Reorganization Aims to Create Army Air Forces Nucleus
Washington June 20 In two major moves the war department acted to revitalize its air corps and recommended keeping 289000 National Guardsmen and 51500 reserve officers on active duty for the emergency. Stimson outlined a single army air corps structure with a supreme staff, an air staff, and an army air force headed by Maj Gen Henry H Arnold to direct defense training and tactics while opposing a separate independent air force.
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Beparsie Air Arm
War
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Army Air Corps
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Department
Roosevelt
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National Guard
Army’ Air Corps
House
Senate
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Air Service
U.S. Army
Army Air Forces
Henry BH
Arnold
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Army Air Force Cembar Command
U. S
Army
Navy
Finns Order Vehicle Registration as Army Mobilizes
The Finnish army directed vehicle owners to register with local civic guards and mobilize reservists up to 1897. Owners had hours to move autos from storage to army posts as taxicabs faded and civilians shifted to bicycles and streetcars.
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Helsinki
Finland
Civic Guard
Union Jack Raised Over Damascus
General Sir Archibald Wavell urged governor of Jibad to join Free French or renounce pro Axis ties in Syria. British imperial forces entered Damascus ending a three day siege as the Union Jack flew over the city, with Australians advancing 16 miles toward the coast.
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London
Archibald F. Wavell
Middle East
Jibad
Somaliland
Syria
A. W. BP
Saphire
Cairo
INS
Damascus
U S Sub Sinking Probe Promised
Bits of wreckage from the doomed submarine O-9 resurfaced as Congress promised a probe into seaworthiness after the sub vanished with 33 aboard during a test dive off Portsmouth. All aboard presumed dead. questions focus on leaks and handling before the deep dive. Grounding reports from relatives raise concerns. Rep Bates calls for substantial evidence.
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Portsmouth
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Atlantic
Elliot Olson
Grayling
Richard Edwards
U. S
Francis P. Golden
Holyoke
Mass
Ola Eagleton
del Norte
Cole
Charles
Bates
Masschusetts
House Naval Affairs Committee
Washington
Tire Price Freeze Affects Tires and Rubber Products
Washington June 21 The Office of Price Administration says maximum prices for automobile tires tubes and crude and scrap rubber will be set within days reflecting a price freeze as of June 16. Leon Henderson urges no hoarding or unnecessary purchases to avoid shortages and preserve supplies for immediate needs.
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Washington
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Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Henderson
Ile
Rumanian Finnish Troops Join Nazis Across Soviet Border
New York dispatch reports Germany Romania and Finland advancing on Soviet Russia from Narvik to the Carpathians. Hitler via Goebbels accuses Moscow Britain and the U.S. of conspiring to throttle Germany as Finnish and Romanian forces unite with the Wehrmacht. The proclamation vows to place Europe’s fate in the German army’s hands.
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Russia
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Black Sea
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Rusmania
Soviet Union
James E. Brown
London
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France
Joseph Goebbels
U. S
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von Ribbentrop
Rech
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Latvia
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Estonia
Poland
Cripps
Stafford Cripps
Esthenia
England
Molotov
Vyacheslaff Molotov
Bulgaria
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
Kremlin
Matsuoka
Balkans
Auto License Bureau Tries To Make Everybody Happy
The state road commission license bureau serves a broad public, with about a quarter of passenger car license tags issued carrying numbers specifically requested by owners. Requests span all classes from ditch-diggers to corporation executives, challenging the idea of uniform service.
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Auto License Bureau
John Doe
State Road Commission
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