Senate House Finance Bills Cause Log Jam
Washington June 28 Congress leaders debated passing a batch of continuing appropriations to fund government agencies for the new fiscal year beginning Wednesday with checks on a Tuesday midnight deadline. Leading Republicans and Democrats sparred over wartime spending levels while hoping to avoid a conference, as $47.5 billion in bills remain to be approved for the army and other agencies.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
McNary
Sen. McKellar
D. Tenn
Senate Appropriations Committee
Howe
Army Post
Roosevelt
Mine Disputants Meet With Ickes
Upward of 70 000 miners observe a 10 day vacation with pay as southern bituminous coalfields convene in Washington to redefine the stalemate between operators and the United Mine Workers. A 10 am conference is set with Solidarity Coordinator Harold Ickes and former Senator Edward Burke of Nebraska, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association. Burke presided at a Charleston directors meeting offering to divide fines from the captive mine strike last fall with the UMW.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Harold Ickes
Edward Burke
Nebraska
Southern Coal Producers Association
Ickes
Union
Burke
Charleston
UMW
Junk Dealers Face Rubber Scrap Probe
Government officials probing the scrap rubber drive say junk dealers are hoarding inventories for high prices. Elliott E. Simpson accuses dealers of turning the campaign into a bonanza while urging warnings to agencies that rubber could be requisitioned. Willam R. Boyd Jr notes per capita collections rise as public sacrifice continues.
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Washington
INS
Wax Production Board
Wvmanza
Elliott E. Simpson
House Coinage, Weights and Measures Committee
Simpson
Willam R. Boyd, Jr
Petroleum Industry War Council
Bremen Port Blasted Again In RAF Night Raid
London reports a strong RAF force struck Bremen and expanded fires after two major raids in three days. The air ministry noted new blazes at the port and shipyards while claiming 14 RAF planes were destroyed by German defenses. Reports also cite attacks on Brittany airfields Cherbourg and other northwest German targets with casualties on both sides.
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London
Bremen
Atlantic
Air Ministry
Germany
Cologne
Essen
France
Lannion
Brittany
Cherbourg
Berlin
England
Needed Plants Delay Rubber Needed Plants Delay Rubber
Government officials say shortages of critical metals, not butadiene or styrene, bottleneck synthetic rubber. War needs dictate urgency to build plants using butadiene styrene and polymerization to reach 800000 tons capacity. Japan’s loss of real rubber elevates priority.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
Erstax
Charleston Youth Dies in Smash-up
A Charleston youth died after a Route 119 collision near Mink Shoals hill yesterday. Billy Lee Burford, 21, was driving the car and died en route to the hospital. Four others including Mary Ruth Wilson and John Henderson were injured and hospitalized. Burford leaves a widow and two infant daughters.
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Charleston
Mink Shoals Hill
Billy Lee Burford
W. D. Burford
Crescent Road
Adam Burford
En Elk Mortuary
John W. Miller
12Th Avenue
South Charleston
Albert Myer and Son Mortuary
Elkview
Burford
Leona
Carol Sue
Laura Jone
Battle of Midway Report Reveals Heavy Japanese Losses
Pearl Harbor June 28. The Japanese fleet suffered extensive losses in the Midway battle. Nine or ten warships sunk, including four aircraft carriers Akagi Kaga Soryu Hiryu with 275 planes and crews all killed except potential survivors. Two to three battleships damaged, Mogami Mikuma sunk, three destroyers sunk, and several cruisers damaged.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Battle of Midway
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Akagi
Kaga
Soryu
Hiryu
Mogami
Mikuma
Two Mexican Tankers Sunk Within 2 Hours
Tampico Mexico June 28 The Mexican air force and navy searched the Gulf of Mexico for the submarine that torpedoed and sank two Mexican tankers Choapas and Tuxpar within two hours last night fifty miles off the coast. Tampico was blacked out and war measures were imposed. A permanent blackout was expected. Operating under orders from President Avila Camacho naval craft and planes were ready to sink any enemy submarine or surface vessel from Tampico to Veracruz. The ships were former Italian vessels taken over by Mexico after refuge in Mexican harbors. A government announcement last night said the crew of one vessel was missing while one man was killed and eight crew members of the other ship were missing.
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Tampico
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Choapas
Tuxpar
Manuel Avila Camacho
Tampiico
Veracruz
Battle for Egypt and Russia Open With Allied Artillery Push
German high command reported the destruction of the 2nd Soviet army and parts of the 52nd and 59th, with 32,759 prisoners and many guns and materiel captured. Reds crossed the Volkhov north of Lake Minen, then were encircled and destroyed. Sevastopol heights were taken after heavy fighting, with German and Romanian troops advancing and a Soviet destroyer reportedly hit southeast of Feodosiya.
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Berlin
Volkhov
Leningrad
Lake Minen
Sevastopol
Feodosiya
Kerch
Mannerheim Visits Hitler at German Front HQ
Berlin reports that Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim commander of the Finnish forces visited Adolf Hitler at the Russian front HQ. He traveled with Lt. Gen. tousi and Gen. E R Furth met with Goering later. The communique said they discussed battles against Bolshevism and marked friendship between German and Finnish forces.
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Berlin
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Adolf Hitler
Mannerheim
Uompi
E. R. Furth
Finland
Hitler
Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering
Goering
Bridge sale discussed by city officials
The old Kanawha on a Michigan railroad bridge over the Elk river near Spring street may remain intact instead of being scrapped. Mayor Dawson announced a special council session to dispose of the span after a Kingsport Tennessee firm bid. If accepted, plans call for moving the bridge south to a branch line by barge.
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Kanawha
Michigan
Elk River
Spring Street
Tennessee
Dawson
Kingsport
Young China Fliers Sink 2 Warships In Offense
Chinese air force pilots under American volunteers claim first offensive action in nearly five years. They say two Japanese warships were sunk on the Yangtze near Sinti Hupeh, and raids on Kiangsi inflicted heavy losses. AVG bombers hit Hankow sinking ships and transports, with 1,000 troops recaptured Linhsien Honan.
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Young China
Chungking
Lune
China
Yangtze
Kiangai
Central
Sinti
Hankaw
Hupeh
Kiangsi
Liangchiain
Nanchang
Kiangs
Central News
AVG
Hankow
Hupeh River
Sithe
Japan
U. S
Linhsien
Honan
Push Begins From Kursk Reinforces German Summer Offensive
Moscow reports a third major front opened as German forces attack from Kursk 280 miles south of Moscow. Soviet communique says June 28 fighting began in Karst direction after German troops crossed to the offensive. Sevastopol defense claims strong Russian resistance with heavy enemy losses and halted German advances in Kharkov/Kupyansk sectors.
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Moscow
Kursk
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Red
Soviet Bureau of Information
Crimean
Red Army
Kupyansk
Brazil Faces Nazi Reprisal Over German Rights
The German government warned of countermeasures if Brazil does not curb anti-German protests. It labeled the treatment of Germans in Brazil as persecution and cited riotous incidents. The note faults Oswaldo Aranha and Brazil’s anti Axis stance as misaligned with public sentiment, linking to Brazil’s January break with the Axis at Rio.
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Berlin
Brazi
Brazil
Oswaldo Aranha
Axis
Rio
de Janeiro
Roosevelt
Italian Generals Killed in Action in Egypt
Rome reports two Italian generals killed in action on Egyptian soil two days prior. Gen Ettore Baldassarre commander of the Italian army corps and Gen Guida of Piacenza named among the dead. Axis forces reportedly moved along the coastal road 19 miles southeast of Matruh with hundreds of prisoners and tanks and batteries destroyed. German account cites continued fighting in Matruh area and bombing raids behind British lines hitting motor transport columns.
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Rome
Actio
Stefani
Ettore Baldassarre
Guida
Piacenza
Matruh
Gas Rationing Seen as Crime Cut By Atlanta Detective
Atlanta detective Captain Sam Roper says strict gasoline rationing could curb crime by removing cars from illicit activity. He notes current controls flop due to careless card checks, and outlines a July 22 program requiring coupons, limiting purchases, and enabling prosecutions for perjury or forgery. He urges dealer vigilance and police alertness on card handling and lost ration cards, and supports a bill criminalizing unnumbered tires.
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Atlanta
Sam Roper
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Roper
Accomplices Of Saboteurs Are Arrested
New York reports FBI chief J Edgar Hoover announcing that several accomplices linked to recently seized German saboteurs on the east coast have been arrested. The exact number is undisclosed with more contact men expected to face detention in coming days.
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New York
Eart
Connolley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Atlantic
Long Island
Florida
J. Edgar Hoover
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Swift action planned on eight U.S. saboteurs
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced the Justice Department will move swiftly to prosecute eight saboteurs landed on the east coast by German submarines and rounded up by the FBI. The main issue is whether the death penalty can be pursued, especially for the two American citizens among them, with lawmakers demanding swift justice.
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Washington
INS
Francis Biddle
Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Swift Justice
Congress
Carl Vinson
D.ga
House Naval Affairs Committee
England
United States
Allied Bombers Raid Lae Salamaua and Tulagi
Allied bombers launched a prolonged raid on Japanese troops at Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea and attacked the wharf area at the bases there. Tulagi in the Solomon Islands was also bombed as disclosed in Gen. MacArthur's headquarters daily communique.
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Allied
Australia
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
MacArthur
Tulagi
Solomon Islands
Foe By Passes Some Positions In Egypt Battle
Cairo reports a fierce desert clash southwest of Matruh as Allied forces hold key positions against the Axis Africa corps. The battle, extending from Saturday afternoon through dawn, features heavy artillery and tanks with no clear tide of combat yet.
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Cairo
Egypt
Matruh
Africa Corps
Middle East
British Use New Guns in Egypt Front
Cairo June 28. British forces rush to the Egyptian front with a large number of newly arrived guns including an anti tank six pounder to counter Germany's 88 millimeter cannon. Artillery plays a bigger role as both sides shift positions across the desert seeking tank ambush spots.
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Cairo
Egypt
Germany
Fluid Fighting Deep in Egypt As Rommel Presses
The battle around Matruh and near Alexandria rages with heavy tank and artillery duels. Rommel directs three armored divisions against the Axis thrust as the 8th Army resists with a counterattack. Dust and tension rise as sun sets on the advancing and defending forces 115 miles inside Egypt.
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Erwin Rommel
Alexandria
Suez
Egypt
American Troops Said in Action
Madrid reports from the Spanish news agency that North American troops now oppose Axis forces alongside British Empire troops. The correspondent notes U S service crews and bombers are aiding in Egypt Libya and that no confirmation exists of U S combat units joining the British army in the Axis drive.
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Madrid
New York
FFE
United States
Francisco Lucientes
EFE
Associated Press
U. S. Navy
Jom
Navy
Egypt
Cairo
Lucientes
United States Army
RAF
Libya
Ath Army
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