Market Quotations from Baltimore and Midwest Livestock Markets
June 18 market notes list produce prices in Baltimore with apples and butter and summarize livestock bids. Cattle, hogs, and sheep values are reported for Baltimore Chicago Pittsburgh markets, noting steady trade, weight groups, and approximate price ranges across 700-900 lb steers to 260 lb hogs and spring lambs with modest changes.
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Baltimore
U. S
Hoga
Ainly
Pittsburgh Livestock
Pittsburgh
Dept. Agr
Baltimore Market Closing Report Summary
Market notes show No 2 red winter garlics priced at 1.56 and 1.56 for June. Winchester Market lists Wheat at 1.55 per bushel and Corn at 1.10 per bushel. Prices reflect delivery basis and regional quotes.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Police seek return of missing tie clasp
Patrolman Ernest Dove of the inchester police loses a tie clasp and chain this afternoon. The clasp bears the initials E C D. It is requested that the owner retrieve it at Police Headquarters.
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Ernest Dove
Inchester Police
The
Star
Dev
Labor Secretary Warns of Industrial Losses in War Effort
Washington reports Frances Perkins cites that disabling injuries in manufacturing drain the nation’s productive effort. She estimates over 1,360,000 man hours lost and calls the accidents a key factor in wartime waste of manpower.
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Washington
Retary of Labor
Frances - Per- Liecrees
Stock Market Report From New York June 18
Selected stocks showed moderate popularity but many leaders remained wallflowers as buyers stayed cautious. Opening fractional gains faded by the fourth hour and no clear speculative momentum appeared amid a cautious, conservative market. Bonds rose slightly in spots and commodities stayed narrow with war concerns looming.
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New York
Wall Street
Planning Board Spending Out
The Senate approved the $2 621 000 000 Independent Offices Appropriations bill and sent it to the White House with a limit of 50 000 for the National Resources Planning Board for the next year. The action follows House opposition and sets a possible future funding request while the board’s work may cease without new action. the measure also includes 11 642 00 for salaries and HOLC liquidation.
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Washington
Independent
Senate
White House
National Resources Planning Board
House
Frederic A. Delano
Roosevelt
McKellar
D-Tenn
Tha
Federal Home Loan Bank
Aer
Home Owners Loan Corporation
HOLC
Local Markets Report Notes Typo Issues and Responsibility
A brief page note states that local markets information may contain typographical errors and that responsibility for any mistakes rests with the source.
Short Patent Brands and Livestock Prices in Market List
A fragmented market listing shows patent brand bag prices in various weights and units, then moves to livestock quotes. Beers and cattle figures appear with calf, lamb, duck, and fowl price ranges, including young ducks and old sheep notes, reflecting a dense agricultural price sheet.
Prices for feeds and grains in local market list
A fragmented price list shows items such as 10 and 24 pound bags, 48 and 98 pound bags, and per barrel rates for oats or corn products. Items include corn meal feed, middlings, creamery butter, butter fat, mixed feed, scratch feed, and general feed for chick and turkey growers with varied price points.
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Eil Becceas
Rennet
Help the Boys Keep In Touch With Home While in the Service
The Star invites service members to stay connected with home by sending letters and news. Readers are encouraged to write to servicemen and women, sharing updates, photos, and well wishes through the local newspaper drop.
Transportation Monopoly Charged By Rail Leaders
New York June 18 A F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen charges a transportation monopoly is developing in the rail system. He testifies before a panel on wage demands by five railroad brotherhoods and cites a suppressed anti trust memo. He says Justice began a criminal probe under Thurman Arnold and notes indictments were squelched by Biddle after war agencies backed carriers.
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New York
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Whitney
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Cance
Brotherhood
Department of Justice
Thurman Arnold
Antitrust Division
Chicago
Francis Biddle
War and Navy Departments
Office of Defense Transportation
Biddle
DDT
Wavell Named Viceroy of India in Widely Reported Dispatch
A Transocean dispatch from New York on June 18 claimed Field Marshal Archibald P. Wavell would become Viceroy of India succeeding the Marquess of Linlithgow. The report also said General Sir Claude Auchinleck would succeed Wavell as commander in chief of the forces in India.
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New York
Transocean
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Marquess of Linlithgow
Claude Auchinleck
Wavell
French Sub Sinks Cargo Vessel Sinks in Mediterranean
In its first communique since Tunisia, the French high command announced a submarine sank a 5,000 ton enemy cargo vessel in the Mediterranean near Algiers on June 18.
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Algiers
Tunisia
Mediterranean
Claims Davis Not Good Coordinator
Rep. Short asserts Elmer Davis, chief of the Office of War Information, is unfit to coordinate press and radio. He accuses Davis of commandeering all four national networks weekly to fix perceived inadequacies and cites Davis’s remarks after the Hot Springs food conference.
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Washington
Short
R.-Mo
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
United States
Davis
Hot Springs
Presicanta
Peer Tik Eines
Free Press
Free Radio of America
Japs Stir Talk in White House Chamber Broadcast
A Tokyo dispatch broadcast via Berlin radio reported the 82nd extraordinary Diet session ended with a motion aimed at victory and focusing on Japanese areas. The U S FCC noted the Pacific war showing a mix of decisive gains and setbacks.
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White House
Associated Press
Tokyo
Berlin
U. S
Federal Communications Commission
Pacific
New Rationing Programs Debated by Officials
Washington reports possible new rationing ideas in coal milk clothing and electricity as a contingency for the next fiscal year starting July 1. OPA budget testimony notes up to six additional programs but officials say no orders have been placed and details are kept vague to avoid hoarding and panic.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Uvsetionisie Pempheoeae
OPA
Con Yestaurant
House Appropriations Committee
Aot
Fritz Kuhn To Be Interned
Fritz Kuhn former national leader of the German American Bund is paroled from Clinton Prison Dannemora New York for internment by the federal government for the duration of the war. Kuhn 47 was convicted in 1939 of grand larceny and forgery and sentenced to two and a half to five years. The parole board unanimously granted freedom after two prior denials. He will be held at the prison until federal agents take him into custody.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Clinton
Dannemora
N. Y
State Parole Board
Kuhn
Parole Board
Clinton Prison
Geen
King George Said To Be At Rock In Gibraltar
Dispatches from La Linea report King George VI arrived at Gibraltar by plane after inspecting Allied forces in North Africa. He was greeted by Lieut Gen F N Lane and other officers, with fortifications and quarters inspected before the King was to proceed to England.
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Madrid
la Linea
George VI
Gibraltar
North Africa
F. N. Mlane
Gibraltar Field
England
Review of Editors Case Delayed to August Second
The case involving Ralph B. Chandler publisher of the Mobile Press and Register, originally set for June 28, was postponed to August 2 by Probate Judge Norvelle B. Leigh Jr. Chandler was fined $10 and given six hours in jail by Judge Tisdale J. Touart after an editorial criticized the judge's handling of a $2,000 peace bond for a man charged with threats during racial disturbances at a shipyard.
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Ralph B. Chandler
Mobile Press and Register
Norvelle B. Leigh, Jr
Tisdale J. Touart
Inferior Criminal Court
Curtin says Japan cannot invade Australia
Prime Minister John Curtin reiterated that Japan is unable to invade Australia citing resources and military assessments. He defended his past claim amid criticism and noted changes in Pacific theater since his previous statements, including Japanese concentrations previously estimated at 200,000 in the perimeter north of Australia.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Curtin
Pacific
Cincinnati Meat Packers Closing
Four Cincinnati slaughterers stopped operations citing new price ceasing regulations. Arthur Rehn of the firm said they halted yesterday and will not reopen without federal aid. The last six weeks saw about $45,000 in business with beef costing 27 cents per pound and selling at 22 cents.
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Cingennati
Vim Bawn
Arthur Rehn
Saeed
President Receives Large Navy Bill for Warships
Washington reports the Senate completed action on the largest naval appropriation in history amounting to 9.118 billion dollars for warships and auxiliary craft with quick White House approval expected. The House approved Senate additions worth 173.539 million dollars while a 4.583 billion item covers training airplanes.
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Washington
White House
Senate
House
Bombs Dropped on Japanese Barracks North of Mandalay
New Delhi June 18 report that Liberators of the 10th U S Air Force dropped 10 tons of bombs yesterday on Japanese barracks and installations at a rail head about 130 miles northeast of Mandalay, Burma.
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New Delhi
10Th
U.S. Air Force
Burma
Mandalay
De Gaulle Confers With Associates in Algiers
In Algiers on June 18 General de Gaulle meets with associates marking the third anniversary of France's darkest hour. He says the French resistance must not die and urges continued resolve against occupation forces.
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Algiers
France
Decision Holds It Is Case For Court
The article notes the possibility of settlement of a prospective lawsuit and outlines the Wage Stabilization Board’s role in approving settlements. It discusses travel time pay claims by iron ore miners and the United Mine Workers, with President John L. Lewis facing potential mine shutdowns or wartime work. The UMW policy committee meets to decide next steps as the extension nears Sunday midnight.
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United Mine Workers
South
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
WLB
UMW
John L. Lewis
Ickes
Mie One Ee
State Planning Board Meets to Organize Postwar Projects
The State Planning Board committee on postwar planning met in Richmond to organize procedures for listing local plans and needs and to create an overall picture of public works projects for consideration after the war. Chairman Raymond V. Long announced the focus on forms for locality input and a statewide overview. Members include Brigadier General James A. Anderson, State Highway Commissioner, Gamble M. Peterwan of Richmond, and others.
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Richmond
State Planning Board
Raymond V. Long
Planning Board
James A. Anderson
Gamble M. Peterwan
Price of blended liquor to rise 30 cents a quart
The Office of Price Administration announced a 30 cent per quart increase in blended whiskey prices effective June 24. The rise reflects higher costs for neutral spirits as distilleries focus on war production of alcohol, limiting availability to stretch existing stock of straight whiskies.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Motoring Curbs and Military Demand Trends
The piece notes curbs on civilian deliveries as military demand rises. It cites British air force petroleum use and Dooittle era air operations in the Mediterranean, with daily gasoline averages for fighters and bombers. A Bureau of Mines report warns gasoline stocks near critical levels nationwide except on the west coast, implying possible midwest restrictions.
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Cial
Dooittle
Mediterranean
Bureau of Mines
West Coast
Midwest
Chinese Encircle Jap Stronghold Near Ichang
Chinese troops report encirclement of Owchihkow 90 miles southeast of Ichang as 40 000 Japanese killed or wounded in Yangtze valley actions. American bombers supported ground fighting while Japanese drives near Swatow and Yunnan are intercepted. Chinese forces halt advances west of Salween and disrupt Canton Hankow rail. Captured Japanese Marine surveyors hint at Allied submarine activity off Fukien coast.
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Chungking
Ai Bowl
Owe
Ichang
Owchihkow
Yochow
Yangtze
Swatow
Kwangtung
Yunnan
Yangtze Valley
Salween River
Burma
Canton-Hankow
Fpukien
China
Coatesville Soldier Wounded in North African Campaign
The War Department notified the parents of Technical Sergeant Fred B. Manship Jr 19 of Coatesville Pa that he was wounded in action in the North African area. The report was sent from Philadelphia dated June 17 and published via the Coatesville Record.
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Philadelphia
Fred. Manship
Coatesville
Fred B. Manship
Allied Bombard Naples Docks And Comiso Field
Allied air activity over Italy and Naples docks continues with Liberators and RAF bombers striking targets at two airdromes, the Comiso field and docks. Reports note widespread explosions, fires, and damage to hangars, runways, and railway yards, with Axis ships reported damaged and Cyprus troop movements claimed by Berlin radio.
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RAF
Aegean
Naples
Yesteray
Berlin
Cyprus
Balkans
Crete
Dodecanese Islands
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Rock
Review of Editors
Cincinnati
Meat Packers
de Gaulle
Clendening
Dombers
Bax
Winchester Evening Star
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