Postwar New Order Is Seen
Philadelphia June 14 Governor Edward Martin warned against a postwar New Order planned by “economic fascists” in Washington. He said the National Resources Planning Board would create a caste system, end incentives, and turn Americans into docile subjects under a peacetime regime, framing the conflict as Christian civilization versus economic supremacy. He claimed a world regimentation would follow wartime organization.
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Philadelphia
Blican
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Washington
United States
Martin
Independence Hall
National Resources Lanning Board
Planning Board
Orestroy
America
Federal Court To Open In Southern West Virginia
Judge Ben Moore leads the United States court for the Southern District of West Virginia as it opens in the city. He arrives with other court members after traveling from Asheville North Carolina to Ashe bluefield loaded by the daily grand jury calendar. The two week session will begin with 11 criminal cases and end with civil trials. The jury will not report until June 21.
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Ben Moore
United States Court For
Southern District of
West Virginia
Moore
J Moore
Asheville
N. C
Bluefield
Infornee
Erk
Petit Jury
Wagner
United States
Shelby Ington
the Elks
E. W. Hughes
Pennington
Fisher Dies of Heat Prostration in Charleston Field
Henry A. Fisher aged 67 of Charleston collapsed and died from heat prostration while working in a field near his home. He was taken to a Charleston hospital where death was believed instantaneous.
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Chrieston
W. Va
Henry A. Fisher
Charleston
Flag Day ruling Set Free Salute Debates in Court
Supreme Court rules states cannot compel schoolchildren to salute the American flag and overrules the 1940 decision in a case led by Jehovah's Witnesses. Justice Jackson writes the 6-3 opinion. Frankfurter dissents. Mississippi flag law deemed unconstitutional for banning anti salute literature.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Jackson
West Virginia Board of Education
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Prankfurter
Roberts
Reed
Frankfurter
Mississippi
United States
French chiefs seek accord in Gaulle Giraud power dispute
In Algiers on June 14 the French committee of national liberation splits into two consulting groups as leaders try to end the rift over military powers. De Gaulle resumes meetings within days while talks with Giraud’s appointees continue to seek a formula to break the deadlock.
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Algiers
Committee of National Lberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
Georges Catroux
Giraud
Jean Monnet
Rene Massigli
Andre’ Philip
Alphonse Georges
de Gaullist
Allied air raids strike Bremen port and Kiel amid heavy resistance
After raids on Bremen and Kiel by American bombers, reconnaissance photos show multiple hits on Atlas Works and shipyards at Bremen. German defense claimed severe losses. RAF targeted a Dutch coast convoy, sinking two ships and damaging four others. Axis radios went off air.
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London
Germany
Rhineland
Calais
Paris
RAF
Bremen
Atlas Works
Kiel
Eighth U. S. Air Force
Lene
Berlin
N ‘S
RAP
Labor Leader Urges Roosevelt to Veto Anti-Strike Bill
William Green AFL chief appeals to President Roosevelt to veto the Connally-Smith anti-strike measure as labor leaders in New York denounce the bill as fascist and harmful to democracy. The war labor board prepares a portal-to-portal pay ruling while John L. Lewis calls a UMW policy committee meeting in Washington amid miner wage talks.
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Lewis
UMW
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Congress
Workers of Our Country
New York
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad
Whitney
Brotherhood
Rep. Ramspeck
Georgia
House
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Policy Committee
Senate Overrides Roosevelt Protests On Civil Service Bill
The Senate approved a civil service bill 42 to 39 despite President Roosevelt's objections. It would expand confirmation powers for over 27,000 federal employees earning above 4500 annually, with opposition from 34 Democrats and eight Republicans. The measure now goes to the House for potential action.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
House
McNary
Ore
LaFollette
Wis
McKellar
D. Tenn
McKeller
Judiciary Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
White House
Allied Warplanes Hammer Two Air Bases on Sicily and Capture Two Isles
U S submarines claim success in Pacific raids sinking 12 ships and likely sinking one more while damaging three. They report 181 ships sunk or damaged in total across operations, with large transports and cargos hit. Bombers hit Bougainville area bases. results not observed as crews returned safely.
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Sicily
Isles
Washington
Pacific
Japan
Bosign
Navy
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Kahili
Buin
Nazi Push Fails at Donets River and Orel Skirmish
Soviet midnight communique reports a costly German attempt to cross the Donets in the Lishchansk area repelled with several dozen killed or drowned. In the Orel sector northwest of Misensk, three German artillery and two mortar batteries were destroyed and over 100 Germans killed. The air war saw several German planes shot down and airmen captured while Soviet forces claimed local advances and repulsed a German reconnaissance party.
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London
Donets
Orel
Lishchansk
Misensk
Goering Orders Nazi Air Force Shifted to Italy
Reichs Marshal Hermann Goering orders the German air force in Italy to move headquarters from Sicily to the Italian mainland. Broadcast reports claim reinforcements arrived from Germany are false, but German fighters may be sent to replace those shot down.
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New York
I— Reichs
Hermann Goering
Italy
Sicily
Austria
Germany
Woman Slayer May Be Sent To Institution
A petition to commit Mrs. Laila Freeman Bolden for observation at Southwest Hospital in Marion Virginia was filed by Commonwealth's Attorney John W. Gillespie. The 23-year-old Bolden is accused of slaying her husband D. J. Bolden and their 13-year-old hired helper Juanita Davis at the Bolden home near Richlands on June 7. The preliminary hearing was scheduled for Wednesday.
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Laila Freeman Bolden
D. J. Bolden
Juanita Davis
Bolden
Kent's Ridge
Richlands
Southwest Hospital
Marion
Commonwealt
John W. Gillespie
Tazewell County
Albert Gry
Mrs. Bolden
Allied Bombs Sinker Japanese Freighter in New Guinea Action
Allied reports describe a Liberator attack off Humboldt Bay Dutch New Guinea that set a 4,000 ton Japanese freighter on fire with two direct 500 pound bombs and strafed with 1,500 rounds. Two bombers missing from Sunday raid on Vunakanau airdrome.
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Allied
Australia
Humboldt Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Rabaul
Vunakanau
Goodenough Island
Norteast New Guinea
Pla
New Guinea
Madang
Germans Bomb London Suburbs
German planes dropped heavy explosives on London suburbs causing two air raid alarms within an hour. Thunderous gunfire followed both alerts and searchlights spotted a raider over the outskirts. No damage or casualties were reported.
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London
U S and Argentina to Form Oil Pact
Buenos Aires reports Foreign Minister Segundo Storni announced Argentina is ready to conclude an oil pact with the United States. The agreement aims to expand cooperation on exploration and energy development between the two nations.
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U. S
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Segundo Storni
United States
Allied advance tightens grip on Sicily as Italian island falls
Mediterranean front reports Sicily near collapse with Italian capitulation signals. Goering shifts Luftwaffe HQ to the mainland while Allied air forces massacre Sicilian bases at Catania and Gerbini. Elsewhere Allied bombers hammer China and Japan, submarines strike Japanese ships, and Russia widens air war.
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Middle East
Cairo
Catania
Gerbini
Fathers draft may be delayed by selective service
Washington June 14 The drafting of fathers may be delayed a couple of months as selective service speeds induction of childless men. A new plan says fathers could be called by the last quarter of this year, with childless men released within six months unless their jobs are crucial. Officials testified that many previously rejected for physical reasons may be inducted as standards loosen.
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Washington
Selective Service
House
Lewis B. Hershey
Appropriations
Navy
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
Hershey
Woman Drowns in Wolf Creek Near Narrows Va
Mrs. Cleveland 8 Fowler aged about 18 formerly Miss Betty Neal of Princeton drowned near Niday on Wolf Creek twelve miles from Narrows Virginia while swimming with four companions last evening at 6 30. Peck McClaugherty of Narrows and his two sons assisted in artificial respiration for two hours before a Narrows doctor declared her dead.
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Cleveland
Fowler
Betty Neal
Princeton
Niday
Wolf Creek
Narrows
Peck McClaugherty
Harry
Alan
Armed Services
Bombers Hit Catania and Gerbini in North Africa Raid
Allied air strikes from Cairo over Sicily target Catania and Gerbini with heavy bomb bursts. One Allied plane lost. two enemy ships set afire in the Aegean. Pantelleria shows scaled enemy losses and Italian officers describe the bombardment as terrific.
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North Africa
Catania
Gerbini
Italian
Sicily
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Linosa
Cairo
Ninth
U. 8 Air Force
Aegean Sea
Greece
Aegean
Air Army
Northwest Africa
Eisenhower
Allied powers seize Lamione amid Pelagie island surrender wave
London reports Lamione the fourth Italian Mediterranean fortress to fall to Allied sea and air forces over the weekend. Lamione is uninhabited, part of the Pelagie group south of Pantelleria, with Lampedusa and Linosa already surrendering to British forces. Reuters cites a special correspondent for American forces.
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London
Lamione
Reuters
North Africa
Lampedusa
Linosa
Pantelleria
Sampions
Sousse
Body Of Youth Recovered From Sandy River
The body of Harold Apderecesa, 17, of Hewlett West Virginia, was recovered from the Sandy river at Louisa Kentucky after an extensive search. He disappeared Sunday while swimming.
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Louisa, Ky
Harold
Belle Osborn Apderecesa
Hewlett, W. Va
Sandy River
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
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Henry L. Dickason
American Legion
F. Morton Wagner
Howard Jarrett
Reich
Dallas
Green
Bill
WLB
Policy Committee
Central Pennsylvania
Fdr
U.S
Red Air Force
Goering
Akip
World Today
Associated Press
Mediterranean
China
Upper
Yangtz
Southwest Pacific
Russia—Front
Omagh Catania
Gerbin
Lampione
Linosa Islands
Spacetue
Asa
H. E. Love
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