Submarine O-9 Sinks With 34 Believed Lost
Portsmouth New Hampshire reports the early model submarine O-9 with about 34 U S officers and men aboard sank during a test dive off the Isles of Shoals. A large oil slick was sighted, search vessels scoured 370 feet of water, and officials warned of slim chances for survivors.
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Navy Yard
Coast Guard
Defy Nazi Move to Block U.S. Merchant Ships At Sea
Senators say German threats on Russia could win raw materials for the Nazis prolonging the war and draw America closer to involvement. Pepper warns of Ukraine seizure while Norris, George, Van Nuys and Taft discuss potential long war and defense builds as Nazi aims widen. Roosevelt accuses Germany of ruthlessly sinking the Robin Moor and vows not to yield to intimidation or world domination plots.
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Germany
Russia
Pepper
D-Fla
Great Britain
Ukraine
Norris
Ind-Neb
England
George
Senate Foreign
Taft
Ohio
Hitler
Solons Comment On FDR Strong Speech To Nazis
President Roosevelt's stern message to Congress on the sinking of the Robin Moor drew lawmakers' praise as proper and a potential war signal. Warnings against yielding on sea rights and against German aggression were echoed by senators and representatives, with reactions noting possible reparations and consequences. The speech followed the sinking May 21 in the south Atlantic and the rescue of 46 aboard the American vessel.
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Fdr
Robin Moor
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
May
D-Ky
House
Reynolds
D-N.c
Senate Military Committee
Chandler
Truman
D-Mo
Baseball Scores from the League Show Heavy Hitting
In the American League St Louis beat Boston 7 to 4 with Auker and Ferrell driving runs. Detroit defeated New York 4 to 2 as Newsom and Tebbetts starred. Cleveland edged Washington 4 to 3. In the National League Podgajny led Philadelphia past Pittsburgh 9 to 6 while Boston and Chicago were blanked 4 to 0 and 5 to 0 respectively. New York played St Louis in a night game.
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Pytlak
Damascus Falls Near as Allied Army Closes In
British radio reported Free French troops entered the outskirts of Damascus as the Allied invasion of Syria advanced. NBC heard the broadcast in New York on June 20.
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London
Damascus
Cairo
Henri Dentz
Middle East
Merdjayoun
Beirut
Mezze
Kissone
Kuneitra
Syria
New York
NBC
Phelps Dodge Complies With NLRB Decree
Phelps Dodge Corp Ajo unit has complied with an NLRB decree. Ajo manager J H Davis says the company has disestablished the employees association and reinstated six former workers with back pay, laid off in February 1940. The case followed charges by Tucson and Ajo metal unions that the association acted as a company union and that layoffs were discriminatory. The reinstated workers are Bill D Boyle George T Skinner J B Slaughter W C Johnston Everett Stoker and J R Vermillion.
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Phelps Dodge Corporation
Ajo
National Labor Relations Board
J. H. Davis
Bill D. Boyle
George T. Skinner
J. B. Slaughter
W. C. Johnston
Everett Stoker
J. R. Vermillion
Ford Signs CIO Labor Contract
Ford Motor company signed a union shop and check off contract with CIO United Auto Workers, described as Ford's first ever union contract. CIO President Philip Murray and Ford officials announced the historic agreement as the National Labor Relations Board reported settlement of all outstanding labor board cases involving Ford.
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Washington
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Company
Philip Murray
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
RAF Drops Six Million Pounds Of Explosives
London reports Britain conducted its heaviest aerial offensive of the war with about 2,000 bombers dropping 6 million pounds of high explosives and tens of thousands of incendiaries over the Ruhr Rhine area, focusing on Cologne and Duesseldorf. Daylight raids targeted Le Havre docks and oil storage tanks on the invasion coast.
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U.P
Britain
Ruhr-Rhine
Germany
Cologne
Duesseldorf
France
English
Number On WPA Rolls Will Be Cut By 2 138
Arizona Works Project Administration employees will be reduced in three weeks from 5638 to 3500 as part of nationwide curtailment due to budget cuts. Nationally 415000 workers will be cut, lowering total WPA staff to about 1,000,000. Arizona will cover those unable to find private industry work. Projects next year will be largely defense oriented.
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Washington
Arizona Works Project Administration
WPA
Russians Calm As War Thought Near
Moscow reports show calm amid rumors of invasion. Izvestia quotes lines about a reinforced boundary as Soviet media focus on domestic affairs. Mock battles by 40,000 Odessa air raid volunteers surface in reports, while ceremonies and lectures fill the news.
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Moscow
U.P
Kremlin
Germany
Russia
Odessa Volunteer Air Raid Precautions Society
Tamberlane
Samarkand
Helsinki order calls men 18 to 44 to register
Finnish authorities in Helsinki issued a directive requiring all men aged 18 to 44 to register with military authorities at the earliest moment. The notice, carried by Helsinki dispatches, specifies those born between 1897 and 1923 must report immediately, though it does not mandate immediate military service.
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Stockholm
U.P
Helsinki
Russia
Woman Kills Self As Drafts Leave Husband
Mrs. Della Scott 40 of 501 East Bryan Street shot herself in bed with a .32 pistol as her husband Virgil M. Scott prepared to report for duty at Camp Barkeley Texas tomorrow on a 10 day furlough. Coroner C W Gardner said death appeared self inflicted. Their adopted four and a half month old daughter Faye Yvonne slept nearby. Scott returned to discover the body about 10:30 this morning after being away at a grocery store three blocks away.
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Bryan Street
Virgil M. Scott
Tucson
Camp Barkeley
Tex
C. W. Gardner
Baby
Faye Yvonne
Scott
War may be long if Russia yields to Nazi demands
The column speculates that a Russian submission to Hitler could extend the war from the Baltic to Indo China. It contrasts a Soviet submission with a stubborn defense, hoping the Red Army uses interior fortresses to wear down German force.
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Britain
Near East
Stalin
Hitler
Soviet Union
Red Army
President May Control Citizens Exit Entry
The senate approved legislation granting President Roosevelt broad power to regulate entry and departure of citizens and aliens. The measure returns to the house to consider Taft's amendment limiting citizen powers to the current emergency. The draft permits rules for aliens when two or more countries are at war, and supporters urge swift action to curb saboteurs and spies.
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Taft
Ohio
van Nuys
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