American Made Bombers To Lead Air Attacks On Germany
RAF poised to launch the heaviest raids in history against Germany over the next three months with United States built bombers as spearhead. British sources say July may surpass June and July bomb tonnage on Cologne Bremen and the Ruhr while German defenses report heavy fighting and Soviet counterattacks on multiple fronts.
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RAF
Germany
London
Channel
Linle
France
Rhineland
Rotterdam
Naples
Italy
Coventry
Ruhr
Prague
Cologne
Bremen
Adolf Hitler
Mogilev
Dneiper River
Moscow
Berlin
Red Army
Port Matilda Girls Learn YooHoo Lesson From Soldiers
In Port Matilda Pennsylvania the town’s girls greet 30 truckloads of soldiers with a chorus of Yoo-Hoos as they pass through, the soldiers respond with smiles. The scene captures a small town welcome as troops travel through.
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Port Matilda
Sam
Egt
Wheat Rule To Be Modified For 1942 Crop
The Agriculture Department announced a plan allowing farmers with excess 1941 marketing quotas to seed below their 1942 AAA allotments and sell over quota grain without the 49 cent penalty. Local AAA committees will grant permission after the 1942 crop is planted, with winter wheat seeding starting about Sept 1. The exemption equals the normal production of the portion of the 1942 allotment not planted to wheat.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
AAA
Three Women Riot Victims at Felber Biscuit Plant
Three women workers were injured when three men rushed a picket line at the Felber Biscuit Company plant in Columbus. CIO union estimates 231 employees stopped work to protest discrimination. Union leaders criticize the National Labor Board for not resolving a long running intra-union dispute. General Manager Tom Davis says 125 of 287 workers are union members. Injured workers named are Mrs Emma Scole Miss Ida Sullivan and Mrs Mildren Mayfield.
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Columbus
Felber Biscuit Company
United Retail and Wholesale Employes of America
CIO
National Labor Board
A. F. of L
Tom Davis
Emma Scole
Ida Sullivan
Mildren Mayfield
Calls for Defense Aid and Help to Britain
Ralph H. Stone of Conneaut Ohio Ameri can Legion commander told a 10th District Legion meeting that defense program support and continued aid to England were the only means of keeping American soldiers from the battlefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
Ralph H. Stone
Conneaut
Ohio
American Legion
10Th District Legion
England
Soldier Needed In Harvest Fields At Fort Sheridan
Farmers around Azalia Michigan borrowed Private John V Prochaska from the United States Army for 30 days. Sixth Corps Area headquarters received a neighbor letter asking to permit his return home to run a threshing machine as grain ripened. Brig Gen John L Homer announced a special order granting the 30 day furlough to work in the fields.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
Azalia
Mich
John V. Prochaska
United States Army
Sixth Corps
Prochaska
John L. Homer
U S Officials Head to Lisbon After Expulsion
More than 300 American consular officials their families and employees evacuated Axis dominated Europe and moved toward Lisbon Portugal to sail Friday from New York aboard the West Point. The largest group 234 expelled from Germany Norway occupied France the Netherlands Belgium and Yugoslavia concentrated at Frankfurt and will travel via Hendaye to Lisbon.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Lisbon
Portugal
New York
West Point
Germany
Norway
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Frankfort
Spain
Hendaye
Berlin
Truck and Melons Stolen After He Stops
In Indianapolis Charles McPertierd reports a gang of men and boys jumped his stopped truck loaded with 250 dollars of cantaloupes tomatoes and peaches. He chased them but returned to find the truck and its cargo gone and items missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Charles McPertierd
Fifty Million Allocated As Loan To Farmers
The former security administration announced a tentative allocation of 50 million dollars in Congress appropriated loans to tenants for farm purchases across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Forme Security Administration
Congress
Germany aims to destroy Red Army rather than seize cities
The German claim that the primary objective in the Russian war is the destruction of the Red Army rather than capturing Moscow Leningrad or Kiev frames the conflict. Neither side has delivered a decisive victory in five weeks of heavy fighting with fierce casualties and vast material destruction.
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Reuters
Moscow
Kremlin
Joseph Stalin
Leningrad
Kiev
Hitler
Soviet Ukraine
Polotsk- Nevel
Smolensk
Novgrad Volynski
Red Army
Berlin
Russia
Reich
Roosevelt Urged to Seize New Jersey Air Plant
CIO United Automobile Workers ask President Roosevelt to take over Air Associates Bendix New Jersey to end wage dispute. Company president says union recognized since July 1 and negotiations ongoing with no refusal to talk.
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CIO Union
Roosevelt
New Jersey
CIO
Air Associates, Incorporated
Bendix
N. J
Aircraft Division
United Auto Workers of America
National Defense
British Want More Tankers
Washington The Maritime Commission arranged a conference between Interior Secretary Ickes and oil tanker owners to discuss transferring additional tanker tonnage to Britain. The goal is to aid Britain’s supply service without worsening a petroleum shortage in the eastern United States. Ickes, as defense petroleum coordinator, urged consumers to cut gasoline use by a third and asked major oil firms for weekly retail sales reports to gauge response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maritime Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Icries
Britain
Ickes
Defense Petroleum
Cooper Sent to Far East as Special War Coordinator
Prime Minister Churchill reshuffles his cabinet for the third time since May 2. Alfred Duff Cooper, 51, is dispatched to the Far East as a special war coordinator for the cabinet, with Brendan Bracken named minister of information. Its exact duties are undisclosed and Cooper is expected to head toward Singapore amid Japan's potential southern advance.
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London
Churchill
Alfred Duff Cooper
Far East
Brendan Bracken
Cooper
Chamberlain
Admiralty
Singapore
Japan
More Tanks Ordered From Chrysler Plants
The War Department placed orders totaling over 88 million dollars for medium and light tanks. Chrysler Corporation in Detroit received two contracts valued at 63,785,816 and 19,781,945 dollars for tanks and parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit
Army
CIO Workers Return To Work at St Marys
An undisclosed agreement ends a strike by 30 members of the CIO United Rubber Workers at St Marys Manufacturing Co part of Goodyear. JL D Patterson says workers return today after a strike that began last Wednesday. Plant employs 900. Officials promised to consider the workers grievances.
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ST. Marys
CIO
United Rubber Workers of America
St. Marys Manufacturing Co
JL. D. Patterson
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Grand Jury Told to Probe Gambling in Franklin County
Common Pleas Judge Cecil J. Randall instructed the Franklin County Grand Jury to conduct a thorough investigation of gambling in the county and city. He cited evidence from recent trials of slot machines and numbers houses in operation amid ongoing protests by local ministers.
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Columbus
Common Pleas
Cecil J. Randall
Franklin County Grand Jury
Property Grab Bill Expected To Be Passed
Washington leaders push for swift Senate approval of a national defense property seizure bill amid Republican opposition. Chairman Reynolds questioned broad authority including newspapers and radio stations, but majority leaders Barkley Connally and Bailey defended the measure saying rights may be limited for national defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Reynolds
D-Nc
Senate Military Committee
Barkley
D-Ky
Connally
Findlay Cigar Plant Closes Over Union Picketing
The Findlay cigar factory of the Deisel-Wem mer-Gilbert Company closed indefinitely today due to picketing by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The plant, employing 370, will reopen only if negotiations at the Lima plant yield a wage increase of 10 cents per 1,000 cigars.
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United States of America
F. Eroy Hill
Supreme Court
Olean
N. Y
CIO
U. S. Gypsum Company
Oakfield
Gypsum Organizing Committee
United Mine Workers Union
van Lear, Ky
Consolidated Coal Company
White Motor Co
Cleveland
United Automobile Workers
Washington
Department of Labor
Conciliation Service
Findlay
Deisel-Wemmer-Gilbert Company
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Lima
Bolivian Arrests Linked to Nazi Plot Narrowly Crushed
In La Paz a group of prominent Bolivians including former Finance Minister Victor Paz Estenssoro were arrested amid an alleged Nazi plot. German minister Ernst Wendler was expelled. President Penaranda said he had proof of meddling. The state of siege remains and four newspapers were suspended with several reporters detained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolivia
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Enrique Penaranda
United States
Ernst Wendler
Penaranda
Estenssoro
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
Miguel Candia
Cochabamba
Washington
Axis
U S Troops Arrive to Garrison Bases in British Guiana
The first U S detachment arrived to garrison two bases in Georgetown British Guiana under the destroyer deal with Britain. These are the first peacetime bases garrisoned by the United States on another continent. The bases lie near the Atlantic coast about 1,500 air miles east of the Panama Canal.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
United States
Britain
China
Atlantic
Panama Canal
V Symbol Mobilization Across Nazi-Occupied Europe
London reports a British led V for Victory campaign spreading through German occupied lands. Colonel Britton broadcasts in 17 European languages urging patience while V signs appear on walls, cars, and public places from Paris to Amsterdam as sabotage and public morale efforts grow.
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London
Victory Legion
Britton
BBC Mike
Britain
The
Daily Herald
V Army
Czechoslovakia
Paris
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Trafalgar‘Square
Graver Need For Trained Forces Seen
President Roosevelt told Congress the nation faced greater danger than a year ago and urged extending the one year active service period for army selectees National Guardsmen and reservists. He warned disintegration of the army could begin within two months if not granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
New Nazi Drives Seen in Europe
Washington reports indicate Germany plans new aggression against remaining independent European nations. President Roosevelt urges Congress to maintain the army at full strength and extend training, warning the danger to national safety is greater than a year ago.
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Europe
Washington
Sumner Welles
United States
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Ex-convict dies after long Detroit to Cleveland journey
Philip Criss aged 28, once in prison, died in a Cleveland hospital after being wounded in a month old running gun battle at Hamtramck Michigan. He traveled 180 miles from Detroit to Cleveland despite a severe abdominal wound.
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Cleveland
Philip Criss
Hamtramck, Mich
City Hospital
Detroit
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Commissariat of Defense
Scotland
Bomber Command
U.S
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Salem
Mass
Frances M. Cochran
Lynn
Robert F. Bradford
Reading
Constance Shipp
Chrysler
Findlay Cigar
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