Settlement Seen Near in OPA General Managerrow
Washington July 14 Lou Maxon deputy administrator in charge of information says a statement to the press indicates a settlement of the long pending general manager issue at the Office of Price Administration. An unofficial note says Prentiss M Brown will hold a press conference tomorrow as he faces questions on price controls subsidies rationing and economy measures.
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Washington
Lou Maxon
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Maxon
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Detroit
J. K. Galbraith
Galbraith
Brown
Mass Production Plan Averts Textile Rationing
Washington July 14 Mass production of low priced clothing is the War Production Board formula to avert textile rationing. WPB chairman Donald Nelson says priorities will favor garments and dry goods of the most needed kind and deny focus on expensive fabrics. He asserts no clothing rationing is needed due to adequate textile supply and urges directing industry toward volume lines to meet civilian needs.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald Mc. Nelson
WPB
United States
Nelson
Italians Quick To Surrender To Canadians
Italian towns fall to Canadian forces sweeping from Pachino beachhead in Sicily. General d Havel and 206 staff captured at Modica as Ispica Pozzallo Rosolini fall. Over 1 000 prisoners taken amid rapid advances with reports of possible future heavy fighting. Commanders McNaughton and Cunningham send messages boosting morale and signaling broader front openings.
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Achille d'Havel
Ispica
Pachino
Pozzallo
Rosolini
D'Havel
Modica
Sicily
A.G.L. McNaughton
Canada
McNaughton
Adm
Andrew B. Cunningham
Vivid account of a Nassau Bay air attack on US landing barges
William F. Boni reports from a field hospital near New Guinea on a Nassau Bay landing assault where twelve soldiers left a barge and survived multiple dive bomber and Zero attacks. The crew faced four junked guns, two jammed weapons, and heavy shelling as they fought off three dive bombers and five strafing passes. Six wounded were treated, and a nearby B 25 crew also endured crash damage and air attacks during the same engagement.
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William F. Boni
Associated Press
Alto Acas
Nassau Bay
New Guinea
Bowater Pearson
Attica
Ind
Norfolk
Lewis Hall
Pontiac
Mich
Everett Nees
Harrisonville
Frank J. Nagy
South Bend
Pearson
Lynn L. Davis
Jerome
Idaho
Claude Allen
Alger. Mich
Larker Barnes
Enigma. Ga
Tilcall Whitey
Slim
Glen G. Jones
Berkeley
Calif
Nees
Nagy
Allen
Hall
Davis
Jonesey
Barnes
Little Hall
Frank Robinson
Salt Lake City
Pasadena
Jerome Samuel
Glendale
N. Y
Jerome Gelb
Newark
N. d
Laddie Reday
Gloucester
Mass
Claude R. Brown
Detroit
Bob Victor
Salem
Ore
Brown
Brother
Grand Jury Starts Coal Strike Inquiry
The session of the Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh marks the first move under the Connally-Smith Anti strike Act to probe the ongoing coal stoppage that began June 20. About half of 10,000 idle Southwestern Pennsylvania miners were set to return as the inquiry opened, while the rest had already returned or were idle due to the strike.
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Pittsburgh
Federal Grand Jury
Pennsylvania
Congress
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers of America
U.M.W. National Policy Committee
Posible
John L. Lewis
Harold L.ickes
Mass cattle crisis looms as feed shortages hit Midwest farms
Liberty Missouri July 14 cattle feeders warn of a food crisis as corn shortages cut feed, forcing steers from drought areas straight to slaughter. Osage hills Oklahoma and Kansas pastures begin sending cattle to market amid rising prices and plowing doubts. John Burk reports trucks await scarce corn while farmers resist high prices.
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Liberty
John Burk
Missouri
Towa
Lewis Tapp
Osage Hills
Oklahoma
Kansas
Kansas City
Jamestown Workers Back CLO Union in Vote
Jamestown workers at Dover 212 CLO Textile Workers Union approved representation with a 257 to 125 tally in a yes or no election conducted yesterday. The vote marks a formal labor organization breakthrough for the joint production and maintenance staff.
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C.lo
Jamestown
Wortted Wits
Ivs
Dover
CLO
Textile Worker's
National Labor Relations
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