British and Italian Forces Clash Across Somaliland and Red Sea
Reports describe heavy fighting as British and Italian columns clash near Berbera and Massawa with bombing of Tobruk and Massawa docks. British actions push Italians back at Korindil while Italian air and ground moves threaten Aden and Libyan frontier. Casualties reported on both sides amid broader Red Sea theater activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heagauakiers
Kartin Pass
Hargorau
Tobrik
Ibsa
Red Sea
Massaua
Italian Eritrea
Essat
Suez Canal
Aden
Bendix UAW dispute threatens defense aviation output
M P Ferguson Bendix general manager charged the United Automobile Workers CIO affiliated union with constant contract violations by a small group. He said production curtailment in the Bendix aircraft division endangers much of the national defense program. Ferguson defended company selections as within the contract and rejected the union’s bid to name foremen and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
M P Ferguson
Bendix Products Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
CIO
Bendix
Richard Frankensteen
Richard Leonard
Ferguson
James F Dewey
National Defense
Windsors Hear Browne Sermon After Picture Tearing
In Hamilton Bermuda the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will hear a sermon by Bishop Arthur Heber Browne who once tore up their wedding pictures in January 1938. Browne later apologized saying the act was in a fit of temper and said the pictures had been burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Bermuda
Windsor
Buresy
Arthur Heber Browne
Wally Simpson
Browne
Royal Gazette and Colonist
Grandson Won’t Smile for Roosevelt on Ship
Boston dispatch reports President Roosevelt met his new grandson Vir Roosevelt two months old aboard the presidential yacht near Nahant on a visit from Portsmouth. The infant son of John and Anne Clark Roosevelt wore a cautious expression as he first boarded a ship.
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Boston
Ins
Roncelt
John
Anne Clark Roosevelt
Nahant
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Axis Moves to Bring Yugoslavia and Greece into Axis
Italo German efforts to win Yugoslavia and Greece for the axis were reported. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Alexander Cincar-Markovich may visit Venice then Berlin to confer with Ciano and Hitler. Greece’s leaders could follow, while Soviet opposition could impede Balkan realignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
INS
Yugoslavia
Alexander Cincar-Markovich
Venice
Galeazzno Ciano
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Axis
Greece
Italy
Germany
Turkey
Rome
Rumania
Russia
Making a Tiny Life Thrive In a Makeshift Incubator
A severely undernourished baby named Vevia Marie grows stronger in a crude improvised incubator. She weighs three pounds two ounces and is fed a milk corn syrup mixture every three hours. A doll dress from a deceased child becomes her makeshift garment as volunteers keep her near sunlit windows and even carry her to fields in a tarpaulin shield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vevia Marie
Vevia
Earl
Five Million Deposited To Westrick Credit In San Francisco
New York report says Dr Gerhard Westrick, Hitler emissary to American business men, left Scarsdale home as police detail was withdrawn. The Hour claims a $5 000 000 deposit was made in a San Francisco bank after Westrick arrived in America via Japan, with later additions from German sources. The piece notes Westrick as a Nazi propaganda ace and former law partner of Albert Einstein era figures.
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New York
INS
Gerhard Alois Westrick
Hitler
Westrick
Scarsdale
New York City
America
Japan
San Francisco
Hour
Germany
Albert Perry
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Leland Stowe
Reich
Albert Heinrich
Franz von Papen
Stewardess Recalls Pirate Movie Plight on Plane
Rosemary Olive Griffith, a 22 year old American Airlines stewardess, reasserted she was attacked in a Tennessee bound flight and swallowed the baggage compartment key. An X ray at St Thomas hospital confirmed the key’s presence after the incident Wednesday.
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New York
Sns
Tennessee
Rosemary Olive Griffith
American Airlines
Miss Griffith
Flushing
St. Thomas Hospital
Nashville
Chairman of Illinois Central Railroad Dies at 88
Lawrence A. Downs, 88, rose from a rod man to chairman of the Illinois Central Railroad, dying Saturday after two years of poor health. He became IC board chairman in 1938, following 12 years as president, and led a policy of streamlined trains and higher operating efficiency.
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Chicago
Lawrence A. Downs
Illinois Central Railroad System
Downs
General Marshall Visits Minnesota War Games at Camp Ripley
General George C. Marshall chief of staff arrives at Camp Ripley for Fourth army summer maneuvers. He is escorted by Major General Ellard A. Walsh through the 45 000 men training area and briefed on infantry artillery observation and communication during a extensive tour.
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Little Falls
Minn
Fourth Army
George C. Marshall
Camp Ripley
Ellard A. Walsh
Thirty-fourth
Minnesota National Guard
Kids Day Tickets For Fair Available Sunday
Children under 15 without tickets to the children s day at the all Iowa fair may obtain them at the Hawkeye Downs gate Sunday. Henry Jensen, president of the Cedar Rapids Grocers association, said about 2000 tickets remain. about 16000 have already been distributed. Pasteboard tickets admit free grounds, grandstands for 10 cents, and rides for 5 cents.
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Cedar Rapids
France Suspends Senate and Chamber Meetings
In Vichy the French government said the time is not ripe to consult elected parliament members amid economic reconstruction and food concerns. It suspended periodic meetings of the senate and chamber and foreign relations committee for now, while reserving the right to summon them for official communications when suitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Senate
Chamber
Democratic Book of 1940 Advertising Pre-Hatch Act Claim
New York AP Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of the Democratic National Committee says all advertising for the Democratic Book of 1940 was secured before the Hatch Act became law. The book will be sent to state and county groups for redistribution at 25 cents to cover handling and postage. The Hatch Act bars buying goods that benefit a federal candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oliver A. Quayle, Jr
Democratic National Committee
Quayle
Hatch
Roosevelt
Mure
Four Rivals Of Willkie At Philadelphia Are To Be At Elwood Saturday
Four men who opposed Wendell Willkie in Philadelphia for the Republican nomination will attend Elwood Indiana notification ceremonies. Notables include District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey Senator Taft Senator Vandenberg publisher Frank Gannett and others. Governors Dickinson Baldwin Bricker will be present and Willkie’s running mate McNary cannot attend. Visitors stream to Elwood daily to see his birthplace and school and meet locals who knew him.
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Elwood
Ind
INS
Wendell Willkie
Philadelphia
Callaway Park
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Frank Gannett
Dewey
Dickinson
Baldwin
Connecticut
Bricker
Car Rolls Over But He Gets Only Cut Over
Milton Benjamin an Iowa Falls accountant for the Iowa Electric Light and Power suffered a minor cut above the left eye when his car left highway 30 and rolled eight miles west of Cedar Rapids at 11 40 a m Saturday. He told the highway patrol he was east bound and tried to pass a car whose muddy water blinded him. The vehicle was badly smashed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Benjamin
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa Falls
Cedar Rapids
Benjamin
Highway Patrol
British Rain Bombs on Guernsey Island
British raids on Guernsey Island are described as part of a broader air offensive. The piece notes favorable tides for sea-borne invasion and argues recent raids aimed to break public morale, which is claimed to be higher now than in August 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
German Air Attacks Target Britain's War Centers
Berlin reports destructive RAF raids on Britain's armament plants shipyards airfields and anti air positions. German communique says raids over eastern southern coasts damaged docks in Newcastle Sheerness Chatham and caused civilian casualties while two German planes were lost and two more were shot down.
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Berlin
Great Britain
High Command
Britain
England
Rochester
Favhersham
Bristol
Newcastle
Sheerness
Chatham
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Willkie Plans Talks With Hoover And Landon Tonight
Willkie to finish his acceptance speech and meet Hoover on Sunday and Landon on Tuesday to shape party policy. Hoover arrives Sunday evening to confer. Landon expected to join later as the trio aligns on campaign strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willkie
Hoover
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Herbert Hoover
National Chamber Warns Perils To Institutions Grow
The National Chamber warns that federal encroachment threatens fundamental rights and urges restraint on non-defense spending. It calls for producing goods with private initiative, easing defense costs, and focusing on naval, aviation, labor, and capital flow while watching Latin American relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Chamber
Britain Says It Can Withstand Blockade With U S Support
The British purchasing commission stated 1,000 ships shuttle food and war supplies between America and England and claimed Germany has little chance to starve Britain. Britain has more steamers now than at the war’s start and has received 2,900 planes from the United States with 8,100 more on order. War orders placed in America exceed $2 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
America
England
British Purchasing Commission
British Isles
Great Britain
United States
Man Faces Shoplifting Charge At City Store
C J Osborne age 235 of Center Point was arrested at the McLellan store on First Avenue East for shoplifting a small night light after being confronted by store manager W R Magner. His companion Judd Hendrix age 40 of Center Point was arrested for drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Osborne
Center Point
McLellan
First Avenue E
John Hanna
Albert Wilson
W. R. Magner
Osborne
Magner
Judd Hendrix
Hendrix
Roosevelt Campaign Trip Delivers Biggest Crowd Yet
President Franklin D Roosevelt told reporters he is in stride as large crowds filled 1936 campaign events. He rebuked a question on the New Hampshire race and dodged details about a secret mission, while Navy yards run a third shift to ease bottlenecks and the Potomac yacht moved to anchor in Massachusetts Bay for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
New Hampshire
Navy
Knox
Col
William Donovan
Fighting Sixty Ninth Regiment
Europe
Hopkins
Hyde Park
N. Y
Washington
Potomac
Massachusetts Bay
Woodring declines hearing on Burke-Wadsworth draft bill
Former secretary of war Harry H. Woodring refused to testify before the House Military Affairs Committee in Washington citing prior engagements. He said he has nothing new to add beyond his earlier letters to Senators Vandenberg and Johnson. He reiterated his position favoring a voluntary training system and higher pay for enlisted men.
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Topeka
Kan
Harry H. Woodring
House
Sen
Arthur Vandenberg
Mich
Rabbi Silver Quits F R to Back Willkie
Cleveland Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver renounced his seven year support of President Roosevelt and endorsed Wendell Willkie. The announcement came as the Republican National Committee reported his shift during a weekend at Moose Landing Missouri. He recalled his March Cleveland speech stressing no third term and warned against one man rule harming democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
INS
Republican National Committee
Abba Hillel Silver
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Dr Silver
Moose Landing
Silver
Say Lewis Protest Spurned By Hillman
New York report says Sidney Hillman labor adviser to the national defense committee rejects CIO chief John L. Lewis protest over excluding United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers from Hillmans policy advisory panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
The
New York Times
Sidney Hillman
National Defense Advisory Commission
CIO
John L. Lewis
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Hillman
Cannoneer Paul Dennis Aims For Air Corps
Wilkes Barre Pa AP seventeen year old Paul Dennis an 18 year old human cannon ball who made his living fired from a cannon tells Recruiting Sergeant Joseph Weimar he wants to join the army to fly in the air corps saying he is tired of artillery in quotes he previously earned his living by being shot from a cannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Paul Dennis
Army
Joseph Weimar
Air Corps
Greater All-Iowa Fair Opens Today
A detailed guide to the Greater All-Iowa Fair highlights livestock stalls with 280 beef cattle and 56 4-H club youth from 12 counties, dairy barns and horse stables, races, and grandstand shows. It previews daily programs, rides, and bargain Sunday specials. The piece invites readers to explore exhibits, auction rings, and entertainment through the fair’s final day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flash Williams
America
Grandstand
Iowa
Drive for Two Term Presidency Amendment Launched
John H. Kirby of Texas announced a broad campaign to amend the Constitution to ban any person from serving more than two presidential terms. A coalition of conservative Democrats Republicans and independents will lead efforts across 37 southern western and border states urging ratification by state legislatures. Kirby, who backed Roosevelt in 1932, now opposes new dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
INS
John H. Kirby
Texas
Kirby
Roosevelt
Dolezal in Cedar Falls Remains Condition After Head-On Crash
Mrs. Frank Dolezal of 297 Eighteenth Avenue SW Cedar Falls sustained a fractured jaw severe cuts and shock after a rear end crash on Highway 218 near the airport Friday. Drivers Whitford and Dawson involved. Whitford arrested for reckless driving. Dolezal hospitalized. court date set August 17. Police praised public cooperation at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Dolezal
Eighteenth Avenue SW
Airport
Mercy Hospital
Steve Dyson
Lundeen Warns US Dragged Into War by Insane Hysteria
Senator Lundeen denounces U S entry into World War I in a radio speech calling the nation into war driven by insane hysteria He attacks conscription and arms sales to England warns against European entanglements and urges a decent training标准 and pay for Americans.
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Lundeen
U.S
Washington
INS
Sen. Lundeen
Minn
U. S
United States
England
Great Britain
Luhdeen
Rhine
Europe
Asia
Africa
America
Woman Centenarian Defies Dixie Flood at Eight Feet Water
Calcasieu parish’s sole centenarian, Mrs. Lenoise Le Bleu born the year it was organized, retires to the upper story of her Chloe home as floodwaters eight feet deep flood the lower level. Relatives urge removal, but she plans to stay upstairs for the duration.
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Lake Charles
Calcasieu Parish
Lenoise le Bleu
Chloe
Mrs. Estella Newell funeral set for Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Estella Newell, who died Friday at the family residence, will be held at Our Lady of Grace Episcopal Church at 10:30 a.m. Monday. The Rev. Father Vernon L. Jones will officiate and burial will follow at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the Lechee chapel until 9 a.m. Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estella Newell
Our Lady of Grace Episcopal Church
Vernon L. S Jones
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Qechee Chapel
Monay
Funeral Rites for Iris Pearson Held at Tioga Church
Funeral services were held at Tioga church in Rose Hill for Iris Pearson who died the same day as her newborn son at the home of her in laws near Rose Hill. Interment followed at Tioga cemetery. Born February 6 1922 in Fort Madison she married Donald Pearson September 14 1939. Surviving are her mother Mrs Clarence Berry Ottumwa area her father Ora Macklin Ottumwa her husband and three brothers Clifford Billy and Paul.
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Iris Pearson
John Pearson
Near Rose Hill
Tioga Church
Rose Hill
Tioga Cemetery
Ora Macklin
Ottumwa
Donald Pearson
Clifford
Billy
Paul
Gibbs, Mo
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