Midway Battle Repulsed as Japanese Assaults Are Beat
U P dispatch from Pearl Harbor reports a major naval air battle developing after U S forces damaged a Japanese battleship and a carrier during a carrier based attack on Midway Island. Nimitz announced the repulse and listed minor damage and few casualties. The attack marked a significant push eastward toward Hawaii and Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
U.P
mid-Pacific
United States
Midway Island
Midway
Dutch Harbor
Australia
Hawaiian
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Tokyo
Nimitz
Navy Department
Washington
Jap Plans Hinge On Naval Battle
Washington reports that American and Japanese fleets engage in what may be a decisive Pacific clash after Midway raid. Nimitz notes continued attacks, with vast Japanese force seen east of home waters, signaling potential strikes toward Pearl Harbor, the West Coast, Alaska, or the Panama Canal.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Pacific
United States
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Nimitz
Midway
United States West Coast
Alaska
Panama Canal
Yokohama
America
Dutch Harbor
Full Retaliation Is Promised By President If Practice Continues
President Roosevelt said the United States would retaliate in kind if Japan continues using poisonous gases in China. He cited authoritative reports of gas use and warned of full, direct retaliation. Norwegian sources reported German Tirpitz and Admiral Hipper taking several direct hits in a RAF raid near Trondheim.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
China
State Department
London
Tirpitz
Hipper
Trondheim
Vaernes
Oerlandet
Japan
United Nations
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Europe
Winston Churchill
Germany
Iffy
Two Japanese Subs Are Sunk Off Australia
Allied planes off Australia sink two Japanese submarines and possibly a third off the east coast. The tally rises to six or seven submarines destroyed in five days as air raids hit Japanese bases north of Australia. An eyewitness Dutch pilot described a bombing run on one submarine.
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Allied
Australia
United States
General MacArthur
Sydney
House Refuses to Vote CCC Funds Amid War Constraints
The House rejected a Tarver amendment to add 75.8 million for the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of a 1.058 billion labor department funding bill. The appropriations committee recommended eliminating all CCC funds, opting to continue the program only on a reduced basis during the war. Tarver argued for continuance via executive order to consolidate CCC with the National Youth Administration.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
House
Civilian Conservation Corps
Representative Tarver
D-Ga
CCC
Labor Department
Social Security Board
Tarver
Senate Group Proposes New Pay Agreement
Senate house conference committees reach a compromise offering a basic minimum pay of 44 dollars a month for men in the armed services. It proposes 46 dollars for back privates and 52 for first class privates with retroactivity to June 1.
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Senate Group
Washington
Senate-house Conference Committee
Senate
House
Largest Convoy Reaches India With Major Allied Forces
The largest British convoy ever to reach India has landed thousands of troops and vast stocks of equipment including American tanks and planes to bolster defense against a potential Japanese attack. The ships disembarked across multiple Indian ports as Japanese forces advanced near the Indian border in Burma.
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New Delhi
India
Chindwin
Burma
Homalin
Mandalay
England
Withoy
Royal Air Force
FDR Talks Gas Rationing as Congress Debates Plan
President Roosevelt and top officials failed to decide on nationwide gasoline rationing after a White House conference. A bipartisan group of about 100 House members adopted a resolution opposing rationing without a factual necessity show. they urged committees to seek action with the Senate and criticized Price Administrator Leon Henderson.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
White House
House
Congress
Parley
Richard M. Kleberg
Tex
Senate
John E. Rankin
Miss
Ed Gossett
Gossett
Price
Leon Henderson
Committee To Govern Food Is Appointed
Washington June 6 The United States forms a food requirements committee under Secretary Wickard with full control over civilian and military food supplies and importation decisions The new body mirrors wartime food administration authority and reports to the War Production Board with members from multiple departments and WPB divisions The panel will determine civilian military and foreign needs and has power to adjust production and imports The work will influence national eating habits according to a WPB spokesman
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
World War Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
War Production Board
L. S. Stinebower
State Department
Carl A. Hardigg
War Department
W. B. Young
Navy Department
W. B. Parker
Board of Economic Warfare
John Orchard
Office
Army and Navy
Division of Civilian Supply
WPB
British Continue Shuttle Attacks Across the Channel
London reports a large air offensive with British bombers and fighters totaling over 1,000 planes engaging northern France. The shuttle raids featured two major sweeps before noon, fighters vanguard near Cape Gris Nez, and night raids along the English southeast coast with no losses.
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London
France
Cape Gris Nez
Dieppe
Holland
British Drive Off Axis Attackers at Bir Hacheim Libya
British imperial columns and air squadrons repelled a tank supported Axis attack on Bir Hacheim, the eastern Libyan defense anchor. The relief of the Free French and Indian garrison was aided by rear attacks from British and Indian forces and active air operations. Rommel massed forces for further assaults toward Ain El Gazala and Bir Hacheim as Axis reinforcements moved along both the coast and inland routes.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bir Hacheim
Mediterranean
Ain el Gazala
Edwin Rommel
Rommel
Libyan
Libya
Arsenal Blast Kills 57 At Elwood Plant
Joliet Illinois June 5 Fifty seven persons were killed or missing in a massive explosion that destroyed the shipping building of the Elwood ordnance shell loading plant south of Joliet. Army officers reported 21 known dead with 36 missing and 61 treated for injuries at the post hospital. Coroners said parts of 24 bodies were at an undertaker and more at the plant grounds. No sabotage found but a board of inquiry will investigate.
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Joliet
Ill
Elwood Ordnance Plant
Here
David P. Tunstall
Army
E. A. Kingston
Will County
Ordnance Plant
Post Hospital
Elwood Ordnance Shell Loading Plant
Fourteen Army fliers killed in California crash
Fourteen Army airmen died when a heavy bomber crashed near San Rafael California during an emergency landing attempt. The plane developed trouble after takeoff and radioed Hamilton Field for a runway clearance. It dived into a hillside on the Herzog ranch three miles northwest of Hamilton Field with all aboard perishing.
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San Rafael
Calif
Here
Hamilton Field
Herzog Ranch
Axis Volcano Ready To Erupt
Axis war analysis warns Japan’s Midway raid signals a broader Axis push as WW2 escalates. DeWitt Mackenzie says Germany prepares a major spring offensive toward the Soviet Union and Suez, with 200 divisions ready amid a looming global clash.
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Axis
Egypt
Suez Canal
Middle East
Germany
Fuehrer
Europe
Pacific
Luke Field to mark anniversary with aerial review
Phoenix June 5 Luke Field will observe its first birthday with a morning program led by post commander Col E C Whitehead. An aerial review and awards follow, with Lt Col O R Deering speaking. Guest of honor is Mrs Frank Luke mother of World War I ace Frank Luke Jr attendance by invitation only.
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Phoenix
P—Luke Field
Army Air Corps
E. C. Whitehead
O. R. Deering
Frank Luke
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