Brown Back On Job Again And Planning Drive
Brown resumes duties and plans a push on government subsidies for food prices with Roosevelt and allies. He faces congressional criticism over subsidies to control prices for butter meat and coffee, while OPA and OW M coordinate policy amid inflation concerns.
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Brown
Omer
Roosevelt
Fred
M. Vinson
Byrnes
Jesse Jones
RFC
Senate
Awhether
Labor
OPA
Washington
Office of Free ‘Administration
Chester C. ‘Davis
Congress
Chinese Forces Disrupt Jap Communications Near Hankow
Chinese front line dispatches report disruption of Japanese communications with their base at Yochow as attacks hit the Hankow Canton railway, following a crushing Yangtze river defeat. The focus remains on Japanese inability to regroup.
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Chungking
Yangtze River
Yochow
Hankow-Canton
King George in North Africa as invasion zero hour nears
The article reports King George's North Africa visit amid invasion rumors across the Mediterranean. It notes Allied and Axis dispatches, Turkish neutrality, and high level talks in Ankara with Admiral Cunningham and Turkish leaders ahead of potential Balkan and Mediterranean actions.
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King George
North Africa
Mediterranean
Ankara
Syria
Tarker
U. S
Palestine
Iraq
Iran
The
Daily Herald
British Broadcasting Corporation
Turkey
Sir John Cunningham
Levant
Cunningham
Ismet Inonu
Sukru Saracoglu
Berlin
Britain
Frank J. O’brien
Associated Press
Saracoglu
National Assembly
U. S. Federal Communications Commission
Leningrad
Ministry of Information
Europe
Germany
Red Army
Leniingrad
Reuters
Moscow
Governor's Wife Is Found Guilty
A Baltimore ration board panel revoked the C gasoline ration book used for a state car by Governor Herbert R. O’Conor’s wife for a Charleston trip and suspended her personal A ration for three months. The panel ruled the C book for her personal car was issued erroneously and revoked it after a hearing the wife did not attend.
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Baltimore
Emory H. Niles
War Price and Rationing Board
Baltimore City
Herbert R. O'Conor
Charleston
S. C
Norfolk
Maryland
State of
Andrew T. Conner
Executive Department
Goveror's aide questioned on Charleston trip fuel use
A state panel found Mrs O Conor used gasoline for official state purposes improper during a Charleston trip. They said that public transport sufficed and no medical need justified automobile use, despite health claims and household duties context. John H Ghingher sworn in as city register by Mayor McKeldin, succeeding Eugene H Beer.
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Executive Department of the State
Baltimore
Charleston
Government House
S. C
O'Conor
Ghingher
John H. Ghingher
National Central Bank
Theodore R. McKeldin
Eugene H. Beer
Aircraft Development To Get Most Of Any Military Branch
A wartime briefing notes broad support for aircraft expansion across services with the Navy and Army Air Forces urged to share development. Price Administrator Brown cites savings from price controls totaling billions by end of 1942 and projected growth to 70 billion by year end 1943. Rubber director Jeffers says synthetic plants will be fully online by year end with 800 000 long tons output next year. Eight rationing programs under consideration hint at coal controls, while political opposition grows to subsidy use. Domestic airline routes totaled about 30 000 miles in 1941.
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Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
William Jeffers
Joey
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Louis J. Kroeger
Secretary-Treasury
Sidney R. Katz
Maryland and District of Columbia Industrial Union Council
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Smith-Connally
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John L. Lewis
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