How Berlin Learned About FDR Letter
Officials fear German access to a personal Roosevelt letter to Stalin may reflect a spy breach. The German news agency published a nearly exact copy, with minor salutation and closing changes, raising concern about broader military documents' security.
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Washington
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Josef Stalin
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Moscow
Averell Harriman
United States
Mr. Stalin
Hitler
SPAB imposes broad halt on nonessential building
The Supply Priorities and Allocations Board ordered a sweeping ban on public and private construction using critical defense materials. Projects including power, navigation, flood control, offices, post offices, hotels, highways and even homes face suspension during the emergency. Two tests will determine eligibility: whether materials are needed and whether the project is essential to defense or public health and safety.
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Washington
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board
SPAB
Donald M. Nelson
Congress
Blue Ribbon Cake Wins at State Fair
Mildred Sessums, 16, baked a cake as her third effort. She disliked the icing and left it behind at the state fair, but after viewing the cake exhibit she returned and found hers awarded the blue ribbon.
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Dallas
Mildred Sessums
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast With Clouds and Winds
The forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for mostly cloudy skies with strong northerly winds this afternoon and tonight. A colder night follows with Friday showing considerable cloudiness and continued cold. High around 65, low near 40. Central West Texas sees showers and thunderstorms possible tonight and Friday, with cooler Panhandle and Pecos Valley westward. New Mexico remains generally fair and cooler tonight and Friday. Overnight min 63, max 79. Noon temperature 61, precipitation trace.
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FDR Urges Armament of U.S. Merchant Ships
President Roosevelt asks Congress to authorize immediate arming of American merchant vessels and to repeal Section 2 of the neutrality law. He says the United States must stop letting Hitler dictate sea routes and deliver goods under the American flag to belligerent ports. He warns urgency to protect crews and cargo.
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Congress
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Widening of Sixth Avenue To Begin Soon
City officials announced plans to start widening West Sixth Avenue by the end of next week after easements on about half the affected properties were signed. The session stressed the three lane highway's strategic value for national defense if a bomber base is located here, with Mayor Joe Jenkins and others present.
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Silver Grill
Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
A. P. Hancock
Gene Simpson
S. B. Whittenburg
George McCarthy
J. Colby
Forrest Ansley
Bill Beechler
Lewis Blackwell
Zack McCrady
German U-boat Surrenders to British Trawler at Sea
The German submarine surrendered to the British trawler Lady Shirley after depth charges and gunfire. Four inch shells and machine guns disabled the U-boat crew. 44 survivors were taken onboard Gibraltar. One Royal Navy casualty occurred, and Lieut Comdr A H Callaway earned the Distinguished Service Order.
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H. Alcron
L. W. Pizzey
Lady Shirley
Royal Naval Patrol Service
A. H. Callaway
Reynolds Marries 57-Year-Old Senator to 19-Year-Old Heiress
Senator Robert P. Reynolds of North Carolina wed Evalyn McLean a 19 year old Washington heiress in a private noon ceremony at Friendship the McLean estate. Judge Robert E Mattingly officiated the vows in the presence of no Reynolds family members. This was the senator’s fifth marriage and the bride’s first.
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Washington
Robert P. Reynolds
North Carolina
Evalyn McLean
Russians Brace for German Drive Toward Moscow
The Associated Press reports Soviet resistance shattered as 60 to 70 divisions are encircled near Vyazma and Bryansk. Hitler vows a decisive eastern front blow that would also topple Britain, with Moscow only 125 miles away.
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Moscow
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Verney Mawee
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Timoshenko
Otto Dietrich
Puehrer
Soviet Union
Volga
Sea of Azov
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Dietrich
Vyazma
Hitler
Britain
Melitopol
Red Army
Red Star
All Quiet Author Seeks U S Citizenship
Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, announced he has begun the citizenship process. Born in Germany 43 years ago, denationalized by Hitler in 1938, he since lived in Switzerland Mexico and the United States and is now working on a Paris before the fall of France story.
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Hollywood
U.P
Erich Maria Remarque
Germany
Remarque
Adolf Hitler
Switzerland
Mexico
United States
Paris
Rug on sidewalk theft demonstration ends with rug thief
In Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania a furniture store used a $49.50 rug to test durability by laying it on the sidewalk inviting passersby to walk on it. A man in overalls asked people to step aside then rolled up the rug and carried it away prompting police to search for the thief.
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Wilkinsburg
Your Ideas Editor Pays One Dollar Daily
An appeal urges readers to send good ideas to the Your Ideas Editor at Globe News, offering one dollar daily for ideas. It notes the editor will stop if ideas stop arriving and asks for name and address with submissions. Fluorescent desk lamps by Russell Stationery Company are mentioned.
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IDEAS
Globe News
Russell Stationery Company
Panama Faction Overthrows Arias in Bloodless Coup
Arnulfo Arias fled to Cuba by air, and Adolfo de la Guardia led a bloodless coup that toppled the pro Nazi Panamanian president. Ernesto Jean Guaria was sworn in as president, while police arrested Arias supporters and the regime moved to secure key offices. International reactions focused on the Canal Zone and U S stance as Berlin diplomats were noted in Panamanian affairs.
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United States
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