Delayed Action on Draft Bill Delays 28 Year Old Deferment
Washington dispatch reports case leaders ordered a 10 day delay in drafting action, postponing immediate deferment for men turning 28 by July 1. The shift aims to clear urgent appropriation bills before year end and lets lawmakers leave Washington for the July 4 holiday. The bill would change deferment rules and cover workers in strikes and defense plants.
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Washington
House
Senate
Case Military Committee
Roosevelt
Eyton Reappointed Assistant Budget Director
Raleigh June 28. R G eyton of Raleigh a career man in the states budget bureau has been reappointed assistant director of the budget by Governor roughton. The governor himself budget director. The job pays 6600 annually.
Monetary Powers For FDR Continue
The Senate approved by 40 to 20 a two year extension of President Roosevelt's monetary powers to revalue the dollar and operate a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund. The measure allows further reduction of the dollar's gold content from about 59 to 50 percent. Opposition labeled devaluation dishonest and warned of harms to holders of defense bonds and life policies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
White House
Roosevelt
Adams
D-Cole
Senate House
Works Projects Administration
French Colonies Get Needed Supplies in Resumed Trade
American, British, and French officials agreed to resume shipments of fuel and other vital goods to the French North African colonies. Bermuda authorities allowed the tanker Scheherazade to sail from the United States to Casa Bianca after assurances that Weygand’s army would not engage Britain, and that colonies would not be handed to the Nazis. Local fighting remains in Syria between British Free French and colonial forces, with no action planned against Free French territory in Africa.
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Lloyd Lehreas
Washington
Germany
Sovvria
United States
Great Britain
Jance
Africa
Iraq
London
Maxime Weygand
Syria
Vichy
Charles de Gaulle
Gen Gamelin Reported Escaping Prison in France
German radio via Vichy said Gen Maurice Gamelin escaped from Bourraso prison and two people were arrested in connection. He had been held since Sept 16, 1940, with former Premiers Daladier Reynaud and Blum awaiting trial for wartime decisions.
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New York
Maurice Gustav Gamelin
Allied Forces
France
Gamelin
Marshal Petain
Daladier
Reynaud
Blum
Game- Ha
Ti Oa. m
Bourraso
Vichy
Clermont-Ferrand
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Marines Sent To London To Aid Embassy Work
The Navy Department announced that a detachment of 63 U. S. Marines, including three officers and 60 men, was dispatched to London to facilitate communications among US offices there. They will also act as fire watchers to relieve embassy staff under heavy workload.
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Washington
Navy Department
London
United States
Navy
Art Gallery On Display At Wake Forest
Simmons Art Gallery recently given to Wake Forest College by Dr. Thomas Jackson Simmons president emeritus of Brenau College Gainesville Georgia will be on display here each Sunday 3 05 pm through August 10.
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Wake Forest
Simmons
Wake Forest College
Thomas Jackson Simmons
Brenau College
Gainesville
Fort Bragg men fatally hurt in Fayetteville crash
Two Fort Bragg soldiers and a civilian died in a daytime auto wreck near Fayetteville. Three others were injured, including two soldiers. Victims were Fred A. Allery and Dennis M. Coggins from Wisconsin and Illinois native Delvin Alphin. Survivors include Sergeant Thomas Gallup, James Deal, and Tom Tucker. Police detained Carlos Yarborough and Johnny Long after the collision and alleged theft from the dying Coggins.
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Fayetteville
Fort Bragg
Here
Fred A. Allery
H 60Th Infantry
Clintonville
Wis
Dennis M. Coggins
Flora
Ill
Delvin Alphin
Thomas Gallup
James Deal
Tom Tucker
Alton Dunn
Allery
Coggins
Carlos Yarborough
Near Here
Yarborough
Dunn
Johnny Long
Gallup
Liberal
Tucker
Beal
Hartsville
Tenn
Durham Woman Appointed to Board of Trustees
June 28. Mrs Annie Swindell of Durham was appointed by Governor Broughton to the Board of Trustees of the Teachers and State Employes Retirement Fund.
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Durham
Raleigh
Annie Swindell
Broughton
Teachers and State
Request Would Broaden Power Of President
The Associated Press reports the Roosevelt administration planned to ask Congress for a formal national emergency declaration to grant the president broader powers as commander in chief. War Department sources say it would allow indefinite retention of selective service trainees and National Guard and reserve officers, and permit sending troops beyond the Western Hemisphere. The move would replace a simple resolution with a Congressional declaration to retain Guardsmen and reservists beyond one year, expanding executive authority under peril conditions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
War Department
National Guard
Hemisphere
Department
Western Hemisphere
Two Killed In Plane Crash Near Cochran Field
A two passenger training ship crashed on a farm near Fairview Georgia last night killing Second Lieutenant N. E. Pries ter Jr 23 of the 322nd school squadron Cochran Field and First Lieutenant Patrick W Hodges 25 Air Corps basic flying school Cochran Field Montgomery Alabama. The plane was en route from Cochran Field to Columbia via Atlanta and Augusta on a routine training flight.
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Columbia
S. C
Fairview
C. Lochran Field
Macon
N. E. Priester, Jr
322Nd
Cochran Field
Patrick W. Hodges
Air Corps
Montgomery
Ala
Atlanta
Augusta
Hitler Moves Into Russia: German Blitz Prospects
Informed military observers dispute economist and diplomat theories on Hitler's Russia campaign. They say the invasion stems from supreme confidence and timing, aided by data from German technicians in Soviet factories. Outcome hinges on Soviet strategy. slow retreat could prolong the war, while stand and fight might erase Polish and French precedents. The article also notes Roosevelt's anti discrimination order faced pressure amid looming defense factory mobilization.
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Hitler
Russia
der Fuchrer
Britain
Middel East
Ife
Panzers Drive Deep Salient in Battle Reports
Berlin reports Nazi panzer columns driving a deep salient into the Soviet defense line annihilated an entire Red Army division aided by tanks. The DNB described two such actions in the first week of Eastern Front fighting but did not specify the locations. The article notes division sizes and tank numbers remain uncertain.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Red Army
DNB
Two Trains In Head-On Collision Near Jacksonville
Two Wabash Railroad freight locomotives collided head-on near Jacksonville Illinois at Neelyville killing engineer Herman L Schultz and fireman Harry L Bailey both of Decatur and injuring two brakesmen B G Frazier and Richard Dickens. Dickens said the westbound train was at 55 mph. The week saw three Illinois train collisions with additional fatal and injurious wrecks elsewhere in Vermilion County and near Wilmington.
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Here
Illinois
Herman L. Schultz
Decatur
Neelyville
Harry L. Bailey
B. G. Frazier
Richard Dickens
Dickens
Tilson
Vermilion County
Wilmington
Alton Railroad
RAF Hits Eight Nazi Targets In Daylight Raid
RAF bombers sweep across the channel in a 17th night assault and attack a power station at Comines near Lille. Preliminary reports say heavy bombing, all bombers returned, few Nazi fighters sighted, three claimed shot down. Last night targets included Bremerhaven Cuxhaven Oldenburg Den Helder Dunkerque Calais Bremen Vegesack with many direct hits.
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London
Royal Air Force
Comines
Lille
France
RAF
Air Ministry
Bremerhaven
Cuxhaven
Oldenburg
den Helder
Punkerque
Calais
Bremen
Vegesack
Fighting Goes On In Buffer Territory
The Red army reports a major counter assault in the buffer zone along the old Russian frontier routing a leading German panzer column bound for Minsk. The Minsk and Luck sectors saw the fiercest fighting as Soviet forces claimed successes including the annihilation of a German infantry unit and the dispersion of a tank corps headquarters.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Army
Minsk
White Russia
Istanbul
Turkey
Prut
Romania
Bessarabia
39Th Tank Corps
London
Poland
Luckinow
Lwow
Luck
Pinsk Marshes
Nazi Soviet War Reduces Chance of Japan Advancing Southward
Vernon Nash of the National Peace Conference told the International Relations Institute in Chapel Hill that the Nazi Soviet war lessens Japan's move south and reduces the odds of U S war with Japan. He said the United States would act only if rubber and tin supplies are threatened, proposing a range blockade on Japan and noting its heavy dependence on trade with Great Britain and the United States.
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Chapel Hill
Vernon Nash
National Peace Conference of
New York
International Relations Institute
Japan
United States
Pacific
Earth
Great Britain
Aircraft production in the doldrums through July and August
An authoritative report says U S and Britain military aircraft output remains in the doldrums into July and August due to shortages of aluminum magnesium and machine tools. May output fell to 1334 planes from 1389 in April while new models undergo testing. shortages are expected to ease with September facilities and an October rise anticipated.
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Washington
United States
Britain
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