U S Bombers Hit Back As Axis Penetration Presses
The British Eighth Army and Allied air forces clash with Axis columns 55 miles into northern Egypt near Sidi Barrani, as U S B 24 Liberators and RAF bombers strike Bengasi and supply routes. Eisenhower named to lead new European theater of operations as U S forces build toward a second front.
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Rommel
Egypt
Cairo
Eighth Army
Marsa Matruh
U.P
Sidi Barrani
Royal Air Force
RAF
Bengasi
Erwin Rommel
Sollum
Sidi Omar
Capuzzo
Mersa Matruh
Suez Canal
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Libya
Salum
Cermans Risk All In Drive On Two Fronts
Nazi forces gamble reserves in massive attacks on Sevastopol and Kharkov fronts. Soviet reports claim heavy losses for Germany in Donets fighting while Sevastopol defenses endure intense forest and house to house combat.
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Cermans
Moscow
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Donets Basin
Fedor von Bock
Erich von Mannstein
Kerch
Crimean
Information Bureau
Barents Sea
Crimea
Ukraine
Russia
Berlin
Price Head Is Facing Battle Over Expenses
Congressional critics pressed the fight over the Office of Price Administration budget. A House subcommittee cut Hendersons request for next year by 66 million dollars to 95 million, far less than the budget bureau and Henderson asked for. Lawmakers say the reduced figure still funds efficient operation with a 30 to 40 thousand employee force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leon Henderson
Federal Price Administration
House Appropriations
Henderson
OPA
Budget Bureau
Gaeienteneuve Johnson
D-Okla
Enemy Met With Everything At Dutch Harbor
Seattle reports that Japanese planes raided Dutch Harbor on June 3 at dawn. Officials say naval air stations and nearby installations were not surprised and were met with strong Dutch defenses including gun positions. Evacuee testimonies corroborate early statements from the 13th naval district.
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Seattle
U.P
Unalaska Island
Dutch Harbor
13Th Naval District
Naval Air Station
Mayor Says Unalaska Caught Asleep At Bombing
Eyewitness account from Unalaska mayor describes prior alerts and civilian defense preparations before the June bombing of Dutch Harbor. He notes prior warnings of a Jap fleet carrier within 400 miles and questions why the town slept through the attack, citing repeated practice alerts.
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Dutch Harbor
United Press
Unalaska
Unalaska Island
Aleutian Islands
John W. Fletcher
Seattle
U.P
Alaska
Family Heads Will Be Last To Enter Army
Washington announces four draft categories to delay induction for married men with children and other dependents. McNutt shifts work or fight policy to allow essential workers in vital industries to seek jobs before service. The plan aligns with Roosevelt’s signing of dependents allowances act. Category 1 excludes those with financial dependents. Category 2 covers others.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevelt
McBride Loses State Post Appointment Bid
The Arizona Supreme Court denied J Perle McBride of Tucson a seat on the state industrial commission. It held the senate could not confirm after Governor Osborn withdrew the nomination, noting that nominations remain changeable until office vestment requires governor and senate action.
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Phoenix
State Supreme Court
J. Perle McBride
Tucson
State Industrial Commission
High Tribunal
State Senate
McBride
Osborn
Arizona
Senate
A. G. McAlister
Allied Planes Extend Recon Flights to Indies and Celebes
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Allied reconnaissance flights have pushed into the Netherlands East Indies and toward Kendari in Celebes. From Darwin, the operation over 850 miles distant could lead to Allied attacks in force as planes repelled three enemy fighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Netherlands East Indies
Kendari
Celebes Island
Douglas MacArthur
Darwin
Civilian Copper May Be Seized Plans under WPB then copper take up to one million tons
Washington June 25 WPB chairman Donald M Nelson outlined plans to progressively take up to 1,000,000 tons of civilian copper beginning with brass name plates if needed for armaments. He did not specify whether the metal would be seized or part of a scrap drive and emphasized measures would only start when copper needs are acute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Up— War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Nelson
Churchill To Accept Vote On War Policy In Parliament
Prime Minister Churchill will face a two day debate on Libya defeat with solid Labour support. Sir John Wardlaw Milne filed a hostile motion demanding confidence in the government’s central war direction. Five motions in all await Churchill upon his return from Washington, four hostile and one backing unified command.
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Edward W. Beattie
London
U.P
Winston Churchill
Labor Party
House of Commons
Libya
John Wardlaw-Milne
Stafford Cripps
House
Mediterranean
Commons
Cripps
Churchill
Washington
Soviet Regiments Landed in Crimea Behind Sevastopol Lines
London report from Reuters cites a Stockholm dispatch claiming two regiments of Soviet troops landed in southern Crimea via convoy from Caucasus ports. Despite German coastal artillery fire, the Russians reportedly landed and advanced at several points, reaching positions behind German forces at Sevastopol.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Crimea
Caucasus
Sevastopol
World leaders review war status for Congress
Roosevelt and Churchill briefed congressional leaders on the world situation including North Africa and a potential second European front. The briefing drew praise as satisfactory and encouraging, with leaders noting details limited and military in nature. In Argentina, police guarded the German embassy as anti Axis agitation grew after Rio Tercero sinking and Ortiz resigns, Kastillo poised to succeed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
North
Africa
Europe
Rayburn
Capitol Hill
Atlantic
Pacific War Council
United Nations
White House
Buenos Aires
U.P
Innsbruck
Argentina
Enrique Ruiz Guinazu
Chamber of Deputies
Rio Tercero
Axis
Roberto M. Ortiz
Ramon §S. Castillo
Ortiz
Castillo
Five Billion Tax Plan Offered For 1943 Income Deductions
Secretary Morgenthau says House Ways and Means weighs a five percent pay as you earn tax on 1943 incomes. The plan would apply the five percent deduction to taxes due on 1943 earnings and offer taxpayers an option to pay 1942 taxes in monthly installments next year.
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Washington
U.P
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
House
Ways and Means
House Ways and Means Proposes $5.92 Billion Tax Plan
The committee tentatively recommends taxes totaling $5.924 billion from corporations and individuals with higher levies on luxuries like cigarettes. Drafting clerks will process the measure as the panel retains right to reexamine before a likely July 13 House debate. Morgenthau says $8.7 billion is the minimum the plan should raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Morgenthau
Jap Warships Sunk By AVG At Hankow
CHUNGKING June 25 The American Volunteer Group or AVG with double bomber force attacked Hankow China's interior base and sank one Japanese warship and three transports on Tuesday in the Yangtze. Other vessels were damaged and military establishments blown up in the Tigers debut over Hankow. Chinese airmen aided the effort as advances push Japanese back 12 miles from recaptured territory.
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Chungking
Hankow
Japan
China
Yangtze
AVG
Flying Tigers
Hupeh
Recaptured
Night of terror at Dutch Harbor evacuees relate attack
Evacuees from Unalaska island tell Seattle reporters how Japanese planes bombed and strafed Dutch Harbor at dawn June 3. Army anti aircraft guns aboard a transport, once a luxury liner, helped down a bomber and two fighters as the ship moved from pier to sea.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Dutch Harbor
Unalaska Island
North Pacific
North America
Aleutian Islands
13Th Naval District
German press scoffs at second Allied front plan in Europe
German observers in Berlin mock the idea of a second front in Europe this year while Nazis hint at broader wars in Russia and North Africa. Swiss reports warn of intensified efforts, and Goebbels dismisses Western broadcasts as misinformed.
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Europe
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Russia
North Africa
Switzerland
Washington
London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Das Reich
Eisenhower Arrives in London to Take Command
A London dispatch says Eisenhower arrived to assume command and met with President Roosevelt and British leaders Churchill and Roosevelt, with formal European theatre coordination described as a logical step. The war department released Ike’s arrival statement noting no change in Maj. Gen. status.
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London
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
War Department
Great Britain
United States
NEW Front
Flagstaff Girds for New Push in Union Dispute
Flagstaff merchants and union organizers prepared for renewed conflict after failed talks with Governor Osborn’s effort to secure peaceful negotiations. The Merchants Association rejected the union demand for no picketing unless half of a business’ employers joined the union, while union leaders indicated new proposals were in the works. Nearby towns pledge support for an open shop, with Prescott Winslow Holbrook Williams and Kingman backing continued commercial openness.
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Flagstaff
Osborn
Phoenix
Prescott
Winslow
Holebrook
Williams and Kingman
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Gen. Rommel
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Northern Ireland
England
Molotov
U. S. Army
U. S
George C. Marshall
Air Force
H. H. Arnold
Tobruk
I. Ft.capuzzon
Maddalena
Giarabub
Bardia
By Henry C. Cassidy
Price Head
Dutch
Indies
W. W. Copeland
House Committee
By Donald A. Young
William McGaffin
Willard D. Eberhart
Associated Press
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