U S Fliers Destroy Romanian Oil Fields in Raid
June 12 raid by United States Army Air Corps planes devastated the Plocsti oil fields in Romania. Informants say fires burned for two days, the region smeared with smoke, and communications disrupted for days. Rumors say two large bombers over Bucharest, with German and Romanian authorities tying Romania closer to Germany, while U S pilots face internment but enjoy local brewery beer.
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Ankara
United States Army Air Corps
Plocsti
Rumania
Romania
Bucharest
United States
Germany
Carl Clodius
Ion Antonescu
Hungary
Russia
United States Army
Sevastopol
Crimea
Middle East
Gestape Siegfried
Albert Hermann Goering
Marshal Hermann Goering
Official Tries Futilely to Halt Strike in Buffalo
In Buffalo on June 20 a walkout at the J. H. Williams & Company drop forge plant continues as United Steel Workers officials, including regional director Joseph P. Molony, fail to persuade workers to return. Molony, fresh from a State C I O meeting in Syracuse, reports the walkout remains unless a wage raise and union shop are granted. Federal Conciliator Clyde Mills calls the strike unauthorized, with about 1,500 workers involved and production halted. Plant president Walter Shanaman notes the contract expired May 1 and the union seeks a 12.5 cent hourly increase from 45 cents.
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Buffalo
J. H. Williams & Company
Joseph P. Molony
Co. FE
United Steel Workers of America
Molony
Syracuse
Clyde Mills
Walter Shanaman
Plant Steel Workers’ Local
Shanaman
Labor-Management War Committees Grow at GE Plants
Washington reports that labor-management committees are set up in 10 General Electric plants, bringing total participation to 900 as part of the war production drive sponsored by the War Production Board. New GE plants include Oakland and Fort Wayne among others in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, with many production increases noted by the board.
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Washington
General Electric Company
War Production,Board
General Electric
G. E
Oakland
Calif
Fort Wayne
Ind
Lynn
Pittsfield
West Lynn
Mass
Bloomfield
N. J
Schenectady
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Erie
Syracuse Weather Brief Forecast
Weather Bureau forecast continues mild tonight. Saturday temperatures show low to mid sixties with a 72 degree high expected at midday. City and region show typical spring warmth with no precipitation anticipated.
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Syracuse
Weather Bureau
Axis Stab at Tobruk Halted by British Forces
British mobile columns and RAF aerial support foiled Axis attempts along the Libya Egypt frontier near Bardia and Tobruk. German and Italian units were driven back within about 25 miles of Bardia as RAF and ground forces pressed advances toward new frontline positions.
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Tobruk
Cairo
Baria
RAF
Timimi
Bengali
Eighth Army
Neil M. Ritchie
Afrika Korps
London
Germany
Libya-Egypt
Ritchie
Bardia
Royal Air Force
Steel realignment eyed as naval build plans loom
Washington reports forecast an $8.5 trillion naval expansion risking steel taps between warships and merchant vessels. Senate moves to fast track a 1 900 000 ton fleet enlargement as defense leaders weigh steel supply. Senator Brewster warns of a critical situation without rapid expansion of steel facilities. The Navy plans include 500 combatant ships, including carriers cruisers destroyers, plus wood craft.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
D-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Brewster
R-Me
Navy
Former Husband Of Elsie Ferguson Shoots Himself
Thomas B. Clarke Jr., former husband of actress Elsie Ferguson, was in critical condition at Norwalk Hospital after shooting himself in the head with a pistol. The 65 year old, in ill health, fired the shot in an upstairs bedroom while his wife and a physician were in the library. Clarke and Ferguson married in 1916 and divorced in Paris in 1923.
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Elsie Ferguson
Norwalk
Conn
INS
Thomas B. Clarke,Jr
Elsie. Ferguson
Norwalk Hospital
Clarke
U S War Board Tightens Rubber Import Rules
The War Production Board barred import of all rubber and rubber products except via RFC subsidiaries. The Rubber Reserve Company, an RFC unit previously sole importer of crude rubber and latex, will also buy reclaimed and scrap rubber and finished products including balata.
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U.S
Washington
War Production Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rubber Reserve Company
RFC
British Losses In Libya Hit London Hard
London reports the official retirement of Lieut Gen Neil M Ritchie’s Eighth Army to frontier positions near the Egyptian Libyan border and Tobruk fortifications. Rommel retains initiative as the campaign fails to destroy enemy forces, with Tobruk deemed nonessential but an annoying flanking outpost.
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David M. Nichol
Chicago Daily News, Inc
London
Neil M. Ritchie
Eighth Army
Tobruk
Erwin Rommel
Desert
Egypt
Libya
Alexandria
Suez
Rommel
London Times
Treasury Tax Withholding Plan Faces House Vote
The Treasury outlined a 10 percent withholding on current income after personal exemptions starting Jan 1 1943 to offset 1943 and 1942 taxes. Aiming to ease double taxation, the plan shifts credits between 1942 and 1943 taxes while detailing a phased approach through 1945 and beyond. Debate continues on whether to include a general sales or consumption tax in the bill.
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Treasury
Randolph Paul
Doughton
Congress
Ccan
Army Men Abroad Cannot Wed Without Officers Approval
Washington reports that U S Army personnel overseas or in possessions may not marry without approval from the commanding officer of the forces stationed in the area. The War Department gave no reasons for the order and issued a brief notice stating the requirement.
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Washington
U. S
United States Army
War Department
War’ Department
United States
French journalists tour cancelled in Paris postponement
A group of French journalists on a German sponsored tour of German work centers returned to Vichy after the trip was cancelled in Paris. No reason for the postponement was given.
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Vichy
Germany
Paris
Osages Revive Victory Dance to Honor Tinker
Pawhuska Oklahoma June 200P an Osage victory dance revival begins in three days. The event honors Major General Clarence L Tinker the sole American Indian Army general who led a Midway attack before his plane vanished over the sea. Osages recall his wartime leadership and long tradition.
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Pawhuska
Oklo
Clarence L. Tinker
Midway
Tinker
Allies March Toward Berlin As Cripps Pledges Support
Continued coverage notes Allied advance toward Berlin as Cripps pledges enduring support. British warnings claim Germany’s vast military and industrial power may prolong the war. Reports from Stockholm indicate planned evacuations in Norway and German naval convoys avoiding Dutch routes due to air attacks. Sweden’s coal trades fear further disruption amid war. Berlin radio claims East Anglia evacuation orders and mining of Skagerrak to close Baltic access, while Britain buys farms for training in East Anglia with no disclosed sizes.
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Rotterdam
Britain
England
Europe
wInand
Skagerrak
Baltic Sea
Berlin
East Anglia
British War Office
London
Holland
Belgium
War Office
East
Anglia
Norway
Denmark
Skaggerrak
Lister Light
Tyboroen
Baltic
Banker Proposes Certificates to Salvage Rubber
Lexington report notes Chase National Bank executive Joseph E. Pogue urged the Interstate Oil Compact Commission to issue negotiable certificates. The plan would let owners surrender discarded tires for certificates redeemable to buy reclaimed rubber caps, turning scrap into usable recap material for essential users and sustaining the automotive economy until synthetic rubber mass production grows.
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Lexington
New York
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Joseph E. Pogue
Chase National Bank
Kangaroo Hordes Threaten Gippsland Crops
Farmers in the Gippsland district of Victoria report kangaroos in the thousands at dawn grazing fields and destroying crops. They seek government permission to cull the pests as the animals are compared to maneuvering regiments by a Melbourne farmer quoted in the Melbourne Australia paper from June 20.
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Australia
Melbourne
Gippsland
Victoria
Nine more ships raise U boat toll to 286
The Associated Press report notes nine more ships sunk in Atlantic waters, bringing the total U boat toll to 286 since Pearl Harbor. Cuba offers facilities for U.S. aviation training as a base against submarines, with installations to begin immediately. Survivors from several vessels recount torpedo hits, sinkings, and rescue efforts across multiple ships and nationalities.
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Associated Press
Cuba
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
State Department
United States War Department
United States
la Nueva Altagorcia
Comercio
U. S
U.S
Flora
Colombian
Lessen
Wellandoe
Crijnssen
Caribbean
Yucatan
Sevastopol Battle Rages as Nazi Assaults Continue
Dispatches describe raging fighting across the Sevastopol front with heavy shelling and air bombardment. Red Army and guerrillas repelled attacks on the Kalinin front with 550 Germans killed, while another sector saw 700 enemy losses and rear attacks repelled. Northwest air battles claimed multiple German fighters shot down as Soviet garrisons, aided by Black Sea fleet ships, received supplies and reinforcements amid persistent Axis pressure.
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Sevastopol
Hitler
Russia
Red Army
Kalinin Front
Alexander Zimin
Junkers
Messerschmidts
Special Front
Pravda
Communist Party
Red Crimea
Danbury Fair Cancelled for War Time
Danbury Conn June 20 INS The Danbury Fair a Connecticut institution since 1878 was canceled today for the duration second time in 63 years of winter entertainment for Nutmeg residents George M Nevius secretary of the Danbury Agricultural Society sponsor said the cancellation followed a request by Joseph Eastman director of the Office of Defense Transportation The only other cancellation was in 1918 during an infantile paralysis epidemic.
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Danbury
Conn
Danbury Fair
Connecticut
George
M. Nevius
Danbury Agricultural Society
Joseph” B.eastman
Omed
Defense, Transportation
WAACS Will Have Beauty Parlor at Fort Des Moines
Fort Des Moines Ia June 20 INS Army life for women won t be exactly like men There will be a dean of women to supervise instruction and a beauty parlor arrangements for feminine touches were being made at the fort where the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will begin training women officers The dean of women will resemble a college dean and soldiers may consult her about problems A faculty officer described the beauty parlor as modern and efficient but warned the WAAC will not be like a country club with a strict schedule from 6 AM to 9 PM
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WAACS
Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
INS
Army
Fort Dex
Maines
WAAC
Global World War III Power Mobility Imagined
The piece outlines a hypothetical multi-front German and Japanese offensive across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It cites German armored and air strength based in Italy, Crete, and Africa, with campaigns toward the Caucasus and Suez, plus a Baltic and Atlantic threat. It notes Japanese plans against Siberian forces, Manchukuo restiveness, and timing windows in late spring to summer for potential operations from Vladivostok to Amur.
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Italy
Crete
Europe
Caucasus
Suez
Syria
Turkey
Baku-Batum
United States
England
Iceland
Tirpitz
Graf Zeppelin
Washington
New York
Norway
New York-Washington
Nétante la Carey
Vladivostok
Kamchatka Peninsula
Japan
Manchukuo
Amur River
U S Prepared to Meet Blow at Alaska Olds Says
Spokane Wash June 2011 Maj Gen Robert A Olds stated the air force exists to stop war reaching American shores and that the U S is ready to meet any Japanese threat to Alaska He noted Alaska has faced Japanese raids and that large quantities of planes will be sent west as part of a major bomber training expansion featuring four new super airfields with 10000 foot runways to serve emergencies from the Pacific to the Mississippi River and from border to border
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Spokane
Wash
America
Robert A. Olds
United States
Alaska
Pacific Northsweath Aviation Planning Council
Second Air Force
Pacific
Mississippi River
Auto Use Stickers To Be Mandatory For Gas Purchases
Buffalo June 20 UP Pos session of Federal auto use stamps will be mandatory for the purchase of gasoline after July 1 when the new stickers are required on all motor vehicles. Collector George T. McGowan of the Internal Revenue Department Buffalo office announced today. McGowan said the order to serve station operators in unrationed areas coincides with an edict in rationed territory requiring auto use stamp possession to obtain ration cards when the new rationing period begins July 15.
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Buffalo
George T. McGowan
Internal Revenue Department
Buffalo’ Office
McGowan
Rural mailmen urged to collect scrap rubber nationwide
Rural mail carriers were ordered by the Postoffice Department to transport rubber scrap from homes on their routes to collection depots. Smith W. Purdum, assistant postmaster general, asked postmasters to instruct carriers to cooperate in every reasonable way in the drive to collect scrap rubber.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Filipino Say Countryme Still Fightin Fightin Japanese
Honolulu June 20. Fifty men and women still fight the Japanese and will continue, says Lieut. Col. Carlos Romulo former publisher and aid de camp to Douglas MacArthur. Romulo recalls 1942 as momentous, notes he fought in the Philippine invasion, left Bataan, and earned a Pulitzer for Malay and Asia. He visited the U.S. mainland to receive the prize, but refused cooling remarks, stating no thanks for him since Bataan. He criticizes the destruction of a plant and praises U.S. policy in the Philippines under the Kings McDuffie Act granting independence in 1946. Romulo says Bataan and Corregidor stand as proof of loyalty, and notes Filipino women also fight as the Japs raid Cebu.
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Honolulu
Carlos ‘Romulo
Aid de Camp
Douglas MacArthur
Romulo
Asia
Uni
Bataan
Manila Herald
Mall Debate
Philippines
Atta
M |Arthur
United States
Brazil gains control of southbound cargo space
Rio de Janeiro reports new US Brazil agreement effective July 1 allows Brazil to allocate all southbound shipping space for cargo bound to Brazil and permit essential imports only. Allocation of northbound space remains via War Shipping Administration. Shipping licenses now required for most Brazilian exports to the United States except key imports handled by the US government.
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Allen Haden
Chicag Daily News,Inc
Rio de Janeiro
Onc
United States
Brazil
Allied Nations
Urugu
Argentina
Buenos Aires
United States Maritime Commission
Letters to Rector Read spark a will dispute case
In White Plains a will contest seeks to invalidate Mrs Anna Paton estate plans, accusing Dr Henry Darlington of undue influence. Three relatives challenge the 53 year old priest, seeking portions of about $1.3 million, with each relative named to receive sums ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 if the will stands. The letters, written by Paton and dated to June, reveal affection and possible motive.
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Paton
White Plains
Henry
Darlington
New - Yor City
of the Heavenly
Eiijah H. .Siter
Mary
Owen
Elizabeth S. “Pemberton
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Desert Fox
Mechili
Portugal
Gulf of Bomba
Ain EL * Gazala
Knightsbridge
Bir EL “Goel
Salam
Siomar
Tommies
Vancouver
B. C
CINS
British Columbia Box Company
Kee
Canada
Dooms Sales
Osages
Cripps
West ‘Atlantic
Olds
Fimer Manila
U.S. Defense
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