France is becoming a Nazi arsenal under occupation
Preston Grover reports from Paris on how occupied France channels its industry to Axis needs, with raw materials controlled by Germany and Britain’s blockade cutting off supplies. He details reduced production, selective mobilization of coal and auto plants, oil shortages, rubber controls, and transport bottlenecks that paralyze French industry.
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Preston Grover
Enterprise Special News Service
France
Preston Grover Paris
Special News Service
Berlin
Germany
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States Steel
Bethlehem
Darlan
Schneider Creusot
English Channel
Paris
Bordeaux
Lorraine
Rouen
Amiens
Coney Island
British House backs Roosevelt as last hope in war effort
May 8 Roosevelt Rome dispatch reports Italian political circles say the British House of Commons expressed confidence not in Prime Minister Churchill but in President Franklin D. Roosevelt, counting on American involvement as the final hope in the European war.
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Rome
Hoase of Commons
Chugenill
Roosevelt
Chicago Produce Market Recap May 8
Chicago reports firm prices across commodities with receipts totaling 995,967 for butter and 28,093 for eggs. Dirties and checks listed, other prices unchanged. Mentions Welland Canal linking Lake Erie and Ontario at Welland Ontario.
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Chicago
Bulter
Welland Canal
Lake Erie
Ontario
Welland, Ontario
Reich Surveys For Shelters In Berlin Bombed Areas
Berlin authorities survey all homes to locate shelter for homeless by bombs. Cards request room space and cot or divan capacity. Few houses wrecked so far, but raids suggest worse times. Jewish families ordered to tighter quarters to free space for Aryans amid evictions in Charlottenburg.
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Berlin
Charlottenburg
Trio Arrested For Robbery In Columbia And Charlotte
Police in Columbia and Charlotte arrested a woman and two men in connection with the Postal Telegraph Company robbery. Lila Norris, about 19, from Erwin North Carolina, Larry Miller, about 22, from Cincinnati, and Benjamin Newton Johnson of Cincinnati and Kansas City were named. Johnson was seized in Charlotte. $1,604 was recovered there. The others were held at a Columbia airport. The trio is also sought in Savannah for a similar theft.
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Columbia
S. C
Charlotte
N. C
Todas
Postal Telegraph Company
G. A. Fulmer
Columbia Police Department
Lila Norris
Erwin
Larry Miller
Cincinnati
Benjamin Newton Johnson
Kansas City
Johnson
FE. D. Pittman
Fulmer
Savannah
J. E. Lingen
Vatican City Hosts World’s Shortest Railway Discovery
A tiny rail line in Vatican City measures only 600 feet making it the world’s shortest railway. The curious track connects notable sites and draws visitors curious about this historic transportation oddity.
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Vatican City
Italy
French to Build Fast Frighters and Tankers
Berlin May 8 reports from Paris that the French government plans construction of fast freighters refrigerator ships and oil tankers to overcome its present inadequacy of merchant tonnage.
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Berlin
i/P
DNE
Paris
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