Texas adjourns long legislative session sine die
Governor questions fishing funding as lawmakers approve adjournment at 6 PM. Discussion notes minimal progress in restocking inland lakes and streams with only $19,263 of $602,549 spent on game and fish feed and purchases. Senate accepts House plan to end the session despite earlier calls to stay. The article also cites steel industry concerns about sulfur-induced red shortness in hot rolling.
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Draftee Age Limits Narrowed to 21 Through 27
Selective service cuts blanket deferment for men 28 and older not in training, leaving 21 to 27 eligible for a year of Army duty. The move, backed by congressional leaders, affects about 8 million men aged 28 to 36, with enrollments ongoing and about 750,000 new registrants anticipated.
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Selective Service
Army
Warbombers: Eagle Squadron Downs Three Enemy Fighters
Report notes that three enemy fighters were destroyed by the Eagle Squadron. The brief item credits the unit with shooting down the aircraft during air battles.
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RAF raids, U boats, and Red Cross nurses move in war news
Allied and Axis actions dominate western Europe and North Africa with ships sunk and bombers in daylight raids. The Red Cross reports 11 missing nurses from a torpedoed ship are safe on land, while additional nurses reach England. A lifelong question about the invention of bells ends the note.
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North African
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Red Cross
Amarillo to Host Defense Industry Meeting for Area
Rex Baxter new secretary of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce says area manufacturers will be notified of a defense meeting. The 25 county A-10 area will discuss aiding defense and Britain with subcontracted production. The Defense Contract Service conference in Wichita Falls included 55 Amarillo Abilene Waco and Dallas delegates led by A J Langford and Jay Taylor.
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Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
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W. Lee Matney
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WPA rolls to be cut by nearly half a million in 1940
Chicago July 2 WPA administrators met with Commissioner Howard O. Hunter to plan large scale job cuts. The plan lowers national employment to about 1,000,000 under an $875 million appropriation, down from $1,350,000,000 the prior year. Illinois quota drops from 93,000 to 66,500 as a model of the reductions to come.
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Lindbergh favors alliance with Germany over Russia
Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally of 12,000 in San Francisco he would rather the United States ally with England or Germany than with Soviet Russia. He denounced Soviet cruelty and Godlessness, claiming intervention kept Germany and Russia from war. The speech was broadcast nationally with many listeners outside the Civic Auditorium.
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