Allied air raids hit Sicily and Sardinia in major operation
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported the largest American bombing force since Pantelleria's surrender raiding Sicily and Sardinia. Messina Comiso Milo Olbia and Olbia were attacked with ships set afire and airfields hit. Casualties included eleven killed in Syracuse and ten killed in Messina with fifty-four injured overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
North Africa
Pantelleria
Siclian
Messina
Italy
Mestina
Comiso
Sicily
Middle East
Northwest African Air Force
Milo
Olbia
Golfo Aranci
Sardinia
Taliana
Trapani
Pve
Camiso
Aegean
Greece
Cairo
Rome
Syracuse
Camp Fire Girls Lead Summer War Stamp Drive
Working with Lenawee County War Savings Committee merchants group Horizon club and Camp Fire Girls members start a summer drive to sell war savings stamps and bonds. Miss Margaret Smith leads the effort with booths decorated by high school students and city firemen. Salesgirls in red capes and blue beanies work in three shifts Saturdays at Walper Furniture Kline Woodworth and Penney stores and various East and West Maumee Streets locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenawee County War Savings Committee
Horizon Club
Camp Fire Girls
Margaret Smith
Smantial Training Department
Walper Furniture Company
Kline's
Woodworth’s
Penney’s
West Maumee Streets
Worth and
South Main Streets
Map on Sicily as next Allied target in war timetable
A brief note directs readers to page seven for a map showing Sicily's strategic position relative to Italy and Tunis, indicating potential next steps in Allied operations during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Islaue
Italy
Tunisis
Escanaba Sinks On North Atlantic Mission In War
Michigan mourns loss of the coast guard cutter Escanaba, a Grand Haven base vessel that sank after an explosion while convoying in the North Atlantic. Only five crew members were saved from the 501 aboard, with the ship noted for long Great Lakes service and wartime patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Escanaba
Michigan
Grand Haven
Navy
North Atlantic
Associated Press
Grand Rapids Herald
Culler
Great Lakes
Lakes
Pearl Harbor
England
Escanabs
Storis
Women Lend Hand Tap Work on Farm
Lenawee County farmers see women and girls taking on farm tasks to support food production during labor shortages. Hundreds of tractors are now operated by women and older farmwives wear overalls, often working by floodlight after sundown. The rural community reports high participation from college and high school girls and a shift in labor dynamics to keep crops moving despite rain delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leneawee County
Lenawee County
Lenawee
Miners Travel Pay Demands Rejected By Labor Board Crisis Fears Rise
Washington June 18 The soft coal wage dispute deepened into a new crisis as the War Labor Board rejected miners travel pay demands. The UMW backed by President Roosevelt instructed a midnight June 20 work limit while negotiations proceed for a $2 daily underground travel time boost. Mines in Alabama and Pennsylvania faced stoppages as workers refused to report for late shifts. The wage issue remains tied to portal to portal pay and the courts. Back wages could reach hundreds of thousands if rulings favor travel time pay. The WLB decision opens paths to wage and hour administration actions and federal court reviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Minners
War Labor’ Board
Lruce
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Policy
UMW
Roosevelt
Bor
WLB
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Jétutistown
Scalp Level
Clymer
Barr Slope
New York Central Railroad
Isibella
Wierson Steel Company
Richeyville
Denbo I
Jamestown
Office of Price Administration
WLE
Little Steel
Labor Board
Istrator
Distret
CIO
Federal District Court
District Court
Clicuit Court
New Orleans
Italian Peace Move Rumored
Rumors circulated in Algiers that Italian peace emissaries were in the capital, a dispatch reported. Names tied to the rumor included Prince Umberto and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, though verification was not possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Algiers
Prince Umberto
Pietro Badogello
Srvoys
Salute from Our Armed Forces radio program set for Adrian
A U S Army Special Services program titled Salute from Our Armed Forces will air Sunday June 27 from 7 to 8 pm. Adrian Michigan and Lenawee county servicemen will be featured with a band and specialty numbers. James Gerity Jr of Adrian Manufacturing will open the salute from a local camp. Allan H. Miller of Toledo announced the event noting it is one of about 45 similar programs since last September and a morale booster for service members and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Special Services
U.S. Army
Adrian
Allan H. Miller
Toledo
Miller
Adrian and Lenawee County
James Gerity Jr
Gerity
Adrian Manufacturing Corporaion
Progran
Lenawee County
Ser
Indianapolis
Tecumseh at War Rates Government Awards for Tecumseh Products
Tecumseh Products Company, once a large refrigerator unit maker, began war production in 1910 and, by October 1940, held government contracts. The firm expanded its factory, acquired the Cyclone Fence plant, and produced anti aircraft parts, fuse bodies, depth bombs, hydraulic pumps, and bomber turret generators. The plant worked with the army navy and air corps, earning navy and treasury flags while employing 1,592 during the war with 60 women. Postwar recovery plans include expanded production and new manufacturing programs to boost employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh Products
Anna G. Beer
Army
Navy
Air-Corps
Treasury
W. Herrick
Herrick
Wavell Named Viceroy of India to Lead East Asia Command
London reports Field Marshal Archibald Wavell named viceroy of India with plan for a new West East Asia command to direct the final assault on Japan. He succeeds Linlithgow, to serve five years, as Auchinleck becomes Indian military commander.
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London
Great Britain
Archibald Percival Wavell
India
West East Asia
Japan
Wavell
Britain
United States
Churchill
Sir Archibald
Lord Wavell
Marquess of Linlithgow
Gen
Auchinleck
Middle East
Lord ‘Linlithgow
Exibites
Metadgst
East Asia Command
House votes to cut OWI domestic program funds
The House approved 218 to 114 to strip 5.5 million dollars from the Office of War Information domestic bureau in the war agency appropriation bill, while preserving foreign propaganda funding. Republicans argued the move weakens wartime coordination of news releases and the press. The OWI employs about 1,500 domestically and 3,000 overseas.
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Associated Press
Washington
Eber Davis
Office of War Information
Roosevelt
Senate
House
War Agencies
OWT
Starnes
St Staines
OWL
Davis
American Labor Party
Murphy
D-Pa
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
America
Goebbels
Virgino Gayda
OWI
Elmer Davis
Americar Labor Party
Office of War
Alcemiates
Allen
D-La
South
Lodge Watches Japs Defeat In Air At Guadalcanal
Veteran AP war correspondent F Lodge provides a first hand account of Japan’s large air raid on Guadalcanal. About 120 enemy planes attacked Skylark Harbor but ships and shore batteries repelled the raid. Japanese losses included at least 45 Zeros and 32 dive bombers. American reports say up to 4 enemy planes may have been shot down, with 17 destroyed by anti aircraft fire. The attack occurred in mid afternoon under a clear sky as the Japanese force approached from the southeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Norman Lodgs
Guadalcanal
Pacific
Lodge
J. Solan Lodge
Skylark Harbor
Air Force
Miers
Kihili
Ballale Island
Fulagi
Ackack
Adrian College centennial fund gets final approval drive to raise 400000
Detroit and Michigan Conference of Methodist Churches approved a campaign to raise 400000 for Adrian College amid plans for endowment growth and campus improvements through 1944. The effort supports educational standards, funds a faculty retirement plan, and expands facilities as Adrian marks its 400th anniversary.
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Detroit
Methodist Church
Adrian College
Methodist
Michigan Conference of Methodist Churches
Michigan
Uul
Youth Central Association
University Senate
Methodist Thureh
Samuel J. Harrison
College
Hitler's Europe Quiet Night After Raid Lull
London reports a quiet night over Hitler's Europe the first after a week of RAF and American bomber pressure. No official reason given for the easing of daytime and nighttime strikes, with past raids on Wilhelmshaven Cuxhaven Duisburg and Münster cited as prior intensities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hitler
Europe
RAF
Hitter
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Duesseldorf
Muenster
Britain
Associated’ Press
Tivity
Feud Develops Over Food Policies In Congress And OPA
Washington reports a developing feud over meat price rollbacks and subsidies. The House passed a large war-agency appropriation while attacking the Office of Price Administration, with Dirksen leading amendments to cut funds and block subsidy programs. In the Senate, 14 livestock and grain senators pressed for early action to curb subsidies amid fears of a meat famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Office of Price
House
OPA
Senate
Chicago
Ohio
Chester C.“Davis
Roosevelt
Prentiss Brown
Dirksen
RIL
Andresen
Rminn
FBI chief says enemy espionage is under control
Eastern Point Connecticut June 19 An FBI bureau chief told the American Legion that enemy espionage in the country has been and is under control He urged aid to stamp out delinquency among youths noting increases in arrests for girls under 21 drunkenness and vagrancy while boys under 21 show a small decline due to many enlisting in the armed forces Simons cited rising juvenile unrest and the need for civic groups to engage youth through American Legion efforts
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U.S
Eastern Point
Conn
FBI
American Legion Today
American Legion
Richard H. Simons
Connecticut
Legion
Washington
Simons
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