Brown Defends Subsidy Plan Before Senate
Prentiss M. Brown told the Senate Banking Committee he hopes price stabilization can reach Sept 15 1942 levels with $450 million yearly in rollback subsidies, far below Roosevelt’s estimate. He argued subsidies are needed to implement the price control law and noted three milestones for stabilization. A new consumer protection bloc and industry groups pressed for strict price control as corn shipments face delays and farm shortages loom.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Senate Banking Committee
Roosevelt
W.P
Brown
House
Fred M. Vinson
Renito Marcantonio
Alp
WN. Y
Vinson
Marcantonio
Chet Holifield
Calif
Howard J. McMurray
Wis
Thomas E. Scanlon
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
OPA
Food Administration
Middle West
Eastern Farm Cooperative
Chester C. Davis
Thomas F. Scanlon
Scanlon
Vito Marcantonio
Jap Camp Threat To State Farmers
Federal war agency funding drew praise from the House Appropriations Committee while warning against ill-informed criticism. In Arizona, testimony before the Corporation Commission claimed 14,000 acres of Japanese cultivated vegetables could ruin local growers, with War Relocation loans cited as aiding the Rivers center. A trucking association resolution attacked pro Japanese ties and urged removal of officials seen as aiding Japanese interests.
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Washington
U.P
House Appropriations Committee
United States
United Nations
Rumanians Reported In Tentative Peace Proposal
Ankara dispatch says Britain received vague Rumanian offers from Gen. Ion Antonescu seeking to recover Bessarabia Bukovina and Transylvania after any victory. No concrete terms. British envoy Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen reportedly met the proposal with cold reserve amid Roosevelt and Churchill unconditional surrender stance.
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Ankara
Rumania
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Ion Antonescu
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Transylvania
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Tojo predicts Axis win as war lines hold in Pacific
Premier Hideki Tojo told the Imperial Diet that an all out Allied counteroffensive is expected, yet Japan claims an unbreakable defense line from the Aleutians to the South Sea islands. Navy Minister Shimada boasts large Allied losses while minimizing Japan’s own casualties and evaluates six months of combat.
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United Press
Hideki Tojo
Pacific
Aleutians
South Sea Islands
Imperial Diet
Tojo
Attu Island
Japan
Diet
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
Pearl Harbor
Shimada
Imperial Navy
San Francisco
U S Takes Toll of 1 337 Jap Airplanes
South Pacific force headquarters reports 1 337 Japanese planes destroyed since July 31 in the war theater. The tally counts only confirmed losses, with 115 planes destroyed on Oct 26 at Santa Cruz and 370 in October during Guadalcanal fighting.
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South Pacific
South Pacific Force Headquarters
United States
U. S
Guadalcanal
Santa Cruz Island
Phoenix Pilot Dies In Jap Prison Camp
A Phoenix couple, Mr and Mrs Adolph Ibold, learn their son Robert Ibold, a pursuit pilot, died in a Japanese prison camp after being wounded during the December 7 1941 strike on the Philippines. He was captured when Corregidor surrendered. He had not attended any schools before enlisting.
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Phoenix
Adjutant General’s Office
Adolph Ibold
Robert Ibold
Philippines
Corregidor
Ibold
U S Bombing Planes Strike Solomon Bases
U S warplanes attacked Japanese positions in the central and northwestern Solomon Islands on June 13 and 14, with a counterattack on Guadalcanal on June 15. The communique reported no personnel or material damage from the American raids and noted no losses on the U S side.
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Washington
United States
Solomon Islands
Navy
Guadalcanal
South Pacific
Flying Fortress
Kahili
Shortland Island
Buin
Vila
Kangara
Norsonnel
Mahas Ecopede
Solomons
Buna
Kolombangara Island
NO JAPS TO BE SETTLED IN STATE
A War Relocation Authority attorney testified he was authorized to say that resettlement of Japanese evacuees in Arizona would be prohibited until the state desires a policy change. J. H. Terry stated this during a corporation commission hearing defending a Japanese-operated cooperative at the Rivers center amid the WRA protest.
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Phoenix
Tucson
J. H. Terry
Gila River
Rivers, Ariz
Arizona Corporation Commission
Salt River Valley
Terry
War Relocation Authority
Rivers
James G. North
Associated Construction Truckers
The
Corporation Commission
No See Post
Associated
Japan
United States
Arizona
Washington
Rivers Center
WRA
Allied bombers strike Sicily air fields in major night and day raid
Allied forces launched heavy nighttime and daytime bombardment of Sicily air dromes including Bocca di Falco Castelvetrano Sciacca and Borizzo. Generals Eisenhower and King George VI oversaw Developments as large formations supported by Lightnings and fighters attacked targets across southwestern Sicily with fires and probable aircraft losses.
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Allied
North Africa
U.P
Sicily
Europe
Bocca di Falco
Castelvetrano
Sciacca
Borizzo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George VI
Wellington
Mitchell
Marsala
Madrid
France
Tucson Man Dies In Army Bomber Crash
Alamogordo airbase reports 19 officers and enlisted men killed in a crash of two large army bombers on a routine training flight between Ruidoso and Capitan New Mexico. One man parachuted to safety. Names listed include Lieutenants Kasper Lembright Simmons Laschanzky Iwaszuk Ward Andrews Ellis Handy.
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Tucson
Alamogordo, N. M
Alamogordo Airbase
Ruidoso and
Capitan
N. M
Army
Donald W. Kasperiik
Quincy
Ill
Donald R. Lembright
Alliance
Ohio
Harold E. Simmons
Indio
Calif
Vernon E. Laschanzky
Elwood
Iowa
Michael Iwaszuk
Chicago
Ray E. Ward
Youngstown
John V. Andrews
Clendenin
W. Va
Bruce G. Ellis
Ariz
Edward V. Handy, Jr
RAF Bombers Range Continent In Fifth Straight Night Raid
British announces RAF bombers ranged the continent from Denmark to France as the Allied aerial offensive continued a fifth night. Berlin reported a half hour alert with no damage or casualties while RAF bombers hit airfields and rail and water transport. Whirlwinds reportedly attacked an airfield near Dunkerque and damaged a tug and barges.
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London
Denmark
France
Berlin
DNB
Associated Press
Reich
North Germany
Dunkerque
RAF
Tojo Admits Anxieties In Diet Speech On War Strains
Premier Hideki Tojo spoke to the Japanese diet revealing two major anxieties. He warned of new Allied blows and stressed Japan must mobilize its Pacific and East Asian possessions for resources while Germany and Italy struggle to sustain their own war efforts. He urged mutual aid with Axis partners and noted Allied mobilization could outpace Japan.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Japan
Tojo
Vieters
Satigue G
Germany
Italy
Pacific
East Asia
Indies
Riots in Beaumont Leave One Dead in Clash
In Beaumont Texas a white man Ellis Cleveland Brown 55 was killed as mobs of white men and Negroes clashed after a Negro assaulted a defense worker's wife. A sheriff dispersed the mob at the county jail wielding a sub machine gun urging workers to return to shipbuilding.
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Beaumont
Tex
Ellis Cleveland Brown
Leesville
Brown
Texas
Bill Richardson
Sheriff Richardson
Richardson
King George VI makes secret Med invasion tour
A secret flying visit by King George VI to inspect Allied forces in the Mediterranean theater dominates war news. Censorship limited details but invasion barges and transports were shown on the south coast of England. Axis reports claim Allied plans for Sicily and eastern Mediterranean movements, with British and American forces active in the area.
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William B. Dickinson
London
U.P
George VI
Europe
Winston Churchill
Tere
England
Sicilian Straits
Sicily
Mediterranean
Turkey
Tthat
United Press
Richard D. McMillan
Cairo
Atis
Norwegian
Holland
BBC
Russia
North Africa
Buckingham Palace
Britain
Mussolini
Popolo d'Italia
Italy
Sabastiano de la Scala
Rome
James Grigg
Archibald Sinclair
King George
King
Japanese-American Questions State Law Challenge
Tsutomu Ikeda, a Mesa truck farmer of Japanese ancestry, sues Arizona over a law making it a crime to fail to publish notice of certain business transactions. He alleges the statute, used to restrict his movements and deny equal protection, violates state and federal constitutions after a May 18 order to sell him seed was reversed.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Tsutomu Ikeda
Mesa
Maricopa Superior Court
Johnson- Pearce Commercial Company
Ikeda
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