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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1940
Page
2
Roger Shaw analyzes the war status with Italy aligning with Germany as French forces withdraw. He asserts the Allies are prepared for Mussolini amid shifts in Western Europe and wartime strategy.
Mussolini announced Italy would enter the war on the side of Germany. Italian troop movements target the French Riviera as Britain and France prepare for a broader conflict. Churchill and Chamberlain tensions rise as France fights to hold the northern front. German tanks encircle Paris while the battle of Flanders ends.
The piece notes widespread fifth column talk in Mexico Uruguay Ecuador and Colombia and argues US hostility to Anglo Saxon influence predates Hitler. It observes Latin nations’ uneasy stance toward the United States and cites Vargas and Argentina as influential factors while noting U S naval moves to deter V columns in South America with Rio as a focus.
Fragmented notice recounts rumors of former King Edward of England facing a possible restoration if England loses the war, with Churchill backing Eddie and Chamberlain supporting George. It notes New York planning anti aircraft regiments and arms sales to allies, plus tax and debt changes and Browder nomination by American communists. The Belgian World's Fair exhibit removed Leopold bust.
An 18 year old Long Islander Peter Gannon joins the U S Eighteenth Infantry becoming the sixth Gannon brother to enlist as the family notes a decade of service since 1830. A pacifist critic questions the record and military motives amid wartime rhetoric.
The piece notes P. G. Wodehouse at a Le Touquet party as German troops arrest him while his wife remains free. It contrasts this with U S draft debate, as the Times editorial advocates compulsory military training and prompts varied responses from Roosevelt Woodring and Wallace.
The column lists varied nicknames for the White House occupant and notes his popularity across regions and groups. It cites F D Roosevelt Franklin Comrade Rosie J. Is popular in the South and in the New York Times, with appeal among machine politicians and elite circles.
The First Army maneuvers from August 3 to 31 will be the largest of the summer drills, with over 100000 officers and men from Regular Army National Guard and Organized Reserves converging on the Plattsburg Watertown area. Units from many states will participate under Lieut General Drum with training aims focusing on approach to and conduct of battle. News HQ will be at Ogdensburg New York.
Gen George C Marshall testified that the army plans a National Guard in Alaska as part of a new defense program. He said the federal government would provide armories and equipment, with units likely at Seward Anchorage Fairbanks Ketchikan Nome and an ROTC unit at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
In Warsaw Wyoming county the prison farm becomes self supporting. Sheriff Lewis Spring started the system three years ago. It cost $1 per inmate daily then and now prisoners earn their keep plus extra by harvesting surplus crops on the 227 acre farm.
BECCLES ENGLAND The war emergency committees of the local council have decreed that early rising roosters be banned for the duration of the war.
Tenatz Lang, 71, born in Romania, first wed another woman after parental objection. Forty nine years later he married the daughter of his former sweetheart, now Mrs Lang, who is 25 years younger than him.
Harvard University plans the world’s largest astronomical observatory this summer on Fremont Pass, Colorado, at 11318 feet, using a coronagraph to create artificial solar eclipses for regular corona observations. The site, chosen by Prof. Donald Henzel, sits on Climax Molybdenum Co land for optimal high altitude, clear skies, and dust-free air.
Rome reports that Professor Raffaele Bendandi claims four new planets beyond Neptune govern the solar system and trigger geological events. He asserts the Bible dated the flood to 2687 B C based on planetary movements and purported scientific proof.
In Ann Arbor Michigan University Hospital surgeons reported Frieda Baumann seven weeks old is recovering well after a complex operation three weeks ago to relocate her heart from the right to the left side. The procedure addressed a diaphragmatic opening causing intestinal misplacement that collapsed the left lung.
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