to recommend the shop. Recommendations rely on the Little Steel formula and War Labor Board policies. The action awaits War Labor Board or Stabilization Director review. if unaltered, it becomes effective 20 days after filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Natial Railway Labor Panel
War Labor
WLB
Emergency Board
Fy War Labor Board
James F. Bryne
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alex. H. Washburn
Sailor
Hitler
Rumania
Africa
Edsel Ford
Malta
Pt Spadile
RT Panteclra
Tunisia
Sateen Miler
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!