Japan May Join Axis War on Russia, Ducci Claims
Italian Admiral Gino Ducci suggested Japan might enter the Axis war against Russia. He warned complete Sakhalin occupation would secure Japan against U S moves in the north, while Moscow and Tokyo cited U S aid to Russia as a factor shaping the wider conflict.
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Rome
Gino Ducci
Japan
Russia
Sakhalin Island
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
United States
Siberian
Germany
Italy
Virginio Gayda
Sakhalin
Tokyo
Soviet Russia
Asahi
Britain
Yosuke Matsuoka
Hirohito
Europe
Domei
Moscow
Yoshitsugu Tatekawa
Siberia
Union Crooks Linked To Pittsburgh Labor Leader
A retired parade of C I O officials exposed as criminals includes John W Filer a Pittsburgh strike leader and former ward guard with prior robberies auto theft and prison terms Lusk of Local 117 of the Utility Workers Organization Committee faced a box car burglary parole and Browder petition endorsement Mehringer of the Dite Caster Union tied a 1940 labor stoppage at Aluminum plant and 1926 probation for auto theft in Cleveland cases reveal a pattern of criminal links within union leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F
I. O
Philip Murray
John Lewis
Brother Filer
United States Army
Leavenworth
West Penn
West Penn Hospital
Pittsburgh
U. S. Lusk
Utility Workers’ Organization Committee
Earl Browder
Lusk
Browder
Bis Light
Cleveland
Paul Mehringer
Martin
Dite-Casters’ Union
Aluminum Company
Mehringer
New York Faces Transit Tie Up Over Union Contract
New Yorks subway system faces a possible shutdown as 6000000 daily riders brace for disruption. Mayor LaGuardia urges restraint while Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill threatens a July strike if no signed contract is reached. The city transportation board refuses to negotiate citing civil service constraints.
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New York
City Board of Transportation
F. H. LaGuardia
Funion
Quill
Transportation Board
Ford
Bethlehem Steelway
Reports say Soviet to join inter Allied peace pact
London reports circulating tonight say Soviet Russia may subscribe to an inter allied agreement opposing a separate peace with Germany before the war ends.
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London
Russia
Germany
Army plane crash kills two near San Antonio
Lieutenant John W. Crews 22 and Private Dennis A. Eckelberg 18 died when a Randolph Field weather patrol plane crashed about 11:30 p.m. on a ranch five miles north of San Antonio. Crews, a 1940 University of South Carolina graduate, piloted the aircraft during night missions. Eckelberg enlisted August 1, 1940, and belonged to the hard school squadron.
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San Antonio
Tex
Randolph Field
John W. Crews
Dennis A. Eckelberg
Ganah Walker
Blanco Road
Crews
Walker
Randolph
Kelly Field
Columbia, & C
University of South Carolina
Eckelberg
Charles F. Eckelberg
Bellville
Air Corps
Gellette seeks withdrawal of injunction on state bonds
General O R Gellette commander of the Leroy Stafford camp and chairman of the veterans back pension committee said he asked J H Morrison of Hammond to drop the injunction suit blocking delivery of state bonds for back pensions. He urged that the delay harms veterans and widows who are due 1932 to 1935 payments totaling 1080 dollars per veteran.
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Shreveport
O. R. Gellette
Leroy Stafford Camp
United Confederate Veterans
Veterans Back Pension Committee
J. H. Morrison
Hammond
Gellette
Morrison
Leadership in the Russian Army Hard Boiled Profile
The profile surveys Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's rise from Donbas roots to defense chief reforming the Red Army since 1939. It notes his World War I service, 1917 Bolshevik shift, and rapid ascent, with General Zhukov highlighted as a stern chief of staff and disciplinarian.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press Foreign Service
A. P
Moscow
Russia
Poland
Helsinki
Semeon Timoshenko
Adolf Hitler
Timoshenko
Red Army
Donbas
Ukraine
G. K. Zhukov
Accused Slayer Brown Hangs Self in Tennessee Jail
William Ernest Brown, 25, a convicted mail robber awaiting transfer for a Louisiana murder trial, hanged himself in a Davidson county jail cell. His nude body was found by a turnkey hours before he was to be handed over to New Orleans authorities for the suspected strangulation of Bertrand Ader, a 70 year old undertaker, on January 24. Brown had warned he would not go back to Louisiana and would die in Tennessee. A note with a dictionary marker bore the word murder. Brown had earlier been arrested in Pontiac, Michigan, for grocery store robbery and extradited to face Louisiana charges.
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Nashville
Tenn
Louisiana
Tennessee Supreme Court
William Ernest Brown
Davidson County
J. C. Price
Brown
New Orleans
Bertrand Ader
Tennessee
Webster
Pontiac
Mich
Robin Moor Group Reaches New Orleans After Revival Voyage
The S S Deltargentino with nine crew aboard enters the Mississippi River on its final voyage to be handed to the maritime commission. It carried survivors from the torpedoed Robin Moor in the South Atlantic on May 21 and docked at Recife earlier. Survivors include John Bennig nn third officer Carl Nilson first assistant engineer Donald Schablein Antonio Santos William Cary Peter A Buss N D Rice Richard Carlisle and Hugh Murphy.
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New Orleans
S. S. Deltargentino
Mississippi Shipping Company
Mississippi River
Maritime Commission
Recife
Brazil
Robin Moor
South Atlantic
John J. Bennignn
New York
Carl Nilson
Baltimore
Donald Schablein
Yonkers
N. Y
Antonio Santos
Newark
N. J
William Cary
Delmar
Peter A. Buss
Bethlehem
N. D. Rice
Bowie
Tex
Richard Carlisle
Maywood
Calif
Hugh Murphy
Thirst Fights With Britain in Danakil Desert
British forces under pressure in the Danakil desert face hunger and thirst while remnants of a defeated Italian army march toward possible surrender. Harried by natives, scattered units travel from one brackish well to another, some reaching internment in French Somaliland as rains fall in the Ethiopian highlands.
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Cairo
Egypt
Danakil Desert
Red Sea
Britain
Italy
Komblothha
Danakil
Somaliland
Ethiopian Highlands
A F L Group Halts Strike At Shipyards In Bay Area
A F L machinists ended their 47 day strike against San Francisco shipyards and will return to work Monday under the master contract with 39 major Pacific coast yards. In Oakland C S O machinists weighed ending their walkout in a special meeting tonight after Bethlehem Shipbuilding signed the master contract. About 1,200 A F L and 600 C S O workers walked out May 10 over wage claims on 60 ships vital to national defense.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Bay
C. SO
A. F. of L
C. S. O. Machinists
Bay Area
A. F. of L. Machinists
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
Hillman
Pacific Coast
A. F. of L. Metal Trades Department
Bethlehem
Frank E. de Mattei
Lodge
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
National Defense Mediation Board
Russia Maintains Sky Superiority Says Reporter
From the Black Sea to Moscow writer Henry C. Cassidy reports Soviet air control appears firm with no German planes seen over central Russia. He notes orderly mobilization and calm countryside, contrasting earlier French war scenes and detailing a surprise German attack announcement heard nationwide.
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Russia
Sky
Moscow
Black Sea
Germany
France
Ukraine
Molotov
Caucasus
World War II East Front and Atlantic Shipping Claims
Associated Press reports broad Axis and Allied claims across fronts. Germany touts pockets of success while Hitler allies report sinking Admiral Scheer and numerous ships. RAF losses outweighs heavy Allied air activity as U boats claim more tonnage. Netherlands navy reports two Axis ships sunk.
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Associated Press
Germany
DNB
Russia
Reich
Finland
Italy
Britain
Moscow
Admiral Scheer
Atlantic
Pinguin
Indian Ocean
Cornwall
Tobruk
Kiel
Bremen
Netherlands Navy
Election suit retrial asked in Monroe city vote case
Judge J T Shell heard a rehearing motion Thursday on a suit to annul Monroe’s city election authorizing 875000 dollars of power plant certificates. Shell took the matter under advisement and will rule Monday. The prior ruling upheld the election as valid. Attorneys include George Wesley Smith for Fred Stovall and city attorney S L Digby with McVea Oliver for the city. The petition alleges illegal calling and conduct, insufficient notice, and unconstitutionality of the enabling act.
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J. T. Shell
George Wesley Smith
Fred Stovall
S. L. Digby
McVea Oliver
Fifth Corps Games Enter Final Phase
Leesville La June 26 The fifth army corps with 43000 troops under Lieutenant General Walter Krueger moves into the final phase of maneuvers at Kurthwood to defend the Kurthwood road and rail center from a Red invading force. The Reds with a tank brigade move north along the DeRidder Leesville axis as 2nd and 37th divisions and attached units fight under Major General E L Daley. The phase ends Saturday with a Camp Claiborne critique.
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Leesville
Fifth Army Corps
Walter Krueger
Third Army
Kurthwood
E. L. Daley
Camp Claiborne
Americans to Enlist Abroad in Britain or China War Effort
The United States likely will grant formal approval within days for American volunteers to join British or Chinese forces, with deferments possible for those who seek overseas service. A memo directing deferments is expected from Selective Service, following President Roosevelt’s remarks that Americans may enlist in foreign forces.
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Washington
United States
Selective Service
Roosevelt
Britain
China
Price levels fixed for tires and new auto prices
Washington June 26 P Leon Henderson price administrator announced wholesale and retail prices of automobile tires and tubes would be frozen at June 16 levels. Conferences with tire industry planned to smooth details of the schedule, expected to be ordered next week.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Chrysler Corporation
New York
Ofice
MI Safety Record Shows Strong Yearly Compare
Accidents to date this year reach 260 versus 220 last year while personal injuries are 4 0 9 this year and 37 last year. Deaths stand at 1 this year compared with 4 last year as traffic rule of the day urges cautious left turns with proper arm signaling.
German Tales of Successes In War Front Reports
Associated Press reports Red army enveloping German mechanized thrusts toward Vilna and displacing tanks in rearguard actions as Finland faces German pressure and Sweden allows a division passage. Berlin touts large scale successes while Russia claims panzer thrusts into Lithuania and Poland have been checked and the Ukraine drive halted.
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Associated Press
Red Army
Germany
Vilna
Lithuania
Przemysl
Poland
Finland
Russia
Italy
Rome
Berlin
Sweden
Norway
Ukraine
Prut River
Adolf Hitler
80 000 March For Eucharistic Meet In St Paul
An 80 000 strong crowd will march in a eucharistic procession at the Minnesota fair grounds as part of the ninth national eucharistic congress. The papal legate Dennis Cardinal Dougherty will deliver benediction around 5 30 p m CST. Authorities warned of heat risk and prepared emergency measures for crowds expected to reach several hundred thousand along the two mile route.
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ST. Paul
Pius XII
Minnesota Fair Grounds
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty
Philadelphia
Pope Pius XII to address Soviet Russia war on radio
Vatican City reports Pope Pius XII will deliver a radio broadcast Sunday to discuss the war against Soviet Russia and related events.
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Vatican City
Pius X11
Russia
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By Henry C. Cassidy
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