Atlantic patrol orders to shoot if needed
Secretary Knox indicated American naval vessels patrolling the Atlantic were ordered to shoot if necessary to protect communications with strategic outposts. Willkie urged bases in Northern Ireland and Scotland while Roosevelt planned a large defense and lend-lease request around 15 billion dollars. Churchill complained Iceland talk risked lives as Wheeler challenged Roosevelt to seek a war declaration. Russia claimed it harmed German war power as battles continued on multiple fronts.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
United States
Wendell L. Willkie
Coness
White House
Winston Churchill
Wheeler
D.mont
Iceland
Churchill
Roosevelt
Congress
Atlantic Patrol
Mr. Roosevelt
Syria seeks armistice as Vichy invites Britain to end war
Vichy France announced it asked Britain for an immediate armistice in the Syria conflict. The United States consulate at Beirut acted as intermediary in surrender negotiations begun last night. The communique said the step aimed to avoid grievous bloodshed as the war grows unequal, but terms and immediate end of hostilities were not disclosed.
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Vichy
France
Britain
Syria
United States
Beirut
Roosevelt backs extending military service and hemispheric limits
President Roosevelt and Rep. Wadsworth endorsed extending the draft and Guardsmen service beyond one year and lifting bans on using selectees outside the Western Hemisphere. Roosevelt avoided a firm stance on overseas use, while Hershey ordered deferment for Americans joining British forces. In Europe, Hitler claimed gains as Soviets countered, with fighting around Ostrov, Leningrad, and Kiev and analysts calling it a long, hard struggle.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rep
Wadsworth
R-Ny
Army General Staff
Army
Congress
Hemisphere
United States
Selective Service
Louis B. Hershey
Heat peaks at 99 degrees for Tuesday and Wednesday
The readings show a high of 99 degrees on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Officials note unusually hot conditions with prolonged afternoon heat and a forecast of possible thunderstorms later in the week.
Riots injure 33 at Pennsylvania strip mine
In two clashes on Good Spring Mountain and west of here, 13 miners were wounded by shotgun pellets and 20 by clubs and stones as independent miners battled private detectives guarding strip mining operations. About 2,000 miners gathered, shots were fired, and detectives retreated after surrendering guns.
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Pottesville
Pennsylvania
Good Spring Mountain
Here
L. M. Brobst
Correale Construction Company
Herbert Gosselin
Brobst
Draft Lottery For Youngsters Is Set July 17
The Selective Service announces a July 17 draft lottery for newly registered 21 year olds. 750 numbers will be drawn with readouts posted to master lists for 6,500 local boards. Secretary Stimson to draw, Col. Morris to blindfold him, event about two hours.
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Washington
P— Selective Service
Sparrows Point
Baltimore
Stimson
War Stimson
Charles R. Morris
Elizabeth
N. J
Wilson
Selective Service Boards
Nazi Supply Question Acute Shows Halt In Eastern Push
London reports authoritative British sources say the Nazi advance in Soviet Russia appears halted due to exhausted troops or strong Red Army defense. The supply question is becoming acute and a big breakthrough in days is needed to avoid a pause.
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London
Soviet Russia
Red Army
Rayburn Opposes Extended Draft Service With Volunteer Year
Speaker Rayburn stated opposition to keeping drafted men in service beyond one year and supported an amendment to the selective service law allowing volunteers to serve a second year. He also voiced views on national guardsmen and reserve officers.
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Rayburn
Washington
National Guardsmen
Workers Reject Cement Union As Bargaining Agent
An election at the Oklahoma Portland cement plant saw 106 employees vote against Union No. 114 of the United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International Union as the sole bargaining agent. The vote, conducted with federal labor department cooperation, focused solely on union representation and not on membership numbers or organizing steps.
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Oklahoma Portlandement Company
United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers International Union
Federal Labor Department
Oklahoma Portland
Heat Defers Safety Lane in Ada After 823 Cars Checked
Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce safety campaign checked 823 cars over two and a half days before being postponed due to heat. Patrolmen reported 10 to 15 percent with defective brakes lights or steering gear while motorists waited in the sun.
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Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce
Pre School Clinic Held at Allen
A pre school clinic conducted by the county health department at Allen Wednesday examined thirteen children and administered first and second diphtheria toxoids. Another clinic is scheduled there on August 13.
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County Health Department
Allen
Cloris Smith
Roosevelt to Seek Large New Defense Financing Bill
Washington July 9 The Roosevelt administration plans a new congressional request for additional funding for defense and lend-lease programs. Officials say the total could approach or exceed the original seven billion dollar authorization as budget checks proceed. The aim is to keep major arms plants at full capacity for army navy and maritime needs with shipments going to Britain and possibly China and Russia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Stephen T. Early
White House
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Harold D. Smith
Great Britain
China
Russia
Valley View Hospital Story of Vision and Commonwealth Fund
A historic Ada project shows how Commonwealth Fund and local citizens funded Valley View hospital begun in 1935. It highlights donor Mrs. Warkness gifts, civic effort, and the plan for a modern facility built with three quarters funded by the fund and one quarter locally.
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Valley View Hospital
Commonwealth Fund
Ada
Pontotoc County
W. Harkness
United States
Adan
Tennessee
U S Grain Crop Will Be Valuable
Chicago July 9. American farmers expect to harvest this summer their most valuable grain crop since 1929. Statisticians estimate the prospective domestic yield of wheat corn oats and rye would be worth about 3.3 billion dollars at market, 700 million more than last year.
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Chicago
County Wins In Claims Appeal
State supreme court reversed district court rulings and held the county need not pay portions of claims totaling 1937 38 highway fund disallowances. Two cases against the county by J E Campbell and J G Witherspoon had ordered $1 170 and $1 908 judgments. County intervenors prevailed. claimants argued for supplemental appropriations.
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State Supreme Court
District Court
State Court
Crawford
J. E. Campbell
J. G. Witherspoon
Ada youths obtain two marriage licenses
The court clerk issued licenses on Wednesday to Leonard Oris Thompson, 19, and Berniece Bowerman, 15, both of Ada. Also licensed were Robert Wright, 27, of Oklahoma City, and Dorothy Martin, 26, of Kansas City, Missouri.
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Leonard
Oris Thompson
Berniece Bowerman
Ada
O. Robert Wright
Oklahoma City
Dorothy — Martin
Kansas City
Buried by the Sod or the Car Question
A reflective verse pondering how men seek approval from fathers before marriage and from wives after, contrasting past burial customs with modern habits and the changing social norms. The piece uses folksy dialect to question life choices and memory.
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Northern Ireland
Scotland
Willkie
Associated Press
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Black Sea
Europe
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Kandalasha
Murmansk
Middle East
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Nazi
High Command
Ostrov
Salla
Finland
Kandalaksha
N. A. Lozovski
Germany
Polotsk
Moscow
Novograd- Volynski
Kiev
Ukraine
Soviet
RCA
Nea
110Th Motor Transport Regiment
Camp Robinson
Arkansas
Lear
II Army
35Th Division
Solons
Valley View
L. J. Evans
H. J. Southmayd
Division of Rural Hospitals
Robert Harden
Milton Keating
Ada Chamber of Commerce
U.S
Bob Biante
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