Plane crash on potato farm kills nine in Maine
A U S Army bomber crashed on Carl Rasmussen’s potato farm near Caribou Isle road Fort Fairfield Maine killing at least nine people including four farm workers. Reports say five or six aboard with no survivors. The aircraft also destroyed two horses and ignited a large fire.
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Carl Rasmussen
Caribou-Tresque Isle
Col
R. Baez, Jr
Army
Presque Isle
Iowa Ordnance plant worker killed in pole accident
James C. Martin, 60, of Burlington, was killed when a telephone pole toppled during maintenance work at the Iowa Ordnance plant. Hugh L. Doran of Burlington was injured but escaped with shock after being thrown free as the pole fell while workers prepared to reset it. Plant officials investigated the accident.
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Martin
der Merly
Grinnell
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Hugh L. Doran
Doran
Iowa Spring Pig Crop Tops War Production Goal
Iowa spring pig crop reached 15 117 000 head, a 19 percent rise from last year, helping meet wartime production targets. Secretary Claude Wickard had sought a 15 percent increase in Iowa spring pigs. The June livestock survey by the Department of Agriculture and rural mail carriers released this national and state report simultaneously.
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Des Mubawhs
Jowa
Claude Wickard
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Northwest Iowa hit by severe storm causing heavy damage
Des Moines reports one of the worst rain and wind storms in ten years lashed the northwest Thursday night. Property damage nears $100,000 with no deaths. A Lester man and his son had leg fractures. Sheldon Rock Rapids Lester George and Sibley lost outside communications as wires snapped in winds near 60 miles per hour.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Lester
Sheldon
Rock Rapids
George
Sibley
Pea packing completed at Norfolk Packing Co Nebraska
Volunteers from business leaders sheriffs bankers and youths finished the Norfolk Packing Co pea pack. Peas come from Pacific Junction Glenwood and Bartlett Iowa. During the rush season 25 Fort Crook bomber plant workers joined the effort to help finish processing.
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Plattsmouth
Neb
Norfolk Packing Co
Pacific Junction
Iowa
Glenwood
Bartlett
Fort Crook
Hairpin Policy War Sparks Morale Battle in Chicago
In Chicago on June 26, a wartime row over hairpin lengths erupts as government limits push to 1 percent inch and Mrs. Sol H. Goldberg argues for 2 inch pins. She leads the largest firm amid eight others, with sector controls and a booming black market.
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Chicago
Goldberg
Alan Goldberg
The
Hump Hairpin Co
Sol H. Goldberg
Veronica Lake
War books surge in Chicago Public Library children’s shelves
Chicago Public Library reports a wartime shift in children's reading choices with many boys and girls selecting war and current events titles. Demand for PT boats aviation nursing and nutrition grows while younger readers reject older fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
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Poys
Sam Swift
Elsie Dinsmore
Pom Sawyer
Celavnor
Chicago Public Library
Children’s Department
Ldbrary
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Sheriff Aids Fremont County Plant Hullers
The sheriff of Fremont County Iowa assisted at the hullers during their off shifts at the plant.
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Fremont County
Iowa
Marriage License Issued to Witthoff and Wylie
A marriage license was issued today at the courthouse to Arthur J. Witthoff and Martha Wylie, both of Washington.
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Court House
Arthur J. Witthoff
Martha Wylie
Washington
Washington County Sends Over 1500 to War Effort
County records show 1,450 men in armed services and 1,100 in the Army with 275 in the Navy 55 Marines and 20 in the Coast Guard as the draft drives the county toward half again its World War I total. Drafts began Oct 1940 with monthly tallies peaking at 85 and now hover around a third that. Most draftees are 18 year olds registering on or near their birthdays.
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Age In Service Board
United States
Germany
Japan
Italy
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Selective Service Board
Congress Would Jail Mr. Lewis
Congress rejected Roosevelt's anti strike bill and ordered jail for John L. Lewis if he calls another coal strike. Lawmakers aimed to curb the CIO leader after a long history of sit down protests since 1937. The dispute stems from the Pearl Harbor Day 1941 captive mine settlement and ongoing labor tension.
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Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Congress
Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organization
Pearl Harbor
Graduation Award Given to Donald Howard at Hawkeye School
Donald Howard of Washington is among 130 graduates at Hawkeye training school on Penn College campus in Oskaloosa. The state Christian Education council sponsors the program with Rev. R. M. Shipman as dean. Howard earns the silver spruce for outstanding character and leadership, marking a high Washington county achievement after years.
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Washington
Hawkeye Training School
State Christian Education Council On
Penn College
Oskaloosa
R. M. Shipman
Muscatine
Washington County
Senate panel to let 7.5 billion war department bill pass
The Truman committee in Washington on June 26 decided not to oppose the $7.5 billion war department appropriation bill, allowing its passage through the Senate without attack.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Truman Committee
War Department
Bombers Attack Kiska in Aleutians Thrice Thursday
In heavy weather, U S Army heavy and medium bombers attacked Kiska in the Aleutians three times on Thursday afternoon, as announced by the navy.
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Washington, D. C
Army
Kiska
Aleutians
Navy
Gayle Pavis Joins Iowa Continental Telephone Office
Gayle Pavis is employed in the Iowa Continental Telephone office, filling the vacancy left by Mrs Lloyd Scott.
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Gayle Pavis
Iowa Continental Telephone Office
Lloyd Scott
Continued Warm Weather With Possible Record Heat
The region endures humid warmth with yesterday reaching 93 degrees and observers predicting a higher peak today. Forecasters caution that temperatures could rise beyond 93 as the day advances.
Senate votes to ban food subsidy payments
The senate voted 39 to 387 to forbid subsidy payments intended to reduce retail food prices. An amendment by Senator Bennett Do. Clark of Missouri accompanied the measure, and the house had approved a related bill yesterday banning rollback subsidy payments.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Bennett Do. Clark
Missouri
Commodity Credit Corporation
House
Senate votes to cut prices but shields farmer interests
The Senate approved steps to lower food prices while avoiding rollback subsidies. Both votes rejected using government funds to finance price reductions, ensuring no rollback of farmer protections.
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Washington, D.C
Senate
Allied Air Strikes Hit Messina Ruhr Amid Europe Assault
Allied air forces pound Messina Sicily and the Ruhr valley in Europe wide operations. Fortresses raid Messina and shoot down Axis planes while RAF targets Bochum Gelsenkirchen and over Germany, totaling up to 41 Axis aircraft down in two days.
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Germany
Royal Air Force
Bochum-Gelsenkirchen
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Italy
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Sicilian
Italian
Hitler
Europe
Great Britain
Defer Awarding of Oil Contract by County Board
County Supervisors deferred awarding bids for county road oil and rock chips despite five oil suppliers and three chip application bids. They may select one firm to handle all tasks at a feasible price or have the county self supply parts, hindered by truck and chip sourcing since Grace Hill quarry limits and war regime halts new road work until after the war.
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County Board of Supervisors
Grace Hill
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