Balkan Thrills Rise as Armistice Talks Surface
In a tense 48 hour window the Allied command reports show many military moves from Italy to the Balkans. Ankara notes Turkish openness with the United Nations while Turkey trains troops in the United States and appoints Brig Gen Richard G. Tindell. Meanwhile Axis forces and Allied observers watch for Crete and Dodecanese developments as Rome broadcasts troop massing near Pantelleria and the southern border of Turkey.
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Bureaucrats Defend War-Effort Criticism Amid Debates
The House public lands committee heard defense of wartime agency actions as critics alleged missteps. Navy Secretary Knox canceled the Elk Hill oil contract with Standard Oil after a Justice Department ruling found it unlawful, while Assistant Attorney General Hell testified a White House report deemed the deal illegal and invalid. Knox said no appropriations were used by either party in negotiations.
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Government calls loans as corn shortages rise
The government formally called loans totaling 47,000,000 bushels of 1942 crop corn effective July 15, with private grain elevators to be seized for war plants if movement off farms stalls. War Food Administration and CCC face pressure on price ceilings for grain or hogs as plans shift to rationing and production. Meanwhile on the Soviet front, heavy fighting near Orel and Misensk. Solomon Islands air battles yield a 12 to 1 Allied score over Guadalcanal as Liberators hit Kendari and Chiang Kai-shek’s forces claim gains south of the Yangtze river.
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Treasury trims taxes to 12 billion, war costs rise
Secretary Morgenthau disclosed Treasury would cut its request for new taxes to 12 billion dollars from 16 billion, still aiming to fund half the annual war costs as Roosevelt's budget plans faced adjustment. Eight new rationing programs were outlined by Krieger, with coal rationing contingent on other agencies, and food allotments for institutions to be introduced. Stalin pledged aid to Poland's postwar independence, while Britain and the United States mounted air offensives from North Africa to the Mediterranean, striking nine German cities including Cologne. A Senate committee urged drastic Civil Service cuts, arguing payrolls tripled since WWI and a merit system had not prevented waste, proposing reorganizing personnel management.
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Allies Double Axis War Production Pace Reported
WPB Chairman Donald Nelson told a House appropriations committee that the United Nations now produce about 125 billion dollars worth of arms and war supplies annually, nearly double the Axis output of 65 billion. He projected peak American military production at 10 billion dollars a year in 1944.
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Headlines and snippets from a week in news
A collection of brief items notes fashion shifts in New York laundries restricting shirts, the Pantelleria battle cost in World War II airmen, a Canada transatlantic air service for mail and officials, and Argentina’s push for closer ties with the United States as stated by war minister Edelmiro J. Farrell.
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Attu Island Battle Ends With Large Japanese Casualties
American soldiers mop up on Attu Island search a Japanese dugout as the end of Japanese resistance nears. The final attack near Coties Lake yields a brutal slaughter, with estimates of fifty Japanese killed for every American, and a surrounding counterattack that lasts seven hours.
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Modern rug weaving from rag scraps gains popularity nationwide
The article recalls a bygone era when homes were floored with rag rugs and carpets. It highlights today’s focal weaver using a loom and warp and filler colors, with sewn rags of cotton or wool, washed and hemmed, to create square yard carpets.
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Men Show Higher Golf Scores In Large Study
A study of several thousand golf games finds the average score for men at 91 while the average for women is 87. The report highlights gender gaps in scoring and suggests typical performance differences across groups.
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