Defense Strikes Dwindle Amid Controversy Over Measures
Defense officials report fewer strikes and resumed work at five Detroit Bohn Aluminum and Brass plants and six ALCOA units in Cleveland. California aviation largely normal with Inglewood and San Diego operations. troops and armored cars guard Inglewood plant. Live disputes remain in Pittsburgh and Detroit with labor leaders denouncing potential anti strike legislation and plant gate barriers. Authorities hint at action under California criminal syndicalism laws.
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Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company
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Cleveland
California
North American Aircraft Corp
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Lge
San Diego
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Los Angeles
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Grand Jury
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Lew H. Michener
UAW
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The
Vultee Aircraft Co
Britain Seeks Unity in War as Axis Pressures Grow
Britain asserts resolve to resist aggression with allied cooperation in war and peace. Reports from Damascus and Sidon describe Allied advances in Syria Lebanon and heavy fighting as Vichy French forces resist. RAF and Axis air operations target Beirut Haifa and London amid broader Mediterranean clashes.
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Marshal Petain
Middle East
Syria
Damascus
Vichy
Sidon
Beirut
Jesus
Haifa
Palestine
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Lebanon
Petain
France
Verdun
Charles de Gaulle
Germany
Roosevelt to elevate Stone and confirm Byrnes to court
The article notes Justice Stone, a Republican appointee, poised for elevation to the Supreme Court and Senator James Francis Byrnes confirmed as a justice. It covers Stone's background from Amherst and Columbia, his shift from attorney general to court advocate, and Byrnes’ swift Senate confirmation in Washington on June 12.
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Jackson
Byrnes
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Supreme Court
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Coolidge
Amherst College
New York
Columbia University Law School
Holmes
Brandeis
Cardozo
Washington
James Francis Byrnes
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Germany submarine sinks Robin Moor in South Atlantic
Reports from Recife detail eleven survivors of the 5000 ton American freighter Robin Moor, torpedoed May 21 by a German submarine about 700 miles south of the Cape Verde islands. Only 11 survivors are found. 28 crew and 7 passengers still missing as officials weigh if a warning was given.
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William T. Frye
South Atlantic
United States
Germany
New York
Cape Verde Islands
Welles
Ozorio
Associated Press
Recife
Brazil
Robin Moor
Berlin
Walter J. Linthicum
W. A. Hodgman
U. S. Navy
Rio de Janeiro
Waldemar Lucio Pereira
Mrs Roosevelt returns half of hospital benefit lecture fee
Washington June 12 Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt refunds $500 of a $1000 lecture fee paid to her by sponsors of a Burlington Vermont hospital benefit. She says the rest went to her booking agent and notes the hospital auxiliary was informed. Measles and whooping cough cases are rising in the report.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Burlington
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Plumley
Roosevelt
State film premiere at NEA convention in Boston
Santa Fe June 12 State tourist bureau director Joseph Bursey will premiere a 1400 foot color film New Mexico land of enchantment at the National Educational Association convention in Boston on June 29.
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Santa FE
N. M
State Tourist Bureau
Joseph Bursey
New Mexico
Boston
National Educational Association
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Relief for Itching Feet
Perspiring feet pain relief is advertised with Moone's Emerald Oil. The copy claims powerful penetrating action eases aching and soreness, allowing work to resume. It emphasizes no staining and economical use, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Distributed by Platt Drug Store.
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Moone
Platt Drug Store
Ice Cream and Malts Offered at Local Roswell Stand
Residents are urged to visit the Roswell corner at 9th and Main where ice cream sells for 30 cents a quart and malts for 9 cents with prompt courteous service.
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Roswell
Texas floods drive hundreds from homes in Dallas area
Dallas reports the Trinity River crest rising toward a record level as floods force evacuations, damage crops, and strand vehicles while highways close and officers move residents to safety. Houston also reports high water but flood threat eases. A freighter Iowan I ran aground near Santa Barbara in fog with 4,500 tons of steel and pipe aboard, crew of 40 evacuated, possible breakup risk. Axis air battles over Malta result in ten planes shot down.
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Tex
Texas
Trinity
Houston
Santa Barbara
Calif
Government Point
San Francisco
North Pacific
Home Grown Head Lettuce Sweet and Tender
Andersons Gardens offers prized head lettuce noted for sweet tenderness in a local advertisement highlighting fresh produce and farm offerings from a private grower.
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Andersons Gardens
British harbor plagued by sunken ships and claims of limited entry
A wreck littered harbor presented as a graveyard of British ships sunk by Axis bombers. Italians maintained only small craft could now enter the harbor due to the sunken hulks. Fresh Home Grown Asparagus Andersons Seas Adv.
Vast New Plant To Be Built by U. S. Steel
Pittsburgh reports indicate United States Steel plans a 50 million dollar plant at its Homestead works to expand capacity. Governments and the company may share financing with work possibly starting next month. Options are held on adjacent lands as U. S. Steel aims to boost annual output beyond the present 80 million tons.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Homestead
Duquesne Works
Office of Production Management
Iron Age
Steel Trade Magazine
U. S. Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Union Vacation Bible School to Close Tomorrow
The program run by First Presbyterian First Methodist Trinity Methodist Nazarene and First Christian churches ends Friday evening with a 7 30 oclock service at First Methodist. Over two hundred children and workers enrolled and a larger turnout is hoped next year. A 530 pm picnic in the municipal park precedes closing exercises at First Methodist with departmental programs and parent attendance invited.
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Union Vacation Bible School
First Presbyterian First Methodist
Trinity Methodist, Nazarene
First Christian Churches
First Methodist Church
First Presbyterian
Weather Conditions and Local Forecast Note
Light rains east of the Mississippi and in parts of the Great Plains with cool fair weather west of the plains. High pressure moving into New Mexico and western Texas while a low over Iowa persists. Local forecast calls for partly cloudy skies this afternoon, clearing tonight, then Friday morning fair and afternoon becoming partly cloudy with a slight warming.
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Mississippi
Great Plains
New Mexico
Texas
Iowa
Raton Plans Mile Long White Way Inauguration
Raton New Mexico plans a Saturday night inauguration of a mile long white way on Second Street. Seventy one light standards with mercury vapor and incandescent bulbs will illuminate the street, touted as the brightest this side of the Mississippi. Kirby, manager of the public service company, compares it to Denver and Pueblo street lighting.
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N. M
White Way
Second Street
U. S
Mississippi
T. R. Kirby
Kirby
Denver
Pueblo
Colo
Rocky Mountain States
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