Wallace says he will resign from cabinet to campaign
Secretary Wallace announced plans to resign or take a leave of absence from his cabinet as soon as he begins active political campaigning for the vice presidency. He rejected criticisms of the farm program and explained that farmers’ payments for the 1940 crop year are determined by preexisting regulations and farmer participation. He said he will start his campaign shortly after official nomination by the Democratic convention in late August.
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Washington
Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Roosevelt hints Wallace may resign to campaign as VP nominee
President Roosevelt indicated Wallace could resign from the cabinet once he begins active campaigning as the Democratic vice presidential nominee. He recalled Wilson's advice in 1920 on resigning only at the start of active campaigning and said he did not know when Wallace would begin. He also avoided discussing Farley’s successors or Stark’s prospects, and floated possible U S assurances to belligerents if ships evacuate children from war zones.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Lloyd Stark
Missouri
James A. Farley
Farley
National Democratic
Thomas Jefferson
Wendell L. Willkie
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Boston
the Treasury
Willkie
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Dartmouth College
George H. Whipple
University of Rochester Medical School
George R. Minot
Harvard Medical School
Knudsen Sees British Plane Output Plan Delayed
William S Knudsen announced that arm y and navy rearmament contracts totaling 1 728 195 829 had been cleared since the agency's creation eight weeks earlier. He warned production to meet Britain's 3 000 planes a month would not begin before mid 1942 and would require 38 new factories.
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Washington
William S Knudsen
The
Defense Commission
United States
Great Britain
Knudsen
Salvation Army Leader Interned in German Camp
London AP reports Col Mary Booth British Salvation Army officer and founder's granddaughter has been interned in a German concentration camp at Constanz as of Friday.
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London
Mary Booth
Salvation Army
Organization
Constanz
The Pendulum of Hatred Between Germany and France
The piece traces a century of conflict between Germany and France from Napoleon to Hitler, noting wars, invasions, and humiliations. It argues that racial mysticism and Nazi terror fueled a cycle of revenge, warning civilization could be wrecked if the pattern continues.
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Germany
France
Napoleon
Russia
Europe
Bismarck
Newton
Paris
Hitler
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Bugs Baer Endorses WPA Buy of Yankees in Chicago Talk
Bugs Baer says buying the New York Yankees should be a WPA project and mentions Jim Farley in Chicago. He notes four million dollars are needed and praises Carter Glass. Baer recalls Farley’s baseball past in Haverstraw New York near the Hudson River.
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Yankees
Bugs
Jim Farley
Chicago
Jim
Haverstraw
N. Y
Hudson River
Battle off north coast of Ireland in fierce air sea clash
German torpedo boats clash with British escorts during a convoy engagement off the English coast. British air and sea forces repelled heavy strikes as Germany claims large losses. Casualties include German planes down and British destroyers damaged. civilians report casualties in southeast England.
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Ireland
R.A.F
English
Great Britain
Germany
Admiralty
London
England
Britain
English Channel
Air Ministry
Wales
East Anglia
May Form New Party To Support Willkie In South
Reports circulated among Willkie associates that a new party may form to back him in the Democratic South. Willkie aims to run an aggressive southern campaign and some managers consider a third party design allowing party-switching voters to back the Republican candidate. Names like Democratic Union Party and Democratic Unity Party were floated.
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New Party
Willkie
South
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Democratic Union Party
Democratic Unity Party
Senate completes draft bill with penalties for evaders
The Senate military committee finished a peacetime conscription bill, proposing five years in prison and 10 000 dollars fines for draft dodgers. Mayor LaGuardia urged universal military training, while Norman Thomas criticized it as totalitarian. A substitute plan to reduce enlistment to one year may be offered next week to attract 1,000,000 volunteers. The measure includes job protection for draftees under Wagner act rules and limits on presidential drafting without Congress funding. Separate provisions shield peacetime National Guard veterans and address insurance and mortgage concerns for trainees.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Sheppard
Tex
Arthur H Vandenberg
Mich
Vandenberg
National Labor Relations Board
Congress
War Department
National Guard
House
Two Drunken Men Fined After Inattentive Car Incidents
Cedar Rapids police fined Charles W. Gable 46 and J. M. Harris 34 for drunkenness after found in parked cars. Gable, seen in a vehicle at Sixth Street and Twelfth Avenue SE, later pled guilty. Harris was found slumped over the wheel at Twelfth Avenue and Fifteenth Street SE with motor running.
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Charles W. Gable
Vinton Road
J. M. Harris
McKinley Street
Harry Johnson
Gable
Howard Walsh
Ed Stearns
Sixth Street
Twelfth Avenue SE
Stearns
Twelfth Avenue
Fifteenth Street SE
Harris
Harold Prasi
Walter Kansky
Royal Holbrook Faces Reckless Charge After Second Accident
Royal Holbrook, 1420 Second Avenue SE, was booked on a reckless driving charge after a Friday morning collision at Fifth Avenue and Fifteenth Street SE. No injuries were reported. he claimed about 30 mph in a 25 mph zone. He was released to appear in court Saturday. The earlier collision involved Mrs. Peter Thelan's vehicle and another car, with two children scratched.
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Cedar Rapides News
Royal Holbrook
Second Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Holbrook
Fred Fedderson
Clarence
Duncan, Simon and
Stusak
Gordon Hughes
Peter Thelan
Eighteenth Street
Henry Ristedt
Country Club Parkway
Two Convicts Plead Guilty In Fort Madison Guard Murder
Iwan Sullivan and Lowell Haenze, two of three escapees from the Iowa state penitentiary, pleaded guilty to murder in Lee County District Court. They sought immediate sentencing, but were represented by attorney Philip R. Roan and scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, July 29. The case centers on the killing of guard Robert Hart during an attempt to free another inmate. The prosecution plans to oppose life sentences, not death.
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FT. Madison
Llp
Iwan Sullivan
Lowell Haenze
Iowa State Penitentiary
James R Burrows
Lee County
Philip R. Roan
Robert Hart
Robert N. Johnson, Jr
Johnson
Sullivan
Haenze
Liberty
Peace Appeal To Roosevelt Reported
London dispatch says a Dutch radio broadcast quotes the Netherlands peace committee urging President Roosevelt to lend his influence for an international peace conference at The Hague. The plea asks him to use good offices to seek an honorable peace and prevent the destruction of one of two brother peoples.
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London
INL
Roosevelt
Netherlands Peace Committee
Hague
Japan warns U S on embargo plan in wartime context
Washington reports indicate the United States approved a charter for an American tanker to load gasoline for Siberia, while Japanese and Spanish applications were rejected. Japan warns that U S embargoes on scrap iron and oil could strain ties and provoke retaliation, with Konave's cabinet signaling a wartime planned economy and Morishima questioning U S aims.
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Washington
United States
Sibera
TORIO
Japan
Foreign Office
South Seas
Fumimaro Konave
Morito Morishima
Netherlands East Indies
China
Yukichiro Suma
Netherlands Indies
Two Jap American Incidents Settled
In Shanghai a Japanese embassy spokesman said that two recent incidents involving United States sailors at Tsingtan were settled with American expressions of regret.
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Shanghai
Tsingtan
United States
Heat Wave Breaks With Toboggan Speed After New High Of 106
A brutal heat wave drove the mercury to a new high of 106 as clouds slowly gathered. Temperatures fell from a hot 106 to 84 by 7 p.m. and 76 by midnight, with overnight readings near winterlike 72 to 77 as residents searched for cooling breezes and sleeping quarters became scarce.
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Mercury
1068
Children Show Fine Gains at Camp
Despite extreme heat at Camp Good Health, children show weight gains with an 11-year-old girl adding eight pounds in three weeks. Several 6 and 7 year olds gained 3 to 4 1/2 pounds and 8 and 9 year olds up 1 1/2 to 2 pounds. A 7 pound rise by a boy who had cold issues last winter is noted after tonsil removal. Two brothers depart Monday with a combined 2 pounds more than registration.
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Good Health
U S Ships Authorized to Evacuate Child Refugees
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved unanimously a bill to allow U S vessels to remove refugee children from European war zones. Each vessel would display an American flag and a label identifying it as a refugee child rescue ship of the United States, and must have safe conduct granted by all warring nations.
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Washington
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Death of Countess Helene de Portes Links to Reynaud Collision
The Countess Helene de Portes, once close to France's Premier Paul Reynaud, was killed in the June 28 Montpelier automobile crash that also injured Reynaud. Diplomats say she influenced Reynaud and shifted sympathy to the Petain-Beaudoin faction, while planning a possible marriage to Reynaud.
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London
France
Madame du Barry
Helene de Portes
Paul Reynaud
Germany
Reynaud
Montpelier
Washington
United States
Paris
Tours
Bordeaux
Edouard Daladier
Paul Baudoin
William C. Bullitt
Floods and Heat Bat Iowa Towns in Storm Toll
Waves of rain drenched Fayette Clayton Floyd counties with up to seven and a half inches in nine hours. Tracks flooded near Brainard Elkader and Rock Island line. Cedar Rapids and Des Moines saw only traces. Heat peaked at 110 in Williamsburg and 198 in Council Bluffs with 16 deaths from heat and nine drownings reported.
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Iowa
Fayette
Clayton
Floyd
Rock Island
Brainard
Fayeelle Raunts
Otter Creek
Turkey River
Clermont
Elkader
Cedar Rapids
Waterlan
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Sioux City
Ames
Fort Dodge
Cherokee
Webster City
Town Falls
Mason City
Grundy Center
Des Moines
Linn Coun Ty
Troy Mills
Central City
Center Point
Troy
Benton County
Keystone
Vinton
Turner Hall
Waterloo
Williamsburg
Council Bluffs
Mercury
Forest City
Davencport
Thundershowers End Nationwide Heat Wave Sharply
United Press reports a cool front breaks a week of extreme heat across the nation. Temperatures fell rapidly in Milwaukee and Chicago with isolated wind and hail, while northern Illinois faced significant power outages from lightning and falling trees. The heat toll nears 400 deaths as relief spreads toward the Ohio River valley and Oklahoma.
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United Press
Milwaukee
Chiccago
Iowa
Illinois
Ohio River Vale
New York
Oklahoma
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William Cunningham
Hart
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