Ready To Use Draft Alien Act Pressure By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt may order John L. Lewis's striking coal miners to return to work on Monday with drastic action possible if demands are not met. Informants say a back to work order could come today or tomorrow, using wartime powers and the selective service act. Troop deployments and enforcement of alien laws are kept as options, with consideration of using former miners now in the armed services.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Commander In Chief
Armed Services
United Mine Workers
White House
War Labor Board
Lewis
Afl-Cio Labor War Board
James F. Byrnes
New War Mobilization
Stephen Early
F.D.R
Combined Labor Board
CIO
AFL
William Green
Phillip Murray
Julius Emspak
CIO Electrical Workers’ Union
R. J. Thomas
Automobile Workers’ Union
George Meany
Early
Allies Sink Three Vessels In Capo Spartivento Raid
Allied destroyers sank two Axis merchant ships and an escort torpedo boat and drove a hostile destroyer ashore burning off Capo Spartivento Italy. Pantelleria bombardments and air raids showed Allied naval and air supremacy in the region with no Allied losses.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Capo Spartivento
Italy
Pantelleria
Strait of Messina
Sicily
Sardinia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italian High Command
Rome
Associated Press
High Command
Porto Torres
San Antinoco
United States
Mussolini
Cap Bon
Aegean Sea
Middle East
Midway Battle Marked Turning Point in Pacific War
A year after Japan's Midway defeat authorities note the loss reshaped the war. Attu and Kiska fall to Allied forces as American ships and planes dominate the western Aleutians, setting up the Guadalcanal campaign and shifting focus to the South Pacific.
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Midway
John M. Hightower
Washington
Japan
Pacific
White House
Midway Island
North American
Tokyo
Attu
Kiska
Attu Island
Aleutians
Dutch Harbor
South Pacific
Solomon’ Islands
Guadalcanal
Australia
Solomon
Axis Worry Over Invasion Mounts
In a surprise west of Kursk the Red Army seized three towns and German losses included 123 planes in five mass raids. Soviet forces killed 2,000 enemy troops in a two day battle and recaptured territory. Luftwaffe replied with 500 planes at Kursk, losing 93 in air combat and 30 more to anti aircraft fire.
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Henry Shapiro
United Press
Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Kursk
Kalinin
Radio Berlin
Kuban
Caucasus
Krymskaya
Sevsk
Red Air Force
Axis anxieties grow as Allied invasion moves near
London June 3 and United Nations convoys of 133 ships head toward the Mediterranean as underground reports claim 12 million guerrillas may join the invasion. An Allied spokesman says one in ten Europeans has a concealed weapon, while Berlin radio notes invasion prospects and a potential foothold in Norway amid Panormia alert.
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London
U.pr
United Nations
Mediterranean
Europe
Pantelleria
Axis
Radio
Berlin
Norway
Die Wehrmacht
Africa
North
Madrid
France
Sicilian
Pay-As-You-Go Tax Law Awaits FDR Approval
The measure, approved 62 to 19 in the Senate, would place 44 million Americans on a pay-as-you-go basis if signed by President Roosevelt. It requires taxpayers to pay 25 percent of the lesser of 1942 or 1943 taxes in addition to current levies, with abatements for small balances and a notch provision up to 66.67 dollars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Congress
Canovina
White House
Senate
Treasury
French Forces Form National Committee of Liberation in Algiers
The French executive committee became the National Committee of Liberation with Generals Giraud and De Gaulle as joint heads. Georges Catroux to lead Algeria and Gabriel Puaux to head French Morocco. Other members include Monnet Massigli Philip and Georges Catroux. The move ends a two day leadership stalemate in Algiers.
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Algiers
National Committee of Liberation
Henri Giraud
Charles DeGaulle
Algeria
French
Morocco
Georges Catroux
Giraud
de Gaulle
Marcel Peyrouton
Gabriel Puaux
Syria
Auguste Nogues
Alphonese George
Jean Monnet
Vy Giraud
Rene Massigli
Andre Philip
DeGaulle
Adm
Emile Muselier
Labor Charges OPA Not Meeting Issue
Labor leaders from the AFL and CIO urged President Roosevelt to intervene in the Office of Price Administration. They said Administrator Prentiss M. Brown is not meeting the situation's needs, delivering the complaint at a White House conference with the CIO AFL Labor War Board. CIO President Philip Murray and AFL President William Green denied the coal crisis was raised.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
Prentiss M. Brown
Labor
White House
Cio-Afl Labor War Board
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
William Green
U S Forces On Attu In Striking Range Of Japan
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said American forces on Attu Island are within striking distance of Japanese territory after noting that all organized Japanese resistance has ceased. He did not detail air strike plans or confirm use of the Attu landing strip, and called the final action at Attu completed on May 28 and 29.
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Washington
Attu Island
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
Attu
Chinese Sweep Ahead Taking Back Two Cities
Chinese forces led by Chiang Kai-shek commanders and aided by the 14th U S air force drive a Japanese army back along the Yangtze frontier. Recapture of Changyang and Chikiang cuts off advancing Japanese units and strengthens the Chinese defense of Chungking. General Li Tsung Jen directed the Yangtze campaigns as Gen Chen Cheng trapped the enemy in western Hupeh.
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George Wang Chungking
U.P
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
Yangtze River
Changyang
Ichang
Yangtze
Chikiang
Chungking
Li Tsung-Jen
Yangtze Valley
Yangtze Gorges
Chen Cheng
Hupeh
Chen
Yunnan
DeGaulle May Risk Loss Of British Help
Diplomatic circles consider joint American British actions to block De Gaulle from creating a French dictatorship in Algiers. If he uses negotiations or a unity committee to rule alone, Britain may withhold subsidies surpassing U.S. lend lease aid to Giraud.
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Washington
Charles DeGaulle
Algiers
de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
North Africa
Giraud
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Britain
United States
Triple Pronged Allied Air Assault Pressures Luftwaffe
United Press reports that Allied air power could hinge the war as the British American daytime and nighttime attacks target German industry and communications. The piece notes Italy’s defense may fall to Italians if bomber forces shift west and Russia. Germans face a multi front strain as Russians test Luftwaffe strength on the eastern front.
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United Press
Hitler
Luftwaffe
Germany
Italy
Russia
Yanks Renew Air Attack On Jap Positions
United States bombers pounded Bougainville and attacked Kiska in the Aleutians while Attu troops eliminated small Japanese groups. Large fires were started at Tinputs harbor and Numa Numa harbor as bombers struck the northeast Bougainville coast. Two small enemy vessels off Tinputs were bombed and one beached.
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Washington
South Pacific
Bougainville
Navy
Kiska
Aleutians
Attu
Tinputs Harbor
Numa Numa Harbor
Tinputs
North Pacific
Attu Island
United States Army
Liberator
Consolidated
House votes to strike out enacting clause of wartime control bill
The House defeated an effort to kill the Connally Smith wartime strike control bill by 133 to 37. Rep Emmanuel Celler offered an amendment to strike the enacting clause after debates and after Rep Howard Smith charged labor's union pledges were broken amid 20 strikes in four months.
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Washington
U.P
House
Connally Smith
Emmanuel Celler
N. Y
Celler
Howard Smith
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Uniontown
U.S
Joe Starnes
Ala
Dies Committee
Starnes
Yorktown
Hammann
By Robert Richards
Union of Liberation
OPA
Attu Base
Yangtze Front
Richard G. Maslock
U. SS
Indi
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