No Man's Land Marked to Evacuate Foreigners in China
Japan announced a vast no mans land in China where foreigners should evacuate. The zone stretches from the coast to the heart of the war, with a western limit 1000 miles north from Peihai and an eastern edge along the Yellow River toward the coast. Foreigners were urged to report locations and mark property clearly as Japanese forces warned they would attack Chinese property if used.
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Tokyo
Japan
No Man’s Land
China
No Man’ S Land
Peihai
Pakhol
Gulf of Penexins
Yellow River
Sian
Yangtze River
Shantung Province
Taiyuan
Peep
United States
Siam
Ichang
Hengyang
Deficit Shrinks to Smallest Since 1931
Washington on June 20, the treasury reported a deficit of $1.469 billion with eighty cents receipts per dollar spent, the lowest since 1931. Projections note a possible deficit reversal next year after Congress appropriated about $12.0 billion. Public debt stood at $36.49 billion as of June 17.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Roosevelt Signs 36 Bills and Vetoes 7 at Hyde Park
President Roosevelt, amid salt air, signed 36 bills and vetoed seven. Notable actions include increasing 1939 wheat acreage allotments to 55 million bushels and authorizing 52 rivers and harbor projects with costs around 37 million dollars, plus 66 surveys costing up to 500 thousand dollars. Vetoed were two veterans bills affecting funds for disabled and Spanish American War veterans in the Philippines. Other measures awaiting action include wage and hour standards, a relief program lending plan, and a large naval shipbuilding appropriation.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Army Engineers
Philippine Islands
Grand jurors termed blackguards by judge
Charleston West Virginia June 20 (4) Youthful Judge Jackson Sav age called five of his grand jurors a bunch of blackguards and vowed they would not face jury service again while he sits on the bench. He accused a jury clique of motives and promised a cleaned Grand jury box with new names next term. The panel reported 106 felonies and 68 misdemeanors with 30 indictments against Kanawha county residents in a numbers racket crackdown.
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Charleston
W. Va
Jackson Savage
Kanawha County
City Hosts Distinguished Editorial Delegation Visit
Bluefield and the Pocahontas coalfield region welcome 450 National Editorial Association members and 100 Greenbrier County citizens for a noon arrival from White Sulphur Springs. Delegation includes editors, with luncheon at local club and a Pocahontas Mine trip planned.
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Pocahontas Mine
Bluefield
Pocahontas
White Sulphur Springs
National Editorial Association
Greenbrier County
Mr. Jenks
John J. Lincoln
Pocahontas Operators’ Association
W. W. Loomis
Harry Bowen
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Herbert Markle
Hugh Ike Shott
West Virginia
Country Club
Elmer
U. S
Maryland
Lebanon Street
College Avenue
Sanders Drive
Falls Mills
Newt Wilson
Virginia State Police
Benson Ahead in Minnesota Vote
Minnesota Governor Elmer A Benson increased his lead over rival Hjalmar Petersen in the Farmer Labor primary race. With 236 of 3,739 precincts in, Benson held a 4,250 vote edge. early in the count Petersen had led in rural districts. Benson carried Roosevelt era Farm labor backing and local endorsements while Petersen had previously served as acting governor. The Maine race notes accompany a separate brief on local political events.
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Minneapolis
Hjalmar Petersen
Farmer
Elmer A. Benson
Minnesota
Hijalmar Petersen
Farmer- Labor Party
New Deal
Benson
Petersen
St. Paul
Roosevelt
Farmer-Labor Convention
Floyd B. Olson
Harold Stassen
South St Paul
Martin Nelson
Austin
Stassen
Nelson
Gallagher
Indictments Seize 18 In Major Spy Conspiracy Probe
The first major postwar spy inquiry indicts 18 people including German officials and aviation personnel. Charged with conspiracy and espionage, the case cites covert codes and U S defense secrets about aircraft vessels and coast defenses. Names include Otto Voss Lieut Commander Udo von Bonin and Herman Menzel among others linked to Bremen Hamburg and Berlin operatives.
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New York
Lamar Hardy
Federal
U. S
United States
Germany
Otto Hermann Voss
Udo von Bonin
Herman Menzel
Berlin
Defense Office
Thereich Ministry
Ernst Mueller
Hevea Oe
Jambure
Erich Pfeiffer
Bremen
Jessie
Europa
Ignatz Theodor Griebl
Werner G. Gudenberg
Griebl
Erich Glaser
Air Corps
Mitchell Field
Guenther Gustave Rumrich
U. S. Army
Missoula
Mont
William Lonkowski
Karl Schluter
Theodor Schueltz
Herbert Jaenichen
Karl Eitel
Schmidt
Sanders
Hamburg
United States National Defense
Morgenthau and Kennedy deny dollar devaluation rumors
Secretary Morgenthau and Ambassador Kennedy denied reports of an imminent dollar devaluation. They attributed the rumors to speculators who had bought gold hoping for profit. Kennedy warned that U S devaluation could trigger parallel moves by other nations.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgentau
Joseph P. Kennedy
England
Morgenthau
Kennedy
New York
United States
Cop Answers Call as Store Arrives on Lawn
Youngstown officers respond to emergency call find Mrs. Joseph Gerch 25 Campbell giving birth on the front lawn. They assist and rush mother and newborn to a nearby hospital in a police ambulance.
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Youngstown
W. T. Lally
John McCarthy
North Side
Joseph Gerch
Campbell
Relations Between U S and Germany Reach Tense Point
Tensions between the United States and Germany rise to a peak since the World War. Public exchanges are sharp with mutual recrimination, four diplomatic notes issued by the U S in under two months, and growing unease in both nations.’
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U.S
Germany
Washington
United States
Court declines to ban Pa primary probe in Earle case
The Pennsylvania supreme court refused Governor George H. Earle’s request to halt a Dauphin county grand jury investigation of him and 13 administration allies amid the recent Democratic primary. The ruling sends the matter back to Dauphin court with Judge Paul N. Schaeffer to oversee and requires more specific charges before proceeding.
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Earle
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
George H. Earle
Dauphin County
Grand Jury
Pennsylvania
Dauphin Court
Paul N. Schaeffer
Berks County
Carl B. Shelley
Schaffer
Dauphin
Schaeffer
Shelley
Charles J. Mariotti
McLachlan Sentenced to Death for Jenny Moreno Slaying
In Los Angeles on June 20 Charles A. McLachlan, 55, was sentenced to death by lethal gas chamber for the sex murder of f ee Jenny Moreno committed last April.
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Los Angeles
Charles A. McLachlan
Jenny Moreno
Sandra Martin
Simone Simon
Kinins
Japanese Retreat in Boats From Flooded Chinese Fronts
Japanese forces pulled back by boats and rafts from flooded Hor province battle zones as waters thwart a major offensive aimed at Chengchow and the Peiping-Hankow railway. Reports say Japanese units moved toward Yangtze defenses or north into Shansi, with Chinese reinforcements increasing in Shansi and floods affecting both sides.
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Shanghai
Hor
Chengchow
Peiping-Hankow
Hankow
Henan Tooces
Yellow River
Yangtze River
Yankow
Shansi
Kennedy Denies Presidential Aim on Queen Mary
New York June 20 1940 United States ambassador to Britain Joseph P Kennedy denied pursuing the presidency saying his eye is on other work with Roosevelt. He spoke aboard the Queen Mary outlining views on devaluation conditions and his mood on economic reports. He noted not teaching children to wear gas masks reflects national fortune.
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New York
United States
Court of St. James
Joseph P. Kennedy
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kennedy
Great Britain
Rosevelt
Hull
Caracula
Tragic Milwaukee Olympian wreck toll climbs in Montana
Searchers in Miles City Montana recover 13 more bodies from the Custer Creek disaster as the Milwaukee Road Olympian crashes into a flood weakened bridge. The death toll reaches 29 with most victims found in Miles City. Crews fear more remains in the mud filled tourist sleeper submerged for over a day.
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Miles City
Mont
Custer Creek
Milwaukee Road
More Mont
J. R. Egan
Terry
Wreck of Milwaukee train amid flash flood toll reaches many
Transportation chief N A Meyer reports 28 bodies recovered and nine more expected from a sleeper wreck in Miles City Montana after a flood swollen creek ripped through a trestle flooding a Yellowstone river train. Rescue teams press on with identification hampered by water damage. Mrs Pred Woolsey of Miles City among the recovered victims and passenger Mrs Bernard Maguire recounts the panic onboard.
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Seattle
N. A. Meyer
Milwaukee Railway Company
Miles City
Mont
Meyer
Montana State Highway Trol
Yellowstone River
Pred Woolsey
Bernard Maguire
Milwaukee
De Valera Wins Absolute Majority in Election
Dublin reports Prime Minister Eamon De Valera secured an absolute majority as incomplete returns show his party taking 75 of 138 seats in the House of Representatives. Fianna Fáil won 41 seats, Labour eight, and Independents seven.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Orate
House of Representaves
T Congraveu Fine Geal
T. Cosgraw
Labor
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