Defense Speech Urged By Hoey
Governor Hoey urged readiness to defend the nation if needed during the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence festival in Charlotte. He warned against submission to tyranny and said the United States must preserve liberty even by fighting if necessary. The second day featured a parade, with New York Mayor LaGuardia speaking at a lunch on the U.S. Constitution and a pageant on Mecklenburg County’s early history.
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Charlotte
United States
Hoey
Mecklenburg
Free America
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Hitler moves in bold, rapid formations across Europe
An observer reports German army readiness with mobile spearhead units pushing through rail and power lines. Bridges are preplanned with ready made substitutes as Luftwaffe and ground columns advance. Night air raids drive civilians underground while Hitler shifts formations across the front.
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Air Information Service
Germany
Belgium
France
Berlin
Munster
Westphalia
Hitler
England
Holy Roman Empire
German Mechanized Breakthrough Moves Toward Antwerp
Battlefront reports hundreds of tanks and armored cars used by Germany as British and French lines collapse toward the coast. Luftwaffe bombings and air superiority hinder Allied counter moves as mechanized columns drive toward Antwerp with potential northern flanks vulnerable to air attack.
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Channel
Louvain
Antwerp
Brussels
Liege
Namur
Belgium
Maxine Weygand
Firearm Possession Ban Enforced in London Crisis
London reports a May 20 decree depriving all aliens of the right to possess firearms as a precaution against German sympathizers behind the home front. The measure tightens security amid wartime concerns.
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London
High Point Schools Seek Music Building and State Aid
Greensboro May 20 The High Point city schools request a net 65 696 75 in capital outlay for 65 696 75 to fund a Senior High music building and repairs. Greensboro requests total 235 553 for improvements. rural Guilford asks 92 679 after deductions. A resolution honors J W Cone and Cesar Cone named trustee at Guilford Sanatorium.
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Greensboro
High Point City
Charles F. Carroll
Board of County Commissioners
Guilford County
Carroll
High Point
Guilford
Ed High Point
Elm Street
Emma Blair
Leonard Street
Johnson Street
Fairview
Ray Street
William Penn High School
Oak Hill
Britain staff plans for war effort and air defense
UK leaders pledge increased production and tighter control of private industry to fuel war. Churchill signals stepping up aircraft output and defense measures as beaverbrook calls garage workers to aircraft factory work. Britain moves children from danger zones to Wales while London families return home and air raid precautions expand.
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Churchill
Germany
British Isles
Churchil
House of Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
London
Wales
Britain
Court decisions on labor, trade, and price regulation noted
Customs and Patent Appeals ruled illegal a presidential proclamation raising canned dlams import duty while the Bradford Dyeing Association case returned to the lower court to allow union bargaining after an election. A coal regulation ruling supported Congress's commerce clause powers, with McReynolds not participating and Douglas citing Congress as the authority.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Douglas
Price fixing and fair competition in interstate trade
The text argues price fixing and elimination of unfair practices prevent financial ruin, low wages, poor conditions, strikes, and trade disruption from chaotic price structures. It asserts Congress power under the commerce clause to regulate forces that dislocate an important economy segment and burden interstate channels of trade.
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Congress
Y W C A Membership Drive Opens In City
The annual Y W C A Membership Invitation began today with Mrs. Fred Whitescarver as chairwoman and runs through May 27. The Business Girls' department with about 125 members comprises three clubs led by Miss Leslie Johnson and Miss Susannah Thomas, fostering leadership civic service and wholesome recreation.
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Fred Whitescarver
Business Girls’ Department
Business and Professional Girls
Jolly Y Club
High Point
Leslie Johnson
Susannah Thomas
Business Girls’ Council
Miss Johnson
Miss Thomas
Business Girls
Reichs Forces Press 1916 Line Breakthroughs Near Somme
German forces plunge toward Paris with air and armor driving deep into France. Stuka dive bombers destroy an armored column from Loon, forcing retreat as Germans press a bold Somme battlefield advance. Allied command shuffles with Weygand replacing Gamelin amid mounting crisis.
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Cambrai-Peronne
Loon
France
Paris
St. Quentin
le Cateau
Rethel
Cambrie
Peronne
Somme
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Maxime Weygand
Low and High Readings Reported Yesterday
The report notes a low temperature around 60 yesterday and a high near 87 later in the day. No further details on location or conditions are provided.
Warfront and Industry Rally in Defense of Britain
French military authorities forecast decisive developments within a day on the German offensive expected to split toward Paris or sweep west to trap Allied forces. An extraordinary conference on Capitol Hill brings together air power leaders and government officials to push for 50 000 planes per year and expanded air corps while Army Chief Marshal George C. Marshall outlines plans to raise aircraft production and total strength amid ongoing Somme sector fighting and fears of a renewed Somme-scale clash.
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Channel
England
Paris
France
London
Holland
High Command
Germany
Berlin
St. Quentin
West Bank
The
Somme
Calais
Belgium
Oise
Aisne
Loon
Adolf Hitler
Eupenmalmedy-Moresnet
Fuehrer
Rhine
Hitler
Arthur Seyszliquart
Poland
Netherlands
Switzerland
Swiss
Bremen
Hamburg
DNB
Lynn Heinzerling
Associated Press
Hannove
Heinzerling
Dewitt MacKenzie
Treasury
Capitol Hill
George C. Marshall
Army
House Military Committee
War Department
Air Corps
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
Rome
Lewis Compton
Navy
Europe
Senate Appropriations Committee
White House
George
D-Ga
Connally
House Naval Committee
Armed Services
Morgenthau
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
Arnold
Abbeville
Amiens
Dover
Marshal Foch
Weygand
France Faces Do or Die Fight Against German Invasion
General Weygand assumed supreme command as French forces battled near Monimed y and Rethel with heavy German pressure. The Paris region heard air and artillery activity while Montmedy and La Fere Landrecies engaged in dense fighting as the Wehrmacht pushed toward Paris with armored divisions.
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Maine Weygand
France
Bac
Monimedy
Dan
Rethel
Aisne
St. Quentin
Cambrai
la Fere
Ana Landrecies
War Ministry
Montmedy
Sedan
Montmedr
Chiers
Paris
Weygand
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Marshal Foch
Chicken House Fire At Arthur Pearson Home
Firemen responded at 3 48 this morning to extinguish a blaze at a chicken house located at 1217 Shelton Street the residence of Arthur Pearson.
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Chicken House
Arthur Pearson
Shelton Street
Anglo French orders push Douglas bomber production to new peak
The Anglo French Purchasing Mission has placed 50 million dollars in orders for Douglas attack bombers. Half of the aircraft will be built by Boeing under Douglas license at Seattle. Officials tie the move to the President's program as production capacity expands to meet Allied needs for American made planes.
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Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
Califf
Douglas
Boeing Aircraft Company
Seattle
Explosion at Local Laundry Ignites Boiler Area
An explosion at the South Main Street Dutch Laundry plant occurred this morning when fireman Richard Green activated a switch near the boiler. Fumes and accumulated gas fumes are blamed for the blast. the boiler was left undamaged and Green was unharmed. Work is expected to resume within 24 hours with little delivery delay.
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South Mai Street
Richard Green
Lammot du Pont Named Board Chairman at Du Pont
Pierre S. du Pont retires as chairman of the board of E I du Pont de Nemours & Co in Wilmington Delaware. Lammot du Pont elected board chairman and Walter S Carpenter Jr elevated to company president. The move cites age and desire for leisure as reasons for the president’s departure.
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Pierre S. DU Pont
Wilmington
Del
Lammot du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr
Sweden Bars Nazi Transit Through Its Territory
Stockholm May 20. Well informed circles say Sweden told Germany it would not permit Nazi troops or supplies to cross Sweden to aid the siege of Narvik. Authoritative sources deny receiving formal transit demands amid rumors of imminent German surrender at Narvik and a need for reinforcements to avert defeat.
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Germany
Hitler
Fuehrer
Stockholm
Sweden
Narvik
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