Lord Halifax Plans Reply To Hitler's Last Offer
British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax is expected to deliver a no compromise reply to Hitler's last peace offer in a broadcast to the empire and the United States. Sources say he will stress moral issues and Britain's wartime stand, with Churchill possibly addressing the House of Commons instead. The piece notes German radio propaganda urging Britain to depose Churchill.
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London
Lord Halifax
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Empire
United States
Churchill
Halifax
Hitler
House of Commons
Nazifuehrer
London News
Vernon Bartlett
Goebbels
Zero Hour for Britain Nears Berlin Push Looms
July 22 reports from England indicate Lord Halifax and Prime Minister Churchill must reply to Adolf Hitler's final peace proposal before Hitler launches a great offensive on the British Isles. British losses and German air raids are described, with a tanker and four merchant ships sunk in a Channel convoy attack.
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Berlin
England
Zero Howe
Lord Halifax
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Hiller
British Isles
Fuehrer
Churchill
High Command
Channel
Theatre Ticket Admission Notice for Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Walter Evans to tonight's showings of Jack Benny in Buck Benny Rides Again at the Strand or Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor at the Dixie Theatre Identification may be required.
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Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Walter Evans
West Railroad Street
Jack Benny
Buck Benny
Strand Theate
Waterloo Bridge
Vivien Leigh
Robert Taylor
Dixie Theatre
New Defense Bill Studied In Congress Debates Open
Washington July 22 National defense dominates Congress as it returns from recess to address a dozen issues. House and Senate schedules were unsettled as Chairman Woodrum announced hearings on the presidents request for another 4 0 0 0 0 0 000 for defense. Navy and War department heads would testify first followed by the National Defense Commission. A roundtable conference to refine the program is planned. The bill would raise defense outlay toward 15 000 000 000 with debate expected in two weeks.
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National Defense
Congress
Senate
House
Chicago
Woodrum
D.-Va
Defense
Knox Woodrim
Knox
Navy Department
War Department
National Defense Commission
Aunt of President To Be Buried Tomorrow
Funeral services are held for Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes 92 aunt of President Roosevelt in Balmvill e Mass burial planned in Fir Haven Massachusetts tomorrow She traveled with sisters Mrs James Roosevelt mother of the president and Mrs Price Col Ner and brother Frederic A Delano national planning board chairman Her husband William Howell Forbes died in Paris in 1893 the couple had no children
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Balmville
Dora Delano Forbes
Roosevelt
Fir Haven
Mass
Forbes
James Roosevelt
Price Col Ner
Tuxedo Park
Frederic A. Delano
National Planning Board
William Howell Forbes
Paris
Communist Wheeler Is Moved to Lewisburg Trial Venue
Oscar O. Wheeler, Communist candidate for governor, was transferred to Lewisburg today for trial Wednesday before Circuit Judge Mark Jarrett on Raleigh county indictments charging fraud and misrepresentation in securing signatures on a petition to place the Communist party nominees on the ballot in the November election.
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Beckley
Oscar O. Wheeler
Lewisburg
Mark Jarrett
Raleigh
Communist Party
Two Ex New Dealers To Help Wendell L Willkie
John W. Hanes and Lewis Douglas former New Deal officials offered to work for Wendell L. Willkie. They telegrammed to enlist Democratic support who share loyalty to country over party in Colorado Springs Colorado.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Colorado Springs
Colo
John W. Hanes
Lewis Douglas
Russia tests axis pledges over king’s monarchy
Bucharest reports Rome Berlin axis pledges face first test as Moscow notes interest in a popular government for King Carol's throne. Rumanians say the Soviet message arrived Saturday and Foreign Minister Manolescu conferred with German and Italian ministers at a Black Sea resort.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Moscow
Carol
Mihail Manoilescu
Black Sea
Mihail Tonescu
Constatine Nicholescu
Floera Tyenescu
No Immediate Relief From Heat In Prospect
Heat wave grips much of the nation with deaths from prostrations and drownings as people flocked to beaches and lakes. By July 22 Chicago reports widespread high temperatures with Needles California and Yuma Arizona posting top readings. Northern New England and parts of the upper Great Lakes escape the heat. Weather bureau notes normal readings in the South and Ohio Valley.
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New England
Great Lakes
Middle West
Middle Atlantic States
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Needles
Calif
Yuma
Ariz
Annenberg on Way to Prison
Philadelphia publisher M. L. Annenberg surrendered to begin a 720 mile auto trip to Lewisburg Pennsylvania to serve a three year term for income tax evasion. Chief Deputy Marshal Joseph Tobin said he appeared at his lawyer Weymouth Kirkland’s office and arrangements were ready. Annenberg has paid 800000 of an 8 million civil settlement and began serving the criminal sentence July 1.
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Chicago
M. L. Annenberg
United States
U. S
Lewisburg
Joseph Thinnes
McDonnell
Annenberg
Philadelphia
Uncle Sam
Firemen Get Instruction In Sabotage Prevention
At the 10th annual fire service extension school at West Virginia University, volunteer and paid firemen from across the state studied sabotage detection and prevention. Emmett Cox of the Indiana Inspection Bureau spoke on sabotage and its relation to municipal and industrial fire departments. The school will run for five days.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
University
Emmett Cox
Indiana Inspection Bureau
Hull Address Scheduled At Havana Meet
An emergency meeting of representatives from 21 American republics met in Havana to seek concrete Western Hemisphere measures for economy and defense against totalitarian threats. Secretary Cordell Hull was to address after private plenary sessions, with Cuba's President Federico Laredo Bru welcoming delegates and urging concrete action.
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Havana
United States
Cordell Hull
Hull
E.S.T
Sesson
Federico Laredo Bru
Cuba
Bullitt Plans Report Direct To President
President Roosevelt returned to his Hyde Park home to rest after a week of heat and politics and to receive from Ambassador William C. Bullitt a full account of France's collapse to Germany and the subsequent dictatorial government. Bullitt had just arrived from Europe to detail the report and may help assess future Franco American relations.
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Hyde Park
N. J
Roosevelt
The
Hudson
Washington
William C. Bullitt
France
Germany
Europe
Garner Heads to Texas to Vote in Primary Saturday
Vice President Garner announced he would travel to Texas to vote in the Saturday primary and would not discuss whether he would return to Washington. He asserted he votes as he has for fifty years and joked about a leader who delays decisions, a remark seen as commentary on Roosevelt’s third term stance.
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Washington
Garner
Texas
PMT
Roosevelt
New Deal Convention Seen As Roosevelt Staged Fake
Charleston reports a fragmentary description alleging the 1940 New Deal convention in Chicago was staged by Harry Hopkins and Franklin D Roosevelt using a metaphorical telephone booth. The piece claims delegates were mere loudspeakers for the party, with insinuations about public understanding.
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Chicago
New Deal Fuehrer
Manni~ Booth
New Deal
Windy City
Harry
Hopkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Famous Speed Aviator Hurt In Auto Accident
INDIANAPOLIS July 22 Col Roscoe Turner famed speed aviator his secretary and two others were badly injured in a late night automobile collision on the west side Turner driving one car suffered a fractured pelvis doctors described his condition as fair
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Indianapolis
Roscoe Turner
Turner
Probe Murder of Young Girl in Minnesota Saloon?
FBI took charge after the body of 14 year old Mary Jane Massey daughter of U S Army Sergeant William A Massey was found in an oil drum near her Deny Arrést Rumor home. Autopsy could not confirm assault due to decomposition. authorities withheld details and arrests.
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Snelling
Minn
Mary Jane Massey
William A. Massey
FBI
Massey
Baltic States to join Soviet Union says Supreme Soviet
Moscow reports an early session of the Supreme Soviet is set to approve Latvia Lithuania and Estonia joining the Soviet Union. The addition would extend Russia's Baltic sea front and land frontier with Germany, boosting population to about 180 million and creating a 15 state allied republic bloc.
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Supreme Soviet
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Soviet Union
Russia
Baltic Sea
Germany
Baltic States
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Rumania
Karelian-Finnish Republic
Finland
Draft Excess Profits Bill Aims to Limit War Wealth
Washington July 22 Administration tax experts released the first rough draft of an excess profits bill designed to prevent war millionaires. The tax would apply to surplus revenue and define excess as normal earnings or a reasonable return on capital. The proposal may replace the 7 percent profit cap on government contracts and awaits Ways and Means review.
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Washington
Trea
Surf
Congressional
Roosevelt
House
Ways Land Means Committee
Former Latvia Leader Gravely Wounded in Riga
London July 22 Former Latvia president Karl Ulmanis was gravely wounded and hospitalized in Riga according to an Exchange Telegraph report quoting Swedish sources Goteborg. The former leader helped draft Latvia’s 1918 declaration of independence before the country’s new Communist rulers ousted Timans aged 62 last week as Latvia was transformed toward a socialist republic and Soviet membership.
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London
Exchange
Goteborg
Kerl Ulmanis
Latvia
Riga
Soviet Union
Timans
West Virginians Plan To Hear Willkie Speech
Charleston reports Republican leaders announce a motorcade of West Virginians will travel to Elwood Indiana in early August for Wendell L Willkie s presidential nomination speech. National Committeeman Walter S Hallanan and candidates D Boone Dawson and Thomas B Sweeney will join the party events as dates are fixed.
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Charleston
Robert H. C. Kay
West
Loss of British Ship in Heavy Bombing Near Finisterre
Rome reports a 2,262 ton British vessel identified as Soulsa of Panama sunk by German bombers off Cape Finisterre amid very bad weather. Eighteen crew members reached a British port after four days. three ships including Hood and Ark Royal lost crew, with fears of heavy loss of life.
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Soula
Panama
Regis
Cape Finisterre
Spain
Barcelonas
Roosevelt asks $500 million export power increase
President Roosevelt, in a special message from Havana, urges Congress to raise export power by $500,000,000 to stabilize markets in the Western Hemisphere. He argues the move would aid American producers and prevent cutthroat competition while supporting Pan American ties amid European turmoil.
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Roosevelt
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