Surrender Or Destruction Offer Imminent for Britain
Il Giornale D Italia asserts Britain must choose soon between surrender to Europe’s restorative forces or face immediate, violent war. Churchill claims a two year defensive war followed by a 1942 counteroffensive as Nazi raids continue.
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Il Giornale D'Italia
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France Begins Reconstruction After Bastille Anniversary
France resumes reconstruction as interior ministry orders several newsmen and politicians to leave Paris. German radio calls the move a purge and reports 20 arrests mainly of Jews and Leftist journalists. French sources say the July 3 British attack on the fleet at Mers El Kebir, Algeria killed about 1,000 sailors.
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Mers El-Kebir
Algeria
Baltics Vote Under Soviet Control In Two Day Ballot
In Latvia Estonia and Lithuania national flags fluttered beside hammer and sickle emblems as voters cast ballots for the government endorsed slate. The two day election aimed at closer ties with Soviet Russia and eventual Sovietization.
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Baltic States
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Lithuania
Russia
Soviet Russia
First Lady Urges U S Citizens to Discipline Themselves
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt tells a Franklin chau tauqua audience that democracy faces its test in how well citizens discipline themselves. She says to meet totalitarian discipline, people must do things they have never done before.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ohio county fairs ban Guess Your Weight games
County fairs in Ohio will not host Guess Your Weight contests this year. Agricultural department inspector George E Kryder said promoters abused the games. A separate report notes a building boom in Great Lakes shipyards tied to the national defense program.
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Ohio
George E. Kryder
Agricultural Department
Washington
Great Lakes
Roosevelt silent as Democrats assemble for renomination
President Roosevelt began a historic week with expected renomination at the Chicago convention while maintaining public silence on a third term. He returned from a Potomac cruise with Justice Samuel Rosenman and plans to address reporters at a Tuesday press conference ahead of the convention. James A. Farley travels to Chicago amid ongoing speculation.
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James A. Farley
National Democratic
British Seek To Placate Japs To End War in East
British circles report London offered to close the Burma road for three months to halt Western war supplies to the Chinese government. The move aims to urge Japan toward peace while Washington has been kept informed and would not object. Officials say assisting China most effectively is defeating Germany, which would shift balance in the Far East.
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Strikers Seek Reinstatement At Cleveland
Several hundred CIO Die Cast ing Workers Union members on strike since June 26 against Precision Cast ing Company marched on the Lakewood plant to return to work. They waited for company word while the firm refused any understood deal and urged labor board mediation per Lakewood Mayor Kauffman.
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CIO Die Casting Workers Union
Precision Casting Company
Lakewood
Amos I. Kauffman
Kauffman
A. D. Weigelt
CIO
Weigolt
Soil Saving Urged by AAA for 1941 Farm Program
AAA state committeemen urge greater emphasis on soil conservation in the 1941 farm program. Officials say proposals form the basis for a drafted plan but do not alter the overall farm adjustment framework. Also reported is that the American farm population was 32,245,000 on January 1, the largest in 24 years, with births exceeding deaths offsetting rural migration.
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Washington
AAA
Agriculture Department
Resignation of Married Guardsmen Permissible
War Department officials disclosed that married men in the National Guard at private, corporal, and sergeant ranks may resign to avoid hardships from mobilization of 50,000 guardsmen. State adjutants general were asked to allow resignations if these men refuse extended active duty.
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Grandfather of Child Actress Burns to Death
Harry Copp aged 58 of West Carrollton died from burns suffered at his filling station after a short circuit sprayed naphtha onto a gasoline pump. He was grandfather of four year old Carolyn Copp who appeared with Madeline Carroll in Are Husbands Necessary and Honeymoon in Bali.
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Harry Copp
West Carrollton
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Carolyn Copp
Madeline Carroll
Bali
Envoy Hurt in Fall at Dublin Air Raid Shelter
United States Minister David Gray slipped forty feet down a shelter entry at Phoenix Park yesterday. He escaped with severe ankle sprains but is expected to recover.
Ohio Dems Confronted By Routine Matters
In Chicago a faction opposing Cincinnatian Charles Sawyer to block his reelection as Ohio Democratic national committeeman abandoned the fight as Buckeye delegates meet for the party convention. A spokesman for Francis Poulson said the group decided last night to give up after delegates wavered from pledges to back Walter Heer and the Franklin County Democratic chairman. Cleveland district delegates were reluctant to oppose Sawyer.
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Charles Sawyer
Ohio
Buckeye
Francis Poulson
Cincinnatian
Walter F. Heer
Franklin County
Cleveland
Sawyer
Willkie Democrats Name White Honorary Chairman
Walker T. Dickerson, Ohio Democrats for Willkie chairman, asked former Gov. George White to serve as honorary chairman of the Willkie group. The request was sent from Chicago where White is a national convention delegate at large.
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Columbus
Walker T. Dickerson
Ohio Democrats For Willkie Club
Gov
George White
White
Chicago
Ohio Garment Workers To Get Wage Increase
Pay increases take effect this week under the wage hour law benefiting more than 4,000 Ohio garment workers. Grace G. Glascott, regional wage hour director, said the order sets minimum rates from 32 1/2 to 40 cents an hour across 25 divisions of the wearing apparel industry.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Grace G. Glascott
Beating Death of Wife shocks Cleveland
Fred Raschke a 45 year old unemployed father of four is jailed on a 5000 dollar bond after police say he fatally beat his wife Marie 38 with kitchen utensils in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Fred Raschke
Marie
Farm Loans Paid in Full Reach 112000
The Farm Security Administration reports 112000 borrowers have fully paid loans. Administrator C. B. Baldwin notes over 130 million of the 385 million lent to needy farm families has already been repaid, with many loans not due for four to five years.
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Washington
Farm Security Administration
C. B. Baldwin
Ohio Granted $655,916 For Dependent Children
The Social Security Board announced a grant of 655,916 dollars to Ohio under the aid to dependent children program for the first quarter of the 1941 fiscal year from July through September.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Ohio
Democrats Favor Continuance of Administration Policies
Chicago AP report on Democratic convention leaders James Farley and James Byrnes urging continued Roosevelt era policies. They describe the gathering as unbossed and aimed to present an intelligent program based on seven years of achievements. Byrnes cites Hatch Act limits on boss control and dismisses Willkie telegrams as irrelevant. Farley notes heightened interest due to the third term issue but declines to comment.
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Chicago
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Robert Wagner
Pat McCarran
Pat Harrison
James A. Farley
South Carolina
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Farley
Wendell Willkie
Veterans Seek Recall of Youngstown Mayor Spagnola
Mahoning County Veterans Association president William McCabe asked Governor Bricker to remove Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola citing alleged violence vice graft corruption and gambling in the city. The governor said he would study recall provisions and noted a recall hearing by common pleas court. Spagnola is a Democratic convention delegate in Chicago.
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William McCabe
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William B. Spagnola
Youngstown
McCabe
Spagnola
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Chicago
8 500 More English Children Evacuated
London reports 8 500 more English children moved from southeastern coastal areas as Britain prepares for a long war. Churchill warned the nation to expect invasion any day while German bombers continue probing coastal regions.
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Britain
Churchill
Tokyo tremor reported near Toyko with unknown damage
A Comei news agency radio report says a heavy earthquake was recorded in the Tokyo vicinity during the night. The extent of any damage remains unknown.
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Comei
Toyko
Churchill speech cited as morale boost in wartime
The war speech by Prime Minister Churchill is praised as a mighty effort that inspires Britain and friends of England. It stresses Britain's will to win, the empire's vast resources, and the Royal Navy's supremacy guarding sea routes.
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Churchill
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Rome
Royal Navy
Britain
Ohio Week-End Accident Toll Reaches Nineteen Dead
Ohio officials report nineteen deaths from weekend accidents across the state. Two fatal airplane crashes near Cincinnati and Toledo claimed several lives, while multiple road incidents produced additional fatalities and injuries. A stock-car derby accident near Newark also injured spectators.
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Ohio
Charles Rentz
Walter Ludwig
Hamilton County
Western Hills
Cincinnati
Toledo
William A. Geroe, Jr
Paul S. Hueter
American Theater Supply Co
Akron
Henry L. Stewart
Malcolm Bullock
Cuyahoga Falls
Louise Deza
George A. McClellan
Barberton
Site of Arms Plant Revealed
Washington reports indicate a 30 million dollar munitions plant, a unit of the defense program, may be built near Piqua and Troy Ohio. Congressional sources previously said Southern Ohio was the general area but the exact site was not disclosed. Informants now claim a Piqua Troy site is chosen, though no War Office confirmation exists.
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Piqua
Troy
Ohio
Piqua-Troy
War Office
Batista Elected Cuban President After Violent Election
In Havana Fulgencio Batista won an unofficial three to two margin over former President Ramon Grau San Martin in voting marked by violence that left four dead. Batista, once noted as the army’s finest stenographer, is declared winner as unofficial results come in.
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Fulgencio Batista
Batista
Ramon Grau San Martin
Ohio Democrats Re Elect Sawyer and Mrs Jaster
Charles Sawyer of Cincinnati was unanimously re elected Democratic national committeeman from Ohio. Mildred Jaster of Columbus was unanimously reelected national committeewoman.
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Cincinnati
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Columbus
Nomination Expected on First Ballot for Roosevelt
Delegates at the Democratic National Convention gathered in Chicago as speculation swirled over a third term for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Farley predicted a unanimous nomination by the first ballot amid cheers and a chorus of We Want Roosevelt as Archbishop Stritch and Mayor Kelly urged support and unity.
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