Appropriation cuts reflect increasing grumble from taxpayers back home over unnecessary government expenditures for non-war agencies
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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State officials protest hurried hearings on Cochran measure
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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By Nat A. Barrows
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By Leland Stowe
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Sweden and three divisions in British Empire put heavier tap on salaries although Americans are forced to pay many hidden levies
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Tokyo reports successes in Java and Burma
Dispatches from enemy countries are based on broadcasts over controlled radio stations and frequently contain false information. Bear this in mind.
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London, England (UP) –
Oliver Lyttelton, supervisory Production Minister, said today that:
The new American naval base in Eritrea [on the Red Sea] is not very big at the moment, but it is going to be a wacker.
Just back from the Middle East, where he was resident cabinet minister, Mr. Lyttelton said on assuming his new post that the capacity of the Iranian railroad to Russia, on which Allied supplies are sent, had been trebled “but has not yet reached its target.”
Washington (UP) –
District of Columbia school officials revealed today that “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’,” the hit song from the late George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, has been banned from the musical repertoire of Washington schools as a result of pressure by Negroes.
The tune was one of 20 against which objections were raised, on the grounds that their lyrics were offensive to the Negro race.
Other songs attacked were “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Massa’s in de Cold Ground,” “Ol’ Man River,” “Old Folks at Home,” “Old Uncle Ned,” “Ring, Ring the Banjo,” “Shortnin’ Bread” and “Without a Song.”
Cleveland, Ohio –
Pearl Harbor is a sacred name now – too sacred for a beer parlor. When a new café was christened “Pearl Harbor Café,” 3,000 women signed petitions protesting the name and asked a change. It was – to “Hub Café.”
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White women mistreated, brutality against prisoners cited
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By Harrison Salisbury, United Press staff writer
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Arms plant ‘carries on’ despite explosion
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