The New Order Comes to Lidice Editorial Note
An editorial condemns Nazi brutality after Lidice is razed and its residents killed or sent to camps, urging united resistance. It links Lidice to towns like Highmore Parkston Clark Scotland Mott Hebron Wishek and warns appeasement fails. It calls all citizens to defend liberty and prepare for a future under occupation.
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Lidice
White
Ear
Hennes
Highmore
Parkston
Clark
Scotland
Mott
Hebron
Wishek
Vor
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Hitler
Herrenvolk
Order
Aberdeen Bond Case Jury Frees Hammerquist On All Counts
Aberdeen June 25 A jury acquitted Commissioner Earl Hammerquist longtime custodian of the permanent school fund after seven and a half hours of deliberation. The panel found no case to answer on the charge of faking a $500 payoff tied to a $210000 bond sale. Moodie remains to be tried over alleged payoffs connected to Burns.
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Aberdeen
Earl Hammerquist
Easy Todian
Permanent School Fund
Phill T. Burns
South Dakota
van Buren Perry
Hammerquist
Arthur J. Moodie
Rural Credits Board
Burns
Moodie
Rainstorms Hit Most Of State In South Dakota
Heavy rain drenched east central and northeast South Dakota with Brookings at 2.40 inches the top total. Huron 0.89, Watertown 0.83, Aberdeen 0.81, Ashley 1.12. Smaller totals in Lemmon 0.25, Bowman 0.12, Sioux Falls 0.11. A severe thunderstorm near Milo Harms farm northwest of Willow Lake killed three cows and a hog as 3.25 inches fell in about an hour before midnight. Crops and rough land suffered some wash damage. strong winds reported but no wind damage noted.
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East Central
South Dakota
Brookings
Huron
Watertown
Aberdeen
Ashley
N. D
Lemmon
Sioux Falla
Milo Harms
Willow Lake
Band Concert Program Huron Municipal Band
Huron Municipal Band directed by Hans Christensen with J W Campbell presents a Thursday 8 PM concert featuring Star Spangled Banner March Basses on the Rampage Huppine Overture Gypsy Queen King Waltz Oriental Roses Ivanovici Hawaiian selections arranged by Lake Remember Pearl Harbor Reid Kaye Overture Princess of India King Characteristic Sliding Jim Losey The Land We Love Westphal Clarinet Polka Art by Bennett Medley Superba Dalbey March Bravura Anceste Duble and Star Spangled Banner.
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Huron Municipal Band
Hans Christensen
J. W. Campbell Park
Ivanovici
Lake
Pearl Harbor
Reid-Kaye
Losey
Westphal
Bennett
Dalbey March
Anceste Duble
South Dakota Exempt From Tax
Washington reports that South Dakota is listed among 22 states granting full or near exemptions from state sales and similar taxes on Army cost plus fixed fee contracts. Lt. Gen. Somervell notes many states classify construction as consumer activity, limiting exemptions, while Case requests clearer cooperation. War Department calls taxes a raid on the federal treasury and urges uniformity.
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Washington
South Dakota
Army
House Appropriations
B. B. Somervell
Services of Supply
Representative Case
Republican
Somervell
War Department
Death of Young Father in Motorcycle Collision Near Ellendale
In Minneapolis on June 25, Keith Bymers, 21, an unmarried father, was killed while en route to Ellendale North Dakota for burial. His motorcycle collided with a cattle truck, causing fatal injuries. The widow and child reside in Guelph, Nebraska.
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Minneapolis
Keith Bymers
Ellendale
N. D
Thia
Bymers
Chia
Gessner
Byron
Guelph, Ne
Japs Claim Widening Of Aleutian Hold
The Associated Press reports Tokyo asserts its forces are widening control in the Aleutians. Japanese sea-borne units occupied Kiska and Attu on June 738 and are consolidating in nearby islands. Roosevelt, Churchill, and other leaders were to discuss the Pacific threat as Allied forces push back in China and Burma amid renewed Japanese offensives along the Chekiang Kwangsi railway and at Hankow.
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Amperial
Tokyo
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pacific War Council
Kiska
Attu Islands
Besereast
Narukami
Attu
Atsuta
Nagoya
James H. Doolittle
Washington
MacKenzie King
Canada
Pacific Northwest
Pacific
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Kweiki
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Flying Tigers
Burma
Hankow
Japan
Occupied
AVG
Yangtze River
Chekiang Province
Lishui
Germany halts telephone links with non Axis nations
An Ex US Telegraph dispatch from Zurich reports the German high command ordered a total stop to all telephone communication between Germany and non Axis countries. The measure, issued in late June, expands wartime isolation.
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London
Zurich
Germany
Raid on Huron rigs backs basement sew street actions
Police report a sequence of raids on Huron rigs and basement operations tied to an 80 task network. Investigators describe street backing and coordinated efforts to disrupt illicit activity across multiple sites. Names and exact locations are withheld pending further court actions.
Eyewitness Account Of Dutch Harbor Attack June 3
Eyewitnesses describe the Japanese air raid on Dutch Harbor at 5 45 a m June 3 as civilians were surprised while gunners on ship and shore battle the dive bombers. Crew and soldiers aided by anti aircraft fire while the transport navy base commander praises courage under fire. reports note four bombers and 16 fighters involved with later reconnaissance flights.
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Seattle
Dutch Harbor
Army
Bess
Blackout Killer Hanged In London
Gordon Frederick Cummins, 28, an RAF cadet dubbed the most notorious killer since Jack the Ripper, was hanged at Wandsworth Prison for the murder of Mrs Evelynn Oatley, one of four women linked to the blackout killings that terrorized London’s west end last winter. Justice Sir Cyril Asquith described the crime as a sadistic sexual murder of a ghoulish type.
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London
Gordon Frederick Cummins
Jack the Ripper
Wandsworth
Evelynn Oatley
The War Today Hitler Pressures Kharkov Front
World War Analyst DeWitt MacKenzie reports that Hitler shifts to a blunt assault on the Red line at Kharkov amid heavy losses on both sides. The Donets basline shows breaches with high German casualties and stronger Soviet resistance under Red Marshal Timoshenko.
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Hitler
Kharkov
Dewitt MacKenzie Ide
Naxi
Golden
Caucasus
Timoshenko
Eisenhower Takes Command of European Theater in London
Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of American forces in the European theater. The War Department said the move formalizes a coordinated Allied effort and noted his prior roles, including chief of operations and staff positions in San Antonio and Camp Custer.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
London
War Department
Eisenhower
General Staff
Europe
James E. Chaney
British Isles
Russell P. Hartle
Northern Ireland
Eisen Hower
England
Great Britain
United States
Ee Eisenhower
Tyler
Tax
Use Department
War Plans Division
Third Army
San Antonio
Tex
Tank Area Training Center
Camp Couittysburg
Philippine Commonwealth
White River Girl Runner-Up In V-Girl Contest
Miss Theowne Petty, 19, Colorado, crowned Midwest V Girl in a six-state event for health and personality. Brasher, 17, and Mae Paty Burs from Ndaken also noted in the pageant coverage.
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White River
Theowne Petty
Colorado
Cal
Midwest
Gist
Ndaken
Beau Mae
Paty
Brasher
Penetrate Sixty Miles Beyond Egyptian Border
Allied forces report Rommel's tanks sweeping into Egypt beyond 60 miles as British defenses falter. Eisenhower is named commander of the American European theater. Axis gains include Fort Capuzzo Halfaya Pass and Sidi Barrani with Halfaya Pass seen as a likely British stand. War front developments hint at looming clashes near the Suez Canal.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Suez Canal
Adolf Hitler
Europe
U. S
War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Madge
London
Eisenhower
Britain
Cairo
Sidi Barrani
Dalian
Evll
Salam
Mediterranean
Sidi Omar
Fort Capuzzo
Halfaya
Salum
Rubber Shortage No Problem Says Testifies Plentiful Supply
Dr. William J. Hale testified before a House mining subcommittee that with 100 million dollars, men, and priorities he could produce all national rubber需求 in a year. He proposed about 100 plants and 45,000 pounds daily output from grain and waxy maize, with 150 million more for processing scraps, claiming synthetic rubber could lower cost to about 25 cents per pound. He argued no disruption to corn crop and urged swift federal support.
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Washington
William J. Hale
Chemurgy
House
Organic
University Os
Dow Chemical Company
National Agrol Company
Hale
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Neil M. Ritchie
Rommel
Ritchie
Willoughby Norrie
Straafar
Lance Light
Navy
John W. Fletcher
Unalaska
Unalaska Bay
MacKenzie
Gen. Eisenhower
Matruh
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