Russians Say Drive Toward Moscow Halted
The Associated Press reports Nazi high command claiming the Soviet resistance across a 2000 mile front is smashed and chaos has spread in the Soviet armies while a Soviet communique says the main German thrust toward Moscow was blocked and fighting continues on the road to the capital.
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Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Arctic
Black Sea
Moscow
Prut
Denstr
Rumania
Bessarabia
Hitler
Berezina
Napoleon
Shepetovka
Ukraine
Kiev
London
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Borisov
Minsk
Sredni
Muransk
Dvinsk
Latvia
Leningrad
Rusia
Lithuania
White Russia
Baltic
Berlin
Dvina
Riga-Dvinsk
Tilsit
Esnia
Orlin
Murmansk
Norway
Ruhr
Swideland
Germany
oan &@ merchantman
British Invasion Hinted By Aeroplane In July
British aviation reports suggest RAF daylight sweeps and night bombings of the French coast may precede a continental invasion before August 1. Stalin calls for scorched earth defense as Soviet forces halt German advances and fight near Borisov and Kiev road corridors.
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London
Aeroplane
RAF
Continent
Senators Urge FDR To Seek Negotiated Peace On Independence Day
Senators Wheeler and Nye urged President Roosevelt to use a Fourth of July address to press for a negotiated peace in Europe due to Russo German war developments. Taft supported exploring peace options without publicity, while administration officials warned such a peace would equate to Hitler dictation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wheeler
D-Mont
Nye
R-Nd
Taft
Ohio
Britain
Hitler
Belgium
Holland
To Build 900 Homes in Ohio
Washington reports a defense housing plan by President Roosevelt to construct 900 low cost dwellings for army men and defense workers in Ohio. Canton will get 300 units Cleveland 500 and Port Clinton 100 funded with public money and rented from 20 to 35 dollars per month as part of a national 10 070 unit program in 34 sections of the country.
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Washington
Ohio
Roosevelt
Canton
Cleveland
Port Clinton
C. F. Palmer
Defense Housing Co
Medical Volunteers For Britain Scarce
The American Medical Association says responses to British requests for American medical volunteers are not gratifying. The need for physicians at home, it adds, is too great to recruit many volunteers.
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Chicago
The
American Medical Association Today
Sam Harris Dies at 69 Noted Theatrical Manager
Sam H. Harris, a leading Broadway producer and manager since the early 1900s, died in his New York apartment at age 69 following complications from an appendectomy performed last March.
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Sam Harris
New York
Sam H. Harris
Ohio Counties Receive Gas Tax Disbursement
Columbus reports each of Ohio 88 counties received 10000 dollars today from the state gasoline excise tax fund.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland Districts Aid Army in Trial Blackout
Residents on the eastern edge of Metropolitan Cleveland report two nightly blackout tests under the U S Army Air Division and General Electric. Circulars from Moreland Hills Mayor H A Leisenheimer announced experiments with signaling devices and a plane at 406 mph. Route 422 was closed, with several planes overhead and Army trucks seen, as Capt Warren S Everett praised the blackout as near perfect.
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Cleveland
Army
General Electric Co
Route 422
Pepper Pike
Moreland Hills
Chagrin Falls
Warren S.) Everett
Everett
Board Fixes Deadline in AFL Dispute
The National Defense Mediation Board set a 5 p.m. EST deadline today for acceptance or rejection of its recommendation that Western Cartridge Company recognize the AFL Chemical Workers Union for 550 men in the smokeless powder division at Alton Tennessee. The strike threat rises as 2,800 CIO United Auto Workers at two Cleveland White Motor plants vote to strike. coal miners begin a five day paid vacation with possible return July 8.
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National Defense Mediation Board
E.S.T
Western Cartridge Company
AFL Chemical Workers Union
Alton
Washington
Roosevelt
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Cleveland
White Motor Company
Southern
Appalachian
CIO United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Operators Wage Conference
Harlan County
Coal Operators Association
Southern Conference
Union
Koppers Company
Koppers
Kentucky
West Virginia
Identify Suspect in Canton Hold-Up Slaying
Canton police expected a suspect in the May 16 hold-up slaying of Robert Efinger. Witnesses in Cleveland City Hospital identified a 28 year old wounded ex convict as one of two men who killed Efinger and fled with 13800 dollars. The gunfight occurred as Efinger tried to stop the robbery of money drawn from a bank for payroll checks.
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Canton
Robert Efinger
Canton Case
Efinger
F E. E. Clark
Cleveland
City
Re wed Three Times Seek Fourth Divorce in Las Vegas
The Roland Wileys, four times married and thrice divorced, plan another split. Nelle Price Wiley, drama coach and daughter of Judge T D Price, filed a separate maintenance suit in Las Vegas against Roland Wiley, Clark County district attorney. Wiley was formerly a leading Nevada divorce lawyer.
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Los Angeles
Roland Wileys
Nelle Price Wiley
T. D. Price
New Lexington
Perry County
Las Vegas
Nev
Roland Wiley
Clark County
Nevada
Wiley
Cool Wave Brings Relief for Holiday
Mass cool dry air from polar regions spreads over Ohio ending the intense heat wave. Highs hover near 80 while previously 90s lingered yesterday. Five deaths attributed to the heat include drownings in Cleveland area and Zanesville and a lightning death in Zanesville.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pan-American Unity Proposed for Defense Pacts
The United States endorsed Uruguay s plan for the 21 American Republics to exchange pledges of constructive cooperation for defense. It urged all republics to join as the Western Hemisphere faced a threat of aggression. A united benevolent neutrality would allow the U S to use South and Central American bases if war with the Axis occurred, noting incomplete facilities at the British Guiana base.
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Washington
United States
Americas
Uruguay
U. S
British Guiana
Farmers Organize To Oppose Wheat Penalty
Stark County farmers and nearby counties will meet Tuesday to discuss a protest against the 49 cent penalty tax on excess wheat. Russell Kiko, president of the new group, says the action targets penalties tied to wheat planted before market quotas were adopted in a nationwide May 31 referendum.
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Canton
Stark
Russell Kiko
Kiko
Twelve Body Recovered From Sunken Cabin Cruiser Disaster
Harpswell Maine Casco Bay divers recovered the 12th body from the cabin cruiser disaster that killed 35 excursionists. The body awaited identification as a fog lifted allowing a plane to join boat searches for missing victims.
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Harpswell
Casco Bay
Don
South Carolina Seeks Safe July Fourth
Columbia South Carolina the Highway Department urges motorists to keep up the good work after three years with no traffic fatalities on the Fourth of July officials emphasize careful driving and safe travel across the state.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina Highway Department
Deputy Killed During Milk Strike Fight in Vermont
In Rutland Vermont Deputy Sheriff Ray Russell of Monkton was killed when striking dairy farmers tried to dump a milk truck bound for New York. He fell from the running board and was crushed under the wheels during the confrontation. The milk holiday halted two trucks and dumped 6000 gallons on a road as union seeks 3 dollars per hundredweight versus 1.88 in June.
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Rutland
Ray Russell
Monkton
New York
Russell
Waltham
Vergennes
Bridgeport
Dairy Farmers Union
Addison
Giant Bomber Lands After Second Test Flight In California
Maj. Stanley M. Umstead declared confidence in the B-19 flying laboratory after a 90 minute test flight over Southern California. The 41 ton bomber, valued at 3.5 million dollars, drew about a thousand spectators at March Field Riverside and will stay for 60 more days of testing before a planned move to Wright Field Dayton Ohio for Army handover if tests remain satisfactory.
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Riverside
Calif
Maj
Stanley
M. Umstead
Umstead
Army
California
March Field
Wright Field
Dayton
Veterans To Celebrate July 4th in Canada
Dozens of Ohio post units bands and drum and bugle corps will join veterans from other states in a goodwill expedition to Toronto for Independence Day celebrations. The event is announced by the American Legion as part of an international patriotic observance.
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Columbus
Canada
American Legion
Ohio
Toronto
Coal Operators Lose Supreme Court Battle
Ohio coal operators defeated a two year effort to stop miners' unemployment benefits for the 1939 shutdown. The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Lorain Coal and Dock Co and 22 other operators, ending the payments dispute. Officials expect continued efforts to classify the stoppage as a strike to avoid higher insurance contributions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Lorain Coal and Dock Co
Franklin County
H. C. Atkinson
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Bureau
Drunk Demands Time for Nickel at Meter in Portland
Patrolman T. C. Freiberg reported a intoxicated man sleeping by a parking meter refused to hurry to jail saying he had dropped a nickel in the meter and still had about half an hour of parking time left.
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Portland
Ore
T. C. Freiberg
Freiberg
Girl Driver Pleads Innocent to Charges
Seventeen year old Helen Peters pleaded innocent to manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident in the hit and run that killed John Barr on June 13. She waived a hearing before Mayor Paul Porter and was bound over to the probate court.
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Ironton
Helen Peters
John Barr
Paul Porter
Coal Grove
Treasury Plans Advance Income Tax Collection With Small Rebates
The Treasury and Federal Reserve outline a plan to collect income taxes up to a year ahead. Taxpayers would buy monthly bank certificates, building toward a future payment and earning a small rebate, easing budgeting and reducing government borrowing. The plan targets income tax, with possible extension to excess profits and other taxes.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Treasury
The
Federal Reserve System
Lauchlin Currie, Ad
Sam
Army Chief Sees Crisis For Nation
General George C. Marshall declares a grave national emergency and urges longer service for draftees and reserve officers. He calls for lifting bans on forces outside the Western Hemisphere in a biennial report to the Secretary of War amid rapid potential spread of armed conflict.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
United States
Western Hemisphere
Stimson
Marshall
War Department
Reserve Corps
National Guard
Congress
Oil dictator to nab gas wasters in wartime drive
Secretary Ickes announces plan to mobilize city police and state patrols in the East to arrest motorists wasting gasoline via misadjusted cars and jackrabbit starts. He urges urgent War Dept authority to extend selective service periods and mobilize reserves and National Guard for national defense.
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Washington
Ickes
Seaboard
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Louis B. Miller
Raymond Logan
Betty Wagner
Findlay
Bluffton
Pan - American Unity
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Martin
Rosemary Featherstone
Bertie Featherstone
H.M.S. Esk
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