Congressional bids for total defense push gains in Senate
Congress signals broad support for President Roosevelt’s $4.848 billion defense request. Knox confirmed as secretary of the Navy and a $4.6 billion fleet expansion advanced. Senator Lodge called for selective service to field 750,000, even as Congress recesses for the Democratic convention with work to resume July 22.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Jor
Senate
Col
Frank Knox
Knox
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
British Defenses Halt German Raids Amid Heavy Losses
British reports say German bombers struck England coast to coast but faced steady anti airfire. At least eight raiders were shot down in various regions, while Britain claimed Italian ships were sunk by Mediterranean air forces.
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Germany
England
Italy
Admiralty
Foreign Affairs
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Britain
Russia
R. S. Hudson
High Command
British Isles
House approves anti politics measure by large majority
The House passed the Hatch anti politics bill 243 to 122 with 89 Democrats 152 Republicans and two Progressives voting yes. It bars political activity by state county and municipal workers paid with federal funds limits individual contributions to 5000 and caps political committee expenditures at 3 million dollars.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Judiciary Committee
Reduction of Holbrook College Over Board Dispute
Alfred Holbrook College in Manchester known as the little college on the Ohio River faced a bitter board dispute and loss of accreditation after trustees dismissed President H E Cunningham. State education director E N Dietrich ruled the plant faculty and facilities below standard with only 40 summer students and subpar teacher training instruction.
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Manchester
Alfred Holbrook
Ohio River
H. E. Cunningham
E. N. Dietrich
Holbrook
Dietrich
25 000 Defense Planes Ordered
The National Advisory Defense Commission announced it placed orders totaling 100 million dollars for 25 000 airplanes for the army and navy. Dr George J Mead said the Reconstruction Finance Corporation would lend funds to finance plant expansion.
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Washington —P
National Advisory Defense Commission
Army
Navy
George J. Mead
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Settlement Reached On Four Day AFL Strike At Barberton Plant
The Barberton plant of Babcock and Wilson Co resumes operations after a four day AFL strike over wages. The AFL union approved the settlement after Special Conciliator James F. Dewey urged workers to return to work for national defense.
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Akron
Barberton
Babcock & Wilson Co
Navy
AFL
James F. Dewey
U. S
Labor Department
Dayton Airports Taken For War Department Construction Program
Wright Field, Patterson, and Fairfield Airports in Dayton Ohio will receive funds as part of a nationwide War Department program totaling 67 304 931 dollars The Dayton sites are allocated 2570000 323000 and 540000 dollars respectively This expansion adds to 9364275 dollars for temporary barracks nationwide announced Saturday.
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Walington
Wright, Patterson and Fairfield
Dayton
Ohio
War Department
Wright Field
Patterson
Fairfield
Horse Killed By Lightning Strikes Boy Rider in Greeley
In Greeley Colorado a lightning bolt struck a horse carrying a teenage rider, four teen year old Wayne Ball. He was only slightly injured, regained consciousness beside the dead horse with singed hair and a blister on one leg.
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Greeley
Colo
Wayne Ball
Wayne
Paganini Liner Fire Kills 220 Off Durazzo
Reuters reports 220 Italian and Albanian officers and men died when the Italian liner Paganini burned and sank at Durazzo Albania on June 28.
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London
Reuters
Durazzo
Albania
Pickets Hurl Rocks at Cars Near Strike Bound Plant
Several non-striking workers were injured and many more endangered as CIO pickets pelted rocks at cars of employees approaching the strike bound Precision Die Casting Co plant in Lakewood.
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Cleveland
CIO
Precision Die Casting Co
Lakewood
Roosevelt halts express strike with emergency intervention
President Roosevelt used the last resort Railway Labor Act to defer a threatened walkout by 30,000 Railways Express Agency clerks and terminal workers. He ordered a fact finding commission after a Friday deadline passed, resolving the hours dispute and intervening to avert disruption.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Railways Express Agency, Inc
Railway Labor Act
Willkie Plans Southern Tour For Campaign
Wendell L. Willkie announced plans to campaign actively in the Democratic South while keeping options open for further stops. He spoke with Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr, who predicted a Republican sweep of the West in November and told reporters he meant it.
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West
Wendell L. Willkie
GOP
Colorado Springs
Colo
Willkie
Ralph L. Carr
Ett
South
Colorado
Record of All Seamen Subject to Inspection
The House Merchant Marine Committee approved a bill requiring masters of vessels under federal inspection except fishing boats to report each seaman’s employment record to the bureau of marine inspection. Commander R S Field, director, said the bill targets the Fifth Column.
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Washington
House
Merchant Marine Committee
Bureau of Marine Inspection
R. S. Field
Negro execution ends Bohannon life in electric chair
Monroe Bohannon, 35, a condemned killer, was electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary after two applications of current. The death sentence for the July 9 1939 holdup slaying of Cincinnati shopkeeper Joseph Peters marks the 226th execution at the facility and leaves five others on death row.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Monroe Bohannon
Joseph Peters
Cincinnati
Bohannon
Lightning Kills 14 Year Old on Cleveland Visit
Charles Kozar, 14, of Cleveland, was killed by lightning while visiting a farm near Elyria yesterday. The tragedy occurred during a storm that swept through the area, authorities said.
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Elyria
Charles Kozar
Cleveland
Roosevelt asks new preparedness plan with big defense boosts
Roosevelt details a plan to raise defense spending above 10 billion dollars, outlining 2.16 billion in cash and 2.69 billion in contracts. He seeks a 1.2 million man army, tank and artillery reserves, industrial gearing for 2 million troops, and 19 000 more planes for the army plus 4 000 for the navy.
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Roosevelt
Frazier
RND
Third Term Dominates Democratic Convention Talk
Democrats press toward their convention in Chicago with debate over a possible third term for President Roosevelt and a platform against sending Americans to fight in European wars. Incoming national committee members question Roosevelt’s nomination, while Wagner prepares a draft as Hale Garner McNutt Wheeler are already set at headquarters.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
National Committee
Wagner
New York
America
Garner
McNutt
Wheeler
Montana
Cloak and Suit Workers Stage Idle Day In New York
Thousands of workers in the cloak and suit trade in New York's garment district stayed away from work to press labor demands. The action was ordered by the New York joint board of cloak makers unions and the AFL affiliated Ladies' Garment Workers Union. Gov Lehman to host talks in Albany with union and employer reps to avert a strike. A separate Agriculture Department forecast says the grape crop will be 2,421,930 tons, four percent below last year.
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New York
Cloak and Suit
Washington
Agriculture Department
Mediterranean clash signals new phase in world war
The piece argues the Mediterranean naval battle between Britain and Italy marks a pivotal new war phase. It links Balkans tensions to Romes and London’s clash as Mussolini seeks to drive Britain from Our Sea while Britain presses air war against Germany. The text anticipates a quick German assault on England to forestall multi-front difficulties.
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Munich
Mediterranean
Balkans
Balkan
Europe
Near East
Britain
Axis
Mussolini
England
Val
Germany
Hitler
Dies Probes Unamerican Activities In Bund Inquiry
Rep Dies of Texas told a congressional committee he has uncovered a new Bund chapter in Austin and plans to question witnesses about foreign government activities nearby. He cited trips to Italy and Russia as examples and warned of Communist influence abroad. Herman Koetter, Kyffhaeuserbund chairman in Houston, described the Bund as a social organization.
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Austin
Tex
Rep
Dies
D-Tex
Congressional Committee
Ang Royal
Kyffhaeuserbund
Germany
Kriegerbund
Mrs Roosevelt Advocates Peace Through Preparedness
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt told 4 500 Northern Ohio club women at Lakeside that the United States must choose between Gandhi style passive resistance or building strong defenses to deter war. She said no one in the country desires war or to live under any other government, but force dominates the world.
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Lakeside
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Gandhi
Roosevelt
Ohio
America
Negro Children Found Locked in Cupboard in Cincinnati
Three black children aged 12 to 15 were found exhausted and hidden in a locked cupboard of an apartment in Cincinnati. Police and hospital nurses reported they had been imprisoned for several days and survived under care after authorities were alerted.
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Cincinnati
Elmer O'Neil
Fifth Corps Enlistment Quota Fixed at 13400
Columbus report states Brig. Gen. C. B. Hodges, fifth corps area commander, announced a new enlistment quota of 13 400 men in the nation s largest peace time army authorization.
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Fifth Corps
Columbus
C. B. Hodges
Valentine Says Bombs Found In Philadelphia
New York Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine reported that several bombs were found in Philadelphia while the Republican national convention met there. He said seven bombs were found in various places and warned the World’s Fair July Fourth bombing would be punished. two detectives were killed and 75 were missing as of June 3.
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New York
Lewis J. Valentine
Philadelphia
Valentine
Joseph W. Greenler To Be Buried Friday
Joseph William Greenler 78 died Wednesday at his daughter's home in Columbus. Survived by son Roy of Pt. Pleasant WV and two brothers Charles of Pomeroy and George of Catesonville IL. Brief services set for 2 30 PM Friday at Ew ing Chapel Pomeroy with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Joseph William Greenler
Dora Streets
Columbus
Greenler
Roy
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Charles
George
Catesonville
Ewing Chapel
Beech Grove
Bricker Calls To Drive Out All Isms At Rally
Gov. John W. Bricker told about 2,000 people in Cleveland that America must smash the Fifth Column. He urged wiping out socialists, communists, Nazis and other alleged fifth columnists with strong action.
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Cleveland
America
United States
John W. Bricker
No Sabotage Found on Freighter Prins Willem II
In Sandusky the Prins Willem II is cleared of sabotage after inspection by A J Haman chief engineer of the Nieuw Amsterdam. The Dutch freighter was detained since June 7 when its crew refused orders to sail to Montreal.
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Sandusky
A. J. Haman
Nieuw Amsterdam
Netherlands Shipping Committee
New York
Montreal
Barberton Population Dips Below 1930 Census Figure
Barberton's population drops to 23 667, 267 fewer than the 1930 census total, figures released today show.
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Barberton
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