Roosevelt Churchill meet to map wartime plans
President Roosevelt schedules a White House conference with Prime Minister Churchill to review the war situation with a Pacific war council and a congressional group ready to probe Britain’s role and needed American aid for any second front. Also attending: King of Canada and other allied representatives.
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Congressional
Churchill
Ashington
Roosevelt
White House
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Pacific War Council
Wallace
Rayburn
Foreign Relations Committee
Britain
United Nations
MacKenzie King
Canada
Pacific Council
United States
Council
New Zealand
Argentina nears vital decision on axis ties
In Buenos Aires the chamber of deputies seeks Foreign Minister Guinazu’s view on breaking relations with the axis after the Rio Tercero sinking. President Ortiz submits resignation as Castro assumes duties, with Castillo insisting on a firm protest and possible rupture of ties if Axis aggression continues.
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Buenos Aires
Chamber of Ties
Enrique Ruiz Guinazu
Axis
Sinc Ee
Germany
Roberto H. Ortiz
Roosevelt
ArAntina
Ramon 8. Castillo
Rio Tercero
Rio de Janeiro
Castillo
Ortiz
Nazis Mount Heavy Pressure on Reds Across Fronts
Russian defense reports Kharkov front fighting into a third day as German forces press with infantry numbers and tanks. Sevastopol fortifications also endure renewed German assaults amid warnings of heavy casualties on both sides. A midnight communique notes a Soviet ship sinking in the Barents Sea.
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Moscow
Kharkov Front
Sevastopol
Cri
Kharkov
Barents Sea
Group Plans Payroll Allotment Bond Purchase Campaign
Bluefield civic workers prepare for a June 29 start to a payroll allotment drive for war bonds and stamps. Life Underwriters and three civic clubs mobilize teams to urge every employer with two or more staff to defer ten percent of wages. Isadore Cohen says about 450 business houses are targets as Harold Clench chairs the committee and Ed Wagner leads the Rotary effort.
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Bluefield
Life Underwriters’ Association of
Treasury Department
Cs —Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis
Appalachian Assembly Room
W. L
Isadore Cohen
Underwriters Association
Harold Clench
Tm Ed Wagner
Weller
Rotary
Deans
Time Is Vital To Hitler's Present Smashing Drive
Nazi commands press for immediate action in southern Russia and North Africa as German assaults push toward Kharkov and the Don. Russian reports note tanks and heavy pressure while Timoshenko’s lines hold, Sevastopol defends, and the war taunts a decisive breakthrough in the Caucasus.
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Hitler
Russia
North Africa
Kharkov
Timoshenko
Don
Rostov
Sea of Azov
Sevastopol
Caucasus
Bruk
Order of Draft Call Established
Washington announces four draft categories to govern who is called first under the new law. Category 1 includes those with no financial dependents. Category 4 covers registrants with wives and children. The system aims to protect dependents but may still call married men ahead if needed to meet quotas.
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Washington
Miner Holiday to Be Debated in Southern Coal Fields
Charleston, June 24. With 48 hours left before a 10 day miners vacation, Southern Operators directors head to Charleston to settle a wage dispute with the United Mine Workers. They may propose remission of the $2 daily sympathy fines and decide on allowing the holiday for 80,000 to 100,000 miners across southern West Virginia eastern Kentucky and western Virginia.
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Charleston
W. Va
Southern Operators Association
United Mine Workers
Southern
UMWA
West Virginia
Kentucky
Virginia
Medal of Honor Awarded Officer Missing in Action
Captain Albert H. Rooks commander of the cruiser Houston is awarded the congressional medal of honor for heroic actions against Japanese forces after the ship was lost at Java. He is listed as missing in action. The medal was presented by Secretary Knox to his son Harold Redfield Rooks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Albert H. Rooks
Houston
Java
Navy
Rooks
Albert Rooks
Thirtieth Avenue
Seattle
Wash
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Harold Redfield Rooks
Navy Department
Y. Rooks
Harvard University
Naval Service
OPA Budget Cut Sparks Questions On Appointees
Washington June 24 The house appropriations subcommittee proposed 95 million dollars for the OPA down from 200 million sought by Leon Henderson. The action limits the agency to about 30 000 employees, removes a snoopers provision, and halves staffing while maintaining price and rationing controls. Henderson noted congressional dissatisfaction with his appointees and said funds were held up for that reason.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
House Appropriations
Henderson
Congress
Budget Bureau
Subcommittee
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
OPA
Axis Armored Columns Move South in Effort Encircle British Positions
Axis armored columns push south toward Salum in a plan to outflank the British Eighth Army along the Egyptian border. RAF and RSAF bombers strike transports whileBritish light tanks and armored cars engage the German advance guard in brief clashes. Heavy German and Italian armor moves signal preparation for the first battle of Egypt.
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RAF
Cairp
Rommel
Eighth Army
Royal South African Air Force
Salum
Egypt
Libya
Erwin Rommel
Axis Sub Base Believed Located on Brazil Coast
A high source said naval and aviation forces are investigating reports that an axis submarine base is on the coast of Maranhao state Brazil. It is not yet determined if submarines operate from the base, but reports suggest axis raiders may hide in a river mouth along the swampy shoreline and refuel there.
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Rio de Janeiro
Maranhao
Newsman Stanley Johnston Hero of Lexington Battle
Lt Comdr Weldon O Hamilton recalls Johnston of the Chicago Tribune as a hero of the Lexington during the battle of the Ryukaku. Johnston ferried wounded sailors and even swam to a destroyer through oil on a burning sea while reporting the action. Hamilton first sighted the carrier and led air attacks that sank Ryukaku. Johnsons actions included risking life to fetch notes and rescuing a wounded man.
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Los Angeles
Stanley Johnston
Coral Sea
Lexington
Weldon O. Hamilton
Ryukaku
Johnston
Chicago Tribune
Hamilton
Darington
D. C
Annapolis
Committee completes new revenue measure in War era fiscal plan
Washington reports the house ways and means committee finished a tax bill aimed at 5.92 billion dollars in追加 revenue to fund wartime needs and curb inflation. The plan falls short of treasury goals and drops a joint filing requirement, while opposing a general sales tax.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Congress
Americans to Return From Japanese Held Areas on Gripsholm
The state department lists 629 Americans scheduled for repatriation from Manchuria Hongkong Korea Indo China and Japan aboard the Gripsholm within 60 days. Names include John Walsh Cumberland Md Harold Walden Scottsburg Va and Charles Hepner Woodstock Va among others.
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State Department
Pacific
United States
Gripsholm
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese West Africa
Manchuria
Korea
Japan
Hongkong
Indo-China
Thailand
Philippines
John Walsh
Cumberland
Harold Walden
Scottsburg
C. A. Higgins
Beckley
W. Va
A. R. Knipp
Baltimore
Alee
N. FP
Allman Dewey Mount
M. Marr
Richmond
M. T. Rankin
Charles Hepner
Woodstock
Arthur Stirewlt
Luray
Ernest West
Waynesboro
Local men given prison terms in federal court
Arthur Harman Dillon and Harold Kenneth Stowers of Bluefield each drew five years in Lewisburg Pa for transporting Mercer county girls to Bland for immoral purposes. Samuel Garland Allen of Kanawha county got one year and one day, Buck Williams to be held for draft registration. Several others received sentences for illicit distilling and liquor tax acts while trial outcomes included a not guilty verdict for Isaac Jarret on moonshining.
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Arthur Harman Dillon
Harold Kenneth Stowers
Bluefield
Lewisburg
Ben Moore
United States District Court
Mercer County
Bland
Moore
Samuel Garland Allen
Kanawha County
United States Attorney General
Buck Willams
Allen
Dillon Stowers
Dillon
Stowers
Everet
Cline
John Walton
Thorpe
Jarrett
David James Qarrant
Gene Edwards
German Planes Hit Industrial Area in England
German planes struck an industrial midlands area of England early today causing casualties and damage. A lone bomber shelled London anti air guns for about ten minutes, while alarms were limited and the full extent of Midlands damage was not yet revealed.
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England
London
Midlands
Germany
M Arthur Confident British Commander Will Fight Through
General says Allied resolve stands firm as British forces regroup under Sir Claude Auchinleck in Australia after Middle East defeats. He recalls Wellington as morale lifts for renewed action.
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M‘arthur
Allied Headquarters
Australia
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Middle East
Wellington
Mass casualty crisis in Ukraine as German drive refocuses east
The Associated Press reports a crescendo in the Ukraine campaign with German forces on the Kharkov front suffering heavy losses while aiming to close pincers on the Caucasus oil fields. Observers say Germany risks prolonged total war with renewed drives in Russia and Africa.
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Associated Press
Ukraine
Fedor von Bock
Caucasus
Kharkov
Soviet Information Bureau
Sevastopol
Hitler
Caucasan
Middle East
Aim
Switzerland
Europe
Russia
Africa
Three Held In Armed Robbery Of Bluestone Junction
Ellen Lindsey Robert Lind and Samuel Musgrove were jailed on $1000 bond each by Magistrate W W Mc Neal after arraignment for alleged wounding and robbery of John Matthews an 84 year old Bluestone resident. Matthews testified he was lured to a house then attacked and searched while a gun was used to threaten him. The trio allegedly took six to seven dollars and other items before officers recovered belongings.
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Ellen Lindsey
Robert Lind
Samuel Musgrove
Bluestone Junction
W. W. McNeal
John Matthews
Bluestone
Princeton Hall
Matthews
Musgrove
Batley
J Bik
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