Revolution May Push Argentina Into Allied Camp
Pro Allied Gen Arturo Rawson led a bloodless coup against the isolationist Castillo regime in Buenos Aires. Arrests were made including a pro Axis nationalist. Castillo fled aboard the gunboat Drummond to Montevideo. Rawson and Ramírez emerged as leaders amid crowds shouting Viva Democracia as 7,000 troops entered the capital.
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Arturo Rawson
Castillo
Drummond
Rio de la Plata
Montevideo
Colonia
Miguel Calaciati
Argentina
Rawson
Pedro Raminez
Viva Democracia
Castille
America
Nazis Demand More Workmen From France
Berlin dispatch reports Germany insists France deliver 220000 workers to the Reich by June 30. Vichy revises compulsory labor laws by removing exemptions creating new classes and tightening restrictions to meet Laval agreement demands.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Tribune de Geneve
Germany
France
Reich
Vichy
Retreat! Chinese Still Have Japs on Run
Chinese forces push on multiple fronts north and south of the Yangtze, claiming substantial gains against Japanese positions. Ansiang and Itu river areas fall as Chinese columns close in on Nanhsien and the Yangtze base, with ships reportedly at risk as Chinese advances tighten the noose on retreating Japanese forces and possible river operations near Owchihkow.
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China
Central China
River
Owchihkow
Yangchi
Yangtze
Chiang Kai-shek
Ansiang
Nanhsien
Lake Tungting
Itu
Hupeh
Tungting Lake
Ichang
Dwehihkow
Wewak Bombed Seventh Time in War Drives
Allied HQ said 18 tons of bombs were dropped on Wewak New Guinea bringing total to 174 tons in seven raids on Wewak and Lae. The May 27 to now strike on Wewak totaled 74 tons while Lae raids reached 100 tons across three missions. Medium bombers operating 750 miles from Australia targeted Babo in the MacCluer Gulf and started fires visible for miles. A Japanese float plane on the Aroe Islands was destroyed and two damaged.
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Australia
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Wewak
New Guinea
High Command
Lae
Babo
MacCluer Gulf
Dutch New Guinea
Aroe Islands
Soviets Stage Mass Air Raid Over German Front
Moscow radio reported a large Soviet air raid by 520 bombers on German held Orel below Moscow, claiming minimal Soviet losses and no notable action on the Russian front. The Soviet command's midnight communique avoided details about the Velizh sector amid German claims of Russian offensives nearby.
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PSA
Orel
Moscow
Moscow Radio
Monitor
Velizh
Smolensk
Velikie Luki
Argentina coup eyed to bring U N side in war
Washington observers believe the Buenos Aires army coup may shift Argentina toward the United Nations and away from the Axis. State Department silent pending full coup report while Navy Secretary Knox suggested pro Axis regime may have fallen. Diplomats see possible access to lend lease aid if Argentina joins hemispheric defense. Some think the change could lead to a more democratic regime, others remain cautious.
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Washington
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United Nations
United States
State Department
Pedro Raminex
Knox
Ramon §. Castillo
Americas
Brazil
Chile
Attu Conquest Cost 342 Lives Revealed by Knox
Secretary Knox disclosed that 342 American soldiers died in the Attu conquest while enemy losses ran about five times higher. He said landing operations were executed without the loss of a ship or Navy personnel. Work to improve the Attu air field has begun, weather permitting. He noted Attu could serve as a bomber base but weather limits its effectiveness, though it would complicate Japanese operations at Kiska.
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Washington
Navy
Attu
Knox
Kiska
More Aid for Soviets Likely
Washington officials said a new protocol among American British Canadian allies and Russia will be signed soon. The news followed Maj. Gen. James H. Burns and Maj. William Mac Chesney Martin Jr. returning from Moscow. Martin studied Russian raw material needs for the Munitions Assignment Board.
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Washington
Russia
Moscow
James H. Burns
Anglo-American Munitions Assignment Board
William Mac Chesney Martin, Jr
New York Stock Exchange
Martin
Munitions Assignment Board
Baseball Scoreboard Highlights From League Games
National League results Brooklyn 18 Chicago 5 St Louis 5 Philadelphia 0 Pittsburg 9 New York 8. American League New York 6 St Louis 4 in 10 innings Chicago 4 Boston 3 Detroit 2 Washington 1 Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 2. Eastern League Elmira Albany Springfield Wilkes Barre scores noted, Binghamton Utica called in 4th due to weather Scranton 2 Hartford 0 12 innings.
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Cleveland
Elmira
Albany
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Wilkes-Barre
Binghamton
Utica
Scranton
Hartford
Churchill Returns Home to England
Prime Minister Winston Churchill has returned from talks with President Roosevelt in Washington. He traveled via Gibraltar, then met Allied generals in Northwest Africa before joining the French provisional government leaders in Algiers. An official release from Downing Street confirmed the Washington conference on war strategy ended May 27 with cordial meetings among Churchill Eden and Allied leaders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
No. 10
Downing Street
Anthony Eden
Imperial General Staff
John Greer Fill
United States
Gibraltar
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Algiers
Eden
Tunis
Africa
Cunningham
Mediterranean
Giraud
de Gaulle
French Committee For National Liberation
Churchill
England
London
Leslie Howard
Allied Leaders Commemorated In Stained Glass
American soldiers were granted permission by a British bishop to install stained glass likenesses of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in a 19th century church in central England. They raised over $1,000 for six historical scenes and the designer noted Churchill would avoid a cigar in the Atlantic Charter scene.
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London
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
United Nations
England
Churchill
Strike ends as Tonawanda workers return to jobs
Union official says Wickwire Spencer Steel Corp Tonawanda plant workers voted to resume work today after an unauthorized strike. Settlement reached at a conference with company officials and Federal Labor Conciliator Clarence M. Lamotte.
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Tonawanda Upa C. I. O
Wickwire
Spencer Steel Corporation
Tonawanda
Joseph P. Molony
United Steel Steelworkers of America
Clarence M. Lamotte
House Approves Amended Connally anti strike bill
The House passed a strengthened Connally Bill by 231 to 142 returning to the Senate. It would jail union leaders for a year for instigating or directing a strike in a government operated industry and bars political contributions by unions. The measure imposes thirty days notice and secret ballots in war industries not government run and increases War Labor Board powers. John L. Lewis urged miners to return to work as conference fights to strip the harsher section.
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Washington
House
Senate
Labor Department
National War Labor Board
Norris-LaGuardia
John L. Lewis
Dempsey Testimony Details Woodall Hits in LA Bedroom
The case notes Jack Dempsey belting Benny Woodall twice during a raid on Mrs. Dempsey's Los Angeles apartment in 1942. Detective Hutchens testified Woodall sat on a bed while Dempsey struck him, and a ref postponed further defense arguments to Monday.
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Lawrence Simeon
Hutchens
Los Angeles
Mrs. Dempsey
Dempsey
President backs time and a half for rail non-operating staff
President Roosevelt signaled support yesterday for time and a half pay after forty hours for non-operating railroad workers, aligning with other industries. Over 1,000,000 white collar and non-operating rail employees would gain about six cents an hour, independent of any emergency board recommendations. The May 24 report urged eight cents an hour instead of 20, but noted non overtime eligibility after 48 hours. Data shows overtime fairness concerns between rail and civilian workers.
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Roosevelt
Brotherhoods
Stabilization and War Mobilization Offices
Grand Central Station
French Politician Dies in Prison
Georges Mandel, a French cabinet minister with vast presumed secret knowledge, is reported dead in a German prison per NBC Switzerland. He would have been 58 and was hated as both a Jew and a strong anti-German French leader jailed with Gamelin Blum and Reynaud after aiding a government in exile.
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Georges Mandel
N.B.C
Switzerland
Mandel
France
Africa
Marshal Petain
Maurice Gamelin
Leon Blum
Paul Reynaud
Nazi Explosives Drop on London Districts
An enemy plane dropped high explosives on a London district, triggering air defenses and an all clear soon after. Additional raiders were reported over western districts, with homes damaged in a west England town and incendiaries in the western Midlands. A vicar nearby witnessed his church wrecked by a delayed-action bomb as German fighter-bombers swept the southeast coast.
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London
West England
Midlands
England
Mine workers union asks AFL to reject Lewis bid
The executive board of the Progressive Mine Workers of America formally petitioned the American Federation of Labor executive council yesterday to reject John L. Lewis's bid for re entry of the United Mine Workers into the AFL.
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President Roosevelt Wins End to Coal Strike
Washington John L Lewis yielded to government pressure and called off the coal strike effective next Monday after Secretary Ickes demanded return to work. Lewis said he would urge the United Mine Workers policy committee to order members back, criticizing the War Labor Board as "piously arrogant" and issuing unlawful directives.
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John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Ickes
United Mine Workers
Lewis
The
United Mine Workers of America
War Labor Board
WLBE
No Slowdown After Steel Plan Reversal News
Pittsburg reports a major steel firm quickly cancels plans to curtail production by up to 25 percent due to a fuel shortage threat. United States Steel Corp says four day mine shutdown pushed output near a pinch but expects to avoid slowdowns with a Monday return to work. The move ends a tense crisis after President Roosevelt ordered miners back and War Labor Board pressed for a tougher policy against Lewis.
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Pittsburg
Big Steel Corporation
United States Steel Corp
Corporation
Too Late- Unfortunately Too Late- Unfortunately London Daily Sketch
The London Daily Sketch says Adolf Hitler narrowly missed an explosion that wrecked a French railway near Laon while returning from his Atlantic wall visit. Hitler was reportedly with Field Marshal Von Rundstedt and other top officials and left the train to travel by car.
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London Daily Sketch
Adolf Hitler
Laon
Hitler
Britann
Karl von Runstedt
Karl, Doenitz
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Trouble Ahead, Smiles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin, with his familiar smile, faced legal trouble as a deputy sheriff served papers ordering him to appear in Superior Court on June 17. The suit accuses him of being the father of Joan Berry’s expected baby in about three months.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Superior
Joan Berry
Miners Gain Vacation Pay Boost and Tools Deal
Washington secretary Ickes assured miners of a $30 rise in vacation pay from 20 to 50 plus free tools and equipment when they return to work Monday. The miners' boss guaranteed union rights, maintained working conditions, and grievance procedures as part of the War Labor Board directed adjustments. Estimated value to miners is about 25 cents a day.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Ickes
President Pleased by Stalin Reply
President Roosevelt showed evident pleasure at Stalin's reply to a recent letter and called the understanding between them excellent. He spoke calmly at a press conference and suggested the exchange was highly satisfactory, hinting at wartime matters without detailing them.
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Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Marshal Stalin
Stalin
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