Two Towns One Boundary Camel Brand Gifts For Sailors
Collier's notes Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora Mexico share one street divided by a barbed wire boundary. Navy time is 24 hour, hours 1300 to 2400 after noon and 1700 equals five. Camel is favored cigarette among service members and Camel cartons are promoted as gifts from home to sailors and soldiers.
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Nogales
Arizona
Sonora
Mexico
Collier’s
Navy
Army
Marines
Coast Guard
German Spearheads Across Don River Established
Western Newspaper Union notes heavy losses but reports German spearheads across the Don River are now established as forces dig in along the Egyptian front. Gandhi sends a stern message to Japan with the declaration you are not welcome.
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Don River
Gandhi
Western Newspaper Union
Soviet and Allied Forces Press in World War Two Fronts
Soviet and Nazi forces clash along the lower Don as nine pontoon bridges are destroyed and reserves rush to replace losses. Soviet airmen claim 299 German planes down and more than four Nazi regiments wiped out in three weeks. In Africa, Rommel’s base at Matruh is bombarded and British ships strike Crete and Tobruk as Axis defenses edge back.
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Don
Caucasus
Rostov
Red Army
Novocherkassk
Tsimlyansk
United Nations
Axis
Matruh
Egypt
Cairo
el Daba
el Alamein
U. S
Bengali
Tobruk
London
Africa
Gandhi open letter to Japan warns against Indian welcome
Mohandas K. Gandhi’s Harijan piece addressed to Tokyo cautions Japan not to expect a warm Indian reception. He argues India will resist militarist and imperialist ambitions and clarifies Congress aims toward independence and anti‑colonial struggle.
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Tokyo
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Harijan
Japan
India
Casualties in U S Forces Total 44 143
The Office of War Information reports total U S military casualties to date at 44 143 including killed wounded and missing across the army navy Marine corps coast guard and Philippine Scouts. Breakdown shows U S Army killed 902 wounded 1 413 missing 17 452 and similar figures for Philippine Scouts and U S Navy with 3 420 killed 11 501 wounded and 1 672 missing.
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Office of War Information
U. S
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Philippine Scouts
Philippine Commonwealth Army
U. S. Army
U. S. Navy
Congress Creates Rubber Supply Agency for Synthetic Rubber
Congress moves to form the Rubber Supply agency under the Gillette bill to control synthetic rubber production from agricultural or forest materials while petroleum based rubber remains directed by the War Production Board. The WPB chairman’s authority over plants using agricultural inputs would be removed. the new agency would direct critical materials and grant blanket priority for private use upon certification by its director.
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House
Senate
Gillette
Rubber Supply Agency
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Army
Navy
Wages Rise in Manufacturing From April to May
Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, reports average hourly manufacturing wages up 1.5 percent from April to May. The May average of 83.1 cents per hour is 14.5 percent higher than a year ago. Increases driven by overtime and expansion of high wage scale industries.
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Frances Perkins
Premier Hepburn warns of Japan move and war risks
Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn says Japan may strike Dutch Harbor, threatening U S west coast production. He links fear to awaken citizens and notes risks for Britain amid Russia’s plight. He discusses Mediterranean subjugation, rising merchant sinkings, shipping space limits, UN fleet cooperation, and seamen shortages amid wartime expansion.
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Mitchell Hepburn
Ontario
United Nations
Great Britain
United States
Hepburn
Japan
Dutch Harbor
Aleutian Islands
Britain
Mediterranean
Germany
France
Joint War Production Committee Reports U S and Canada War Output
The Joint War Production Committee says U S munitions output in the second quarter of 1942 nearly quadrupled 1941 levels while Canadian production nearly tripled. The half year report cites steps to cut duplications expand common weapons, speed material exchange, remove bottlenecks, and share production methods. Technical subcommittees coordinate with national producers.
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Joint
U. S
Canada
Repairs shift to United States air force in England
Reports state American planes in England will now be maintained and repaired by the United States air force to speed operations and boost efficiency whether flown by Royal Air Force crews or American crews. The Australian government plans to increase service men pay in the new budget with extra allowances for dependents. The government confiscates 29 Italian and German ships including a German vessel seized in the Caribbean last year posing as an American ship and ships damaged by their crews in American ports in March 1941 as part of sabotage. Dark-haired Diana Barrymore and Bramwell Fletcher have applied for a marriage license and will wed within weeks.
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Royal Air Force
England
United States Air Force
Caribbean
Diana Barrymore
John Barrymore
Bramwell Fletcher
Distribution as key to world peace and postwar prosperity
The piece argues that production alone won't solve postwar needs. efficient distribution and creating markets for surplus food and goods are essential. It cites Brookings on savable wartime funds, recalls veterans' wartime hunger and morale boosts from radio, and notes the auto industry’s vast impact on the U.S. economy.
SiN Pw OUBLE WEDDING RING pattern returns home
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