Senate Debates Carriers vs Battleships In Secret War Session
In a secret Senate session the chamber weighed aircraft carriers against battleships as it approved an $8.35 billion bill for building carriers cruisers and destroyers. Clark proposed halting new battleships, a motion defeated by voice vote, while the Navy favored carriers but argued battleships still have roles.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Sen. Clark
D-Mo
Navy Department
Clark
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Administration
Walsh
Naval Committee
Roosevelt
Tom Connally
D-Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Capitol
Sen. Walsh
Navy
Roosevelt’s Son Participates in Midway Battle Action
Mej. Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, served with the U S Army Air Corps in the Battle of Midway as announced by Australian Foreign Minister Dr. Herbert Evatt who provided no further details.
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Sydney
INS
Elliott Roosevelt
U. S. Army Air Corps
Roosevelt
Midway Island
Herbert Evatt
Evatt
Army Sets World Air Cargo Belt
The War Department merged its air ferrying command and transport operations into a single world-wide air transport command under Brig. Gen. Harold L. George, effective July 1, to move personnel, supplies, and mail to any theater. The system will prioritize air freight to outlying forces, include large cargo planes and four-motored aircraft, and coordinate with commercial airliners while preserving domestic and foreign air networks. George said militarization will occur where essential and emphasized economy in war-time by prepositioning supplies.
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Washington
War Department
Varions
Klobe
Army
Air Ferrying Command
Air Transport Command
Harold L. George
Air Ferry Command
George
Naval
United States
Vice President Wallace Breaks Tie For CCC Funds
In a Senate tie breaking vote Vice President Wallace approves 76.529 million dollars for Civilian Conservation Corps for the coming fiscal year. The measure, part of a Labor Department appropriation, increases overall funding to 1.1578 billion and plans a national manpower survey plus student loan programs for youth in secondary and technical fields to support the war effort. Loans to students in medical and engineering fields carry conditions and interest unless drafted or disabled.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Wallace
House
Senate
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
National Youth Administration
Colombia protests Nazi U boat attack on Resolute
Public indignation sweeps CALI and across Colombia after a German submarine sinks the ship Resolute 35 miles off Providencia island. Six crew members are killed and others wounded as machine gun fire ends lifeboat escape. A decree freezes Axis funds and protests rise nationwide.
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Cali
Colombia
INS
Providencia Island
Soviet Ukraine melee as German offensive grows
Moscow dispatch reports intensified front activity across Ukraine with Soviet forces clashing with German troops in a large hand to hand battle after a local retreat. Sevastopol defenses repelled successive attacks in the Crimea as Timoshenko’s troops halted a Kharkov direction push and Germans claimed gains around Kupyansk and Kharkov area.
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Moscow
Russia
Ukraine
Crimea
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Soviet Information Bureau
Timoshenko
Inyum
Kupyansk
Oskol
Donets
Tzu
70000 Miners Begin Vacations in 1941 Work Stoppage
Maintenance men stood by in 300 plus Southern coal mines as at least 70000 miners started a ten day vacation called for in the 1941 wage contract. The Kanawha Operators association planned to work its mines, a move condemned by the United Mine Workers. The dispute centers on repayment of fines from sympathy walkouts during the captive mine strike. Former Senator Edward Burke of Nebraska, head of the Southern Producers Association, said he would meet Solid Fuels Coordinator Harold Ickes in Washington next Monday to discuss the matter.
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Charleston
Kanawha Operators Association
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers
Edward Burke
Nebraska
Southern Producers Association
Harold Ickes
Washington
Association
New Nose to Reform Convict Says Doctor
A Sing Sing convict to be released with a remodeled nose, per Dr. Ralph Banay chief of the prison psychiatric department, who linked his criminal tendencies to an abnormal nose. The doctor said appearance influenced behavior and noted isolation in boyhood preceded crime, with funds from the civilian welfare council aiding corrective disfigurement.
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New York
Ralph 8. Banay
Dr. Banay
Civilian Welfare Council
Draft registration mix up in Chicago man aged 25
Walter Topolski, 25, explained he fell behind on news after working on a Wisconsin farm for two years and not reading newspapers. He admitted he did not know about the draft but was accepted and registered with the 18 to 20-year-old group. He should have registered October 16, 1940.
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Chicago
INS
Walter Topolski
Selective Service
Wisconsin
Walter
Bombers Hit Bremen After Largest Aerial Assault
London dispatch reports over 1,000 RAF bombers struck the German port of Bremen and northern France targets, with 52 planes lost. The Bremen raid lasted 78 minutes as fires raged and reconnaissance confirmed ongoing blazes. Cologne had been targeted in a prior massive raid.
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London
INS
Bremen
RAF
France
Germany
Queen City
North Sea
Low Countries
Betters
Cologne
Air Ministry
Holidays Suspended in Hawaii by Military Governor
In Hawaii all legal holidays were suspended and overtime pay eliminated for non-civil service workers by order of the military governor after a request from the Honolulu central labor council. Nine holidays were suspended amid praise by Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Green, executive military governor, as inspiration for labor nationwide.
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Honolulu
INS
Territory of
Hawaii
Honsolan Central Labor Council
United States
Thomas H. Green
Sand Cauldron Bars Rommel in Egypt Drive
Cairo report details Axis forces led by Rommel advancing toward Matruh near Alexandria. British 8th Army forms a 40 mile defensive line along the coast while Libera tors strike Tobruk. Reinforcements may come from Palestine Iraq Iran and the Levant as tensions rise over Egypt’s fate.
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Cairo
Egypt
Eeyst
Alexandria
U.S. Army Air Force
Tobruk
Rommel
Matruh
Sant Trap Bars
Qattara
8Th Ary
Mediterranean
Matroh
Truck Men Gain Blackout Wage Agreement in Pontiac
In Pontiac Michigan officials of Yellow Truck and Coach say they will pay night shift workers 20 minutes for a practice blackout. Some 11 000 strikers are to return to war production. The UAW CIO promised to discipline leaders of the unauthorized walkout, calling the action a violation of the union no strike pledge with President Roosevelt.
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Pontiac
Mich
Yellow Truck & Coach Company
Domorrey
United Automobile Workers-Cio
UAW
R. J. Thomas
Roosevelt
Worker Transport Crisis Not Far Off
A survey on West Virginia ordnance plant conditions shows a nationwide worker transportation crisis may be near. About 300 cars carrying 500 plus workers will be out after 2000 more miles, 100 after 6000 miles, and 200 within 10000 miles. Cars now move about 1100 workers, a third of all staff, with no substitute transport available as buses run at capacity.
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Washington
West Virginia
Publc Roads Administration
Bureau
Ordnance
West Virginia Road Commission
Bases Raided Off Australia Bases Raided Off Australia
United Nations forces launched the most widespread air offensive of the war in the southwest Pacific. American and Australian fliers attacked Japanese bases at Dili, Rabaul, and Salamaua along a 2000 mile front near Australia. Four U N planes were damaged slightly. five Japanese zeros were damaged. Port Moresby repulsed the raid.
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United Nations
Australia
INS
Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Dilli
Tuteh Timor
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Port Moresby
Dili
Aie
Carbon Fuel gift tops Kanawha War Fund drive
Carbon Fuel company and its miners contributed a total of about four thousand seven hundred dollars to the Kanawha War Fund. The miners provided nearly all of their share, encouraged by a letter from Percy Tetlow, district president. Other mining communities are expected to show strong participation as union leaders and mine officials support the appeal.
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Carbon Fuel Company
Kanawha War Fund
Terpoxt
United Appeal
Kanawha County
Percy Tetlow
Cabin Creek
E. Laupont de
Midwest Gas Ration Asked to Extend to Midwest
Eastern seaboard mayors urged that gasoline rationing be extended into the Midwest to move petroleum for home heating. The plan, discussed with Harsid L. Ickes and Joseph B. Eastman, targets western New York, western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and other midwest states as needed. The proposed Midwest rationing would last until a Texas to Illinois pipeline, approved already, opens in about six months. The eastern program sets a four gallon basic unit with 48 unit minimum cards for a year, while the Port of New York authority outlined a plan to bring 200000 more barrels of petroleum products to the East daily through reorganized transport and diversion from the Midwest. A transport coordinator would mobilize Great Lakes and New York canal vessels for shuttle service from the Midwest to Albany, then to deep draft tankers.
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Washington
Seaboard
Midwest
Harsid L. Ickes
Joseph B. Eastman
New York State
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Iilais
Michigan
Mid-West
Texas
Ilinois
F. H. LaGuardia
New York
Office of Price Administration
Walter P. Hedden
Port of New York Authority
Hedden
Great Lakes
New York Canal
Albany
N. Y
Death Chair Lacking in South Dakota Inquiry
South Dakota State's Attorney Frank S. Tait asked Attorney General Walter R. Johnson if South Dakota could borrow Nebraska's electric chair for the week of Aug. 9. Two South Dakota prisoners await death after a 27 year gap. Nebraska’s chair is reportedly in poor condition and the request will go to the state board of control.
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Lincoln
Neb
South Dakota
Frank S. Tait
Walter R. Johnson
Nebraska
Tait
Johnson
Beard
Neil Olsen
Nebraska Board of Control
Roosevelt Warns Against Overconfidence Amid War Production
President Roosevelt announced May production nearing 4 000 planes and 1 600 tanks with artillery and machine guns, warning against overconfidence due to looming raw material shortages. He noted Russian officials aid in Allied strategy and detailed ongoing U S Britain and Russian military talks as Pearl Harbor progress is reviewed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Churchill
Hull
Maxim Litvinoff
King and Queen Watch U S Troops in Northern Ireland
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth held a full-dress mock battle in Northern Ireland as U S troops demonstrated power to help Britain repel any German invasion. Accompanied by Ambassador Winant, the royal couple toured Ulster encampments and praised a precision drill and anti-tank gunnery.
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Rice Yahner
U. S
Northern Ireland
King George
Elizabeth
United States
John G. Winant
Ulster
Jowang
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