Sevastopol Battle Intensifies as German Advances Reported
On the sixth day of siege fighting Sevastopol defenses report German infantry reaching a hilly sector and forces pressing toward two key heights while Soviet casualty tallies claim heavy German losses. In Libya Rommel’s forces renew counterattacks as Neil Ritchie's troops clash with British lines, aided by American tanks and planes.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Cremea
Boviet
Red Star
Toray
Great Black Sea
Sevastopal
Sta
Lietenant
Westbrook Pegler on wartime extortion by union racketeers
A Westbrook Pegler column denounces wartime extortion by a licensed union ticket system in Washington that allegedly bars workers and levies payments from poor laborers to gain permission to work. He claims rings exploit unemployed and relief recipients while controlling factories and government charters.
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Stport
San Diego
Washington
Widespread Attendance Marks State Convention Meeting
The state water convention reports strong turnout and full attendance as officers for the next convention were elected. District officers were chosen with WI OHO MelLaurin named district governor for district 8A and Cave A. Nelson of Lafayette elected district governor for district 8B. The luncheon featured Dr B W Keathler, international counselor, delivering the principal address with a theme Liberty is More Than That.
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Watshirs
Spor
Cave A. Nelson
Lafayette
Avernor
New Chrieans HL
Parry Vicer
Shreveport
Towaa
Baraqpel
B. WH. Keathty
Mineral Wells
Tex
Keathler
General Pershing
France
The
American Legion
Financier Cheney Dies of Thirst in Desert
Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Boston financier and social leader, perished in the Northwestern Arizona desert after a 2 mile trek for water. His body was found by cowboy Lee Eaton after four days. He inherited $2.5 million of his father’s $10 million estate and held directorships in major railroads and banks.
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Kingman
Aro
Pierce Cheney
Boston
Arizona
Lee Eaton
Cheney
Ida Lewis Cheney
Julia Arthur
California
Benjamin Pheney
United States
Canada Express
American Express
Harvard
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
St. Louis
ODT Expands Vehicle Delivery Rules in New Order
The office of ODT announced modifications to regulations via the local Chamber of Commerce. The update allows trucks carrying property for sale to travel beyond 24 miles if they return the same day, permitting one delivery per day. Delivery zones extend to 25 air miles when delivering to consumers, easing transport for retailers and private carriers.
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ODT
Chamber of Commerce
Hitler to collect autographs at Baltimore bond show
The Baltimore army war show opens Friday offering buyers of war bonds a chance to autograph a bomb prepared by the United States Army Ordnance Department. A defense stamp will fund a "note to Hitler" placed in a Berlin-bound bomb, with ceremony planned.
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Baltimore
Hitler
United States Army Ordnance Department
Bern
WPA seeks civil action to recover Louisiana funds
During hearings on 1942 work relief funds Rep. Wrigglesworth asked if civil action should be brought over suspended WPA payments in Louisiana. Acting WPA commissioner Dryden said the comptroller general had disallowed most items but about 5521,000 remained in question. The matter was referred to determine whether civil action should be initiated to recover funds.
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Washington
Jime
Works Projects Administration
Department of Justice
Louiiana Tras
Congress
Wrigglesworth
Massachusetts
House Appropriations
FH. Dryden
WPA
Wigglesworth
Louisiana Mess
Dryden
Department of Parties
Wiggitaworth
Germans Expect Joy From Hitler Defeat Says Lochner
Louis P. Lochner, AP veteran, predicted Germans will be happier after Hitler’s defeat. In a radio talk he said Germans pray for deliverance from the regime and that Hitler is not the infallible genius he is claimed to be. He warned U.N. troops may face a tough fight but victory is possible.
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Hitler
New York
Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
A. P
Bern
Lochner
United States
United Nations
United States Merchant Ship Sunk in North Pacific
A U S merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Pacific coast amid Allied and neutral losses in the Atlantic and Pacific. Captain Havens reported 1 death, 8 injured, and the ship sank 30 minutes after the blast. witnesses sighted a possible submarine conning tower. The crew included Stephen Chance, 56, and E W Nystrom, which is Oakland, California. Continued on Ninth Pages.
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Associated Press
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Navy
Lyle G. Havens
San Carlos
Calif
Stephen Chance
Negro
Cook
Baker
Havens
E. W. Nystrom
Oakland
Washington State College
Nystrom
Bitter tax fight looms as two percent sales tax advances
Baton Rouge observers predict a fierce battle when the 2 general sales tax bill, expected to raise 13 to 15 million dollars annually, comes to the House. The measure would run two years and was approved by the Ways and Means panel.
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Baton Rouge
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Committee On Capital and Labor
House Appropriations
Leche
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
Missing Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Roy O Hale Jr
Roy O Hale Jr son of Mr and Mrs Roy O Hale Sr of 118 Glenmar Avenue is reported missing in a government wire received by his parents. He attended Quachita Parish High School and the Naval Academy where he graduated with honors. He served in the Navy and was last heard from as being somewhere in the Orient. Hale held the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
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Roy O. Hale, Jr
Roy O. Hale
Glenmar Avenue
Washington
Young Hale
Quachita Parish
United States Naval Academy
Naval Service
Orient
Roosevelt Jr Arrives in Britain on Official Navy Business
London reports the arrival of Lieutenant Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in Britain on official business for the United States Navy. He arrives amid diplomatic and military ties as allies coordinate efforts in the war era.
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London
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Britain
United States Navy
Airplane Engine Factory's Size Staggers Imagination
A wartime tour highlights vast production facilities as examples of the scale of U S war industry. The Willow Run bomber plant covers over 37 acres and payrolls will top 100000 in certain former peacetime industries. Chrysler head K T Keller says the effort is the biggest undertaking the nation has ever done and could produce a million of anything if needed.
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New York
Midwest
Victory
Henry Ford
Willow Run
United States
K. T. Keller
Chrysler Corporation
Ensign Gay Recounts Midway Flight Experience
Ensign G. H. Gay Jr., 25, a naval pilot from Houston Texas, described his fish-eye view of Midway as torpedo planes and dive bombers sank Japanese carriers. His account was allowed by Admiral Nimitz.
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Ensign G. H. Gay, Jr
Battle of
Midway Island
Nimitz
Ensign Gay
Gay
Houston
Tex
Nelson forecast long war as U S production powers axis defeat
Production chief Donald M. Nelson warned of a long war but said Americans would smother the axis powers with production. He spoke during a homecoming in Hannibal Missouri, asserting democracy will win and that the nation must be ready for extended fighting.
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Hannibal
Donald M. Nelson
America
Hitler
Hannibal, Missouris
Excise tax increases debated in House Ways and Means
The House Ways and Means Committee signaled support for modest boosts to tobacco excise taxes on cigars cigarettes and smoking tobacco with tobacco-state members likely to resist. Proposals from Secretary Morgenthau would raise cigarette taxes to 3.50 for 10 cent brands and 4.00 for 15 cent brands, smoking tobacco to 36 cents per pound, and cigars with graduated increases. A tobacco tax reform would also roll out papers and tubes tax. The committee also tentatively backed higher lubricating oil levy and rejected doubling the gasoline tax.
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Ways and Means
Morgenthau
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Treasury
France’s Petain Persists Against Axis Pressure Says Reports
Washington dispatch reports two years after Dunkirk that Marshal Petain now believes Germany and its allies will be defeated. Laval remains pessimistic and Darlan shares this doubt. Petain is portrayed as a patriotic figure under German pressure, striving to ease French suffering amid intrigue.
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Dunkerque
Marshal Petain
Vichy
France
Petain
Germany
Pierre Laval
Laval
Europe
England
Soviet
Russia
Jean Darlan
Friends Keep Man Alive Five Months By Breath Pumping
In Jay Oklahoma on June 10 and for five months friends have labored in relays to provide artificial respiration for Mason Williams a 49 year old school teacher diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Dr Frank Veroni says Williams has lost about 75 percent of his breathing ability and cannot speak or swallow without assistance. Despite weight dropping from 150 to 87 pounds and a failed move to an iron lung his supporters vow to continue their life preserving efforts.
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Jay
Okla
Mason Williams
Frank Veroni
Williams
Veron
Oklahoma City
Survives Siege of Singapore and Regains Sight at 93
Rosa Frankel, 93, survived wounds from the Singapore siege and lost glasses to throw away her eyeglasses as she recounts rescuing her daughter from debris. She traveled to America with her son David Frankel and daughter-in-law Lt. Agron before Japanese arrival, via Bombay, India, Capetown and the West Indies.
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Rosa Frankel
Singapore
America
Frankel
David Frankel
H. Richard Awron
Agron
Bombay
India
Capetown
West Indies
Effort to Minimize Midway Damage Reported
Imperial Tokyo sought to minimize the Midway disaster while US reports claimed an aircraft carrier sunk and another badly damaged. Ensign George H. Gay Jr. testified to three Japanese carriers aflame. Tokyo claimed Aleutian attacks and western Aleutian occupation while Admiral King described the far north as confused.
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Roger D. Greene
Imperial Tokyo
Midway
United States
George H. Gay, Jr
United States Navy
Japan
Amerian
Tokyo
Washington
Navy
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Hideo Hiraide
Naval
Imperial Headquarters
Bering Sea
Earnest J. King
United States Fleet
Local committee opposes new state taxes amid federal burden
A chamber of commerce group led by A. K. Kilpatrick urged the Louisiana legislature to refrain from new taxes, citing heavy federal levies and rising state revenue from 26 million in 1929 to 82 million in 1940. The group, formed by the retail merchants division, urged tax relief and cited New York and Mississippi tax cuts as examples.
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Chamber of Commerce
A. K. Kilpatrick
Chamber
Retail Merchants’ Division
Louisiana
New York State
Mississippi
War Stamp Bond Canvass Seeks 150 More Workers
The war stamp and bond canvass seeks 150 additional volunteers in Monroe and West Monroe to enroll every family. Chairman Jack Rogers reports 10 workers currently active as momentum hinges on public response to meet a possible federal mandate requiring weekly salary contributions.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Rogers
Phen Golson
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