Italy Moves Toward War as Mussolini Sets Final Steps
Rome orders gasoline consuming vehicles off streets and tightens fuel storage as Italy readies for war on Germany. A Franco mission visits Milan en route to Berlin while Mussolini plans cabinet and fascist council actions signaling decisive steps toward mobilization.
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Rome
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Germany
League of Nations
Francisco Franco
Spain
Milan
Genoa
Brenner Pass
War era air crashes and raids span several fronts
A Douglas airliner crash near Los Angeles during navy tests leaves 12 to 15 presumed dead. Paris reports a Marseille bombing as a possible prelude to Italy joining the war. Swiss forces shoot down a German bomber over Jura. British radio notes French casualties from a Paris air raid near Lyons. Hitler orders release of Dutch prisoners who fought as soldiers.
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Paris
INS
Marseilles
Italy
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Switzerland
Jura
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
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War Summary by United Press
France and Germany launch mass attacks along the Somme as Allied lines hold. Fighting heats up between Amiens and Abbeville while Paris reaffirms British French unity. Evacuations at Dunkirk and Calais proceed as Britain claims a military triumph. Germany reports sinking ships and a push toward Britain. Issues of fuel and air raids, and possible Turkish entry loom as India strengthens forces.
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Amiens
Abbeville
Channel
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Lille
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Calais
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Dunkerque
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Germany
Britain
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Hitler
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Norway
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Turkey
London
Balkans
Mediterranean
Apelles Lesson On Expertise Across Trades
The essay warns against experts overreaching beyond their field as Apelles corrected a cobbler who misjudged his artwork. It argues that success in one art or science does not grant authority in another and critiques the push to test faith by laboratory methods. Religion and science need distinct methods for different meanings.
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Apelles
Jane Carlyle
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Berlin Hails First Phase Victory In War
German sources claim the first phase of Adolf Hitler's offense ends in triumph with three French armies destroyed the British expeditionary force defeated and the Nelson sunk. They report mass Allied prisoner losses, Italian entry possible, and continued German advances around Dunkerque Lille and Abb Ville with air and naval successes.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Nelson
England
June Arrives With Summer Weather in Cedar Rapids
June brought summer warmth to Cedar Rapids with a 53 degree start at 5 a.m. rising to 83 by 2 p.m. The day peaked at 79 at 3 p.m., then cooled to 73 at 7 p.m. and 58 at midnight, per Chambers Inskeep company readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Knowledge of One Word of French Saves Flyer's Life
A New Zealand Royal Air Force officer on the Somme front survived a crash behind German lines by using one French word Attendez to persuade a French sentry he was a friend. He had rescued his wounded companions, destroyed their papers, and avoided capture amid hostile shadows. He later dined with a French general as a hero.
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Somme
New Zealand
Royal Air Force
No Mans Land
Attendez
England
Distiller's Agent Charged With Illegal Liquor Transport
Des Moines reports Felix Edwards, Iowa representative for Century Distilling of Peoria, faces arrest after returning to Iowa amid a governor led probe into illegal liquor entry. An information filed in Burlington charges Edwards with illegal transportation of liquor. his associate Lytton Younker was fined 750 dollars after 14 cases of liquor were seized from his car. State agents recovered nine cases in Osceola and 20 state liquor seals were found in Younker's car, prompting suspension of the distillery by the Iowa liquor control commission.
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INS
Felix Edwards
Iowa
Century Distilling Company
Peoria
Edwards
Burlington
Delbert Murphy
Illinois
Osceola
Lytton M. Younker
Hungary Names Ion Gigurtu Foreign Minister
In Bucharest Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu resigned due to ill health and was replaced by Ion Gigurtu a close friend of the German government. Gigurtu 48 former manager of a gold exploitation concern is trusted by King Carol to realign Romania toward Berlin and Moscow.
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Grigore Gafencu
Ion Gigurtu
Gafencu
Gigurtu
Carol
Berlin
Moscow
More Groups Aid Children Toward Health
Evelyn a nine year old from Cedar Rapids is undernourished with dental and tonsil issues. Public Health Nursing nurses seek funds to send her to Camp Good Health for summer care and nourishment. Donations support the camp operated for physically handicapped children in need.
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Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health
Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Montgomery to report for front as ambulance driver
Paris dispatch says actor Robert Montgomery received his ambulance driver uniform Saturday and will depart for the front Monday to serve in the medical unit.
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Paris
Robert Montgomery
France Endures New Somme Drive On Front Near Amiens
German forces opened a ferocious assault along the 20 mile Somme front from Amiens to the sea. Stuka dive bombers and tanks supported heavy artillery as reports said German attacks were repelled with limited gains. Allied forces and a large French motorized group reportedly withdrew to the Dunkerque arc.
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Germany
Somme
Amiens
Sea
Wedsee
Abbeville
Lille
Daring RAF Defiants Hit Dunkirk in Courageous Mission
Reporter Newell Rogers recalls Britain's first squadron of Defiant fighters and Hurricanes taking off from a southeastern England airfield to engage 80 German aircraft above Dunkirk. After 85 minutes they returned with 12 shootdowns but at least half a dozen planes failed to return, underscoring the cost of aiding the Dunkirk evacuation.
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Ins
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Channel
Dunkerque
Royal Air Force
British Denies Details On Nelson Sinking For Military Reasons
German sources claimed the Nelson was sunk with 700 lives lost, but Britain refused all details for special military reasons. The Nelson, sister ship to the Rodney, is a 33,950-ton battleship completed in 1925 with 16 inch guns and heavy armor, normally 1,361 crew.
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Berlin
Scapa Flow
British Navy Doubts Nelson Sinking Claim
British naval sources on Saturday dismissed the German claim that the flagship Nelson had been sunk as not worthy of denial, according to London reports.
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London
Gross Replies To Article On Mile Reno Employment
Des Moines AP report says H R Gross accused Governor Wilson and his aides of using a writer for a town newspaper to attack him. Gross, a former Des Moines radio newscaster and GOP Senate candidate, cited a 1934 letter by Harrison Spangler and defended Milo Reno against branding as radical.
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H R Gross
Wilson
Grass
Sovernor
Howard County
Milo Reno
Iowa
Gross
Harrison Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Reno
Spangler
Two Students Escape Injury in Cedar Rapids Crash
Ray Murphy Jr and Bill Green back seat passengers in a car driven by Devere Maxon. The Maxon car collided with a machine driven by Robert Holets at Fourth Avenue and Third Street SE. All three youths escaped injury as both cars sustained heavy damage. Holets was uninjured.
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Cedar Rapide News
Eddie Anderson
Iowa
Ray Murphy, Jr
Bill Green
Devere Maxon
Maxon
Robert J. Holets
Fourth Avenue
Third Street
Holets
Documents Claim Nazi Losses Reach Half Million on Front
New York AP report says British wireless broadcast picked up by CBS states French authorities found documents confirming Nazi losses of about 500000 men on the western front since April 10.
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Columbia Broadcasting System
Paris
Lyons
France
CBS
Western Front
Air Raid Alarms Sounded Across French Regions
Air raid alarms were sounded today in south eastern France with additional alarms reported in the central eastern region. No injuries were reported.
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Paris
France
BEF Evacuated From Dunkirk Amid Allied Withdrawal
Britain claims a massive rescue of 75 to 80 percent of the BEF from Flanders as General Gort earns praise for the Dunkirk retreat. King George decorates Gort, while French and British forces hold positions near Boulogne and Calais as Weygand reinforces the Somme front. Hungary aligns with the Axis, and Mussolini may seek a mediation peace proposal.
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