Huron Plans Jubilee July Fourth Pageant Parade and Rodeo
Rumania Speeds Mobilization As Russia Oversteps Limits. Huron readies a Diamond Jubilee celebration with a July Fourth pageant parade and rodeo. The program features dances, a flag ceremony, a historic pageant, a fifty-year residents tribute, a diamond ranch rodeo, and a band box dance hosted by Chester Field.
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Rumania
Russia
Huron
Chester Field
Field
J. W.campbell Park
George Chitty
Little Theatre Group
Central
South Dakota
State Fair Grounds
Nazis Report Three British Armed Merchantmen Sunk
Berlin reports the sinking of three British armed merchant ships totaling 11 000 tons by a German submarine in May. Additional submarines claimed 38 000 tons sunk. Air raids targeted armament works and port facilities in southern and central England with troop movements on Jersey and Guernsey. British air operations over Belgium and Holland disrupted German areas. four Allied planes were downed.
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Berlin
High Command
Air Force
England
Channel
Jersey
Gusmansey
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Aberdeen Proud Of Wendell Wilkie Rise From Dishwashing
Aberdeen residents celebrate Wendell L. Wilkie, once a city dishwasher and later Republican presidential nominee. The June 29 piece recalls his youth, early jobs at the Unique cafe run by Charles Shortiridge, and work in Dakota harvest fields before he found political prominence.
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Aberdeen
Wendell L. Willkie
Philadephia Convention
Willkie
K. P
Charles Shortiridge
Dakota
Food Stamp Plan Extends to Huron Beadle Counties
Secretary Wallace in Washington announced the federal food stamp plan to distribute surplus farm commodities to relief recipients will be extended to Huron and Beadle County. The plan has also been approved for Watertown, Codington County, Aberdeen and Brown County, with Beadle County creating a $10,000 revolving fund to finance operation. Organization work expected soon in Beadle County.
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Wallace
Washington
Huron
Beadle County
Associated Press
Richard Peace
Retail Merchants Association of
South Dakota
W. J. Bulow
Watertown
Cadington County
Aberdeen
Brown County
Pease
War Taxes Rise On Monday For Five Billion Rearmament Fund
Washington reports that a five year five billion dollar rearmament fund will trigger new and higher taxes starting Monday. Excise, commodity and service taxes rise 10 to 50 percent on items from beer and gasoline to radios and cigarettes. Personal exemptions fall, adding more taxpayers and a 100 percent super tax on normal income.
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Washington
Bank of Wilber Robbed for 2500 in Nebraska
Three gunmen robbed the Bank of Wilber in Nebraska, pistol whipped cashier Ed Beck, and escaped with an estimated 2500 dollars. State Sheriff George W Lang suspects escaped prisoners from Fort Madison were involved, with no witnesses besides the missing cashier. It was the second Nebraska bank robbery of the year.
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Wilber
Web
VPI
Bank of
George W. Lang
Ed Beck
Beck
Lang
Fort Madison
Nebraska
Willkie Pledges Crusading Campaign For America
Philadelphia June 29 Wendell Willkie Republican nominee pledged to fight for the preservation of American democracy and to lead a crusading aggressive campaign to unite the nation. He spoke after the Republican National Convention nominated Charles J. McNary for vice president and prepared for the party to organize a new committee and chairman.
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Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
White House
J Charles J. McNary
Oregon
Willkie
Republican National Committee
Old Nations
John Hamilton
America
Sub committee named on chairman sub committee named on chairman
In Philadelphia on June 29 the Republican National Committee chose Walter B Hallahan of West Virginia to chair a sub committee to confer with presidential nominee Wendell L Willkie on appointing a national party chairman. A conference with Willkie will be held in New York next week likely Wednesday.
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Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Walter &. Hallahan
West Virginia
Willkie
New York
Nazi Raiders Kill Civilians in Channel Islands
London reports German air raids on Guernsey and Jersey last night killed 29 civilians and injured many. Home Office said bombs dropped and civilians were machine-gunned. 23 killed and 36 injured in Guernsey, six killed and several injured in Jersey. News notes de militarization context.
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London
Channel Islands
Guernsey
Jersey
Home Office
British Isles
Gurnsey
Board To Sell Washington School and Church Hospital Plans
Plans for disposing of the abandoned Washington grade school at Iowa and Fourth Street SE were announced by Supt A J Lang after a city school board meeting. St Martin's Catholic Church said it would seek the property. Parish plans call for transferring St Teresa parochial school property at Oregon Ave and 5th St SE to the Community of Catholic Nurses for conversion into a hospital.
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Nurses Group
Washington
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Fourth Street
A. J.lang
City Board of| Education
Lang
St. Martin's Catholic
St. Teresa 7
St. Teresa Parochial
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Fifth Street
Catholic Nurses
St. Teresa School
Tt Fern
St. Teresa
Western Powers Warned By Japs
Tokyo broadcast by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita warns Western powers to avoid moves that upset East Asia and the South Seas status quo. He promotes a Japanese led order and United Asia under a single sphere with Japan as stabilizing force, vowing to eradicate Chiang Kai Shek’s activity.
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Hachiro Arita
East Asia
South Seas
Japan
Empire
Asia
China
East
Chiang
Kai Shek
Atita
Missing Miner County deputy treasurer buys Sioux City ticket
Hugh White, 39, deputy county treasurer, vanished after saying he would visit a neighbor to play cards. He boarded a Vilas train bound for Sioux City. the time lock on the office safe was found tightly wound, hindering access. White, a Democratic candidate, had lived in Miner County 11 years and served as deputy treasurer for three. Rural credits report: 39 land tracts totaling 9,824 acres sold for 84,400 dollars, averaging 3.60 an acre.
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Miner County
Sioux City
White
Pierre
State Rural Credit Department
Axis Powers Quiet Hungary Bulgaria War Talk
Axis powers move to calm Hungary and Bulgaria amid fears of Russian advances in Rumania. Hungary and Bulgaria press for territorial gains as Germany and Italy seek a peaceful Balkan posture while Russia widens its march toward the Carpathians. The crisis triggers mobilization calls, parliament sessions, and mass refugee flows across Bessarabia and Bucovina.
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Bulgaria
Associated Press
Budapist
Germany
Italy
Rumania
Europe
Bavaria
Russia
Bulgara
Moldavia
Transylvania
Carpathian Mountains
Balkans
Hitler
Carol
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Cernauti
Lady Mosley Arrested Under Defense Regulations
Lady Diana Mosley wife of Sir Oswald Mosley and sister of Unity Mitford was arrested at Lav ersy Farm Denham Buckinghamshire by plainclothes officers under defense regulations. Her husband Sir Oswald Mosley British Fascist leader was jailed May 23. Miss Freeman-Mitford an admirer of Adolf Hitler returned to England last January after suffering a bullet wound in her neck that was not publicly explained.
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London
Diana Mosley
Oswald Mosley
Unity Freewyan-Mitford
Laversy Farm
Denham
Buckinghamshire
Diana
Oswald
Miss Freeman- Mitford
Adolf Hiller
England
Link Britain And Reds In Peace Talk
A neutral source envisions British Russian Turkish alignment to bargain with Germany and Italy in a wide peace move. Britain weighs responses from France’s colonies, De Gaulle’s leadership, and French troop actions in Syria as they consider shifting to an Allied table.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
Italy
England
Britain
France
Charles de Gaulle
Eugene Mittelhauser
Syria
Berlin
NBC Today
Auguste Nogues
Moracto
Vernone Bartlett
The
News-Chronicle
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Barnett
Gibraltar
Pantellaria
Sicily
Tunnis
Bartlett
Spain
Francs
Tangiers
Mediterranean
Capetown
Union of South Africa
Laly
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Estimates of German captures in Belgium and France
London reports French General Charles de Gaulle estimated that German forces captured 358,080 men in the Flanders phase of the battle in Belgium and France and 600,000 in the Battle of France, with 60,000 killed and about 300,000 wounded.
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London
Charles de Gaulia
Flanders
Belgium
France
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