INVASION NEARING, SAYS CHURCHILL; ROOSEVELT WARNS ON POISON GAS (6/9/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/9/43 | Raymond Daniell, W.H. Lawrence, Hanson W. Baldwin

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thrust Prepared (Daniell) * – 2
War News Summarized – 2
President Solemn (Lawrence) – 3
Lampedusa Repels Invasion by Commandos, Berlin Says – 4
The Invasion Riddle (Baldwin) – 6
6 Held in High Bail in Movie Fraud – 6
Police Election Won by Harnedy – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 7-8
Service Men Stop Los Angeles Street Car in Search for Zoot Suiters (photo) – 9
Los Angeles Barred to Sailors by Navy to Stem Zoot-Suit Riots – 10

* The text of Mr. Churchill’s speech does not appear on Page 4 as stated at the beginning of the article. It does appear at the link below.

Winston Churchill speech to House of Commons, June 8, 1943.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f09jun43.htm

Skirmishing on the Eastern Front
Wednesday, June 9, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... A Soviet attack along the Mius River gains some ground. A German attack near Lisichansk is held.

In the Mediterranean... The bombardment of the Italian island of Pantelleria continues.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

June 9th, 1943 (WEDNESDAY)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The heavy shelling of Pantelleria continues, and the Allies say that it will go on until the island surrenders.

Medium and heavy bombers, and fighters of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) continue pounding Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean in predawn hours and during the afternoon. (Jack McKillop)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The Japanese evacuation of Kiska Island in the Aleutians Islands by submarines continues.

Submarine HIJMS I-9 departs Paramushiru Island, Kurile Islands for Kiska and is never heard from again.

Meanwhile, HIJMS I-169 unloads one ton of weapons and ammunition and two tons of food for the Japanese remaining on Kiska and evacuates 31 Navy and 29 civilian personnel. After getting underway, a US vessel fires six rounds at the submarine at 2250 hours local in a dense fog off the north coast of the island. (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Fredericton arrives at Liverpool, Nova Scotia for refit. (Dave Shirlaw)

[texanyankee]

Never knew that about the zoot suits on the last page.....

[TADSLOS]

Interesting article on the Zoot Suit riots. La Raza emerges.

[jjotto]

I know a WWII Navy vet who has spoken of his participation in the Zoot Suit Riots. He distinctly mentioned a homosexual aspect to some of the zoot suitors. I had never heard of that and there is little information available, although lesbians in zoot suits at the time seems well known.

[Chad N. Freud]

Top left, page 1: Gee, the president wants to raise taxes and force the people to do something they don’t want to do. Shocking.

[C210N]

Wow, NYT is three cents...

That’s three whole cents more than its value today!

[a fool in paradise]

We went to war over Hitler’s rumored WMDs?!?!?

FDR played on our fears!
Roosevelt knew!

< /sarc >

[fso301]

We went to war over Hitler’s rumored WMDs?!?!?

Gas worries probably traced to the death camps. By the time allies heard the reports, "Jews being gassed in the east" may have become "Gas being used in the east".

Americans did die as a result of poison gas but the largest such incident was gas loaded aboard Liberty ships that was released when bombed by the Luftwaffe at Bari, Italy on Dec 2, 1943.

[a fool in paradise]

Certainly gas was used in WWI and the expectation had to be ready for it.

[fso301]

Certainly gas was used in WWI and the expectation had to be ready for it.

True but the article cited mounting evidence that the Axis powers were making significant preparations to use gas.

[colorado tanker]

A commission appointed by the Governor concluded the Zoot Suit Riots had two main causes, racism, and (I know it's hard to believe) the press, which seemed to associate a zoot suiter with every crime reported. The Mayor, of course, disagreed, saying the Riots were instigated by local hoodlums. One politician claimed Axis agents were behind the Riots, but there was absolutely no evidence of that. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that the country needed overdue work on race relations with Mexicans, to which the LA Times responded by calling her a communist.

Only in LaLa Land, the place that fought the Battle of Los Angeles against a nonexistent Japanese air fleet.