Churchill FDR War Parley Is Historic Event
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met in a wartime conference in undisclosed U S location to discuss a second front in Europe Their talks mark a pivotal step in Allied plans and come after prior London and Washington meetings The White House announced the visit and expected war strategy decisions with top Allied leaders present.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Europe
United States
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
White House
Stephen T. Early
London
Ashington
Yv. M. Molotov
Newspaper and Press Association
Great Britain
Alan Brooke
Hastings Ismay
G. M. Stewart
Charles Wilson
John Martin
Comdr
Co. V. R. Thompson
Tucson Diplomat Returned by Jap Officials
Verne G. Staten of Tucson Arizona a vice consul in Japanese controlled territory is named among American diplomats and newspapermen slated for repatriation. The Gripsholm a Swedish vessel sailed from New York with western hemisphere nationals of Japan and Thailand to be exchanged at Lourenco Marques for U S and other American nationals. The AP bureau chiefs Morris Harris Shanghai and Reiman Morin Tokyo are listed among the newspapermen to be repatriated.
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Tucson
Ariz
Far East
New York
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Thailand
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
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American Republic
Associated Press
Morris J. Harris
Shanghai
Reiman Morin
Tokyo
Former Utah Governor Henry Blood Dies at 69
Henry Hooper Blood 69 longtime Utah governor and California mission head of the LDS Church died at LDS Hospital Salt Lake City. He served as governor from 1933 to 1941 and was named head of the California mission in 1941. Born in Kaysville he farmed ran a store owned a grain mill and engaged in mining. He was a London missionary and past president of the Davis stake. His widow and five children survive.
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Henry Hooper Blood
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California
Latter-Day Saints Church
LDS Hospital
Blood
Mormon Church
Kaysville
London
Davis Stake
Senate Splits On Civilian War Benefit Payments
A Senate divide emerged over a bill to pay civilian war and blackout victims. The measure would provide monthly benefits from 10 to 85 dollars for disability death or capture, with five years of postwar payments. Chairman George will ask for Finance Committee study of pension aspects amid opposition from both parties.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Education and Labor Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Jap Attack On Siberia Held Set For July
Chungking dispatch reports Chinese quarters claim fresh information indicates Japan plans a Siberia strike in July. They note Japan’s neutrality pact with Soviet Russia and estimate near 1,000,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria after withdrawals from Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies. Speculation centers on whether army or navy leads the operation.
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Chungking
Japan
Siberia
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Philippines
Netherlands East Indies
Manchuria
Nazis Step Up Drive On Sevastopol
German 11th Army with about 150 000 men intensify frontal assaults on Sevastopol in a bid to take the Crimean fortress before Monday's war anniversary. Russian forces along the Kharkov Donets front reportedly hold the line. German claims of breaching the northern fortifications contrast with redoubled Russian defense and calls by Sevastopol defenders to die rather than surrender.
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Fritz von Manstein
Sevastopol
Crimean
Russia
Kharkov-Donets
Semyon Timoshenko
Red Army
Caucasus
Black Sea
Kerch
Yalta
London
Arrison
Gambut
Tobruk
Eighth Army
Neil M. Ritchie
el Adem
Ritchie
British Empire
el Adem-Sidi Rezegh
Sollum-Capuzzo
Molotov argues for 1942 second front and British Russian alliance
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov urged the Supreme Soviet to press for a second European front in 1942. He defended the 20 year mutual aid pact with Britain and Russia, calling it a stable alliance for war and postwar times, as Stalin nodded along. Deputies from Baltic states backed ratification, signaling potential future Soviet control after the war.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Britain
United States
London
Washington
Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Hitler
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Baltic
Soviet Union
Baltic States
Churchill Seeks Middle East Aid
London reports Prime Minister Churchill travels to Washington to secure more United States aid to hold the Middle East from German thrusts. Rommel's Libyan successes threaten Egypt, Alexandria, Suez, and the Atlantic supply lines, potentially delaying a major Western European offensive.
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Churchill
Washington
United States
Middle East
Libya
Egypt
Ukraine
Caucasus
United Nations
Europe
Hitler
Middle Eastern
Suez
Indies
Russia
Russia cries frame up after Ankara Papen plot convictions
Moscow denounces the Ankara trial of four men including two Russians for the Papen assassination attempt as a frame up. Pavlov and Kornilov got 20 years. Simon and Sav 10 years. Soviet circles claim the proceedings aim to undermine the Soviet position.
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U.P
Turkey
Ankara
Franz von Papen
Germany
Russia
United States
Black Sea
On Papen
von Papen
George Pavlov
Leonard Kornilov
Aburahan Simon
Suleman Sav
Japanese Bomb Port Moresby For 62nd Time
Allied headquarters in Australia reports a third day of raids on Port Moresby harbor installations by 18 Japanese heavy bombers with fighter escort. The 62nd raid on the New Guinea base damaged a small ship. two Allied planes were lost and one Zero was shot down.
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Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Air Force
Pacific
Philippines
United States
Germany
Douglas MacArthur
Mediterranean Fate Hinges on Battle in Libya
British reverses in Libya shift the balance of control in the eastern Mediterranean. Air supremacy, not fleet strength, decides the outcome as Rommel eyes Suez and Tobruk remains under threat with Halfaya Pass and Ritchie’s forces at the Egyptian border in play.
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Mediterranean
Libya
Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Desk
Erwin Rommel
Suez
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Russia
Rommel
Neil Ritchie
Halfaya Pass
Tobruk
Americans In Egypt Advised To Leave As Libyan Defense Fails
Americans in Egypt were urged by the state department to evacuate as Axis forces advanced in Libya. Cairo reports say Tobruk faces siege, with Rommel’s forces pushing along the Tobruk coast and British lines retreating toward the Egyptian frontier.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
London
Gambut
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Bardia
Libyan
Washington
U.P
State Department
Sudan
Libya
Department
Labor Board Sets Wartime Union Security at Ryan Aero
The war labor board issued a 10 to 2 decision granting United Automobile Workers a maintenance of membership at Ryan Aeronautical Co. in San Diego. The board also approved a 10 cent hourly wage increase retroactive to Oct 15, 1941 and a basic hire rate rise to 60 cents with 75 cents after three months.
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WU P
War Labor Board
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Ryan Aeronautical Co
San Diego
Calif
Ryan
California
Office of Production Management
WPB
Los Angeles
Outmaneuvered Merchant Vessel Shelled by Axis Submarine
Survivors arrive at an east coast port saying a medium sized U S merchant vessel was outmaneuvered and shelled by a faster Axis submarine in the Caribbean. One crewman of 31 was killed. 30 survived by abandoning ship after 15 minutes of shelling as the vessel burned.
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U.P
United States
Caribbean
Haven
Charles Hendrick
U. S
Hayes Promoted to Navy Lieutenant Commander
Don J. Hayes, longtime Tucson police chief from July 1939 to fall 1940, has been promoted to lieutenant-commander in the U. S. Navy. Hayes has been on leave since 1940 when called for duty as a lieutenant junior grade, marking his second promotion in the service after an earlier rise to lieutenant senior grade.
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Don J. Hayes
Tucson
U. S. Navy
Hayes
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