House Moves to Shield Insurance From Sherman Act
The House approved a measure by 783 to 104 exempting the $37 billion insurance business from the Sherman anti trust act. Lawmakers argued the Supreme Court misread inter state commerce while backing state insurance controls. Senate committee planned to delay action until after summer recess amid protests and related indictments in Atlanta.
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Supreme Court
Washington
House
High Courts
Senate Judiciary Committee
Walter
D-Pa
Jennings
n.Tena
Plosser
R.-Mo
Legislative Branch
Ploeser
LaFolette Ring
Saipan Saipan battles in Pacific war updates and Cherbourg action
U S forces claim gains on Saipan with advances along Magicienne bay and Mount Tapetchaan. Japanese losses cited include carriers, tankers, cruisers and destroyers. American losses 49 planes. Admiral Nimitz reports 14 Japanese ships sunk or damaged amid rapid carrier air operations near the Marianas.
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Marianas
Associated Press
Leif Erickson
Columbia Broadcasting System
San Francisco
Tokyo
Saipan
Agigan
U. S
Nimitz
Saipan Island
Air Atta
Congress Rushes Work to Go Home
Congress finished work tonight on most of its accumulated appropriation bills and prepared to recess tomorrow until Aug. 1. Senate leaders announced plans for an Aug. 1 adjournment, with a provision allowing either house to reconvene if emergency arises, after final action on the big war financing bill and remaining measures.
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Washington
Congress
Barkley
Quote on class and family size by Willie Willis
Willie Willis asserts that wealth shapes family size by enabling hiring servants. He claims rich families outsource childrearing while poorer households must raise their children themselves, linking economic status to reproductive patterns.
Allied Bombs Hit Noemfoor Island
Allied air forces continued their attack on Noemfoor island west of Biak in Geelvink bay with heavy bomber strikes. A 15 ship convoy suffered a sunk merchantman near Palau on June 20. Additional raids hit Trik Woleai Kavieng and Habaul. PT boats sank three enemy barges off Biak. fighting persisted near the Saridoa airfield on Biak in the Schouten islands.
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New Guinea
Noemfoor
Biak
Geelvink Bay
Palau
Trik
Woleal
Carolines
Kavieng
Habaul
Sarido
Schouten Islands
Japs Announce Death Of Admiral Nakahara
Japanese news agency Domei said Rear Admiral Yoshimasa Nakahara died heroically in the greater east Asian area. The broadcast cited by U S government monitors noted the admiral's death in action and reported an unspecified number of others killed in an undisclosed naval station announcement.
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New York
Domei
Yoshimasa Nakahara
U. S
Yokosuka
Task Force 58: Navy Reveals Most Powerful Naval Unit
Washington reports that Task Force 58, led by Admiral Marc Mitscher, comprises nearly 100 carrier ships and escorts. The force, part of the Pacific fleet, has hit Truk Palau Marcus Wake and Saipan and is poised for operations toward Japan.
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Washington
Navy
Arthur W. Radford
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Une Navy
F Vier
Mart A. Mitscher
Sth
Adm. Haymond A. Spruance
Bages
Truk
Palau
Marcus
Wake
Saipan
Tinian
Volcano
Bonin
Gilbert and
Marshall Islands
Holandia
Douglas A. McArthur
Marianas
Japan
Charleston man to head campaign against gasoline black market
F W Bules of Charleston is named to lead the Petroleum Industry War Council’s campaign in the 6th district to stop the gasoline black market. John Wright, state chairman, says the effort will educate the public on losses to the war effort and enlist county and state committees to halt theft of millions of gallons daily.
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Charleston
F. W. Bules
Petroleum Industry War Council
John Wright
J. C. King
C. L. Ypress
W. C. Anderson
David
Wright
Bules
France
Atlantic Coast
Owners Get Back All But 2 Mines
Washington reports that most coal mines have been returned to private ownership from government control. Interior Secretary Ickes ended the long wage contract dispute by restoring about 300 Pennsylvania anthracite mines and 700 bituminous mines to private possession, leaving only two Jewell Ridge mines under government administration amid a court fight over underground travel time as working time.
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Washington
Contel
Ickes
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Jewell Ridge Coal Corp
Tazewell
Junior Chamber Sponsors Films At Victory Hut
The Christian Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors nightly film showings at the Victory Hut to aid the war bonds drive. Patrons view reels including Beption Under Fire Life Line and a Ike speech as donations fund ammunition and equipment for soldiers. Hut doors open after 8:30 p.m. with Jaycees decorating the venue in patriotic colors.
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Junior Chamber
Victory
Department of Information
Dwight
Mulaimee
Volunteers Boost Kanawha E Bond Drive Amid Slow Start
Kanawha county trails the state in the first ten days of the E bond drive as volunteers push hard to raise purchases to 18 percent of a 4 271 000 quota. J E McDavid urges doubling effort to surpass the state percentage of 24 percent of a 24 000 000 goal. A farm family letter praises bond support, noting a son in Italy buying 300 bonds monthly and substantial yearly purchases. Overall individual and corporate buys push Es toward 70 443 062 statewide total, with Standard Oil reporting 350 900 allocated to local communities.
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Kanawha County
J. E. McDavid
McDavid
Kanawha
West Virginia
Haye
Italy
A.C. Spuer
J. C. King
Standard Oil Co
RB. H. Fraser
Elkview
Allied Advances Across Italy Rally Against German Defences
Allied forces push along a broad east west line through Italy from Grosseto to Fermo and Rimini as they seize Paganico and other towns. British and French units gain near Perugia Castiglione del Lago and Magione while Villa Strada and San Fatucchio fall after heavy fighting.
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Italy
Rome
Maly
Paganico
Grosseto
Florence
Rimini
Alps
Adriatic
Fermo
Ancona
Perugia
Bih
Camerino
Castiglione del Lago
Lake Trasimeno
Villa Strada
San Fatucchio
Magione
Nazis Aim to Draft 1.5 Million Italian Workers for Germany
Allied headquarters disclosed a signed document dated May 21 showing Benito Mussolini agreed to draft 1,500,000 Italian laborers for work in Germany. The May 21 note from the German ambassador in Rome to Field Marshal von Kesselring’s staff cites a critically strained Reich manpower supply and urges mobilization without delay.
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Rume
INS
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Rome
Albert von Kerselring
Reich
Red Army advances threaten Finnish trap in Viipuri region
Soviet forces push 10 to 15 miles in two hours gaining ground toward Lappeenranta and Viipuri as Gorovov’s army cuts toward key rail and highway hubs. Moscow reports severing Finnish communications, isolating forces near Lake Ladoga and aimed at widening a bridgehead on the Svir. Seaborne air support claimed 73 enemy aircraft destroyed.
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London
Red Army
Finland
Leningra Murmansk
Moscow
Leonig A. Goroyov
Viipuri
Tali
Bett
Helsinki
Govorov
Lappeenranta
Villmanstrand
Lake Ladoga
Lake Gnezhskoe
Onerga
Saima Canal
Lake Onezhskoe
Red
Ostero
Kumsa
Medvezhgorsk
Murmansk
Svir
Hed
Podporozhye
Len- Ingrad
Lodevice Pole
Casualty Totals Rise to 225 382 Across Services
Washington reports 178,877 army casualties and 46,705 navy casualties totaling 225,982, up 6,251 from two weeks prior. Official tallies cover through June 8 for the army and through June 5 for the navy, including losses on the first day of the European invasion.
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Washington
Navy
Europe
Italy
Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
U.S
Randings
Southern revolt tests and fourth term mood in Washington
The report details a southern Democratic stir led by Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia and Rep. Sophr Sidney Flad as they push for Roosevelt to seek a fourth term. Georgia pledges electoral support while Texas faces a setback as the state Supreme Court upholds the regular Democratic electors. The article notes moves toward free-casting electors and regional calls for recognition of southern influence.
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South
Washington
Chicago
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Arnall
Re‘portera
Snd
Texas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Sikney J.flad
Eputhor
Louisiana
Sikes
Democratic Party
State Supreme Court
Democratic Organization
Germans Split Into Three Cherbourg Breakthrough Segments
Allied forces launched a three-pronged assault to seize Cherbourg with Bradley directing tank-led troops and air bombardment by 1000-plus planes. American columns reached the harbor area while German defenses and counterattacks were driven back. reinforcements moved from Paris as the port neared encirclement.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEF
INS
U. S
Cherbourg
Aily
Allied
Omar N. Bradley
Normandy
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Alfred Jeaffety
Bradley
Fort du Royle
Fort Octevilla
Bombers Fire Rockets Against German Targets Across Europe
Allied air forces mounted a rocket bombing surge over Cherbourg and Pas de Calais as about 250 heavy bombers joined mustang and thunderbolt escorts. They hit rail lines, airfields and barges while strafing trains and ground targets in a multi-hour raid across the Ruhr Rhineland and Berlin area.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEF
Cherbourg
Pas de-Calais
Thore
Mustang
Thunderbolt
President Signs GI Rights Bill Aids Merchant Marines
President Roosevelt signed the G I rights bill authorizing federal loans hospitalization job insurance and education for service members. He used ten pens to sign the measure and urged Congress to extend social security credits and postwar education and unemployment insurance to merchant seamen who risked their lives. The package costs an estimated 3.0 to 6.5 billion dollars and completes a well rounded veterans benefits program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Veterana Aid
Congress
Merchant Marine
Larry Allen Recalls POW Life After Tobruk Capture
Associated Press reporter Larry Allen described prisoner-of-war life in Germany to Secretary of State Hull after his 20 months in Italian and Nazi prisons. He thanked Hull for helping secure his repatriation and said Hull was proud to have him back and free.
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Washington
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Tobruch
Lybia
Hull
Germany
Europe
Alien
State Department
Allen
Latian
Nagi
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Willie Willis
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Admiral Nakahara
Pacific Ocean
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Tall Gemner
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