Nazis Advance in Drive Against Reds
London reports a major German offensive in central Russia pushing into two villages near Belgorod as heavy losses climb. Russians claim 1,009 German tanks destroyed in two days and 314 planes downed, with 13,000 German dead amid the fighting along the Orel Kursk Belgorod front. The offensive shifts aim to turn the southern flank as pressure mounts on German forces.
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London
Russia
Belgorod
Orel-Kursk-Belgorod
Orel-Kursk
Hitler
Action Seen as Rebuke to Lewis
The House rules committee declined to approve extending the Guffey coal act and denied a plan to lengthen price floors for soft coal beyond August 23. The move, seen as a rebuke to John L. Lewis and United Mines Workers, ends government wartime control of the mines. The ways and means committee also rejected extending the act two years past the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Rules Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mines Workers
Roosevelt
Rules Committee
House
Ways and Means
Senate rebels vs plan to ban subsidies on food prices
In a heated session on July 6 the Senate voted 36 to 28 to ban any subsidies to lower retail food prices as part of the CCC renewal. The move followed President Roosevelt's veto of a similar ban and came amid maneuvers over extending the Commodity Credit Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Administration Farm Agency
House
CCC
George
D.-Ga
Rome
Morgenthau
United States Treasury
Danaher
R.-Conn
Appropriations Move on Interior Programs and Projects
The Senate completed action on a 105 million dollar interior department appropriations bill. It funds western irrigation efforts including 22.569 million for the Central Valley project, 3.5 million for Colorado-Big Thompson, 3 million for the Boise Anderson ranch project, and 865 thousand for Yakima Roza division. Additional funds support various Reclamation Bureau irrigation works and 2 million for raw materials study with 900 thousand for manganese pilot plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Department of Interior
Central Valley
California
Colorado-Big Thompson
Colorado
Boise, Anderson Ranch
Idaho
New Mexico
Bonneville Power Administration
A P Stephenson Former Butte Resident Dies in Bozeman
Andrew P. Stephenson long-time Butte resident died Tuesday at his Bozeman home. He arrived in Butte in 1908 and played a key role in civic religious and business life. An organizer of the Butte Kiwanis club he served as president in 1924. He belonged to Summit Valley Masonic lodge and the Christian Science church. He lived at 1923 Argyle Street and once ran the Stephenson Lumber Co before selling to Monarch Lumber and moving to Bozeman.
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Andrew P. Stephenson
Butte
Bozeman
Mr. Stephenson
Stephenson
Kiwanis Club
Summit Valley Masonic Lodge
Christian Science Church
Argyle Street
Stephenson Lumber Company
Monarch Lumber Company
Nuisance Raids by the RAF Across Northern France and Germany
RAF Spitfires shot down seven enemy fighters Tuesday morning during nuisance sweeps from Dieppe to Dunkirk with no losses. Polish pilots claimed five victories and Canadians two. British night raids over Germany reported light damage, while large bombers were grounded. An armed Dutch coastal vessel was destroyed by RAF action, with significant locomotive destruction in June operations indicating Axis rail pressure.
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London
France
Germany
Air Ministry
Dieppe
Dunkerque
Berlin
Britain
U. S
Middle East
Messina
Cairo
Villacidro
Catania
Mount Etna
Sicilian
Cantania
Marsala
Dies Committee Probe Denounced by WRA Chief
Washington reports quote War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer slams a Dies subcommittee probe as promoting racial antipathy and sensationalism. He says the eight week inquiry distorts facts, undermines American unity, and could aid enemy propaganda while Japan holds U S prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Dillon S. Myer
The
War Relocation Authority
Dies Subcommittee
WRA
Japan
United States
British Eighth Army Concentrated in Middle East
Sofia dispatch citing Giornale d Italia reports most of the British Eighth army in Iraq Iran and Syria with General Bernard Montgomery possibly in Baghdad as of Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Sofia
Giornale d'Italia
Eighth Army
Iraq
Iran
Syria
Bernard L. Montgomery
Bagdad
Weather Forecast Warm spell with scattered showers
Continued warmer spell expected Wednesday with scattered showers in the afternoon and evening. Tuesday temperatures reached a maximum of 85 and a low of 44 as conditions began to shift toward milder air.
Allied Planes Strike Hard at Axis Bases
Allied air forces attacked six Sicilian towns and Villacidro in Sardinia as part of a pre invasion push to seize Mediterranean air supremacy. They downed 101 enemy aircraft over two days, with 41 Axis fighters and three bombers accounted for in Sicily and Sardinia, while a dozen Allied planes were lost.
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Allied
North Africa
Sicily
Sardinia
Mediterranean
Gerbini
U. S
Benjamin Warmer
San Francisco
Licata
Marsala
Sciacca
Catania
Messina
Villacidro
Warmer
Indian prince seeks divorce from American queen
Ma harajah Yeshwant of Indore India aged 33 charged his American Maharanee Margaret Lawlor with extreme cruelty and was granted an uncontested divorce by District Judge William McKnight at a brief closed hearing in Reno Nevada.
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Reno
Nev
U.P
Maharajah Yeshwant
Indore
India
Margaret Lawlor
William McKnight
Three Men Found Safe After Wrangell Search
Three Wrangell men missing since Sunday were found safe Tuesday by an airplane pilot after a coast guard and beach search. The party included Dr John H Clem ents, Dr Eugene Wheeler, and Orville Keeney, a merchant. They departed on a fishing expedition in a 16 foot outboard from Wrangell toward Tom Creek and reached Knight Anchorage far from their planned grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrangell
Alaska
U.P
Coast Guard
John H. Clements
Eugene Wheeler
Orville Keeney
Toms Creek
Here
Victims Listed in Sikorski Crash Killings
London July 6 Brigadier General John P Whiteley Conservative MP for Buckingham and W H Lock war ministry technical expert were among those killed in the Gibraltar plane crash that killed Polish premier Wladyslaw Sikorski. The speaker in commons announced Whiteley and Victor A Cazalet also died. A Madrid dispatch said 19 were aboard. only the Czech pilot survived. he was recovering in a Gibraltar hospital awaiting testimony. Sir James Grigg War Secretary witnessed the crash after bidding Sikorski farewell at the airport.
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London
U.P
John P. Whiteley
House of Commons
Buckingham
W. H. Lock
War Ministry
Gibraltar
Wladyslaw Sikorski
Lock
Iran
Russia
Canada
Whiteley
Victor A. Cazalet
Sikorskis
Commons
United Press Madrid
James Grigg
Sikorski
Japs Speeding Up Training Program
Tokyo radio announced Japan cuts air cadet training from three years to a year and a half, signaling heavy losses. Earlier May reports indicated 14 year olds could enter army training schools including aviation, lowering the minimum age by one year.
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New York
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Why Rick? Dog Bark Noise Drops Case in Omaha
In Omaha on July 6 Municipal Judge Dennis O'Brien dismissed charges after the complaining witness, who was hard of hearing, could not be effectively questioned. The witness alleged his neighbor's dog barks and howls at night keeping him awake.
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Omaha
Dennis O’brien
Plans to boost lamb and mutton for civilians on coast
Washington dispatch reports the Wet Food Administration announced plans to increase civilian meat availability this month in the Pacific coast states. Commercial slaughterers in California Oregon and Washington will be allowed to deliver lamb and mutton for civilian use amid shortages.
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Washington
U.P
Wet Food Administration
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Burglary Charges Dismissed Against Soviet Agent
San Francisco on July 6 Burglary charges against Captain Nicolai Habalov assistant Soviet government purchasing agent were dismissed by Municipal Judge Twain Michelsen Tuesday.
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San Francisco
U.P
Nicolai Habalov
Twain Michelsen
War Production Backlash Warned by Nelson on May Output
War Production Board chief Donald M. Nelson cautioned that May munition output was essentially flat from April with only gains in aircraft and naval vessel deliveries. He noted declines in Army ordnance and miscellaneous munitions, urging all sectors to boost effort as the nation nears a major production test while hinting at a renewed European front and stressing broader sacrifices.
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Washington
WUP
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Army Ordnance
Nelson
Solons Deadlocked on Road Measure
United States Senate and House conferenced over HR 2798 to allow federal highway funds to be used for right of way. Chairman Robinson says a single amended section blocks agreement, opposing impounding funds by any agency except the commissioner of public roads, keeping the bill stalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Robinson
Utah
House Public Roads Committee
Conference Committee
Senate Roads Committee
Commissioner of Public Roads
Time Limit Set for Jap Defeat, Chiang Pledges Two-Year Victory
Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek marks China's sixth war anniversary with a bold forecast that the Japanese invasion armies can be utterly defeated within two years. He reports Allied pressure across 8,000 miles of front and predicts Japan will be reduced to defending only isolated islands as coordinated assaults begin. He vows a seventh year of resistance will start crushing blows and continued victories worldwide.
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Chungking
Chiang Kaishek
China
Japan
Chiang
Attu Island
Aleutians
Martinique Joins French Committee Reported by Reuters
London cabled word from the Morocco radio says Martinique has joined the French committee of national liberation. No independent confirmation yet. Admiral Georges Robert had invited the United States to name an envoy for talks on potential changes in French authority there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Morocco
Martinique
Committee of National Liberation
Georges Robert
United States
Deserters Rounded Up in Rotterdam Chinatown
Reports from Dutch government circles say more than 100 German soldiers who defected or deserted were rounded up in Rotterdam by special German police squads. The deserters were said to be hiding in Rotterdam's Chinatown district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Holland
Rotterdam
Ways and Means to Start Sept. 8 on Wartime Tax Rise
The House Ways and Means Committee will begin work September 8 on a bill to raise wartime taxes with a goal of $12 billion in annual revenue. The plan may extend excess profits taxes to individual incomes, while avoiding retroactive effects before January 1, 1944. Chairman Doughton said the measure will be nonpartisan and not break anyone economically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Ways and Means
Treasury
Committee
Doughton
Coughton
Battle of Kula Bay: Japanese Lose Heavily in Solomons Fight
Allied and U S forces clashed in the central Solomons with six Japanese ships probably sunk and four damaged in Kula gulf battles. The U S Navy reported heavy damage to enemy ships while one U S cruiser was sunk in the July 6 action near New Georgia and Kolombangara.
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Allied
Australia
Kula Gulf
United States
New Georgia
Kolombangara
Solomons
Washington
Navy
Kula Bay
Gulf
New Georgia Island
U. S
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Bairoko
Strong
Liberators
Japan
Rendova
Wangunu
Army Liberator
Ballale Island
Shortland Island
U.S
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Lewis
Representative Cannon
D.-Mo
A. P. Stephenson
R.A.F
Dies Committee
French Africa
Malta
Rick
Solons
Ben
Allied Headquarters
Munda
South Pacific
Kulabay
U. S.S
Guadalcanal
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