Labor, oil shipments, and aluminum in wartime pressures
Reports say the Azuma Maru could carry 240000 gallons of oil to Japan amid fuel shortages. Ickes pauses offshore sales and shifts tankers to Gulf-East routes. CIO leaders urge unity as labor disputes flare. Bethlehem Steel contract talks stall while western lumber crews accept a wage compromise. Ickes attacks Alcoa as a monopoly and Sen Connally raises government plant control options.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Edward Jobbins
Harold Ickes
Japan
Ickes
California
East Coast
Gulf Ports
Philip Murray
CIO
George M. Harrison
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
National Labor Mediation Board
CIO United Automobile Workers
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
Defense Mediation Board
Richard Frankensteen
CIO Aircraft
Roosevelt
AFL
San Francisco
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Bay City Metal Trades Council
Western Washington
Aluminum Company of America
Senate
Aluminum Company
United States
I. W. Wilson
Alcoa
OPM
Little Ennessee
Connally
D-Tex
Britain's Desert Raid Forges Toward Key Passes In Africa
World This Week reports Britain's operation in North Africa as a rapid raid tactic to probe Axis lines. Troops moved toward Halfaya Pass and Bir Wa'er near Ft Capuzzo while claiming to have forced the enemy to reveal strength. The action, described by Berlin as a panzer battle, included American made tanks and incomplete withdrawal of advance forces.
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Rosie
Irene
Gladys
Tommie
Aussie
Tommy
Halfaya Pass
Salum
Bir Wa’er
Ft. Capuzzo
Berlin
Invasion of Syria Stumbles as Vichy Retakes Key Posts
British Free French forces face delays near Damascus as Vichy troops regain Marda and Kuneitra. claims of pushing attackers back to the Palestine border. RAF launches heavy bombing of German districts and the French coast. News notes a Yugoslav explosion and Bulgaria incident, with Croatia joining the Axis in Venice. Markets show no rise amid war-time activity.
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Syria
Damascus
Mardjayoun
Kuneitra
Palestine
RAF
Air Ministry
Norway
England's secret radio helps night bombers seek targets
Britain unveils a wave locator that finds enemy planes in darkness by electric signals and reports it in actual operation by the hundreds. Credit goes to Robert Alexander Watson Watt, with U S involvement for servicing staff.
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Britain
Robert Alexander Watson Watt
U. S
Per
Red Army Chief Timoshenko Shapes a Reorganized Force
A foreign source reports Marshal S. Timoshenko has become the Red Army’s active chief, cutting political commissars, replacing ranks with unified officers, tightening discipline, and introducing the military salute and merit decorations. He argues for stronger resistance to Germany while Stalin favors concessions.
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Europe
London
Germany
Joseph Stalin
Finland
Moscow
Semion Timoshenko
Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Timoshenko
Steppes
Kremlin
Red Army
Mannerheim
Defense
Kliment Voroshiloff
Defense Committee
Red
Bessarabia
Old Russia
Quotes on Axis-Controlled Airlines and Nazi Training Exposed
Oswald Ryan of the Civil Aeronautics Board calls Axis controlled airlines in South America a threat to U S security. Hugh Wilson former U S ambassador to Germany describes specially chosen boys in a harsh training regime showing ruthless potential for future Nazi leadership.
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Oswald Ryan
Civil Aeronautics Board
South America
United States
Hugh Wilson
U. S
Germany
Luftwaffe
In Short Married and Other Briefs from the Era
Victor Mature and Martha Stephenson Kemp are described as married. Boxer Billy Conn is kayoed by Joe Louis in the final seconds of round 13 after leading on points. Japanese attempts to win the Dutch East Indies were met with greater raw material supplies. Seventy nine canning firms and others charged with price fixing, challenged by the NAtional Association of Retail Grocers. Birth rate rise in early 1941 linked to Selective Service Act, with 25 percent more marriages than prior years.
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Victor Mature
Martha Stephenson Kemp
Hal Kemp
Billy Conn
Joe Louis
Conn
Dutch East Indies
Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Federal
Anti-Trust Division
America
Census Bureau
Goebbels Work Cited As Briton Invasion Prophecy
The Voelkischer Beobachter owner Adolf Hitler faced circulation issues after Paul Goebbels wrote a speculative piece predicting a possible invasion of Britain. He claimed England could be overwhelmed within two months. The edition was confiscated and observers in America debated whether Hitler silenced the piece or engineered a global scare.
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Herr Goebbels
Voelkischer Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
Paul Goebbels
Britain
England
America
Hitler
Goebbel
Art professor murals with Cheyenne chief stirs Watonga post office
A University of Oklahoma art professor was paid 560 dollars to paint a mural of Cheyenne leader Roman Nose for Watonga Oklahoma’s post office. Chief Red Bird objected, saying the depiction misrepresented details and sparked a brief picket. The postmaster and mayor weighed in before Red Bird halted protests.
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University of Oklahoma
Watonga
Okla
Roman Nose
Red Bird
Washington
Germany Moves Troops Toward Russia and Turkey Pact
Germany shifts large forces toward Russia and Ukraine as Britain watchesTurkey signs a friendship pact with Germany, seen as a move to isolate Russia. The Robin Moor sinking prompts U S charges of inhumane conduct and asset freezes extend to continental Europe. Public notices call for closing German consulates and tightening immigration controls.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
S.S.R
Germany
Red Army
Europe
Turkey
Britain
Mediterranean
Reich
America
Robin Moor
U. S
South Africa
National Collegiate Tennis and Golf Championships Began
Matches open at Lower Merion Cricket Club Haverford PA and Ohio State University June 23. Observances note June 28 marks the 27th anniversary of Archduke Francis assassination at Sarajevo and the 22nd anniversary of the Versailles Treaty. The text also recalls France’s withdrawal from the Rhine nine years earlier.
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Lower Merion Cricket Club
Haverford
Ohiotate University
Archduke Francis
Sarajevo
Rhinend
Roosevelt declares hiring bias in defense industries
President Roosevelt cites complaints that qualified workers are barred from defense work for race religion or national origin and urges agencies to act. He also notes a Glenn L Martin medium bomber described as fast as European pursuit planes and mentions FBI fingerprinting of all federal employees to curb subversives.
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Roosevelt
OPM
Glenn L. Martin Company
Europe
FBI
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George Miley
American Institute of Homeopathy
George W. Calver
Italy
Treasury
Morgenthau
Berryman
Washington Stat
Erty
FDR
State Department
German Library of Information
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Baron Edgar von Spiegel
New Orleans
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