War Labor Board halts coal strike pending White House action
The War Labor Board urged an end to coal mine contract talks and told UMW President John L. Lewis and operators to pause negotiations. With about half a million miners idle, the board said no agreement while the workers are on strike, leaving possible presidential action.
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One Killed As Hood Oil Plant Destroyed By Fire
Fire destroyed the Hood Oil company tank farm at 200 South Melrose Avenue after an early morning blaze. Orville Nevius 39 of 2016 East Eighth Street, a Hood driver, was found dead in the burned office. Nevius leaves a wife and two children. Fire started before 3 a.m. and neighbors awoke to a sea of flame. Fire officials traced the search for Nevius to the scene after 10:20 a.m.
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Orville Nevius
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Hood Oil Company
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Melrose Avenue
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Hood
Joe Berume
Buck Cunningham
Yuma
L. Berry
Palomas Avenue
Oscar
Observe Laws Humanity In Air War, Pope Asks
Pope Pius XII, in a Rome address to the College of Cardinals, urged belligerents to respect the laws of humanity in the aerial war. The Rome radio broadcast was recorded by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
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College of Cardinals
Pegler Blames FDR for Nationwide Coal Strike
Westbrook Pegler, a columnist, said President Roosevelt is responsible for the coal strike, claiming the boss created John L. Lewis and crafted labor policy. He noted Roosevelt’s potential fourth-term reelection and discussed talks with Wyoming officials over Sealevee 3 and the Jackson Hole national monument dispute.
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Woo
Westbrook Pegler
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Vest
Pegier
Jackson Hole National Monument
Wyoming
Japs Killed On Attu Exceed 1500 But 4 Taken Prisoners
The Navy reports more than 1,500 Japanese killed and four captured in the first 20 days of the Attu invasion from May 11 to May 30. An official count notes the total killed could be 530 to 100 percent higher, with many still unaccounted due to snow and shells. The number of Japanese on Attu remains uncertain.
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British Navy Bombards Pantelleria Second Time in 48 Hours
Allied forces report heavy shelling of Pantelleria harbor, barracks, and batteries by British warships aided by United States Flying Fortresses. Air strikes continue on Sicily and Sardinia as Italian fleet stays dispersed and largely ineffective.
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Sardinia
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Dr. Dafoe Dies After Attending Quints Birth in Ontario
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, pivotal figure at the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, died at 59 in North Bay Ontario from pneumonia minutes after hospital admission. He served as their physician from May 28, 1934, until last year when succeeded by Dr. I Joyal after resigning amid parental friction with Olivia and Quintuplet parents. He gained worldwide fame for saving the quints and was portrayed in The Country Doctor.
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Olivia Dionne
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Easly
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United States
Canada
De Gaulle and Giraud clash over unified French government
A provisional French executive committee forms to govern liberated Frenchmen and territory as tensions rise between De Gaulle and Giraud. Key figures Marcel Peyrouton and Emile Muselier shift roles, with De Gaulle publicly releasing his resignation and reply while Giraud’s reply appears only locally.
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Lewis Warned Of Soldiers wrath
Pvt Byron M Edgett in New Guinea writes to John L Lewis warning the coal strike could cost lives and that veterans may demand accountability. He describes hospital life, wartime hardship, and asks how strike aims would look from his fighters perspective.
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United Mine Workers
Columbia
George Moorad
Australia
Edgett
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Java
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Leslie Howard and 16 aboard missing plane in Bay of Biscay
A British overseas airways transport carrying actor Leslie Howard and 16 others has gone missing on the Lisbon to London route. Lisbon dispatches say it was likely shot down by Nazi warplanes over the Bay of Biscay.
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Actor Leslie Howard Missing After Overseas Plane Disappearance
A British transport plane carrying actor Leslie Howard and 11 others vanished on a Lisbon to London flight via Ireland. Semi official word notes Howard might be aboard with speculation of Nazi air attack over the Atlantic. Howard recently lectured in Portugal on film making and was tied to a new project, The Lamp Still Burns.
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Spain
Portugal
London
Allies Close Noose Around Jap Empire
United Nations tighten a strategic cordon around Japan paralleling the approach to Hitler in Europe. Operations in central China and the Aleutians demonstrate a long range plan stretching Japanese defenses thin. The Doolittle raid's impact grows as the Aleutian threat reinforces Japanese fear of air attacks on cities and industry.
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United Press
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Hitler
Europe
China
Aleutians
Noose
Loss of Attu May Call Jap Fleet North
Washington observers say the American seizure of Attu may force Japan to shift air and naval strength to northern defenses from Paramushiru. They note Attu's loss raises fear of northern land based air raids and could divert the Japanese home fleet to protect Kiska. The next U S move may target Kiska as the stronger Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians.
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Washington
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High Command
Cash Refunds For Tax Payer Are Dropped
The Senate moves to final approval of pay as you go legislation affecting all income taxpayers. The plan envisions a 20 percent payroll levy or quarterly installments based on estimated annual receipts, with increases of 12 and 1 percent in the coming years, no refunds, and due dates shifting to March 15 for 1944 and 1945.
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Coal Flow Threatens U S Steel Output in War Drive
Washington June 22 Chairman Donald M Nelson warned that United States steel production will drop sharply late this week unless coal supplies to steel plants are maintained. He said any serious curtailment could paralyze the war production program and harm benzol aviation gasoline synthetic rubber and other chemicals.
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Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
United States
Nelson
House backs anti strike measure as coal talks stall
The House adopted a rules resolution to bring up the Smith Connally bill in a two hour debate. The national war labor board warned any agreement during strike pressure would not be approved and ordered negotiations to cease until miners return to work.
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