Massive Allied raid devastates Messina and Olbia ports
June 26 Allied communique details Flying Fortress raids on Messina and Olbia. Fortresses hit docks, rail yards, two ships damaged, large fires reported. air battles over Messina with 20 enemy planes shot down. RAF Beaufighters and fighter-bombers supported Mediterranean operations as part of Sicily isolation efforts.
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Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Messina
Mediterranean
Sicily
Mussolinis Island
Italy
RAF
Olbia
Sardinia
Naples
Coastal Command
Malta
Army Officer Among Six Indicted On Conspiracy Charges
An army officer and five others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Indianapolis on conspiracy to defraud the government in the Hoosier ordnance plant project near Charlestown. The case centers on rental of trucks and equipment with alleged overcharges totaling $190,000, with FBI evidence suggesting up to $600,000.
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Indianapolis
Hoosier
Charlestown
Ind
Biddle
FBI
Louisville
FDR Faces Growing Congress revolt over home front policy
Washington June 26 Congress shows rising revolt against administration home front policies. Republican leader calls Roosevelt increasingly weak while a Democratic chieftain says the impact on 1944 depends on foreign policy. Measures overriding the anti-strike veto spark sharp political debate.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate Joins House In Food Subsidy Rollback
The Senate voted 46 to 29 to kill the OPA food subsidy rollback and moved subsidy authority to the food administrator, joining the House in a fresh political setback for the Roosevelt administration. The action comes amid a looming CCC lending increase and a House cut of 26 percent from the agency’s next year budget.
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Senate
House
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Chester C. Davis
Administration
Congress
Roosevelt
Prentiss Brown
O'Mahoney
Brown
House J
Mighty Raids Shatter Nazi War Industry
A large force of American heavy bombers attacked airfields and industry in France by daylight in a week of intensified Allied raids. The communique reports three enemy fighters downed and many bombers lost. RAF heavy raids continued on Ruhr targets as Allied air power pounded German industry.
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London
France
Ruhr
Hitler
U.S. Army
British Air Ministry
RAF
Dominion
Sky Fleet
Air Ministry
Bernay Airfield
le Havre
le Treport
Boston
Abbeville
Bochum
Gelsenkirchen
Allied Bombers Hit Rabaul and Lae in Heavy Raids
Liberators and Fortresses bombed Rabaul New Britain dropping 20 tons of bombs in dawn raids and pushing total Rabaul drops to 196 since June 10. Mitchell medium bombers pummeled Lae on the Huon Gulf with dense smoke hindering damage assessment as anti air fire raked the target. Two American bombers were reported missing.
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Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Lae
Huon Gulf
Vunakanau
Navy to wear grey shirts with blue service uniforms
Secretary Knox directed naval officers to wear grey shirts with blue service uniforms when entering winter clothing next October 1. White shirts will continue to be worn with dress blues.
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Washington
Knox
Coal Strike Tests New Anti-Strike Law Questions
The article surveys how the new anti-strike law may affect 60 percent of about 500,000 coal miners who walked off. It weighs government power to arrest isolated leaders versus pursuing broad conspiracy charges and notes leaders urged a return to work until Oct. 31 amid rising miner anger.
Miners Return to Work as Showdown Nears in 1960
Mounting signs from Appalachian coal fields indicate near normal production may resume next week as UMW members in West Virginia Kentucky and Virginia return to pits. In Pennsylvania absenteeism remains high with about 7 600 eastern miners quitting and 1 200 soft coal workers walking out amid back to work pressure and picketing.
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Pittsburgh
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Virginia
United Mine Worker
UMW
Alabama
Ohio
Sylvania
Page &—Sec
Ed Morgan
Morgan
The
United Mine Workers
Penn
Axis Airfields Hammered By Red Warbirds
Soviet air raids struck Bryansk rear area airfields and rail junctions with large fires and claimed German planes destroyed while the Soviet side reported two planes lost. Russian bombers also sank a patrol ship and damaged a mine sweeper in the Gulf of Finland amid limited ground fighting west of Moscow.
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London
Bryansk
Red Army
Moscow
Orel
Gulf of Finland
Belgorod
Mutiny Report In German Sub Crews In Norway
Stockholm June 26 German submarine crews in Norway mutinied refusing to re embark and were sent to Oslo Akershus prison in Oslo Norwegian circles said officers and men joined in the mutiny a sign of waning morale among German forces in Norway The report notes prior mutinies in 1918 and suggests widespread discontent among marines and army troops as observers warn of potential broader effects.
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Stockholm
Norway
Oslo
Akershus
Trondheim
Soviet Russia
Otto Ciliax
English Channel
Strike Stops Work In Cartridge Plant
EAST ALTON Ill June 26 1938 F A Shotters general manager Western Cartridge Company said 1300 striking machinists had not returned to work and the brass mill and cast shop remained shut down. Workers walked out Friday after Congress overrode Roosevelt veto over equal pay for five women in packing. 250 of the strikers voted to resume at 4 pm if an immediate conference on pay rates occurred but the conference was canceled. IAM officials said the walkout was unauthorized.
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East Alton
Ill
F. A. Shotters
Western Cartridge Company
Congress
Roosevelt
Shotters
International Association of Machinists
Independent
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