U Boats Massacred In May and June Defeated
London June 30 Prime Minister Churchill declared a total defeat of the German U boat attack in May and June sinking more than 30 in May alone. He said Allied shipping was largely unmolested and Britain would press on against Japan and in the postwar era.
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Harrison Salisbury
London
U.P
Winston Churchill
Guildhall
Great Britain
Japan
Churchill
Mediterranean
United States
Germany
Far East
British Commonwealth of Nations
Monterey Annexation Is Held To Be Illegal
Judge Howard C. Speakman of Maricopa County Superior Court ruled Tucson’s Monterey addition illegal after scrutiny of petition signatures. The case centered on whether signatures met the 50 percent assessed valuation threshold and whether both real and personal property were counted for annexation. The state filed suit at residents’ urging. pending ruling, Tucson continued providing police, fire, and municipal services.
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Tucson
Monterey
Howard C. Speakman
Maricopa County
State of
Arizona
J. Mercer Johnson
Bloody Riots Add To Europe Tension
The fuel oil ban extended to 14 more states including Arizona, widening a nationwide restriction on deliveries to new oil burning installations. Secretary Ickes said exceptions may apply in impractical or inequitable cases but none after July 22, with a general allowance for small space heating burners under OPA rationing rules. He ordered no more weed control oil deliveries by railroads and state highway departments.
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Washington
Arizona
Ickes
Office of Price Administration
Council Votes Late Today On Pension Plan
City leaders rush to establish a pension fund before midnight to avoid loss of $12,000 already budgeted. Mayor Jaastad convened a last minute meeting as actuary Carl Herfurth arrives to finalize plan and report costs totaling about $1,300.
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Henry O. Jaastad
Arizona Supreme Court
Carl E. Herfurth
Coates & Herfurth
Tucson
Los Angeles
Herfarth
Council
RAF Raid on Wuppertal Kills 1342 in Elberfeld
Stockholm dispatches cite Mandles och Stoefartstidning saying 1342 were killed in the RAF raid on Elberfeld, Wuppertal’s Elberfeld area. The city lacked water gas electricity and phone service with fires burning over 24 hours after the attack on chemical and textile works. Elberfeld station half destroyed and many wounded reported.
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Stockholm
Goeteborg
Mandles Och Stoefartstidning
Elberfeld
Wuppertal
Ruhr
Axis Strikes Hard to Subdue Greeks Near Invasion
London dispatches report Greek cities in turmoil as Axis occupation provokes riots in Athens and Salonika. British and American air raids on Salonika and Athens are cited as fueling unrest. Rommel strengthens Axis positions across southern Europe while Italy braces for invasion and suspends cross‑island communications.
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Axis
James F. King
London
Athens
Europe
Ankara
Salonika
Balkan
Roosevelt
Volos
Larisa
Balkans
Bucharest
Rommel
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
France
Erwin Rommel
Rhone
Moscow
Monitor
Tass
Turin
Fiat
Death Claims Uncle Billy Graham Age 69
PHOENIX June 30 P W J Graham known as Uncle Billy longtime Arizona senate secretary died in a downtown office after a stroke He would have been 69 Aug 1 Also president of the Arizona Small Mine Owners Association a noted political figure since moving from Cripple Creek Colo He helped found the small mine owners association and influenced the 1939 Arizona mineral resources bill He was to become secretary of the Department of Mineral Resources Thursday and had just finished the senate journal for the 16th legislature He supported silver in the monetary system and battled officials for recognition of Gee.
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W. J
Uncle Billy
Graham
Arizona Senate
Phoenix
Small Mine Owners’ Association
W. J. Graham
Billy
Arizona Small Mine Owners Association
Arizona
Cripple Creek
Colo
House of Representatives
Senate
Smalline Owners Association
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources
Department of Mineral Resources Office
Journal of the Senate
Le Mans Raid Led By U.S. Fortresses In Daylight
American Flying Fortresses joined a broad Allied daylight air offensive against Axis Europe with a raid on Le Mans France. British RAF reported heavy bombing in Germany while Eden warned Rome could be targeted if war demands.
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Walter Cronkite
London
U.P
U. S
Europe
le Mans
France
RAF
Germany
Anthony Eden
Commons
Britain
Rome
Eden
Harold Balfour
Parliamentae
UN Commons
Royal Air Force
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Balfour
Air Ministry
Dunkirk
Messina
Mediterranean
Sicily
Reggio Calabria
Greece
Paris
Byrnes Seeks End To Wallace Jones Rift In White House Talk
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes summoned Vice President Henry Wallace and Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones to the White House for a face to face effort to settle their public dispute. House Republicans push for a full congressional investigation into Wallace's charges that Jones hamstrings the board of economic warfare. Byrnes said differences will arise with strong department leaders and called the 4 pm meeting a discussion of the controversy.
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Washington
James F.byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse H. Jones
White House
House
Wallace
Jones
Board of Economic Warfare
Richard D
Wigglesworth
Mass
Byrnes
American Flier Claims Greek Islands He Inherits
In Cairo June 30 Lieut George Ponty of Los Angeles told fellow airmen to hold bombs marked for two small islands he claims as his. The islands were willed by his Greek native grandfather to Ponty, who flew a recent mission over Grecian targets with Lieut Homer Drakoulas of Boston and Capt Nick J Cladakis of New York City.
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Cairo
George Ponty
Los Angeles
Ponty
Homer Drakoulas
Boston
Mass
Nick J. Cladakis
New York City
Congress Firms Opposition To Rollback Subsidy Plan
The House approved the conference report on a bill to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation life and to outlaw the administration rollback subsidy for food price reduction by a 160 to 32 vote. It authorizes payment of accrued subsidies through Aug 1 while barring further subsidy commitments to processors after enactment.
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Washington
U.P
House
Conference
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate
War Labor Board
WLB
Congress
Congress Reaches Compromise On Food Price Subsidies
House and senate conferees fuse anti subsidies with a two year CCC extension to curb price controls on butter beef and coffee while preserving farm support. The plan bans processor subsidies and allows incentive payments for canning crops and oils with a 150 million dollar cap, and requires wartime admin approval for potential loss sales.
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Office of Price Administration
CCC
War Food
Senate Appropriations
House
Senate
Congress
Time Is Near At Hand When British Enter Japan Fight
The United States and Britain renew vows to crush Japan to unconditional surrender. Churchill pledges equal emphasis on Japan while American forces bear the Pacific burden with Chinese aid shaping the mainland defense and a forthcoming major Allied offensive.
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Japan
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Tokyo
South Pacific
Britain
United States
Pacific
America
Churchill
Germany
Rendova landing signals new phase in Solomons drive
American forces have landed on Rendova island near Munda base as part of a broader Solomons campaign. The move, cited as a step toward isolating Munda, followed sustained U S air attacks and is viewed as a prelude to a larger offensive. The Rendova operation marks the third extension of American control in the Solomons, with Bougainville and Guadalcanal already in American hands.
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Sandor S. Klein
Washington
U.P
Rendova Island
Munda
Solomon Island
Navy
U. S
Russell Islands
Solomons
Rendova
Guadalcanal
New Georgia Island
Blanche Channel
South Pacific
New Georgia Group
Rekata Bay
Vila
Kahili
Solomon
Solomon Islands
Bougainville
Solomon Group
Rabaul
New Britain
Japan
Funafuti
Ellice
Gilbert Islands
Attu
Aleutians
New Georgia
Banyetta Point
Illa
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Munda Base
Billy’ Graham
Allies
Eternal City
Wallace - Jones
Isles
Congress Firm
John L. Cutter
OPA
O.K
Senate Appropriations Committee
Office of War Information
OWI
Appropriations Committee
Joseph C. O’mahoney
Wyo
Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
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