Patterson warns on delayed war production amid Tunisia gains
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said war output lagged May targets with overall army supplies down from April. He noted May airplane production set a monthly record at 7,200, 68 percent tactical, while non aircraft deliveries lagged. He urged industry to accelerate to avoid jeopardizing overseas supply and troop readiness.
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Inmates to Help Mail War Ration Books in Iowa
Inmates from Fort Madison penitentiary Anamosa reformatory and Eldora training school for boys will distribute war ration book No 3 to about 2 500 000 Iowa residents. The plan approved by the state board of control follows a conference with institution superintendents and OPA officials. Start dates: Fort Madison 300 000 June 28 Anamosa 250 000 June 29 Eldora 500 000 June 30.
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OPA
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Governors Meet For Postwar Plans At Thirty Fifth Conference
COLUMBUS Ohio UP 40 state chief executives prepare to discuss war effort and postwar relations between federal and state governments and industry at the 35th annual governors conference. Delegates from 40 states arrive as regional meetings recommended financial restraint and private enterprise led employment with public works support.
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Chicago
New York
Atlanta
San Francisco
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Li Ickes
Paul V. McNutt
P E O Sisterhood To Close Year
WEST UNION The last annual meeting of the West Union Chapter of P E O will meet with Mrs. Grace King Monday June 2. Mrs Lula Blunt will read a paper The Past Present and Future of China as the program for the afternoon. Officers at year end include Ruth Grosserfsacher president Adeline Rush vice president Kay Estey recorder Alice Layton corresponding secretary Lula Blunt treasurer Janne Westerfield chaplain Marie Wood gizard.
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Grace King
Lula Blunt
China
Ruth Grosserfsacher
Adeline Rush
Kay Estey
Alice Layton
Mine Owners and Union Meet as Strikes Spread
Washington report on 12:30 p m CWT meeting between soft coal operators and United Mine Workers aimed at addressing the War Labor Board denial of a wage increase. A five hour postponement precedes a policy committee vote on a possible general strike as wildcat actions surge before Sunday midnight. 60,000 miners already on strike amid a growing coal crisis and government considerations of wage controls and possible government contracts.
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UMW
International Policy Committee
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John L. Lewis
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Ickes
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Mrs Ray Named District Delegate for Local Methodist Conference
Mrs Thomas Ray of Oelwein was elected district delegate from the Upper Town district to the jurisdictional conference. Wills H Walker of Fayette was named an alternate. The annual church conference heard temperance committee advocate advertising restrictions on alcoholic beverages for the duration.
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Oelwein
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Methodist Church
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Fayette
House insists on no subsidies in wartime budget clash
The House adopts amendments threatening the Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information in a war agencies appropriation bill. Senate action next week will test support for abolishing subsidies and other anti inflation programs. OWI chief Elmer Davis warns loss of subsidy could force price controls elsewhere. House opponents argue the move risks uncontrolled inflation and cut fuel, mineral, and oil subsidies.
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Navy Show Opens War Bond Rally at CGW Meeting
The US Navy will feature a rally at Chicago Great Western Railway with the film The Target and talks by James P. Flynn on boosting war bond sales. The event starts Monday at 7 30 pm at Senior High School, with separate CGW employee meetings earlier in the day and a systemwide rally schedule through next week.
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Register press time moved ahead for timely delivery
Public notice informs readers that press time has been set ahead and papers should arrive by 3 45. If a carrier misses a subscriber the paper will be delivered by 6 00 after a call.
Bricker Warns OWI Censorship Endangers Freedom
Ohio Governor John W Bricker harshly criticized the Office of War Information at a National Editorial Association meeting in Cincinnati. He argued wartime censorship is a cheap propaganda tool that erodes free speech and the press, citing OWI releases with little war relevance and condemning the Hot Springs UN food conference blackout.
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John W. Bricker
Ohio
Office of War Information
Bricker
National Editorial Association
Hot Springs
Burma war plans hint at Wavell East Asia command
British move to form a separate East Asia command and appoint Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell as viceroy of India signals a broad Burma offensive likely after the monsoon ends. Stilwell may lead allied forces in East Asia, with Chiang Kai-shek possibly directing operations from behind the scenes. The aim is reopening the Burma road to China and leveraging India as an East Asia supply base.
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United Press
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China
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Mediterranean
Chiang Kai Shek
Japan
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Singapore
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East Asia Command
Vaccrey
Lintith Fow
Su Claiae
John Eyre Auchinneck
el Alamein
Egypt
Wavel
Auchinleck
10 Downing Street
Reports From Spain Add To Axis Worries
Fascist Mussolini extended the emergency war zone to southern and Adriatic Italy as Allied movements and Axis attacks surge. Spanish dispatches say ships and landing barges move toward the Mediterranean while Gibraltar hosts British and American vessels. Allied bombers pound Sicily and Sardinia in a sharp pre invasion push, with heavy losses on both sides and strategic targets hit along the coast.
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Roosevelt Churchill meet on war strategy abroad
On June 19 194%, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred at a secret location on global strategy as British retreat 80 miles in Libya. a Chinese communique noted Japanese landings in Southern Kiang province and Russian infantry repulsed German attacks. The British Admiralty reported destroyer Wild Swan sunk offshore west of the French coast.
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