Italians in U S RAF Faces Closure No Respite
Washington reports Italy demands closing U S consulates in Italy and recall of American officers as part of Axis actions. The State Department says formal notification needed to reply. Britain intensifies raids on the European coast with Brest and Bremen targets and Luftwaffe losses noted.
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U.S
Washington
INS
U. S
Italy
Rome
State Department
Germany
Conavilal
Newark
Detroit
Palermo
Naples
London
Wessel
Rhineland
Boulogne
Air Ministry
Brest
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Aviatrix Cochran Arrives Safely to Britain for Ferry Study
Jacqueline Cochran the American aviatrix arrived in Britain to study the RAF ferrying program and the U S similar effort. She flew from Canada to England as a ferry pilot officer aboard the bombers with experience as America's ace woman flyer.
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New York
INS
Britain
Jacqueline Cochran
Aviatrix
M Cochran
Canada
England
RAF
Air Force
U. S
America
Cochran
Man 76 Ready for Colorado Death Sentence
CANON CITY Colo June 19 The 76 year old prisoner known as Mancos Jim Stephens sat calmly in Colorado penitentiary awaiting execution in the lethal chamber for the slaying of a town marshal His last appeal clemency was denied by Governor Ralph L Carr and he spent the day with prison chaplain and two daughters who would not disclose their names He told the warden I am ready and expressed little hope for reprieve
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Canon City
Colo
INS
Colorado Penitentiary
State
Mancos
Jim” Stephens
Stephens
Roy Best
Ralph L. Carr
Albert Schaller
Steps to Safeguard Phone Plant Told
Richard H. Ayre of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company said precautions have been taken to safeguard the plant against bombing and sabotage. Circuits are duplicated and rerouted while portable radios and emergency power equipment are deployed. The network has been expanded to serve wider areas and a premier defense oriented system is being set up for possible hostile air attack.
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Richard H. Ayre
Charleston
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Ayre
National Defense
Charleston Exchange Club
Russia Countering Demands of Germany
Britain has taken unusual precautions against a possible German thrust across the channel. Suspicion grows in England over recent small scale German air activity as the war develops and responses are prepared.
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RAF
Washington
U. S
Russia
Germany
Britain
Channel
England
Rumors of Nazi-Soviet Clashes and Radio Propaganda
Reports and broadcasts describe alleged clashes between Nazi and Soviet forces and Moscow’s criticisms of Turkey’s treaty with Germany. Helsinki Finnish radio voices liberation talk, while London presses debate Britain’s aid to Russia as political leaders weigh support amid looming conflict.
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Moscow
Radio Moscow
Balkans
Turkey
Helsinki
London
Russia
Finland
Uberty
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
EE Washington
Community church events and notices roundup
Circle No 3 of Sixth Street Methodist will host an ice cream social at 7 tonight in the basement. Dr Russell Ford evangelist will conduct a Lord's Supper service at 7 30 pm tomorrow at Free Will Baptist church East Bank. Circle 15 of Christ Methodist hosted a lunch yesterday at 5403 Kanawha Ave with Mesdarmes Hinterleitner Frame and others. Community Vacation Bible class guests to parish house party this evening. Rev H M Meyer will attend the 10th annual Lutheran pastors convention in Tyrone PA next week. Women’s Federation of Baptist temple held a luncheon led by G E Tribble with speakers Milam Rhodes Miller Ray Horner and Bright. Lamps of All Lands exhibited by Mrs Porter.
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Sixth Street Methodist Church
Russell Ford
Baltimore
Free Will Baptist
East Bank
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Christ Methodist Church
George F. Skidmore
Kanawha Avenue
Mesdarmes
G. A. Hinterleitner
C. 5
Frame
Auber Smith
Paducah, Ky
L. H Kelly
R. C. Wagner
B. W. Montegue
Richard Standish
Stanley P. Freeman
Ernest K. Frazier
H. R. McGowen
J. R. Belat
N. E. Shupe
David T. Smith
Lucy Slatser
First Baptist Church
B. ¥. Clark
Ruth S. Norman
W. A. Johnson
Arthur Jackson
Richard A. Patham
Edward Kydd
William All
H. M. Meyer
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Tyrone
American Lutheran Church
Women’s Federation of Baptist Temple
Iere
G. E B. Tribble
Walter F. Martens
Lewis Milam
Bill to Pay Couple in Huntington vetoed
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to pay Mr. and Mrs. T Earl Rodgers of Huntington West Virginia 2509 for the death of their daughter Aura Joan eight who was struck by a mail truck in front of their home on December 2 1938 He said the accident was not legally or morally the governments responsibility and noted sympathy for the family in his veto message to the Senate
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Washington
Roosevelt
T. Earl Rodgers
Huntington
W. Va
Aura Joan
20Th Street
Senate
Rumors of 400-Unit Low Rent Project Surface in Charleston
A Charleston Housing Authority spokesman says rumors of a 400 unit low rent project are driven by USHA survey work with no assurance of approval. Surveys have updated since the slum clearance drive. sites once available for Washington Manor and Littlepage Terrace have sold. The city has 474 tenants housed and no action on a supplemental project, seen as defense housing rather than immediate needs.
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USHA
Charleston
Charleston Housing Authority
Washington
Manor
Littlepage Terrace
Gait
CHA
Defense
Government Curtails Rubber Use for Defense Stockpile
The U S government orders curtailment of rubber consumption to build stock for defense. Processors will be allotted fixed percentages of their prior output while overall use drops from 17 000 tons annually to about 600 000 tons in the last half of 1941.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
U. 5
Ex Senator Rush D Holt Weds in Illinois
Former U S senator Rush D Holt wed Helen Froelich in Gridley Illinois. The ceremony at the bride’s home was led by Revs Lyon and Everroad. The couple plan a month long trip to Alaska the Pacific coast and Mexico City after the wedding.
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Gridley, Tl
Rush D. Holt
U.S
West Virginia
Helen Froelich
William &. Froelich
Willard Crosby Lyon
Congregational Church
Gary
Ind
Ralph W. Everroad
Union Congregational Church
Gridley
Holt
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