Italian Navy Says Heavy Cruiser Sunk In Central Mediterranean
Italian broadcasts report a heavy Italian cruiser lost in a prolonged battle with Allied forces in the central Mediterranean on Monday. The communique claimed destruction of an Allied cruiser and two destroyers, plus fires set on five more Allied vessels and damage to 13 warrants. A British reply noted renewed convoy attacks and a dramatic naval clash continuing into the night.
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Rome
High Command
Mediterranean
New York
OBS
London
Evening Standard
Gibraltar
Pantelleria
Sicily
Seventh
Maine
Page Si
Sparta Boy Made Second Lieut Willem Popovich
Sparta youth Willem Popovich son of Mrs Tulle Popovich Spartansburg Vins buen graduated from Armored Force Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox Kentucky with gold bar and commission as second lieutenant in the Army of the United States. He is assigned to an armored division or tank battalion and has trained in all eight branches of armor including maintenance and operation of vehicles. Popovich has served about one year and four months.
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Willem
Popovich
Tulle Popovich
Spartansburg
Vins Buen
Armored Force
Fort, Knox
Army of the United
Arnored
Popoviev
Verion Tor
Impressive Flag Day Observance in Corry
Corry held a Flag Day ceremony in City Park with a large parade from West Washington to Center Street. Attendees heard Elks officer Hugh DeLury and Lt. Sears speak, with Miss Mary Jean Sullivan performing patriotic songs and a color presentation by local groups. The event honored the Stars and Stripes and featured a pledge of allegiance and band medleys.
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Cony
Cjty
Corry Lodge
France
Fie
WV. FP. W
West Washington
First Avenue
Canter
City Park
C. F. Bennett
Marshal Service
Corry
Follett Boys
Elits Civil al’ Patrol
Ladies Ausillery Hoy
Jewell’s Flower Shop
Women’s. Christian ‘Temperance
Amelia
James Helman
First Baptist Church
Corry Band
Robert B. Brown
Prazik EB. Hepler
America
Mary Jean Sullivan
Lient
Cassius
Sears
Company A
Lieut. Evans
Lieut. Sears
Youth Given 10 Years For Hold Up At Clymer
Paul J Porter 0 of Union City sentenced to 10 to 30 years in Attica for a hold up near Clymer on April 21. He and Hazel Hand 16 of Corry abducted a motorist, forced him from his car, and fled. The pair later were captured in Fayetteville West Virginia. Hand faces a Dyer Act interstate transportation charge. federal authorities will decide next steps.
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Cairo
Egypt
Ain el Gazala
Acroma
Ain el Gaamlag
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Tommel
Fashiona Ab
Adoms
el Adem
Ist
Tobraik
Axis Trons
Libyan
Ain EL Gavela
Neil. M. Ritchie
London
Eighth Army
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Accomm 10Nelles
Rommel
el Adam
Paul J. Porter
R. D
Union City
Will ‘Beyi
Attica
W Corryitl Henr Clymer
Hazel M. Hand
Corry
Walter H. Scott
Mayville
Buffalo
Centuel
Federal
Porter
Charles Prish
Sherman
Jamestown
N.Y
Clymer
U S Planes Join RAF In Pounding Italian Warships
Cairo June 16 United States Army Air Force and RAF joint in the Mediterranean, sinking a 10000-ton Italian cruiser of the Trento class and damaging a smaller cruiser and a destroyer. Four days of heavy fighting described by the RAF in a late communique, with Italian reports of naval air battles near Allied convoys.
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Cairo
United States Army Air Force
RAF
Mediterranean
Sunnk
Italien
Detroit arrests disclose U S Cuban lottery intrigue
U S District Attorney J Lehr disclosed 64 residents of the United States Cuba and Panama were indicted as conspirators in a Havana started lottery ring. A second indictment charged 16 for mail fraud linked to the Cuban lottery. The scheme claimed 3 650 000 in prizes while actual winnings totaled 332 500.
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Associated Press
Detroit
U. S
J. ©. Lehr
United States
Cuba
Panama
Republica de Cubs
Lehr
Ernest A. O'Brien
Ernest J. Mansfield
Jacksonville
Fla
Havana
Mansfeld
Eight Scranton Men Charged In Jail Escape Plot
In June 16 court action eight Scranton men faced charges tied to an escape attempt at Lackawanna County Jail. Two hacksaws were discarded outside the prison wall and bars found removed from a window above the warden's office, according to District Attorney James P. Brady. Treasury figures released show receipts of 116,242,083.80 and expenditures of 150,117,597.84 as of June 13 with a remaining balance of 1,875,225,160.44 and a debt of 974,780,899,657.81, down 31,200,026.10 from the previous year.
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James P. Curran
Lackawanna County
James P. Brady
Treasury
Washington
The
Columbus faces municipal finance crisis and staff cuts
In Columbus Ohio Mayor Playd F Green orders major staff reductions amid a 178 police and 190 firemen layoffs as a 25 mill levy fails to pass. He denies waste and says no extra funds exist to restore full department services despite civic pleas. Local voters previously rejected the levy by a wide margin.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Playd F. Green
Ohio Opital
Ahig
Gremn
Sonnel Chamber
Jerry Spears
Unclear National Bulletins on Military, Fuel, and Farm Policy
June dispatches report a House naval committee approval of a large military program to expand the fleet,Warning of heating oil shortages for next winter, and a farm policy compromise allowing full parity loans while allowing surplus wheat sales at lower prices. A Pittsburgh arrest highlights a 42 year old father of six charged with failing to report for selective service. mobile U.S. marine unit mentioned.
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Washington
White House
Jans Drive In China Advancing Natant
Chinese high command reports alert to halt further Japanese advance in East Klanest province as Chinese forces inflict heavy toll along the Chekiong Kinngel railway. Communique says Kwanpfeng abandoned after a major battle. Japanese columns suffer over 1,000 casualties and forces are described as 80 miles apart near Lingay.
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East Yard
Inngst
New Warships to Be Turned Into Carriers
Washington reports two Senate naval affairs members say Navy officials paused plans for new battleships to boost airpower. Admirals reportedly favor completing cruiser conversions to carriers, delaying the proposed 80,000 ton super battleships and postponing other capital ship programs.
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Washington
Senate Naval Affairs
Navy
Milender
D-La
Brewster
Jfu
Blender
Red lines holding at Kharkov in three-day German assault
Soviet dispatches report a three day German attempt to cross a key river in the Kharkov sector stalled by hill top defenses. Germans claim progress across the Donets at Thorkey while Sevastopol defenses repulse massed artillery and armored assaults. Tass notes high casualties and ongoing tense situation.
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Moscow
Tharkov
Donets
Thorkey
Seyssiopol
Mehring
Crimean
Paris
Red Army
Tass
Af Tezet
Sevastopol
Germans to Use Maginot Defenses
London dispatch reports the German high command plans stronger western defenses including reversed Maginot Line guns and new fortifications along the Rhine. Special anti-commando units are to be stationed at major coastal points such as St Nazaire, with orders to prepare for hand to hand street fighting.
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Associated Press
London
Free
Prenich Press Service
Germany
Maginot Line
Rhine
High Command
St. Nazaire
Six More Ships Down in Atlantic War Losses
Associated Press reports renewed U boat activity in the western Atlantic with several ships sunk or missing. Two American merchants were lost in Cuban waters, a Panamanian cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico, a Norwegian tanker off South America, and a British schooner near the West Indies. The New Orleans freighter Mirefiores, sailing to New York, vanished after February 15 with 3 crew from Haiti. Survivors from Caribbean sinkings described rescue attempts by Bravita ships and long hovers before surrendering to the sea.
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Associated Press
West
Atlantic
Ate Navy
Navy
Cuban
Gulf of Mexico
South America
British West Indies
New Orleans
Miraftores
Standard Bruit, and Steamship Company
Hatt
Haiti
New York
How
Chooses death to save others at Mills Field
At Mills Field San Francisco aging pilots report James H. Mitchell of Cleveland chose to crash rather than endanger 200 workers. The Aiguter plane struck a hangar wall, killing Mitchell and a ground crewman while igniting a blaze. Eyewitnesses note the plane banked steeply to miss the hangar doors.
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Mills Field
James H. Mitchell
Cleveland
Lieu Mitchell
Aiguter
Mitchell
Filer
Warships Sunk and Damaged in North Pacific
Washington reports Japanese losses in the North Pacific as American air forces hit an invasion force near the Aleutian Islands. The damage list includes a cruiser sunk and multiple ships damaged while the U.S. claims no American losses. Allied pilots continue attacks on Attu and Eiska as strategic aims unfold in Coral Sea, Midway, and Aleutian campaigns.
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Washington
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Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Middle Pacific
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Aleutian Islands
Isis Chal
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Navy
Menn
Attu
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Eiska
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Australia
Iit
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Henry H. Sung
Glenn TL
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