Outstanding Entry Slated For Parade
The Salisbury post leads Monday afternoon American Legion events with its Sons of the Legion drum and bugle corps. Joe Lee, Georgia drum major champion, will lead the unit carrying North Carolina’s first Sons of the Legion standard. A World War I allied nations color escort and a miniature Forty and Eight train also appear. Judge D S Mac Rae announced trophies for top bugler drummer and drum major or majorette. judging by the same panel as the competitive events.
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American Legion
Salisbury
Sons of the Legion
Joe Lee
Georgia
North Carolina
D.S. MacRae
Senate and House approve emergency defense spending bill
Congress backs an emergency defense appropriation of 1.77 billion dollars to fund army airplanes tanks guns and munitions with 68 new fighting ships planned. The package raises income taxes and excises taxes on theater tickets cigarettes whiskey gasoline and other goods increasing takings for 1941. Passage leaves defense appropriations totaling about 5.38 billion and delays adjournment as both parties resist recess.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Rumanians Told To Revise Attitude
King Carol urged Rumanians to adopt a Nazi patterned totalitarian outlook and place state needs above personal interests in a radio address. He said all Rumanians must work, struggle, renounce personal aims, and sacrifice for national ideals.
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Bucharest
Carol
Totaliarian Party
Rickenbacker Objects to New Air Line Permit
Captain E V Rickenbacker president of Eastern Air Lines denounced Seaboard Air Line Railway a New York to Florida and New Orleans route permit as a duplication of Easterns decade old service He voiced the objection in a prepared statement from Tampa Florida on June 22 1935. The railroad sought a Civil Aeronautics Authority permit to operate air services between New York and Florida and New York and New Orleans.
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Tampa, Fla
E. V. Rickenbacker
Eastern Air Lines
Seaboard Air Line Railway
New York
Florida
New OQ Orleans
Civil Aeronautics Authority
North Carolina
Carolina
Washington
Weather Bureau
H Alpena
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Birmingham
Boston
Buffalo
Burlington
Charlotte
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cocssess
Cleveland
Visveveecessens
Dallas
Denver
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el Paso
Galveston
Havre
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Key West
Little
Richmond
St. Louis
San Antonio
San Francisco
Savannah
Tampa
Vicksburg
Wilmington
French negotiators to meet Italians Monday in Bordeaux
The French peace negotiators are expected to hold their first talks with Italy on Monday in Bordeaux. Officials think a settlement may take two to three days, and Paris may not be returned unless Rome agrees to keep Berlin out of control.
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London
Exchange News
Bordeaux
Germany
Italy
France
Paris
Burlington and Durham Men Nominated to Senate
Late returns show E. T. Sanders of Burlington and E. C. Brooks of Durham nominated to the state Senate from the 16th district. In 56 of 79 precincts Sanders led with 5,031 votes, Brooks 4,491, and Scott 4,498 across Durham Alamance and Orange counties.
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Durham
E. T. Sanders
Burlington
E. C. Brooks
State Senate
Alamance
Orange Counties
Sanders
Brooks
Scott
Airline executives tout joint aircraft development effort
Rickenbacker says the goal is to duplicate the flying equipment operated and developed with leading air lines of the country, highlighting a collaborative effort to advance aviation technology and standardize gear across major carriers.
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Rickenbacker
YDC Chooses Delay for North Carolina Convention Site
The North Carolina Young Democratic clubs postponed selecting the convention time and place after bids from Blowing Rock Statesville Raleigh and Wrightsville Beach. A committee and president Forrest Pollard will set the date and site within ten days.
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Winston-Salem
Young
Democratic Clubs
North Carolina
Blowing Rock
Statesville
Raleigh
Wrightsville Beach
John McLaughlin
Forrest Pollard
Durham
Pollard
Harry Finch
Wilson
A. A. Corbitt
Smithfield
James Amburn
Yadkinville
Wilsonian Democratic Club
Hoover Taft, Jr
Greenville
BE C. T. C
Churchill Sees British Victory as Key to Free France
The Prime Minister declares that a British win remains the only path to restore France and its empire. He condemns the Bordeaux terms as surrender and urges Frenchmen abroad to aid Allied liberation, stressing the vast, determined forces of freedom.
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France
Bordeaux
Great Britain
Nazi bragges on food and ore losses amid shipping halt
The report notes Nazi claims to match Australia bound food with former Denmark shipments as 90 percent of ore imports stop. It says chickens and pigs must be slaughtered due to no shipping space for feed. It claims 25 enemy planes down on June 21 and 42,686 tons of shipping destroyed by submarines plus the sinking of an 11,000 ton English transport.
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Australia
Denmark
North Carolina War Defense Resources Committee Formed
J T Anderson of the State Department of Conservation and Development will chair a new committee appointed by Governor Hoey to draft plans aiding the War Department. The panel will compile and provide data on NC factories raw materials labor power and transportation to support national defense mobilization.
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Raleigh
War Department
North Carolina
Hoey
J. T. Anderson
State Department of Conservation and Development
Anderson
Forty and Eight parade marks Legion convention fun
A large crowd watched the Forty and Eight parade through Main Street to the Junior High School where initiation candidates wore convict uniforms. Also shown were miniature WWI trains, with events including a dinner, a wreck, and a later dance. A full convention program includes a memorial service by Notre Dame alumnus Rev. Gearhard and a large parade Monday.
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Main Street
France
James O. Sheppard
Edgefield
S. C
Forty & Eight
Cecil Pate
Charlotte
Sheraton Hotel
Legion Convention
O. Arthur Kirkman
June Rose
Greenville
The
Legion
Henry K. Burbner
Greensboro
Sheraton
Elwood
Chamber of Commerce
Crack American Legion Band of
Winston-Salem
City Lake Park
Augustin Francis Gearhard
Notre Dame University
Asheville
Frank J. Howard
Winston-Salem Legion Band
First Presbyterian Church
Green Street
Auxiliary
Amercan Legion
Enterprise
Italians Hear Of Armistice
In Rome on June 22 Italians learned from a German radio announcement that Germany had signed terms of the armistice with France. The French terms were to be discussed by Italian representatives and French emissaries who traveled from Compiègne Forest, with official details to follow. The broadcast suggested three groups of measures: occupation of France's channel ports, steps to prevent French aid to Britain, and postwar reparations to Germany.
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Rome
Compiegne Forest
France
England
Britain
Germany
Jap Troop Status Quo Warning and Cocoa Harvest Note
A statement warns that any change to the status quo in the Netherlands Indies must use peaceful means or risk destabilizing the Pacific region. Also reported is that about 500 million pounds of cocoa are grown annually in the Gold Coast territory of Africa.
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Netherlands Indies
Pacific
Gold Coast Territory
Africa
Burgin wins run-off amid long fight over nominee
Burgin claims victory in a contested run-off while renewing his plea of Right the Wrong. County returns show Burgin and Deane splitting votes across Davidson Moore Union Yadkin Anson Davie Lee Montgomery Hoke and Scotland counties with Deane leading in several counties.
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Burgin
Deane
State Board of Elections
Davidson
Moore
Union
Yadkin
Anson
Davie
Republicans Work On Foreign Affairs Plank In Drafting
Alf M. Landon leads the foreign affairs sub committee but says completing the plank by evening is impossible due to unsettled events abroad. The draft calls for peace and preparedness, aid to Allies, and portraying the party as the peace party. Willkie rejects a Stop Willkie movement and Taft talks of no coalitions and a swift nomination on the last ballot.
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Alf M. Landon
Landon
Republican Party
North Philadelphia
Thirtieth Street
Willkie
Taft
Navy expansion bill sails through House amid war talk
A House voice vote passed the navy expansion measure. Proposals include 385000 tons of battleships plus 200000 tons of aircraft carriers and more, aiming for a fleet of about 618 warships with 26 battleships and 14 carriers, plus 15,000 planes and 100000 tons of auxiliary vessels. Congress must approve any sale or disposal of ships.
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Knox
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Congess
France And Germany Seek Conditions For Peace Talks
Reports from Compiegne indicate talks outline three broad German demands including guarantees for Germany’s war effort and a new peace framework that would redefine France’s status in Europe. Hitler was not present as German leadership announces ceasefire terms ahead of a designed peace treaty following Italy’s armistice.
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France
Germa
England
Reich
Hitler
Paganda
Goebbels
Germany
Troops Hold Front as Armistice Talks Continue
The High Command reports reduced fighting as German scouting units press forward and French defenders endure a desperate but useful resistance. Emissaries discuss armistice terms with the Germans, yet no ceasefire is in place. French lines remain along the front with no new German advance south of the Loire.
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High Command
War Office
France
Petain
Italy
Governm
Loire
George McCullough Injured in East Washington Street Stabbing
George McCullough a Negro of 331 Moon Street was stabbed at the Dixie Cafe on East Washington Street shortly after 11 last night. He suffered a shoulder wound and a knife remained in his cheek. He identified a man named Pete Lockwood as the attacker and was taken by Sechrest's ambulance to Burrus Memorial Hospital.
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George McCullough
Moon Street
Dixie Cafe
East Washington Street
McCullough
Pete Lockwood
Sechrest
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Waste collection urged to aid war effort in London
London minister Herbert Morrison called for all towns to organize efficient scrap and paper collection. He said every piece of paper and scrap metal could be a potential bullet against Hitler, stressing urgent action in wartime mobilization.
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London
Hitler
Herbert Morrison
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