Japan weighs new cabinet as war fronts flash across Asia
Tokyo reports Prince Konoye forming a new cabinet after resignation to face a shifting world situation. Emper or Hirohito may install the government tomorrow with Kiichiro Hiranuma likely remaining as home minister. Foreign policy hinges on who will replace Yosuke Matsuoka as foreign minister amid Axis ties and talks with Britain and the United States. Concurrent dispatches from Shanghai say reservists are being called up and Kobe has restricted foreign access as Tokyo prepares possible moves in Southeast Asia. The cabinet crisis is seen as clarifying Japan's stance on Asia and possible rapprochement with the Allies.
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Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro
Konoye
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Hironuma
Eiki Tojo
Koshiro Oikawa
Shanghai
Japan
Asia
Britain
United States
China
Manchukuo
Kobe
Indo-China
Thailand
Netherlands East Indies
New Season High Of 99 Set Today In Huron
After 26 days of cool weather in Huron the day opened at 75 degrees at 6 30 am and rose to 99 by 1 20 pm setting a seasonal high. Forecaster Las kowski predicted cooler tonight with possible thundershowers, while central Dakota towns reported rising temperatures with Pierre noting 96 at noon.
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Huron
Mercury
B. R. Laskowski
Toni Ht
Associated Press
Central i Dekota
Grasn
Pierre
Lottery to set priorities for 21 year old draftees
In a two hour public ceremony in Washington Navy Secretary Knox will draw the second national selective service lottery. The event determines order of call up for about 750,000 registrants who reached 21 since the first draft. Secretary Stimson unable to attend.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Navy
Knox
Stimson
Strikers Return To Their Jobs After Plant Clash
Rock throwing protesters at Air Associates Bendix New Jersey blocked the day shift of 400 workers for hours with police protection restoring work after noon. At least six people were injured in clashes with police and tear gas following the shift’s initial attempt to enter the plant. The dispute began when CIO United Auto Workers picketed Bendix over nine dismissals, drawing 600 to 2,000 outside demonstrators and prompting Sheriff Browne to request state troopers from Governor Edison.
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Associated Press
CIO
Air Associates, Inc
Bendix
N. J
Cio-United Automobile Workers
William KR. Browne
Berri County
Charles Edison
Browne
Thirteen More Maasdam Survivors Arrive In London
London reports 13 more survivors of the Maasdam torpedoed in the north Atlantic last month arrive in the city. Among them are six American Red Cross nurses and seven U. S. Marines including Sergeant ich of Marble, Minn. Nurses describe dinner moments before the strike and the slippery ladder aboard as passengers recall actions during the sinking. Miss Shuttleworth provided first aid to the liner’s third officer.
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London
Frances Bacon
Farmington
Mich
Nursea
Miss Shuttleworth
Beadle County Selective Service Lottery Details
Beadle County officials report tonight's national lottery will place every 23rd older registrant into the uninducted list, following the July 1 registration of 112 men. The ratio, based on May be adjusted by a potential amendment, reflects those registered last October and aged over 26, with about 20 percent older than 26.
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Beadle County
Beadle Counter
Congress
Marshall Urges National Emergency for Extended Service
General George C. Marshall told the Senate Military Committee an urgent military need for a national emergency to permit retention of selectees reserves and National Guardsmen beyond one year. He said extending service would improve war department efficiency and that Congress should declare the nation imperilled to grant more leeway, while noting no specific EXPEDITIONARY force was envisioned.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
Congress
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Marshall
Gener
Austin
Vermont
Brasil
Pan-American Airways
Brazil
Band Concert at Municipal Park Thursday Evening
Concert program led by Director J W Campbell features overtures and waltzes including Strong and True Perfidia Tales from the Vienna Woods In the Valley of the Moon and Song selections with vocal solos by Kenneth Knapp Bryan Brown Dexter Frary and Kenneth Knapp also includes Heroic March Punjab You Waltz By and Star Spangled Banner at the July 17 7 45 P M event in America Triumphant Battalion Rosenkrans.
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Rand
Ang Christensen
J. W. Campbell
America
Rosenkrans
Ed Kiesler
Alberto Dominguez
Scott Dexter
Vienna Woods
Johann Strauss
DB. Becker
Xbnnneth Knapp
India
H. BE
Punjaab
Payne
Bombers Hit Hamburg and Rotterdam in Raid Blitz
British air ministry reports a 24 hour period ending July 17 saw heavy daylight strikes on Rotterdam and a nighttime offensive against Hamburg and other northwestern German targets. Blenheim bombers in two waves caused fires and direct hits despite heavy anti aircraft fire. RAF losses cited as three planes in the night raid and four in the Rotterdam operation. Docks and warehouses at Boulogne were damaged in coast action.
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London
Hamburg
German Reich
Air Ministry
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Germany
Reich
Ministry
RAF
Boulogne
Encephalitis Claims Fourth Victim Near Fargo
Encephalitis continued to take lives in the Fargo Moorhead area with the death of Morgan Ford a 72 year old Castelton North Dakota bank president who had been hospitalized since July 4 He was a brother in law of United States Senator William Hanger Ventura Masuca a 61 year old Mexican beet field worker near Moorhead Minnesota also died in a hospital there after illness since Saturday.
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Fargo Fargo
N. D
Fargo-Moorhead
Morgan Ford
Castelton
Ford
U.S
Wiliam Hanger
Ventura Masuca
Moorhead
Minn
War Today Uncertainty of Russo-German War Probed
DeWitt MacKenzie surveys the evolving Russo German war as German thrust toward Smolensk threatens the Moscow corridor. The piece ponders whether Russian defenses can halt the Nazi advance and if a spearhead nears within 110 miles of Moscow, risking a salient being pinched off.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Lms
Smolensk
Moscow
Hods
Germans claim Smolensk captured in major front drive
Berlin reports nine million German and Soviet troops in struggle for decision on the eastern front. German high command says Smolensk 230 miles west of Moscow has fallen, while Russian communiques claim the area remains contested and Moscow advance progress continues elsewhere on the vast front.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Adolf Hitler
Pakor- Peukhpe
Fren
Smolensk
Itebsk
Dnepr
Dbe
Pskov-Porkhov
Hobruisk
Pskov
Porkhov
Hed
Novo‘grad Volynski
Red Air Fleet
Red Army
Pravda
Sacre Parte Nevaspapar
Hango
Kiev
Novograd
Volynski
Gachey
Roane
Bobruisk
Communi
Associated Press
Igh
DNR
Hitler
Polotsk
Stalin
Gulf of Finland
Black Sea
Vitebal
Berlin
Schnell Truppen
Chisinaw
Bessarabia
Schnell
Cow
DNB
Dvina
Vitebsk
Chisinau
Zhitomir
Berdichev
Russian Ukraine
Gorodische
Germany
Huron plans special bond election for sewer improvements
City officials announce a special election on July 22 to issue negotiable bonds of 34000 for enlarging and improving the sewage treatment plant. W. W. Towne, state health division director, notes reduced flow in the James River causes poor dilution, leading to nuisance conditions and sanitation concerns.
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Huron
Board of City Commissioners
Fey
W. W. Towne
Division of Sanitary Engineering
State Board of Health
Epec Huron
James River
State
Board of Health
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