Daladier Held Under Petain Laval Rule In Marseille
Former French premier Edouard Daladier, accused of responsibility for France’s entry into the war and defeat, is confined in Marseille under orders of the Petain Laval regime. Also jailed were other ex‑government leaders and MPs who arrived from Morocco with Daladier. The regime approved a decree to revoke citizenship and confiscate property for leaving the country without valid reasons.
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Vichy
France
Edouard Daladier
Germany
Marseille
Petain- Laval
Daladier
Pariament
Morocco
Philippe Petain
Pierre Laval
Three German Bombers Shot Down in Coastal Raids
London reports a single air battle over the Thames Estuary involved about 60 planes as Germans attacked shipping. six German planes were shot down, with three more downed in raids along the northwest and southwest coast and southeast Scotland. Another six were claimed in a separate raid from Britain’s east coast to Wales and southwest Scotland as invasion fears rose.
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London
Thames
Scotland
Britain
Wales
Grafton Sentinel invites ladies to Dix theatre bill
The Grafton Sentinel invites MRS. C. E. Gordon of 324 Warder Avenue to attend tonight’s double feature at the Dixie theatre presenting Wild Bill Elliott in Frontiers Ci ’49 with Wayne Morris and Jane Wyman in Gambling on the High Seas and George Brent in Adventures in Diamonds at the Strand theatre.
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Grafton Sentinel
C. E. Gordon
Warder Avenue
Elliott
Wayne Morris
Jane Wyman
Woman aids narcotics crackdown in major international ring
In San Francisco on July 24 a middle aged American woman aided narcotics officers revealing a vast international ring dumping illegal drugs into the United States. Pam Madden of the California narcotics division said four months of seizures tied to her tips could have sold for over 600000. She and federal narcotics and customs teamed with Japanese authorities plan to arrest six major shippers in Japan who have dumped narcotics valued at 500.
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San Francisco
United States
Pam Madden
California Division of Narcotics Enforcement
Madden
Tte
Federal Narcotics and Customs Division
Japan
Lithuanian Minister Keeps Legation Open
Washington July 24 Minister Povilas Zadeikis of Lithuania declared he would refuse any demand to turn over his legation to Soviet Russia He joined foreign diplomats in Washington who keep their posts hoping for restoration despite new Baltic parliaments electing to seek union with the Soviets
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Washington
Povilas Zadeikis
Lithuania
Russia
Huey Long's Brother Indicted On Two Counts
New Orleans July 24 The reform movement centers on Earl K Long former governor and Huey P Long brother. Earl and four others face embezzlement and extortion charges by the parish grand jury over alleged payroll padding on a dock board before the February 20 run-off primary in which Long lost to Sam Houston Jones.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Huey P. Long
Earl
Dock Board
Long
Sam Houston Jones
Britain says Germany lost up to five thousand planes this year
London sources claim Germany has lost four thousand to five thousand planes since the war began, while the Royal Air Force gains power through increased production and American deliveries. British officials cite German first line fighters numbering six to eight thousand versus Britain's thirty to forty thousand, with monthly German output around eighteen hundred.
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Dwight L. Pitein
London
Germany
Britain
Royal Air Force
Reuters
Adverse Weather Fails To Halt Nazi Bombers
Berlin reports despite poor weather the German high command said a plane sank a submarine in the North Sea yesterday while bombers destroyed two patrol boats and a minesweeper in the English Channel. Submarines also sank two merchant ships totaling 14 000 tons in a British convoy. Night raids over Germany saw chasers shoot down two invading ships and anti aircraft fire destroy a third. Raids damaged railway lines roads and reserve barracks in southern England.
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High Command
North Sea
English
Germany
England
Boondoggling Flayed By GOP Senate Candidate
West Union July 24 Thomas B. Sweeney U S Senate nominee told Doddridge county Young Republicans at Big Flint that the federal administration boondoggled while Hitler built a great fighting machine. He cited nations debt and a shortage of modern war equipment as proof of failed policy and warned of invasion risk.
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Hitler
Thomas B. Sweeney
U. S
Senate
Doddridge County
Big Flint
Congress
Bolters Attacked by Roosevelt In 1940 Campaign
Hyde Park reports President Roosevelt used a sharp rebuke at a July press conference after Democrats who joined the Republican side questioned a third term bid. He directed remarks at Senator Edward Burke former Senator James A Reed Lewis W Douglas and John W Hanes as part of counterpunches to opposition blows.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Wend L. Willkie
Scorf
Edward A. Burke
James A. Reed
Missouri
Lewis
Germany Holds Slayer of Embassy Official
BERLIN reports that after taking over Paris Germany holds Herschel Grynszpan, the Polish Jewish youth accused in the murder of Ernst Vom Rath, the German embassy secretary. The source says Grynszpan is held for trial for Vom Rath’s killing, who died two days after being shot November 7, 1938.
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Berlin
Paris
Herschel Grynszpan
Sante
Ernst Vom Rath
Grynszpan
Four Dangerous County Jail Prisoners Escape
Four dangerous inmates escaped from a county jail in Pennsylvanian Nazarenes. Key figures include D. T. Keel naming the superintendent, with four escapees still at large and two recaptured minutes later. The escape occurred via a sewage pipe route and a hole in the wall.
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Charleston
E. C. Oney
West Chester
Pikeville
West Virginia
Naza County
Sher
D. T. Keel
H. V. Miller
Nampa
Idaho
Frank Goosling
McCarr
Charleston |der
Keel
Southeast Church of the Nazarene
Everett Kinney
Virgie
Herman Mounts
Majestic
Jim Rowe
Pike County
Samuel Lee Crum
Seldon Adkins
O. P. Runyon
Couple Shot to Death in Parked Car Slays Unknown
In Pittsburgh early today a blonde rooming house operator and her boarder were shot to death in a parked automobile by an unknown assailant who fled. Carrie Kolb aged 38 and J Edgar Ewing 45 were slain on a street by the Ohio River near the business district. Police found the gun but offered no motive and said no robbery attempt appeared to have occurred.
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Pittsburgh
Carrie Kolb
J. Edgar Ewing
Ohio River
September 1 set for wartime conscription and training start
Washington July 24 Registration for the pending conscription program is tentatively set for September 1 with the first 400000 conscripts to begin training a month later. A War department official said agencies in 48 states have begun preparations for the selective service plan and initial trainees will likely be men 21 to 31 years old. The senate military committee urged enactment of the Burke Wadsworth bill, aiming for debate next week as details are refined.
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Congress
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Senator Davis's Wife Dead After Heart Disease
Washington reported the death of Mrs. Jeanette Davis in Atlantic City. Wife of Pennsylvania Senator James J. Davis, she had suffered heart disease for eight months. The couple married in 1914 and had five children: James Jr, Jane, Joan, Jewel, and Jean.
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Washington
James J. Davis
Atlantic City
Jeanette Davis
Pennsylvania
Davises
James, Jr
Jane
Joan
Jewel
Jean
State CIO Likely to Endorse U. S. Third Term
Morgantown July 24 The State Industrial Union Council CIO returns to convention halls for probable endorsement of a third term for the president after honoring Van A. Bittner at a banquet. Bittner, UMWA official and steel drive leader, praised the organization’s growth and unity. He stated that John L. Lewis favors supporting Roosevelt for a third term, signaling strong party alignment among CIO delegates.
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State Industrial Union Council
CIO
van A. Bittner
Bittner
United Mine, Workers
UMWA
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
Monongah
Roosevelt
Employees Enlist To Regain City Jobs Returns
The Pittsburgh Civil Service Commission announced that city employees who enlist or are called for military service under the national preparedness program will get their jobs back on returning home. Local industrial firms have issued similar assurances to their workers.
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Pittsburgh Civil Service Commissar
Secrecy Rules Havana Meet Secrecy Rules
Three major Commissions of the conference of the 21 American republics met in secret session to speed agreement on Western Hemisphere issues. They aimed to conclude the conference by July 30 with Rio de Janeiro as a likely next meeting place.
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Rio Janeiro
United
Romania confiscates Astra Romane Oil in Bucharest
The Romanian government seizes the Astra Romane Oil company the largest British concern in Romania. Oil Commissar Gheron Natta appoints a deputy to run the firm for the state after a decree cites failure to provide production information. The order allows sending the companys output to Germany for Nazi military use.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Astra-Romane Oil Company
Gheron Natta
Royal Dutch Shell
Low
Germany
Willkie Hits Brain Trust Dinner in Wyoming
Wendell L. Willkie spoke at a Wyoming Republican dinner, removing his coat to denounce big government and urge reform of leadership away from legislatures and courts as party leaders from several western states listened. The remarks signal Willkie's push to shape national direction as the campaign continues.
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William B. Ardery
Cheyenne
Wye
Wendell L. Willkie
Wyoming
Call Special Jury To Consider Murder Case
Harrisville July 24 A Ritchie county circuit court grand jury will consider at a special term opening Monday the case of Lulu Blair 36 daughter of a Harrisville physician charged with slaying her mother Prosecutor Max DeBerry said the term was called at defense request Miss Blair held without bond to answer to any indictment tried by the grand jury She pleaded innocent at the magistrate hearing Mrs Vernie Curtis Blair about 65 was found shot to death July 12.
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Harrisville
Ritchie County
Circuit Court
Lulu Blair
Max DeBerry
Miss Blair
A. P. Hatfield
Vernie Curtis Blair
Australian Destroyer Sunk by Italian Submarines
Rome reports the sinking of an Australian destroyer and a submarine by Italian subs in the eastern Mediterranean. The high command announced air bombardments of Malta caused numerous fires and the destruction of two British planes in North Africa.
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Mediterranean
Jhigh Comm
Aman
Malta
North Africa
Heat wave lingers as showers offer brief relief
The nation endures extreme heat with thundershowers providing temporary respite in the Middle Atlantic and other regions. Abnormally hot weather continues from the Rockies to the eastern seaboard, Indiana reports scorched crops, 68 heat deaths nationwide, and fears of further corn damage. Pennsylvania leads heat fatalities with 13. Michigan and Illinois eight and seven respectively. Ohio six. Nebraska six. Continued drought and flood impacts noted.
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Associated Press
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Middle Atlantic
Rockies
Seaboard
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Lake
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Michigan Andllinois
Minnesota
Ohio
Nebraska
Willie Roberts
Cerman Press Raps Leaders In War of Destruction
Berlin reports that German commentators accuse Britain of denying peace overtures and risking catastrophe. Hitler's press calls British leadership “final tor” and proclaims England’s doom as Europe braces for conflict.
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England
Adolf Hitler
Halifax
Hitler
Ischer’. Beobachter
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