Lewis Sees Strike Threshold Reached By July 7
CIO United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis voiced confidence southern soft coal operators would sign a new two year contract by July 7, avoiding a southern mine shutdown. The deal raises base pay to 7 dollars a day from 5.60, with other provisions hidden in the negotiations. Meanwhile lumber and metal workers confront renewed mediation efforts as strikes ripple across the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay areas.
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John L. Lewis
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Southern
Puget Sound
Defense Mediation Board
Washington
the Board
CIO International Food~ Workers
Boads
Philadelphia
Frank Rosen
Progress Manufacturing Company
Progress
Rosen
AFL
San Francisco Bay
Tenet Oe
Sweden Calls Naval And Military Reserves
NEW YORK June 23 Swedish naval and military reserves will be called to the colors immediately, the Swedish radio reported in a broadcast heard tonight by NBC.
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New York
NBC
British retake Merj Ayoum stronghold in Syria
Cairo reports the strategic Syrian fortress Merj Ayoum has been captured again by Allied forces after a furious 24 hour assault. Reports say Palmyra remains under Vichy control as Damascus sees raids by German planes and Free French and British Imperial troops attack along the Damascus Beirut road.
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INS
Merj Ayoum
Jerusalem
Damascus
Reuters
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Meri Ayoum
Vichy
Palmyra
Syria
Damascus-Beirut
Fleet Air Arm
Beirut
Berlin
Tobruk
Libya
Salum
la Stampa
Rome
Michy
Girl Attacked In Washington
In Washington an 11-year-old girl was lured into a basement and assaulted by a youth linked to a prior attack on an 8-year-old in the same neighborhood. A gunman also robbed a laundry branch and abducted manager Katherine Harper. Another attack on Vada Abarca followed, with a customer releasing her after she was bound. police linked all incidents to the same area wave of crimes with gunman behavior.
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Washington
TN5
Katherine Harper
Vada
Kitty) Abarca
Reds Dying at Posts Reported by Nazi Front Men
Berlin dispatches relay Nazi reporting from the Russian front claiming Russian defenders are dying at their machine guns, with no quarter asked or retreat in mind. A German reporter, Joachim Fischer, notes Kirghiz and Kalmyk tribesmen as particularly fanatical fighters among the defenders.
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Berlin
Lune
Joachim Fischer
Solons Face Backlog as Congress Hurries to Deadline
Washington June 25 Congress confronted a huge backlog of vital defense legislation with only four legislative days left before June 30. Major items include a 10 billion dollar army bill a 1.3 billion agriculture supply measure and Roosevelt’s dollar devaluation plan. Night sessions on Saturday and Monday were likely and draft exemption for men over 28 faced possible delay. Thousands of federal workers WPA reliefers and even congressmen risk losing days as the program stalled after Sen Pat’s death.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Roosevelt
Ala
WPA
Sen
Pat
Seventy-seven of state boards called 829 more men for July
Seventy-seven of the state's ten Graft selective service boards were directed to supply 829 more men for induction at Huntington between July 11 and 17. The second July call brings total July inductions to 2,008. Thirteen boards not included in the second call are Braxton Cabell Fayette Har rison Kanawha Lewis Mingo Nicholas Pocahontas Tucker Meine Wood. State HQ ordered 1,179 men to Huntington for induction July 3 to 11. A third call date had not been announced.
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Braxton
Cabell
Fayette
Harrison
Kanawha
Lewis
Mingo
Nicholas
Pocahontas
Tucker
Meine
Wood
Britain launches most gigantic air attacks in history
London reports the RAF claims 110 Nazi planes shot down since the Russo German war began as Britain aids Russia with a daylight raid on the German coast. Officials say 134 Nazi planes fell to daylight and night losses over ten days, with 39 British fighters lost. Berlin counters with British Spitfires claimed down and RAF losses at 41 in the period.
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French
George Lait
London
INS
Britain
Russia
Berlin
Channel
Spitz
Flight Again Postponed At Santa Monica Field
Brake trouble for the second time delayed the maiden flight of the B 1N bomber built by Douglas Aircraft for the army. Engineers said brakes were not gripping as intended and that adjustments would take a few days to complete before attempting the flight from Clover field to March field, 75 miles east of Santa Monica. Earlier delays were caused by brake trouble and parts shipments from the raft.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Army
Douglas Aircraft Company
Air Corps
Clover Field
March Field
Nazis Slowed by Russian Resistance at Front
Vichy reports from unoccupied France that seven German attacks were slowed or halted by determined Soviet resistance. The Russians are said to be executing a slow delaying action before their main fortifications, with combat confined to newly acquired territories since 1939 as German forces press two three-pronged forks on the northern and southern flanks.
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Vichy
France
Russia
Pope Pius to Address Eucharistic Congress
Pope Pius XII will deliver a personal message to the Eucharistic congress in St. Paul Minnesota Thursday. The Holy See announced he will speak at 6 p.m. local time on a 19.84 meter wavelength.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Paul
Minn
Holy See
Finns Declare War Launch First Assault
MOSCOW June 26 German and Finnish actions dominate fronts as Soviet forces claim to blunt many German assaults while admitting a tank breakthrough near Minsk. Soviet air forces attack Vilna Oshmyany area. Przemyst retaken by counterattack. battles along Baranovitch railway corridor amid incessant tank clashes.
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Moscow
INS
Russia
Ukraine
Minsk
Auto Pricing to Be Taken Away From Manufacturers
Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson indicted Chrysler as the first major firm to refuse price stabilization, saying the move compels taking automobile pricing from the industry. He announced plans to establish a nationwide price ceiling for new models, starting August 1, targeting factory prices, dealer markups, and trade–in allowances. Henderson pledged action to Congress and the president and noted prior requests to Ford, Studebaker, Nash, and Hodson to rescind price hikes for the current model year.
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Washington
INS
Leon Henderson
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Henderson
Congress
Ford
Studebaker
Nash and Hodson
Red Planes Hit Finland in Daylong Attacks
Soviet warplanes smashed through Finnish defenses tonight after raids that sent Helsinki into a secret session of Parliament. Berlin reported a fleet of destroyers damaged Hangoe port and set fire to hospitals in Pylterlahtika Kotka and Loviisa as 23 raiders were reported shot down by Wednesday night.
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Russia
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