Roosevelt veto clash as anti-strike law passes congress
The article reports on Congress overriding President Roosevelt’s veto to enact a wartime labor measure that fines and imprisons those inciting or aiding strikes in government controlled industries. It notes labor leaders, coal field walkouts involving 250,000 miners, and steel strikes by 20,000 miners, plus the new Labor Board powers and immediate questions about enforcement.
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Wassinglon
Rooeevelt
Seth-Harnces
Attenton
Roosevelt
Gennle
House
Jusee Department
Nmn
Neering
Ard
Supreme Court
Meat Shortage Crisis Hits U.S. Meat Markets
Chicago and other cities face acute meat shortages as CFA price ceilings squeeze wholesale margins and force reductions. John A. Kolal, executive secretary of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, cites war demand and OPA rules as worsening factors. Local centers like Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, and Cleveland report tightening supplies and possible early refusals of meat shipments. The American Meat Institute urges the War Stabilization Board to review the broader meat problem.
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Chicago
S Livestock Center
John A. Kolal
National Association of, Tretail
New York
Geatte
Wash
Cincinnati
Glevelantel
Kotal
American Meat Institute
War Stabilization
Byrnes
Warrat Board
Ekotal
Jean
Pilot Major Ci Receives Distinguished Service Order
Major James Ci of Columbus Ohio earned the Distinguished Service Order for leadership in air operations that destroyed a large number of enemy transports. General Robert W Crichord received the Legion of Merit for organizing supply of American equipment across the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. A British Hudson bomber exploded near Windsor New Jersey during a training flight, killing nine crewmembers.
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Gairg
Egypt
James Ci
Gurl
Columbus
Ohio
Tunisia
Robert W.crichord
Sth
U. S. Air Force
Bth Air Force
CADAL
Allied Air Attacks Smother Messina and Sicilian Ports
More than 190 Flying Fortresses bomb Messina in eastern Sicily, obscuring the city with smoke and flames. RAF Wellingtons strike at Taroms and Sardinia port areas, causing fires near railways and ammunition dumps. In heavy opposition, B 17s suffer near misses as Allied raids press toward North Africa, with three planes lost and twenty enemy aircraft downed.
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North Africa
UPI
Messina
Sicily
R. A. F. Wellingtons Roared Over Mbin In Portunr
Sardinia
Messing
Reuters
Naples
Public Wastes Food Compared to War-Time Shortages
A reader notes U S consumption waste contrasts with wartime scarcities observed in Japan and Europe. The piece recalls meals in New York and U S cities, describes waste observed in a hotel breakfast and critiques long lines for rationed basics while urging restraint and realism about the war effort.
Goebbels Denounces Americans as Cultural Barbarians
London reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in a June 26 speech at Munster blasting Allied bombings as cultural vandalism. He accused British and American forces of destroying Europe’s cultural centers and warned Americans cannot purchase European art and culture, urging moral outrage at terror bombing.
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London
Goebbels
Muntell
United States
Britain
Nuerberg
Munich
Flovence
Venice
Lovas
Chicago
San Francisco
Ducrer
Titan
Invasion Rumors Stir Balkans Amid Allied Assault Talks
Reports from Sofia and London discuss Axis interest in the Balkans as a prelude to invasions. German and Italian observers weigh Crete Dodecanese and Sicily plans while Britain hints at a possible invasion route through the region. Eisenhower is offered life membership by the British Legion in Edinburgh.
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Italy
Jier
Balkans
Oan Firbase
Salanika
Greece
Eighth Army
Syria
Vichy
Disputch
Sofia
Nwar
AXIS
Count
Waldemar Stulrind
Trans.ocean
Montenegra
Balkan
London
Gretve
Crete
Dodecanese
Mediterranean
Sicily
Sardinia
Lavasios
Berlin
West
Waltkely
Norway
Narmadness
Trondheim
Brenner Pass
Tisenhower
Edinburgh
Scotland
British Legion
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U. S
North Africa
Japs Increase Plane Strength in Pacific Action
Allied air reports from Australia and the Pacific show Japanese aircraft strength rising near Rabaul New Britain. Reconnaissance missions over areas northwest of Guadalcanal and northeast of the Solomon Islands indicate intensified operations with a carrier type ship noted in the vicinity. Allied bombing raids by U S forces dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on Rabaul while Allied reconnaissance tallies estimate 370 enemy bombers and many fighters over the region.
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Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
Trere
Aniles
Allin
Guadalcanal
Sanamariun
New Guinea
Tn Fis
Umveaythur
Hawkers
RAF Raids Two German Steel Cities
London report says a heavy British bomber force struck Bochum and Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr last night, blasting steel plants as defense squadrons clashed. Officials note long battles with clouds hindered precise results, while US bombers reportedly caused heavy damage elsewhere in Germany.
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RAF
United States
Germany
Air Ministry
Canonique
Bochum
Gelsenkirchen
Rally
Gag
U. S
Reich
Report accuses Nazis of mass poisonings and torture
Moscow dispatch cites a Soviet Inquiry Commission charging German troops with mass poisonings, torture, and executions in Kursk and Kharkov regions before the Red spring offensive. The 2000 word report alleges 1086 patients poisoned at Sabogoye psychiatric hospital and eight pits near Kupyansk containing hundreds of bodies.
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Moscow
Sh & Russian Inquiry Commission
Kursk
Kharkov
Atolingrad
Imiely
Volga
Voronezh
Kiinskay
Lass
St Sabogoye
Kupyansk
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Halland
Hamelan
Mainafield
Suez Canal
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Hittig Borhiwan
Ruhr
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