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High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
2
FDR Answer On White House Conference Question
FDR declined to offer details when reporters pressed about the White House conference. Secretary Ickes avoided answering further as newspapermen sought clarification on the talks and possible outcomes.
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Anyshing
White, House
Ickes
Japanese plans and Midway risk in Japanese raids
The text analyzes Japanese strategy around Midway, suggesting Dutch Harbor as a diversion or test raid. It notes possible plans to wipe out Midway, with battleships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers involved, signaling a costly attempt that could still succeed despite the risks and diversionary aims.
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Alaska
Midway
Dutch Harbor
Ait Wake
Bataan
Corregidor
Philippines
Allied Luftwaffe Losses Rise As Channel Air War Intensifies
Allied reports note several hits on the Tirpitz and Admiral Hipper and Soviet claims of hammering German bomber bases. RAF raids shifted to Dieppe and Holland airdromes after raids on Germany, while Soviet artillery repelled a German push on the Bryansk front as the front line remained largely quiet overall.
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Admiral Hipper
Trondheim
Norway
Britain
United States
Germany
Dieppe
France
Holland
Bryansk
Moscow
Hitler
Ukraine
Leningrad
Strikers Reject Return to Jobs Amid War-Need Surveys
In High Point, hosiery boarders vote 88 to 138 amid mass meeting turnout low as officials from Governor Broughton and U S Labor Conciliation join in urging immediate return to work while surveys and negotiations proceed. The strike affects thirteen mills supplying Army orders.
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J. M. Broughton
J. R. Steelman
U. S. Department of Labor
Grady Morton
Grimes Street
Broughton and Steelman
Grady Marton
High Point Independent Boarders Union
Steele St
High Point
J. Melville Broughton
Grady H. Morton
SR. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
U.S. Conciliation Service
Howard T. Colvin
State Commissioners of Labor
Forrest H. Shuford
Labor Department
Federal Labor Department
Morton
Broughton
D. Yates eHafner
Conciliation
Shuford
Colvin
Southern
Union executive meetings stress war effort and hosiery for War Dept
Participants in conferences with the union’s executive committee stressed the war effort and securing hosiery for the War Department. The speaker urged resuming work while negotiations continue and proposed referring the issue to the War Labor Board. The audience included hecklers causing a minor disturbance.
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War Department
War Labor Board
No Full Houses Toppenish
Wash day card games fade as labor shortage hits towns. Card rooms report daytime closures while farm labor remains scarce. In Mississippi, Maj James Wells inspects drills with his Maine infantry unit using a sling shot to pop heads of observers.
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Yoppenish
Camp Shelby
Miss
James Wells
Maine
Government Dependent Benefits And Draft Call Order
The article describes minimum government contributions for dependents under a proposed measure, with different allocations for wives and children and voluntary extra contributions. It also outlines a House version limiting wife benefits and a Senate provision on calling order for registrants, with Taft noting priorities favoring older married men for draft draws.
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Senate
Taft
Ohio
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
May Continues From Page One At Sea Casualties Rise
May describes multiple ship sinkings including a British merchantman in the Gulf of Mexico, an Allied vessel in Canadian waters, and an Allied ship off east coast Australia. The scene notes 35 sailors rescued from one ship, four officers and a seaman killed on another, 17 rescued, eight unreported, and a raft crew still missing. Two submarines, one German under an Italian officer, were involved.
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Gulf of Mexico
Australia
The War Threatens Major Front in Europe and Pacific
The piece warns of an imminent Nazi offensive aimed at the Middle East and the Muscovites. It cites private estimates of 200 divisions ready for action, totaling about 2.75 million troops, plus a large air fleet. It argues Allied complacency would be dangerous, noting the Russians remain numerically superior but unsure if they can halt the German mechanized assault.
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Middle East
Germany
Nazifuehrer
Europe
Pacific
Hitler
Caucasus
Bomb Plant Fire Near Joliet Reveals Elwood Arsenal Scale
A government spokesman said Elwood loading plant and Kankakee TNT works in southern Will County produced bombs for Tokyo raids before Pearl Harbor. A wrecked brick structure measured 75 by 275 feet housed ship ping facilities of a unit. loading in three nearby buildings would not stop. Total units in the $30,000,000 arsenal were not disclosed. About 69 workers were employed.
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Will County
Joliet
James Doolittle
Tokyo
Elwood
Kankakee
Elwood Arsenal
Destruction at Kankakee munitions plant shocks region
Fred Elias recounted his brother Edmund 19 was among the dead in the blast at the large ordnance complex near Kankakee. The explosion damaged three nearby buildings and shattered windows in department stores 22 miles away. The plant, opened Aug 1941, employed over 10,000 on three shifts and was described as the world’s largest ordnance operation. The incident halted the plant only briefly, as its design allowed other units to continue functioning. The total munitions layout, including the powder works and loading depot, forms a $75,000,000 project.
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Fred Elias
Edmund
Kankakee
Illinois
C. Gerber
Tunstall
Momence
FDR SAYS Allied planes sink six to seven Japanese subs
Allied air and naval forces report sinking two to three submarines off Australia and possibly more in the last five days, increasing total Japanese submarine losses to six or seven in the Australian theatre. British denials contest Tokyo claims of sinking ships at Diego Sun-Tez base. British naval losses remain unreported. Japanese advances near India threaten to invade Burma as reinforcements reach eastern ports.
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Douglas. MacArthur
U.S
Sydney
Madagascar
Imperial Tokyo
Diego Sun- Tez
Tokyo
Africa
India
Homaiin
Burma
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Chindwin Eyer
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