Army Contracts Set for Million Pairs of Field Shoes
The Army Quartermaster Depot announced contracts for about 3 052 859 pairs of service shoes and many others including women field shoes. The award list includes Wevenberg Shoe Co Miln Wis 257 873 Hanover Shoe Co Inc Hanover Pa 215 530 Federal Vision Industries Washington D C and others. Rubber heels and taps contracts were awarded to United States Rubber Co New York Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co Akron and Goodyear Philadelphia based on readable fragments.
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Boston
Jume
Army Quartermaster Depot Today
Wevenberg Shoe Mis
Go. Miln
Kee
Wis
Hanover Shoe Co, Inc
Hanover
Federal Vison Industries, Inc
Washington, D. Co
Simptex Shoe Co
Miln
Juvenile America
St. Loui Edwards & Company
Goolyear Tire & Rubber Co
Akron
United States Rubber Co
New York City
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Philadelunia
Bombers Hit Lae and Wewak Bases in New Guinea Raids
Allied Liberators and B-24s pounded Japanese air bases at Lae and Wewak in six raids over a week, dropping 156 tons of bombs. No Japanese planes rose. anti aircraft fire forced some Allied crews to maneuver under heavy flak. Bombs damaged dromes and ammunition stores, with additional strikes near Dagua Boram and Timor coastal targets.
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Australis
Wewak
Lae
Guinea
Ischvert
But
Dagua
Boram
New Guinea
Bulldogs
Port Moresby
Salamaua
Timor
al- Hed
Weswak
Civic Leader Convicted in Fresno Arson Attempt
John T. S. Clark a 59 year old civic leader and church worker was found guilty on arson and attempted murder charges for throwing gasoline through a bath room window onto an electric heater as his wife Bathed. The fire seriously burned her on January 2. Clark denied guilt and a new trial was planned with sentencing set for Saturday.
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Fresno
Calli
John T. S. Clark
Clark
Walton Strikers To Return Today
Employees of the Breakstone Brothers Company milk plant, who walked out Tuesday over wages, were to return to work today. An AFL–CIO spokesman said they would resume after the War Labor Board ruled it would not act on high wage applications while the strike continued. Forty five were out.
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Walton
Breakstone Brothers Company
A. F L. of L
Regional War Labor Board
Withholding Tax Table Delineates Wage Deductions
Washington June 3 UP The tax bulletin passed by Congress provides for withholding from weekly wages starting with the first pay period after July 2. The deductions are for regular federal income and Victory tax on a current basis and may be calculated to deduct exactly 20 percent of the employee’s wages.
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Washington
Congress
Brae Marad
Marre
Pay-Go Tax Timetable Will Date From June 15
Washington outlines a Pay-Go tax schedule tied to the Roosevelt administration. Dates include June 15 quarterly 1943 income tax, July 1 payroll withholdings, September 15 estimates, December 15 final estimates, January 1 1932 milestones, and March 15 1934 final reckoning with potential rebates and penalties. Farmers may file earlier estimates and 5.3 percent fees noted.
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Uncle Sam
Boy, 3, Drowns In Rochester Creek
A three year old boy named Thomas Lawrenz drowned after slipping into rain swollen Allen Creek in Pittsford while near Rochester. The accident occurred yesterday per UP reports.
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Boy
Rochester
Thomas Lawrenz
Allen Creek
Pittsford
Ford Estate Taxes Likely Much Less Than Earlier Estimates
Detroit June 3 Edsel Ford died last week at 49 and probate shows part of his Ford Motor Company stock may go to the Ford Foundation leaving the remainder to Mrs Eleanor Clay Ford and the four children. Estate taxes are expected to be around 22 million, far below earlier speculative figures.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor ‘Company
Ford Foundation
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Eleanor Clay Ford
Henry Ford I
Benson Ford
Walter Buhl Ford II
William Clay Ford
Joseph V. Trombley
Macomb County
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Company
Icent
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit
Lake Shore Head
Grosse Pointe
Shores
Michigan
Seal Harbor
White Hart Inn
New Hampshire
Florida
Dirs
Greenfield Vlage
Greenfield Village
Edison Institute
Dearborn
Henry Ford Hospital
River Rouge
Michigan Corporation and Securities Commission
Ford Company
Massachusetts
General Electric gets Defense Plant Corporation contract
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones announced the Defense Plant Corporation authorized a contract with General Electric Co of Schenectady New York to supply equipment for a Pennsylvania plant at an estimated cost of about 825000 dollars.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Defense Plant] Corporation
General Electric Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Pennsylvania
Eight Orphan Girls Buried in Communal Grave
Eight orphan girls among the twenty children killed in a German bombing of a Sunday school were buried today in a communal grave in a Devon town. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Exeter.
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Southwest Coast
Eng
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WSYR
Halcomb
Emerson Avenue
Halcomb Works
Emerson Avenue Works
Navy
Crucible
Jap New Guinea
H.J. Howe Inc
Oe Sens 1860
John S
Roosevelt
Treasury
W. L. Douglas
Altfield
Micpbern Boot Shop
Harrison Street
Manhattan
Dad
Ranger
G. E
du Pont
Cransen Hardware
Selias
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
Pepsi-Cola
Syracuse Bottlers, Inc
Wells & Coverly
The
Rockland
Clipper
Wells&coverly
Seline St
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