Proudly We Hail 16th Anniversary of Old Glory
The piece recalls June 14, 1777 origin of the flag and honors moments in American flag history. It notes foreign recognition on February 14, 1778 under John Paul Jones, Civil War legend Barbara Friesthie, and MacArthur’s call to fly the flag. It mentions Betsy Ross sewing the first stars and stripes.
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Uiberon
France
John Paul Jones
Barbara Frietchie
Frederick
Whittier
Story
Betsy Ross
Washington
Escrees
Roosevelt creates office of war information
President Roosevelt establishes the Office of War Information headed by Elmer Davis to coordinate all government information functions. The new agency folds in the Office of Facts and Figures led by Archibald MacLeish and related units under emergency management and information services.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Office of War Informaion
Elmer Davis
Office of Facts and Figures
Archibald MacLeish
E Euiment
E Mellette
Mavision ‘of Information
Office For Emergency Management
Robert W. Horton
William V. Davis
Ind
Aew
Eas
Columbia Broadcasting
Times
Parade Inside Stadium Opens Scioto Flag Day Program
In Portsmouth a colorful patriotic event begins at 8 tonight in Municipal Stadium with a parade around the cinder track, a pageant by women’s groups, and a musical program preceding a talk by R F Fletcher. Local bands and drum corps provide music. Rev Ambrose Freund leads devotionals. parade aides, pageant chairs, and a grand marshal are named.
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Portsmouth
Municipal Stadium
Scioto County
R. F. Fletcher
Scioto County War Savings Staff
Wheeling Steel
River City
Cubs
Ambrose Freund
St. Mary Church
George S. Carroll
Gus Boop
James Dickey Post
American Legion
John Argeros
Carroll
O. Carson Barklow
T. D. Stitt
Orin Walery
George Wilhelm
Lewis H. Mault
J. S. Marsh
E. L. Griffith
Adam Young
Harold Martin
War Chest Victory Seeks $1000 to Reach Goal
Scioto county War Chest campaign narrows shortfall from $105 200 to just over $1000 after new pledges from Harbison Walker Refractories Spur Distributing Willow Garden club National Cash Register teachers New Boston groups General Refractories Clay township Commercial Freight James Dickey post American Legion and others. Campaign leaders review prospects to hit the target in the next few days.
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Scioto County
Harbison-Walker Refractories Co
Spur Distributing Co
Willow Garden Club
National Cash Register
New Boston
General Refractories Co
Clay Township
James Dickey
Nazis offer pardon to any Czech who talks
The Prague radio said a full pardon would be granted to any Czech in Czecho Slovakia who provides information by 8 p m June 18 aiding the pursuit of Reinhard Heydrich's assassins. It also announced 24 more executions at Prague and 15 at Brunn in reprisal.
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London
Czecho-Slovakia
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Prague
Brunn
Heydrich
Eight Hurt in Two Auto Crashes in Portsmouth Area
Eight persons were injured in two Saturday night accidents. six were treated at Portsmouth General Hospital. In Piketon four were hurt, two seriously, with Mrs Phyliss Gibson and family among the injured detailing fractures, cuts and bruises. Others included Mrs Sadie Gibson and Curtis Gibson, while William Overholser sustained a broken arm.
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Portsmouth General Hospital
Sciotoiver Curve
Sioken
Piketon
Phyliss Gibson
Springfield
Donald Gibson
Curtis Gibson
Columbus
Sadie Gibson
Donald Clay Gibson
Gibson
William Overholser
Casstown
Troy
Albert Smith
Jasper
Overholser
Child Found Drowned in Ashland Fish Pond
Ronald Compton Jr. aged 3, son of Mr and Mrs Ronald Compton of 2105 Phelps Street, was found drowned in about three feet of water in a fishpond at 7 45 p m in the yard of his uncle John Wardeman. Mrs Lloyd Schlecter located the body during a pond drag with a rake. Attempts at artificial respiration failed and Dr J C Hall Boyd County coroner ruled it accidental drowning.
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Ashland
Ronald Compton Jr
Ronald Compton
Phelps Street
John Wardeman
Lloyd Schlecter
J. C. Hall
Boyd County
City Prepares for Scrap Rubber Drive in Portsmouth Area
Uncle Sam launches a nationwide 16 day scrap rubber collection from June 16 to 30 with a house to house effort in Portsmouth and New Boston. Boy Scouts and Civilian Defense coordinate June 25 pickups, assembling at 1 pm at the Norfolk and Western Railway freight office on Lincoln Street.
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Sam
Boy Scouts
Mamoth
Portsmouth
New Boston
Gallia Street
Roosevelt
Norfolk & Western Railway
Lincoln Streets
Garry
Labor Board Orders 125 Workers Back to Arkwright Mills
The War Labor Board ordered 125 strikers at Arkwright Corp textile mills in Fall River Massachusetts to return to work by Monday or lose their jobs. The strikers vote to stay out until higher pay is granted. The plant’s CIO union repudiated the walkout and 800 to 900 others halted work on war material.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Arkwright Corp
Fall River
Mass
William H. Davis
CIO Textile
Nazis Press On Tobruk Flanks In Desert Battle
In the Libyan desert the fighting neared Tobruk as German forces hurled a tank division at Acroma near the port, while a fresh assault by the Afrika Korps was repulsed south of El Adem. The battle, entering its third week, remains an attritional clash with air power and ground losses. RAF claimed 13 Axis planes destroyed and many tanks and vehicles damaged, with nine planes lost.
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Associated Press
Tobruk
Acroma
Mediterranean
el Adem
RAF
Four Generals Reported Among 12000 Captives
Berlin reports from German broadcasts that 12 000 prisoners 600 tanks and armored cars and 300 guns have been captured in the North Africa offensive. Among the prisoners are four generals Brigadier General Siegfried William Steffen Brigadier General Otto Carl Walter Brigadier General Carlo Bucher and General Max Claude Vallentin and Admiral Sir Walter Cowan.
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Berlin
High Command
DNB
Siegfried William Steffen
Otto Carl Walter
Carlo Bucher
Max Claude Vallentin
Walter Cowan
Rome
Ft Knox Under Lockbox: American Genius On Display
A brisk editorial notes Ft Knox's impressive defenses and technology, portraying U S readiness in response to Hitler. The piece contrasts military fortifications with wartime threats and praises American ingenuity and resolve.
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Hitler
Ft. Knox
Nazis Extend Unrestricted Submarine War North Atlantic
German radio announced a June 26 start for an expanded U boat campaign across the North Atlantic to the U S coast. The broadcast mapped a vast zone from the Belgian coast to Cape Farewell and the Canadian and U S shores, claiming past submarine successes justify the policy.
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North Atlantic
New York
Germany
U. S
CBS
United States
Berlin
Greenland
Cape Farewell
Cape Harrison
Canada
United States of America
Key West
French
North Sea
Iceland
West Indies
Two Ships Hit Back Subs Sunk Report Amid Ocean Battles
New York June 13 Five ships were announced sunk as subs attacked. Two ships struck back returning with tales of survival. A Norwegian freighter reached an eastern Canadian port proving a submarine presence, while the Arenas of United Fruit tied to a Gulf coast port reported likely submarine losses and another unit deterred.
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New York
United Fruit
Gulf Coast
Information Bureau
Allies Reported Japan Raid Linked To North Atlantic War Effort
Allied sources say twenty-seven Japanese bombers attacked Darwin with little damage while U S and Allied air power expanded in the Russia battle and Pacific theater. U S bombers allegedly landed in Turkey with some crewmen interned. reports say 23 fliers were detained and the action marks a possible first direct U S bomber strike into the Middle East.
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Allied
Australia
Darwin
General MacArthur
America
Russia
U. S
North Pacific
Aleutians
North America
Turkey
Reuters
Odessa
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Adolf Hitler
Iraq
Caucasus
United States
Sera 1
Ukraine
Kharkov
Reds declare Nazis beaten back at Kharkov
Soviet forces repelled the largest Nazi offensive of the year on the Kharkov front. Russian accounts say Red Army inflicted great losses as Germans threw in reserves. Other sectors reported Sevastopol held, 900 German casualties on the Kalinin front, and a Soviet ship sinking a 6,000 ton enemy vessel near Odessa.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Moscow
Kharkov
Soviet Bureau of Information
Red Army
Long Front
Sevastopol
Kalinin
Black Sea
Odessa
British Sub Sneaks in and Torpedoes Axis Ships
A lone British submarine trailed an axis convoy into harbor at Alexandria and torpedoed two large supply ships while evading constant pursuit by axis forces. The bold action underscores persistent submarine warfare in the region.
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Axis
Larry Allen
Alexandria
Egypt
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Texas
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Civilian Defense Salvage Committee
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Harry W. Wagner
Kenneth B. Lehman
Leo D. Kricker
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Labor Board
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Midway Island
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Europe
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Exchange Telegraph
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Crimean
Reds
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