Rommel Suffers Severe Setback In Libya Fight
Cairo June 2 U P British communique says Rommel’s plan for a major Libyan desert offensive toward Tobruk and Egypt has gone awry after about 260 Axis tanks were destroyed or captured. Fighting continues as British tanks and artillery press the Knightsbridge area and two minefield gaps near Tobruk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. Gorrell
Cairo
U.P
Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
Egypt
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Desert Battle Front
Rommel
Knightsbridge
Neil M. Ritchie
Eighth Imperial Army
Desert
Bir Hacheim
Churchill
Mediterranean
Ritchie
el Gazala
Libya
29 More Hostages On Continent Will Face German Firing Squads
London reports 29 more hostages and patriots face imminent death by German firing squads on the continent. The executions are linked to reprisals after the Heydrich assassination. Radio Prague lists 21 executions yesterday and nine at Brunn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Reinhard
Heydrich
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
Radio
Prague
Brunn
Hopper Fight Needs 75 000 More For Grasshopper War
Phoenix reports say state and federal authorities urge the next legislature to appropriate 75000 to extend the grasshopper battle in southeastern Arizona in 1943. Entomologists warn total costs exceed 150000 with 30000 already provided. air spraying ends the worst infestations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Osborn
Arizona
U. S. Bureau of Entomology
J. L. E. Lauderdale
W. L. Popham
Washington
Bureau of Entomology
Claude Wakeland
Division of
J. R. Dutton
Kelvin Dorward
Denver
Lauderdale
Patrol Bomber Crash Near Half Moon Bay Kills Eight
SAN FRANCISCO June 2 UP A Navy PBY Catalina bomber crashed in San Mateo hills killing eight aboard. Ensign G H Apitz 22 survivor gravely injured walked seven miles to Half Moon Bay after midnight to report the crash. Navy searches were launched with ground and air units. Apitz received emergency treatment before surgery at Mills Memorial hospital San Mateo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
San Mateo County
Ensign G. H. Apitz
Ensign Apitz
Half Moon Bay
Apitz
A. Picchi
Picchi
Skyline Boulevard
12Th
Navy District
Navy
R. D. Borley
Japanese Push Forward Along China Railway
Five thousand Japanese troops spearhead a 50 000 strong main force pushing north along the Canton Hankow railway in Guangdong. The drive aims to seize the railway linking central and southern China, part of a renewed four-front offensive to open the Hankow line. Chiang Kai-shek and his staff reportedly prepared veterans for the threatened sector as fighting expanded across multiple provinces.
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Chungking
U.P
Canton-Hankow
China
Kwangtung
Canton
Hankow Railway
Japan
Tsengshing
Tsiungra
Sinkai
Yingtak
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wang Shih-Chieh
Allies Strike With Success At Jap Bases
Allied airmen carried out three nocturnal raids on Japanese bases with no plane losses and damaged nine of 30 aircraft that attacked Port Moresby. MacArthur’s HQ said two of three midget submarines wrecked in Sydney Harbor were found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Port Moresby
Douglas MacArthur
Sydney Harbor
New Guinea
Sydney
Lae
Salamanua
Rabaul
New Britain
FDR Seeks War Material Trucking Rules Across States
Washington June 2 The federal government has set minimal reciprocal trucking regulations to move war materiel. States without rules adopted them under emergency powers after a Jones briefing. Trucks may travel between states with cargo papers and no separate plates. limits include 18000 to 40000 pounds, 96 inch width, 12.5 foot height, and 35 to 45 foot length depending on configuration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Compromise Sought on Army Pay Bill Amid Deadlock
Washington reports a war department push for a compromise on military pay to end the impasse between House 50 dollar a month demand and Senate 42 dollar a month approval. The plan offers privates 40 dollars a month plus 10 dollars in bonds with bonds redeemable after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
House
Senate
Continental
United States
Taft
Ohio
George
D-Ga
LaFollette
Johnson
D-Cole
Reynolds
Hill
D-Okla
Gurney
R-Sd
Roosevelt seeks Congress to declare war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania
President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania calling them instruments of Hitler. He noted these states have declared war on the United States and are engaged in military activities against the Allies and plan extensions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Bulgaria
Hungary
Rumania
House of Representatives
United States
Hitler
United Nations
Senate
Romania
Japan
Germany
Italy
Russia
Europe
Iran
Caucasus
Submarine Attack Sinks American Cargo Ship in Gulf
Thirty nine seamen died when two Axis submarines torpedoed an American cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico on May 20. Only three crew members survived. survivors Rolf Helland and John G. Traubal were found in Port Arthur Texas after seven days on a raft. The Navy has limited details due to confusion but recovered the two men in critical condition.
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Gulf Port
U.P
Gulf of Mexico
Eighth Naval District
Gulf
Port Arthur
Tex
Rolf Helland
Philadelphia
Viper John G. Traubal
Gibbsboro
N. J
Navy
Helland
Traubal
Sign Of New Allied Attacks Seen
Washington reports an imminent visit by British Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton to Roosevelt and Nelson. Circles say the talks aim to merge production efforts into a single program, form a joint Anglo American production board, inspect U S armament lines, and discuss an Anglo American food board after the U S war food board announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Lyttelton
Washington
Sterling F. Green
Lyttelton
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
U. S
America
Anglo-American Food Board
War Food Board
Claude Wickard
Nelson
United
Navajo Judge Joins Army Duty in Washington
Judge John P. Clark of the Navajo county superior court will leave for Army duty in Washington D C June 6. He is commissioned a captain and was appointed in 1935 by Gov. Moeur, with re elections in 1936 and 1940.
Britain orders stand by for German reprisals and US air force
London dispatch reports Herbert Morrison ordering civilian defense to stand by for possible Luftwaffe reprisal raids after RAF raids on Cologne and Essen. Churchill says US air forces will join, boosting nightly raids to 2,000 or 4,000 planes as British and Allied efforts escalate across Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Beattie
London
U.P
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
RAF
Cologne
Krupp
Essen
Home Security
Herbert Morrison
Hitler
Ruhr
Germany
Winston Churchill
United States
Reich
Morrison
Britain
House of Commons
Berlin
Ministry of Information
Air Ministry
Holland
Belgium
France
Convoy Reaches Soviet Port After Heavy Arctic Battle
A large United Nations convoy fought through five days of Luftwaffe and U-boat attacks to reach a northern Russian port likely Murmansk. The May 25 to May 30 ordeal delivered American and British war supplies to the Red Army, despite German claims of 18 sinkings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
United Nations
Russia
Murmansk
Admiralty
Red Army
Arctic
War’s Final Phase Near Says Keemle War Desk
War correspondent Louis F. Keemle argues a late stage of World War II is near with Allied landings on Europe or German collapse as triggers. He lauds British air raids on Cologne and Essen as a de facto second front, noting low losses and U S support to sustain pressure on German war industries and morale.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Desk
European
Germany
Cologne
Essen
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