Britain Caps Pound Market With Official Exchange Rate
London June 7 British government ordered all foreign business to use official pound rates rather than the free market. Exports to the United States and Switzerland must be paid at official rates or in dollars or Swiss currency. The move aims to stabilize the rate and ensure full value of exports for wartime needs.
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London
Britain
New York
United States
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Spe
Canada
Treasury
Old Fort Worth Field To Hear Wings Anew
Fort Worth reports Hicks Field will be developed immediately as a primary pilot training school for the Army Air Corps. The 500 acre tract, 12 miles north of Fort Worth, was leased for 10 years from the Van Zandt Jarvis estate with an option to buy at 100 dollars per acre. William Holden, Fort Worth Chamber vice president, announced the plan reviving memories of World War days.
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Fort Worth
UPR
Old Hicks Field
Army Air Corps
William Holden
Chamber of Commerce
van Zandt Jarvis
City to form home defense battalion in Oklahoma City
City Manager W. A. Quinn announced 2000 hand-picked civilians join a home defense battalion to guard vital points and services against saboteurs. They will train in detecting fifth column activity, operate voluntarily, largely unarmed but ready to use guns, and supplement private guards at waterworks and oil fields while parks use German grass for livestock grazing as a wartime measure.
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Oklahoma City
O.R
W. A. Quinn
Quinn
Home Defense
Negro Church to Host Sunshine Band Surprise Party
The Church of God in Christ at 213 Madison Street will hold a Thursday afternoon 3 o clock surprise party for the Sunshine Band. Children will sing and recite Bible verses and take part in a Bible quiz led by Eloise Langston. Parents are asked to send cakes and sandwich ingredients.
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Church of God In Christ (Colored
Madison Street
Sunshine Band
Eloise Langston
House Approves Seed and Feed Loan Limitation Bill
The House passed HR 9859 to curb six year limits on seed and feed loan collections by the Farm Credit Administration. The measure bars payment demands and legal actions after six years from the last payment, reflecting a shift for farmers with limited credit options.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep. Jones
Texas
Farm Credit Administration
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
FCA
House Agriculture Committee
Jones
James Edwin Boyd Rites Held at Happy Methodist Church
Funeral services for James Edwin Boyd 68 retired farmer of Happy were held yesterday at 2 40 p m in Happy Methodist Church with Rev H Clyde Smith officiating Interment followed at Happy cemetery under Blackbourn Shaw Survivors include his wife five sons five daughters and a brother
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James Ed Vin Boyd
Happy
Methodist
H. Clyde Smith
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Blackbourn-Shaw
Boyd
Hoover Says Subversive Groups Spread False Mass Arrest Reports
Washington June 7 U P Director J Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation charged that subversive groups are spreading unverified reports of mass roundups of suspected fifth columnists. He declined to name the groups, saying theyaim to cover up Trojan Horse attacks on the defense program. Atty Gen Robert H Jackson earlier denied plans for a huge number of arrests as President Roosevelt asked Congress for 6 5 million to expand measures against fifth column activities. Jackson emphasized preventative steps over wholesale arrests. Visa and passport rules will tighten July 1 affecting Canada Newfoundland Mexico Cuba Panama Haiti the Dominican Republic and Bermuda requiring identity documents and visas from American consular officers abroad.
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U.P
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Defense Program
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Atty
Robert H. Jackson
Hoover
Justice Department
Roosevelt
Congress
Justice and State Departments
Canada
Newfoundland
Mexico
Cuba
Panama
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Bermuda
Turkey may gain Soviet benevolence if Italy enters war
In London diplomatic circles a belief held that Turkey received assurances of benevolent Soviet stance if Turkey faced threat from Italy’s expected entry. Russia could even offer selective aid if Dardanelles or Black Sea threatened. Paris sources say Gen Prioux who led the Dunkirk retreat rearguard is prisoner of Germans after withdrawal.
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London
U.P
Turkey
Russia
Italy
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Paris
Rene Jacques Adolphe Prioux
Flanders
Prioux
Dunkerque
Tucumcari Council Approves Power Rate Cut and Line Extension
Tucumcari city council voted to lower minimum monthly power charges from 1.50 to 1.00 and approved extending power lines east on Highway 66 to Plaza Largo where AT&T is building a repeater station. The San Jon Light and Power Co will purchase current via Tucumcari. Extension costs 7400 in materials and 1400 in labor, AT&T to reimburse. Council also leased Metropolitan Park swimming pool to the 2030 Club for two years.
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Tucumcari
Highway 66
Plaza Largo
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
San Jon Light and Power Co
Metropolitan Park
The Strange Case of the Old Man of the Sea Verdict
Court reporter notes a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in favor of John Hill over Fanny Faulkner’s family in a case titled The Strange Case of The Whipping on Badger Creek. The story centers on a "promise for a promise" and a terse lower court ruling.
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Supreme Judicial Court of
State of
Massachusetts
John Hill
Man
Fanny Faulkner
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Bela Lanan
Badger Creek
Weygand Line Holds Paris Gate In Battle of France
Adolf Hitler relies on 40 infantry divisions and 1 000 tanks in the Peronne sector as Weygand strengthens a Somme-Aisne line.French forces defend with heavy artillery anti tank fire and barricaded roads, hoping to trap German armor before Paris. Nazi and German press warn Paris may fall within days while Britain and America adjust air support and planes.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Weygand
France
Reichswehr
Peronne
Carmane
LAG WeAsans Aw Wwe
Berlin
Germany
Somme-Aisne
Seine
Paris
Italy
Poilus
le Havre
England
War in the Air Acknowledges Losses as London Sees 16 Planes
British air ministry reports 15 German aircraft shot down while London acknowledges loss of 16 British planes on Friday night. A southeastern port was machine-gunned with no casualties or damage. RAF raids struck Hamburg refinery areas, a tunnel near Aachen, Ghent oil depot, and German airfields on multiple fronts. A German bomber crashed in east Suffolk with one prisoner reported.
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London
Air Ministry
Berlin
Norfolk
Durham
East Suffolk
Hamburg
Delmenhorst
Aachen
France
Ghent
Arras
Norderney
Flanders
Britain calls for civil workers to join air raid precautions
Sir John Anderson urges thousands of volunteers in Britain to register immediately for police, fire, air raid precaution work and nursing. A three mile curfew zone around the UK is set to deter night sea invasion with ships barred from entering after sunset unless in convoys. Lord Beaverbrook touts gains in aircraft production, claiming Britain has the largest bomber in the world and has boosted output 63 percent since May 11 while offsetting Nazi air numbers.
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John Anderson
Home Defense
Britain
Admiralty
United Kingdom
Lord Beaverbrook
Flanders
Italy Moves to Broaden War as Armaments Rise
Italy holds ships at standstill and readies armies per its near‑term decision. Rex may not sail on June 12 while other departures are reportedly canceled. Armament funding totals 380 million for air force and 80 million for navy. Marshal Emilio Debono is named commander of southern Italian forces. Diplomats note improving Soviet relations and the return of Ambassador Rosso to Moscow. France’s Reynaud is dismissed as the press urges an immediate peace with Germany and a redrawing of colonial borders.
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Italy
Rex
Navy
Marshal Emilio Debono
Marshal Debono
Libya
Egypt
Suez Canal
Russia
Germany
Augusto Rosso
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Nicolai Gorekhin
Rome
Finland
Dobano
Paul Reynaud
France
Il Resto del Garlino
Bologna
Hitler
Corsica
Nice
Savoy
Tunisia
Jibuti
Journal allows potato imports for Allied armies during war
A decree authorizes importation of potatoes from the Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Great Britain and Spain to supply Allied armies for the duration of the war. Special trucks taxes during 1939 totaled 430000000 dollars, excluding general taxes like income property and sales levies.
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Paris
Europe
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Great Britain
Spain
Weygand Web Is Hope Of France In Wary War News
France relies on Weygand’s 50 mile defensive web against Berlin advances while clashes on the Somme and Oise valleys loom. Italy’s hesitation and Mediterranean theater readiness add to Britain’s Malta defenses as war tension rises amid uncertain Italian action.
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Wy Kirke
Pimpdur
France
English Channel
Oise-Aisne
Berlin
Paris
Peronne
Somme
Channel
Oise
Aisne-Ailette
Il Duce
Britain
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Mediterranean
Malta
Campaign to Dominate the Mediterranean and Balkans
The narrative describes a drive to control the Mediterranean by seizing French Tunisia and Corsica, and to light a broader war by challenging German interests and advancing into the Balkans. The framing suggests strategic ambition and regional conflict implications.
Mexico Readies Emergency Session to Tighten Security
Mexico City June 7 authoritative reports say President Cardenas will convene an extraordinary congress session this month to consider laws regulating foreign movement arms possession and to reinforce the army and navy. A government source mentions potential defense pact with the United States for the western hemisphere.
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Mexico City
Mexican Congress
Mexico
Varo Cardenas
United States
Amarilloans Get USC Degrees
Four Amarillo residents join about 1,700 graduates at USC's 57th annual commencement in the Los Angeles Coliseum at 2 30 this afternoon. The list includes 46 graduates from 21 foreign countries and attendees from China Hawaii Canada and Panama. Amarillo honorees are David William Martin Jane Singleton Claudis C Walden and Kate Gathings Turner with degrees in electrical engineering master of science in education and master of arts.
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Amarillo
University of Southern California
Los Angeles Coliseum
China
Hawaii
Canada
Republic of Panama
David William Martin
Route 3
Jane Sigleton
Taylor Street
Claudis C. Walden
Travis ‘Street
Kate Gathings Turner
Jackson Street
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