Miners to Resume Work Monday in Buenos Aires Coup
Argentine troops led by General Arturo Rawson toppled President Castillo in a bloodless coup and formed a provisional government. Castillo and cabinet fled aboard the gunboat Drummond, with arrests of pro axis figures and a tense shift toward military rule across Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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Buenos Aires
Arturo Rawson
Castillo
Drummond
Rio de la Plata
Castilo
Ontevideo
Castilos
Colonia
Miguel Calaciati
Argentina
America
Germany
Italy
Japan
Rawson
Government House
Ramirez
Juan Giovaneilli
Comite
Moheriy Repetee
Manuel Fresco
Pantelleria hit by new heavy Allied air and naval blows
Allied forces press a week long assault on Pantelleria with naval shelling and heavy air bombardment. British Wellingtons level docks and industrial sites at Naples as part of the Mediterranean campaign, with no Allied losses reported. Air and sea attacks surge, continuing through Thursday morning.
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Mediterranean
Allied
North Africa
Isle of
Pantelleria
Naples
Mussolini
Tunisia
Sicily
Allies Resume Aerial Offense Over Wewak Lae Laid Bare
Allied bombers resumed raids against Wewak and Lae in New Guinea dropping 74 tons in three Wewak attacks and 100 tons on Lae across seven raids. Medium bombers hit Timor targets Koepang and Lautem while Aroe islands saw a Japanese float plane destroyed and two damaged.
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Allied
Australia
Wewak
New Guinea
High Command
Lae
Babo
MacCluer Gulf
Dutch New Guinea
Aroe Islands
Port Moresby
Timor
Koepang
Lautemn
Japan
Aroes
Chinese Advance On The Yangtze Battles Along Lake Tungting
Chinese forces drive toward Yangtze River areas north of Lake Tungting capturing Nanhsien and Itu as Japanese troops fall back. U.S. 14th air force reports heavy bombing and disruption of the Canton Hankow railway with P-40s targeting long Japanese columns along the Changyang Itu road.
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Chungking
China
Central China
Lake Tungting
Owchih
Yangchi
Chiang Kai-Shek
Fomeee
Nanhsien
Faien
Itu
Ichang
Chihkiang
Hunan-Hupeh
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Tungting Lake- Yangtze
Canton-Hankow
Changyani
Changyang
Argentina Overthrows Castillo Regime In coup brief
General Arturo Rawson leads troops to topple President Ramon Castillo in Argentina. The isolationist government falls as aviation and naval movements unfold amid global tension. China advances central front with U S air support. Attu casualties listed. Moscow reports bomber raids and rail center hit. Pantelleria operations and British ships noted with limited damage.
Roosevelt backs time and a half overtime for rail workers
President Roosevelt signaled support for time and a half pay after 40 hours for non operating railway supervisors and white collar staff. If adopted, over 1,000,000 railroad employees would gain about six cents an hour, pending further actions by unions, management, and war agencies before June 24.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Seeney
Stabilization
Emergency Board
Grand Central Station
Navy Cross Awarded Missing Ensign Moore
Ensign Ulvert M. Moore of Bluefield is posthumously cited with the Navy Cross for valor after the June 1942 Midway attack. Missing since June 1942, Moore is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Moore of 440 Union Street.
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Moore
Naval Air Corps
Midway
Bluefkein
Ulvert M
Puzzy) Moore
Washington, D. C
Navy
L. E. Moore
Union Street
Hornet
U. S. Hornet
Washington
Ensign Moore
Beaver High School
Bluefield College
College of Agriculture
West Virginia University
Federal Land Bank of
Baltimore
Anacosta
Jacksonville
Miami
Fla
Attu Victory Confirmed as 342 Americans Die
Washington reports 342 American soldiers killed in the Attu conquest with Japanese losses five times as great. Secretary Knox cites a single ship or navy loss, notes airfield work underway, and weighs Attu as a future bomber base despite poor weather. Commander details and leadership assignments are outlined for the Attu operation.
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Washington
Navy
Attu
Knox
Kiska
Aleutians
Pacific
Artemus Gates
Air
North Pacific
C. Kinkaid
Kinkaid
Francis M
West Virginia miners weigh Monday return amid mixed signals
Charleston reports miners split on returning to work as John L. Lewis urges a Monday restart while some locals demand a signed wage contract. Roosevelt backs resumption and some strip miners resume, risking further disruption as weekly losses mount to about 2.5 million tons.
Uniontown Miner Continues Work Amid Coal Strike
Charlies Hartman a 50 year old miner returned to the H. C. Prick Coke mine at Uniontown Virginia at 3 p m joining maintenance crews and continuing to dig during the general coal stoppage that began last Tuesday Hartman said he worked through a 1941 strike and added my boy was sent to Africa to do a job and I ve got a job to do here
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Uniontown
Charlies Hartman
H. C. Prick Coke Company
Hartman
Africa
Dreams Of Wealth Vanish For Snuff Fortune Heirs
Harrisburg June 4 Governor Edward Martin signed two bills adding an 80 percent tax on unsettled estates after seven years. The Garrett will left 20 million to be divided among 26 000 cousins and claimants worldwide sparking a long legal saga with fraud murders and forged documents. The new law retroactively affects the Garrett case and aims to curb protracted probate disputes.
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Harrisburg
Henrietta Schaffer Garrett
Philadelphia
Edward Martin
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Garrett
Vermont
New Hampshire
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Pennsylvania
Martin
Ickes Orders Reopening of Coal Mines in War Time
Secretary Ickes announces the reopening of all U S coal mines at 12:01 a m on Monday June 7 1943 under the old contract terms extended by law with adjustments in pay from 20 to 50 and shifts covering safety gear tolls and equipment costs to be borne by operators while workers retain rights to unionize bargain collectively and strike in concerted action as permitted by policy to aid the nation in war.
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National War Labor Board
United States
Russians Raid German Held Orel With 520 Bombers
Moscow radio reported a raid by 520 Soviet bombers on the German held city of Orel near Moscow with claims that only one Soviet plane was lost. The Soviet mid day communique mentioned no significant front action and avoided the Velizh area where Germany had said a Russian offensive was underway.
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London
Orel
Moscow
Monitor
Velizh
Smolensk
Velikie Luki
Veliza
Giraud Remains Head of Army Amid French Unity Call
Algiers report on radio address by Generals De Gaulle and Giraud urging support for a new national liberation committee. The compromise keeps Giraud as commander in chief at headquarters while De Gaulle gains influence over high officers from the Fighting French. Bir Hakeim anniversary referenced as context for unity.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Radio Tonight
French Committee For National Liberation
Giraud
de Gaulle
France
Empire
Singer
Bir Hakeim
House approves anti strike bill in wartime push
Washington reports the House passed a strengthened Connally bill by 231 to 141 to curb wartime strikes. It would jail union leaders for a year for strikes or misuse of funds in government industries and require 30 day notice and secret ballots for non government operations.
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Washington
House
Senate
Labor Department
National War Labor Board
Area Soldiers Wounded In North Africa
Thirty two West Virginia soldiers were wounded in action in North Africa, the War Department reported. Names include Capt. Raymond Baldwin Coalwood Pvt George M Crotty Princeton Pvt Cecil W Honaker Cane Lroke Pvt Ralph B Molina Beckley Pvt Luther D Mullens Welch Pvt Pred Osendott Jr Kermit Pvt John Rendulick Osage Pvt George Styron Jr Red Jacket Pvt James Co Toney Oak Hill Burgess W
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Washington
West Virginia
War Department
Raymond Baldwin
Robert O. Baldwin
Coalwood
George M. Crotty
Robert H. Crotty
Princeton
Cecil W. Honaker
Ada Honaker
Cane- Lrake
Ralph B. Molina
Mary Berzo
Beckley
Luther D. Mullens
Mary Mullens
Welch
Pred Osendott, Jr
Malinda Osendott
Kermit
John Rendulick
Mike Rendulick
Osage
George Styron, Jr
Myrtle Browning
Red Jacket
James Co. Toney
Miss Maule
Oak Hill
Burgess W
Lewis Directs Miners Return to Their Jobs
John L. Lewis yielded to the government and called off the coal strike effective next Monday after Roosevelt issued a wartime order. Lewis told his policy committee to accept the directive and condemned the war labor board as overbearing while bargaining resumes on portal-to-portal pay and wage disputes.
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Charleston
Harrison County
Roosevelt
Byron Fuel Company
Mount Clare
Lewis
Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
Ickes
United Mine Workers
Enall
United Mine Workers of America
War Labor Board
Policy Committee
WLB
West Virginia Chamber Opens Eight Annual Meeting in Charleston
The West Virginia chamber of commerce begins its eighth annual convention in Charleston with one day of sessions and plans future talks by Paul Hoffman of Studebaker and George E. Sokolsky of the New York Sun. Committee meetings lay groundwork for elections of directors from six districts and industry groups, with Richard Harte and Wallace Gribble presiding as roper to order tomorrow morning.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Paul Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
America
Committee For Economic Development
George E. Sokolsky
New York Sun
Sokolsky
Hoffman
Resolutions
Birk S. Stathers
Clarksburg
Clarence McD
England
Logan
Social Security
George T Fonda
Weirton
Richard Harte
Wallace B
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CBS
Yangtze
World Today
THE
Ramono S. Castillo
Axis
U. S
Beere Knox
Russia
Nazi-Held
Labor Board
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