Sergeant Kelch Sees Big Names Ahead of Camp Sutton Homecoming
Sgt James Kelch of the U S Quartermaster Corps returns on furlough from Camp Sutton North Carolina and recalls meeting notable figures after transfers from Vancouver Barracks Washington He saw the Duchess of Luxembourg and Mrs Roosevelt christen a ship. A Venus sighting is promised for Thursday night weather permitting with the planet bright near the crescent moon and peaking July 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kelch
U. S. Quartermaster Corps
Camp Sutton
N. Car
Kelch
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
Duchess of Luxembourg
Roosevelt
Venus
Logan Anglers Reel In Largest Bass And Catfish
Sylvester Frisinger of Logan tops the day with a 20 inch small mouth bass weighing 4.34 pounds at Rockbridge Basin. Jo Stutz of Art Kraft studio thrills with a 19 inch shovelhead catfish at Scott's Creek pool. Bill Ramsey, a bus operator, lands two 30 pound large mouth bass at Lake Hope in Vinton County using flatfish.
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Lady Luck
Logan
Hocking County
Sylvester
Asses) Frisinger
Gallagher Avenue
Rockbridge Basin
Jo Stutz
Art Kraft Studio
Scott ’S Creek
Miss Stutz
Main
Lake Hope
Vinton County
C. C. Lyons
Ramsey
Dozen Mines Closed by Strike in Southwestern PA
Roving pickets aided by women closed more than a dozen company owned cap ve mines in southwestern Pennsylvania. About 10,000 workers were idled as miners gathered at Brownsville, PA, during a national walkout that began June 20. John P. Busarello, president of Pittsburgh District 5 United Mine Workers, called the event an outlaw gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Steel Company
Cap Ve
John P. Busarello
United Mine Workers
Brownsville
Brownsville Meeting Urges Organized Picketing Over Work Stoppage
Speakers at a Brownsville gathering urged organized picketing to support the no contract no work stance. They urged miners to abstain from work at several pits including Shan nopin Vestas Nos 4 5 6 Clyde Nos 1 3 and other operations of major companies U S Steel and H C Frick Coke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Jones and Lauhglin
Shannopin
Vesta
Clyde
Republic Steel
Isabella
Weirton Steel
Bridgeport
Maxwell
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel Corp
Eight-Judge Court to Hear AP Arguments
The government seeks summary judgment in its antitrust suit against the Associated Press. Arguments are scheduled today before an eight judge United States district court panel based on documentary presentation without trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District
Atl-Trust
Associated Press
War Production Curtailed By High Water
Three die and three are missing as heavy rains and wind storms strike northern and eastern Ohio. Victims include Charles Palmer 32 a civilian defense volunteer electrocuted at Steubenville and Elgyn Gardner 44 a farmer near Steubenville struck by lightning. David Meese 8 died at Brightwood. Missing are Mrs. Charles McNeil 36 and her 14 year old daughter and Andrew Thompson 50. Floods wash out Steubenville water line halting Wheeling Steel and idling 27000 war workers in Akron. Fire and power disruptions hamper Goodyear Firestone and Goodrich plants with partial resumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Palmer
Steubenville
Elgyn Gardner
Pleasant Hill
David Meese
Brightwood
New Philadelphia
Charles McNeil
Andrew Thompson
Edward Green
Ohio River
Wheeling Steel Corp
Akron
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Goodyear
Firestone
B. F. Goodrich Co
FBI joins nine state search for missing editor Rose Marie Brancato
West Haven Conn July 8 The FBI entered a broad nine state search for 27 year old Rose Marie Brancato editor for the New Haven Journal Courier. Police and parents had no clues and suspicions centered on abduction as agents joined the hunt this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Haven
Conn
Federal Bureau of Investigation Today
Pretty Rose Marie Brancato
New Haven Journal-Courier
FBI
North America to outproduce Axis in munition output
Chairman Donald M. Nelson told Canadians that North America will surpass the Axis in munitions this year by nearly two to one. He said Canada and the United States will produce a plane every 4 2/3 minutes by year’s end, and that enough small sleee to pee bullets has already been turned out to arm Axis armies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
North American
Donald M. Nelson
U. S. War Production Board
Canada
United States
Nelson
Western cattle ready for market in grass-fed boom
In Cottonwood Falls Kansas July 8 a flood of beef from grass ranges heads to market as rains improve forage. Ranchers face selling or feeding high grain costs while experts predict a grass-fed price surge. Eastern Kansas blue stem pastures and Osage country cattle swell to 750000 head with higher potential returns at Kansas City stockyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottonwood Falls
Kas
Great Grass Ranges
Clint Squires
Beaumont
Tex
Kansas
Oklahoma
Kansas City
War boom cuts Ohio relief rolls to low levels
Columbus Ohio July 7 wartime boom reduces Ohio relief rolls and expenditures below irreducible minimum says State Welfare Director Herbert R Mooney The first half of 1943 shows an average of 19038 cases a 52 percent drop from 1942 and 71 percent below the 66000 cases in the first half of 1941
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Columbus
Ohio
Herbert R. Mooney
Mooney
Two Ohioans Win Air Corps Distinguished Flying Crosses
Allied headquarters in Australia announced July 3 that forty veteran airmen received Distinguished Flying Crosses or oak leaf clusters for at least 50 operations. Ohio’s Sgt. Robert L. Barlow of Athens earned the DFC for 50 missions and 200 hours of flying, while Flight Officer Burt S. Ashley of Letart Falls received a second award as an oak leaf cluster.
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Allied
Australia
Robert L. Barlow
Athens
Burt S. Ashley
Letart Falls
Dixie Davis Marriage Plans Crumble in California
Plans of Dixie Davis and Richard Davis to start a new life in Southern California are reportedly failing as their marriage experiences trouble, with reports tracing the couple to Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
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Dixie Davis
California
Los Angeles
Hope Dare
Richard
Dixie) Davis
New York
WPB to Publicize Newsprint Handling Procedures
The War Production Board will publicly publish its newsprint quota proceeding details. Rep Maas accuses WPB printing division of favoritism and censorship, while WPB Chief Nelson denies bias and discusses publishing quota cases, likely in the Federal Register Daily.
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Washington
War Production Board
Rep
Maas
Rminn
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Federal Register Daily
Martinique Pact Subject Of Meet
Washington officials discussed installation of a pro Allied administration in Martinique with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud as co chairman of the French Committee of National Liberation. Demonstrations at Fort-De-France drew about 15,000 demanding a break with Vichy and alliance with the United States, according to a Port of Spain despatch.
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White House
Washington
Henri Honore Giraud
Roosevelt
North Africa
United States
International
Martinique
Cochairman
French Committee of National Liberation
Fort-De- France
Vichy
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Plan Probe Of FCC Activities
Washington July 8 Regulation of radio broadcasting by the FCC will be aired before Congress after a summer recess. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Wheeler says Congress should write government restraints on radio, rejecting Taft's call for the FCC to be abolished. Taft warned the National Broadcasting Company ruling threatens free speech and urged corrective legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Congress
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Supreme Court
National Broadcasting Company
Federal Communications
United States
Indian Food Shortage Is Termed Serious By Government
India faces a grave food shortage with 125 million people malnourished and prices 3 to 8 times prewar levels. New Delhi calls a nationwide conference of officials to plan relief as lootings of grain stores widen concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
India
New Delhi
New Super Fighter Planes Go Into Production
Washington reports that new super secret fighter planes are rolling off the lines as Allied aerial offensives intensify. WPB officials say these are changes in type driven by combat experience, with production reaching over 7 000 in May and a goal of more than 10 000 monthly by 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
WPB
Wilson
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Berlin warns of coming invasion
Berlin radio reported Allied battle units from the Mediterranean fleet, reinforced by American cruisers and carriers, left Gibraltar suggesting an attack against Europe. The broadcast claimed 44 infantry divisions and 15 to 20 tank formations poised between Morocco and Syria, with parachute and airborne troops ready to seize bridgeheads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Gibraltar
Europe
Associated Press
Morocco
Syria
Algera
Palestine
Egypt
Cyprus
Eiisenhower
Belgorod
Dwight Eisenhower
Axis
Slovak Catholic Federation elects Rubicky president
The Rev. Martin Rubicky of St. Joseph's church Clifton Pa is named president of the Catholic Slovak Federation of America after being elected at the federation convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Martin Rubicky
St. Joseph’s Church
Clairton, Pa
Catholic Slovak Federation of America
FEDS ISSUE SUMMONSES IN YOUNGSTOWN FOR TAX STAMPS
Internal revenue agents issued summonses to 1,400 motorists in Youngstown Ohio for failing to display the new five dollar federal use tax stamps in downtown and near industrial plants.
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FEDS
Youngstown
Internal Revenue
New Figures Show Japs Badly Mauled In Naval Battle
Allied naval victory at Kula gulf left at least nine to eleven Japanese warships sunk and one American cruiser lost. MacArthur reports new landings on New Georgia isolating Munda Air base as Australian troops seize Observation Hill near Salamaua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munda
New Georgia Island
U. S
Kula Gulf
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Viru Harbor
Zanana
Rice Anchorage
Bairoko
Gulf of Kula
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Congress Moves to Put House in War Agency Hiring Powers
Washington notes a debate over a plan to give Congress hiring and firing power over high wage war agency staff. The Senate backed a bill requiring confirmation for personnel paid 4500 dollars or more, a move President Roosevelt called a tragic mistake. Rep Taber proposed a compromise to limit confirmations to new hires earning 5500 dollars or more, with pre July 1 staff unaffected.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Rep. Taber
R-Ny
White House
Substitutes Sought by Dealers Drive Feed Grain Scramble
Grain dealers report a scramble as substitutes for corn move into mercial feeds for livestock and poultry. Barley wheat and oats are sought to replace corn with rye also eyed. Prices rise as manufacturers press for grain acquisitions amid wartime demand.
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Chicago
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UMW
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U. S. Coast Guard
The
North America
AIR Corps
Gen. Giraud
By Roger Greene
William F. Halsey
Adolf Hitler
Sicily
China
Canton
Bure
Comores
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