Europe War Reports and Espionage Arrests
Allied forces bomb New Guinea coastal targets near Salamaua as MacArthur deploys heavy air raids to disrupt Japanese supply lines. Japanese claims of sinking ships lack Allied confirmation. FBI arrests four wartime espionage suspects, led by Grace Buchanan Dineen, a wealthy 23 year old described as central to a Nazi spy ring.
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Banlea
New Guinea
Owen Monahan
Douglas T MacArthur
New Guineas
Salamaua
U.S
Sclamane
Tokyo
FBI
Grace Buchanan Dineen
Germany
Food ration changes foreseen for 1942 43
Americans will share less food during the next ten months than in 1942 to 1943 but on average will receive as much as in 1935 to 1939. Civilians will get portions, with the army allotted 3 percent and tend-lease 10 percent. Servicemen eat about 54 pounds daily. Government notes start of wheat sales from July and shipments via Canada and the northwest.
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United, States
Eight Labor Board members oppose wage contract with miners
Eight public and employer members of the War Labor Board voted against approving a wage contract between Illinois coal operators and the United Mine Workers, denying underground travel pay but granting time and a half for work over 25 hours weekly. The board approved 25 cent daily free equipment and services and higher vacation pay, with miners urged to go to court for underground payment claims.
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Labor Board
Illsois Coal
United Mine Workers
Matthew Woll
American Federation of Labor
WLE
Jewish population in Axis Europe declines sharply
The American Jewish Congress reports the Jewish population in Axis controlled Europe has fallen from 8,305,000 to about 2,200,000. Of five million missing, about three million are dead, 1,800,000 sent deep into Soviet Russia, and 180,000 have emigrated to other places.
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Axis Controlled
Europe
American Jewish Congress
Soviet Russia
Fighting France: Administrators to be recognized
The French Committee of National Liberation operating from Algiers will be recognized by the United States Great Britain and Russia as an administrative agency over parts of the French empire it controls. This follows a power struggle between De Gaulle and Giraud, now united under De Gaulle with Giraud directing the military. The Libération authority will remain under Allied military command in North Africa and the Near East.
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France
French Committee of National Liberation
Algiers
North Africa
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Darlan
Dwight Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Giraud
Libération Committee
Near East
Russia Drive for Coal and Iron Advances in Ukraine
Russian forces press south toward the Donetz basin and Kharkov as they assault German positions. Soviet artillery and tanks push forward while Germans retreat in defensive fighting. North of Kharkov, Zenkov falls as Bryansk front slows against stout Nazi defenses.
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Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Russia
Donerz
Zenkov
Bryansk
Roosevelt Sees Progress Through Cooperative World Action
World progress report quotes Franklin D Roosevelt announcing that cooperative action among nations can prove what can be accomplished. He spoke to about 30 000 Canadians in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mackenzie King. He urged striving for greater freedom and progress, saying he would rather be a builder than a wrecker and hoped life’s structure grows.
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Operative Action of Nations
Roosevelt
Ottawa
Canada
Judge and General Clash Over Habeas Writs in Hawaii
A U S judge contends with military Hawaii over habeas corpus for two German descent naturalized citizens picked up after Pearl Harbor. Judge Metzger fines General Richardson for contempt after he blocks further proceedings. War Relocation Authority criticized. representative notes detainees face no loyalty charges.
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U. S
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Delbert Metzger
Richardson
Metger
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