Attempt For New Nazi Offense Blocked Near Moscow
German efforts to start a fresh offensive near Gzhatsk 100 miles west of Moscow were repelled by strong Russian counterattacks, Red Star reported. The seventh German infantry regiment suffered heavy losses while Russians held positions. Meanwhile Sevastopol and Kursk fronts saw continued heavy Axis offensives with massive tank and troop losses cited by Russian reports.
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Gzhatsk
Red Star
Sevastopol
Kursk
Kharkov
Government Information Bureau
Egypt at risk as Rommel closes on Alexandria
The German force under Rommel pushes within 100 miles of Alexandria while Auchinleck reorganizes a battered British army in the Middle East. The crisis looms large as Britain fears a Nazi victory in Egypt could threaten the Eastern Mediterranean and cut vital supply routes. Churchill faces scrutiny in Parliament over wartime stewardship as Hitler’s strategy links Ukraine offensives to gains in the Middle East.
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Rommel
Egypt
Britain
Alexandria
Claude Auchinleck
Middle ‘East
Hitler
House of Commons
Churchill
Caucasus
Middle East
Ukraine
Mediterranean
John Bull
London
Port Said
Haifa
Palestine
Said
Cairo
AMS
Japs Complete Railway Grasp
Tokyo reports Japanese forces in China completed control of the Chekiang Kiangsi railway as vanguard units met at Hengfeng. Japanese columns pushed toward Hengfeng from Viang and Ihangjao, while about 50,000 veterans from Formosa were said to be concentrated for further advances toward Kukien and southeast Kiangsi.
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Tokyo
China
Chekiang- Kiangsi
Hengfeng
Domei
Chekiang
Kiangsi
Viang
Chungking
Hengfieng
Ihangjao
Chekiang - Kiangsi
Shanghai
Singapore
Masta
Kukien
Jangsi
Nazi court martials sentence 115 to death in Prague and Bruenn
London reported that courts martial in Prague and Bruenn sentenced 115 people to death for contact with enemy agents and for aiding the attack on Reinhard Heydrich. Included were two parachute agents landed in the protectorate from a British plane, one of whom killed two German customs officials.
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Prague
Bruenn
Vichy Radio
Budapest
Gestapo
Reinhard Weydrich
Protectorate
Japan massing troops for possible attack on Russia
Japan was reported massing troops and planes on the Manchukuo border opposite Siberia. London military quarters said there was very little doubt Japan aimed at Russia at an chosen moment, while noting preparations may not be complete or imminent. Neutral observers expected a delay until Hitler’s summer offensive, with signs it was developing.
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Manchukuo
Siberia
London
Russia
Domei
Far Northwest China
Suiyuan
Mongolia
Outer Mongolia
Adolf Hitler
Federal agencies cut. CCC ends employment surge
Nearly 500000 workers lose jobs as three agencies are scrapped or curtailed. Civilian Conservation Corps ends, demobilizing about 60,000 enrollees and 15000 civilians. WPA cuts slash its rolls from 700000 to 400000, NYA reduces training by two thirds. PWA faded from priority as defense needs rise. The note marks a shift from job hunting to job loss amid a wartime transition.
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Congress
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
National Youth Administration
CCC
Corps
WPA
NYA
Public Works Administration
Rural unrest in France and Germany eyes impact on war
European peasants may influence Hitler's defeat as winter food stocks loom. Berlin's agriculture Ministry sees top personnel changes amid seed, machinery shortages and penalties for missed schedules. French rural anti-Prussian stubbornness grows. Laval's prisoner exchange proposal fails.
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Ray Tucker
Hitler
France
Germany
Berlin
Refugees Checked For Saboteurs in New York Harbor
JERSEY CITY NLCE July 1 More than 80 American and alien refugees from Europe were detained overnight on the Swedish exchange ship Drottningholm amid fears Axis saboteurs or spies may be aboard as 100 of 949 passengers were questioned by federal, Army and Navy intelligence officers. All 4900 Americans aboard were included in the probe as officials sought to prevent a repeat of submarine borne saboteur landings on the East Coast.
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Jersey City
NLCE
Europe
Drottningholm
Army
Navy
New York Harbor
de Luxe
Allied commandos raid Salamaua in New Guinea
Allied headquarters reported Gen. Douglas MacArthur forces conducted a swift hit-and-run raid on the Japanese garrison at Salamaua New Guinea Sunday night. The attack killed about 60 Japanese soldiers, wounded two attackers, and yielded captured booty. The raid marked the first land assault on Salamaua after its capture by Japan in March as Allied bombers continued pressure from Port Moresby to the south.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Salamaua
Port Moresby
Mubo
Komentum
U S Aircraft Carrier Wasp Delivers Malta Reinforcements
The U S aircraft carrier Wasp ferried aerial reinforcements to Malta, delivering British fighter planes and possibly other RAF crews a few weeks ago. The moves aimed to bolster Malta against Axis efforts to supply Rommel in Libya, with the reinforcements engaging enemy aircraft during a raid and helping maintain a key base for Allied operations in the region.
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Washington
Wasp
Britain
Malta
Africa
Navy
Erwin Rommel
Deliveeries
Matta
United Nations
Rommel
Libya
Egypt
Sicily
German Radio Fishing For New Information
New York July 1 The German radio used its usual fishing for information technique to broadcast that Geneva News reported the British Fleet left Alexandria on June 29 and passed the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea. The claim was made without confirmation from any source.
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New York
Geneva
Alexandria
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Airliner crash in West Virginia kills ten
A large airplane, likely a converted airliner, crashed in the West Virginia mountains near Welch, with at least ten dead. Troopers said ten bodies were recovered from the charred hull, most believed to be Army men, and the craft bore American Airlines insignia. In California, a separate Army bomber crash near March Field killed nine people.
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Welch
W. Va
West Virginia
Earl Yeager
Tom Harrison
American Airlines
New Challenge Met By Airmen
American bombing crews meet the Pacific challenge as Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale cites the June 27 Wake Island raid led by Col. Roger Al. Ramey from Denton Texas. He says air power will be the controlling factor and warns of a long hard pole ahead while noting Japanese pilots and women among their ranks.
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Pacific
Willis H. Hale
U. S
mid-Pacific
Wake Island
Pearl Harbor
Hale
Roger al. Ramey
Denton
Tex
Wake
Genral Hale
Southwest Pacific
Lingayen
Luzon Island
Philippines
Plunge from roof kills former Polish envoy
New York, July 1. Former Polish ambassador to Italy Rosciaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszewski leapt from the roof of a Riverside Drive building and died. The noted diplomat, who served in the tense prewar period before the 1939 German invasion of Poland, died in the incident.
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New York
Rosciaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszewski
Italy
Poland
Riverside Drive
Critics attack Churchill over war material shortages
In London, Churchill foes press a no confidence motion as production ministers deny lack of puns, tanks and planes. Lords accuse defense shortfalls, Tobruk fall cited as shock, calls emerge to replace key leaders and shift command.
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London
Britain
North Africa
Winston Churchill
Oliver Latticton
House of Commions
Hhouse of Lords
Lord Seaverbrook
Libye
Churchill
Defense Ministry
John Wardlaw - Milne
Wardlaw-Milne
Roger Key
Arthur Greenwood
Commons
Tobruk
Dunkerque
House of Lords
Lord Addison
Archibald P. Wavell
Cheirchill
Lawter Wardlaw-Milne
Duke of Gloucester
Axis Armies Roll Toward Seapower Base
Axis armored forces press east toward Alexandria with el Alamein as the alleged fortress, while Rommel’s advance narrows the desert corridor near the Qattara depression. British reports show no solid defense yet, with only outflanking units contesting the assault. Allied mechanics rush to repair damaged tanks as trains bring fresh matériel westward.
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London
Alexandria
Britain
Mediterranean
Adolf Hitler
el Alamein
Qattara
Erwin Rommel
Rummel
EL Daba
Cairo
Rome
Auchinieck
Wage Increases Announced for High Point Hosiery Mills
General wage raises were announced for workers across 21 seam less and full fashion plants in High Point. The increases affect virtually all employees from sweepers to knitters, with no set average. some deserving workers may receive higher boosts. The move places High Point wages in the top bracket nationwide, and about 7,000 people are employed in the local hosiery industry.
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High Point
Cc. L. Amos
Melrose
Independent
Boarders Union
Amos
Co. L. Amos
Willis Slane
Hazel Hardin
Charles L. Kearns
J. EB. Millis
Self-Snatcher Cornered After Purse Theft in Reno
In Reno Nevada a purse snatcher grabbed a bag and ran across the street where he was chased and cornered at the sheriff's office door. The incident ends with the suspect detained by authorities.
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Reno
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