Plane Plants Face Bigger Job In Future
San Diego and Fort Worth divisions race to meet massive 1945 war orders for B-24 Liberators and larger bombers. Consolidated Vultee President Harry Woodhead notes 5,000th B-24 to be completed June 12, with 227 million pounds of airframes shipped and about 76,000 workers employed on average. He details division highlights from San Diego to Allentown and Nashville, confirming vast production ahead.
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San Diego
Calif
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Harry Woodhead
Fort Worth
Woodhead
Consolidated Vultee
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Osborn Urges Arizona Prayers During Europe Invasion
Governor Osborn asked Arizonans to devote the week to prayer for the success of the invasion of Europe. He praised thousands of Arizona youths serving in the land invasion and called the campaign a turning point in the war and essential to future freedom.
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Phoenix
Osborn
Europe
Arizona
Postwar Plans Would Employ Million Men
The Reclamation Commissioner told the senate postwar committee that 236 irrigation projects in 17 Western states would guarantee at least a year of employment for 1 250 000 men. The plan would cost about 2 952 393 000 at 1940 prices and create 135 000 irrigated farms for veterans and others. It would also save 150 000 farms from water threats and open 6 700 000 acres for cultivation with power plants for farms and homes in Arizona California and Nevada.
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Washington
U.P
Harry W. Bashore
Senate
Bashore
Arizona
California
Nevada
Code Adopted by Nations in 1902 Maritime Accord
The International Code was devised by the British Board of Trade and accepted by other maritime nations in 1902.
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British Board of Trade
RKO Officials Form TV Subsidiary To Be Named RKO Television
New York June 8 UP The formation of a subsidiary television company to be known as RKO Television Corporation was announced by N Peter Rathvon president of Radio Keith Orpheum. Officers include Rathvon Ullman Ullman Jr Kingsberg Austrian Hutchinson Wills. executive offices will be in New York.
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New York
RKO Television Corporation
N. Peter Rathvon
Radio-Keith Orpheum Corporation
Malcolm Kingsberg
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation
Rathvon
Thomas H. Hutchinson
NBC
Arthur Wills
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Harlem gang feud ends in deadly shooting near Patrick ee junior high
In Harlem on June 8 a 9 year old Black girl died from a gunshot as rival high school gangs the Comanches and the Happy Gents clashed over athletics. Her sister Paulette 11 was wounded. Edward Jones 17 and John Somerall 16 were arrested on serious charges. Douglas brothers 15 and 14 in custody for firing five rounds from a public safety item.
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Harlem
Bernardine George
Paulette
Patrickee Junior High School
Edward Jones
John Somerall
Gladwill Knoles
West 123Rd Street
Claude
Charles Douglas
Douglas Brothers
American Soldiers Rest Along French Roads After Beachhead Flight
Supreme Headquarters reports American soldiers leaning on rifles along French roads waiting for chow as Lt. James Crawley of Springfield Newfoundland flies a C-47 over the beachhead. He notes craters look deep and closely spaced with no enemy planes or flak. Silk is used for gunpowder bags due to rapid combustion.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Chow
James Crawley
Springfield
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