Spirit Displayed by U S Officers in Big Army Games
Kilgallen reports on a major peacetime maneuver by the Red Second Army and Blue Third Army in Louisiana. Officers manning command posts and staffs like G 2 G 3 and G 4 coordinate maps, plans, and supply as hundreds of khaki troops move in a simulated battle. The piece highlights officer spirit and the intensive, day and night work at headquarters.
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U.S
Kilgallen
Second Army
Louisiana
INS
Shreveport
Third Army
Charles Knaub
76Th Infantry
107Th
Cleveland
de Ridder
Henderson Pushes Longer Work Week for Defense Plants
Price Administrator Leon Henderson urged extending the work week in selected defense-related industries to raise overall production. Testifying before the House Banking Committee on the price control bill, he noted the current average manufacturing work week at about 40.3 hours.
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Washington (Ap
Leon Henderson
House Banking Committee
Henderson
Lamance Murder Conviction Reversed by Court
The Missouri Supreme Court reversed the murder conviction of Dr William F Lamance for the 1938 fruit cellar death of his nurse wife. The osteopath and former boxer has been free on bond during appeal and was granted a new trial by the court.
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Jefferson City, Mo
William F. Lamance
State Supreme Court
Lamance
Warner cites Nye praise of Nazi spy film before Senate
Warner Brothers president Harry M. Warner testified to a senate subcommittee that Senator Nye endorsed the film Confessions of a Nazi Spy in 1939. He read Ed Harrison’s telegram noting Nye hoped for more films about propaganda from foreign lands after Nye viewed the picture on May 11, 1939.
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Washington
Harry M. Warner
Warner Brothers
Senate
Nye
Warner
Senate Interstate Commerce
Ed Harrison
Warner Advertising
Clark
Willkie Defends Films Showing Nazi Light in Hearings
In an interview, Harrison quotes a statement attributed to Willkie as counsel for the motion picture industry. He argues producers simply exercised entertainment judgment in making films that depict Nazism unfavorably. The subcommittee reviews a formal inquiry into propaganda with a resolution pending.
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Subcommittee
Harrison
Advertising Man
Wendell L. Willkie
Bombsights from German Planes Used in U.S. Testimony
FBI agent William Friedeman testified at the espionage trial that he overheard Herman Lang discuss enlarging a plant and using bombsight components from German planes in experiments at an American factory. Lang, a Norden draftsman, is accused of supplying German authorities with secrets. Sebold described his Gestapo–FBI work and identified Lang among many spies.
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New York
United States
William Friedeman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Sebold
FBI
Herman Lang
Friedeman
Lang
Gestapo
German police ban Catholic groups in Bromberg city
Berlin AP reports the Gestapo dissolved and banned all Catholic church choirs and church societies in Bromberg now named Bydgoszcz. The decree labels them hostile to the state and forbids any reestablishment efforts. Their property was confiscated.
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Berlin
Bromberg
Bydgoszcz
Gestapo
Park Avenue's Leading Bachelor Ends His Life
Gerald Tiffany, a dapper New York stock broker once dubbed Park Avenue's leading bachelor, died by suicide. The incident ends a noted social figure formerly active in exclusive circles. Police drew no immediate explanation, and relatives declined further comment.
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Park Avenue
New York (Lp
Gerald Tiffany
Man Commits Suicide by Gas Triggering Apartment Explosion
A man committed suicide by turning on a kitchen gas range Thursday causing a blast that wrecked one apartment and damaged another. He had faced fraud-related arrest history and had been ordered to appear before Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora on a brokerage order case. He left notes to a friend and Dorothy Bruce before the blast.
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Bachelor
Tiffany
Supreme Court
Ferdinand
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