North African Front Battles Ignite as Allied Attack Proceeds
British forces clash on the Salum front in North Africa with reports the offensive continues despite heavy losses. German high command says sixty British tanks were destroyed and air attacks paused the assault, while Britain claims advances near Gambut west of Bardia with 12 vehicles destroyed in the area.
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Berlin
Salum
North Africa
Libya- Egypt
London
Libya
Bardia
Fire Sweeps Salisbury District Shops. $250000 Loss
Salisbury Maryland residents faced a major blaze in the city center as flames damaged or destroyed three buildings. Firefighters from Seaford Delaware and Cambridge Maryland aided the four hour effort that ended at dawn. Kirby Nottingham suffered head and arm burns when the ceiling collapsed on him as seven occupants fled from a third floor apartment. Mrs Nottingham woke her husband after detecting smoke.
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Salisbury
Seaford
Del
Cambridge
Kirby Nottingham
Nottingham
Smidhe
Theatre Ticket Admission Clipping for Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs George Price of Blueville to tonight's Strand showing Men of Boys Towns with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney and The Lady Eve at the Diaie theatre. Identification may be required for entry.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
George Price
Blueville
Spencer Tracy
Mickey Rooney
Strand Theatre
Lady Eve
Police Fraternal Order Rallies In Williamson
President Clarence Custer of Wheeling opened annual session of the Fraternal Order of Police in Williamson with a three day program. Mingo County Prosecutor Lae B. Clain and City Attorney Hay W. Hill welcomed delegates as the meeting proceeds toward a Wednesday closing ceremony.
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Williamson
Clarence Custer
Wheeling
Fraternal Order of Police
Mingo County
Lae B. Clain
Hay W. Hill
Climuan
Allies Break Key Defenses Near Capitals
British and Free French forces advance near Damascus and Beirut after capturing defenses in Kissone and Sidon. Allied columns close on Damascus from two sides, while French troops fall back to within 12 miles of Beirut as forces push inland from the coast toward Djezainy.
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London
Damascus
Beirut
Levant
Middle East
Kissone
Sidon
Jesus
Djezainy
British Bomb Cologne and Hannover Areas
British bomber waves struck western Germany targeting industrial sites and causing extensive damage in Cologne and Hannover regions. The air ministry reported daytime hits on three German supply ships and a torpedo boat. Germans claimed RAF bombed several northern and western cities in a widely scattered raid.
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London
Germany
Cologne
Hannover
Air Ministry
RAF
Indictment of Food Price Violators in Chicago
A federal grand jury indicted 69 persons firms and organizations including 31 canning companies and three national canned pea marketing associations for conspiring to fix prices since 1938. The case centers on an acreage production plan pack sizes and non competitive pricing of canned peas in violation of the Sherman Act.
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Chicago
Britons Fear Nazi Russian Dispute Feint
Britons weigh reports of a potential break between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany while suspecting troop moves are a feint to mask a larger blow to Britain. Russian and German diplomacy remain tense as observers track oil grain and ore pressures and shifts in European power.
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London
Germany
Russia
Balkans
Black Sea
Tass
Britain
Plan defense against fires in major eastern cities
Congressional sources say civilian defense plans call for independent emergency fire protection for each city block in major eastern cities. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, head of civilian defense, told a House subcommittee it would be necessary to have hoselines and gasoline-driven pumps for each block if regular water supplies are disrupted. See PLAN DEFENSE Page 5
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Washington
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
House Appropriations
LaGuardia
Two Parkersburg Persons Killed, Three Injured
In Marietta a collision near the city killed Dwain Williams 14 and Annis N Williams 10, members of Mrs R L Williams family of Parkersburg West Virginia. Mrs Williams 44 and daughter Margaret 3 were seriously injured and Paul Williams 21 was slightly hurt.
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Marietta
R. L. Williams
Parkersburg
W. Va
Here
Dwain Williams
Annis N. Williams
Survivors of Robin Moor Arrive Capetown After Atlantic Rescue
Thirty four survivors of the freighter Robin Moor reached Capetown aboard a British ship, with an American legation announcement naming seven passengers four Americans and 28 crew. Earlier, 11 survivors had reached Recife, Brazil, after abandoning ship on May 21. The group includes the chief officer and may aid identification of the U boat involved.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
Robin Moor
Legation
Recife
Brazil
mid-Atlantic
Torpe- Reeffe
United States
Grew delivers protest over Japanese raid on Chungking
United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew personally delivered a 300 word note of protest to Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsukora against Sunday’s bombing of Chungking. Bombs fell near the American safety zone and the U S gunboat Tutuila narrowly escaped. One bomb exploded near the embassy air raid shelter, damaging offices and breaking windows.
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Tokyo
United State
Joseph C. Grew
Yosuke Matsuoka
Chungking
U. S
Tutuila
State Department
Matsuoka
Gunboa
Shot of Sunshine Saves Hopeless Infection Cases
CLD POINT COMFORT Va June 16 Recovery of many apparently hopeless infection cases after injecting a shot of sunshine directly into the bloodstream was reported to the American Institute of Homeopathy. The treatment irradiates the patient's blood with ultraviolet rays from a mercury lamp, similar to how milk is treated for vitamin D, using an automatic transfusion pump without disturbing circulation. Dr George P Miley of Philadelphia described results from a two year period.
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CLD
Point Comfort
American Institute of Homeopathy
George P. Miley
Philadelphia
Italy Freezes American Assets In Retaliation
Rome reports Italy froze American bank accounts in Italy in swift reprisal for U S action. The bloc king of funds and foreign property triggers immediate registration of U S property in Italy. Americans fear loss of extraterritorial privileges as banks block checking accounts. Italian estimate of American holdings varies with Washington dispatches. Il Popolo Di Roma ridicules Washington calling U S actions insane stupidity. See ITALY FREEZES Page 5.
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Italy
U.S
Rome
Mussolini
United States
Wmmunique
Bank of Italy
Washington Dispatches
Il Popolo di Romo
Washington
England
National mediation board gears up for nonbinding recommendations
The national mediation board, stalled in resolving a machinists strike at 11 San Francisco Bay shipyards, moves to publish its recommended actions. President Roosevelt urged management and labor to accept impartial recommendations, though the board lacks enforcement power. AFL and CIO unions voted to strike at the yards.
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Associated Press
National Mediation Board
San Francisco Bay Area
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL
Dr Tracy Curry Named Ninth District Legion Commander
Parson s June 16 Dr Tracy A Curry of Thomas was elected commander of the ninth district of the state American Legion at a convention yesterday He succeeds George D Vogel of Grafton The convention passed motions urging reelection of G Stanley Hamric as department adjutant W Elliott Neffien as national executive committeeman and heard remarks from R C Hall department commander and Captain Boone state safety director The 1942 convention will be held at Belington.
Lions Clubs Gather For State Convention in West Virginia
In Parker sburg on June 16 the West Virginia Lions Clubs district opened its 29th convention with committee reports. Past district governors attended a dinner the night before the meeting, which runs through Tuesday. Melvin Jones of Chicago, secretary general of Lions International, will speak at tonight's banquet.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
Kayford Miner Killed in Family In Law Spat
WHITTESVILLE June 16 Gladys Pruitt 26 coal miner of Kayford was fatally wounded in a quarrel with his father in law State Trooper L E Proudfoot reported. Proudfoot announced the detention for questioning of Jack Stanley.
Zinc Smelters Delay Walkout at United Zinc Plant
State Labor Commissioner announced that federal mediator J E OConner would report to United Zinc Smelting in Moundsville to work toward settlement of a dispute that threatened closure of the defense plant. A union spokesman said no immediate action had occurred yet as authorities prepared to intervene.
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Charleston
Charles J. F. Sattler
John R. Steelman
Federal Conciliation Division
J. E. O'Conner
United Zinc Smelting Corporation
Moundsville
O'Conner
Different Colored Cards Distinguish Registrants
Charleston reports that new registrants in the July draft will be kept on one colored card while those who registered last October use another. State selective service HQ disclosed files of men turning 21 between October 17, 1940 and July 1, 1941 will use melon colored cards versus white for the first group. About 12,865 West Virginians coming of age in the period must register with the state's 90 draft boards.
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Charleston
State Selective Service
West
Delays Beset Defense Bills in Congress
Washington June 16 Threat of delay confronted two defense bills. One lowers the maximum training age in the selective service act to 27 years, meeting stiff opposition in the House. The other gives the government authority to seize arms industries if strikes or lockouts hinder production. Chairman May said the House Military Committee would be unhurried in handling the Senate approved measure.
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Washington
House
May
D.-Ky
House Military Committee
Governor Neely Voices Stand Against Hatred at Zionist Meet
Charleston June 16 Governor M M Neely told the Ohio Valley Zionist region banquet that persecution of Jews is a warning to all faiths and that today’s oppression and robbery of Jews signals future suffering for Gentiles unless nations unite to resist. He warned that persecution that begins on Jews will end on him or his children if no stand is taken.
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Charleston
M. M. Neely
Ohio Valley
Neely
Probe Fatal Shooting During Family Quarrel
State Police Corporal Scalise reported two brothers were shot in a family disturbance at Charlie Crawford’s home on Irish Mountain. One died. Crawford, held in Raleigh County jail for questioning in the death of Lawrence Garrett, 47, and wounding of Leo Garrett. Lawrence had recently married Crawford’s sister. the Garretts went to recover personal effects when trouble began.
Agencies Heads Face Removal in U S German Closures
In Washington on June 16, Sumner Welles announced the closing of all German consulates and the removal of German nationals connected with those agencies. The German Library of Information and related bureaus will also be closed before July 10, with no break in diplomatic relations claimed.
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Washington
United States
Sumner Welles
German Library of Information and Railway Tourists Bureau
German Transocean
Welles
Germany
Unity States
German air hits sink British light cruiser in Med
Berlin reports four direct bomb hits sunk a British light cruiser in the eastern Mediterranean yesterday. German air attacks damaged a heavy cruiser and bombed several ports on the British island of Tus. The communiqué claims a heavier cruiser was hit near Beirut and that the attacking force faced strong sea resistance off the Lebanon coast before returning to base. The report follows other raids in the region and notes units engaged in naval combat.
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Berlin
Mediterranean
High Command
Tus
Beirut
Lebanon
Germany
Cyprus
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Vogel
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