War Moves Today by Keemle Analyzes Pacific Air Struggle
United Press war analyst Louis F Keemle reports growing Allied air and sea strength in the southwestern Pacific. He notes Japan’s heavy losses, stronger American air power, and the Allies preparing for a push to eject Japan from Rabaul, with MacArthur forecasting rapid offensive strength.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Ithwestern Pacific
Andrtheast
Australia
Japan
Parrott Dies in Fire At Fayette Grocery
Bill Parrott, a Fayette institution known as a talkative and exotic parrot belonging to the J. F. Grimm family for 23 years, died in a Wednesday morning blaze that destroyed the Grimms’ grocery store. The parrot was famed for entertaining visitors and selecting preferred foods such as apple pie, noodles, and macaroni and cheese.
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Fayette
Bill
J. F. Grimm
Olly
Irs Grimm
World War A Year Ago Today Soviet Arms Pact and Bombing News
United Press reports Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt meet in Washington for the second time since war began. Soviet leaders ratify the Anglo Soviet agreement and outline foreign policy. The U S War Department confirms direct hits by American heavy bombers on Italian battleships Littorio and Conte di Cavour in the Mediterranean. Queen Wilhelmina arrives in Ottawa en route to Britain.
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United Press
Winston Church
U. S
Roosevelt
Washington
Russia
Supreme Council Soviets
War Department
Littorio
Mediterranean
Wilhelmina
The
Nethtlands
Ottawa
Great Britain
House Group OKays Giant Fund For Army
The House appropriations committee approved a record 71.51 billion dollar Army bill for fiscal 1944, with 59.04 billion new appropriations and 12.47 billion in unused prior funds. The measure, praised by Gen Marshall and Gen McNarney as essential for global war efforts, funds air corps expansion including 99,740 aircraft and 900 airfields, while cutting travel allowances by 10 percent.
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Oes
Washington
Ihouse Appropriations Committee
War Department
Uring
Army Air Corps
Army
Air Corps
Walter F. George
D. Ga
Senate
Fianee Committee
Navy
House
George C. Marshall
Joseph T. McNarney
Department
Red Army Advances at Ilmen and Orel Fronts
Red Army troops seized trench lines on a fortified height near Lake Ilmen and held a river bridgehead above Orel amid renewed Soviet offensives. Soviet reports claim German forces face a strategic dead end as observers note a drawn-out war of attrition.
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Moscow
Red Army
Lake Ilmen
Orel
Russia
Mikhail Galaktionov
New Review
War and the Working Class
Britain
Galaktionov
Germany
Mtsensk
Lake Ilman
Mogilev
Orel-Bryansk-Roslavl Minsk
Dnieper
Red Air Force
Radio Moscow
Iowa Farmers Turn to Power Machinery as Shortage Grows
Des Moines reports show a 1942 census spike in farm power gear as tractors rise by 15 233 combines by 4 820 and mechanical corn pickers by 4 421. By Jan 1 one tractor per 226 acres persists one combine per 112 acres and one corn picker per 302 acres. Regional gains vary with District 4 leading in tractors and combines and District 1 in corn pickers. Despite gains the soybean boom strains available combines in the north central area.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harry D. Linn
Linn
Northwest
South Central Area
Jin
War Relocation Office in Iowa forms program in Des Moines
Des Moines reports Frank Gibbs of Sioux City assigned to assist EKA Franque mont in setting up the war relocation authority program in Iowa. Gibbs will succeed Myrie White of the Kansas City office and will help place in Iowa jobs and schools for Japanese Americans in relocation centers.
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Des Moines
Frank Gibbs
Sioux City
Eka Franquemont
War Relocation Authority
Iowa
Gibbs
Myrie White
Kansas City
Vernon Kennedy
Debate over OPA prices continues in Congress
Washington DC Dr Donald H Wallace deputy OPA price administrator testified before the house committee that excess profits can trigger price reductions while noting that wartime costs justify some price increases He said OPA may reduce prices when profits are too high and that wage stabilization depends on deflationary price decreases He discussed Brown s broader claim that OPA governs profits to curb inflation and that community wide ceiling prices are being extended to hundreds of cities as part of the rollback program.
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Washington — LLP
Donald H. Wallace
OPA
House Committee
Wallace
Harold Allen
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Allen
Congress
Navy ends Elk Hills oil deal as investigation continues
The navy plan with Standard Oil of California to operate Elk Hills field is terminated after a Justice Department ruling. Congress will press on with a probe into the contract and related payments while Knox argues the move safeguards naval oil, asserting public interest and future petroleum supply.
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Washington
Navy
Elk Hulls
Cal
Standard Oil Company of
California
House Public Lands Committee
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Nox
Norman Littell
William Langer
Teapot Dome
J. W. Robinson
Utah
House Committee
Standard Oil Company
Knox
Justice Department
H. D. Collier
Standard Oil Company of California
San Francisco
Elk Hut
Standard Oil
Feet
S. U. S. Enrollment At Record Level
Iowa City report shows University of Town enrollment at a historic high totaling 6537 students. Civilians number 2981, non college 3576 including 1106 war training men and 1965 navy pre flight cadets. Men outnumber women in college enrollment 1521 to 1440. Liberal arts near last summer levels with increases in dentistry, engineering and medicine.
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Iowa City
University of Town
Virgil M. Hancher
Navy
County Man Listed As Draft Evader in Iowa
Albert Peterson of Fayette County is named among 234 Iowa registrants turned over to the FBI for delinquent status. Col. Oliver P. Bennett said delinquents are those who failed induction, answered, or notified their whereabouts. Delinquent listings carry up to ten thousand dollars fine or five years in prison, with some cases allowed if delinquency was not willful. Peterson, son of Ole C. Peterson of Clermont, was said to be working on a railroad section gang in Illinois.
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Kwli Albert Peterson
Fayette County
Iowadrat
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Col
Oliver P. Bennett
State Selective Service Headquarters
United Press
Bennett
Peterson
Ole C. Peterson
Clermont
Illinois
Greeks Hold Thessaly as Guerrillas Reported Strong
German propaganda shifted focus to the eastern Mediterranean amid reports from Greek sources that guerrillas in Thessaly had ignored a Nazi ultimatum and seized control of plains and mountains. The dispatch cited Swedish correspondents and noted a possible Balkan offensive to seize Crete and the Dodecanese. Mussolini was said to purge anti war elements as Italy and Germany prepare for possible peace disruptions.
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London
Mediterraanean
Thessaly
Greece
Mediterranean
Stockholm
Balkan
Crete
Europe
Radio Moscow
Bern
Brenner Pass
Germany
Italy
Syria
Turkey
Iraq
Ankara
Saaid
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Party
War Labor Board rejects portal to portal pay in coal mine dispute
The War Labor Board, in eight to four vote, denies underground travel pay for miners and preserves the wage stabilization program. Chairman Davis says granting such a wage increase would set a dangerous precedent, undermining wartime economic controls. Miners will gain $50 yearly vacation pay and lose charges for safety gear under the extended contract.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
WLB
William H. Davis
Davis
UMW
Little Steel
Youths Plead Guilty In Stromsburg Bank Robbery
James Frank Young of Villisca Iowa and Robert Louis James of Stromsburg Nebraska, both 18, pleaded guilty to robbing the Stromsburg bank. Arraigned before a Grand Island US commissioner, they admitted or denied guilt with FBI confirmation. About $10 in nickels and dimes was taken from a cash drawer. they will await federal grand jury action in Omaha Douglas County jail.
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Omaha
James Frank Young
Villisca
Robert Louis James
Stromsburg
Neb
United States
Grand Island
R C Vogel
Federal Bureau of ‘Investigation
Vogel
Young
FBI
James l
Douglas County
Spiritualists Plan Month's Meeting at Clinton
The Mississipp Valley Spiritualist association opens its 61st annual gathering in Clinton on July 25 directed by psychics mediums healers and lecturers from across the nation. The women's union led by Mrs Gussie Johnston will meet at the same time.
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Clinton
Valley Spiritualist Association
Nation
L. Clinton
Women’s Union
Gussie Johnston
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Rabaul
New Britain
Rongly
Solomons
Eneral
MacArthur
Mallee
Parrott
Pacific
Dutch Harbor
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Ilmen
Axis
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