Hull Eyes Isolation Critics at Harvard Commencement
Secretary Cordell Hull warned that isolation cannot preserve American gains as fascist and Nazi powers threaten Europe. Speaking at Harvard's 289th commencement, he called for readiness and warned of a dark shadow across the continent, urging classification and registration to prepare for national service.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cordell Hull
Harvard University
Pointpals
Hull
Europe
Lewis W. Douglas
National Budget
William Yandell Elliott
Harvard
Harvard Crimson
Elliott
Gale Pontius
French Leaders Seek Rough Peace As War Intensifies
German negotiators travel to meet Hitler with terms for France as Petain warns of distress and lessons from Verdun. He recalls 1918 forces and contrasts 1940 troops, planes, and divisions, while Germany presses toward the Swiss border and Alsace Lorraine.
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Hitler
Cosme
Henri Philippe Petain
Capitula
Berlin
Charles Huntzinger
Berg
Leluc
Omar Leon Noel
Germany
Spain
Petain
France
Verdun
Aisne
Neu- In
Bellegarde
Geneva
Alsace-Lorraine
Switzerland
City and Coalfield Items Note Roanoke visits and sales
Roanoke will have piano tuning by Harry Haffén from a home in Roanoke with monthly visits. Advertising lists mimeograph paper and scratch pads from Telegraph Printing Co at 412 Bland St and phone 2400. A dance at Moose Temple 203 South Mercer Street on Friday June 21 features Lesley Keith and his String Band with dance 9 to 12.
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Harry Haffén
Roanoke
Bland Road
Harry
P.O
Call Telephone
Telegraph Commercial Printing Co
Bland St
Telephone
Lesley Keith
Moose Temple
South
Mercer Street
W. G. Peck
Bradley's Offers Colorful Deals And New Arrivals
Bradley's advertises major reductions on black navy brown beige rose powder hats for today and Saturday with continued hat specials. A rack of dresses is $3.95 while play suits gaberdene shorts and slacks are highlighted. Miss Onida Brown, Bradley's New York representative, is in town for a few days as new dresses and blouses arrive.
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Bradley's
Onida Brown
Bradley
New York
German push drives toward Loire as Bordeaux blockaded
German forces press from the Brittany peninsula toward the Cher river line near Bourges while eyeing the Italian Alpine army. Bordeaux, former government seat, endures heavy bombing with 150 dead and 300 injured. President Le Brun leads cabinet as rumors swirl of an alternate government in Algiers.
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Nantes
Brittany
Brest
St. Nazaire
Thal
Cher
Loire
Bourget
Bordeaux
Tours
Lebrun
Algiers
Child Drowns In Bluestone River
Sheriff G H Crumpecker and county officers sought the body of Jacqueline Karnes a 12 year old from Kegley after she drowned in the Bluestone river shortly after 4 pm yesterday. She waded with five other girls and stepped from shallow water onto a submerged rock shelf into deep water. Two companions Katherine Hubbard and Ruby Belcher ran to Carl Shrewsbury for aid.
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G. H. Crumpecker
Jacqueline Karnes
Kegley
Bluestone River
Everett Karnes
Rington
Katherine Hubbard
Ruby Belcher
Carl Shrewsbury
Expert Says GOP Could Hit 100 Electoral Votes in 1940
Charlottesville reports Carl Snyder, New York economist, predicting the Republican presidential nominee would win about 100 electoral votes in November. He bases his forecast on long election continuity and cites ten populous states with strong GOP showing, totaling 297 votes with several mid-Atlantic and Midwest states highlighted.
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Charlottesville
Carl Snyder
New York
Snyder
University of Virginia
Institute of Public Affairs
Massachusetts
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Connecticut
Delaware
Iowa
Maine
Minnesota
FDR Names Stimson Knox to War Navy Heads
President Roosevelt moves to appoint Henry Stimson as secretary of war and Frank Knox as secretary of the navy. The Senate approves a $1.788 billion emergency funding bill adding 95,000 army troops and 3,000 army officials, with plans for 68 new navy ships and 87,000 civilian air pilots.
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Byrnes
8. C
Stimson
Col. Knox
Wheeler
Mont
Naral Party
Peace Party
Barkley
Democratic Party
Knox
Charles Edison
New Jersey
Chicago Daily News
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Plattsburghs
United States
Regan National Convent
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Taft
Hoover
Ie Foe
Steen
Senate
Roosevelt
Navy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House
War Department
Reserve Officers Training Corps
House Naval Committee
Bluefield Boy Enters U S Naval Academy
Thomas C r TTY has been enrolled as midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Young Cooper, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Cooper Jr, attended Beaver high school in this city.
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Thomas C R
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Young Cooper
Thomas Cooper, Jr
Beaver High School
Barkley Chosen As Chairman Of Democratic Convention
Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky was named permanent chairman with William Bankhead selected for the keynote address. Roosevelt Farley endorsed the choices, approved unanimously by the arrangements committee for the July 15 nominating conclave. Barkley, keynote in 1932 and 1936, will have the gavel once delegates convene. finances were reported healthy with no debt for the fall campaign.
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Chicago
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Bankhead
Barkley
Oliver A. Jungle, Jr
National Committee
Veterans to be entertained by famous Gudeville performers
Almost a hundred Norfolk and Western employees from Bluefield attend the N. and W. Veterans convention in Roanoke. Saturday’s program features the Revue Continental vaudeville show with Mile Rahda famed as a top dancer per Walter Winchell. The act has played Radio City and Roxy’s Theatre.
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Norfolk and Western
Bluefield
Roanoke
Continental
Mile
Rahda
Walter Winchell
Earl Carroll
Hollywood
Economic Unity Report Approved
President Roosevelt approved a cabinet plan to foster pan American economic unity through a central export program involving western hemisphere countries. Stephen Early said the State Department will implement the plan and sound out other nations, with a public statement to follow after a forthcoming press conference.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen
Sumner Welles
State Department
Hyde
Plans Announced for Ringer Golf Tourney
Plans for the Ringer golf tournament set a July 1 start and September 1 end. A player scoring four holes below the usual average will post it on a locker room score board. Most players, when flyover practice over their home course, can reach many holes under par, with August potential for a notably low score. The winner earns a prize of golf balls.
Coal Division Sets Discounts Across Industry Prices
Washington June 20 Director Howard Gray of the bituminous coal division announced maximum discounts for sales to distributors and farmer cooperatives for resale. Discounts range from five to 50 cents per ton, subject to review by Secretary Ickes. Appalachian field discounts run 12 cents to distributors and industrial users, five to ten cents for rail lines, and 17 to 25 cents for home coal.
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Washington
Howard Gray
Ickes
Gray
Great Appalachian
Dewey Attacks Knox and Stimson Cabinet Nomination
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey condemned President Roosevelts nominations of Col. Knox and Henry L. Stimson as a direct step toward war. He called them leading interventionists and said the move signals weakness and desperation, urging Roosevelt to go. Former President Hoover defended the appointments as personal service without coalition or campaign impact.
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New York
Thomas E. Dee
Col. c. Knox
Henry L. Stimson
Knox
Stimson
Dewey
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Legion posts urge recruitment for navy expansion
A Navy plan to grow to 170000 is discussed as Legion posts are asked to aid recruiting. Vest will bring the matter to the next meeting and emphasizes vocational training for young men who enlist, noting courses that supplement daily work.
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Vest
Cup Classic Close Matches Set for June Semis and Finals
Anderson and H. C. Lewis battle in the Cup Classic semi finals scheduled for Sunday June 23 with the final to follow on Sunday June 30. Finals will be 36 holes, with a trophy donated by the club presented to the winner and a trophy for the runner up.
Guyan Announces Plan for Ladies Tourney
Huntington West Virginia Mrs Arnodawit announced a Tuesday June ladies tournament by the Guyan Club an annual invitation event for women. The past two years winners went on to claim the state amateur crown. More than 100 entrants from West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio expected.
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Huntington
W .Va
Guyan
Arnodawit
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Axis Demands Pressured Breakthrough After Brest Capture
Axis forces claimed Brest fell enabling a blitz against Britain while peace talks with France continued. German media said French arms talks collapsed as unlikely resistance was imagined. Four plenipotentiaries named Huntziger Noel Leluc Bergeret to negotiate armistice. German bombers hit Bristol Southampton and French targets. Mercer County Medical society met with Dr. Baum on obstetrics trends and Dr. Point on obstetrical care.
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Germany
E.s.t
Charles Huntziger
Leon Noel
Poland
Leluc
Bergeret
Bristol
Southampton
Lorient
la Rochelle
Bordeaux
St. Nazaire
France
Mercer County Medical Society
Appalachian Assembly Rooms
Henry E. Baum
Charleston
W. W. Point
Local Legionnaires to Hear Commander at Welch Meeting
Twenty members of the Bluefield American Legion post plan to attend a Welch meeting Tuesday night with Raymond J. Kelly national commander in McDowell county seat. Harry West says plans include several local Legionnaires and possibly members of the Legion Auxiliary with veterans and fraternal groups invited to Memorial Building.
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American Legion Post
Legion
Welch
Raymond J. Kelly
McDowell County
Harry West
George Ees
E. A. Trubie Fox
S. W. Allen
C. A. Thornton
John Cahill
W. T. Branch
C. T. Gills
A. Harry West
Harry Moore
H. P. Walters
M. M. Woodyard
T Courtney Tanner
Herbert D. May
James Mann
Harry Garber
Vic DeVault
Dave Lowman
Dave Warden
West
Legion Auxiliary
Veterans Ofeign
Memorial Building
Dairymen to Attend Dinner This Evening
Sixty area dairymen and their wives will join a complimentary dinner at the Appalachian assembly rooms as part of Bluefields National Dairy Week. Speakers include C Holdway head of animal husbandry at Virginia Tech and L Flestiman from the Virginia dairy association.
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Bluefield
Appalachian Assembly Rooms
C. Holdway
France and Italy in tentative halt amid Mediterranean raids
A Bern dispatch reports tentative ceasefire hopes between France and the axis powers by Saturday as Mussolini directs Italian focus on British and French bases. Savoy region described with cessions to France in 1860 and current French departments. Italian air raids claim targets in Corsica Sardinia Bizerte Aden and East Africa with a torpedoed French destroyer.
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Switzerland
France
Savoy
Alps
House of
Italy
Haute Savoie
Savoie
Nice
Corsica
Tunisia
Africa
Mussolini
Mediterranean
East African
Bizerte
Aden
East Africa
Europe
Ligurian
Sardinia
Knox and Stimson Read Out Of Party
Edward F. Calladay of the District of Columbia moved to approve Hamilton's statement on the Stim son Knox appointments. Cyrus McCormick national committeeman for New Mexico suggested it be written in red. The vote ended in unanimous approval.
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Stimson-Knox
Edward F. Calladay
District of Columbia
Hamilton
Cyrus McCormick
New Mexico
Radio Stolen From Local Man's Home
Carl Somer of 411 1 2 Bland Street reported yesterday the theft of a six tube radio from his dwelling. Police said the radio disappeared sometime Wednesday amid thefts in the area.
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Carl Somer
Bland Street
Cooley
German Army Drives Through Lyons As French Hold Fast
The city of Lyon fell to motorized German units after little resistance while nearby French troops ringed the area. Observers note strains on German armor and supply lines with tanks and vehicles worn from a rapid advance, and no sign of a fresh French capital defense force being assembled at the moment.
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Lyon
France
Dijon
Eithe
Belgium
Amphibian Tank Unveiled in Canada With Three Wheels
A newly designed Canadian amphibian tank features three wheels for stability. One wheel stands 12 feet high and wide. the other two wheels are 6 feet tall and wide. Each wheel is independently driven for steering control.
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Canada
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