FDR Churchill Plan Confab With Congress Leaders
President Roosevelt will invite congressional leaders to the White House for a conference with Prime Minister Churchill. The meeting aims to review the war situation and may set the stage for an announced plan. Canadian PM Mackenzie King also attends the Pacific council discussions and possible Alaska-Aleutian talks.
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Roosevelt
White House
Churchill
Great Britain
Pacific War Council
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Rayburn
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Britain
United Nations
Mackenzie King
Canada
Pacific Council
United States
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Senate group reinforces quietus on CCC funding
Washington report notes the Senate Appropriations Committee backed a House stance to refuse 80.8 million dollars for the Civilian Conservation Corps for the year starting July 1. The panel voted 18 to 12 to cut the funds as part of wartime economy measures.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
McCarran
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Sen. McKellar
Tenn
National Youth Administration
Department of Labor
Federal Security Agency
House Ways and Means Proposes Tax Bill With Revenue Gap
Washington on June 2 the Ways and Means Committee finished a tax bill aiming for 5.92 billion in extra revenue while scrapping major White House and Morgenthau suggestions. The plan predicts 16.5 billion from existing federal taxes, plus 2 billion more in social security levies, yet falls short of treasury goals and avoids a general sales tax to shield low income groups.
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Imh
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Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
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Stilllother
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Southern Operators, UMWA Eye Vacation End to Deadlock
With 48 hours left before a 10 day miners vacation, 30 directors of the Southern Operators association rushed to Charleston to vote on ending the deadlock with the United Mine Workers. If fines from sympathy strikes last November are not rescinded, the UMWA orders a 10 day layoff across 80,000 to 100,000 workers in southern West Virginia eastern Kentucky and western Virginia beginning after Friday’s shift. A final decision is expected in Charleston as the group weighs remitting the $2 per day fines.
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Charleston
United Mine Workers
UMWA
West Virginia
Kentucky
Virginia
Draft rules place married men with children last in call
Washington reports the draft will defer married men with children to the end of conscription but offers no permanent exemption. Four categories govern call order: Category 1 for single or dependent-free registrants. Category 2 for those with dependents. Category 3 for men with wives before December 8 1941 not imminent induction. Category 4 for those with wives and children or children alone in bona fide homes prior to December 8 1941.
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Washington
t-Draft
Dependency Help Approved by FDR
Roosevelt signed a law to provide government aid for dependents of armed forces members and to set draft priorities for married men. A public inquiry into deferments of young government workers was announced after reports that 6,000 government employees were deferred. The act authorizes monthly allowances for dependents across four lowest enlisted grades, with specific sums for Class A and Class B dependents, effective June 2, 1942, though payments may start later due to administrative delays.
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INS
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Capitol Hill
Sen
Zydings
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Goldine
Argentina debates breaking with Axis over sinking Rio Terrero
In Buenos Aires the chamber of deputies pressed Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu to explain if now is the time to rupture ties with Germany, Italy, and Japan amid protests over the Rio Terrero sinking. President Ortiz resigns, shifting responsibility to Acting President Castillo as Argentina weighs prudent neutrality and Axis diplomacy.
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Chamber of Deputies
Enrique Ruiz Guinazu
Chamber
Germany
Ortiz
Roberto H. Ortiz
Roosevelt
Argentina
Ramono S. Castillo
Rio de Janeiro
Italy
Japan
Chile
Castilla
Negentina
Massive German Drive Opens Battle of Egypt and Caucasus
Moscow report says a vast German assault across Kharkov and Sevastopol has begun with thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks. Soviet forces claim to have pushed back the onslaught, inflicting heavy losses, as battles extend toward the Caucasus while Sevastopol’s defense hones in on counterattacks.
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Sevastopol
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Timoshenko
von Bock
Crimea
Idahoan to Challenge OPA Price Ceilings
Idaho Attorney General Bert H. Miller told Idaho retail food dealers in Varley on June 24 he will offer full aid to any merchant contesting OPA fixed price ceilings. He criticized federal rules as unwieldy and pledged help for a test case to probe legality.
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Idaho
Bert H. Miller
Miller
U. S. Scrap Rubber Yield Passes Two Hundred Million
The petroleum industry war council reports over 200 million pounds of scrap rubber turned in during the first six days of the nationwide drive. West Virginia leads per capita with 0.47 pounds, while Nevada Montana Oregon and Arizona also top the list. interior secretary Ickes calls eastern and southern rush disappointing.
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Petroleum Industry War Council
Roosevelt
William R. Boyd
Sec
Interior
Ickes
Boyd
White House
Council
Carlosd Int
Nevada
Montana
Oregon
Arizona
Pennsylvania
New York
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Vile
Chinese Held Gaps Pincer Expands Rail Link
CHUNGKING June 24 Chinese forces decaptured Kweiki in Kiangsi expanding the Chinese held gap in the Chekiang Kianhai rail line. A second eastern push near Shangijao reduced Chinese control to about 50 miles of the line. Japanese aims include linking Singapore to Japan via Chinese rail routes north into Manchukuo and Korea.
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Japan
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Korea
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Rubber drive urged in colonies to curb shortages
London June 24 Harold MacMillan undersecretary for colonies told the house of commons that rubber production would be intensified in Ceylon and East and West Africa to fill the gap before synthetic rubber ramps up in the United States. He noted Britain has lost 90 percent of the world’s rubber and 60 percent of tin and urged massive colonial output increases.
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Harold MacMillan
House of Commons
Ceylon
Africa
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House
Britain
MacMillan
Dead In Our Streets? Westbrook Pegler column
Westbrook Pegler argues that the four freedoms may seem abstract but survival is at stake. He warns that defeat endangers concrete liberties and suggests that Americans might need to see dead in our own streets to grasp the cost of inaction.
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Poland
Pegler
New Churchill Cabinet Urged
London June 24. An anti government drive in Parliament seeks to force Prime Minister Winston Churchill to rebuild his cabinet after Tobruk and East Libya defeats. A motion of no confidence cites the Tobruk disaster and calls for a cabinet reshuffle to restore public confidence. A separate maneuver may target Churchill as defense minister rather than as premier, with possible resignation by the prime minister as a response.
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Winston Churchil
Britain
Tobruk
Libya
W. J. Brown
Alec C. Cunningham-Reid
House of Commons
Churchill
Commons
John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne
Desert Battles Loom as Rommel Drives South
Cairo dispatch reports Rommel massing armor to outflank the British 8th Army atop the Egyptian border escarpment. RAF and Royal South African air units skimmed the desert floor striking at Axis transport while British armor and scouts engaged in brief clashes west of Islam. The bombardment and armor moves served as a screen for a heavy German Italian advance southward as both sides prepared for a decisive battle in Egypt.
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Ain el Gazale
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Cirenaica
Mediterranean
Cape Saartivente
Italy
London
Africa
U S Britain Outpace Axis in War Production
London reported Oliver Lyttelton saying the United States has surpassed total Axis aircraft output by a substantial margin. He noted U S Britain production will continue to grow with raw materials the only limit and that Allied troops in the same theater receive top US supplies.
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Britain
Oliver Lyttelton
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Lyttelton
House of Commons
U. S
Democrats Delay Naming Officials in Kanawha County
The Kanawha county Democratic Executive committee postponed selecting election officials until July 3. A. Carl Carey, campaign manager for the county, urged appointments based on reputation and character. He cited Governor Neely’s anti fraud efforts and a 1941 Hatch Act to ensure fair, lawful elections, noting controversial local practices.
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Democratic Executive Committee
A. Carl Carey
G. C. Robertson
Neely
Carey
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