Col Haynes Takes Over Top Post In China Command
Col. Galen V. Haynes named chief of the American bomber command in China. Details of unit composition and operation timing were kept secret. Haynes, 49, a North Carolinian veteran of 25 years, previously led aerial evacuation missions in Burma and commanded transport and protection flights across India. He has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for pioneering four motor bomber routes in Africa and led the Assam-Burma-China ferrying command efforts.
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Theerz
Laken
Army Air Force
Haynes
Foo
Burma
India
Assam-Burma- China
Drsiic
Shivebo
Upper Burma
Jap ‘Hombern
Joseph Athwell
Tlaystes
Three Square Son Lenters
United States
South America
Germans plan to resettle 3 million Dutch people
Tass News Agency reports Nazi authorities aim to move 3,000,000 Dutch as part of a broader plan to open territory for German settlement in Eastern Europe. The Soviet agency states laborers would be sent into Holland and Alsace Lorraine Luxembourg and the Castile Republics, with a large portion deemed less fit for residence.
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Moscow
Easlern
Europe
Tass News
Geneva
Fculiony
Holland
Alsace-Lorraine
Luxembourg
Castile
Retail Sugar Hikes Slated
Washington June 14. The office of price administration ordered temporary and permanent sugar stock increases for retailers to assure ample supplies under rationing. Local boards must adjust for those certifying need. Permanent increases could add one pound per dollar of gross weekly sales reported at registration, with local boards allowed temporary boosts up to 100 percent to meet home canning demand.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
German Captain Taken in Laredo
A German artillery captain formerly in the German army and recently employed at a bed factory in Nuevo Laredo was arrested by Mexican authorities last night. He will be taken to Mexico City today along with a Japanese operator who has been in custody for several days.
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Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Mexico City
Wood to Be Used
Washington today reported the army estimates that about 276,007 tons of steel would be saved annually by a new policy to use wood for ships and to shorten all cargo tracks. The plan aims to build 30 large cargo ships and reduce steel consumption through wood hulls and lighter machinery.
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Washington
Shakeup In WPB Forecast and War Production Shifts
A WPB spokesman forecasts an extensive realignment of war production within a month, likely ending some jobs, while changes may hinge on new organizational plans led by Luther Gulick. Senate reports condemn delay in civilian industry conversion and support Truman's push for broader participation in WPB operations, despite House findings praising the year‑long effort.
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H—war Production Board
Truman
Dy Mo
Special
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
WPE
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Plannsms
Jr. Luther Gulick
Galumbit University Institute of Public Administration
WPBY
WPB
Robert P. Guthrie
Senate
House
Guthrie
Philip D. Rood
WEB J Bureau of Industry
Ford
Trumin
Tabor
Battle Rocket Probes New Bomb in Mediterranean
London reports Axis planes used a self propelled rocket bomb in the Mediterranean. Authorities describe the weapon as a major innovation with great penetrating power potentially changing dive bombing. Notes mixed casualty reports and conflicting broadcasts about ship losses and carrier movements near Gibraltar.
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London
Mediterranean
Tava
Axia
Tuisalan Btormovik
Waal Winks
Mie
Ale
Japs Move Planes and Reinforce Forces in Asia
International defense reports indicate Japan is massing air power in Burma and reinforcing Manchukuo while eyeing Siberia and a potential attack on Chungking. Sources say 609 planes in Burma, reduced China aircraft, and a large Kwantung force nearing 600,000 men. A Chekiang line drive threatens Puklen bases as Chinese forces claim a 1600 men spearhead advancing from Keangs.
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Chungking
Jotaces
Siberia
China
Burma
Canton
Hankow
Elherle
Manchukuo
Kwantung Army
Pacific
Min Aoutlan
Siterta
Chekiang-Klanesi
Kwanteng
Puklen
Mae
Ohekiang
Kraut Wieners Spark Jap Strike At Santa Anita Center
Japanese evacuees ended a sitdown protest that began Tuesday after a noon meal of sauerkraut and wieners. About eight hundred workers participated, with roughly 85 percent returning to work by yesterday and the rest expected to resume within a few days.
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Los Angmuiss
Santa Anita
Prote
Clyit Control Administration
Tenth State Solon Offers to Resign
A Texas lawmaker, State Representative S. P. Weatherford of Kaufman, submitted his resignation to Governor Stevenson. Weatherford, the tenth resigning member since the war began, realigned to accept employment with an aircraft manufacturer in Long Beach, California. Balloting for primary elections, including a Senate race, is set for July 25 during the Democratic statewide penitentiary gathering.
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Austin
P. Weatherford
Kaufman
Stevenson
House
Weatherford
Long Beach
Calif
Var
Senate
San Antal Weather Sketches Warm Thursday Afternoon
Local forecast notes warm conditions in San Antal and surrounding area with moderate to fresh winds developing Thursday afternoon into night. Forecast includes a slight temperature change and reference to additional data on the weather page.
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San Antal
Texas
Britain Varies On Tobruk Crisis Rumors and Rommel Drive
British leaders debate Libya and Suez risk after reports suggest Tobruk may fall and Rommel pursues gains in North Africa. Sir Stafford Cripps seeks full PM statement on Libya and Mediterranean battles as press coverage cites mixed, sometimes sensational, reporting from war fronts.
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London
INS
Tobruk
Suez
Stafford Cripps
Churchill
Libya
Mediterranean
Masefield's Son Killed in Action in Combat
London dispatch reports 82 year old Lewis Overmucin Masefield, son of poet Laurence Jobin Masefeld, killed in action far from home amid recent fighting. He authored the novel Gross and Double Cross and was formerly a newspaper man.
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London
Lewis Ovormmuciin Masefield
Laurente Jobin Masefeld
Fighting Reported Near Dutch Harbor
War news from the Aleutian area describes land and air fighting near Dutch Harbor as U S forces coordinate maneuvers. Army corps plan extensive desert and coastal training with state guards to bolster defense and support military police duties.
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Wassington
Cunean
Hondon
CN8
Ollyapor- Exchange Telegraph Company
May
I Parle
Mier
Tokyo
Aleutian Islands
Bumsan
Ing
Dutch Harbor
Kmdorga
United States
Weat
Shea
Belgium
London
Brussels
Bolt
Irr
Stimson
Sy Wilks
Atta Puards
National Yard
Army
Urey
War Department
Sitmson
Second Army Corps
Carolina
Army Corps
Louisiana Area
Seventh Army Corps
Desert Training Center
Third Army Corps
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Fourth Army Corps
Fort Sam Houston to Stage Private Nighttime Blackout Drill
Fort Sam Houston announces a secretive blackout drill within the next four nights. At a designated hour, post traffic will halt, lights go out, and all entrances will be restricted while the post signals with long blasts then six short signals.
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Cigiians
Fort Sam Houston
Tras Ific
Palco
Funeral services set for Mrs. Edlin Allen Tish
Private funeral services will be held for Mrs. Edlin Allen Tish in Laredy tomorrow. She was a Texas labor board representative and sister of William Prescott Allen publisher of the Lareco Times.
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Laredy
Niel
Edlin Allen Tish
Texas Labor Board
San Angelo Tuestias
Wiliam Prescott Allen
Lareco Times
Defenders Back To Tobruk As Axis Presses North Africa
A wartime bulletin from Adolf Hitler’s field headquarters reports German siege forces storming Sevastopol while Axis troops push toward Tobruk. German high command says Libyan forces split into two. British defenses near Tobruk and El Adem are under pressure as Italian and German units drive desert fronts toward the Egyptian frontier.
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North Africa
Sevastopol
Tony
Adolf Witlers
Crimea
Port Gorky
Barber Entrance
Orlinea
Maxim Gorky
Tarber
Hlack Sea
Attagiss
Pravda
Levil
Gommunist Party
van Engine
Bla Rezeyh
Ang EL Adem
Fig
Bardin
Tobruk
Sidi Regegh
Negyptin
el Adem
Illetia
Yvitharayad
Cairo
Priates
Mediterranean
Unetil
Egypt
Reuters
Cusro
Din
Sir Clouds
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G ¥. Haynes
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Eagle
Argus
Malaya
Aircrafti Giraltar
Solon
Munich
Adolf Huehntein
Motory
Vorps
Ted
M Long
Rommel
Mgins
Muorshul
Romimel
Haehebu
Bir Harheim
Rex French
Acroma
Ryen
Tobrukehecke
Canzaln
Ribble
Masefield
Fort Sam
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