British light Damascus as French resist in Syria
Allied forces press toward Damascus as French troops mount a counterattack and resist on the Syria Lebanon front. RAF planes reportedly bomb the capital at night. Dispatches say Vichy defenses hold, with loud speaker appeals to switch to Free French forces.
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Associated Press
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Army Guards Plane Wreck Near Lyman Wyoming
Soldiers guard the crash site ten miles east of Lyman Wyoming where six air corps fliers died in a June snowstorm. Wreckage will be salvaged and bodies removed by army ambulances. the fliers were taken to Salt Lake City for a routine investigation.
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Lyman
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Air Corps
Salt Lake City
Army
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Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Everett Gough to theatre
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Everett Gough of Parkview to tonight’s showings at the Strand and Dixie theaters. Identification may be required for admission to the Strand or Dixie. The Strand presents Masic Was a Lady and the Dixie shows I Wanted Wings.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Everett Gough
Parkview
Masic
Strand Theater
Wings
Dixie Theater
Five Cleveland Aluminum Plants Remain on Strike
Cleveland June 11 Five Aluminum Co of America plants idle as CIO strike action continues. Mediation board terms provoke mixed reaction with a 1 cent per hour increase and shifts bonuses. 6000 workers involved. Union leaders say no decision on settlement at mass meeting. leaflets criticize Roosevelt policy and labor tensions amid defense output. West Virginia GAR endorses continued operation of state department led by Commander A T McMurray as national charter discussed.
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Cleveland
of Aluminum Co. of America
CIO Disasters Union
Defense Mediation Board
Mediation Board
Gates
Roosevelt
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Parkersburg Voters Approve Airport Levy
West Virginia communities held local races with Wellsburg switching mayors as Leonard Lauffer defeated Charles McGlumphy 991 to 947. Parkersburg voters approved a 100000 bond for a 2 million airfield, with about 1500000 from government. Democrats won in Hinton as R. C. Haynes beat W Len Taylor 692 to 298. Crandle Strickling ran unopposed in St. Marys.
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Charleston
Wellsburg
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Leonard Lauffer
Charles McGluphy
McGlumphy
Hinton
R. C. Haynes
W Len Taylor
Crandle Strickling
St. Marys
Irish Leader Refuses U.S. Use of Irish Ports and Airports
Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera rejects U.S. requests to base war supply movements in Ireland. He cites Dublin bombing on May 31 and fears Irish territory as a German target. He allows only passenger service and no military transit through Irish seaports or airports.
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London
Eamon de Valera
Eire
United States
Ireland
Britain
Dublin
Tre- See
U.S
Washington waits word of survivors
The U S State Department seeks confirmation of reports that the merchant ship Robin Moor was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in American waters. Diplomatic reports are awaited as Brazil’s Osorio prepares to land the 11 survivors at Recife. three rescued officers bolster hopes for a full account.
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Washington
State Department
Robin Moor
Brazil
Recife
Osorio
Tom
South Atlantic
Fears of another farm boom eyed by fertilizer group
White Sulphur Springs June 11 The National Fertilizer Association urged a campaign to avoid a destructive expansion of U S agriculture similar to World War I. Charles J Brand executive secretary warned the Afro European war could reshape the world and agriculture faces a downward export trend despite the war’s widening impact.
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National Fertilizer Association
United States Agriculture
Charles J. Brand
Brand
AAA
Improved Incomes Offset Food Prices Expert Says
James H. Clarke, assistant extension economist, told the West Virginia nutrition conference that higher incomes for farm and industrial workers offset the rising cost of living. He noted retail food prices were 5.3 percent higher on May 15 vs a year ago and 6.5 percent higher than six months prior, as the conference follows a national meeting in Washington.
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Jackson's Mill
James H. Clarke
West Virginia Nutrition
Clarke
Washington
German Broadcasts Cause For Divorce
NEW YORK June 11 It wasn t so much her husband s imitating of Adolf Hitler as waking her at night to listen to short wave broadcasts from Germany that led Mrs Stella Peters to sue for separation. The couple includes Herbert a German born husband and the wife of French descent. Court reserved decision.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Stella Peters
Germany
Herbert
West Point cadets hear war official at ceremony
At the United States Military Academy 420 graduates listened to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson who declared that compromise with axis powers is impossible. He framed the issue as right versus wrong freedom versus slavery and said terms with Nazi tyranny cannot be made. See West Point Page 2.
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West Point
N. J
Poter Henry ‘Ly Stimson
United States Military Academy
Army Seized Plant Workers Return After Strike End
North American Aviation plant in Inglewood regains normal output as 9,000 workers idle due to CIO UAW strike return to work after a mass meeting. They demanded no discrimination and resumption of wage talks. Soldiers briefly halted a group attempt to reenter the plant. Washington considers government authority to run seized plants to enforce mediation board decisions.
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Los Angeles
North American Aviation Plant
Cio-United Automobile Workers
Fifteenth Infantry
Washington
National Mediation Board
Board
Byrnes
Senate
Porters
CIO
North American Aviation Company
Inglewood
Calif
Connally
Three Men and Boy Rescued After Boat Upset at River
Three men and a boy were thrown from a motorboat while attempting a sharp turn on the Ohio River near Huntington. Cecil Ramsey 40 Victor Sprange 32 Fred Schaef er 23 and Ramsey’s son David 6 clung to the vessel for 15 minutes until a ferryboat operator spotted them and rescued them as onlookers watched from the riverbank.
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Huntington
Ohio River Hawaisht
Cecil Ramsey
Victor Sprange
Fred Schaefer
Ramsey
David
Bombs Hit Reich Cruiser Prinz Eugen at Brest Base
British airmen said to have dropped a large weight of bombs on docks and anchorages at Brest in an attack on the German cruiser Prinz Eugen, though no specific hit was claimed. The vessel, once with the Bismarck, parted after Hood's sinking. Coastal planes also bombed docks at St Nazaire.
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London
Brest
Air Ministry
Bismarck
Atlantic
Hood
Coastal Command
St. Nazaire
Daniel Beard dies founder of the Boy Scouts
Daniel Carter Beard longtime Boy Scouts of America co founder died at his 14 acre estate in Suffern New Jersey He would have turned 91 on June 21 and had been ill since April 20 His daughter Barbara Price was at his bedside at The Brooklands home in his rustic woodland estate
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N. J
Daniel Carter Beard
Boy Scouts of America
Dan
Brooklands
Fles
Barbara Price
Daniel Beard
Westinghouse Lamp Plant to Be Dedicated August 2
The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing fuor escent lamp plant near Fairmont will be dedicated August 2. President A C Spurr of the Monongahela System announced the event. Governor Neely and U S Senators Rosier and Kilgore are invited to speak. The plant is described as the largest of its type in the world.
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Fairmont
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
A.C. Spurr
Monongahela
M. M. Neely
U. S
Joseph Rosier
Harlow M. Kilgore
Germans Bomb Haifa From New Air Bases
Berlin reports an effective German air attack on Haifa targeting British fuel depots and port facilities from new bases. The high command did not specify timing or origin, but it may be the raid blamed yesterday by the official news agency as Monday night. British accounts had cited Aleppo as the base. The bulletin also notes Axis air raids on Matruh and the Alexand ria to the rail line supplying British forces on the Egyptian Libyan front.
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Berlin
Palestine
Haifa
High Command
Aleppo
Syria
Matruh
Alexandria
Egypt
Buy Coal Now Warning Made in Washington
Washington warned households nation wide to buy coal now to avoid a possible winter shortage as defense strains threaten transportation. Paul Sifton, acting director, Consumers Counsel, urged summer buying and storage to aid national defense amid a looming coal shortage.
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Washington
Paul Sifton
Consumers Counsel
Federal’ Agency
Inter
Jury Declares Doctor Guilty In West Virginia Trial
Charleston dispatch notes Governor Neely rallying veterans to defend the nation against fifth columnists while urging unity. In Huntington, federal Judge Watkins schedules a hearing on a motion for a new trial for Dr S E Simon, convicted of concealing assets in bankruptcy. Simon’s eight day jury verdict found him guilty on all counts. bond remains, wife as surety.
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Huntington
Harry E. Watkins
E. Simon
Williamson
Maryina Simon
Central
Europe
Mottes
Simon
Hungary
Congress Told of Shipments to Britain Under Lend Lease
President Roosevelt disclosed that a little over 75 million dollars in defense materials have been transferred under the lend lease law. The report notes the largest share went to watercraft, followed by ordnance and aircraft, with totals broken down by category. The message does not reveal delivery methods or exact allocations among Britain, China, and other democracies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
China
Independent Party Calls Ballot Recount in City Race
The Independents demand a recount and exclusion of 51 unsigned ballots from the recent municipal election. If voided, Leonard Ferdinger could be mayor over Harold Buchanan, declared winner 129 to 413, as all unsigned ballots favored Buchanan.
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Independent Party
Gilbert
Leonard Ferdinger
Harolld Buchanan
Buchanan
Peoples Party
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