British Airmen Hammer Rhineland Huge Air Assault Opened On Sicily
Soviet patrols report four settlements captured in the Orel hinge sector as Red Army Air Force enters its seventh week of ferocious air battles. German losses in June totaled 1,250 planes with 498 Russian craft downed last week. near Mtsensk German counterattacks inflicted damage but Soviets held gains. Moscow marks United Nations Day with red banner celebrations.
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Rhineland
Sicily
Moscow
Red Army
Orel “Hinge
Mtsensk
Orel
Sevsk
Belgorod
Kharkov
Rostov
Allied Bombers Hit Catania Gerbini in Sicily Raid
Allied air forces launched a major attack on Catania and Gerbini in eastern Sicily. Fifty or more Liberators dropped about 250000 pounds of explosives on the two fields while Malta based Spitfires escorted the bomber formations on the approach and return.
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North Africa
U.S
Middle East Air Command
Sicily
Catania
Geri
Mediterranean
Italy
Gerbini
Middle East
Malta
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Linosa
Cairo
Messina
Pentelleria
U S Death Rate Drops to Record Low in 1942
Dr. Thomas Parran told the House Appropriations Committee the U S general death rate fell to 10.3 per 1 000 in 1942, with maternal deaths at a new low and infant mortality down to about 40 41 per 1 000 live births. Birth rate rose to 20.7, while industrial fatalities offset fewer auto deaths. epidemic diseases meningococcus meningitis and typhus fever increased.
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Washington
United States
Thomas Parran
House Appropriations Committee
Parran
Draft Reveals High Syphilis Rate Among U.S. Draft
Washington report to Congress shows 47.7 per 1000 examinees aged 21 to 35 in the armed forces were found with syphilis from the first 2,000,000 selectees across 44 states. A southern state among Negroes recorded 405.9 per 1000. Surgeon General Thomas Parran noted 46 per 1,000,000 rejections for syphilis and 15,000 per 1,000,000 for gonorrhea. If the rate held, about 610,000 of 10.9 million examined would be rejected for general disease.
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Washington
Congress
Armed Services
House Appropriations Committee
Thomas Parran
Neval
Uneasy Truce Over Soft Coal Wage Issue Deepens
A three way wage production dispute in the soft coal fields nears a climax as 2200 miners in Pennsylvania and Alabama return to work after a brief walkout over Sunday fines by Interior Secretary Ickes. Lewis calls a policy committee meeting to weigh a War Labor Board decision on portal to portal pay. An anti strike bill advances toward President Roosevelt as labor groups threaten veto. Also reported is the death of Lt. (jg) R. W. Hathaway in a navy patrol plane crash near Cherry Point, North Carolina.
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John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Ickes
Lewis
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
War Labor Board
WLB
UMW
Congress
Roosevelt
Sam Rayburn
Wallace
White House
Senate
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Norfolk
R. W. Hathaway
USNR
Dayton
Ohio
Navy
Cherry Point
N. C
Flag Day Unites Nations Under Allied Flag Emblem
The first joint Flag Day observance features banners of the United Nations beside the U S flag. President Roosevelt proclaims June 14 as a day of united tribute to 32 nations and their cause, with a new flag of four red bars on white symbolizing freedom of speech religion from want and fear.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Roosevelt
United
United States
Washington
Four Freedoms
Conference at White House on Axis liberated areas relief
Senate and House leaders from both parties were summoned to the White House for a conference on food and relief for areas to be liberated from Axis rule. Stephen Early said it followed a previous meeting with Hull and Herbert Lehman present.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Stephen Early
Hull
Herbert H. Lehman
Senator Gillette seeks probe of Axis relief plan
Senator Gillette urged a fast senate investigation into a proposed international food relief system for Axis-overrun nations. He noted the urgency for Allies and asked whether the United States can spare food, if shipping capacity exists, and whether aid would reach starving civilians in Belgium Norway the Netherlands and Greece.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Sen
Gillette
D-Iown
Senate
Sen. Thomas
Utah
Sen. Taft
R-O
Great Britain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States
Belgium
Norway
Netherlands
Greece
Japan to Hold Emergency Diet Session Amid Propaganda
The article notes a three day emergency diet session in Tokyo likely to be showcased by broadcasts with wartime propaganda. It suggests Premier Tojo and allies may push a mobilization plan while citing Japan’s production, soil and fertilizer shortages and a strong home front but weak food capacity and a black market.
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Japan
Tokyo
United Nations
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Togo
China
America
Britain
World Today At A Glance Europe and Pacific War Fronts
Europe: US Flying Fortresses hit Bremen and Kiel naval centers. 26 planes lost, deemed worth the price. RAF raids Rhineland. Pacific: about 40 to 50 Jap planes in Russell Islands sweep shot down. Sicily attacked as forces occupy stepping stones to Italy. China: American planes raid Jap strongholds in northern Kiangsi. Russia: intense air action continues amid hints of major battles.
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Europe
Bremen
Kiel
U. S
High Command
Rhineland
Pacific
Russell Islands
Solomons
Mediterranean
Sicily
Italy
Russia
Sungtze
Yangtze
Itchang
Shasi
Chungking
Yanks and Chinese Forces Score New Yangtze Corps Gains
American airmen and Chinese commandos report coordinated blows along the upper Yangtze front. Bombing of Nanchang air field damaged runways and gasoline dumps while 400 Japanese killed in attacks behind the front near Yochow.
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Associated Press
Yangtze
Chungking
Nanchang
Kiangsi
China
Shanghai
Hankow
Yochow
Labor Seeks FDR Veto On Strike Bill
Delegates at the 10th annual American Newspapers Guild CIO convention urge President Roosevelt to veto the Connally Harness anti strike bill. Sam B. Eubank proposes the telegram to the President. The resolution says the bill would destroy labor organizations and intensify capital labor conflict by inviting management to force collective bargaining.
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Boston
American Newspapers Guild Cio
Roosevelt
Sam B. Eubank
Fathers Face Draft as Inductions Hit 60 Percent Cut
Washington reports that the House appropriations committee was told by Paul V. McNutt and Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey that draft inductions would fall about 60 percent after December, with most 1944 draftees from teenage groups. Inductions start in August, aiming for a total armed force of 10.9 million by year end, while 9.2 million are expected by month’s end. Married men not in uniform may miss service, as first-half 1944 inductions run about 117,000 monthly to cover attrition and strength boosts. Hershey noted not all fathers will be drafted, but many will be unless unfit or deferment.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
WMC
House
McNutt
Hershey
Yanks Lose 26 Fortresses In Big Attack
Allied air operations report heavy losses for the US Eighth Air Force in a raid on Kiel and other German naval targets. The mission, described as the heaviest toll in this theater, saw 26 bombers down with German counterstrikes and RAF raids on Ruhr targets causing extensive damage.
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London
Eighth U. S. Air Force
Kiel
Frederick L. Anderson
Bremen
Bochum
Ruhr
Exsen
Duesseldorf
RAF
Duesseldorf-Muenster
Flying Fortresses Bomb Kahili Buin in Solomons Raid
Navy communique reports heavy bombers Flying Fortresses and Liberators struck Japanese positions at Kahili Buin on Bougainville in the Solomons during the night of June 12. No U S losses reported and results not observed.
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Washington
Kahili
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Navy
United States
South Pacific
Army Flying Fortresses
Kahili Buin
U. S
Federal State Local Governments Cooperate For War Effort
President Roosevelt says federal state and local governments coordinate like never before to win the war. He praises Maryland Governor Herbert R. O Connor and the governors conference for their role in aligning efforts across levels of government toward a single objective.
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Baltimore
Roosevelt
Maryland
Herbert R. O'Connor
Governors’ Conference
Council of State
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