70 000 Miners Halt 10 Day Vacation Across Coal Fields
Soviet forces fight German attack in Ukraine and defend Sevastopol as Moscow air raid is repelled. In the United States, 70 000 miners begin a 10 day vacation across southern coal fields under a 1941 wage contract while Kanawha operators resume some production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha Operators Association
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers Association
Edward Burke
Nebraska
Southern Producers Association
Harold Ickes
Washington
World Wide Air Transport System Formed
The War department unifies ferrying and transport into a single air transport command to move personnel supplies and mail worldwide. Brigadier General Harold L. George will direct the system which aims to increase air freight to outlying forces with four motor cargo planes soon available.
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Harold L. George
Air Transport Command
Globe
Washington
War Department
Alobe
Army
Air Ferry Command
Rge
FIRM CAMPAIGN TO ORGANIZE PAYROLL SAVINGS FOR WAR BONDS
An intensive drive starts Monday in Bluefield to have all 354 employers set up payroll savings plans to buy war bonds. Over 90 percent of the 50 volunteers will canvass Mercer county firms, with county war bond sales chairman Hugh Ike Shott and W L Alley directing. Rotary Lions and Kiwanis clubs back the effort and a daily payroll savings column will run in local papers.
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Bluefield
Appalachian
Mercer County
Hugh Ike Shott
War Bonde
W. L. Alley
Isadore Cohen
Francis Archer
Harold Cloneh
Kiwanis
Lions and
Rotary Clubs
Mg Oe
Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis
Recueteries Bane
Wanis Toxin
Fearey Weler
Tary
D. E. Tempiton
South Dakota Eyes Borrowing Nebraska Electric Chair
Attorney General Walter Johnson said South Dakota may borrow Nebraska's electric chair for two condemned inmates. Warden Neil Olsen reported the Nebraska chair is in poor condition and unused since 1929. The request, to be reviewed by the Nebraska board of control, follows South Dakota’s 1939 capital punishment law and a budget shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
South Dakota
Frank
Tait
Walter R Johnson
Nebraska
Johnson
War Priorties Board
Neil Olsen
Nebraska Penitentiary
Nebraska Board of Control
Nazi Strategy Grows From Kupyansk Break in Ukraine
Nazi thrust near Kharkov expands across Kupyansk, a key rail junction feeding northern and southern lines. The move potentially threatens Timoshenko’s communications and could portend a southward encirclement aimed at Rostov and the Caucasus as Berlin signals new advances amid stiff Allied resistance.
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Britain
Eighth Army
Egypt
Alexandria
London
Ukraine
Kharkov
Kupyansk
Russia
Kupyansk Junction
Marshal Timoshenko
Donets Basin
Kupyjansk
Sea of Azov
Moscow
Rostov
Caucasus
Seuward
Berlin
Izyrum
Badlands
Japs Sink Two Merchant Ships In The Pacific
Survivors reaching an Australian port disclosed that Japanese torpedoes sank two allied merchant ships in the Pacific. One freighter’s gun crew perished, the second was torpedoed while trying to tow the wounded ship. The submarine surfaced, ordered abandonment, and sank the second vessel. Allied bombers later attacked Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea.
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Australia
Pacific
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Senate approves large Navy expansion bill
The Senate, after a secret session on naval matters, passed by voice vote an 8.5 billion dollar expansion bill authorizing 500 combatant ships including carriers cruisers and destroyers. It allows the navy to decide on building battleships and defers new battleship construction per a plan disclosed by Rep. Vinson.
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Washington
Senate
Clark
D. Mo
White House
Rep. Vinson D
Navy
Walsh ‘D
Mass
Naval Committee
Walsh
Navy Department
Connally
Tex
Dive Bombers Prove Deadly in Carrier Battles
The article analyzes Midway and Coral Sea operations showing dive bombers and torpedo planes as the most effective weapon against fast ships. High altitude bombing helped cripple already damaged vessels but struggled against undamaged moving ships, with success measured by dense, precise attack patterns and close-range dives.
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Pearl Harbor
Midway
Coral Sea
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Cora
Australia
New Guinea
Fires Light Bremen Port After RAF Biggest Raid Yet
Fires burned across Bremen as more than 1,000 bombers attacked the German port in what officials called a major night raid. British and allied air forces dispatched multiple formations aided by coast guard and naval air squadrons, with German defenses challenging the waves and claiming several fighters shot down.
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Londer
Bremen
RAF
Bermen
Messerschmitt‘s
Essen
Air Ministry
Fires Flare See Page 2 May Production Figures
Washington reports completion of nearly 4 000 planes and more than 1 500 tanks in May. President Roosevelt says we are on track to meet war production goals but warns of serious upcoming shortages and other production problems. May output also includes nearly 2 000 artillery and anti tank guns and over 100 600 machine guns.
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U. S
Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
British Monarchs Watch U. Forces In Action Ince
King George and Queen Elizabeth observed United States forces in Northern Ireland during a three day visit. The display featured tanks anti tank gunners and armored cars as royals toured encampments and mess halls. A Dallas sergeant commanded an anti tank crew noted for high accuracy.
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United States
Northern Ireland
George
Elizabeth
Islands
Warage
Y Uni
United
Ulster
Rai
Robert L. Cooper
Dallas
Tex
Worth Waugh
Columbia City
Ind
Milton Mischutz
Bethlehem
Leonard Johnson
Harrisburg
Neb
Wallace Hall
Preston
Edwin Humphreys
Blueheld
W. V
Betes
West Virginia Coal Group Opposes 5 Percent Freight Tax
West Virginia coal interests warn that a proposed five percent tax on freight rates would hit producing regions hardest. Secretary Jesse V. Sullivan says pyramided taxes would raise costs through multiple transfers and widen price disparities with Pennsylvania and Great Lakes markets. He argues a flat per ton levy would be fairer and less inflationary.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Jesse V. Sullivan
West Virginia Coal Association
Sullivan
Pennsylvania
Ashtabula
Great Lakes
Thern Coal Producers Associa
United Mine Workers
British Merchant Ship Torpedoed Off South America
A British merchant vessel was torpedoed off the east coast of South America. Survivors reached a United States east coast port after abandoning ship in two lifeboats. Of 60 crew aboard, two are missing and the rest were picked up after about fifteen hours.
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Washington
South America
United States
Navy
Deadlock on Parity Prices Continues
Washington June 26 The house voted 177 to 124 to reject a senate plan allowing below parity sales and limited government wheat. The fight over government grain pricing keeps the bill in deadlock and heads to a new conference committee seeking compromise.
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Washington
House
Senate
Tobruk Supply Back Blasted In Nile Front Clash
AP reports heavy air and ground battles across Egypt's Matruh corridor as Rommel’s forces clash with British Eighth Army. In Crimea, Sevastopol endures a savage three-day storm as Nazi tanks push toward Kupyansk and the Oskol river area amid contested front lines and limited confirmations from Moscow.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Crimea
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Soviet Information Bureau
Timoshenko
Kupyansk
Oskol
Donets
Kharko
Elr
Arkov
Eighth Army
Egypt
Associated Press
Hitler
Grea
Bremen
Britain
Alexandria
Nile
Suez
U. S
Rommel
Matruh
Alexandriana
Russia
Sevestopol
Kupy
Kharekov
Izyum
Yansk
Confluy
Roosevelt reports near 4000 planes built in May war output
President Roosevelt released figures showing American aircraft plants produced nearly 4,000 planes in May 1942. He said tank production exceeded 1,400 that month, with artillery and anti aircraft guns also high, while withholding precise rates as war secrets.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Italy
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Rsus
Red Army
Association
Burke
P. J. Thomas
Ickes
Jey Tetlow
Umwa District 17
Kanawha Group
Southern Producers
Nies
Owha
Tetlow
Southern
Farflung
Kanawha Association
Kirke L. Simpson
BY Clark Lee
Royal Dutch Naval Air Service
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cologne
le Havre
Cherbourge
Boulogne
U. Forces In Action
Ince
Tobruk
U. S. Army Air Force
Reds
Tobruk Supply
AKI
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