GOP Plank on Foreign Policy Approved at Convention
Philadelphia June 25 AP The Republican platform for 1940 including a foreign policy plank attacking Roosevelt defense record an antiwar pledge and aid to oppressed peoples was approved by the resolutions committee. Landon disclosed the action and said it could allow future presidential latitude.
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Philadelphia
Party
Resolutions Committee
Herbert Hyde
Alf M. Landon
Landon
United States
Platform Committee
C. Wayland Brooks
Ilinois
Great Britain
Brooks
Roosevelt
FDR Outlines Plan to Train Youths for Naval Reserve
A White House plan canvasses young reserve lieutenants to recruit 9,000 for voluntary extended active duty with the regular army reserve officers training corps and other units. Selected lieutenants may receive long service in foreign garrisons to free officers for troop training in the United States. The plan includes a month of sea instruction, with the first cruise set to begin around July 16, followed by competitive selection for naval reserve midshipman appointments.
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Air Corps
Regular Army
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Organized Reserve
Army
Panama
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Alaska
United States
White House
Naval Reserve Midshipmen
Hoover’s End of New Deal War Aims Trump GOP
Based on convention remarks, Joseph E. Pew may shift over fifty Pennsylvania votes to Senator Taft on the second ballot, reshaping the contest as Dewey gains ground and Willkie clings to a developing underdog status. Hoover drafts a foreign policy plank calling for defense, a stay-out-of-war pledge, and aid to oppressed peoples while preserving national unity amid party debates. He signals openness to a Roosevelt third term, argues against dictatorship and argues for a republic built on liberty and constitutional restraint.
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Joseph E. Pew
Pennsylvania
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Pew
Arthur H. James
Taft
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Hoover
France
England
America
Europe
Stalin
Hitler
Mr. Roosevelt
Republic
Ensigns Set From 90 Day Shore Course
A three month shore course will qualify men as ensigns in the volunteer reserve. The initial 90 day program for midshipmen starts August 17 aboard the USS Illinois in New York.
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Volunteer Reserve
Illinois
New York
Churchill rails at French fleet surrender and hopes for liberation
Churchill told the House of Commons the French government ordered the surrender of its fleet violating solemn assurances. He cited the armistice text showing ships could pass to German or Italian control while armed. He urged French empire posts to continue the struggle and hinted at a government of liberation rising in the empire.
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Churchill
House of Commons
Premier Petain
England
Two motorists sue after Savannah collision court order
In Savannah on June 25 two cars collided and two drivers sued for $30 each. Judge Columbus E. Alexander ruled for both claims and ordered the drivers to pay one another. Separate note mentions the Knight of the Garter requires wearing insignia day and night with many knights keeping the silver badge by their beds.
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Savannah
Columbus E. Alexander
Prague natives use chill remover to warm beer
A Prague practice involves placing a metal gadget filled with boiling water into beer stems to warm drinks. The item, dubbed a chill remover, is used by locals in Bohemia or Czechoslovakia to alter serving temperature.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Italy Gains Limited Armistice Occupation Rights in Alps
Rome reports Italy earns a slim border occupation in the Alps and full rights over Jibuti along with control of the Franco-Italian railway segment to Addis Ababa. Demilitarized zones stretch 30 to 120 miles in France Tunis and French Somaliland as France withdraws troops within 10 days.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Alps
North Africa
Jibuti
France
Mediterranean
Britain
Nice
Savoy
Corsica
Jibati
Gulf of Aden
Addis Ababa
Ethopia
Tunis
French Somaliland
Acquitted of Arson in Fires at Kansas U Phi Delta Theta
Lawrence Kansas June 25 A district court jury acquitted John M Claflin a University of Kansas student of arson connected with a series of fires at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house last fall after seven hours deliberation. He lives in Kansas City Kansas.
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Lawrence
Kas
John M. Claflin
Phi Delta Theta
Claflin
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Couple Fatally Shot in Joplin Home
Floyd Calentine aged 32 and his wife Mattie Calentine 22 were fatally shot at her mother's home in Joplin Missouri. Mrs Calentine’s death was ruled homicide and Floyd Calentine’s death ruled death by own action.
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Joplin
Floyd Calentine
Mattie Calentine
Gertie Sisson
A. N. Winchester
Canadian oil output rises fourfold in two years
Over the last twenty four months crude petroleum production from Canadian wells has quadrupled, signaling a strong expansion in oil activity. Analysts note higher extraction from new fields and improved recovery methods driving growth despite global market fluctuations.
Terms of Peace Price Officially Announced by Germany and Italy
The June 22 forest of Compiegne accord sets terms for France to withdraw and demobilize as Germany and Italy control occupied zones. French armed forces, weapons, and materials in the area would be disarmed or transferred, with a German Italian armistice commission overseeing implementation and France bearing occupation costs.
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France
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Briancon
Menton
Italy
Britain
North Africa
Europe
England
Toulon
Bizerte
Tunisia
Oran
Algeria
Ajaccio
Corsica
Germany
Paris
Charles Huntzinger
Wilhelm Kietel
Forest of
Compiegne
Missouri Delegates Still Undecided on Presidential Choice
Missouri Republican delegates remained undecided as they organize momentum for Dewey Short. Barak Mattingly said support for Short comes from multiple states while Louis Miller reported Willkie strength rising. Queeny cited a poll showing 79 percent favor Willkie and details on delegate preferences across districts.
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Missouri
Philadelphia
Dewey Short
Barak T. Mattingly
St. Louis
Short
Alabama
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Oklahoma
Kansas
Iowa
Galena
Mattingly
Grover Dalton
Poplar Bluff
Harold Stassen
Minnnesota
Eighth
Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Taft
Ohio
Vandenberg
Hoover
Government Talks With Ford Collapse In Defense Deal Rift
The defense commission leader Mead said Knudsen relayed that British motor contracts would be separate from U S war department deals. An Anglo French plan sought 6000 engines with 3000 to the United States, but on June 19 Rolls Royce drawings arrived as Henry Ford announced he would not produce engines for Great Britain.
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Mead
Knudsen
The
Defense Commission
Ford
Motors
United States War Department
Edsel Ford
United States
Rolls Royce
Ford Company
Henry Ford
Great Britain
Reciprocal Trade Pacts Declared Dead by Willkie
AP reports Wendell Willkie called reciprocal trade agreements a dead issue saying they have been legislated out by Hitler. He defended his stance on international trade treaties, insisting he does not change his position and that old positions are obsolete amid European victories creating unprecedented global conditions.
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Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
Hitler
Europe
Willkie
Mule's Kick Fatal in Pettis County Farmer Dies
Pettis County farmer Robert Conway, 46, was fatally kicked by a mule and died in a hospital today after the incident near Sedalia.
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Sedalia
Robert Conway
Pettis County
1938 Steel Used in Refrigerators Report
In 1938 American manufacturers used about 121000 gross tons of steel to produce 1425000 gas and electric refrigerators at an estimated 190 pounds of steel per unit. The data reflect industry output and material intensity for home appliances.
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