British Bomber Fleet Blasts Lille and Abbeville Targets
British daylight raids struck Lille's steel and engineering works and hit an Abbeville railway yard in a broad offensive against Germany. A 4,000-ton German vessel was also reported sunk off the Belgian coast. RAF forces continued heavy air strikes across the Rhineland to Atlantic ports as drone of planes persisted over the Channel.
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London
Continent
Lille
Germany
Abbeville
Channel
Rhineland
Atlantic
RAF
Boulogne
Scharnhorst
Gneisenavu
Bismarck
Coal Walkout Threat Fades Across Labor Talks
AP reports the possibility of a 150000 Southern soft coal miners walkout fading as plenary committees from owners and workers meet in the capital to resolve differences. John L. Lewis and L Ebersole Gaines indicate negotiations progress toward a settlement with no strike likely Tuesday. Details focus on minor contract wording after agreeing to drop the old 30 cent wage differential with the North. Negotiations began at Alton Illinois between Western Cartridge Co and AFL Chemical Workers over bargaining representation for large ammo contracts. Dairy farmers from New York Vermont and Pennsylvania seek higher milk prices, proposing a uniform 3 per hundredweight while Weirton Steel in West Virginia vows compliance with most NLRB orders except reinstating six workers and denying back pay.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
CIO United Mine Workers
L. Ebersole Gaines
North
Alton, UL
Western Cartridge Company
AFL Chemical Workers
Dairy Farmers Union
New York
Vermont
Pennsylvania
New York City
Gsent
Owen D. Young
Dairymen's League Cooperative Association
Young
National Defense Front
Weirton Steel Company
Weirton
W. Va
NLRB
Tar Heel Toll Mounts To Ten
Charlotte July 5 With the holiday period only a third gone at least six highway deaths were recorded and two drownings reported. Boyd Huffines 20 of Gibsonville drowned at Wrightsville Beach while trying to save his brother Alvin. Leander Matthews 60 near Varina died in a Raleigh area auto crash. A bakery driver killed Mrs Jane Watts 34 at Tahor City. Avery Railton 18 hurt in an auto bicycle collision near Charlotte. Floyd Swinson unknown accident near Concord. Carl Jinnette 50 of Calypso found dead in car wreck near Faison. William Barefoot 16 of Belmont killed in an overturned vehicle near Clarkton. Leonard Patham drowned in Greenville. Lewis Gibson 21 struck by a train at Greensboro. Charlie Morrow 74 Negro found dead in charred Graham home set by lightning fires.
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Boyd Huffines
Gibsonville
Wrightsville Beach
Alvin
Leander Matthews
Varina
Raleigh
Jane Watts
Tahor City
Charlotte
Avery Railton
Graham
Will S. Long
One Killed Three Hurt In Highway 104 Crash
Eleven year old Charles Marshburn, son of Mr and Mrs R W Marshburn of 1915 Palm Street Greensboro, was killed when two cars nearly head on on Highway 104 just outside the city limits at 10 this morning. Driver James W Blankenship 49 Edna Street Reidsville lost control. C A Cagle Cypress Street Greensboro grandfather of the deceased, was in the other car. Billy Wayne Marshburn nine, brother of Charles, suffered a broken leg. Rudolph five, uninjured. Blankenship chest injuries and lacerations, Cagle minor injuries.
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Charles Marshburn
Greensboro
R. W. Marshburn
Palm Street
Highway 104
James W. Blankenship
Edna Street
Reidsville
C. A. Cagle
Cypress Street
Marshburn
Earl WN. Phillips
Blankenship
Cagle
Thomasville
Yow
Iane Lowe
Billy Wayne Marshburn
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Rudolph
Patterson to testfy before Truman Committee next week
Under-Secretary of War Patterson will present the most detailed picture of the rearmament program to the Truman Committee. He will not draw conclusions on defense strength but will show official figures, noting that only 7 of 45 billion dollars has been spent and only 3 billion on combat weapons. Patterson speaks for the President and will present bread and butter facts.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Patterson
Truman Committee
War Department
United States
S. Burton Treath
Congress
Roosevelt
Frank Knox
Henry Stinson
Pat
American consular clerk Ray mond Hall released from Italian prison
Rome and Milan authorities confirmed the release of Ray mond Hall an American consular clerk from San Vittore prison in Milan where he had been held since July 1 His disappearance had prompted U S inquiries and a Rome embassy note requesting an urgent investigation Hall a 50 year old former New York newspaperman was reported missing by his wife after she returned from the countryside and two plainclothes men reportedly took him away The embassy learned he was being held incommunicado prior to his release
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Rome
Raymond Hall
San Vittore
Milan
New York
Hall
United States
L. Schnare
Schnare
Foreign Ministry
Ex-German Consulate Attache Hangs Self in New York Home
Julius Otto, 54, former attache to the German consulate general in New York, suicide by hanging in his Mount Vernon home bathroom. Medical examiner investigates as second Nazi to die by suicide this week following a Washington embassy clerk who shot himself amid health concerns.
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Mount Vermon
Julius Otto
New York
U. S
Amos 0. Square
Otto
Washington
Heinrich Kurt W. Nostiz
Lmaclf
Fimbassy
Iil
Blaze Kills Fireman, Wounds Twenty Nine In Broadway Fire
A 24 hour smoldering blaze in a brick Lower Broadway building killed one fireman, Carl Bischkoff, and injured 29 as blasts hurled responders across Broadway. Fire spread from the tightly shut structure to the seventh floor of a neighboring building. one victim died after the fire was brought under control. Ambulances rushed the injured to hospitals.
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New York
Lower Broadway
Carl Bischkoff
Financial District
Broadway
American Telephone and Telegraph
Modell
Sporting Goods
Fulton and
John Streets
Holiday Death Toll Soaring Beyond 1940
A nationwide rise in holiday fatalities reports 151 traffic deaths and 82 more from other causes, totaling 233 by 8 a m. Today. Pennsylvania leads traffic deaths with 18, California 23 total fatalities, Ohio 22, with a worst single tragedy at Mattituck grade crossing killing six auto occupants. States listed include California 23 and New York 20 among others.
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National Safety Council
Pennsylvania
California
Ohio
Missouri
Cannesville
Ind
Long Island Railroad
Mattituck
N. C
Alabama
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Town
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississipni
New Jersey
New Mexico
DiMaggio Hits 19th Homer in 46th Straight Game
Joe DiMaggio extended his record hitting streak to 46 games by homering 415 feet to the Yankee bullpen in the first inning against the Athletics. The drive, off Phil Rizzuto, scored Red Rolfe and gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
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Joe US
New York
Joe DiMaggio
Yankee
Yankee Athletics
Phil Murchildon
Red Rolfe
Fanks
German Drive Reaches Dnepr Banks Near Moscow
German high command announced a two week push into Soviet territory now reaching the Berezina and Dnepr banks about 300 miles from Moscow. The claim cited heavy losses for German elite divisions and several thousand prisoners. British forces reached the Syrian frontier after Mosul push. Eden warned Hitler’s peace bid and urged total war effort.
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Associated Press
Berezina
Dnepr
Moscow
Pinsk
Kolomea
Stanislavok
Mosul
Iraq
Syria
Anthony Eden
Britain
Call For U S Unity In Independence Day Addresses
A mighty call for American unity was sounded by President Roosevelt and national figures in Independence Day addresses. He urged speed and efficiency and an end to sabotage while stressing fundamentals being attacked abroad and at home. Attorney General declared that cautious behavior and polite talk will not earn friendship from dictators.
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Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Soviet Troops Lacked Air Support On German Front
From Lwow author Alvin J Steinkopf reports a swift 660 mile tour of the blitzed battle area shows Soviet troops defending eastward against Germany received little or no air support. He cites scenes of battered tanks, Russian prisoners, and German motor columns advancing through southern Poland as the Luftwaffe roars eastward.
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Alvin J. Steinkopf
Lwow
Old Poland
Germany
Red Army
Poland
Luftwaffe
Russia
FDR Calls in His Advisers
President Roosevelt met with defense and foreign policy advisers at the White House to review developments during his two week absence. Attendees included Sumner Welles James V Stimson James Forrestal George C Marshall and Royal E Ingersoll. He also issued a license control expansion on certain vegetable products and chemicals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hyde Park
N. Y
Sumner Welles
War
Stimson
Navy
James W. Forrestal
George C. Marshall
Army
Royal E. Ingersoll
WN. Y
Harlan Fiske Stone
Colorado
Mag
Marine Band
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North Carolina
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Reuters
DNB
Berlin
Soviet
Vaior
Red
Berezina River
Bertin
Hitler
Eden
Minsk-Mog
Nation
Alvin J. Steinkoff
Europe
Steinkopf
Vienna
Austria
Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Munich
France
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