Yanks damage three Italian battleships in daylight raid
American Liberators battered Spezia in a bold daytime operation, crippling three Littorio class battleships, a heavy cruiser, and a merchant ship. The raid, backed by North African air forces, left fires and smoke across facilities and returned the fleet unscathed.
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North Africa
Mussolini
Spezia
Littorio
Vittorio Veneto
Roma
Congo
Italy
Ital
RAF
Argentina swears in Rawson with mixed civilian and military cabinet
General Arturo Rawson is inaugurated as Argentina's new president after ousting President Castillo. The 10 man cabinet includes two civilians and nine military leaders. Castillo and interior minister Calaciati are detained, while Amadeo y Videla is imprisoned.
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Buenos Aires
Arturo Rawson
Argentina
Ramonce
Suroffice
Rawson
Castillo
Castillo Argentina
Sabo Sueyro
Segundo
Diego Mason
Neral Domingo Martinez
Domingo Pistarini
Jose Mariatez
Benito Sueyro
Horace Calderon
Pedro Rosa
Calderon
Astillo
Michel Calaciati
la Plata
Daniel Amadeo Y Videla
State Chamber Concludes Meet in Charleston
The 1943 West Virginia legislature praised by the state chamber of commerce at its eighth annual convention in Charleston. Delegates selected 33 of 69 directorate members and heard forecasts of $1 25 million yearly employer savings from 1943 unemployment law amendments. The chamber urged stricter labor union controls and backed tax cuts and restrained state expenditures.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Chamber of Commerce
Social Security Committee
George Kolsky
Ay Sar - Sartine
Corporation
Committee For Economic Development
Hoffman
Chamber
Wallace B. Gribble
Clarksburg
Sokolsky
United States
West Virginia
Gene J
Marshall vows strongest strike against Axis in war
General George C. Marshall pledges allies will deliver the most powerful blow in the quickest and most economical way to win the war. He spoke after accompanying Prime Minister Churchill to North Africa for talks with Allied leaders. Churchill calls for an immediate cabinet session on return from Africa. Mediterranean raids by U SAAF bomb ships and docks at Spezia, damaging battleships and a heavy cruiser. Ramon Castillo resigns as Argentina president amid arrests of two former cabinet ministers. Chinese forces press forward, expanding victories as they push through central front against Japan.
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North Africa
Geo. C. Marshall
Axis
U. S
Winston Hurchill
Misileaders
Argentina
Ramon Castillo
Buenos Aires
Attu
Aleutians
China
Chungking
Yangtze River
Yuyangkwan
Yangtze
Chiang Kai- Shek
Washington
United States Army
Ramon 8. Castillo
United Nations
London
caUass
Weather Interferes With Allied Bombing at Langgoer and Dobo
Weather hindered Allied air operations around the Langgoer and Dobo airfields in the Aroe and Kai island areas. Medium bombers damaged Langgoer and Dobo with fires seen from 40 miles away, while Laon Amboina island also suffered a night raid. Adverse conditions limited activity northeast of Australia as big bombers targeted Wewak and Lae, New Guinea.
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Australia
Langgoer
Kai Islands
Dobo
Aroes
Aroe Islands
Darwin
Amboina Island
Wewak
Lae
New Guinea
State motoring costs revealed in West Virginia
A report by a legislative committee led by Delegate Rush D Holt shows state travel expenses in the past fiscal year may exceed one million dollars. It cites 2000 employees submitting travel costs and nine officials receiving 2000 to 7577 dollars, with 43 others at 1500 dollars and up. The investigation covers over 600 state workers and notes travel for the See America slogan.
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Charleston
W. Va
Rush D. Holt
D-Lewis
America
West Virginia
Public Assistance Department
Treasury
Holt
Churchill Returns to London War Cabinet to Discuss War Plans
Prime Minister Churchill arrived in London and summoned his war cabinet for hours of secret session after recent conferences in Washington and Africa. The meeting signals possible major military operations and aims to secure final approval as invasion fears rise. Churchill outlined discussions with President Roosevelt and plans for unconditional surrender, with Eden and Gen Brooke joining for North Africa talks. A moonlit flight across the Bay of Biscay was guarded by air fighters amid Nazi threat after a passenger plane was shot down earlier.
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Andon
Churchill
Washington
Africa
Tunsia
George C. Marshall
U. S Army
Spe Daaren
Roosevelt
Jim
Orn
Rennes
Bay of Biscay
Leslie Howard
Howard
Canaa
Urchill
Anthony Eden
North Africa
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Major Kermit Roosevelt Dies in Alaska
Major Kermit Roosevelt aged 53 son of President Theodore Roosevelt died June 4 in Alaska the army announced death listed as natural causes. He had been in Alaska several months and had not been assigned to a specific service branch. Roosevelt previously served in the British army before joining the U S army after the United States entered World War I.
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Washington
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Alaska
Army
Hwy ‘Ae
Roosevelt
United States
U. S
Eechat Bea
Union Leaders Call Meets Across State For Return To Pits
West Virginia union leaders urge mass meetings statewide to brief rank and file on the post truce terms. UMW district 17 Vice President William Blizzard says miners will return 100 percent following Mr Lewis's instructions. District 31 head C Fremont Davis notes mines in northern WV expected to be at work Monday.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Presiden
Willam Bizzard
United Mine Workers District 17
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Washington
Blizzard
Policy Committee
Ignat Roosevelt
George J
Russians Bomb Supply Trains in Deep Soviet Raid
Moscow radio reported a deep Russian raid against German supply lines at Bryansk and Karachev following a 520‑plane assault on Orel. The midnight communique said many fires and explosions followed direct hits on trains at the Orel junction as German equipment moved to safer positions.
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London
Bryansk
Karachev
Orel
Moscow
Sevok
Blast furnaces at Carnegie-Illinois fall to coal strike impact
Pittsburgh June 5 Eleven Carnegie-Illinois Steel blast furnaces in Pennsylvania's Monongahela valley were shut due to bee hive coke shortages from the coal strike, raising total closures to thirteen. One Republic Steel furnace at Birmingham and another by a third firm were also idle. No open hearths shut, and operations aimed to resume as coke supplies return. the steelmaker said the effect on jobs or output was not yet estimated.
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Pittsburgh
Vital Steel
Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corporation
Republic Steel Corporation
Birmingham
Ala
Are iV
Pee. Company
Sharpe
Carnegie-Illinois
Ihe
Carnegie
Illinois
Connellsville
Pennsylvania
Monongahela Valley
H. M. Wilson
Shenango Furnace Company
West Virginians listed among Nazis war prisoners
The War Department released the names of U S soldiers captured by Germany including seven West Virginians. Private John A. Berberich Elm Grove Private Lyle V. Hastings Charleston Pic Paul J. Jordan Morgantown Private Pearl C. Luckey Gilboa Private Charlie Walker Barboursville Private Havord A. Withrow Potos Route 2 and Pfc J Wyatt Glen.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Germany
Eden
John A. Berberich
Anna Berberich
Elm Grove
Lyle V. Hastings
William Hastings
Charleston
Paul J. Jordan
Mary Jordan
Morgantown
Pearl C. Luckey
Dora A. Luckey
Gil
Global War Movements Signal New Allied Offensive
The article describes an imminent Allied push in the Mediterranean and Europe as air and sea dominance grows around Italy. It notes Churchill's North Africa visit, the Attu occupation, and China's turning tide under American air power, with hints of shifts in Argentina toward breaking ties with the Axis.
Board Calls Mercer Group for June 15 Inductions
The local draft board released the list of registrants for Selective Service Board No. 1 Mercer County bound for induction on June 15. Reporting at 12 30 PM at the First National Bank building they will travel by special bus to the induction station and undergo final physicals the following day. Dinner will be served at Huntington upon arrival around 7 30 PM. A group of colored selectees is slated to depart June 17. No call has been issued for married men. Names include distills such as Arthur Altizes and Ballard Phillips among others listed with addresses in city and nearby towns.
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Mercer County Selective Service
Draft Board
First National Bank
Huntington
Blanche Gooch
Enftord
Chamber Plans Lemonade Stake For Heat Publicity
Bluefield officials Taylor Frazier and Eddie Steele would testify before the rationing board on Tuesday to seek sugar for free downtown lemonade on hot days. The chamber aims to mount a publicity stunt on 90 degree heat, noting the city’s heat record and past August sugar incentives since 1941.
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Taylor Frazier
Eddie Steele
Chamber of Commerce
Focal Rationing Board
Chamber
Bluefield
Sol
Miners Back to Work Prompt New War Labor Questions
John L. Lewis announced a two week back to work deadline for 500000 miners with a June 7 to June 20 return window. White House influence rumored on anti strike legislation and Byrnes pressed faster passage of Connally Smith bill to jail aides of strikes in war facilities.
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White House
Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
UMW
Lewis
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
James F. Byrnes
Chinese claim success in Ichang outer defense seizure
Reports from Chungking say Chinese forces penetrated Ichang outer defenses as Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek troops in plain clothes created chaos in the city. The high command cites the capture of Kungan south of Shasi and southeast of Ichang, with heavy garrison losses and Japanese retreat toward Chungking.
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Chungking
Yangtze
High Command
Ichang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kungan
Shasi
Yangtee
Tsingshih
Hunan
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