P D Workers Granted Raise And Vacations
The War Labor Board ordered a 50 cent daily wage increase and a $4.90 minimum for Phelps Dodge workers, with a 48 hour vacation after a year of service. The move includes a first time union membership maintenance clause and retroactive effect to April 16, 1942. About 7,700 Arizona employees would be covered, with 1,700Bisbee miners excluded. The AFL and CIO unions supplied bargaining agents for most workers.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Arizona
H. Mead
AFL
CIO
Thomas Kennedy
Robert J. Watt
Kennedy
Watt
AFL Metal Trades Unions
CIO International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Phoenix
Pat Flynn
Arizona Federation of Labor
Flynn
Germans Reds Battle Near Kupyansk In World War II
The Red Star reports fierce fighting along the railroad outside Kupyansk as German reinforcements push eastward against Soviet resistance. Russians abandoned Kupyansk after a heavy assault with high German tank and air losses noted.
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Moscow
Kupyansk
Kharkov
Red Star
Oskol
Donets
Russla
Roosevelt and Churchill Hold Extended Talks with Litvinov
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred extensively with Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov in a White House meeting on war strategy. The talks signaled keeping a Second Front in Europe as a priority and ongoing coordination with Allied military leaders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Maxim Litvinov
White House
Litvinov
Europe
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Russia
T. V. Soong
Soong
Council
Chinese Fight Near Lishui Reverses Japanese Offensive
Chinese communique says 2000 Japanese killed on Taihang slopes during June 19 20 clashes as Chinese forces recapture peaks and push to expel invaders from near Lishui air base city. Kinki was seized earlier, and a counterattack near Kwangfeng left 300+ enemy drowned.
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Robert P. Martin Chungking
Taihang
Lishui
Kinki
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Kwangfeng
Hsin River
Linghsien
Chekiang Province
China
Japan
Great Armada Of RAF Planes Bombs Bremen
RAF bombers struck Bremen in a massive raid described as possibly the largest of its kind. More than 1,000 planes targeted the port city, with follow up attacks on air fields across the Low Countries. Fifty-two RAF aircraft were missing, a loss rate under 5 percent.
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London
RAF
Bremen
Cologne
Essen
Air Ministry
Adolf Hitler
Essen Cologne
Emden
Germany
Focke-Wulf
Hog prices reach 16 year high in Chicago market
Hogs sold at prices unseen in 16 years as office of price administration ceilings held dressed pork in check. Meat packers paid 14.70 dollars per hundred pounds for choice hogs, a peak since September 1926 and 5 cents above the 1942 high. All types rose 10 to 15 cents. average price near 14.42 dollars.
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Chicago
Office of Price Administration
Veteran Head Of City Schools Dies
C. E. Rose retired Tucson superintendent dies at midnight after 22 years of service. Funeral set for 2:30 p.m. at the Masonic temple with Rev. Leland Koening officiating. Survived by wife Minna A. Rose and two sons Clinton F. and Lawrence E. Rose.
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C. E. Rose
Tucson
Rose
Tomorow
Masonic Temple
Leland Koening
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Arizona
Clinton F
Lawrence E. Rose
Los Angeles
Robert D. Morrow
St. Mary's Hospital
Mr. Rose
Pete Howell
United States
Friction Grows Between Japan and the Soviet Union
Soviet radio reports said two Japanese submarines surfaced after the 4751 ton Angarstroi was sunk off the Japanese coast on May 1 and dismissed Japan's claim that a US submarine torpedoed a Soviet merchant ship. Chinese dispatches said Chiang Kai Shek's armies moved toward Nancheng as heavy fighting raged near Lishui Chekiang.
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Russia
Japan
Moscow
Tokyo
United States
Soviet Union
Aleutians
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nancheng
Kiangsi
Lishui
China
Chekiang
War experts foresee decisive phase as German drive nears
Washington reports military authorities view Europe entering a potentially decisive stage. Germany may be pressing a major push in the Russian front with Kharkov Sevasto pol actions possibly prelude to a main campaign. Analysts expect a rapid sequence of German victories to shape next fall or winter moves toward Britain.
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Washington
North Africa
Europe
Germany
Russia
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Britain
Main Axis Drive Into Egypt Near Matruh Escalates Desert Clash
Allied and Axis air units clash as Rommel's armored columns push toward Marsa Matruh, driving at least 100 miles into Egypt and threatening a decisive battle with the British Eighth Army. The advance tightens the desert noose near the coast while British patrols contest gains along the Qattara low mood and plains.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Eighth Army
Matruh
Qattara
United Nations
Rommel
Santa Cruz County Reports No Delinquent Sales Tax
Santa Cruz county announced to the state tax commission that it has no delinquencies in its sales tax reports, the first time this has occurred since the tax was created. Commission member D. C. O'Neil noted the record.
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Santa Cruz
Phoenix
Santa Cruz County
State Tax Commission
D. C. O’neil
Commission
Rommel Faces Tough Problem In Egypt
The War Desk reports Rommel may attack Marsa Matruh and the Qattara Depression but faces supply lines and defensive stretches. British experts doubt a straight push to the Nile and note past reverses at Sidi Rezegh. The Matruh defense tests Britain's Egypt position as Rommel weighs options.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Desk
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Marsa Matruh
Great Qattara
Siwa
Girabub
Matruh
Cairo
Alexandria
Rommel
Britain
Neil Ritchie
Nile
Sidi Rezegh
Gulf of
Sirte
Tripoli
Nazi Hostility in Argentina Flares Over Sunk Ship
Anti German sentiment rose in Buenos Aires after Germany torpedoed the Rio Tercero, prompting Argentina to demand satisfaction reparations assurances and respect for the flag. Berlin faces pressure as protests intensify and relations with Argentina hang on Germany's response.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Berlin
Germany
Bern
May production boom: 4000 planes and 1500 tanks built
President Roosevelt announced May war production figures showing nearly 4,000 aircraft and more than 1,500 tanks produced in the month. Output also included almost 2,000 artillery and anti tank guns and over 50,000 machine guns, excluding anti aircraft and tank guns.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Pearl Harbor
Highway Budget Approved by Arizona Highway Commission
The Arizona Highway Commission approved a 1942 43 budget of over 10 million dollars and rejected a motion to designate the Verde river route as a state highway. P R Helm argued military necessity while Loren Cross pressed the idea. The commission noted it would designate the Verde route when the war department requests it. N G Hill and company received 274 564 88 for reconstruc tion of 10 miles of U S 60 70 with a 59 000 cut from surfacing costs.
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Phoenix
Verde River
State Highway Commission
Loren Cross
Flagstaff
P. R. Helm
J. M. Smith
Central
Arizona
Prescott
J. M. Procter
Cress
Smith
Osborn
Commission
Verde
War Department
N. G. Hill and Company of
Mesa
MacArthur unleashes heavy air assaults on Japanese forces
Melbourne dispatch reports General MacArthur leading a major southwest Pacific offensive with raids on Dili Timor Raabau New Britain and attacks on Salamaua Port Moresby and enemy troops. Allied air power claims success with no losses and several Japanese planes driven off.
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Melbourne
UPI
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Dili
Timor
Rabaul
New Britain
Salamaua
New Guinea
Port Moresby
MacArthur
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Australia
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