FDR Not Surprised by U S Base Work Abroad
President Roosevelt said he would not be surprised if American steel funds were used in British bases and if American workers were paid by Britain overseas. He spoke at a press conference amid debates on bases in Ireland and Scotland and Lease-Lend Act implications.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ireland
Scotland
Wheeler
D-Mont
Canada
South Africa
God
Wendell L. Willkie
British Isles
Northern Ireland
United States
Taft
Ohio
Great Britain
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western Hemisphere
Knox
Agriculture Production May Break All Records
Washington predicts record agricultural output if favorable weather holds. The crop reporting board projects high yields in wheat, corn, oats and other commodities with corn production estimated at 2,548,709,000 bushels the best since 1920 and Ohio at 50 bushels per acre on 3,252,000 acres totaling 162,660,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Ohio
Handicapped Enter Industry, State Says Colubus Report
Columbus report shows 2238 handicapped persons placed in industry in first half of year. State asserts all physically impaired individuals can be fitted into some industrial work.
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Columbus
State of Vocational Rehabilitation Today
Indust
Electricians In New York Plan To Strike
Officials of the AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers received authorization from 4 000 members to call a strike in New York City potentially halting construction across the metropolis. No date set. over 250 000 building trades workers could be affected amid a dispute with Consolidated Edison over plant work assignments.
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New York
AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
New York City
Consolidated Edison Company
AFL
Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison
AFL Building and Construction Trades Union
San Diego
Calif
Ohio 3 Per Cent Sales Tax Hits Record Half 1941
Ohio’s three per cent sales tax brought in a record 31,107,053 dollars for the first half of 1941. Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced the figure, up 6,634,180 dollars from 1940 and 27.1 percent higher. Week ended June 30 sales totaled 2,247,551 dollars versus 1,415,747 dollars a year earlier.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
Ebright
British Say Yank Technicians Work in Ireland
The Foreign Office confirmed that some United States technicians and laborers are employed on British projects in Northern Ireland. They are direct British government employees exercising legal rights to work, though numbers and project details remain undisclosed. London denied New York air base rumors, noting no available evidence.
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London
Foreign Office
United States
Northern Ireland
Britain
New York
Roosevelt asks Congress for 3.3 billion for Navy and Maritime Commission
President Roosevelt seeks 3 323 000 000 in cash and contract authority for the Navy and Maritime Commission plus 698 000 000 cash and 1 000 000 000 contract for the maritime commission. He says defense needs and shipbuilding are ahead of schedule and outlines uses from vessel maintenance to converting ships and arming none. The plan covers 566 merchant ships at about 1.2467 billion and 350 million for requisition and repair of ships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy and
Maritime Commission
Army
Defense
Nine Die On Ohio Roads In Midweek Crashes
Ohio authorities report nine fatalities from traffic accidents in a single day. Lakewood residents Bertham Almy and Elizabeth Martin perished in an auto train collision near Washington Court House while returning from Camp Shelby. Clarence Downey and Billy Lee Downey died in Findlay area crash during rain. Four year old Mariam Virginia Mielke was found dead after a car bump.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lakewood
Washington Court House
Camp Shelby
Miss
Bertham S. Almy
145Th Infantry
Martha Rice
Elizabeth B. Martin
Martin
Clarence Downye
Billy Lee
Findlay
Clarence Downey
Charles Gardner
J. A. Mooney
Mariam Virginia Mielke
Henry Mielke
Dunkirk
Donovan Named Coordinator of Information on Defense
President Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan to coordinate information bearing on the defense program. The move follows speculation that Donovan would head a super agency to combat espionage, though the White House clarified no definite support for that idea.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William J. Donovan
Donovan
White Houses
Germans Renew Russian Drive Threatening Stalin Line Front
The London report says German forces reorganized after a broad Russian advance and now plan a full frontal assault on the Stalin Line. The potential for a bloody battle is high as Bolshevik resistance has been strong but uncertain. The column also discusses Wendell Willkie’s proposal to base forces in Northern Ireland and Scotland to aid England, noting shifting transatlantic shipping routes due to German bombing.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Special News Service
London
Stalin Line
Wendell Willkie
United States
Iceland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Willkie
England
Irish Sea
Liverpook
Ohio Pension Claim Seeks Fed Share in Old Age Pensions
Washington officials study a bill by Rep. Thomas Jenkins to settle Ohio’s claim of 1.338 million dollars in federal old age pension contributions withheld by the Social Security Board. The measure awaits Judiciary Committee action as hearings hinge on the administration’s stance. The bill avoids a fixed amount, to be set after board inquiry into a 1938 dispute with former Gov. Martin L. Davey.
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Washington
Thomas Jenkins
Ohio
Social Security Board
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Martin L. Davey
Lear to present facts on Memphis golf penance march
Washington officials request a statement of facts from Lieutenant General Ben Lear about the penalty march ordered for soldiers who heckled Memphis girl golfers. Public Relations chief Major General Robert C. Richardson said the War Department will not prejudge the incident and no formal board of inquiry is planned.
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Washington
War Department
Ben Lear
Memphis
Department
Robert C. Richardson
Portsmouth Steel Worker Drowns in Wolf Den Lake
A 33 year old steel worker Howard Ma han drowned in Wolf Den Lake within the nearby state forest. Divers recovered the body and authorities investigated the accidental drowning reported in Portsmouth.
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Portsmouth
Howard Mahan
Wolf den
Seventeen Convicted in Mail Fraud and Conspiracy Case
In Crown Hill Cemetery promotion spanning nine states, Christian W. Beck and 17 associates were sentenced. Seventeen defendants received 125 years in prison total for mail fraud and conspiracy in the Twinsburg sale, with Beck sentenced to 15 years.
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Cleveland
Crown Hill Cemetery
Christian W. Beck
Twinsburg (Co
Beck
Japan to stay clear of war says experts
Reliable reports from Shanghai indicate Japan will avoid involvement in the German Russian war for now. Tokyo may turn on French Indo China soon, influenced by estimates that Russia still fields 22 Asiatic divisions, 12 mechanized, with only three divisions moving west despite the neutrality pact.
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Shanghai
Tokyo
Russia
Asiatic
Marriage expert Dr Hannah Stone Dies in New York
Dr Hannah M Stone aged 47 medical director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau and a leading authority on marriage problems died last night in New York.
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New York
Hannah M. Stone
Margaret Sanger Research Bureau
House Senate Clash Over Strike Controls Passes Deferment Clause
After a month of debate Congress clashed over strike controls and selective service deferments. The House rejected anti strike language while preserving a Senate backed deferment provision for men aged 28 and older as of July 1. The measure passed 345 to 17 with expectations of committee compromise on remaining provisions.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Committee
Taft Proposes Cut in Wheat Marketing Penalty
U S Senator Robert A Taft Republican of Cincinnati introduced a bill in Washington to lower the wheat marketing penalty from 49 cents to 15 cents per bushel. He argued growers planted much wheat before the penalty took effect as the quota system faced rising complaints in Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Senate
Washington
Taft
Wrecked Russian War Machines Halting Nazi Advance
German and Soviet reports clash over the pace of the invasion from the Bialystok Minsk sector. German agency DNB cites wrecked Red Army vehicles clogging roads slowing the advance while Moscow records claim a 20 day blitzkrieg has been stopped.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
Bialystok-Minsk
London
Berlin
DNB
Vichy
Soviet claim Nazi blitz slowed as Red forces gain
Russian reports say German attacks waned after heavy Soviet countermeasures. Red air forces claim 68 German planes shot down or destroyed on ground while Soviet losses run to nine aircraft. Hitler’s HQ cites a massive Bialystok operation capturing hundreds of thousands of troops and vast matériel as two Soviet armies were trapped. RAF raids hit Naples hard for a second night and targeted Cologne Ostend Calais and Boulogne while civilian damages and casualties arose.
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Hitler
Bialystok
Naples
Italy
Cologne
Rhineland
Ostend
Calais
Boulogne
Channel
Vichy Rejects Peace Terms and War News Across Fronts
Bitter fighting rages in the Middle East as Vichy France rejects British armistice terms. Moscow reports Red forces hammering German fronts near Leningrad and Kiev as Russian aviators attack spearheads toward Novograd Volynski. British air attacks hit the Rhineland and northern France while German raids strike England and Aleppo reinforcements land in Syria.
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Middle East
Britain
Syria
Lebanon
France
Charles DeGaulle
Ankara
Turkey
Aleppo
Red Air Force
Moscow
Ostrov
Leningrad
Red Army
Novograd Volynski
Kiev
Ukraiian
Great Britain
Germany
Rhineland
England
37th Ohio Division Holds Full Dress Parade at Camp Shelby
At Camp Shelby Mississippi the 37th Ohio Division conducted a full dress parade for Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler. The two hour training march, led by Brig. Gen. Ludwig S. Conelly, featured nine abreast formations with field uniforms steel helmets fixed bayonets and all division vehicles.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio
Robert S. Beightler
Ludwig S. Conelly
Bedford
Taxpayers Warned Of Heavy Next Year Income Taxes
Treasury experts warn next year’s income taxes will be heavier. A married man with one child earning 10000 would owe 1116 federal. adding state taxes could push total to 1376 in New York, 92 in California, 165 in Missouri, 348 in North Carolina. The plan includes a 4 percent normal tax plus a surtax and a 10 percent defense tax.
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Washington
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Sam
New York
California
Missouri
North Carolina
Reds Urge U S Aid to Russia at Madison Square Garden
A capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden for the Communist party meeting urged President Roosevelt to fully implement aid to the Soviet Union. Acting secretary Robert Minor told about 19 000 attendees that it is the sacred obligation of American workers to speed production of tanks guns planes and ships for war on all fronts against Hitler.
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New York
Communist Party
Madison Square Garden
Roosevelt
Robert Minor
Earl Browder
Warn Against Delay In Reporting Coal Mine Accidents
Columbus report cites repeated failures by Ohio coal mine owners to notify the State Department of Industrial Relations promptly. Director George A. Strain warns future negligence will be prosecuted under the general code, with penalties from 25 to 50 dollars for first offenses and up to 100 dollars for subsequent failures.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Department of Industrial Relations
George A. Strain
Strain
Draft Can’t Separate These Twin Brothers
Philadelphia report on John and Joseph Desandro, 21, registered with local board 67. After officials shuffled cards, Joseph drew serial S 10 and John S 19 in the draft draw.
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Philadelphia
Desandro ‘Twins
John
Joseph
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Conn
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Soviets
Lear
Yankee
RAF Coastal Command
American Red Cross Motor Corps
Jane Grey
Japan
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