Billion Dollar Defense Contracts Said To Be Logged In Past Month
The army and navy awarded more than 1 billion dollars in defense contracts in the last month as part of a 4.5 billion dollar annual program. The Navy led with 87 vessels costing 910 million, with at least 250 million more needed for equipment. Roosevelt imposed export curbs on strategic materials to guard against shortages while labor leaders were enlisted to help shape a unified defense industry policy.
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Army
Navy
Washington
Way
Roosevelt
Sidney Hillman
Defense Commission
AFL
CIO
Senate approves Stimson and Knox nomination delay
The Senate Naval Affairs Committee approved Col Frank Knox for Secretary of the Navy by nine to five but delayed action on his nomination to allow further inquiry into alleged remarks about aiding Europe. Also, the Military Committee backed Henry L Stimson for Secretary of War by 14 to 3 after he said he did not want to send troops to Europe.
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Frank Knox
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
President Roosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Stimson
Washington
Chicago
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Senate Naval Committee
Bes
Senate Military Committee
Europe
Naval Committee
Helen Essary
Knox
Apeaten
Chicago Daily News
England
United States
Atlantic
Maginot Line Troops Fight After Armistice
A Reuters dispatch from Vichy France reports Generalissimo Weygand announced that 22,000 French troops on the Maginot Line continued fighting for five days after the cease fire order, unaware of the armistice with Germany.
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London
Reuters
Vichy
France
Maxime Weygand
Maginot Line
Germany
Skunk Mother and Cubs Stop Traffic in Iowa Pause
Osage city area driver Leonard Greeve halted on a highway near Oskaloosa to let a mother skunk and her 13 offspring cross the road, relinquishing his traffic rights as he waited for the animals to pass.
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Oskaloosa
Leonard Greeve
Here
Skunk
Billions More Will Be Sought For Defense
President Roosevelt will submit to Congress next week a supplementary defense program aimed at mass production of planes tanks guns craft carriers and two cruisers to push toward a 50 000 plane goal The plan costs about 5 000 000 000 and includes ships for Newport News Virginia based shipyard plus ongoing orders for battleships aircraft carriers cruisers destroyers submarines and auxiliaries amid large 1940-41 funding authorizations and early orders by the War Department on June 27 already placing 41 58400 in warship work
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Washington
Bulletin
Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Newport News
Army
Navy
War Department
Six Teens Die in Auto and Train Crash Near Maywood
Six youths aged 17 to 19 were killed when their auto collided with a Soo Line passenger train at a grade crossing near Maywood as they rushed to a hospital for a sick companion. Victims were Lorraine O Leary 19 Lorraine Norris 17 Catherine Clark 19 of Oak Park and drivers Francis Freire 19 Joseph Santo 19 and John Brennan 18 of Chicago.
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Chicago
Maywood
Soo Line
Lorraine O'Leary
Lorraine Norris
Catherine Clark
Oak Park
Ill
Francis Freire
Joseph Santo
John Brennan
U S Citizen Loses Citizenship Over Canadian Army Service
Washington man Philip Stegerer aged 26 forfeited U S citizenship after joining the Canadian active service force. A U S board ruled he may not return to the United States despite his belief the case could set precedent for others who took allegiance oaths to King George when enlisting with the Canadian forces.
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Montreal
United State Board of Inquiry
Philip Stegerer
Washington, D. C
United States
Active Service Force
Stegerer
King George
C.A.S.F
New York Population Rises by Nearly Half Million in Decade
Census figures show New York City population growing to 7,380,259 in 1940 from 6,930,446 in 1930. Chicago also increases from 3,376,438 to 3,384,556 in the same period.
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Washington
New York City
Census Bureau
New York
Chicago
Army Officer To Tell About German Air Raids
Captain Benjamin S. Kelsey sails from an English port to Wright Field to relay first hand details on German bombing raids. He is the fourth field officer recalled from London in as many months, under Army orders for duty at the U. S. Army plane testing laboratory.
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Akron
Wright Field
U. S
Benjamin S. Kelsey
London
Cleveland Posts Census Drop in Population Figures
The Bureau of Census announced Cleveland’s population for the last decade declined from 900,429 to 878,385, marking a postdiction drop within the city’s reported figures.
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Cleveland
Bureau of Census
Akron Man Surrenders After Wounding Cleveland Psychiatrist
Abraham Vartanian of Akron admitted shooting Dr. Louis Karnosh a 40 year old psychiatrist in Shaker Heights after a report reduced his compensation. Karnosh 48 remained critically wounded. Vartanian said he wanted to wound to make him suffer not kill.
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Cleveland
Louis J. Karnosh
Shaker Heights
Abraham Vartanian
Akron
Zicarelli
Elwood Normalizes Willkie Torchlight Welcome
Elwood Indiana hosted a large crowd of citizens and visitors to honor Wendell Lewis Willkie upon his presidential nomination. A three mile torchlight parade wound through town to a high school reviewing stand and mass meeting at the gymnasium, following an earlier impromptu celebration.
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Elwood
Ind
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Willkie
Retired Gallia Druggist Dies in Holzer Hospital
Morris King aged 68, a retired Gallipolis druggist, died last night in Holzer Hospital. He was unmarried. Funeral services will be held in Gallipolis on Friday.
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Gallia
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Morris King
CIO Chief Endorses Wheeler and GOP Advisory Group Named
Washington and New York reports note John L. Lewis endorsed Senator Wheeler as the Democrats’ rival. Willkie organizes his campaign naming a 12 member advisory group led by Gov. Stassen and other GOP figures while vows to reject large corporate contributions. Willkie says party lines matter little and he will win regardless of Democratic nominee.
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Wheeler
GOP
Washington
Wendell Willkie
John L. Lewis
Burton K. Wheeler
Lewis
St. Louis
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
New Ace
Thomas Fbewey
David S. Ingalls
Cleveland
Robert A. Taft
Willkie
Townsend
Democrats
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
D-Mont
Roosevelt
Corn Crop To Be Smaller
A Board of Trade release shows the 1940 U S corn harvest is forecast at 2 440 000 000 bushels based on current acreages and conditions. Estimates range from 2 393 000 000 to 2 504 000 000 bushels, with last year at 2 619 000 000. The report cites hybrid seed yields and closer planting as factors. It also estimates total grain harvest across wheat corn oats rye and barley at 4 545 000 000 bushels versus 4 626 000 000 last season.
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Chicago
Board of Trade Today
United States
Hitler moves toward invasion as Britain braces for siege
The war expert notes Hitler’s three threats to England walling Britain with bombing and blockade and signals invasion plans. German high command reports Allied shipping sunk and air raids intensify across the United Kingdom as bases near France and Norway enable future operations. He argues Hitler is racing against time due to European food shortages and rising Allied aid to Britain.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Britain
England
High Command
United Kingdom
Land
Nazifuehrer
Norway
Brest
France
Europe
Germany
America
Third Party Pressure Clouds Roosevelt Nomination
Senators and representatives discuss a progressive or peace party as a rival to the Republicans. Senator Johnson predicts a third party if Roosevelt is renominated while Rep Hancock notes division at the Democratic convention. Rep Eberharter says John L Lewis no longer commands public attention.
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Washington
Wheeler
Johnson
D-Colo
Roosevelt
Hancock
R-Ny
Lewis
Montana
Eberharter
D-Pa
John L Lewis
Britain rejects Japanese demand on Burma arms route
Britain refused the Japanese demand to close the arms route through British Burma to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese forces. Undersecretary R A Butler told the House of Commons Britain would consider implications for relations with the United States if it acceded. The dispute adds to tensions in Japan’s political scene amid army pressure and Allied setbacks in Europe.
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Tokyo
Great Britain
Burma
Chiang Kai-Shek
Britain
United States
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Far East
Europe
Texas Gunmen Shot to Death in Second Firefight
In McAllen Texas two unidentified gunmen who earlier killed a woman hostage were killed by peace officers in a second confrontation after they had commandeered a car and fled a roadblock. About 100 officers joined the hunt as the outlaws were tracked down and shot at a second scene. The hostage, Mrs D Pavis of Kingsville aged 35, was shot while fleeing with her husband and a companion at the first encounter.
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Mcallen
Tex
D. Pavis
Kingsville
Davis
Auto Demolished But Salesman Is Unhurt
Cincinnati report of Michael M Carmody a salesman who lost control of his car crashed through a guard rail tumbled down a steep embankment struck a telephone pole and came to rest bottom-side up. He remained calm for 45 minutes as crews freed him.
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Cincinnati
Michael M
Carmody
British Claim 60 Italian Planes Downed in June
British air force said 60 Italian planes were shot down in the Near East in June with perhaps 25 more. British losses were not disclosed but described as exceedingly small by a senior source.
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Cairo
Near East
Fremont grain elevator fire causes heavy loss
A grain elevator at nearby Kingsway burned yesterday with loss estimated at 50 000 dollars as officials of the Fremont Cooperative estimated the damage.
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Fremont
Kingsway
Fremont Cooperative
Ohio Defense Training Plan Starts Today
Ohio begins a statewide defense training program to prepare 30 000 workers for key national defense industries. The plan uses 10 week courses of 200 hours, with six hour or two four hour shifts day or night. Eligible adults 18 and over come from unemployed mechanics and war order workers. Regular teachers in city schools will be joined by specialists.
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Columbus
E. L. Heusch
Boards of Education
Heusch
Nazis Readying Drive Against Persia and Iraq
Istanbul sources say Germany plans to push into the Near East with Iraq as a British protectorate facing attack. Iran under Reza Pahlavi is seen as pro Nazi, with fears of a mid eastern empire collaboration and a March to the East.
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Istanbul
Iraq
Near
Middle East
Turkey
Iran
Persia
Reza Khan Pahlavi
Action on Memorial To Sherman Delayed
Washington report says action on a proposal to establish a national shrine at Gen. William T. Sherman’s birthplace in Lancaster Ohio may be delayed until fall. Officials of the national advisory board on historic sites considered the proposal months ago at the request of Rep. Harold K. Claypool.
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Washington
Lancaster
William T. Sherman
National Advisory Board On Historic Sites
Harold K. Claypool
Ohio
Packard to Build 9000 Aircraft Engines for U S and Britain
The National Defense Commission announced that Packard Motor Company tentatively agreed to a contract for 9,000 aircraft engines. Of these, 3,000 are allocated to the United States and 6,000 to Great Britain.
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Washington
National Defense Commission
Packard Motor Company
United States
Great Britain
Briton Calls U S to Rescue Refugees Across The Atlantic
London reports Maj Albert Newby Braithwaite a Conservative urged in the commons that the United States must send its fleet and boats to evacuate British women and children. He argued America bears responsibility with Britain on the front line and should act immediately to lift the refugees.
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London
Albert Newby Braithwaite
United States
U.S.A
Britain Faces Intensified Luftwaffe Attacks Across Channel
German U boats and bombers renewed strikes on Britain with fresh fury while DNB claimed Allied plans to entangle Europe. British RAF fighters shot down a Nazi bomber near the east coast as raids hit the south coast and Ruhr cities. Fifth Columnist roundups and a royal family invasion scare dominated London amid mounting anti Semitic unrest in Romania and Hungary mobilization.
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DNB
Europe
France
Rumania
Turkey
Greece
Yugoslavia
Scandinavia
Germany
High Command
English Channel
England
R.A.F
Air Ministry
Hitler
Royal Children Barred From Public Life
London reports Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose are not seen in public due to wartime disruption. Palace sources say the 14 year old heiress presumptive and her eight year old sister are somewhere in the country away from public life during the war.
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London
Elizabeth
Britain
Margaret Rose
England
Meigs County Woman Dies After Weeks of Illness
Syracuse reports Miss Jessie Griffith died Tuesday night after several weeks illness. Funeral set for two o'clock Friday July 5 at her home Ivy Dale Farm two miles east of Racine.
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Syracuse
Jessie Griffith
Ivy Dale Farm
Racine
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