Mediterranean Sea Battle Shrinks Italian Forces as Allies Strike
British and American pilots dominated air actions in the Mediterranean battle Sunday. Italian heavy cruiser and two destroyers were sunk or damaged, while six other ships, including two Italian battleships, were hit. Allied air units, including American Liberators, inflicted major losses, with shore based aircraft the primary damagers. Musso linin's navy was shown to be vulnerable to air power as Luftwaffe and RAF operations press Malta supplies.
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Asxis
Mediterranean
Sunday
Ameruchy
R.A.F
Anis
R.af
London
Malta
Roosevelt Urges Moral Fitness Drive
President Roosevelt calls for a national campaign to improve total physical and moral fitness and to eliminate red light districts in war industry areas. He praises progress against venereal disease and asks federal state and local governments along with business, schools, and churches to cooperate in extending the drive to industrial sites. McNutt sends letters to 1500 war plant executives urging action to repress prostitution and support law enforcement to protect manpower.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
Office of Defense Health and Welfare
McNutt
Salvage Campaign For Cooking Fats To Start In July
Washington June 17 UP A salvage drive to recover household cooking fats begins in early July under the War Production Board. Lessing J. Rosenwald, head of the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, urged housewives to save fats and sell them to neighborhood stores, meat markets, and frozen locker plants. The fats aid glycerine production for explosives and the WPB aims to secure over half a billion pounds annually. Centers will pay a yet unspecified rate per pound. handling may cost one cent per pound. Housewives should keep fats in clean metal containers in a cool place and not dispose of them until at least a pound is collected.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Rosenwald
Six Years for Urging Negroes Not To Fight in U S Army
Bay City Michigan June 17 194- Christian Loeffler 64 Clare Michigan was sentenced to six years in federal prison by Judge Arthur Tuttle for urging insubordination among American soldiers. Loeffler a German national denied citizenship due to liquor violations told Negro soldiers en route to Fort Hersey Michigan that they were fools to fight for the country and that Hitler would free the colored race. A new trial request was denied.
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U.S. Army
Bay City
Mich
Christian Loeffler
Clare
Fuller
Arthur . Tuttle
Terre Haute
Ind
Loeffler
United
Fort Iady
Hitler
Edge’ Tuttle
Entrenched Nazis Routed At Kharkov Front
Red Army reports describe a Soviet village assault near Kharkov that destroyed a complete German column and caused heavy losses. German forces reportedly lost 20 tanks and about 600 dead as battles also raged around Sevastopol and Crimea. Soviet dawns and airmen damaged transports and tank counts while repelling multiple German attacks.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Information Bureau
Red Army
Kerch
Crimea
Berlin
Caucasus
High Command
Fedor von Bock
Semeon Timoshenko
Leningrad
Germans say siege of Sevastopol advances amid Soviet resistance
Berlin reports that Sevastopol breaches have widened and fortifications on both flanks have fallen after heavy fighting. Fort Siberia is claimed to have been stormed, with air force support aiding infantry. Soviet assaults along the Volkhov and south of Lakemen are described as unsuccessful. A 3000 ton merchant ship is said sunk at Jokoga harbor on the Arctic coast.
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Berlin
Sevastopol
Siberia
Volkhov River
Lakemen
Jokoga
Russia
Arctic
Could Cleopatra Drink a Pear With Ulcer Pains Ad
An advertisement claims Cleopatra drank a pearl dissolved in wine and links the tale to stomach ulcers and indigestion. It promotes Udga Tablets for acid-related pains with a money back guarantee, available at drug stores everywhere for 25 cents.
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Cleopatra
Severy
Britain’s 300 Planes Strike Ruhr and Essen in Night Raids
British long range bombers with five to eight tons of bombs attacked the Ruhr and Essen in successive raids. A 1,000 plane raid against Essen, home to Krupp works, occurred on June 1, with weather dampening further large scale operations. German night sorties over the south coast caused minor damage and two injuries.
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Britain
Germany
Ruhr
Essen
Krupp
Cologne
Colombia Officers Inspect U S Panama Defenses
Special correspondence reports Colombian army leaders visiting Quarry Heights Panama to inspect U S fortifications as guests of Lt Gen Frank M Andrews. The two generals will stay about a week, receiving military and social honors and signaling closer U S Colombia Panama military ties.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
Quarry Heights
C. Z
Americas
Panama
Republic of Colombia
United States
Frank M. Andrews
General Arnold Hails Curtiss P-40s in Aleutian Action
A telegram from Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold commends Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft for engaging 14 Japanese planes in the Aleutians. The planes destroyed three dive bombers and a Navy fighter while weathering adverse conditions, aiding Allied success and boosting Curtiss-Wright workers at the plant.
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Arnold
Curtiss
Aleutian
Aleutian Islands
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Force
Curtiss- Wright Corporation
Curtin Warns Australia Must Not fall to Japan
Prime Minister Curtin urged Australians that Japan must not gain control of the Suez route or Australia. He said surrender would open the Indian Ocean to enemy attack and referenced Coral Sea events as a decisive turning point while noting heavy shipping losses and wartime measures. Allied air forces reported several Japanese losses around Port Moresby, Timor, and New Guinea with ongoing counterattacks.
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Japan
Pacific
China
Wellington
New Zealand
Peter Fraser
United States
Patrick J. Hurley
United Nations
Curtin
Middle East
Australia
Suez
India
Indian Ocean
Thawall
North American
Dunkerque
America
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Koepang
Timor
Lae
Salamaua
Hitler's Last Victory Hope On The Eastern Front
London reports on June 17 that Hitler seeks a final victory in the 1942 eastern front offensive as German manpower, divisions, and tanks strain under pressure. The article notes 12,000,000 armed Germans, 300 divisions, and growing industrial stress amid retreating morale and shortages.
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Germany
Hitler
Thefuehrer
Europe
Atlantic Submarine Attacks Kill Crew On Two Ships
A daylight Axis torpedo strike off Virginia Beach sinks one U S merchantman with 61 survivors. the other ship reaches port under tow after all hands were saved. In the Gulf a medium U S ship is sunk with 14 sailors dead and 30 survivors arriving at port. Captains Kerr and Strandly went down with their vessels.
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Davis B. Kerr
Yonkers
N. Y
Martin Strandly
Amsterdam
Holland
Virginia Beach
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Virginia
Gulf
U. S
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick Dies at 91 in Quebec
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick 91, former Canada minister of justice 1901 to 1906 and chief justice 1906 to 1918, died in Quebec. A native of Quebec, he also served as lieutenant governor of the province.
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Char. Fitzpatrick
Quebec
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick
Canada
Former Auburn Girl Is Married In New York City
Miss Anna Martin Dobbs of New Rochelle formerly of Auburn and Herbert Joseph Eidhenbach of New York were married March 28 in St Patrick's Cathedral New York by Rev Joseph Connolly. The bride daughter of William G Dobbs of 47 Augustus Street attended Auburn High School and Highland Hospital School of Nursing Rochester and has worked at New Rochelle Hospital. The groom a Holy Cross College and Harvard University graduate works with John P McGuire and Company Inc New York City.
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Auburn
Anna Martin Dobbs
New Rochelle
Herbert Joseph Eidhenbach
New York
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Joseph Connolly
William G. Dobbs
Augustus Street
Eidenbach
Auburn High School
Highland Hospital School of Nursing
Rochester
New York Hospital
New Rochelle Hospital
Holy Cross College
Harvard University
John P. McGuire and Company, Inc
New York City
Navy Recruits Honored at Tupper Lake Farewell
A farewell party at the Lake View Hotel honors Albert R. Titcomb and Josh Otis as they prepare to report in Albany for Navy enlistment. Both were accepted as carpenters mates, second class, and begin service soon.
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Navy
Massena Soldiers First To Enter European Theater
Pvt. Robert Maher and Corp. Robert Halliday of Massena are the first Massena servicemen to reach the European theater. They landed recently in Northern Ireland with the latest A. E. I. troop contingent.
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Massena
Northern Ireland
Pvt
Robert
Maher
Corp
Robert Halliday
New Supplies To Aid Allies In Libya War
Fierce fighting raged between Sidi Rezegh and El Adem near Tobruk with Axis reinforcements reported en route. In Bir Hacheim a U S ambulance unit of 21 saw 16 escape safely as five were lost including George C. Tichenor of Maplewood New Jersey killed by a head wound. four others were missing.
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Ctry
Sidi Rezegh
Tobruk
el Adem
Bir Hachelm
George C. Tichenor
Maplewood
N. J
Alan R. Stuyvesant
Clair Smith
New York City
Alexander McElwain
Boston
A. M. R. Stratton
Brunswick
Bir Hacheim
Tichenor
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Nata. Barrows
N. Salina
Adolf Hitler
Henri Philippe Petain
France
Bardia
Erwin Rommel
Acroma
Goodyear-Burlingame School
Accredited
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ROY Furniture Cq., Inc
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Syracuse, N.Y
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