War Food Head Faces Authority Clash and Uncertainty
Food Administrator Chester Davis signals possible resignation amid clashes over control of major food policies including prices. He advocates a single empowered lead agency or official to run the entire food program, while Byrnes opposes centralization. Davis calls for closer producer, processor, distributor, and government cooperation and for the meat board to model future industry government cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chester Davis
Claude R. Wickard
Davis
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
House Agriculture Committee
Byrnes
War Meat Board
Sardinia raids by Allied air forces across island targets
Islands continued fighting over docks at Olbia and Golfo Aranci in Sardinia as Mitchell mediums hit rail yards. Lightnings escorted bombers and Curtiss Warhawks struck southern Sardinia communications. Italian communique says 27 enemy planes shot down in Sardinia Sicily and SW Italy. Torpedo planes sink a 6000-ton steamer off Algerian coast with further damage. German planes hit a 5000-ton merchantman and a destroyer at Pantelleria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olbia
Sardinia
Mitchell
Golfo Aranci
Italian High Command
Radio
Rome
Sicily
Italy
Algerian
Pantelleria
Mines public priorities ratings by confidential classifications
The document lists classifications of metals for mining priorities. Class I covers molybdenum copper zinc tungsten mica and fluorspar. Class II includes aluminum reduction mills and smelters for copper and zinc and mines producing bauxite zinc iron ore vanadium and mercury plus certain zinc fluorspar and tungsten mines. Class III refers to all mines and mineral processing plants not listed in I II or IV or gold mines.
War report on factory raids and reconstruction
A wartime bulletin notes raids remain impossible at this stage and that factories rebuilt after destruction have been completely wrecked again, signaling ongoing industrial damage and strategic setbacks.
Spectacle Use Among U S Armed Forces Noted
A historical note states that one out of every seven men in the U S armed forces wears spectacles, highlighting eyewear prevalence among military personnel.
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U. S
Religious services note with guest speakers and choirs
Rev Victor Goff will speak at Menlo Park Methodist Church Sunday at 11 due to Rev A J Daily illness. Trinity Presbyterian invites Cadet Moffett from Ryan School of Aeronautics as soloist at 11. He sings The King of Love My Shepherd Is. Trinity Choir performs Prayer by Hagedorn set to Guion. Rev Roy H Wollam preaches And These Remain.
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Victor Goff
Menlo Park Methodist Church
A. J. Daily
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Cadet Moffett
Ryan School of Aeronautics
Shelley
Trinity Choir
Herman Hagedorn
David Guion
Roy.h. Wollam
Bradford to deliver Fathers Day message at Prince Memorial Church
Char lain F D Bradford of Richmond Virginia will give the Fathers Day sermon at 11 a m tomorrow in Prince Memorial A M E Church at 17th and South Stone corners with the glee club providing special music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlain F. D. Bradford
Richmond
Prince Memorial A. M. E
17Th and
South Stone
Glee Club
Joint Masonic meeting for third degree in Tucson
The Ep es Randolph Lodge No. 32 and Tucson Lodge No. 4 F and A M plan a joint 7 p m meeting at the Masonic Temple. They will confer a third degree, with the event organized for Masons at the naval training school University of Arizona and nearby military camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epes Randolph Lodge
Tucson
A. M
Masonic Temple
Naval Training School
University of Arizona
Air Raid Wardens Meet at Arizona Inn Pool
A meeting of Air Raid Wardens of Sector H will be held at the Arizona Inn pool on Tuesday evening June 22 at 8 o clock with James Olithant, sector warden presiding. Wardens are asked to invite any interested person to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona Inn Pool
James Olithant
Temperance Group to Hear State President in Tucson
The Pima County unit of the Arizona Temperance Federation will hear Rev. E. K. Daugherty state president at 8 p m Wednesday at the Southern Baptist church corner Third and Speedway. County unit to elect officers after the meeting. public urged to attend.
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Pima County
The
Arizona Temperance Federation
E. K. Daugherty
Southern Baptist Church
Corner Third and
Speedway
Missionary John Banks to Speak at Sunday Services
Missionary John Banks will address attendees at both morning and evening services at the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of L D S on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Banks
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S
Bible School Session At Southside Nazarene Church
The Daily Vaucation Bible school of the Southside Church of the Nazarene will run from Monday June 21 to Friday July 2 under Miss India Field. Bible study handwork and new choruses will be taught.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaucation Bible School
Southside Church of the Nazarene
Miss India Field
St Anthony’s Fraternity to Meet at All Saints Church
St Anthony’s Fraternity of the Third Order of St Francis will meet Sunday afternoon in All Saints church. A class of novices will be received by director Rev. Arthur F. Gramer. Tertiaries will receive holy communion in a body at the 8 o’clock mass.
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ST. Anthony's Fraternity
Third Order of St. Francis
All Saints Church
Arthur F. Gramer
Former Tucson businessman named Marine lieutenant
Hugh H. Blair has been appointed as a second lieutenant in the U S Marine Corps after graduating from officer's school at Quantico Virginia He will depart immediately for Harvard University to enroll in a six month radar school course His wife Mrs Hugh Blair manager of Blair Surgical Supply reports the news
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Hugh H. Blair
Tucson
U. S. Marine Corps
Quantico
Hugh Blair
Blair Surgical Supply Company
Harvard University
Young Freddy Anderson Leaves for Month-Long Visits
Freddie Anderson aged 10 who lost an eye ten days ago in an accident departed with his father Lloyd Anderson from 25 East Third Street to spend a month visiting relatives in Belvidere and Chicago Illinois.
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Freddie Anderson
Lloyd Anderson
East Third Street
Belvidere
Chicago
Ill
Open House at Colored USO Club Sunday
Public event at the colored USO club located at 948 Twelfth Street Sunday afternoon from 5 to 7 oclock. Thomas Dent arrives from San Francisco to be introduced as new USO director during a reception honoring fathers and sons in the service, with the Junior hostess group organizing.
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Twelfth Street
Thomas Dent
San Francisco
Service To Be Held For Hunter Sunday
Funeral services for Ernest Hunter aged 51 will be held Sunday at 2 p m in the chapel of Williams and Cassinella Funeral Home 737 North Sixth Avenue He is survived by his father Sherman Hunter of Topeka Kansas and a sister Mrs Ella Hall of Gary Indiana He had resided in Tucson for two years Rev F J Winbush will conduct the services.
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Williams and Cassinella
North Sixth Avenue
Ernest Hunter
North Perry
Hunter
Sherman Hunter
Topeka
Kans
Ella Hall
Gary
Ind
Tucson
F. J. Winbush
Mrs Adelene Paye of Tucson Dies at 75
Mrs Adelene Paye, 75, died last night at her daughter’s home in Tucson. Born in Hammondsville New York she had lived in Tucson 19 years. She is survived by her sister Alicia Hammond. Christian Science services are set for Monday at 4 p.m. at Bring's chapel followed by cremation.
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Adelene Paye
H. O. Hammond
North Fourth Avenue
Hammondsville
N. Y
Paye
Tucson
Alicia Hammond
Bring’s Chapel
Deanna Durbin Donates Real Blood on Film Set
Hollywood star Deanna Durbin refused a staged bleed and tapped a real blood bank unit on the studio lot. The scene featured a blood donation as cameras rolled, with a temporary mobile bank operating for the sequence.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
Deanna Durbin
The
Red Cross
Deanna
Senate vote maims OPA and weakens wage price controls
The House cuts OPA powers and funds amid accusations of press control and an OPA plot to regulate profits. Key amendments bar subsidies directions, ban grade labeling orders, require five years business experience for policy chiefs, and slash the 1944 OPA appropriation from 165 million to 130 million. Senate Republicans welcome the rollback as 14 Republicans push McNary to act to curb the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
House
Appropriations Committee
OWI
Davis
Boston
Washington News
Senate
Charles N. McNary
Oregon
India Creates Separate East Asia Command
The announcement states India will establish a distinct East Asia command for a stated purpose and promises a follow up announcement soon. The note emphasizes organizational restructuring and future disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Asia Command
Japanese spy hints and WRA relocation talks amid Parker dam concerns
Testimony describes spies mapping Lake Havasu and Parker Dam areas before Pearl Harbor. A Japanese suspect was caught with seven cameras near the dam, and a train wreck near Earp is blamed on sabotage. WRA documents suggest relocating evacuees with limited publicity, while Parker residents fear Japanese presence. The report ends with a note on the eohippus as an early horse ancestor.
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Pearl Harbor
Lake Havasu
Parker Dam
Stringfellow
Earp
Ariz
Phoenix
James H. Stedman
War Relocation Administration
WRA
Jim Washum
Parker
Italy declares martial law along 700 mile southern coast
A new Italian martial law decree covers eight provinces facing the Tyrrhenian Ionian and Adriatic seas as civilian evacuations are ordered from Naples Sardinia and Sicily. Allied air offensives and pan by passed Sicily fuel fears of an invasion across the Italian mainland with fears of a corridor through the Messina strait and strategic isolation of Sicily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page
Aegean
Greece
Syria
Radio
Algiers
Albert
Mediterranean
Naples
Sardinia
Sicily
North Africa
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Italy
Messina
Patterson warns of production drop imperiling overseas troops
Patterson says a three and a half percent decline to 1.494 billion in output threatens critical overseas equipment. He cites overconfidence, false rumors, floods, and strikes as factors, warning shortages could cost lives, despite May gains in aircraft production totaling over 7,000 units.
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Patterson
America
Army
Navy
Awnings Slashed at Local Stores on Stone Avenue
Police investigate a series of awning slashings along Stone avenue with six cuts reported at Western Auto Supply and similar damage at Irene Page dress shop and Pioneer tailor shop. Porters stock vandalism caused about 250 dollars in damages last Thursday. Authorities aim to identify and arrest the suspect or suspects.
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Stone Avenue
Western Auto Supply Company
Everett Carr
Irene Page
North Stone Avenue
Pioneer Tailor Shop
Gremlis Pull Siren Sparks Pasadena Panic
In Pasadena a short circuit caused the siren to warn of an unidentified aircraft. Sixty four residents telephoned the air raid warden and then police dispatcher D R Hamilton to ask what was happening. The siren then sounded again and the dispatcher answered with the cryptic reply grem lins.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.P
D. R. Hamilton
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Vesera Oui
Cee
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Durbin
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India
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East Hire
Congress
Arizona Inn
Wilson and Elm
tSoom
Oma
Broadway
Sandy
Anna
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