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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1940
Page
2
In Litchfield on June 16, members of a Jehovah's Witness group distributing literature were assaulted and cars wrecked. About 659 sect members were held at the small jail as fights erupted and vehicles were overturned. Police said arrests were made with police protection amid heat and excitement.
Chicago police will arraign 42 year old Clint Earl Jett of Markham tomorrow on driving while intoxicated charges after an ash last night injured State Policeman Joan Salvatori. Salvatori said Jett was too drunk to talk about the accident. A squad car beacon struck an auto driven by attorney Barney Padres and his wife Thelma and their three year old son Edward.
A Stockholm dispatch to the London Daily Express reports German transports have resumed Wins to Norway to pick up Nazi troops for an Iceland invasion. The plan allegedly uses airborne assaults with parachute troops and seeks to convert Iceland into a German air base for attacks on Britain.
June 16 Chungking reports a Japanese raid that forced the Tutuila sunboat crew to shelter as bomb fragments showered over the 870 ton ship. Eyewitnesses described bombs over the U S embassy and foreign consular districts. The attack left thousands homeless and damaged the French Catholic school, Bible school, and Chungking hostel.
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In Dublin on June 16 Prime Minister Eamon De Valera joined William Cosgrave and Wal Lam Norton on one platform at a vast College Green unity rally. They urged disciplined, united action to defend national freedom and neutrality as dangers to Eire grow, calling for solidarity under legitimate authority.
Washington June 15 Dr Rep Smith said he would push quick House passage of Senate changes to alien control legislation. The bill includes fingerprinting of all aliens and registration of about 4,006,000 aliens. It carries penalties for advocating overthrow, insubordination, or mutiny in the armed forces, with prison and fine provisions and targets Communists and related groups.
Excavation starts today by Baker and Coombs contractors on the Diamond Department store expansion. The three story addition will nearly double floor space, with a basement. Baker and Coombs also handle the Montgomery Ward expansion now over halfway done.
London reports on June 16 say Soviet Russia moved into five Lithuanian cities seen as Stalin's first step toward opposing Hitler. Observers expect a new government acceptable to the Soviet Union, while Lithuania's president fled and Merkys becomes president. Tanks and troops moved into Kaunas as talks with Lithuanian leaders continue.
Two people died and four were injured in an east Columbus automobile collision. The deceased were Grover Alman and his wife Helen, both residents of Columbus. The report also notes Panama’s desire for a transisthmian highway linking Panama City and Colon.
Clinton New Jersey June 16 Presidential dispatch reports Ethel Bunny Soh 22 a holdup murderess and two other women prisoners escaped from Clinton reformatory by sliding from a dormitory window on a rope of bedsheets outside aid suspected. Mrs Sohl serving life for a holdup murder of bus driver William Barhorst Miss Roberts a prison library worker knew nothing of the plot. Stadler a New Yorker and Russo a Philadelphia woman both short term offenders for larceny. Salvador pushing road building program.
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