Miners Strike Tested U S Labor Unity Under War Crisis
Our Daily Bread President Roosevelt orders half a million coal miners back to work by Monday as Congress rushes emergency measures to back him. McCormack urges calm not anger in tackling anti strike proposals while John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers stand accused of disloyalty to government and war effort. The nation weighs how to confront Lewis without breaking broad labor support.
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2,000 Japs Die As Chinese Take Yangtze Port
Chungking June 4 Chinese forces smashed into the Yangtze port of Yi after annihilating 2,000 Japanese troops and captured Ninhsien on the northern shore of Tungting take. The progress was described as a rout aided by American and Chinese airmen with street fighting near Ilu.
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Itu
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Kungan
Hupeh Province
Yangla
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Hupeh
Human Province
Tungting Lake
Nuuhsien
Tungling Lake
China
Cheng Chien
Chengking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tomato Juice Ration Cut Sparks Half Point Decrease
Washington reports the OPA cut tomato juice ration points by half effective Sunday, while other blue coupons remain unchanged for a month. The reduction covers juices with 70 percent or more tomato content, with two points per pound for No 2 cans and four points for 46-ounce cans. Deputy administrator Paul M. O’Leary says future point changes will come monthly to ease rationing burdens alongside a meat point schedule rising one to three points per pound on most beef cuts.
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Understanding Between FDR and Stalin
President Roosevelt said the understanding and accord with Premier Joseph Stalin are excellent after the return of his emissary Joseph Davies from Moscow. He noted no details, and reporters pressed for nothing more.
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Joseph Stalin
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Moscow
Joseph E. Davies
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Stalin
Willi H. Standley
Ambedor
White House
State Department
FDR Hints Army Duty Ahead for Striking Miners
President Roosevelt ordered John L. Lewis’s striking coal miners back to work by Monday and said a miner quitting essential war work becomes liable for army service. Lewis offered no public reaction as the coal dispute continued, with four days given to decide. Federal troop use to protect workers and possible war-time measures loomed as supplies and steel output worried officials.
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Tennessee
Attu Battle Casualties Reported by Navy
Navy reports Attu campaign cost the U S 1 835 army casualties up to midnight Tuesday including 842 dead 1 185 wounded and 58 missing Japanese deaths total 1 791 excluding those killed by bombing or naval bombardment Small groups of Japanese still roamed Attu but limited to sniping with clearance for further enemy action. Army casualties as of midnight June 1 show 342 killed 1 135 wounded and 5 missing plus 11 prisoners taken.
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Attu
Aleutians
United States
Navy
North Pacific
Attu Island
United States Army
Alu Island
Navy Department
Three Arkansas Soldiers Held as Prisoners of War
Three Arkansas soldiers were reported as prisoners of war held by Japanese forces at an unnamed camp. The War Department listed Pvt. Pyt Dehvar Welee Irwin, Pvt. F Palster, and Pvt. Jessie A. Wilson, sons of Jim M. Irwin Oil Trough Newport, Mrs Julie Palster Little Rock route, and Mrs Cynthia Manatuma Caraway route box 72.
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Arkansig
Abe
Daciay
War Department
Pyt
Dehvar Welee Iwin
Jim M. Irwin
Newport
F. Palster
Julie Palster
Little Rocks
Jessie A. Wilson
Cynthia Manatuma
Caraway
Marine Pilot Rescues Two Men in Month in South Pacific
U S Navy Lieutenant A D Morgan of Alameda California, commander of an aviation scouting squadron, twice rescued shipwrecked personnel in the South Pacific within a month. He landed on a raft near Cape Esperance to save First Lieutenant-Pitser Paul Pittman of Gainesville Texas, wounded in the leg after a downed mission over Tulagi Guadalcanal. Later, he flew to a south shore Guadalcanal area to recover nine survivors from a Bel crew after learning two men were injured.
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Guadalcanal
Savo Island
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Pitser
Paul Pittman
Us.m.c
Gainsville
Texas
Pittman
Grumman
Tulagi
Tusign O. J. Lakeveers
Bexar
Arkansas
W. G. Adams
Oakhand
Califort
Morgan
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U S Fliers Deliver Heavy Toll on Japanese Forces
A communique from Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell’s headquarters reports U S fighters and bombers pressing the retreating Japanese along the Yangtze to Yochow and in rear areas near Yochow. American planes sank river craft and struck airfields and rail depots, with P-40s conducting waves of low level strafing. One American pilot is unaccounted for.
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J. Reilly O'Sullivan
Chungking
United States
Yangtae -Baitie
Yochow
Joseph W. Shlwell
Yanglee
Ichang
Yachow
Hankow
House Passes Anti-Strike Legislation
Washington report notes the House approved a bill to jail or fine workers for striking or leading strikes at government operated plants, with Senate action pending amendments. The measure requires a worker vote before a strike and expands War Labor Board powers, with a conference to reconcile Senate and House changes.
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Senate
War Labor Board
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House Military Committee
Compromise Between French Leaders in Algiers
June 4 report says General Giraud remains commander in chief of the French Army with concessions to de Gaulle. High officers replaced by Fighting French generals such as Le Gentilhomme, de Larminat, Koenig, and Le Clerc. Giraud would headquarter and not lead field commands while a New Committee of National Liberation directs war effort outside Axis control.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Giraud
Paul le Gentilhommne
Eduard Rene de Larminat
Marie Louis Koenig
Jacques le Cl
British War Ships Pound Pantelleria
Allied forces report repeated British naval bombardments of Pantelleria, with warships blasting fortifications and shore batteries while American and RAF air strikes target the island and Naples. Royal Navy and Allied aircraft sustain heavy pressure, with negligible Italian damage claims and continued bombardment activity.
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Pantelleria
RAI Wellington
Naples
Naples Industral
Halian
Istrikha
CRS
Moscow
Rome
Maint
Raf Boxstons
Mediterranean
Puitelloria
Mussolini
Yunisia
Sicily
Tis
Kursk air battle and Argentine revolt report
Reports from Kursk describe a ten hour raid where Germany lost 162 planes of 500 as Red Star said German craft attacked from multiple angles and failed to break Russian defenses. In Buenos Aires a revolt against President Castillo seized strategic points with troops advancing toward government buildings and clashes reported near a naval school.
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Kursk
Charles H. W- Mill Lanne
Buenos Aires
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Rodolfo Marquez
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Uruguay
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Axis
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Pilimatum
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Alfred Polos
Tretalls
Taer
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Rawson’tachment
Plaza Flores
Government House
la Plata
Ramon
Washington
State Department
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Th Axis
Castilo
RB Marquez
Exec
Proposal to Limit Term of President
A Senate backed plan would restrict future presidents to two terms, aiming for a constitutional amendment. Backers see it shaping debate over a possible fourth Roosevelt term, with Republican and Democratic support mixed and a two thirds vote required for passage and state ratifications.
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Senate
Roosevelt
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Oregon
Congress
Republican National Committee
Harrison E. Spangler
George
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Bailey
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Bradley Promoted to Lieutenant General in 1943 shuffle
General Omar Nelson Bradley, who led American forces in North Africa toward the capture of Bizerte, was nominated by President Roosevelt to attain the rank of lieutenant general. He currently holds the permanent rank of lieutenant colonel in the infantry.
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