Strong Spitfire Defense Tears Jap Darwin Attack
A Spitfire defense repelled a Darwin raid as 28 bombers and 20 fighters attacked from Cape Gambier. Six Japanese bombers and three fighters were shot down, ten bombers and three fighters damaged. Two Spitfires defending the northwestern Australia base were lost. Allied airpower in the Southwest Pacific appeared stronger with extensive raids on Rabaul and nearby airfields, including Vunakanau Rapopo and Keravat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Caswell
Australia
U.P
Darwin
Pacific
Cape Gambier
Major Defeat in Pacific Signals Turning Point War
United Press war analysis reports a series of defeats for Japan in the southwest Pacific. Losses include 94 Japanese planes off Guadalcanal and 22 down in a Port Darwin raid, with American air power driving toward Tokyo. The piece notes U S war funding for thousands more planes and men, highlighting airpower as decisive in modern warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Portwin
Australia
Japan
Tokyo
Washington
War Department
Europe
Italy Orders 8 to 9 Million Into War Work July First
Axis dispatches report Mussolini moves to mobilize Italy with a radical call up that could place eight to nine million of the population into war production or military service. The plan targets 18 to 24 year old women and 18 to 35 year old men as Allied air raids intensify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Jugoslav
Montenegro
Sania
Algiers
Transocean
Rome
Berlin
Italy
Radio
Benito Mussolini
Carlo Scorza
Home Front
Palermo
Daily Telegraph
Stockholm
Fuel oil and coal crisis dominate wartime talks in Washington
War Production Board chairman Donald M. Nelson urged a direct solution to fuel oil and gasoline problems in eastern states. He warned against ceding full control to one agency, citing Eastman and Ickes roles. Coal miners strike enters its third wave as Ickes and Roosevelt consider government takeover to keep war plants supplied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Ickes
Rep
Hartley
New Jersey
Nelson
Tekes
Eastman
Defense Transportation Director
Ickes, Brown
Office of Price Administration
J. R. Parten
Division of Transportation
Ickes’ Agency
Parten
Harold A. Gray
House
Ways and Means Committee
United Mine Workers
UMW
L. Lewis
Government says coal must be mined at full monthly capacity
The Office of War Information reports that to meet this year’s record coal demand soft coal must be mined at full monthly capacity. Manpower and equipment shortages could cap output, and a temporary production stoppage is also a factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of War Information
OWT
Bomb Raid Rain on Vila Base at Kolombangara Island
Allied air units dropped 50 000 pounds of bombs on the Vila airdrome on Kolombangara Island in the New Georgia group. The raid caused large fires in supply dumps and runway revetments with light anti aircraft fire. No aircraft were lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Georgia
William Tyree
South Pacific
Dauntless
Warhawk
Japan
Vila Plantation
Kolombangara Island
New Georgia Group
Vila
New Georgia Islands
Kahili
Ballele
Northland
Filson Strait
Rioting in Detroit's Negro District Sees Six Die
Rioting in a two mile Negro district east of Woodward Avenue leaves six dead including two white men. Police report 326 arrests and 206 injuries as 3,500 police and 2,500 Home Guard auxiliaries stand by. Gov Kelly plans a conference as pamphlets urge calm.
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Detroit
Home Guard
Donald C. Leonard
Michigan State Home Guards
OCD
Woodward Avenue
Harry F. Kelly
Columbus
Belle Isle
Otis Sanders
Horace White
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast notes little temperature change tonight into Tuesday morning with widely scattered thundershowers and strong winds. Panhandle areas may see showers this afternoon or early tonight, while New Mexico expects light showers mainly in the mountains this afternoon or evening. Temperature tallies show a high around 95 and a low near 87 with noon values near 86.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Flood Crest In Missouri Flood Crest In Missouri
The Missouri River flood crest moved through central Missouri with thousands more acres of cropland inland. Upstream waters receded in western Missouri and along the Kaw in Kansas. debris filled fields and wrecked bridges. A dyke breach near Petersburg endangered bottomland, while cattle and hogs were moved to higher ground.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kaw
Kansas
Missouri Crest
Glasco
Army River Engineers
Fort Leonard Wood
Petersburg
Army
Bixby
Engineers
Big
Mington
Lake City
Liberty-Independence
Jap Admiral Promises Axis Pep Talks On War Longevity
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, former Japanese ambassador to Washington, tells German and Italian readers that the Tripartite powers need only hold conquered positions to win. Berlin broadcasts cite Italy’s resilience, exhaustion of Britain and the United States, and Japan's claimed invincibility and future surprises.
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Associated Press
Kichisaburo Nomura
Japan
Nomura
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Berlin
Italy
Britain
United States
Supreme Court Rules for Russian Born Communist Leader
The Supreme Court ruled that William Schneiderman, a California Communist leader born in Russia, could not have his citizenship revoked because he was affiliated with the party when he took the 1927 naturalization oath of allegiance.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William Schneiderman
California
Allies Warn Belgian War Factories Bombing Offense
The Belgian agency reports urgent Allied warnings to Belgian homeland about a planned bombing offensive targeting war factories aiding Germany. In Los Angeles, Harry Bridges, a West Coast labor leader under deportation, was barred from visiting the North American Aviation plant with CIO President Philip Murray and entourage after army intervention. City, Ranch Loans. Southern States.
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London
Bar Bridges
Los Angeles
Cal
U.P
Harry Bridges
West Coast
Australia
Philip Murray
CIO
Army
Washington
Water pumpage sets two city records in Amarillo
Amarillo's water department reported a weekly total of 83,600,000 gallons, a new record. On Tuesday customers used 17,300,000 gallons, prompting officials to ask large users to cut back until reserves could be rebuilt. Pumpage later fell below 12,000,000 gallons for the rest of the week as twin reservoirs at the city power plant filled up.
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Municipal Water Department
Water Department
City Power Plant
U S Navy Planes Bomb Tarawa Airfield in Gilbert Islands
Washington reports heavy bombing raids by U S Navy aircraft on Tarawa airfield in the Gilbert Islands with a number of hits cited in today's briefing.
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U.S. Navy
Gilbert Islands
Washington
Tarawa
Gilbert Island
Navy
Major Cox Injured In Head-On Car Collision Near Amarillo Field
Major David M. Cox chief of surgical service at Amarillo Army Air Field was critically injured in a head-on crash on the Amarillo Pampa highway while en route to a local hospital. His car, driven by Lt. John A. Tweedy, collided with a civilian car driven by Mr. Lowry. Lt. Maurice D. Buskirk and an unidentified woman escaped with minor injuries. they were treated at a field hospital. No emergency patients were reported at local hospitals, and the civilian driver’s identity was not released.
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Floyd C. Noot
Receiving Hospital
David M. Cox
Amarillo Army Air Field
Stork
Cox
Mr. Lowry
Amarillo Air Field
John A. Tweedy
Amarillo
Pampa
Lowry
Oklahoma
State Highway Patrol
Maurice D. Buskirk
Waves of British Planes Roar Across Channel
An English coastal town heard waves of British planes believed to include bombers cross the southeast coast this afternoon. The roar of their engines lasted about half an hour.
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U.P
Supreme Court Backs West Coast Japanese Curfew
The Supreme Court held that military regulations imposing a West Coast curfew on all persons of Japanese ancestry and excluding them from specified areas were constitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
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New Britain
Vunakanau
Rapopo
Keravat
New Guinea
Benabena
Wau
J. Edward Murray
Mediterranean
DNB
Syria
Lebanon
Greece
Axis
Axis Dispatches
Sicily
Silver Box
Russell Stationery Company
Harold L. Ickes
Abe Fortas
Michael Strauss
Willam Warren
White House
Lewis
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Lewis’ Union
West Virginia
WLB
UMW Policy Committee
See Coal
Raymond Lahr
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Sangigai
Choiseul Island
Edward J. Jeffries, Jr
John Witherspoon
State Liquor Commission
John. Maynard Lbr. Co
Southern States
Major Cox
Ee Or
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
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