Air Might Hits Lampedusa Allies Blast Nazi Arms Centers
One small sector of the soft coal fields shut down and another voted to follow suit protesting government fines on miners for the June 1 walkout. The walkout movement began in Alabama with three mines and 615 workers, then spread to Windber Pennsylvania where about 1,600 miners voted to strike. Most of the nation’s soft coal and nearly all anthracite workers stayed at work.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alabama
Windber
Ickes
United Mine Workers
U.M.W
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
WLB
Lewis
Central Pennsylvania Producers Association
Allied air raids devastate Rabaul and Koepang
Allied headquarters report major air sweeps on Timor and New Britain with Liberators and B-24s striking Koepang and Rabaul. Fire and destruction followed, multiple aircraft destroyed, one Liberator missing, and attacks on Jamaua and other targets across New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago. Meantime, Ickes expands coal mine fines for absenteeism, threatening court action. in Greenville, George A. Clark, long-time police chief, dies of a heart attack.
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Australia
Fifth Air Force
Rabaul
New Britain
Koepang
Timor
Vunakanau
Rapopo
Jamaua
New Guinea
Dili
Gasmata
Madang
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
Greenville
George A. Clark
RAF launches heavy bomber raid on Duesseldorf and Ruhr targets
London dispatch reports the RAF again unleashed the heaviest bomber force of the war against the Ruhr and Rhineland. Duesseldorf was the main objective with Münster and other targets struck. Sealed by air ministry, the night raid followed a daylight push by American bombers against Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven.
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Edward D. Ball
London
RAF
Reich
Ruhr
Rhineland
Duesseldorff
Huenster
Air Ministry
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Dortmund
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Muenster
Netherlands
High Command
Berlin
Associated Press
United States
Duesseldorf
Hitler
Europe
Wilhelmshafen
Germany
Iron and Steel Works
Bomb Nearly Detonates On Fort Bomber’s Deck
At a British U S bomber station the crew of a Flying Fortress faced a live bomb in the bomb rack with a faulty spinner mechanism. Lieut Howard Gardner and crew members J Ky Kunz Stanley Farmworth wrestled for 15 minutes to release the weapon before it dropped into the ocean. Gardner recalls the tense moment and their fear of an in-flight detonation.
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U.S
Britain
Germany
Howard Gardner
Millinocket
J. Ky Kunz
Pittsburgh
Stanley Farmworth
Bakersfield
Calif
Kunz
Gardner
Zionist program calls for postwar relief for Jews in Europe
The Zionist Organization of America demands relief and rehabilitation for displaced European Jews, restoration of equal rights in their home countries, and a chance to establish themselves in a self governing Palestine as part of the postwar program.
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Washington
Palestine
Zionte Organization of America
British leaders arrive in North Africa today
Sir James Grigg the British secretary of state for war and Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair arrived in North Africa on June 12, meeting with Allied commanders to discuss wartime plans.
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Africa
North Africa
James Grigg
Archibald Sinclair
Criticism Targets Senate Strike Bill Ahead of Action
Washington June 12 opponents launched a final barrage of criticism as the Senate moved toward final action on legislation aimed at banning strikes in war industries.
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Senate
Washington
War and labor fight shape Allied bomb drive and unions
The Allied air offensive grows with U S and British bombers in Britain expanding by up to 30 percent monthly under Maj Gen Baker. In Congress the Connally Harness bill to seize war plants and restrict unions clears the House 219 to 129, strengthening the War Labor Board and laying penalties for strikes in government controlled war industries.
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Tra C. Baker
Britain
House
Senate
Thomas
Utah
la Follette
Danaher
R-Conn
Mead
DNY
War Labor Board
War Bills Offered As Proof Partisan Politics On Way Out
The House Foreign Affairs committee, by a 12 member mix of 14 Democrats and 11 Republicans, has approved 37 war related bills since Pearl Harbor. Chairman Bloom vows Congress will rule out politics in peace talks and notes cross party support. Republican Rep Chiperfield calls the record remarkable and asserts no member sacrificed principles.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bloom
D-Ny
Congress
Rep
Chiperfield
Illinois
French Group In Agreement On Army Purge
The French committee for national liberation reportedly agrees to discharge high army officers with anti Allied or Petain backgrounds. De Gaulle and six members reportedly in accord, signaling broad support for an immediate army purge. Action expected tonight on the controversial reorganization.
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Algiers
French Committee For National Liberation
de Gaulle
Lee S. Overman Liberty Freighter Launched at Wilmington
The S.S. Lee S. Overman named for the late North Carolina senator was launched yesterday at North Carolina Shipbuilding Company yards in Wilmington. The Liberty freighter was the 105th to near completion at the yard.
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Preighter
Wilmington
S.S. Lee S
Potatoes Rot In Transit Ties To Ice Shortage
New York reports at least 9000 tons of potatoes worth 90000 rotted during transit from the South due to lack of refrigeration. Buell Maben of the U S Department of Agriculture cites OD restrictions and ice shortages affecting trains. He expects improvement by mid next week as new shipments from North Carolina and West Virginia roll in.
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New York
Buell Maben
Food Distribution Administration
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maben
Office of Defense Transportation
New York City
North Carolina
West Virginia
Soviet Air Strike Shatters German Front Lines
Moscow dispatches report a 700 plane Soviet raid on German air fields along the Russian front with 150 Nazi aircraft destroyed and significant damage to runways, hangars, fuel dumps, and munitions depots. Ten enemy planes were shot down and 18 Soviet planes did not return. Germans claim a live front with renewed fighting near Orel.
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William Megaperin
Moscow
Orel
Tass
Gorki
Shoe Ration Stamp No 18 Valid Through Oct 31
The Office of Price Administration announced that the new No 18 shoe ration stamp becomes valid next Wednesday and will last civilians through October 31. Stamp 17 expires Tuesday night, and stamp 18 covers four and a half months. The stamp is transferrable within a family and aligns with an average of three pairs per person per year.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Italian Island Gets Surrender Ultimatum
Allied air forces press Lampedusa with intensified bombing following Pantelleria capitulation. Gen. Eisenhower's HQ announced the attack as Italian high command reports continued bombardment and resistance on the smaller island off Sicily.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italians Prisoners Over 10000 From Pantelleria Capture
Allied headquarters in North Africa announced that more than 10 000 Italians were taken prisoner in the Pantelleria operation with no Allied casualties. The entire prisoner group appeared German free and three thousand were en route to the mainland while others awaited transport. The surrender occurred exactly as planned.
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North Africa
Pantelleria
Patelleria
Pantelleria Garrison Surrenders Amid Allied Attacks
Allied forces press Pantelleria with air and sea bombardments as the garrison finally yields under siege. Initial counts put the Italian force at 12,000 to 15,000, while Lampedusa score a separate blow with air strikes and naval action continuing into night.
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Pantelleria
Pedusa
Sicilian
Gibraltar
Algiers
Pegeres
Lampedusa
Army Patrols Kill Attu Jap Stragglers
Navy communique reports continued fighting in the western Aleutians. On Attu Island US patrols killed 66 Japanese stragglers and captured one prisoner as air and ground forces targeted Kis Island and Kiska installations. By June 9 overall Attu casualties reached 1,911 dead and 21 captured.
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Washington
Navy
Aleutians
Kis Island
Attu
North Pacific
United States Army Patroon
Attu Island
Bay
Cape Khlebnikof
Postwar UN resolution stalls in Senate committee
Four U S senators proposed a postwar UN declaration calling for no territorial aggrandizement and a world peace mechanism. The measure sits in a special committee amid summer-budget delays and cautious opposition from state officials and Churchill talks. The plan would urge formation of a UN body to lead wartime actions, relief, and a global military force to deter future aggression.
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Francis J. Kelly
Washington
U. S
United Nations
R-Minn
Burton
Ohio
Atch
D-Nm
Hill
D-Ala
State Department
Churchill
Russia
Congress
Senate
United States
United Nations Organization
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Fala
Roosevelt
J. F. Byrnes
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AMS
Los Angeles
Voelkischer Beobachter
Eighth
United States Air Force
England
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