Fines to be Levied for Walkout by Government Mine Workers
Secretary Ickes announced fines for participants in the 1 7 walkout from government operated coal pits. Miners under John L. Lewis face daily penalties of five dollars if they fail to work without a good reason. Fines go to charities. levies depend on the contract terms and extend through the current truce ending June 20.
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Washington
Ickes
John L. Lewis
Une 20
Min
UMW
Waether
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Attu Mass Suicide Grenade Attacks End Japanese Resistance
On Memorial Day at Attu Island the last organized Japanese resistance ended as many soldiers and civilians killed themselves with hand grenades rather than surrender. American forces repelled a surprise counterattack, clearing Attu village and corpses lay in grisly piles near Corys Lake after fierce combat.
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Cories Lake
Attu
Retail Butter Price Rollback Announced in Southeast
ATLANTA June 10 F E Kamper regional OPA food representative announced an immediate rollback in retail butter prices reducing by five to six cents a pound across eight southeastern states. Subsidy of five cents per pound to creameries by Defense Supply Corporation enables the cut with price changes at creamery level June 4 and at primary distributors June 6. Retailers set maximum consumer prices based on largest purchase after these dates. fixed markups apply. States affected include North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Atlanta
F. E. Kamper
OPA
Southeastern
Kamper
Defense Supply Corporation
North Carolina
South Carolina
FDR To Attend Radio Ceremony On Submarine Navy Gift
President Roosevelt will participate in a radio ceremony at 5 p.m. EWT today as Greece receives an anti submarine patrol boat under a lend lease arrangement. The craft, identical to those given to Norway and The Netherlands, will be accepted for Greece by Ambassador Cimon Diamantopoulos. The broadcast will be carried on all networks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Norway
Netherlands
Cimon P. Diamantopoulos
Tempo Of Air Combat Rises On Red Front
Moscow reports increasingly vigorous air battles along the Russian front as German and Soviet air forces clash ahead of a land offensive. Don river valley fighting near Bataisk sees downed Junkers and Heinkel planes, while German raids press on Volkhov front and Donbas.
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William McGapfin
Moscow
Bataisk
Rostov
Don River
Don
Russia
Don River Basin
Communist International
Nazi Police Tighten Grip on Germany
Stockholm reports indicate Heinrich Himmler’s police tighten control across Germany amid sagging morale. Observers say no collapse soon, as leaders rally and threaten purges for dissent while expanding reach to thousands. In Austria, SS executions for anti Nazi activity exceed 140 since November, though press notes suggest broader, hidden figures.
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Stockholm
Heinrich Himmiler
Germany
Himmiler
Gestapo
Austria
Curtin Sees Near for Major Attacks on Japan
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin indicated that after a period of defensive warfare in the Southwest Pacific the Allies may shift to limited and potentially full scale attacks on Japan. He noted findings from meetings with General Douglas MacArthur and cited U S naval victories at Midway and in the Solomons as evidence Australia could be held as a base for offensive operations.
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William Boni
Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Southwest
Pacific
Sydney
Genera Douglas MacArthur
Curtin
MacArthur
Washington
Churchill
Roosevelt
Southwest Pacific
United States Navy
Midway Island
Solomons Islands
Coral Sea
Japan
Postwar Air Travel Foreseen as Rapid Global Service
Boston June 10 United Air Lines executive Harry Crary forecast major postwar air travel growth. Four engine transports carrying 100 passengers could cut trans Atlantic time to about 400 minutes and link half the world within a 40 hour flight from New England. He projected coast to coast and international routes with up to 6,000 monthly trips and larger ports with instrument landings. The army already uses four engine planes for quick cross country hops.
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Boston
Atlantic
New England
Harry Crary
United Air Lines
Crary
New England Council
United Air Lines’ Research Engineers
United Engineers
Army
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Milk May Be Next Thing To Be Rationed
Sacramento June 10 Milk may be the next commodity to be rationed a federal authority disclosed today The War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administration with the dairy industry study ways to limit civilian milk consumption as supplies likely decline later this year T G Stitts chief of dairy and poultry in the WFA said four methods under study include rationing fluid milk on a coupon basis restricting transportation of milk limiting urban milk sheds eliminating sales of cream and cream by products and allocating supplies to dealers or markets Whatever restrictions are imposed would be nationwide and affect both military and civilian needs
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Sacramento
Calif
War Food Administration
WFA
Office of Price Administration
Dairy Industry
T. G. Stitts
Stitts
California Dairy Council
Service Men and Zoot Suiters Clash Across Los Angeles
In Los Angeles and outlying districts during June 10 clashes between about 125 zooters and 90 service men, mainly sailors and marines, rioting continued for over an hour. A woman, Delly Morgan, was slashed by three young assailants downtown near the Third Street tunnel. one officer fired at a flare-throwing boy, and police dispersed a zoot-suited mob in Boyle Heights. Additional gunplay occurred in Azusa with unclear links to the main clashes.
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Los Angeles
We Saace Ie
Delly Morgan
Third Street
Miss Morgan
Watts
Azusa
Boyle Heights
Allied Bombing Having Worse Effects On Axis
Stockholm reports Nazi circles say Allied bombardment harms the Reich more than the invasion nerve war. Voelkischer Beobachter cites the German people suffering from daily round the clock air sorties, nerve strain, and health decline amid the raids.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Tidningen
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Germany
Aquatic School Opens at Camp Carolina
About 150 students enrolled as the 20th annual national Red Cross aquatic school opened yesterday at Camp Carolina in Brevard.
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Brevard
National Red Cross
Camp Carolina
Weed em and reap slogan pitched for victory gardeners
Professor Frank G. Helyar of Rutgers University College of Agriculture proposed the slogan Weed em and reap for victory gardeners in New Brunswick New Jersey. The remark appeared in the June 10 issue as a light editorial note urging practical wartime gardening.
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New Brunswick
Frank G. Helyar
Rutgers University College of Agriculture
Two Negroes Sought For Kidnaping
Chicago police search Kensington district for two Black men believed to have kidnapped a 16 year old girl on a south side street after a boy named Rocco Camadeca said she was an acquaintance of his brother Tommy who was enlisting in the army. The girl wore a red coat and blue anklets.
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Chicago
Kensington
Rocco Camadeca
Tommy
Rocco
Indiana Avenue
Missing in Action Husband Reported to Navy
The Navy Department informed Mrs. Ada Miller of Shelby that her husband Paul Wesley Miller is reported missing in action.
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Shelby
Navy Department
Ada Miller
Paul Wesley Miller
British Raid on Lampedusa Reported Alongside Pantelleria Actions
Allied Air Forces said they executed new dawn and night raids against Pantelleria and Sicily connected to a British commando operation on Lampedusa. Commandos tested defenses on Lampedusa, then withdrew with light casualties as air forces bombed Pantelleria for the 18th straight day and attacked Sicily. RAF fighters struck targets in the Aegean, while ships and Littorio class battleships were damaged by aerial strikes.
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North Africa
Mediterranean
Pantelleria
Sicily
Lampedusa
Mapedusa
Malta
London
Cairo
Carbine
Catania
Middle East
Rome
RAF
Aegean Sea
la Spezia
Italy
Littoro
Littorio
Vittorio Veneto
Roma
John R
Killer) Kane
Shreveport
Gerbini
Wage standard eyed at $20 weekly in southeast region
Records of the southeastern regional war labor board indicate that $20 a week may be the minimum wage acceptable in the region as affording a minimum standard of living. The board has authority to determine substandard wages and has considered cases with under 50 cents an hour or $20 weekly for a 40 hour week.
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Dick Hawkins
Atlanta
Southeastern Regional War Labor Board
WLB
Board—Authority
Invasion Preparations for Pantelleria and Europe
The piece notes that Allied invasion preparations are underway for Pantelleria and possibly Sicily Sardinia and Lampedusa. It cites Churchill on the complexity and timing of amphibious operations while stressing that actual timing depends on developments at the Russian front and potential German offensives, with large fleets and air support required for any major operation.
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Pantelleria
Isle
Europe
Lampedusa
Sicily
Sardinia
Churchill
Hitler
Pantelleria raid and global air offensives reported
Allied air forces pound Pantelleria in a continued pre invasion assault while RAF targets the Aegean. The text notes a second Lampedusa reconnaissance night raid and reports rising air combat across the front with German and Soviet forces contending. It also mentions Comintern dissolution and Western Europe raids with British plane losses, planning for Flying Fortresses, Yugoslav partisan actions, and Curtin predicting early offensive against Japan.
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Mediterranean
Pantelleria
RAF
Aegean
Lampedusa
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Iners Wille
NAVY
Marilyn Sandquist
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
George F. Jubb
Corpus Christi
Tex
Nashville
Tenn
Attu Nips
Selves
FDR
Donbasin
Volkhov Front
Leningrad
Kursk
Pravda
Community Party
Richard Hagerman
France
England
Lishhansk
Smolensk
DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Wasi Aralvet
Western Europe
U. S
Balkans
Montenegrin
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