British Axis Fight Furious Libyan Battle Near Tobruk
Cairo June 15. A fluid desert battle rages toward Tobruk as British seek to shift positions while Rommel’s Axis columns push toward the coast. Germans attack near Acroma to isolate Ain El Gazala, with Bir Hacheim already wiped out and El Adem threatened. Heavy fighting continues as Ritchie’s forces counter thrusts.
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Frank L. Martin
Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Edwin Rommel
Acroma
Ain el Gazala
Bir Hacheim
el Adem
Neil M. Ritchie
Thrigh Capuzzo
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Matruh
Fuka
Desert Front
Rommel
Mediterranean
Derna
el Adrem
Abolition Fight Splits Senate on CCC and NYA
In Washington a battle over the Civilian Conservation Corps raises a split in the senate appropriations committee. Senator McKellar seeks to kill CCC and NYA funding, while La Follette and Hill push for preserving both programs amid war needs and WPA support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate Appropriations Committee
National Youth Administration
McKellar
D-Tenn
Congress
House
CCC
NYA
Tennessee
Works Progress Administration
la Follette
Senate
Hill
Alabama
Hamburg Scene Of Bloody Food Riot
Washington reports the senate approved and sent to the house a military pay allotment bill. The measure directs draft boards to consider family ties when calling men for duty, with federal allowances to support dependents. It also revises the selective service act requiring boards to exhaust single men before husbands and fathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Selective Service Act
State Department Announces Changes in Foreign Service
The State Department announced May 30 changes to the American foreign service. Stephen E. Aguirre of El Paso Texas moves from consul at Mexicali to consul at Ciudad Juarez Mexico. Orray Taft Jr of Santa Barbara California shifts from vice consul at Algiers to vice consul at Mexicali Baja California Mexico. George H Winters of Downs Kansas moves to consul at Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
American Foreign Service
Stephen E. Aguirre
el Paso
Tex
Mexicali
Lower California
Mexico
Ciudad Juarez
Orray Taft, Jr
Santa Barbara
Calif
Algiers
Algeria
Baja California
George H. Winters
Downs
Kas
Department of State
Nuevo Laredo
Tamulitas
Quorum Lacking Delays Arizona Highway Budget Hearing
Phoenix June 15 The State highway commission lacked a quorum for the public hearing on the 10 million dollar budget for construction betterment and maintenance. Only two members attended Chairman Jack Procter and E H McEachren, with a postponement until 2 p m to locate a third member. Kemper Marley is in Washington on agricultural business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State Highway Commission
Jack Procter
Tucson
E. H. McEachren
Miami
Treasury Seeks 100 Percent War Tax on High Incomes
Washington June 15 the treasury department asked the house ways and means committee for a 100 percent war tax on net incomes over 25000 after standard taxes to raise 184 million dollars in additional revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hamburg riots and Gestapo raids signal German unrest
Reports from neutral cities claim Hamburg Germanys great port faced bloody food riots as the Gestapo moved to suppress revolt. Seventy policemen were killed and hundreds arrested amid civilian violence with armed rioters.
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London
Hamburg
Germany
Stockholm
Italians Claim Heavy Damage To Big Convoy
The Italian high command announced that two enemy cruisers a destroyer and four other vessels were sunk and an aircraft carrier and a battleship damaged in a Mediterranean convoy attack between Sardinia and Sicily. Twenty one Italian planes were missing after the engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
High Command
Mediterranean
Sardinia
Sicily
Atlantic
Tunis
All But Four U S Bombers Clear Turkey
Cairo and Ankara reports state that all US four motor bombers involved in the Black Sea raid have returned to bases with four planes landing in Turkey. Three planes reportedly crossed into Syria. two others were guarded at Turkish airports. Ploesti oil fields were the believed target amid reports of Odessa and Nikolaev as alternative targets.
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Cairo
United States Army Airforce
Turkey
Dana Adams Schmidt
Ankara
U.P
Black Sea
Syria
United States
Arisiye
Izmit
Istanbul
Ploesti
Romania
Bucharest
Odessa
Nikolaev
Norway Uprisings Wound Many in Pro Nazi Clash
A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm reported in London that many were wounded in Norway during clashes between Vidkun Quisling loyalists and other Norwegians in Rissa and Selbu near Trondheim. Quislingite troops allegedly entered to punish residents but met strong resistance with other disturbances noted at Trondheim area Troendelag.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Rissia
Selbu
Trondheim
Troendelag
Third Big Pacific Naval Fight Brews
United States torpedo planes sank a Japanese cruiser and scored a direct hit on an aircraft carrier of the main Japanese task force off the Aleutian Islands. The report was sent by Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold to Glenn L. Martin and released today in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
United States
Aleutian Islands
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Force
Glenn L. Martin
Pacific War Air Battle Brews Near Attu and Kiska
U S forces engage Japanese remnants in the Aleutian chain as the third major naval aerial clash of the Pacific war unfolds in the foggy North Pacific. U S air power centers in Alaska while Japan appears to have dispatched a naval force and troop transport toward Attu Kiska.
Arizona Agricultural Report Released For 1941 Year
Dr. R. S. Hawkins of the University of Arizona reports the 52nd annual station report for the year ending June 30 1941. He predicts 1942 will be a banner year for Arizona agriculture. The year just closed yielded $80 000 000 in farm and ranch income, surpassing the 1928 peak of $65 500 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. Hawkins
Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Arizona
Hitler Straining To Start Long Delayed Soviet Drive
The article reports Hitler straining to launch his delayed offensive as heavy fighting rages on at Kharkov in Ukraine and Sevastopol in Crimea. Timoshenko’s forces resist brutal mass attacks, inflicting heavy losses on German troops as they defend the Red line amid preparations for a spring blitz.
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Hitler
DE Witt MacKenzie
Kharkov
Ukraine
Sevastopol
Crimea
Black Sea
Caucasus
Timoshenko
Fuehrer
Blitzkrieg
Russia
Germany
Kerch
Red Army
Moscow
Japanese Cut Rail Line In Chinese Area
Japanese forces probing Kiangsi from the east penetrated into Kwangfeng and cut the central Kiangsi Chekiang rail segment to under 100 miles from the Chekiang border. The high command said fierce street fighting continued since Saturday night with heavy casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Kiangsi Province
Kwangfeng
Chekiang
Kiangsi
High Command
Kangsi
Shangjao
Kwangsin
All Americans Join In Drive To Get Rubber
Washington reports millions of Americans began a national hunt for old rubber to boost tire supply for victory. Roosevelt urged turning in discarded rubber to 400000 gas stations with a penny a pound offered to contributors. The oil industry mobilized over a million workers to collect and centralize the material for government use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
William R. Boyd, Jr
Petroleum Industry War Council
Boyd
Americas
Darwin Raided For Third Day But Few Casualties Reported
Allied headquarters in Australia said Darwin suffered a third day of Japanese air raids with only slight damage. Twenty seven bombers escorted by fighters attacked the north coast base, while Allied fliers claimed several enemy planes shot down in a fierce dogfight aiding the city’s defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Australia
Darwin
General MacArthur
MacArthur
FDR Promises Allies Time To Pay Debts
President Roosevelt told Congress lend-lease costs cannot be paid in money and will be met in blood and toil. He cited totals of 4.497 million in goods and services through May and a monthly aid rate of 8 billion dollars, stressing mutual reciprocity and Axis defeat as key outcomes.
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FDR
Washington
U.S
Roosevelt
America
United Nations
United States
Congress
No Further Nazi Gains Reported On Any Front
Moscow dispatch reports continued heavy combat across Sevastopol and Kharkov with no further German gains on either front. Soviet Black Sea fleet aided Sevastopol with a deadly barrage while German assaults wore down, and casualties mounted on the Kharkov front as both sides pressed in a climactic spring offensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Crimean
Kharkov
Ukraine
Red Crimea
Red Caucasus
Kerch
Feodosiya
Brothers Face Off as Inspiration Tops Miami Merchants 5–3
In Miami on June 14, the Inspiration baseball team defeated the Miami Merchants 5 to 3. Both sides started pitchers, but Ysa Garcia did not pitch for the Merchants until Inspiration had already scored all five runs in the first three innings. Tanto Garcia pitched the full game for Inspiration.
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Miami
Inspiration
Miami Merchants
Ysa Garcia
Merchants
Tanto Garcia
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Achie
ATTU
Kiska
Bering Sea
Matthews
Islands
Arctic Ocean
Bristol Bay
Alaska
Beaufort Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific Ocean
Canada
Kiska Harbor
Committee
By Jack Bell
Treasury
U. S
Royal Air Force
Cologne
Big Pacific Naval
Pearl Harbor
By Frank Tremaine
North Pacific
Aleutian Zone
Alaskan
By Spencer Moosa
North
Semeon Timoshenko
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