British Admit Withdrawal At Ain El Gazala
British forces withdrew from the Ain El Gazala line as Rommel pressed toward Tobruk in a three week Libyan desert battle. German claims of victory contrasted with British regrouping at Acroma and El Adem while heavy tank losses were reported on both sides.
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Edward Kennedy Catro
Egypt
Tobruk
Ain el Gazala
Acroma
Ain el Gazala-Bir Hacheim
Rommel
el Adem
Neil M. Ritchie
London
Eighth Army
Over 40 An Hour And You Might Not Get Gas
June 16 RALFIGH NC motorists warned not to exceed 40 mph on state highways. The motor vehicle commissioner noted federal authorities asked the highway patrol to report drivers over 46 mph and that those violating the limit may face gasoline and tire shortages.
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Ralfigh
Faseline
North Carolina
T. Bodie
State Highway Patrol
Ward
Nazis Balked At Kharkov By Russians
Moscow dispatches report a three day German assault to cross a key river in the Kharkov sector was repelled by Russian hill top defenses and the Nazi forces pulled back to the defensive. Tass said Sevastopol fortifications faced heavy German artillery including Big Berthas and seven infantry divisions with 150 tanks. The Sevastopol garrison claimed 40 German tanks destroyed and three infantry regiments killed in a single day. Kharkov fighting saw 160 German tanks destroyed or damaged as the Soviets held firm in rocky terrain. Bryansk front activity yielded 600 Germans killed and seized equipment near Bryansk, including five tanks.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Kharkov
Donets J
Sevastopol
Crimean
Paris
Red Army
Tass
Imall
Bryansk
Bryansk Front
Smolensk
Soviet Information Bureau
Fedor
Chinese Ask New Front Against Japs
Chinese government urges an immediate major Pacific offensive alongside other theaters. A spokesman warns complacency could make Japan the hardest Axis foe to defeat, outlining Japan’s aims in China as eliminating bases, seizing points, and consolidating gains. Chinese lines report an 80 mile gap to the Nanchang Hangchow railway with a drive into Chekiang Kiangsi nearing 25 miles deep.
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Chungking
Pacific
United Nations
Japan
Germany
China
Nanchang- Hangchow
Chekiang
Kiangsi
Niangsi
Oil Heat Users Given Warning
Washington dispatch reports Petroleum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes warning that oil heating supplies cannot be guaranteed for next winter in Atlantic seaboard states. He urges Easterners to switch to coal immediately as 1,250,000 oil heat homes may face cold winters without conversions. The warning follows a petroleum industry council report predicting overland oil deliveries will meet summer needs but be inadequate for winter demand.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Atlantic Seaboard States
Seaboard
Ickes
Petroleum Industry War Council
Victims of War Demands Say Small Retailers Quit
Washington reports a rising wave of small business failures as war material shortages and labor demands bite. merchants, both Democratic and Republican, call it a revolt of the people with many quitting after liquidating their stores.
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Washington
Kay Tucker
Congress
Capitol Hill
Japs Believed Suffering From Third Sea Hammering
Washington June 16 The House Ways and Means Committee backed away from considering the administrations request for a $24 000 exemption limit on individual net incomes after taxes The plan aimed to raise revenue by speeding excise taxes and splitting the tax bill Morgenthau had presented a 7 6 billion program Randolph Paul tax adviser urged a 25 000 flat limit on post tax incomes plus a 10 percent surcharge on earnings over 20 000 single and over 30 000 married
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Washington
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Congress
Morgenthau
Randolph Paul
Paul
Navy Reported Aleutian Invasion Reeling Under Attacks
Washington June 16 The Japanese invasion force off the Aleutians faces continued American air assaults as part of a string of Pacific operations. Navy officials report sinking a cruiser damaging an aircraft carrier at least three cruisers a destroyer and a transport with some vessels described as severely damaged. No American losses are reported and the operation proceeds under ongoing air and sea combat.
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Washington
Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Middle Pacific
Navy Department
Aleutian Islands
Rocky Island
Alaska
Navy
You And The War Rubber You And The War Rubber
A wartime plea urges reclaiming old rubber from homes garages and attics to aid the war effort. It notes three quarters of a pound yields a gas mask while thirty pounds make a bomber tire and forty five thousand pounds help build a battleship. Recovered rubber from everyday items could fuel military needs.
Appropriations Panel Approves Omnibus Guayule Bill
Washington June 16 The House Appropriations Committee approved an omnibus bill totaling 53 545 0999 to accelerate guayule rubber production and fund expanded postal service. It would grant the Post Office Department 38 688 000 due to unprecedented mail volume while revenues exceed estimates by 565 000 000 and expenditures rise by 32 000 000 this fiscal year. The panel trimmed rubber funding to 33 835 000 but left project choices to Agriculture to prioritize rubber for the war effort.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Postoffice Department
Congress
Department ‘of Agriculture
Great Losses Reported In Mediterranean Battle
Reports compiled from Associated Press notes immense Allied and Axis losses in a four day clash in the Mediterranean. U S Army Air Force B 24s and RAF forces set fire to Italian battleships a cruiser and a destroyer amid convoys to Africa. Berlin claimed sinkings of cruisers and destroyers plus merchant ships. Rome claimed Allied ships sunk or damaged. A British convoy reportedly crossed the Mediterranean west to east with U S A A F Liberators aiding.
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U. S. Army Air Force
Berlin
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Africa
RAF
Cairo
U.S. Army
Hix
Reich
Italy
Rome
Alexandria
Atlantic
Royal Navy
Commaunique
London
Evening Standard
Taranto
Malta
United States
Amy Air Force
British convoy losses denied by official notice
London June 6 official dispatch states new supplies have been delivered to Malta and Tobruk garrisons. Admiralty and Air Ministry dismiss “fantastic enemy claims” of convoy and protecting craft losses as without foundation.
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London
Malta
Tobruk
Admiralty
Air Ministry
House Naval Committee Approves 8.55 Billion Ship Bill
The House Naval Committee approved a massive ship construction program totaling 8.55 billion dollars aimed at doubling the US fleet. It funds 300,000 tons of carriers, cruisers and destroyers, reducing emphasis on new battleships to expand air power. Senators Ellender and Brewster said admirals halted new battleship plans and retooled cruisers as aircraft carriers.
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Washington
I.p
United States
House Naval Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Ellender
D-La
Brewster
R-Ai
Maine
Ebiender
Midway
Coral Islands
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Columbus in Crippled Finance as Mayor Cuts Police and Fire
Columbus Ohio under financial strain as Mayor Floyd F Green announces layoffs of half the police and fire forces. He rejects pleas to delay the move stating funds must be raised to restore full service. Voters rejected a 25 mill levy last week that would have covered an anticipated 1942 shortfall. Green claims no waste or extravagance while critics accuse political maneuvering. State refinancing laws have lapsed, leaving the city “up against a stone wall.”
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Columbus
Floyd F. Green
Ohio Capitals
Green
Jerry Spears
RAF Drops French Flag Over Paris Under Gun Fire
London reports the RAF said a British plane released two French tricolor flags on Paris last night and attacked the former ministry of the marine with cannon fire. One flag fell over the Arc de Triomphe memorial and the second over the Place de la Concord.
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London
RAF
Paris
Ministry of Marine
France
Arc de Triomphe
Place de la Concord
Lottery Ring Shattered in Detroit Collapse
U S District Attorney J C Lehr announced 63 residents of the United States Cuba and Panama had been indicted as co conspirators in an international lottery operation described by postal authorities as among the most extensive in the United States.
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Detroit
U. S
J.C. Lehr
United States
Cuba
Panama
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Frank Lawson
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Seattle
Wash
Bill
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Bulletin
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