India faces acute food shortage and political tension
The report warns India's food crisis has reached a critical stage with 125 million people malnourished as prices soar. A government relief conference is planned amid fears of lootings and potential linkage of food woes to political unrest.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
India
New Delhi
Canada
Australia
United States
Unite Nations
Brma
China
Claude Auchinleck
Japan
Auchinleck
Axis
Tojo
Singapore
Tokyo
Secret Fighter Planes Roll Off Assembly Lines
Washington reports new sky battlers in production to meet Allied aerial needs. WPB officials say changes in types, partly new and partly modified, aim to raise monthly output to over 10,000 planes as 1944 approaches. Officials note heavier planes and manpower challenges without material shortages.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Wilson
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Treasury outlines overtime pay guidance for supervisors
The Treasury issued general guidance on overtime for supervisors working beyond 40 hours a week but not under wage hour act rules. Supervisors may be paid overtime at the rate of the highest paid worker if their pay does not exceed that level. Officials expect the guidance to aid regional units and speed handling of applications, aiming to restore the prior ten day processing goal.
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Treasury
Speaker
Giraud reorganizes command and diplomacy ties
Giraud and De Gaulle head the Algiers committee which arms Henri Etienne Hoppenot with extraordinary negotiating powers toward Robert. Brig. Gen. Henri Jacoby is named to supersede Robert as Antilles high commissioner, with Hoppenot as possible temporary successor. Giraud plans may involve Europe invasion talks with Roosevelt and Marshall. State Department stays on the sidelines.
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Robert
Washington
Algiers
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Etienne Hoppenot
Antilles
Henri Jacoby
White House
Rosevelt
Martinique
San Juan
Guadaloupe
United Nations
Jacoby
Hoppenot
State Department
Hull
Europe
Roosevelt
George C. Marshall
Army
Marines Decorated as Navy Cross Recipients from Pennsylvania
Two Pennsylvania Marine officers, Lieut. Col. Samuel Blair Griffith II of Pittsburgh and Captain William D. Stevenson of Titusville, received Navy Cross decorations for bravery on Guadalcanal. The War Department announced the awards.
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Pennsylvania
Guadalcanal
War Department
Samuel Blair Griffith
Pittsburgh
William D. Stevenson
Titusville
Oaks Enrolls as Pilot Trainee at Maxwell Field Alabama
Captain Harold D. Oaks of Cherry Tree enrolled as a student officer in the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School at Maxwell Field Alabama for intensive ground training. Oaks, a University of Pittsburgh graduate, entered U S service May 4 1942 and was commissioned in the Coast Artillery Corps.
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Oaks
Harold D. Oaks
Cherrytree
Army Air Forces
Maxwell Field
Ala
University of Pittsburgh
Army of the United States
Coast Artillery Corps
Coal and mines shut down at Frick and allies
The Frick Coke Company and related steel interests halted operations across several mines in West Virginia and nearby regions. Pickets blocked Colonial 4 mine at night with women among them, and U S Steel reported multiple open hearth furnaces idled as production faces disruption. Industry leaders warned of a growing coal supply crisis and looming reductions in output across the Pittsburgh area.
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Clydes
Republic Steel
Isabella
Weirton Steel
Bridgeport
Maxwell
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel Corp
Hillman Coal Jand Coke Company
Pittsburgh
Sharon Steel Companies
Frick Company
U. S. Steel Corporation
Jones and Laughlin Company
Pearl Harbor
Treasury balance figures July 1 receipts and outlays reported
Washington reports Treasury figures for July 1 showing receipts of 124.647 million dollars and outlays of 364.499 million, yielding a net balance of 8.698 billion. Total debt stands at 41.687 billion, with an increase over provisions day of 81.784 million.
Broadcasting Rules To Get Airing After Congress Recess
Washington July 8 AP regulation of radio broadcasting by the FCC will be debated in Congress after the summer recess. Chairman Wheeler backed a Taft proposal that Congress write government restraints on radio while cautioning against total FCC control. Taft warned that Supreme Court limits on broadcasting threaten freedom of speech unless corrected by legislation. He cited a DOJ suit against The Associated Press and urged not to blanket voices opposing government policy.
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Acken
New York
Solid Fuels
Ickes
New York Times Today
John L. Lewis
the Times
War Labor Board
Lewis
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Taft
Ohio
FCC
Senate
Supreme Court
National Broadcasting Company
United States
Ben
Adep
Prass
Justice Department
Associated Press
Assorciated
Department of Justice
New Deal
AP Reply Says No Evidence In Antitrust Case
New York July 8 The government asserts no evidence AP monopolized news gathering and distribution in an anti trust suit. AP counters that members may choose associates and exclusive access preserves asset value. filing followed denials of Chicago Sun and Washington Times Herald memberships in 1942.
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New York
Associated Press
Departement of Justice
Cooperative
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
Richard J. Finnegan
Chicago Times
Marshall Field
Chicago Sun
Eleanor Medill Patterson
Washington Times « Herald
Liberty ship named for Wanamaker to be launched Sunday
The S. 8 John Wanamaker Liberty ship will be launched Sunday at Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard. Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist Wanamaker is honored in the name. Wanamaker's great granddaughter cannot attend. sister-in-law Mrs. John R. Wanamaker will take her place as sponsor.
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Baltimore
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Bethlehem,Fairfield Shipyard Company
Francis D. Wetherill
Wanamaker
John R. Wanamaker
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia man fined for overtime parking while recruit blood donors
Blood Philadelphia reports Joseph Frearson was fined 2 for overtime parking as he recruited blood donors. He signed up the magistrate who fined him and his wife witnessed the incident, while a policeman tagged them.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Frearson
Frearson
Eee
Market News Pittsburgh July 8: produce and hogs steady
Produce demand moderate with assorted regional prices for apples and potatoes posted. Livestock trading steady to higher with salable hogs 250 head active and calves 125 price range. good to choice hogs 17.00-30.00, medium 14.00-16.00, culls 9.00-12.00. receipts 300 cattle, 300 sheep.
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Pittsburgh
Stock market snapshot of major industrials and utilities
A compact list of prominent U S companies across sectors including Alchem Dye Am Can Am For Pow Am Rad Am Smelt Am Tel Am Bald Loco Bendix Bethlehem Steel Boeing General Electric General Motors Penn RR United Aircraft Westinghouse Woolworth and others with a mix of bond and stock figures showing varied gains and percentages. Key listed names include Chrysler Colum General Foods IBM Nutcracker-like entries indicate a broad market overview.
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al Chem & Dye Am
Smelt & R
Tel & Tel Am
T& SF
Ad Refining
Bald Loco Balt & Oh‘o
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co Briggs Mfg
Budd Mig
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corp Colum G & el Com Solvents
Cons Edison
Curtiss Wright del Lack & West
Douglas Aircraft du Pont de N el Auto Site
General Elec
General Foods
General Motors
Elec Bond & Share
Pennoad Corp
South Penn Oil
Obituary for Mrs Marsh and Marsh family members
Death attributed to a heart condition. Mrs Marsh a member of the United Brethren Church. Surviving with Mrs Edwards are J O Marsh of North Braddock, Ralph Marsh of Altoona, Arch Marsh of Barnesboro, Kathryn Shultz of Bernesboro, Richard Marsh of Philips.
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Marsh War
United Brethren Church
Edwards
J. 0. Marsh
North Braddock
Ralph Marsh
Altoona
Arch Marsh
Barnesboro
Kathryn Shultz
Bernesboro
Richard Marsh
Philips
Goering tied to U S scrap drive in 1937 38 tale
The article recalls Herman Goering guiding a German Us scrap drive in 1937 38, presented by Peter Gissibl in a Pittsburgh court case over naturalization fraud by Arthur Wolter a Pittsburgh man and former Bund organizer. The piece links Bund raids to Goering orders and notes Gissibl as a government witness plus other local obituaries and notices.
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Pittsburgh
Herman Goering
United States
Peter Gissibl
Arthur Heinrich Wolter
Gissil
Bund
Great Lakes
Adolf Hitler
Gissibl
Goering
Germany
W. W. Hill
Federation Bureau of Investigation
Wolter
New York
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Jewel Cave National Monument
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Edinboro State Teachers College
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Norman L. Duncan, Jr
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Aviation Machinist's Mate School
Jacksonville
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Shriners Assemble
Chicago
Shriners
Karl Rex Hammers
Indiana
A. M. Hammers
Imperial Oriental Guide
Albert Fiebach
Cleveland
Imperial
Louis N. Donnatin
Mecca Temple No. 4
Leonard P. Steuart
Parris Island
S. C
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Office of Defense Transportation
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Hitler
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Detwiler) Greesley
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Zodai
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Armagh
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St. Marys
Robinson Funeral Home
C. L. Moora
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Laura Margaret Stahl
Harry Burton Boyd
Oakland Cemetery
Isaac Leroy Bee
Stafford
Union ‘Church
Rossiter
Sadie (Close) Irwin
Raleigh
Hillsdale
Thompson Cemetery
Judy Ann Lightner
Melvin J
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Clymer
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