Bombing raids on Sicily and Sardinia set record
Allied air forces struck Sicily and Sardinia with heavy and medium bombers plus fighters. In air battles, 39 enemy planes were shot down while eight Allied aircraft were lost, a new record for Maj. Gen. James G. Doolittle's air force. Rumors of Italian peace emissaries in Algiers circulated but could not be confirmed.
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Reynolds Packard
North Africa
U.P
Pantefleria
Sicily
Sardinia
Mediterranean
United Press
Bay 39
James G. Doolittle
Strategic Air Force
Britain plans East Asia command with Wavell as viceroy
June dispatch reports Britain proposing a separate East Asia command and appointing Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell as viceroy of India. Plans tie to a major Burma offensive possibly by Oct. 1 after Washington and London strategy talks.
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Harrison Salisbury
London
U.P
Britain
East Asia
Archibald Wavell
India
Burma
Roosevelt
Churchill
Washington
Wavell
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Stilwell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Singapore
Lord Linlithgow
el Alamein
Egypt
Auchinleck
10 Downing Street
Allied Cannon Laden Barges At Gibraltar
Large Allied landing barges with cannon mounted on bows reported moving into the Mediterranean today as Mussolini expands the war zone along southern and Adriatic Italy. Gibraltar funnels report warships convoys and an 18 ship convoy reaching the port while Axis forces press attacks on Allied shipping in the Mediterranean.
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London
Mediterranean
Benito Mussolini
Adriatic
Italy
la Linea
Gibraltar
North Africa
Axis
Europe
Radio
Rome
Pantelleria
Algiers
Mussolini
Sicily
Stockholm
Franz von Papen
Hitler
Turkey
Ankara
Allied Air Offensives Hit Sicily Sardinia and More
Allied planes strike Pantelleria Sardinia and Sicily destroying warehouses railways docks and ferry terminals. RAF bombers idle. Milo airfield near Trapani is blasted as Martin Marauders and Lightning fighters attack targets across northeastern Sicily.
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Pantelleria
Sardinia
Aranci
North Africa
Algiers
Italy
Naples
Sicily
Britain
Messina
Milo
Sicilian
Trapani
Islands
Flood Waters Inundate 500 000 Acres Crops
The swollen Missouri river receded a tenth of a foot per hour after flooding about 500000 acres of Missouri and Kansas river bottom land. Missouri accounted for 465000 acres underwater with widespread crop damage including potato fields in Kansas. The crest reached 29.1 feet, a height not seen since mid June.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas Kansas
Charges Of Hoarding Labor Filed Against Two State Companies
The victory committee in Phoenix asks Congress for a manpower survey into labor hoarding at Goodyear Aircraft Arizona Division and Consolidated Aircraft Plant Tucson. Goodyear says the matter is under investigation by the area War Manpower Commission and will support the inquiry.
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Victory
War Manpower Commission
Phoenix
Goodyear
Consolidated Aircraft
Tucson
W. T. Davis
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation
Arizona
Area War Manpower Commission
Production Shortfall Threatens Allied War Effort
Washington reports Undersecretary Patterson blames overconfidence for May production slack. He warns ongoing shortfalls risk equipment shortages for overseas troops and calls strikes and diversion of management as harmful. May output fell 5 percent versus goals, with plans to rise two percent to 1.582 billion dollars.
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Washington
Patterson
Copper Mines Granted Labor Priority in War Effort
The War Manpower Commission orders copper mines to receive superior labor rights over silver miners. It classifies mines and plants by metal to ensure first call on workers for metals most crucial to the war. Enforcement instructions go to U S employment service offices to follow these priorities in recruitment referrals and separation certificates.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
U. S. Employment Service
Raid Costs Japs 94 Planes Out Of 120, Report
Allied air forces hit Nauru island and surrounding targets in a heavy raid described as very successful. Four engined Liberators and Catalina flying boats set fires 40 miles from Guadalcanal while other bombers struck five Japanese strongpoints near Australia. Preliminary reports say raiders returned safely and further raids hit Selaru Amboina Unea News Guinea and Salamaua sector.
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Associated Press
Nauru Island
Guadalcanal
Australia
U. S
South Pacific
Nauru
Selaru Island
Tanimbar Group
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Unea Island
Amboina Island
News Guinea
Salamaua
New Guinea
Japan
Jap Engineers Supplied Data On Parker Dam
Testimony to a Dies subcommittee says Japanese engineers before Pearl Harbor received technical data on the Parker Dam aqueduct. Ralph F. Stringfellow testified that 350 pounds of dynamite and 100 caps stolen near Parker Dam could blow the structure, and that Japanese maps show every part of the dam and aqueduct. The hearing tied to the nearby Poston relocation center.
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Parker, Ariz
Pearl Harbor
Colorado River
California
Dies
Ralph F. Stringfellow
Metropolitan Water District
Southern California
Parker Dam
Aqueduct
Poston, Ariz
Stringfellow
Senate challenges Roosevelt on price control and war info
The Senate today received a House bill challenging the Roosevelt administration by threatening the Office of Price Administration and abolishing the domestic functions of the Office of War Information. The action accompanied House amendments to a $2,898,941,504 measure.
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Tony Smith
Washington
U.P
Senate
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
House
OWI Director Davis Says He Will Quit If Domestic Branch Abolished
Elmer Davis stated he would resign as director of the Office of War Information if its domestic branch is abolished, responding to the House vote to abolish it. He warned that without Senate approval, the OWI would cease to exist and the overseas and domestic roles would be reallocated.
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House
Senate
Congress
OPA
OWI
Elmer Davis
Wright Patman
Tex
Washington
Office of War Information
U S Fliers Score Decisive Aerial Victory Over Japs
American and New Zealand fighters braved own flak to down 77 Japanese aircraft near Guadalcanal including Zeros. Sundowner squadron led by Lt Cmdr Clarence M White tallying 16 bombers and 12 fighters. Lt Charles R Stimson top scorer with four bombers.
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Sundowner
Clarence M. White
Annapolis
Frank B. Quady
Minneapolis
John Ramsey
Sayre
Oklo
John Cooke
Danville
James Swopee
Killen
Aera
Charles R. Stimson
Santa Barbara
Calif
Stimson
Miners and Operators Seek Junction to Avert Mine Tie Up
United Mine Workers and soft coal operators plan new talks to avoid a renewed mine shutdown as the working truce nears its midnight expiry. More than 20,000 miners have walked off in protest of the War Labor Board’s denial of underground travel time pay.
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Associated Press
Washington
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Lewis
WLB
UMW
Logan County
West Virginia
White House
Marvin McIntyre
Roosevelt
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Powhatan Point
Willow Grove
Ohio
Powhatan
Jamestown
UMW Policy Committee
Office of Price Administration
Little Steel
Labor Board
Federal District Tribunals
CIO
Department of Labor
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Reuters
Umberto
Pietro Badoglio
Claude Auchinleck
Archibald P. Wavell
Il Duce
Navy Force
U.S
George Jones
New Zealand
Duesseldorf
Air Ministry
Muenster
Ruhr
Rhineland
The
Germany
RAF
Legion
WRA
J. H. Terry
Rivers
Ernest W. McFarland
Leroy Bennett
McFarland
N. F. Hunnewell
Sen
Carl Hayden
Dillon S. Myer
War Relocation Authority
Myer
Hunnewell
Bennett
Arizona Agriculture
Indian Service
Carl A. Quast
Terry
Lake-Greenway
American Legion
Corporation Commission
John L. Lewis
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