FDR Faces Vinson Veto On Railway Wage Award
Washington July 6 The Roosevelt administration seeks a thornless path for stabilizing director Vinson to backtrack on his veto of the eight cent railway wage award. The move displeased officers and the emergency board and obstacles loom as plans seek a formula offering near eight cents without saving face for officials.
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FDR
Vinson
Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
Fred M. Vinson
D. C
District of Columbia
Roosevelt
War Today signals big Nazi offensive on 165 mile front
The opening of a major German push along a 165 mile front near Orel Belogorod and south of Moscow may signal the crisis in Europe. Hitler’s aim appears to be forestalling Allied invasion and shoring up Axis strength in Russia while balancing Mediterranean operations. The piece notes fresh Luftwaffe support to Italy in Sicily and questions how much air power will be redirected.
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Orel-Belgorod
Moscow
Europe
Hitler
Berlin
Sicily
Herr Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Mediterranean
Russia
Italy
Luftwaffe
Suspect Blames Soldier For Death In Three Slayings
Sheriff Ed A. Wood said Howard William Pickell, 26, of Syracuse, NY, confessed tying a rope around Mrs. Percy Cota’s neck in one slaying and identified a soldier as the killer while claiming he was only an accomplice. He had admitted an earlier shooting. motive cited so far is auto theft.
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Laramie
Wyo
Ed A. Wood
Percy Cota
Wood
Howard William Pickell
Syracuse
N. Y
Albany
Cota
Germans Lose Thousands of Tanks in Soviet Counteroffensive
Soviet forces halted a German summer push along a 165 mile front south of Moscow. In the first 24 hours the Red Army says 10,000 Germans killed and 738 tanks destroyed while 203 planes were shot down. Russians claim further losses as fighting rages around Orel Belgorod and Kursk.
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Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Orel-Kursk
Belgorod
Hitler
Moscow
Orel
War Production Board orders further newsprint cuts for 1943
The War Production Board instructed newspaper publishers to trim newsprint use by up to five percent in the third quarter of 1943. The extra cut excludes the first 25 tons for papers printing under 500 tons quarterly. The move follows committee recommendations and labor advisory agreement aimed at aiding smaller papers.
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Washington
War Production Board Today
WPB
H. M. Bitner
WPB Printing and Publishing Division
Newspaper Industry Committee
Labor Advisory Committee
Death Notice Drafted On Guffy Coal Act
Washington July 6 A death certificate for government regulation of the soft coal industry drafted seven years ago and a plan to extend the act beyond its August 23 expiration were blocked by the House Rules Committee by a majority vote. The panel tabled a stopgap resolution to push the act’s life to Jan 1 and indicated no immediate action before recess. Chairman Sabath said the speaker likely will not pursue the measure on suspension of the rules. The Ways and Means Committee also rejected a bill to extend the stabilization mechanism two years after the war.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Sabath
Ill
Rules Committee
House
Roosevelt
Ways and Means Committee
Richthofen in Italy to bolster defenses
Berlin radio says Field Marshal Baron Von Richthofen, commander of the German air fleet in the Battle of Britain, has been sent to Italy to aid Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in organizing defences against Allied air assaults. He will help defend possible invasion points in Sardinia, Sicily, and the Italian mainland.
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London
Berlin
Baron von Richthofen
Britain
Italy
Associated Press
Richthofen
Albert Kesselring
Avis
Europe
Sardinia
Sicily
Southern Bell wage rise denied by regional war board
The fourth regional war labor board in Atlanta on July 6 denied proposed wage and salary increases for more than 16,000 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. employees across nine southern states.
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Atlanta
Fourth Regional War Labor Board Today
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co
Southern
Allies Raid Sicily Sardinia in Major Aerial Offensive
Allied air forces led by U S Flying Fortresses struck Sicily and Sardinia in a three day campaign for air supremacy. 42 German planes were shot down while 12 Allied aircraft were lost. Liberators bombed Messina and Gerbini airfields, railways, docks, and depots, with a notable 30 enemy planes downed by Fortresses and Staff Sergeant Benjamin Warmer destroying seven fighters.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
U. S
Sicily
Sardinia
Middle East
Messina
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Liberators
Lazaretto Mole
Gerbini
Mediterranean
Destoy
Benjamin Warmer
San Francisco
Army Holds 3 Japs Wearing U.S. Uniforms
Three American-born Japanese in U S army uniforms were questioned after one dug up a buried camera on a Sumner Washington farm. Inductees from Fort Douglas Utah on 15 day leave reportedly reported to Camp Shelby Mississippi. Disposition unclear. some held at Ft Lewis pending investigation.
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Seattle
Post Intelligencer
Sumner
Wash
Fort Douglas
Utah
Camp Shelby
Miss
Ralph Burival
Norton Wynn
Army
the Post
War Department
Washington
Wynn
Ft. Lewis
Wallaces and Jones Clash Over War Material Policies
Six foot two Jesse Jones, head of RFC, and Vice President Wallace clash in a week long feud over BEW purchases of strategic war materials. Jones accuses Wallace of hindering BEW buys while Wallace’s ally Perkins defends BEW, prompting Senate calls for probes and a broader postwar planning inquiry.
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Washington
Jesse Jones
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Wallace Jones
Milo Perkins
Rip van Winkle
Senate Appropriations Committee
Perkins
Action in Kula Gulf battle details scarce
Navy reports incomplete information on the Kula Gulf clash, noting U S forces likely inflicted heavy damage on Japan while characterizing the engagement as a light surface action with possible but unclear bomber involvement. The destroyer Strong was torpedoed and sunk during a separate bombardment of Vila and Bairoko, with no confirmed casualties.
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Solomons
Pacific
Vila
Munda
Kula Gulf
Washington
Navy
United States
Solomon Islands
Bairoko Kula Gulf
New Georgia Island
Kolombangara Island
Joseph Harold Wellings
East Boston
Mass
South Pacific
Strong
Ballale
Shortland Island
U. S
Navy Department
RAF Sweep Nets Seven Axis Fighters
RAF Spitfires destroyed seven German fighter planes in a daylight sweep over northern France. No British losses were reported. Allied aircraft roared over the Channel in clear sunshine, targeting the area between Boulogne and Calais. Night raids on Germany were not confirmed in British announcements. Berlin claimed nuisance raids over western and northern Germany. An RAF low level attack off the Dutch coast damaged an armed vessel. US sources said photo reconnaissance showed satisfactory results from the Le Mans Gnome-Rhone factory raid by eight US bombers, with significant damage to the main building.
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London
France
Channel
French
Berlin
Germany
Reich
Associated Press
Dover Strait
Boulogne
Calais
RAF
Air Ministry
U. S. Army
le Mans
Nazis Charge Britain With Sole Guilt for Bombing War
The German foreign office released a white paper accusing Britain of sole guilt for civilian bombing. It claimed English aims were to escalate terror, citing Coventry Rotterdam and other raids, and warned of reprisals while recalling 1932 disarmament talks.
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London
Warsaw
Rotterdam
Coventry
Foreign Office
Britain
Europe
Churchill
Roosevelt
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Hitler
Pinckney Buys Harvard Jail At Tax Sale
Sixteen year old Robert Pinckney says the Harvard city council recognizes his title to the jail but imposes seven day duties to raise sidewalks trim weeds and grass or face action. Attorney C Russell Mattson plans ejectment if the city challenges the claim after Pinckney bought the jail and lots for six dollars. officials say listing error.
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Harvard
Neb
Robert Pinckney
Pinckney
C. Russell Mattson
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Lever Harbor
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Alelu
Viru
Cliff
Hele Islands
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Vaholi Bay
Vanguna
I. L. Sharpman
Sharpman
William M. Leiserson
William M. Leiserson, Who Appointed the Emergncy
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Walter T. Fisher
John A. Fitch
Soldier
Axis
Roger Greene
Crete
Marsala
Licata
Sciacca
Catania
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Gerbint
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Banking
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