American Air Force and RAF strike Italian fleet in Mediterranean
United States Army Air Force and RAF coordinated for the first time in the Mediterranean, setting fire to two Italian battleships and sinking a 10,000 ton Trento class cruiser, while hitting a smaller cruiser and a destroyer in four days of heavy fighting. Royal Navy fleet air arm also struck another Italian cruiser and likely damaged a second destroyer. The communique notes four engined B-24 Liberator bombers.
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Cairo
United States Army Air Force
RAF
Mediterranean Sea
Royal Navy
Fleet Air Arm
RAF drops propaganda in France over Paris memorials
London June 16 The RAF said a British plane dropped two French Tricolor flags over Paris during a night attack on the former Marine Ministry. The first flag fell over the Place de l Are de Triomphe memorial and the second over the Place de la Concord.
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London
Royal Air Force
Paris
Marine Ministry
Prance
Are de Triomphe
Place de la Concord
Navy tightens rules on reserve commissions for socialites
Washington Merry Go Round reports Admiral King's crackdown on red tape and a new probation system for reserve officers. The column notes criticism of favoring wealthy connections and details past instances where decorated regulars were passed over for promotions, signaling a broader reform effort despite ongoing issues.
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Washington
Ernest King
Betaoin Nununnuu
Navy
Scrap Rubber Pile Grows in Juneau War Drive
Juneau joins national scrap rubber campaign urging residents to turn in all old rubber by June 30. Rotary directs the drive with Standard Oil handling collections and payments. Rubber donations support Red Cross USO and Navy Relief while some may be bought at one cent per pound. In other news a naval gun crew loses four men and 11 aboard a U.S. merchant ship at a Gulf Coast port. five crew and 25 seamen are saved after eight hours in the water.
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Juneau
Juneau Rotary Club
Standard Oil Company of California
Tom Dyer
Sue Merritt
Union. Oil Com
Roosevelt
Red Cross
USO
Navy Relief
Rotary Club Committee Directiv
Don Skuse
Charles W. Carter
Jack Burford
George Sundberg
Gulf Coast
U. S
Pacific Northwest
U.S
San Francisco
Coast Guard
Stephen Chase
Oakland Calif
Washington State College
Lyle G. Havens
B. M. McElroy
Paul R. Sexton
Nystrom
Pred Nystrom
Alexander
Hongkers
Stock Quotations and Dow Averages Reported
New York stock quotations close with American 68 percent Anaconda 24 Bethlehem Steel 51 percent Commonwealth and Southern 7 30 Curtiss Wright 6 International Harvester 46 Kennecott 27 New York Central 7 Northern Pacific 5 United States Steel 46 Pound 4 0 0 W Jones Averages show industrials 104.51 rails 23.47 utilities 12.10
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New York
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Commonwealth and Southern
Curtiss Wright
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Pound
JONES
Dow, Jones
Axis claims Alaska war big victory in Libyan desert
June 16 report from Berlin claims Axis troops won a major battle in the Libyan desert and reached the coast after routing Allied forces at Acroma to isolate British air assets near El Gazala. British dispatch notes Acroma withdrawal and Ain el Gazala breakthrough by Italian forces. A separate June 16 notice announces immediate setup of an Alaska War Council to mobilize civilian manpower in support of defense, under Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, with Gow Ernest Gruenity named as chairman.
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Berlin
Axis
Roops
Acroma
el Gazala
Cairo
Desert
Ain el Gazala
Washington
Alaskan War Council
Secreary of
Harold Ti Tekes
Gow Ernest Gruenity
Counci
Alaska
Axis chiefs report sinking 56,000 tons of ships
Command said German aircraft and Italian naval units sunk 56,000 tons of shipping in attacks on a British Mediterranean convoy. Four cruisers and four destroyers were lost, two escort vessels sunk, a destroyer and eight merchant ships hit and possibly lost. Six warships and six merchant vessels were damaged by bomb or torpedo hits.
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Berlin
Mediterranean
Service Men Dependents to Get Aid
Washington June 16 The House has completed legislative action on the bill to provide financial aid to dependents of service men through deductions in Army and Navy pay checks and through supplementary allowances by the Government.
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Washington
House
Halibut Boatloads Garner 29 000 Pounds In Juneau
Halibut sales today total 29 000 pounds with prices 13.7 and 11.35 cents. Vessels Nor land under Capt Sivert Anderson delivered 19 000 pounds to Alaska Coast Fisheries. Vivian under Capt Charles Larsen brought 10 000 pounds to New England Fish Company. Nort h land also shipped 9 000 pounds of black cod to Alaska Coast Fisheries.
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Norland
Sivert Anderson
Alaska Coast Fisheries
Vivian
Charles Larsen
New England Fish Company
Jersey Jolks and Dodgers Clash Tonight at Piremens Park
The Jersey Jolks and Dodgers will meet on the diamond tonight at Piremens Ball Park with first pitch scheduled for 6 30 weather permitting.
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Jersey Jolks
Dodgers
Piremens
Representative Oliver Defeated in Maine Primary
In Portland Maine June 16 Representative James Oliver an isolationist before Pearl Harbor attack lost renomination in yesterday's Maine Republican primary to Robert Eile Long, who supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. Hale will oppose in September the Democrat former Governor Brann who backed Roosevelt. Hale led Oliver by nearly two to one.
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Portland
Maine
James Oliver
Robert Eile Long
Roosevelt
Hale
Govern Brann
Oliver
Japanese Advance in China Near Chekiang Railway
June 16 report from Chungking says Chinese forces push back Japanese east of Kiangsi while inflicting heavy tolls as they attempt to close a pincer on the Chekiang Kiangsi Railway. Chinese say they abandoned Kwangfeng 25 miles into Kiangsi after an all night battle with Jap forces suffering over 1,000 casualties. Non-resident tourists to Canada must obtain a gasoline license and ration coupon, per the Department of Commerce.
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Chungking
Kiangsi
Chekiang- Kiangsi
Kwangfeng
Canada
Department of Commerce
Contradictions from Washington Confusing To This Nation
Washington June 16 Conflicting statements on defense and war effort confuse Americans from gas rations to tire shortages. A New Jersey maker claims a formula using reclaimed rubber and two arm per tires could keep cars rolling while others insist only nationwide rationing prevents a tire disaster. A Washington reporter’s book titled Confusion on the Potomac notes the muddled guidance as the page ends.
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Washington
Capid
Amoc
New Jersey
Potomac
Limitation of Income Hangs Fire in Washington
Chairman Robert TL Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee announced that the committee will not take responsibility now for the administration’s request to limit individual incomes after taxes. The move is unlikely to be tied to the pending tax bill, with signals that the President may act soon on excise taxes on Capitol Hill. In Moscow, German efforts to cross the Donets in Kharkov were repelled by Russian defenses, with reports of heavy tank losses and strengthened Sebastopol line defenses as Germans mass artillery to break through.
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Washington
Robert TL. Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
Moscow
Donets
Kharkov
Sebastopol
Red
Six Nippon craft are also bombed in Aleutian action
Navy says Army and Navy aircraft near the Aleutians damaged three Japanese cruisers one destroyer one gunboat and one transport in the latest dispatch. Observers in both countries view a two way Japanese plan attacking Midway and Hawaii along with Alaska aiming to disrupt American sea forces and threaten western Canada per reports. Continued on page two.
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Washington
Navy
Army
Aleutian Islands
Glenn L. Martin Company
Wear Department
H. H. Arnold
Midway Island
Hawaii
Alaska
Attu
Kiska
Japan
Midway
Russia
South Pacific
Canada
Prince Rupert
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