Wallace and Jones clash over BEW funds and RF C charge
Washington reports a fresh White House feud between Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones and BEW chair Wallace over imports of strategic materials and funding. Wallace says BEW will seek direct appropriations while remaining under BEW control. Jones calls the accusation against the RFC untrue and says Wallace was not authorized to speak for him. Continued on page fifteen.
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Weather Helps Feed Crops Across Nation
The weather bureau reports a generally favorable week for crops and livestock feed. Warm weather crops grew rapidly with overall improvement in prospects for corn wheat and truck crops. Severe drought persists in the far Southwest where livestock perished for lack of feed and water.
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British Bomb Sicilian Targets In Narrow Strait
Allied air forces from North Africa and the Middle East attacked Sicily’s ferry link to the Italian mainland in twin raids. Announced by Allied HQ in Cairo the operations damaged the waterway and sought to isolate the island in case of invasion, with two Allied planes reported lost.
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Congress Bans Subsidized Price Cuts In Food Measure
Congress barred use of subsidies to lower retail food prices and ended the meat and butter price roll back by August 1. The vote backed extending the Commodity Credit Corp for two years with 750 million dollars more lending power. The final bill allows limited subsidies for transport costs and war essentials but forbids subsidies solely to reduce prices. The measure passed the House 160 to 82 and the Senate 62 to 13.
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Wage Increase Affirmed in Akron Rubber Case
The War Labor Board affirmed its earlier ruling limiting the wage increase for 75,000 workers to three cents an hour. The May 22 decision had sparked a protest strike that tied up Akron plants. a panel had recommended eight cents under the Little Steel formula, but the board applied the formula industry wide for three cents.
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Collective Bargaining Endangered Says War Labor Board
The War Labor Board warned that without binding umpire procedures in contracts, collective bargaining could collapse as grievances are sent to the board. Vice chairman George W. Taylor urged parties to write such procedures themselves rather than have the board decide. Board members stressed this concerns interpretation of contracts, not contract negotiations, and warned the board cannot handle mass grievances. Dr. Frank P. Graham noted labor leaders reaffirmed a no strike pledge. The board did not name which side is driving grievances to the WEB.
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Ickes Calls on Miners to Return to Coal Pits
Secretary Ickes urged the nation’s coal miners to resume work amid war mobilization. He framed the issue as a broader wartime obligation, noting economic disabilities affect many groups and insisting all must serve until the need passes. He targeted a minority persuading others to stay away, avoiding blame on owners or strikers.
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Churchill promises Mediterranean drive before autumn leaves fall
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill buoyant in a Guildhall address, forecasting summer thrusts in the Mediterranean and beyond. He cites a May tally of about thirty U boats sunk and warns of a stronger air offensive, stressing Allied unity and British American cooperation as pivotal to the world’s near future.
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Hatch Named Civilian Director for Second Defense Region
James M. Landis announced the appointment of Sinclair Hatch as director of the second civilian defense region covering New York New Jersey and Delaware. Hatch, Deputy Director since last November, succeeds George S. Van Schaick who resigned after the year end.
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Baseball Scoreboard results across leagues and cities
National opponents tally scattered scores from New York St Louis Brooklyn Chicago and others with multiple games. American games include New York at Cleveland 12 innings and Chicago at Washington 7 1 with Boston Detroit halted in 12th. Eastern section lists Utica Albany Scranton Wilkes-Barre Binghamton Elmira in 10 innings.
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Five Funds Bills Await Approval
The Senate recessed without final terms on five major appropriation bills. One measure carried 39 million dollars of emergency funds for the President, now unavailable at the fiscal year start. Other bills include a 2.931 billion catch-all appropriation for 18 war agencies, with provisions validating post June 30 obligations.
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Fresh fish ceilings flagged by OPA and Ickes
Secretary Ickes urged fishermen to keep fishing to the limit despite recent income cuts from the OPA price ceilings on fresh fish. The ceilings reduce current producer and wholesale prices for major Newfoundland species and West Coast Alaska halibut and salmon. Retail ceilings will follow with marked reductions to be enforced.
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Broken Homes and Delinquency Highlight Paroled 1942
The State Parole Board reported that broken homes poor education and freedom from marital ties fueled early juvenile delinquency among 3 232 New York State prisoners paroled in 1942.
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State Parole Board
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War Manpower boosts laundries by cutting luxuries
The War Manpower Commission urged U S laundries to curb luxury services and eliminate frills to ease critical labor shortages, promising aid in return.
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Washington LP
War Manpower Commission
Reds Wipe Out Nazi Infantry Near Leningrad
Soviet artillery wiped out a company of German infantry in the Leningrad sector. The Red Air Force logged nine German planes shot down in the past 24 hours. A Soviet midnight bulletin said 1000 German troops were killed in an air attack on Pskov near the Estonian border on June 23.
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Dancer Gets Prison Term For Mann Act Violation
Washington reports Carmen Beach Martin, 29, an attractive Spanish dancer and wife of a Navy pharmacist, was sentenced to one to three years in prison and fined 2500 dollars for operating a call house supplying girls for diplomats. District Court Justice Matthew F. McGuire noted the sentence avoids the maximum five years to allow potential rehabilitation. The judge added that dancers must pay the fiddler.
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Overconfidence Cuts Production in Army Supply
New York Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, commander of Army service forces, says the Army faced weapon and materiel shortages as equipment for training was sent abroad for combat. He cites May output $106,783,000 under the quota of $1,600,510,000, blaming floods, labor issues, turnover, stoppages, and favorable war news for the drop.
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Krupa Convicted for Delinquency Link to Marijuana
Gene Krupa, the San Francisco drummer, was found guilty in juvenile court yesterday of contributing to a minor's delinquency through transporting marijuana cigarettes via his valet. The case ties Krupa to alleged cannabis activity involving a young associate.
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MacArthur Directs Landing Across Southwest Pacific
Allied forces under General Douglas MacArthur have landed on Rendova and New Georgia in the Solomon Islands and near Salamaua on New Guinea. Troops occupied the Trobriand and Woodlark groups without opposition, while air and naval units supported the operations from nearby bases. Artillery within range of Munda and ongoing air strikes against Rabaul accompanied the landings, with limited Japanese resistance reported.
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Record June air raids set Allied record over Europe
London dispatch reports Britain spent a sixth day without sighting enemy planes as Mustangs and Typhoons raided northern France. Allied air power set a record month with the RAF and American B-17s dropping thousands of tons on German targets, including Le Mans. British civil defense cuts were announced while Allied ships and bombers faced weather obstructions but showed mounting advantage.
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Nazi Agent Indicted in Foreign Agent Case on Staten Island
A federal grand jury indicted Carl Guenther Boshan Orgel, 43, an engineer living on Staten Island, for failing to disclose his work for the German foreign office and the Nazi party when he registered with the State Department as a foreign agent.
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Rising Vote Threatens Abrogation of Labor No-Strike Pledge
The Michigan State CIO Council urged unions and the national CIO to consider ending the no strike pledge unless wartime assurances to labor were immediately enacted. The two hour debate produced a rising vote to recommend revocation as a possibility, not a direct revocation, with 1,800 delegates present and about 706000 CIO members cited.
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Martinique Rule Change Sought by French Official
New York UPI Admiral Georges Robert, the Vichy French high commissioner in Martinique, asked the United States to send an envoy to fix terms for a change of French authority on Martinique. The broadcast, recorded via FCC, said the move aimed to avoid bloodshed and required renewed sovereignty guarantees and non intervention by American forces.
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Knox Describes Fleet Increase After Pearl Harbor Speech
Secretary Knox told a Hollywood Bowl audience last night that America had performed a miracle since Pearl Harbor and now has the most powerful fleet in the world in actual commission. He projected the Navy’s tonnage up 6 percent and the number up 100 percent by 1942, saying Japan’s recent advances were checked as the Nips dug in to defend early gains.
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