Tobruk Threatened as British Forces Fight Desperate Desert Battle
Cairo dispatch reports the British Eighth Army in a bitter melee near Ain el Gazala fighting to prevent Axis tank columns from isolating and enveloping Tobruk. Italian and German communiques claim Axis advances north of Acroma and encirclement of British forces, while RAF reports Axis positions south of Tobruk are being pressed by mobile British columns.
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Tobruk
Acrama
Ain el Gazala
Bir Hacheim
Halian
Balbo
Acroma
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Ain el Gazala Salient
RAF
el Adem
Pt Pleasent Boat Output Slowed By Walkout
Pt Pleasant June 13 A walkout slowed production at Marletta Manufacturing, builder of army and navy boats. Company spokesmen claimed about 50 percent operations while a union source said only about 100 of 2000 remained in the plant, predicting no return after tonight through the picket line. The disagreement over causes and extent of the shutdown marked the day’s events as workers gathered at the plant.
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Marletta Manufacturing Company
Army
Navy
Jason Weissenberger
C. O. Weissenberger
Weissenberger
Saya Union Union
Perkins backs 48 hour week for war work
Secretary of Labor Perkins told the Pattern Makers League of North America convention that the 8 hour day and 160 hour week are the optimum working average for wartime production. She said mass production workers must have limits to sustain efficiency, endorsing a 48 hour four week maximum with few exceptions.
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New York
Sec
Perkins
Pattern Makers League of North America
Senate ballot amends draft to aid families
Washington June 15 The senate approved legislation to aid families of service members through pay allotments and government plans The measure now goes to the house and allows consideration of a man’s family in draft decisions A working wife’s earnings won’t deferment unless dependent but the bill would prevent breaking up a home Sen Johnson D Coro said HQ assures boards would favor men with wives and children over single men in induction
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Senate
Sen
Johnson
D-Coro
Selective Service
Ineal Boards
Dunbar to Stage Blackout Tonight
Dunbar plans a townwide blackout from 8 to 10 p.m. with control post inspections at 7 p.m. Civic defense volunteers will check unit effectiveness at the municipal auditorium after the blackout. Preparedness day preceded the event as Civilian Protection week continues with a Leaflet drop and a marching band. Recruitment day plans include telephone outreach and public notices.
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P. E. Reeder
Harry W. Hoffmann
Dunbar
Old Glory
Sea Guns Help Crimean Fort Blunt Attacks
Moscow reports Soviet defenses, aided by the Black Sea fleet guns, repelled a major German assault on Kharkov and Sevastopol. The midnight communique says 180 German tanks were destroyed and the air force damaged many more as Soviet forces hold the Crimea base amid renewed fighting across the front.
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Kharkov
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Crimea
Oly
Crimean
Berlin
Yevpatoriya
Treasury Advises Limit on Salaries
Treasury officials proposed wartime income ceilings of 28 000 for single filers and 50 000 for married couples after regular taxes. The plan, urged by Randolph Paul before the House Ways and Means Committee, aims to curb spendable income to 25 000 and 50 000 levels with debt deductions up to 15 percent of post tax income.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Congress
Randolph Paul
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means Committee
FDR Sees More China Aid and Debt Relief Push
President Roosevelt told Congress the war production battle nears victory while distribution to front lines remains critical. He outlined a fifth lend-lease report with plans to keep aid flowing at a monthly $8 billion rate, stressing debt relief and reciprocal aid. China, Britain, and Russia benefited from food, medicine, and machine tools as Axis defeat nears, and new routes to China are being developed despite Burma road disruptions.
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Congress
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United States
Burma Road
China
German Coffee Riots Kill 32 Emphasize Nazi Hardship
London reports quote Goebbels admitting life is hard in Germany as Hamburg faces deadly food shortages and protests. Hungry demonstrators armed with revolvers clash with police, six to seven officers killed, Gestapo rounds up hundreds and executes 25 alleged leaders as authorities struggle to maintain control amid rising internal strife.
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Hamburg
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
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Goebbele
Stockholm
Hanburg
Gestapo
Ger
Scrap Rubber Drive Roars Off Across Nation
Washington reports show a strong start to the nationwide scrap rubber collection campaign begun today with 400,000 gasoline stations acting as donors, paying a cent a pound for scrap rubber. Government reimbursement will fund reclamation for tire and war material production.
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Washington
INS
William R. Boyd, Jr
Chi
Petroleum Industry
War Council
War Production Board
American Pilots Sink Nazi Craft In Bold RAF Strike
American volunteers with the RAF helped sink a German minesweeper off the Dutch coast after two attacks. Spitfires flew low enough for crews to view the minesweeper guns as they silenced them in the stern explosion. British batteries tried to deter the planes but failed to stop a second sweep. Other small enemy craft and barges near the French coast and Belgium were also attacked. Squadron Leader W. B. Connor St Petersburg Fig was credited with sinking German supply ships off the Dutch coast last night.
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French
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Japs Menace Key Railroad
Japanese columns pushing toward the Nanchang Hangzhan railway threaten Chinese lines in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Reports describe heavy street fighting near Kwangfeng, advances from Nanchang toward Tengpu and Shiangan, and a potential gap between Japanese groups as aerial support aids the offensive.
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Nanchang-Hangzhan
Shanghai
Teng- Pu
Nanchang
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FBI Roundup in Ohio Nets 22 Enemy Aliens
The FBI announced raids over the weekend in Cleveland and seven Ohio cities resulting in 22 Italian aliens detained for hearings. Police aided the operation, which seized firearms and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Youngstown
Canton
East Canton
Akron
Lorain
Aliones
Cleveland Area
Pearl Arbor
Americans Attain Great Victory In Aleutians Air War
United States forces struck at Japanese positions in the Aleutians sank at least one cruiser and damaged seven vessels including an aircraft carrier. Army and navy aircraft pressed attacks under foggy weather with no American casualties reported. Japanese efforts to expand in the northern Pacific were repelled, with Attu and Kiska harbor actions noted.
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Washington
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Hemisphere
Pacific
Australia
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Mid- Pacific
Aleutian Islands
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Attu Island
Dutch Harbor
Kiska
Attu
Coral Sea
Midway
Seven British Ships Claimed Sunk by Italy
Rome reports Italian wireless says Italian planes sank seven British ships including two cruisers four destroyers and four merchantmen in two Mediterranean convoys. A British battleship and an aircraft carrier were damaged. 21 of about 300 Italian aircraft were shot down. The action continued into a second day with at least 15 British planes believed down by noon.
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iFrom
INS
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Four More Ships Sub Victims In Axis U-Boat Campaign
International News Service reports marauding Axis submarines sank four more United Nations vessels off continental America. At least eight seamen were lost or missing as the U boats continued their hit and run campaign from the North Atlantic into the Gulf of Mexico. A large Panamanian merchant ship and a small American freighter were sunk off Cuba and the Caribbean. twenty six survivors reached an east Canadian port while two sailors survived from the freighter crew. The final sinking involved another Panamanian registered ship struck by two torpedoes from a submerged sub on June 11.
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North Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Jave
United Nations
Continental America
Cuba
Caribbean
Japanese Raiders Again Hit Darwin
Allied reports say Japanese planes bombed Darwin on the northwest coast in the third raid in three days causing casualties and minor damage. A large force of 27 bombers escorted by fighters attacked the naval fueling port, with several raiders shot down. Bomb fragments hit empty houses as the nearest known Japanese base is Timor, about 400 miles away.
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