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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1943
Page
1
President Roosevelt said he did not accept the October 31 deadline set by the United Mine Workers policy committee to end the strike. He emphasized the nation’s wartime needs and said he would continue mining coal to prevent a cold winter.
The revolt of coal miners against the union back to work order and President Roosevelt work or fight plan spreads. More than half of the nations 530000 miners idle as thousands refuse to return until their status is clarified. UMW and officials predict near normal operations by Monday, while some areas push back with intensified picketing and local holidays. Government operation of mines remains disputed as steel production feels the impact of the stoppage.
Final returns show Fianna Fail missing a majority in the da il Eireann as De Valera faces a hung parliament. Labor gains eight seats Farmers fourteen independents rise one while Cosgrave’s Fine Gael drops thirteen amid post election expectations of coalition talks.
Edward Kennedy predicts a major air assault on Italy by American and British airmen after touring World War II fronts. He notes perfect bombing conditions, accurate bombsights, light resistance, and compares the African campaign to a first front opening a long Mediterranean shelling zone.
Japanese jitters grow as Allied Pacific push looms. U.S. fleets ready for action, with air and naval reconnaissance indicating planned strikes. Tokyo fears dawn raids from American forces across Solomon Islands and near Australia.
Allied air forces expanded operations in the Mediterranean with a Ninth Air Force strike on the Sedes airdrome at Salonika destroying three hangars and leaving them in flames. Northwest African bombers hit targets in Sicily and Sardinia the same night, while Allied planes suffered nine losses but returned safely.
King George VI lands at a British RAF base after a swift North Africa tour. The King, deeply tanned and smiling, is escorted by ten Spitfires, arriving ahead of schedule. Prime Minister Winston Churchill also arrives, the monarch having visited Allied forces and ships off the African coast.
Former Arizona governor John Phillips died at 3 45 a m today after a heart attack while fishing near Mormon Lake Phoenix said he had lived in the state 45 years and was 72. He leaves a son Ralph and two daughters Mrs H C Reddie and Mrs Elizabeth Quillen all of Phoenix. Funeral plans were not fixed.
President Roosevelt reiterated opposition to a single food czar and warned Congress would bear full responsibility if inflation accelerates. He argued a food czar cannot solve distribution or price problems while highlighting impact on the poor. He also denied that Chester Davis resigned over powers. In war news, Allied bombers struck German targets including Wuppertal and Salonika as RAF losses were reported and German evacuations rise.
Phoenix June 25 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and local authorities report over 4200 internal security cases and more than 4000 reported selective service act violations in Arizona since October 1940. H R Duffey noted many internal security cases lacked substantiation amid a quarterly police conference.
An American air base in Britain shows a shift from dugout warfare to daytime sorties against the continent. Amid calm English countryside, pilots rise at dawn to strike front lines, while sounds of birds and clean country air replace gunfire and odors.
The Los Angeles Times reports naval and coast guard forces have sunk at least nine Japanese submarines off the West Coast since Pearl Harbor. Navy not yet confirmed. Hermes and Perseus credited with sinkings and depth charges. Other subs said destroyed by planes and surface craft off California, Oregon, and northern California.
CIO President Philip Murray warned a congressional committee that without an effective rollback and subsidy program by July 15 organized labor will press to scrap the hold the line order and the little steel wage formula. Mayor LaGuardia echoed the demand for immediate action to address rising living costs and food prices amid the price stabilization debate.
Members of the house military affairs committee forecast a tough fight as Roosevelt seeks power to place strikers in government plants and the Army. Democrats and Republicans denounce the approach as a perversion of the selective service act and a slave labor plan tied to the Smith-Connally bill.
June 25 report from New Guinea details Captain Sydney Wood of Yuma Arizona manning safety positions as air corps crews ferried Lieutenant Paul Yeager across a lake in a rubber raft after a crash. Wood, former University of Arizona football safety, strafed the lake to deter crocodiles and other threats in pursuit.
The Senate voted 56 to 25 to override President Roosevelt's veto of the Connally Harness Smith anti strike measure. The bill would outlaw strikes in government controlled war industries and regulate walkouts in private plants. Roosevelt urged a broader draft amendment to cover 45 to 65 year olds for noncombat service.
Washington reports a forthcoming WPB backed program to keep clothing supplies steady this winter by making retailers custodians of merchandise. It would curb promotional sales ban style shows limit multi unit discounts and tighten practices seen as fueling panic buying during wartime shortages.
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