Roosevelt says American steel likely used on British bases
President Roosevelt indicated he would not be surprised if American steel and workers are aiding British bases worldwide under direct purchases or the Lease-Lend Act. Senate questions about bases in Ireland and Scotland prompt probes by the Naval Committee, with Knox denying previous shooting reports and officials awaiting details on transatlantic construction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ireland
Scotland
Wheeler
D-Mont
Canada
South Africa
Wendell L. Willkie
British Isles
Northern Ireland
United States
Taft
Ohio
Great Britain
George
Sense Foreign Relations Committee
Western Hemisphere
Knox
Atlantic
Senate Naval Committee
Harold R. Stark
U. S. Atlantic Patrol
Atlantic Patrol
Iceland
Senate
Danaher
Conn
Barkley
Kentucky
Agriculture Production May Break All Records
Washington reports that favorable weather could push agricultural production to record levels this year. The Agriculture Department crop reporting board forecasts strong crops of wheat corn oats and other commodities. Corn production is estimated at 2 548 709 000 bushels the best since 1920. Ohio yields 50 bushels per acre on 3 252 000 acres totaling 162 600 000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Ohio
Handicapped Enter Industry, State Says
Columbus report shows 2238 handicapped individuals placed in industry in first half of year. State board asserts all physically impaired persons can be fitted into some form of industrial work.
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Columbus
State Board of Vocational Rehabilitation Today
Electricians In New York Plan To Strike
Officials of the AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers secured authorization from 4 000 members to strike in New York City potentially halting construction on all projects in the metropolis The move arises from a dispute with Consolidated Edison over plant work assignments seen as a company union A separate strike by 60 AFL Building and Construction Trades members was called at a naval ammunition dump 50 miles north of San Diego over disputed working conditions not involving wages or hours.
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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 New High in 1941 Half
Ohio's three per cent sales tax collected a record 31,107,053 for the first half of 1941, Don H. Ebright reports. The total exceeds the 1940 figure by 6,634,180 and marks a 27.1 percent rise. For the week ending June 30 receipts were 2,247,551 versus 1,415,747 a year earlier.
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Columbus
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
Ebright
British say yanks working in Ireland
The British Foreign Office disclosed that some American technicians and laborers are employed on Northern Ireland works as direct hires of the British government. It denied reports of an American air base, and offered no details on numbers or duration of the personnel involved.
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Ireland
London
Foreign Office
United States
Northern Ireland
Vps
GM Veeiur
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 authorizations for the Navy and Maritime Commission plus 698 000 000 cash and 1 000 000 000 in contracts for the maritime agency. He notes defense and shipbuilding programs run ahead of schedule and outlines plans to equip ships and possibly convert private vessels, while avoiding arming merchant vessels. The Maritime Commission would fund construction of 566 merchant ships at about 1 246 650 000 and 350 000 000 for requisition and repair of existing ships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy and
Maritime Commission
Army
Defense
Navy
Nine Killed in Ohio Auto Crashes Across State
A midweek wave of traffic accidents in Ohio left nine dead. Three Lakewood residents were killed in an auto train collision near Washington Court House while returning from Camp Shelby. Victims include Bertham Almy and his fiancée Martha Rice and Elizabeth Martin. A mother and son, Mrs Clarence Downey and Billy Lee Downey, died near Findlay, and four year old Mariam Virginia Mielke died in a Dunkirk lane accident. Clarence Downey was seriously injured.
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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
Roosevelt appoints Donovan as coordinator of information
President Roosevelt names William J. Donovan to coordinate information related to the defense program. Officials say the move is not yet tied to creating a single super agency to fight espionage, despite prior predictions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William J. Donovan
Donovan
White House
Willkie's Iceland Move Sparks Northern Base Speculation
The London report of renewed German Russian drive signals a major assault on the Stalin Line. Wendell Willkie's proposal to base U S forces in Northern Ireland and Scotland prompts talk of strategic impact as Atlantic shipping shifts to northern routes via Ireland due to German bombings of southern English ports.
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Iceland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Willkie
England
Irish Sea
Liverpool
Ohio Pension Claim Seeks Federal Old Age Share
Washington officials study a bill by Rep. Thomas Jenkins to settle Ohio’s $1,338,000 federal old age pension contributions withheld by the Social Security Board. The measure, sent to the House Judiciary Committee, awaits administration stance before hearings. The amount is the federal share for October 1938.
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Washington
Thomas Jenkins
Ohio
Social Security Board
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Martin L. Davey
Washington Asks Lear For His March Story
Washington officials pressed Lieutenant General Ben Lear to provide his "statement of facts" regarding the punitive march he ordered for troops who fired on Memphis girl golfers. The War Department requested his side of the case while signaling no prejudgment and noting no formal inquiry was warranted.
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Washington
War Department
Ben Lear
Memphis
Department
Robert C. Richardson
Drowns in Wolf Den Lake Portsmith Area
A 33 year old steel worker Howard Mahan drowned in Wolf Den Lake located in nearby state forest. Emergency crews recovered the body at the lake shore after the incident near Portsmouth.
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Lake 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 received prison terms totaling 125 years for mail fraud and conspiracy in the Twinsburg iots sale. Beck received 15 years, the heaviest penalty.
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Cleveland
Crown Hill Cemetery
Christian W. Beck
Twinsburg
Beck
Japan Will Avoid War but Eye French Indo China
Shanghai dispatch reports Tokyo intends to stay clear of the German-Russian conflict for now. Experts say Japan may press against French Indo China soon, influenced by estimates that Russia still fields 32 divisions on the Asiatic front, 12 mechanized, with only three divisions moved west since neutrality talks.
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Shanghai
Tokyo
Tony
Russia
Marriage expert Dr Hannah Stone Dies in New York
Dr Hannah M Stone age 47 medical director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau and a leading authority on marriage problems died last night in New York. Her work shaped counseling and marital research across the field.
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New York
Hannah M. Stone
Margaret Sanger Research Bureau
House Senate Clash Over Strike Controls and Deferments
After a month of debate Congress split on a dual bill. The House rejected the Senate anti strike clauses while preserving a mandatory deferment for registrants aged 28 and older as of July 1. The Senate had granted only discretionary authority to defer those ages.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Committee
Taft Proposes Bill to Cut Wheat Penalty
U S Sen Robert Taft a Cincinnati Republican introduced a bill in Washington to reduce the marketing penalty on wheat from 49 cents to 15 cents per bushel Tafts action follows rising complaints in Ohio about the government quota system Farmers in a May referendum approved the plan but a majority of Ohio growers opposed it
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Columbus
Ohio
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Senate
Washington
Taft
Wrecked Russian War Machines Halt Nazi Advance
German and Soviet reports disputed the pace of the invasion as roads clogged with destroyed Red Army tanks forced a delay in the eastward push. Berlin cited heavy Soviet casualties, while DNB said German gains stalled by debris and washed-out routes along the 2000 mile front.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
Bialystok-Minsk
London
Berlin
DNB
Vichy
Tually
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
France
Gereman
Hitler
Arcetie
Black Sea
Nazi Blitz De-Escalates as Red Forces Claim Major Victory
Reported shifts in the war include reduced German attacks on the Soviets, with Red air forces claiming 68 German planes shot or destroyed. In Bialystok, Soviet losses of 323,898 troops, 3,332 tanks, 1,809 guns were cited amid a supposed massive envelopment. RAF strikes hit Naples and Rhineland targets during ongoing air war.
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Hitler
Bialystok
Naples
Italy
High Command
Cologne
Rhineland
Ostend
Calais
Boulogne
Vichy Rejects Peace Terms Amid Middle East War News
Bitter fighting continued in the Middle East as Vichy France rejected British armistice terms. British sources say terms offer no territorial claims on Syria or Lebanon and allow Vichy officers to return home or join Gen. De Gaulle. Dispatches report reinforcements landed at Aleppo and large German air activity across fronts.
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Middle East
Britain
Syria
Lebanon
France
Charles DeGaulle
Ankara
Turkey
37th Ohio Division Parade at Camp Shelby
The 37th Ohio Division marched in full dress review at Camp Shelby before Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler and Brig. Gen. Ludwig S. Conelly. The two hour training parade involved the entire unit in field uniforms with steel helmets, fixed bayonets, and motorized support vehicles.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio
Robert S. Beightler
Ludwig S. Conelly
Bedford
Taxpayers Warned Of Heavier Next Year Income Taxes
Treasury experts warned that next year’s income taxes will be heavier due to a proposed federal program. They illustrated with a married man in various states facing combined federal and state taxes, showing totals from about 1 376 in New York to lower amounts in Missouri and North Carolina.
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Washington
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Sam
New York
California
Missouri
North Carolina
Reds Seek U S Aid to Russia In Madison Square Garden
A large Madison Square Garden meeting of the Communist party urged President Roosevelt to fulfill his pledge to aid the Soviet Union. Acting secretary Robert Minor said American workers must 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 Accidents In Ohio Mines
Columbus report notes repeated failures by coal mine owners to notify the State Department of Industrial Relations of accidents. Director George A. Strain warns negligence will be prosecuted 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 Cant Separate These Twin Brothers
Philadelphia reports the Desandro twins John and Joseph, aged 21, among 151 registering with local board 67. After officials shuffled the cards, Joseph drew serial number S-10 and John S-19, highlighting the drama of the draft process for inseparable siblings.
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Philadelphia
Desandro Twins
John
Joseph
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American Red Cross Motor Corps
Jane Grey
Japan
Tad
THE
Associated Press
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Ostrov
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Beightler
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