American planes strike at French coast in heavy raid
London June 2 AP. Up to 1,500 American heavy bombers and fighters hit the French invasion coast in the heaviest single blow yet. An allied armada of 500-750 four engined Italian planes bombed railway yards in Hungary and Transylvania as Mediterranean air forces struck Miskolc Szolnok Szeged Cluj and Simeria.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Italy
Hungary
Transylvania
Mediterranean Air Force
Miskolc
Szolnok
Szeged
Cluj
Simeria
Germany
Carpathian
Pas-De-Calais
France
Scandinavia
Crete
Channel
England
Eisenhower
Department
Terior
Calais
Boulogne
le Touquet
Cape Griz Nez
Saumur
Paris
Budapest
Denmark
Middle East
Cairo
Aegean Sea
Japanese Push in China Seen as Allies Press Hard in Pacific
280000 Japanese troops concentrate to pry Chinese from the Hankow Canton rail line and clear way for new strikes in China as Allied air strikes widen across the Central Pacific from Kuriles to Truk. Major actions near Hankow Changsha and Peiping reported with U.S. Mustangs targeting rail lines.
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Pacific
Hankow- Canton
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Hankow-Canton
China
Chungking
Japan
C. C. Tseng
Alles
Central Pacific
U. S
Kuriles
Wake
Guam
Caroline Islands
Ponape
Truk
Changsha
Tseng
Hankow
Canton
Henan
Sunghsien
Loyang
Tungkwan
Claire L. Chennault
Peiping
Border Guards Kill Flyers in Escape Try
Reports from Andorra said 34 American and Allied fliers bound for the Spanish frontier were ambushed by German border guards. Only two Americans and one French aviator escaped into Spain. most were killed. Survivors were sheltered by French families after being shot down, dressed in peasant clothes and given false papers.
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Barcelona
Spain
Andorra
Pyrenees
France
Mediterranean Air Force Sets May sortie and bomb records
Allied Headquarters in Naples announced the Mediterranean allied air force set May records with 59 000 sorties and 50 000 tons of bombs dropped on targets in Italy and Austria. The report notes unprecedented levels of effort across bombing and destruction of objectives.
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Allied Headquarters
Naples
Mediterranean
Allied Air Force
Italy
Austria
Sweeping new controls over workers planned
Washington June 2 AP Sweeping new controls over the nations dwindling supply of male workers were ordered today by the War Manpower Commission to be placed in effect by July 1. Workers must apply to the USES for assignment to the war plant where needed. Employers may hire only those referred by the USES. McNutt said the plan channels all available male labor to critical wartime jobs. Farm workers and firms with eight or fewer employees are exempt.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
America
United States Employment Service
Paul V. McNutt
WMC
McNutt
Balkans air action damages thousands of enemy vehicles
Allied air forces reported 4 800 enemy vehicles damaged or destroyed along congested Balkan battlefront highways as tactical bombing and strafing concentrated behind the lines at headquarters briefing.
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Balkans
Churchill's Spain gesture puzzles Americans amid invasion fears
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie reports Americans uneasy as Britain's Churchill hints Spain may influence postwar peace. Spain's shipments to Germany raise questions of lives lost and prolonging the war, overshadowing hoped Mediterranean peace and postwar trade. The public judges Allies can compel Spain to cooperate.
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Associated Press
Churchill
Spain
Hitler
United Nations
Gibraltar
Straits
Africa
Britain
Mediterranean
America
Roosevelt
Germany
Berlin forms new Sofia government under pro Axis premier
London reports Berlin announced a new Sofia government led by Ivan Barranov, a former agriculture minister who resigned after opposing harsher German control. The move signals Bulgaria's shift toward a German puppet state, amid Moscow warnings for Bulgaria to exit the war.
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London
Sofia
Premeir
Berlin
Bulgaria
Ivan Barranov
Moscow
Russia
Roosevelt seeks ways to bolster FEPC support
President Roosevelt at a news conference expressed a wish for guidance on how to give more backing to the Fair Employment Practices Committee. A reporter cited reports that Congress may view administration support as insufficient for FEPC efforts to curb racial and other employment discrimination.
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FDR
FEPC
Washington
Roosevelt
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Congress
Monoxide Gas Incident Affects 425 In Brooklyn
A chlorine gas leak after a 220 pound cylinder sickened 425 people in Brooklyn yesterday and today 195 were admitted to hospitals. The unventilated hold of a United Nations freighter led to 25 repair workers becoming faint dizzy and ill while rescuers ferried the others to air and safety nearby.
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New York
United Nations
Brooklyn
Department of Hospitals
US Flyers Drop 63 000 Tons Bombs Destroy 1267 Planes
London reports US strategic air forces in Europe dropped more than 63 000 tons of bombs in May on Nazi targets and shot down 1 267 enemy aircraft. The effort covered invasion coast to the Balkans with 49 811 sorties and included 481 heavy bombers and 235 fighters lost.
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London
United States
Europe
Balkans
Briain
Italy
Ussafe
Eighth Airforce
Britain
15Th Airforce
Mediterranean
Allied Airforce
12Th Airforce Section
RAF
Weather Report for Georgia and Northwest Florida
Georgia sees partly cloudy hot conditions with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening into Saturday. Northwest Florida reports scattered thundershowers this afternoon, with fair night and Saturday morning and more clouds and scattered storms Saturday afternoon.
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Georgia
Florida
Germans lose key defenses as Fifth Army overcomes Velletri and Valmontone near Rome
Allied forces push south of Rome breaking the Via Casilina line as Fifth Army captures Velletri and Valmontone. Veroli and Ferentino fall, sealing retreat routes for German forces. U S troops advance to Monte Artemisio near Rome, with fierce resistance along the front and continued operations from Naples to compound the German collapse.
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Rome
Velletri
Eighth Army
Frosinone
Sora
Velletri and
Valmontone
U. S
Naples
Fifth Army
Via Casilina
Valmonte
Hermann Goering
Ferentinu
Veroli
Ferentino
Venetri
Monte
Artemisio
Capta
Lariano
Associated Press
Cory
Daniel de Luce
Lateuvio
Campoleone
Adv
Advancag Wth
Trentino
Valmontone-Valletri
Monte Artemisio
Artena- Valmontone
Hermann Goerin
Valmontone-Elleggi
Vehetri
Mres
The
Child Labor An American Problem As Eight States Delay
On the 20th anniversary of the child labor amendment the U S Children’s Bureau says many children work illegally in mines lumber camps sawmills canneries and packing sheds. The 1924 amendment requires ratification by 36 states for constitutional change. 16 and 17 year olds face limits under the Fair Labor Standards Act while interstate commerce controls expand.
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Jane Eads
Washington
U. S. Children's Bureau
Congress
FLSA
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Nettuno
Mussolini Canal
Sabaudia
West Wall
Pas de-Calais
By Dewitt MacKenzie
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Weather Report
Eternal City
Sid Feder
Alban Hills
Salerno
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