Tieup Called Off on Mere Trace Basis
United Mine Workers leadership announced a return to work from June 7 to June 20 to protect the union and its membership. War Labor Board blocks new talks until Monday, signaling a de facto truce with full production expected early next week. President Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Ickes urged cooperation and adherence to wartime labor rules.
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Washington, D. C
United Mine Workers
UMW
National Policy Committee
John L. Lewis
John O'Leary
Thomas Kennedy
WLB
Ickes
Roosevelt
Lewis
Yanks Press Air Bases Nearer Japan In Pacific Drive
AP dispatch reports Artemus Gates stating the US aims to establish air bases closer to Japan for aerial offensives. Knox notes Attu strip improvements and the logo of joint North Pacific command under Kinkaid and Nimitz, with low casualties cited in the Attu landings.
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Artemus L. Gates
Aleutians
Knox
Kiska
Attu
North Pacific
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Chester W. Nimitz
Kinkaid
Francis W. Rockwell
Eugene M. Landrum
William QO. Butler
Atlantic
London
Riverton Flood Tragedy Tied to Record Rainfall
Riverton Iowa reported 4.65 inches of rain in hours causing floods. Bill Kelsey 80, drowned trying to save cattle when a riverbank caved in. Cedar Rapids weather warned of more thunderstorms, cooler air, and sticky humidity.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Stu
Bill Kelsey
Here
Kelsey
Des Moines
Clarinda
Esterday
Resignation In By Castillo Triggers Argentine Turmoil
Argentina's government shifted as Ramon Castillo signed his resignation and surrendered to the military junta in La Plata. Navy Minister Mario Fincati also surrendered. minister Videla was arrested. The coup left about 50 soldiers dead in a clash at the naval engineering school and the Drummond remained moored in the Rio de la Plata.
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Navy
Mario Fincati
la Plata
Buenos Aires
Uruguay
Drummond Daniel Videla
Montevideo
Arturo Rawson
Enrique Ruiz- Guinazau
Naval Engineering School
Drummond
Rio de la Plata
Manuel Fresco
Rawson
Argentina
Conference of American Foreign Ministers
Nogues resigns as resident general of French Morocco
Gen Auguste Nogues surrendered his leadership of French Morocco to Gen Henri Giraud citing unity of France as his priority. He defended his conduct in a message to Moroccans and noted Allied landings were resisted to keep a word with the Allies, while troops regrouped to fight the common enemy. Gabriel Puaux named to succeed him.
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Algiers
Auguste Nogues
Morocco
Henri Giraud
London
Gabriel Puaux
Syria
Nogues
Charles de Gaulle
Unification talks focus on Giraud command role
In Algiers Gen Giraud and Gen de Gaulle pledge political unity as the main issue remains whether Giraud will hold the commander-in-chief post. Allied advisors reportedly favor a compromise while Fighting French leaders may join the Algiers government. De Gaulle lauds allied North Africa victories and calls for heart in occupied France.
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Henri Giraud
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
National Liberation Committee
London Daily Telegraph
London
de Gaulle
France
North
Africa
Hitler narrowly misses blast near Laon during Brittany trip
The London Daily Sketch reports Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an explosion that damaged a French railway line near Laon by about ten minutes. He was returning from Brittany with Field Marshal Karl von Ronstedt Admiral Karl Doenitz and Heinrich Himmler and shifted from train to car.
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London
London Daily Sketch
Adolf Hitler
Laon
Brittany
Hitler
Karl von Ronstedt
Karl Doenitz
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Walters Appointed OPA Administrator
R E Walters Italian Democrat named OPA administrator for Des Moines district replacing Robert B Adams who resigned. Walters will be a dollar a year appointee and takes office Monday. He runs a rendering business in Harlan with farm and ranch interests in Iowa and Nebraska and has served on the local rationing board and Harlan school board for 12 years. Walters was born in Tipton and has lived in Harlan since 1924. Adams resignation effective Saturday had no given reason.
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Chicago
R. E. Walters
OPA
Des Moines
Raymond S McKeough
Walters
Robert B Adams
Adams
Iowa
Harlan
Nebraska
Galva
Qodebolt
Tipton
Rep Guyer Coe Trustee Dies After Naval Hospital Stay
Ulysses Samuel Guyer 74 of Kansas a Coe college board trustee died at 523 am at a naval hospital near Bethesda. He had served on the Coe board since 1941 and earned a Western college degree in 1894. Guyer was a Republican congressman famed for anti-poll tax and anti-lynching efforts and for crusading speeches against liquor and vice. He delivered Coe’s 1940 commencement and received an honorary LL.D. from Coe. He leaves a widow.
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Cedar Rapids
Ulysses Samuel Guyer
Kansas
Coe College Board of Trustees
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
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Coe
Coe Alumni Association
Western College
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
E. C. Little
Seventieeth Congress
Russian Air Fleet Masses on Orel Relentless Raid
Moscow reports 520 Soviet long range bombers hit the German bastion of Orel on the southern front. One plane lost. Fires, rail lines, munitions depots, and fuel dumps were destroyed, with reports of heavy destruction and Soviet advances on several fronts.
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Moscow
Orel
Asis
Caucasus
Kalinin
Ukraine
Balakleya
Sevsk
Kursk
Wild West Night In CR Ends With Escaped Horses
Patrolmen Davis and O Neil chased two loose horses near Elmurst Drive NE for about an hour before they fled. The horses damaged several victory gardens before leaving the neighborhood.
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Cedar Rapids
George Davis
Frank O'Neil
Elmurst Drive
Davis
O'Neil
Victory Gardens
Castillo's 1942 Rio Conference Recalled Amid Argentine Revolt
Louise Lux recaps the 1942 Rio de Janeiro conference where Argentina under Castillo resisted Axis break with the Allies. The piece notes Argentina's unpredictable stance, initial bloc attempts with Chile and others, and the eventual pressure that led to a possible shift, linking to a current revolt against Castillo.
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Castillo
Rio
Raid by Yanks on Italian drome 125 ton airstrike
Allied commands report Liberator bombers dropped nearly 250000 pounds of explosives on Grottaghe airdrome near Taranto in southern Italy. Wellingtons and Lightnings supported by other aircraft conducted raids on Pantelleria, Sicily, and Leghorn, with several enemy planes shot down and multiple targets damaged or destroyed.
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North Africa
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Taranto
Favignana
Ewilian
Leghorn
N Con
Sciacca
Trapani
Sicily
Kinnick Died at Sea In Forced Landing
Washington AP report confirms Nile Kinnick University of Iowa football star died at sea in a forced landing after his airplane crashed. A rescue boat found no trace of him despite locating a fall from the aircraft while his parents believe he was piloting a Grumman fighter from a carrier in the Atlantic.
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Washington
Nile Kinnik
University of Iowa
Navy Department
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Kinnick
Grumman
Atlantic
Many Return to Jobs at Packard
DetroitAP Several thousand Packard Motor Car workers who struck over racial relations in the plant returned to their jobs on Saturday. About 35 percent of the normal day shift was at work and full production could resume Monday, as CIO and federal appeals urged a quick return. The walkout had cut Rolls Royce aircraft engines and Packard marine engines output by up to 95 percent.
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Packard Motor Car Company
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Rolls-Royce
Packard Marine
Attempt on life of Nipponese official in Manila reported
Manila radio said Jose P. Laurel, Japan’s puppet interior commissioner in the occupied Philippines, was wounded by a revolver shot from a would be assassin. The incident occurred on a Manila golf course and the fugitive attacker fled and remained at large.
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INL
Jose P. Laurel
Japan
Philippines
Manila Radio
Office of War Information
Manila
London Readies For Allied Invasion At Zero Hour
Churchill returns to London after North Africa talks with Eisenhower and De Gaulle Giraud meeting held with Eden and Brooke as Allied invasion plans advance. Axis chatter and Rome radio warn of looming attack amid heightened public urgency in London and newspapers.
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North Attica
Dwight D Eisenhower
Tunisia
Bay of Biscay
Leslie Howard
Anthony Eden
Britain
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Mpensl
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Charles de Gaulle
Henry Giraud
United States
Gibraltar
Eisenhower
Algiers
Eden
Tunis
Northwest Africa
Giraud - de Gaulle
Commons
Axis
Moscow
London Daily Mail
Italy
Mediterranean
Bastion Islands
Pantelleria
Allied leaders plot major strike in North Africa war conference
North Africa dispatch reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill General George C Marshall and Sir Alan Brooke with other Allied chiefs agreeing on plans for a decisive blow against the Axis. The conference aims to coordinate strategy across theaters and fortify the Allied push in the North African campaign.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Winston Churchill
United States
Statf
George C. Marshall
Alan Brooke
North African
Avis
Chinese recapture Kungan base in south Hupeh province
Chinese forces retook Kungan, a key Japanese base 65 miles southeast of Ichang in south Hupeh, scene of an abortive upper Yangtze offensive. The communique said over half of the enemy troops at Kungan were wiped out and Japanese regrouped.
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Kungan
Hupeh
Yangtze
High Command
Ichang
Ney
Ett
Rie
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