RAF raids hit Cologne and targets in Belgium Holland
Allied air forces struck Cologne and other Rhineland objectives last night while RAF fighters attacked targets in Holland and Belgium. Fourteen bombers and one fighter were reported missing. the offensive continued with aerial attacks on rail and road networks and German industry, including locomotives and industrial plants, as heavy German defenses and prior raids are noted.
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Cologne
Rhineland
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Air Ministry
Holland
Belgium
Germany
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Essen
Ruhr
France
Denmark
Douai
Bethune Nothern
Hitler
U. S. Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
Cuzhaven
Bremen
Kiel
Six Yank Planes Lost In Guadalcanal Action
In a great Pacific air battle over Guadalcanal Island on June 16 American planes shot down 77 Japanese aircraft while losing six of their own. Navy communique No. 415 notes 32 bombers and 45 Zero fighters downed. six US planes are missing, suggesting some pilots may yet return.
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Pacific
Guadalcanal
Navy
South Pacific
United States
Solomons
Russell Islands
Weather Halts Allied Air Offensive Against Sicily
Allied air operations against Sicily and Southern Italy were halted by bad weather in North Africa, the Malta based report said. Mosquitoes carried out rail and bridge strikes near Terminilmerese while heavy bombers were grounded. the sortie count included пять enemy aircraft shot down and activity on Monday and Tuesday nights.
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North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Nothwest
Terminilmerese
Valletta
Durin
Ber
The War Today column by Max Hill field notes
The daily War Today column is written by Max Hill while Dewitt MacKenzi is on vacation. Hill, formerly AP bureau chief in Tokyo, contributes leadership and analysis.
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Dewitt MacKenzi
Max Hill
Associated Press
Bu Treau
Tokyo
Turkey shifts stance and sides with the Allies
The article reports Turkey moving away from the Axis and embracing the Allies, with Premier Sukru Saracoglu praising America Britain and Russia. It notes Turkey’s tepid reaction to Germany and suggests Turkish cooperation and material support could bolster Allied war efforts in the region. It signals a weakened Axis position and hints at strategic implications for the Balkans.
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Allies
Hitler
Europe
Balkans
Turkey
Sukru Saracoglu
America
Britain
Russia
Germany
No Health Impairment Found in Fuel Rationing
Chicago June 17 Director Joel Dean of the Office of Price Administration says a survey found no impairment of public health from last winter s fuel rationing. He told the Journal of the American Medical Association only minor adjustments to the Oct 22 1942 order are needed. Questionnaires were sent to health officers in 19 states and the District of Columbia with replies received from those jurisdictions.
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Chicago
Joel Dean
Office of Price Administration
Journal of the American Medical Association
Dean
District of Columbia
Asheville man named public director of NC Milk Producers Coop
James G. K. McClure of Asheville was appointed by Governor Broughton as public director of the North Carolina Milk Producers Cooperative Marketing Association. He will represent the public on the board.
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Raleigh
James G. K. McClure
Asheville
Broughton
North Carolina Milk Producers Cooperative Marketing Association
McClure
Dies Group Probes Jap Food Hoarding
Former Heart Mountain employee Earl A. Best testified to a Dies sub committee about hidden food stores at the camp. He described secret pantries under kitchen walls and large lard and mayonnaise reserves, suggesting hoarding would enable trade for whisky and other items with Japanese soldiers.
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Los Angeles
Dies
Congressional
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Wyoming
Earl A. Best
Dunkerque
Clifford
Africa
Heart Mountain
Poston, Ariz
Heart Mountain Camp
Best
United States Army
Axis Balkan Fears Grow Turkish Diplomat Recalled
In Bern on June 17 the Turkish ambassador Behia Kerkhan was recalled from Vichy France amid Gestapo restrictions and spying. A Turkish source said the move signals possible rupture, with Turks also recalling Counselor Seydat and Allies pressing Vichy to recall Gaston Bergery. The Gestapo tightened control on the embassy and opened its diplomatic pouch before delivery.
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Balkan
Bern
Switzerland
Ambasaador Behia Kerkan
Turkey
Ankara
Vichy
France
Gaston Bergery
Bergery
Anis
von Papen
Erkin
Germany
Gestapo
Marshal Petain
Seydat
Gazette de Lausanne
Blow On Head Kills Doctor In Rahway Case
Dr. Harry C. Stilwell president of Rahway Memorial Hospital staff died in Macon Georgia after February head injury. He remained unconscious for two months and could not recall the assault. Police traced his path from a Newark dinner to his home.
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Rahway
N. J
Harry C. Stilwell
Rahway Memorial Hospital
Macon
Newark
Dr. Stilwell
Opposition To Axis Mounts In Balkans
Reports from Cairo on June 17 indicate rising resistance within Axis satellite states in southeastern Europe. Underground leaders in Romania and Bulgaria grow bolder while Bulgarian ties to the Soviet persist. Baron Von Killinger condemns anti Germans and Jews, warning that patience could end as underground movements risk overrunning German tolerance.
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Europe
Rumania
Bulgaria
Russia
Romania
Baron Manfred von Killinger
Bucharest
French Group In Agreement On National Liberation Committee
In Algiers thirteen members of the French National Liberation committee under Gen. Henri Giraud approved procedures and collective responsibility after an eighty minute meeting. Rene Massigh announced the plenary received foreign-government notes on recognition and the start toward a consultative assembly. The talks covered the organization of French forces and tensions with Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
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French National Liberation Committee
Henri Giraud
Rene Massigh
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Landing Craft Report Concentrating On Pantelleria
London, June 17. Rome radio quoted Il Messaggero reporting many landing craft concentrating from the North African coast toward Pantelleria. Axis aerial and naval offensives loom in the Sicilian channel as Romanians seek peace feelers. Axis anxiety grows over Balkan developments.
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London
Rome Radio
Il Messaggero Today
North African
Pantelleria
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Sicilian
African
Gibraltar
Lampedusa
Insular
Europe
Bucharest
Rumania
Ankara
Axis
Balkans
Payroll tripled since World War I study says
A congressional panel reports the U S government payroll more than tripled since World War I, rising from 917,760 civilian workers in 1918 to 3,008,519 last April, with monthly payrolls jumping from 141.5 million to 552.7 million.
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Congressional Committee
Joint Committee On
Byrd
D-Va
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
War Production Board
Board of Economic Warfare
Smolensk Front Blazes Into Action
London reports clashes between scouting parties on the Smolensk front signaling new stirrings in the central sector. The Soviet press notes quiet activity near Orel as armies mass for a potential major offensive on the central front. Berlin spokesmen anticipate the summer campaign may begin in a few weeks.
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London
Smolensk
Orel
Paris
Associated Press
Berlin
Race Riots In Texas Smash Negro Section
Beaumont Texas awoke under martial law as 2400 peace officers controlled riots sparked by two rapes and a killed man and a wounded Negro. Col Sidney C Mason compared damage to Meuse Argonne while troops patrolled after curfew and arrests.
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Beaumont
Tex
Sidney C. Mason
Meuse-Argonne
Mason
Texas
Defense
Texas Rangers
Elk Hills Oil Deal Denounced as Illegal by Justice Dept
The navy's Elk Hills agreement with Standard Oil of California is called illegal and invalid by a justice official, citing the 1938 petroleum conservation act. The dispute involves navy purchase of land and equipment and oil withdrawal rights on 8 297 acres, with a war duration of five years. The committee postponed action to await presidential review of the report.
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Navy
Standard Oil Company of California
Elk Hills Oil Reserve
Justice Department
Norman Littell
House Public Lands Committee
Rep. Elliott D
Littell
Secretary of Way
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Naval
Elliott
Elk Hills
California
Peterson
D-Ila
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Standard Oil Company
Elks Hills
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