Japs Prepare For Bad News On Midway Naval Loss
New York June 9. Berlin radio quotes Tokyo Ashahi saying Japan may be warned of losses in a long war. An unnamed admiral cites 1904 Russo Japanese War battleships sunk as morale warning. Tokyo press remains silent on Midway while Pacific war just beginning.
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Tokyo
Berlin
Asahi
Togo
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Tokyo Dispatch
United States
Midway Islands
Japan
Civil Service Seeks Investigators For Federal Posts
The U S Civil Service Commission seeks agents for confidential investigative work with federal agencies. Salary 2600 dollars yearly. Applicants 25 to 55, law background or related experience, college education may substitute. Written test required. War time appointments for up to six months postwar. Applications from C J Gorman, 238 B post office.
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U. S. Civil Service Commission
C. J. Gorman
Board of
U. S. Civil Service Examiners
Post Office
WPA Fund Request Approved for 280 Million
The House appropriations committee approved President Roosevelt’s request for 280 million dollars to run a reduced Works Progress Administration program for the new fiscal year starting July 1. It aims to provide WPA employment for about 400,000 workers while expected to dismiss roughly 350,000 relief workers this summer. Roosevelt had asked 465 million but cut it due to war industries absorbing unemployment.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Work Projects Administration
WPA
Congress
S. P. Again Sues Maricopa County Over Taxes
The Southern Pacific railroad sues Maricopa County to recover 12198.26 paid under protest. It contends the county anticipates delinquency up to 20 percent and raises assessments to cover losses, with collections to cover interest on bonds beyond a year based on the first 1941 tax instalment.
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Phoenix
Southern Pacific Railroad
Maricopa County
Nazis Vow Merciless Avenge Of Heydrich Slaying
London report notes a Berlin state funeral for Reinhard Heydrich attended by Adolf Hitler with Himmler delivering the eulogy. Himmler pledged to avenge Heydrich and continue his fight, citing Heydrich’s role in the Gestapo and his leadership of the security apparatus.
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Heydrich
London
Reinhard Heydrich
Berlin
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Eastern Front
Heinrich Himmler
Wheat study catalogs 150 strains of black stem rust
Researchers report identifying 150 distinct strains of black stem rust in wheat plants. The finding expands understanding of pathogen diversity and implications for crop resistance.
Harris predicts 10000 bombers over Germany nightly
Air Chief Marshal A. T. Harris warned in a news reel that 10,000 bombers a night could soon fly over Germany with many directly from America. He said massive raids are warmups for punishment of Japan and that once the US Army Air Corps is fully active, three or four times the Cologne raid force may be deployed.
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A. T. Harris
Germany
America
Bomber Command
Japan
Cologne
Essen
Harris
Leubeck
Rostock
United States Army Air Corps
Arizona women qualify for WAAC training
In Phoenix on June 9, 20 of 70 applicants for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps passed preliminary intelligence and mental alertness tests and are set for physical exams. Five will attend the officers training school at Fort Des Moines starting July 15, with top candidates later interviewed in Salt Lake City. The 20 include nine from Phoenix and seven from Tucson.
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Phoenix
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Fort Des Moines
Ninth Corps
Salt Lake City
C. T. Cramer
Tucson
Wine excise tax greatly increased in wartime revenue
Washington June 9 The house ways and means committee approved higher excise taxes on wines to raise 12,800,000 in new war revenue. Rates were raised for wines under 14 percent alcohol to 10 cents a gallon and for higher alcohol levels to 40 cents and up to 65 cents per gallon. Sparkling wines saw prices from seven to 10 cents a half pint.
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Washington
UPR
House
Ways Ad Means
Ordinance Proposed To Regulate Street Selling
The Chamber of Commerce board votes to urge a city ordinance banning house to house selling without a permit. Applicants must apply to the police chief, endure fingerprinting, then pay taxes and carry a permit. The measure aims to curb fly by night peddlers and protect merchants.
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Chief of Police
Police Department
C. Edward Goyette
National Chamber of Commerce
Coast mill eyed to spur ship production on Pacific coast
Berkeley June 9 The war production board may place a steel plate rolling mill on the Pacific coast to boost ship output. E A McMillan told 1000 labor leaders at California’s university that hearings in July will decide ideal working hours for Bay area yards. One coast company with five yards is already launching a ship daily in May and aims for two per day by July.
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Cal
U.P
Pacific
E. A. McMillan
War Production Board
Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee
University of California
WPB
Bay Area
McMillan
Washington
Pacific Coast Company
San Francisco
127 More Subs to Be Built by U S Navy
Washington report that the Navy will construct 127 new submarines under a 200,000 ton warship authorization. Keels for 51 subs to start in the current fiscal year and 76 in the next are planned with completion largely in 1944 and 1945, four in 1946. Rear Admiral A H Van Keuren urged language to free about $30 million for preliminary work.
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Navy
A. H. van Keuren
Bureau of Ships
Senate
van Keuren
Treasury Wine Tax Proposals Considered Alongside Voted Rates
The treasury urged higher wine taxes including boosting 14 percent wines from 15 to 21 percent or to 50 cents per half pint while liquor and cordial duties also rose. The recommendation promised about 12 million dollars more revenue than the committee’s vote.
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Treasury
Homey Little Air Raid Test Triggers Citywide Panic
In Los Angeles a planned air raid drill for police and firemen caused widespread confusion as signals red and blue, multiple fire alarms, and sirens overwhelmed emergency services. Pasadena siren added to chaos before an all clear was issued at 9 25 p m.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Southern Pacific
Pasadena
Globe Girl Dies After Auto Injury
Four year old Sue Ellen Cornelius, daughter of E. S. and wife, died from injuries after being run over near Globe. State Patrolman Roscoe Hamblin said the car was driven by Thomas Commons, 355, an employee of the Miami Copper Company.
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Globe Girl
Globe
Sue Ellen Cornelius
E. S. Cornelius
Roscoe Hamblin
Thomas Commons
The
Miami Copper Company
Metal Hose Makers Face Indictments in Sherman Act Case
In New York on June 9, federal indictments named The American Brass Company and six other corporations along with 10 individuals and the Flexible Metal Hose and Tubing Institute. Charges include conspiracy to fix prices and terms of sale for flexible metal hose and tubing and a standardization committee within the institute. Other defendants include Atlantic Metal Hose Co of New York Breeze Corporations Inc of New Jersey Chicago Metal Hose Corp of Illinois Forsyth Metal Goods Co of New York Pennsylvania Metallic Tubing Co and United Metal Hose Co of New York.
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New York
American Brass Company
Flexible Metal Hose and Tubing Institute
Henry W. Goddard
Flexible Metal Hose and
Stone Telegraph Poles Supersede Wood Over White Ants
In India stone served as the primary material for telegraph poles before iron emerged, as wood proved unsuitable due to white ants.
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India
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