Border Patrols To Be Expanded
The House approved a 64 million dollar second deficiency bill to bolster border security. It authorizes 2.2 million to grow the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s border guards from 856 to 1,325 and provides 259,370 for the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation to monitor aliens on commercial ships. Atty. Gen. Jackson cited Canadian subversive activity and potential Mexican disturbances, with planed staffing increases on the Mexican border and precautions against Canadian escape to evade service.
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Washington
House
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Roosevelt
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
Atty
Robert H. Jackson
House Appropriations Committee
United States
Jackson
Now Those Rabbits Are Eating Crops Now Those Rabbits Are Eating Crops
In Pearl River Louisiana on June 18 a tale of 600 rabbits arriving COD for W C Forbess to stock a 10000 acre swamp ends without resolution. While officials tried to care for them the rabbits multiplied prompting release by the Louisiana Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and now truck gardeners report crop damage from the growing herd.
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Pearl River
C.O.D
W. C. Forbess
Forbess
Texas
Louisiana Society For Prevention of Cruelty
Scout gets Eagle Badge and fountain pen gift
Harold J. Morse Jr of Northampton Massachusetts missed a Boy Scout court of honor due to illness. A week later Grace Coolidge presented him a Eagle Badge and a fountain pen as a personal gift from the late president’s family.
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Lucky
Northampton
Mass
Harold J. Morse, Jr
Grace Coolidge
Munich and Britain Face Battle of Britain Stakes
The piece argues that Germany and Italy press victory over France at Munich while Britain’s sea power and Russia’s Baltic moves loom large. It notes Churchill’s warning of the Battle of Britain and questions whether Brit ish naval supremacy can keep the seas open as Axis plans unfold.
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Kirkel. Simpson
Munich
Czecho-Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
France
Britain
Winston Churchill
Russia
Churchill
Hitler
England
Mussolini
Baltic
Finland
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Finland
Germany
Worry Over War Said To Cause Rashes in Women
Dallas doctors reported two cases where women developed facial and body rashes after long nights listening to war broadcasts. They attributed the conditions to worry, calling it dermatoses neurosis and noting the sufferers stayed awake during broadcasts of the French army collapse.
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Dallas
Dunking Pot Plants Finds Watering From Below Works
Cornell University floriculture researchers in Ithaca have proven that bottom up watering is as effective as top down. Submerging the pot's lower quarter to a depth that moistened surface soil hydrates the plant, keeping foliage dry and reducing drying time, freeing busy housewives for other tasks.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
University
Army deserter jailed seven years for blackout shop robbery
Leeds England police report a deserter sentenced to seven years penal servitude for banditry during blackout. He robbed two small shops with violence, and the court vows severe punishment for crimes exploiting blackout conditions.
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Leeds
Eng
U.P
Churchill touts fight on in Britain as war rages
Winston Churchill urged Britain to resist invasion and fight on with renewed U S aid. He warned that failure could plunge the world into a new dark age while France braces for continued resistance and Mussolini faces taunts over Italian plans in the Mediterranean. The Axis reports claim French collapse and renewed German advances as Munich echoes with war’s hardening stance.
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Associated Press
United States
Winston Churchill
Britain
Hitler
France
Churchill
French Empire
Great Britain
Munich
Europe
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
England
Gayda
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Fuehrer
Tr Duce
Stefani
Africa
Karl Clodius
Rome
Balkan
Germany
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Edouard Daladier
Neville Chamberlain
Feuhrerhouse
Germans push south as French retreat deepens
Reports from Bordeaux describe German troops advancing with white flags as a strategic feint while the Allies deny any armistice. Petain declares no halt to fighting and negotiations only. Cabinet meets to review diplomacy, supplies, and military needs as French defense crumbles near Dijon and Autun.
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Bordeau
Marshal Petain
Petain
Dijon
Autun
Loire
Paris
Hitler
Amarillo Army Radio Approved for Transmitter Site
The House approved a 1500 dollar land grant for a radio transmitter near Amarillo to support the central transcontinental route. The relay station will connect with English Field receiving station and aid flight orders and bad weather guidance as part of national air defense efforts.
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Washington
House of Representatives
War Department
Amarillo
Roosevelt
Albuquerque
Texas City
Dryden
Texas
Army Air Corps
English Field
Army
Englsh Field
She Didn't Kill Herself Just Took a Short Cut
A Dallas incident on Houston Street viaduct drew police, ambulance, and fire crews after a motorist saw a woman in black atop the railing. She vanished, then reappeared walking along a boulevard smiling and saying she climbed down a ladder for a short cut home.
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Dallas
Houston Street
Fire Department
Elderly bearded man jailed with 31 pounds of silver coins
Police in Butte Montana seized 31 pounds of silver coins totaling $298.13 concealed in 11 bags sewn into clothing on an elderly, bearded man named Frank Reed who forfeited $25 after missing a police court appearance on a disturbance charge.
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Silver Butte
Mont
U.P
Frank Reed
Reed
Parisians Resent Defeated French Regime Under Occupation
Parisians show anger at the defeated French government led by Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, while Marshal Petain remains respected though viewed as temporary. Rightist press Le Matin and Victoire revive as public opinion shifts. chemists claim gasoline energy could power 256 miles per gallon if fully utilized.
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Paris
Aachen
Berlin
France
Paul Reynaud
Edouard Daladier
Henri Philippe Petain
Germany
le Matin
Victoire
Mrs Wilkinson Burns In Gasoline Fire At Home
Ivy Wilkinson of 2004 Taylor Street suffered first degree burns to arms and legs when gasoline from a bucket ignited after a car backfired during start up of the family vehicle. She was treated at Northwest Texas hospital after being showered with burning fuel by her 15 year old son Steve.
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Ivy Wilkinson
Taylor Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
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