Campaign of Communists and racketeers targets press unions
An interim report details efforts by communists and racketeers to suppress facts in union movements across multiple cities including New York Louisville Denver Bridgeport Youngstown Akron Waterbury and Salt Lake City. It cites newspaper guild pressure on soldiers readers and calls for congressional inquiry while noting anti labor profiteers and editorials aiding censorship.
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New York
Louisville
Denver
Bridgeport
Youngstown
Akron
Waterbury
Salt Lake City
Fe Newspaper Guild
Part
Asi
Iiving
A. F. of
Metropoltan
A Communist Party
Isogevelt
Hitler
Pearl Harbor
Union Cat
Caterpillar
C. Ho OS
2 O. Council of
Terraruma
Fort Warne
News-Sentinel
News- Sentinel
Courci
Communist Party
Ieidentary
Parke
Commounist Party
Louisette. Ky
Japs Fail To Reach Objective In China
Chinese government statement reports Japan failed to seize tungsten fields in Kiangsi as Chinese pilots with American volunteers sink two Japanese warships on the Yangtze and inflict losses in Eastern Kiangsi. It notes deposits remain crucial though not the very front targets.
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China
Chuungring
East China
Kiangsi
Yangtze
Japan
Chekiang
Azaid
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Hunan
Rationing Predicted as Major Scale Seen This Year
Washington reports that the House appropriations committee and Price Administrator Leon Henderson forecast heavy demands on two groups of living essentials will trigger a general national rationing program by year end. They warned listing specific items would cause stock strain and earlier rationing. Henderson said price ceilings may not hold and emphasized tax, farm prices, and war production as determining factors.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Acministration
Henderson
Wei
Victory Pause to Boost Bonds in Monroe Across Nation
George D. Holland of the Chamber of Commerce declares a 13 to 15 minute Pause for Victory Wednesday at noon in Monroe and nationwide. Sirens will blare as stamps and bonds go on sale in stores banks and post offices with a $200 000 goal for the day. Housewives urged to join husbands downtown and children with allowances expected to help drive the drive.
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Monroe
George D. Holland
Chamber of Commeres
Mr. Holland
Fort Sam Houston Soldier Drowns in Colorado River
The body of Charlie O H are 42 a Fort Sam Houston soldier who drowned while swimming near Austin Texas has been sent to St Petersburg Fla for burial Firemen recovered the body from the river
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Austin
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Charlie O'Hare
Colorado River
St. Petersburg
Fla
Nelson outlines war output gains but warns consumer outlook bleak
Washington June 2 Nelson head of the war production board told a house appropriations subcommittee that plane tank and ship goals will be met but the consumer outlook remains very bad. He said steel plate and material logistics must improve to avoid lags and shortages while production stays aligned with strategy. He cited Britain’s rationing as harsher and warned shoes and homes may be limited but essential travel will be kept. Shipping is tight but essential supplies are being obtained.
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Washington
Congress
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
WPB
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Nelson Tld
Roosevelt
Nelson
England
Germany
Great Britain
Persen
Cannon
Democrat
Missouri
Four Die as Bomber Crashes Near Dayton
A two engine medium bomber plummeted into a hay field two miles south of Dayton Ohio killing its four Army airmen en route from Patterson field to Albany Georgia. Pilot Second Lieutenant W K Van Zandt co pilot Second Lieutenant Ralph Roehman Jr Technical Sergeant W K Elder and Staff Sergeant Earl J Corder perished.
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Dayton
Here
Frank Teitmeyer
John van Cleve
Patterson Field
Albany
W. K. van Zandt
Canton
N. Y
Ralph Roehman, Jr
Guilford College
N. C
W. K. Elder
Denver
Earl J. Corder
Kansas City
White House mat swiped by Ickes
Secretary Ickes joked about rubber for scrap drives as he rolled up a heavy entry mat at the White House. With help he loaded the mat into an official limousine and planned to deliver it to the nearest filling station. Stephen Early quipped that reclaiming it is unlikely.
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Washington
Ickes
White House
Stephen Early
Senate weighs trimming Louisiana outlay after tax loss
HATON ROUGE La June 29 P Louisiana's senate faced pruning the biennial appropriation to fit expected revenues after killing a proposed sales tax. The finance committee approved a general appropriation bill totaling about 175 million dollars, eight million above revenue, leaving full chamber to balance the budget. Senator Dudley LeBlanc introduced a resolution to list old age pension recipients with names, addresses and amounts.
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Haton Rouge
Louisiana
Senate
Upper Chambers
House
Senate Finance Committee
Dudley LeBlanc
Abbeville
W. S. Terry
62 Greeks Executed in Crete Amid German Occupation
A Greek government in exile spokesman reports 62 Greeks shot at Candia Crete for sabotage as thousands of German airborne troops flood the island. He cites the mayor editor bank director and a schoolteacher among the dead, with workers among those executed. Hostages including women and children are said to be taken as conscription drives continue.
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London
Crete
Candia
Midway Naval Losses Now Seen as Bigger Than First Reported
The Midway battle losses were higher than earlier accounts indicated. Japanese carriers Akagi Kaga Soryu Kiryu all sunk along with two heavy cruisers and several destroyers, while three other heavy ships were damaged. US losses included one destroyer and damage to an aircraft carrier as the US and allied forces thwarted the Japanese diversion.
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Midway Island
Akagi
Kaga
Soryu
Kiryu
Mogami
Mikuma
Midway
Sune Hi
Navy
Associated Press
Aleutians
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Jones Proclaims Retailers Drive for Victory
Governor Sam Jones declares July a retailers for victory drive in war stamps and bonds sales. He urges all Louisiana retailers to join and, at noon July 1, suspend business for 14 minutes to sell the stamps and bonds.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Germans offer work contract amnesty to French in occupied zones
In June 2947 German authorities in occupied France proposed suspending prosecutions for those willing to sign a work contract. The measure aims to push Frenchmen to work in German factories and exempts only non political cases from court action.
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France
House Appropriations Panel Honors Large War Bill
The House Appropriations Committee sent to the floor a 1.81 billion dollar supply bill for the new fiscal year starting July 1. It would lift national defense outlay to about 228 billion since 1940 and funds nearly twenty war agencies, with major cuts to the office of price administration and other agencies.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Wor Shipping Administration
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Henderson
Budget Bureau
OPA
House
House Appropriations
Johnson
Oklahoma
Office of Censorship
Division of
Central Administrative Services
War Manpower Commission
Bureau of Home Economics
Bureau of Reclamation
Agricultural Marketing Administration
President's Emergency Fund
Board of Economic Warfare
Division of Central Administrative Services
Office of Civilian Defense
Coordinator of inter-American Affairs
Defense Health and Welfare Services
Boy Kills Self Accidentally While Protecting Chickens
Billy Boyte, 15, of Ward 8, was killed early Monday when his 22 Hamilton rifle fired as he searched beside the family car for the weapon after hearing a chicken disturbance. Coroner Dr. J. T. French said the bullet passed through the left temple. no eyewitnesses were present.
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Billy Boyte
Mary Boyte
Ward
J. T. French
Hamilton
Bill
Germans Try to Capture Ship Masters in Atlantic
New Orleans report says German U boats now pursue ship captains as prisoners, with Captain William H. Fagen stating submarines in the Atlantic seek to seize veteran masters. The U boat that sank his vessel loitered to learn survivor identities.
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New Orleans
Caribbean
Germany
William H. Fagen
Atlantic
Fagen
Nazi spy saboteur group may face death penalty
The FBI announced seizures of several contacts and associates tied to eight Nazi saboteurs landed by U boats on the east coast. The roundup includes arrests in Chicago and likely on Long Island near Amagansett. Names given include Dasch, Burger, Heinck, and Quirk as the initial group. The total pay-off money reached 170000 dollars. more arrests were expected within days.
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New York
Long Island
Florida
Earl J. Connelley
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Chicago
Amagansett
George John Dasch
Ernest Petey Burger
Michigan National Guard
Heinrich Harm Heinck
Robert Quirk
Rubber drive extended to July 10 amid disappointing totals
President Roosevelt prolonged the rubber collection drive by ten days to July 10 after a Saturday report showed 219 000 tons collected. Secretary Ickes and William R Boyd chaired the move, citing urgent wartime rubber needs and a disappointing total.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
William R. Boyd
D Jr
Petroleum Industry War Council
Stephen Early
Early
Australian destroyer sunk in central Mediterranean action
Melbourne radio reports the loss of an Australian destroyer in the June 15 convoy actions in the central Mediterranean. Only three lives were lost from a crew of over 290. the ship’s name and commander were not clearly heard.
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San Francisco
Mediterranean
Melbourne Radio Today
CBS
Melbourne Radio
Britain
Australia
Gibraltar
Malta
Alexandria
Tobruk
British Army Tries Not to Meet Rommel at Matruh
Axis forces captured Matruh in Egypt, threatening the Nile valley and Suez. British withdraw to seek positions for a resistive stand. Rommel reportedly bypassed defenses and drove eastward with prisoners claimed. Allied air power, including US units, supported desert operations as Germany launched a major push in the Kursk region of Russia.
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Clyde A. Farnsworth
Associated Press
Axis
Egypt
Matruh
Nile
Alexandria
Suez Canal
Nile Valley
Berlin
Rome
Matrun
Rommel
Tobruk
Libya
Cairo
Salum
Aii Meee Aa Caer
United States
United States Air Force
Europe
London
Russia
Kursk
Moscow
Kharkov
Caucasus
Germany
Four Big Fights Over Taxes Seen
Washington reports four major tax fights likely to reopen as draft of the $5.9 billion bill nears completion. House Ways and Means members anticipate debates on war consumption postwar credits for corporations and excess profits tax, withholding plans, and higher second and third class postal rates. A 5 percent retail sales tax could bring about $2.5 billion yearly, while postwar credits may aid or hurt small firms.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Cone
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Pegler
Colorado Labor Advocate
Building Service
Ald Sewlise
Churchill
Winston Churchill
United States Army
Fort Jackson
Columbia
S.C
Tesls Congress
Pear Harbor, T. H
Jones
House Committee
U. S. Defense
Boy
Self
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