North Carolina Stands With Roosevelt On Daylight Time
Governor Broughton announced North Carolina will obey President Roosevelt’s call for daylight saving time nationwide or regionally to aid defense. Roosevelt asked Congress for legislation to establish year round daylight time, citing projected electricity savings and national defense needs.
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Twenty Nine Named in Sedition Indictments
ST. PAUL July 15 AP A federal grand jury named twenty nine persons in indictments charging seditious conspiracy and advising insubordination and overthrow of the United States government All are officers or members of the Socialist Workers Party Henry Schweinhaut said it was the largest peace time roundup in the nation for seditious conspiracy and the first indictments under the Smith Act The conspiracy was alleged to have been carried out in Minneapolis St Paul Chicago New York and the states of Illinois and New York.
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United State
Socialist Workers Party
Henry 4. Schweinhaut
Bcan
Minneapolis
Ocago
New York
Illinois
Recommendations on teacher salary boosts studied
Raleigh July 15. Recommendations on salary increments for teachers and principals were formulated today by the state school commission's salary committee. The committee also studied pay differentials between white and Negro teachers. Commission Secretary Nathan Elton said the findings would be presented tomorrow to the commission.
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State
Ccool Commission
Commission
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Jap Leaders Talk Policy in Tokyo Meet
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye met Emperor Hirohito after cabinet discussions on Japan’s economic prep for potential emergencies from the European war. He and five ministers in charge of economy and domestic affairs conferred, signaling a possible new decision ahead of the cabinet anniversary.
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Hirohito
Japan
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Kiichiro Hiranuma
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Shozo Murata
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Russia
China
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One Year Service Rule Blocks Iceland-Marine Plans
General Marshall testified before the Senate Military Committee on July 9 that the one year draft service rule hindered special trained army units from replacing marines in Iceland. He warned that requiring recall consent could expose an entire expedition to hostile actions if reserve officers had mixed volunteer statuses and the convoy’s security would be at risk.
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George C. Marshall
Congress
Iceland
Marshall
Senate Military Committee
Aerial warfare shifts toward new stalemate in future wars
Ray Tucker analyzes how airpower could reach new heights after German conquest of Russia, predicting 35,000 foot bombers and invulnerable anti aircraft defenses. He notes rival nations race to outbuild defenses and envisions a potential trench warfare in the air as autumn conflict looms. He claims U S morale studies imitate German models and hints at rapid arms evolution.
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Ray Tucker
Adolf Hitler
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United States
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Germany
Glass Urges Immediate Repeal of Neutrality Act
Washington July 15 Senator Glass D Va called for immediate repeal of the Neutrality Act to restore freedom of the seas for American shipping and warn Hitler that the United States is not afraid. He argued the act gave up shipping freedom, blocked merchant vessels from combat zones, and should be scrapped to enable U S ships to aid Britain and ensure war materiel delivery.
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Great Britain
DeMolay Elects Carolina Leaders In Charlotte Conclave
Gil Brandon of Charlotte elected master councilor of the Carolinas DeMolay at the 17th annual convention. He succeeds Paul Pearson of Greensboro. Byron Osborne of Asheville named deputy master councilor, Homer Barrett of High Point as isomer, DeRoy Fonvill of Burlington senior councilor, Carl Tetherow of Winston-Salem association scribe. Brandon will preside at next summer’s conclave in Winston-Salem.
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Gil Brandon
Carolinas Association
Paul C. Pearson
Greensboro
Byron Osborne
Asheville
Isomer Barrett
High Point
DeRoy Fonvill
Burlington
Carl Tetherow
Winston-Salem
Brandon
British Losses At Sea Sharply Cut In June
British merchant shipping losses for June were 79 ships totaling 329,296 tons, the Admiralty reported. Losses were the lowest for a June since 1940 except December and January, with 52 British ships totaling 228,284 tons. May figures were revised to 104 vessels totaling 497,547 tons sank.
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Zuppke Retained as Illinois Coach. Wilson Dismissed
Chicago July date AP reports Robert C. Zuppke remains head football coach at the University of Illinois while Athletic Director Wendell S. Wilson is removed by the University Board of Trustees on recommendations of the board of athletic control. In Moscow the Soviet government says no evacuation is contemplated.
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Chicago
Robert C. Zuppke
University of Ilinois
Wendell S. Wilson
University Board of Trustees
Board of Athletic Control
Rains Damage Roads Across North Carolina
Raleigh report estimates highway damage from recent showers at 260000 to 300000 dollars. State Highway Engineer W Vance Baise says damage greatest in ninth division, especially Burke and McDowell counties, mainly washing away topsoil and filling ditches.
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Alleged Spies Indicted in Major FBI Roundup
Thirty three individuals arrested in a June FBI dragnet were indicted by a federal grand jury and ordered to stand trial in September on espionage charges. Six others remain at large abroad, including Germany and Portugal. Indictments accuse the defendants of recruiting agents, handling data, and paying for information dating back to 1936.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S
Harold Kennedy
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Portugal
State Department
Robert A. Inch
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Edgar J. Hoover
Bremen and Hanover Hit by RAF Bombers
London dispatch reports British bombers pounded Bremen and Hanover with extensive fires and heavy damage in industrial zones. Docks at Rotterdam also targeted while other north western German targets were unidentified. Five bombers were reported as massing in the raid.
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Germany
Red Command Confident Of Winning War
Allied dispatches report Soviet forces mounting a major offensive along the Dnepr front with advances across the river and a victory against German-Romanian units near Kiev. Berlin claims German thrusts threaten Novgorod and the Leningrad area as Stalin defenses blur the lines of advance.
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Minsk
Hitler Seeks Peace in West to Free Time for Reds
The British Press Association reports from Ribbentrop talks that Hitler plans peace in the west to devote effort to Russia. Germany would demand free hand against the Soviet Union in any offer. Some British parties might welcome a Western peace if Moscow is addressed.
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Hitler
West
British Press Association
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Adolf Hitler
Ribbentrop
Russia
Press Association
Britain
Armistice Terms Yield French War Material to British
Under the Acre armistice, French planes in Syria and Lebanon, ships in Ue mandate waters, and specified war material are surrendered to Britain. French soldiers and civilians face a free choice to join the Allied cause or repatriate. A Beirut-based control commission will oversee the terms. a three member panel includes two French appointees and a British chairman.
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Charles de Gaulle
Palestine
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Churchill Announces British Russian Pact Alliance
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons the new British Russian agreement is an alliance guiding joint war action against Germany. He said British and Russian peoples are allied and relations with France are cordial after the armistice that gave Britain and Free French forces control of Syria and Lebanon. He denied Britain is aligning with communism and emphasized the aim to defeat Germany.
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Churchill
House of Commons
Germany
Syria
Lebanon
Britain
Aluminum plant shift to Tacoma in new wartime plan
Washington July 15 17P under revised Office of Production Management recommendations the War Department may move a planned aluminum plant from North Carolina to Tacoma Washington. the plan would add seven new plants and about 600 million pounds per year, with government ownership and multiple sites including spokane los angeles and tacoma. the program aims to raise us output to around 1.4 billion pounds annually plus 200 million pounds imported from Canada.
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