Resignation Triggers Argentine Early Regime Shuffle
Gen Arturo Rawson resigns as head of Argentina's provisional government after failing to agree on a cabinet. Gen Pedro Ramirez assumes powers and postpones swearing in while Domingo Martinez resigns as foreign minister, signaling a rapid, confused political shift with ongoing uncertainty about future leadership and the new congress.
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BUENOS AIRES
Arturo Rawson
Argentina
Pedro Bamirez
Domingo Martinez
Rawson
Ramon §. Castillo
provsional
Ramirez
Castillo
congress
GEN. RAMIREZ
El Palomar
Germ Rawson
Pedro Ramirez
Grayfish catch tops despite lower value oils
The Pacific Fisheries District No 2 on Vancouver Island and nearby coast saw more men fishing for grayfish or dogfish with a large total catch. Although overall volumes were high, the value lay in grayfish oil rather than the meat, prompting fishermen to sell parts separately for higher cash returns, as noted by local industry in a report continued on the back pages.
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Eu- Neid
British Columbia
Pacific Fisheries District
Vancouver Island
tre matier cleerer
victorn
83 Dead In Ship Crash
NORFOLK VA June 7 Two United States cargo ships collided off the east coast causing explosions and an oil slick that killed 83 of 159 aboard. Survivors landed at Norfolk. navy says collision under investigation. Deck Cadet W J Leonard survived in the tanker's wheelhouse as flames swept the midship house.
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NORFOLK
United States
coast guard
naval
navy
United States navy
W. J. Leonard
Malverne
N.Y
Leonard
Pickled Jewels Found In Jar Of Aleppo, Mrs Walker Acknowledges Loss
Mrs Willis J Walker widow of the lumber king and yachtsman reported forty thousand dollars in jewels missing. Inspector Charles Hennessey, aiding the search, found them well preserved in a jar of alegho. Mrs Walker said she had forgotten she was cleaning them.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Willis J. Walker
Charles Hennessey
alding
Japs Claim Air Victory Over Solomons Raid
Japanese headquarters said a Japanese naval air unit shot down 20 Allied planes in a raid on Shortland Island in the Solomons, with three Japanese planes not returning. U S Navy said American planes hit a Japanese destroyer a corvette and a cargo vessel near Bougainville, with a destroyer probably sinking and four US planes missing. Fifteen Zero interceptors were reported shot down and three damaged. Shortland Island lies south of Bougainville.
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NEW YORK
Tokyo
Shortland Island
Solomons
Associated Press
United States navy
Washington
Bougainville
navy
Bougainville Island
Parliament News Bulletins From Ottawa June 74 Vote On Report
In Ottawa in June 74 the House rejected by 63 to 30 a motion by George Mellraith to publish a confidential civil service administration report prepared for the government. The report, sourced to an advisory committee led by W. W. J. Coon, was discussed amid censorship debates and questions about survey transparency.
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OTTAWA
C.P.J
house of commons today
George Medlraith iLib
Ottawa West
civil service administration
WW. J. Coon
Toronto bank
Tisley
wineat board
Thiry
Mellraith
Mefiraith
Tom Reid
New Westminster
J. F Poiitot
J. F Poiitot Temiscousta
Arthur Roebuck
Toronto Trinity
D. G. Row
Middlesex East
George Fullord tLreds
giamue D'Anjou
Portage la Prairie
George Cruickshank
Fraser Valley
Ralph Maybank
Winniper South Centre
T. J. O'Neill
Kamloops
Progressive Conservative
CCF
house of commons
War Services
LaFieche
Gordon Gratdon
tracer
South Africa Votes in War Era Polls
CAPE TOWN June 7 Field Marshal Smuts South Africa's prime minister appeals to voters to grant him a new mandate to win the war. The coalition of United Dominion and Labor parties expected to win a strong majority as Smuts pledges no fighting among his partners and an electoral pact. Afrikaners form a large part of the army and supported war after initial neutrality debate.
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CAPE TOWN
C.P
Field Marshal Smuts
South Africa
house of assembly
United
Dominion
Labor
Smuts
J. B. M.Hertzog
RAF Nets 180 German Locomotives in May Intruder Runs
R A F planes destroyed about 180 locomotives in Germany France and the Low Countries during May in intruder patrols aimed at crippling Hitler’s communications system. The air ministry said RCAF crews aided the operations as freight trains signal boxes sidings and barges were damaged or destroyed. Fighter and fighter bomber sorties targeted lines and wires with some aircraft damaged by anti aircraft fire and weather.
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LONDON
R.A.F
Germany
France
Low Countries
Hitler
air ministry
RCAF
Japs Seek to Raise Repulse and Prince of Wales
London broadcasts report Japanese engineers began efforts to raise the British battlecruiser Repulse and the battleship Prince of Wales, sunk by Japanese planes off Malaya in December 1941. Allied sources confirmed the wartime broadcast, noting the claim appeared in Reuters dispatches.
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LONDON
Tokyo
wedi
Malaya
Prince of Wales
Rewlere
Reds Bay 752 Nazi Planes Clash Over Moscow Front Pause
Moscow residents faced another week of aerial action as Soviet dispatches claim Red air forces downed 752 German planes with Russian losses at 212 from May 30 to June 5. Moscow reports note heavy artillery, Donets river clashes near Sevsk, and raids near Gorki while German bombers hit Velizh and other targets.
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MOSCOW
Red air force
London
Lishchansk
Donets
Berlin
DNB
Gorki
middle Volga
Sevsk
Kharkov
Smolensk
Velikie Luki
Velizh
Africa Corps In British Camps
Thousands of Marshal Rommel's Africa Corps landed in Britain as prisoners of war. For hours these Nazi troops marched in groups under strong guards to temporary camps near the port.
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Marshal Rommel
Africa Corps
Britain
Veteran trades relics for baby bathinettes in wartime nostalgia
Los Angeles resident Arthur W. Carter a U S veteran of the North African campaign advertised in a local paper that he would trade a German iron cross battered Nazi helmets and ten other captured items for a baby's bathinettes which are no longer manufactured He is flooded with calls from interested parties
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LOS ANGELES
Arthur W. Carter
United States
Smashing Attack on Duce Fleet Hits Messina and Pantelleria
Allied air forces struck rail and ferry facilities around the Messina strait and Pantelleria as part of a two direction assault. More than 30 fighters clashed with bombers from the Middle East command over San Giovanni Reggio Calabria and Messina with eight shot down. Some 50 aircraft participated, all returned safely. Italian claims report Allied submarine loss and several Italian fighters downed, with casualties in Reggio Calabria. Continuous raids on Pantelleria persisted along with strikes on Le Spezia.
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AME
North Africa
Messina strait
Pantelleria
La Spezia
Middle East
San Giovanni
Reggio Calabria
Messina
Cairo
R.A.F
Mediterranean
Tunisia
Sicily
Rome
Associated Press
Lampedusa
Le Spezia
Air transport expansion seen after war warns against overclaim
The OWI described wartime air transport growth and an extensive postwar air network including 865 major US airports with long paved runways and 2,000 plus smaller fields. It notes aviation production in 1943 will exceed 820000000000 and stresses fuel availability and cost as limits to future air transport growth.
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WASHINGTON
America
United States office of war information
United States army
navy air transport services
O.W.I
United States
The
OWL
Kermit Roosevelt Dies in Alaska at 53
Major Kermit Roosevelt son of President Theodore Roosevelt died June 4 in Alaska. The war department said he had served on duty there for months and previously fought with both the British and U S armies in prior wars. He joined his father on notable expeditions and authored several books on explorations.
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WASHINGTON
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Alaska
war department
department
Roosevelt
United States
Theodore Roaevelt, Jr
tador
Archibal
win
Alma
wis
Brazil
Help Ads in Halifax Go Unanswered
Halifax reports more than 600 orders for help have gone unanswered, with no takers yet. National Selective Service offline revealed in last week’s issue.
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HALIFAX
Spain Fears War Moves Amid Axis Plans
Associated Press reports from Stockholm indicate Berlin and Rome fear Allies may launch a hard invasion through Spain. Observers see Spain as a potential air base for Axis defense and for Allied aerial cover into western or southern France. Franco’s call for bombing limits is viewed as a plea affecting Germany Italy and Spain, amid rising tensions over Mediterranean shipping and North Africa.
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JOHN COLBURN
Associated Press
STOCKHOLM
Berlin
Rome
Axis Jeaders
Spain
France
Axis
Franco
Europe
North
Africa
Italy
Mediterranean
Germany
U S Plane Crashes Cause 26 Deaths Milwaukee Report
MILWAUKEE June 7 p A twin engined transport plane based at Mitchell Field since May 31 has been found wrecked 18 miles west of Austin with 11 dead aboard The report says 26 deaths linked to the crashes including a Col Fila Commandant and other officials involved in the search and identification efforts
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MILWAUKEE
Mitchell Field
Austin
New
Fila
Grocer Pays $20,000 Surprise to OPA Chief
A Pittsburgh pudding supplier owner walked into the Price Administration office and handed Enforcement Attorney Lorin Lewis a $20,000 check claiming the firm charged above ceiling prices. Lewis, stunned, recalled no prior complaints about the manager involved.
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PITTSBURGH
price administraion
Lorin &. Lewis
federal treasury
O.P.A
gir
Lewis
Argentina Calm. Ramirez Says Normal State
General Pedro Ramirez, new provisional president, issued communiques claiming Argentina’s internal situation is adequately normal and warned that spreading false reports to sow confusion will be treated as treason. Reports mention expulsion of fascist members, a Moscow conspiracy claim, new French council portfolios, a Scottish mine tragedy, an inquest into a pilot’s death, and Roosevelt signing trade extension authority.
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RAMIREZ
ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES
Pedro Ramirez
Arrentina
LONDON
Rome
redic
MOSCOW
U. DUCE MOSCOW
tech
quettdan
Geneva
tring
Mussolini
Mali
ALGIERS
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giracd
Alfonse Grerges
GLEATIN
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Jane
ATR
WINNIPEG
dunce
RAF
Netpaws
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RAMON CASTILLO
BRIDGEPORT
Conn
Bobby Lombard
Coldarll
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Smut
KAYO 150
Reds Bay
Duce
AIR WONDERS
RERMIT ROOSEVELT
Allies
U.S
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