Benes Sees Czech Freedom Return Despite Nazi Occupation
Former Czechoslovak president Eduard Benes dedicates the Czecho Slovakia pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. He vows the Czech and Slovak peoples will regain liberty, argues Germany’s protectorate lacks legal legitimacy, and praises American democracy for preserving their cause.
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New York
Eduuard Benes
Czecho-Slovakia
Europe
America
Comenius
Czechoslovakia
Benes
United States
Republic
Czecho- Slovakia
Coast Guard flier reports sighting debris in Carey Mears search
A Norfolk flier aiding the search for three missing Belhaven crewmen from the Carey Mears reports sighting a green deckhouse afloat about 2.5 miles from the Chicamacomico station. The item also notes Washington inviting ten major cotton exporters to an September conference on a world cotton marketing agreement.
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Manteo
U. S. Coast Guard
Norfolk
Carey Mears
Chicamacombo Staon
Washington
United States
Explosion injures 30 to 40 children at Barberton school
An explosion blew a wall from a two story Barberton schoolhouse injuring 30 to 40 pupils. Some were treated at Barberton Citizens Hospital and Barberton Clinic for facial bleeding bruises and injuries to arms legs and bodies.
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Akron
Barberton
Barberton Citizens’ Hospital
Barbeton
Camps to Open Hoffman
The State 4-H Club Camp near here will open June 5 with members from Harriet and Hoke Counties beginning a week long encampment. The camp will close August 19.
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Hoffman
Here
Harriet
Hoke
Blackshirts Seize Salzburg Palace From Archbishop
Regional SS officials took control of the historic Salzburg palace once home to the archbishops. Archbishop Sigismund Waitz, primate of Germany, was dispossessed after his return from Whit Monday holidays. Furniture was moved to a warehouse and he relocated to a seminary. next steps unknown.
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Salzburg
Germany
Schutzstaffel
Sigismund Waitz
Officials Believe Japs Hold Officer
News from Peiping and Kalgan reports British circles believe Lieutenant Colonel Spear military attaché to China is being held by Japanese gendarmes at Kalgan. He reportedly traveled overland from Chungking toward Peiping when detained. Japanese papers claim a mysterious foreign attache was arrested May 26 between Peiping and Kalgan. officials expect results from the inquiry.
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Peiping
China
Spear
Kalgan
Chungking
Pieping
Harlan mine talks resume as Benham pit opens without contract
In Harlan Kentucky on May 31 contract talks between United Mine Workers leaders and the Harlan County Coal Operators Association were to resume as a troop protected Benham mine reopened without a union contract. Superintendent R E K Galbreath of Wisconsin Steel cited inability to recognize a union due to uncertainty over majority support.
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Harlan, Ky
United Min Workers
Harlan County Coal Operators Association
R. EK. Galbreath
Wisconsin Steel Company
Benham
Moseley Warns of Overthrow Threat and Army Power
General George Van Horn Moseley testifies before the House Un-American Committee claiming a plot to overthrow the government and urging Roosevelt to empower the army to combat subversive activities. He alleges a national coast to coast plan to drag the U.S. into war and says he warned General Malin Craig of one case. He describes meetings in New York and Philadelphia and references WW II era style subversion reports and anti communist groups.
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Washington
George van Horn Moseley
Congressional
Roosevelt
United States
Fourth Corps
House Un-American Committee
Germany
Malin Craig
James E. Campbell
Owensboro
Army Intelligence Service
Moseley
Craig
White House
Campbell
New York
Uzzell
New Yorker
A. B. Parker
Rhea Whitley
Mosely
Divers begin salvage work on sunken Squalus submarine
Navy divers descended 240 feet at Portsmouth New Hampshire to attach connections for building air pressure in the forward ballast compartments of the sunken submarine Squalus. The operation aims to enable a staged lift using heavy chains and pontoons to move the vessel to 100 to 120 feet depth for a simpler surface retrieval.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Navy
Toling
Britain planned exile of Irish Republican leader
The British home office was reported to be considering extraditing Sean Russell an IRA leader now in California. Specific charges were not disclosed but stem from recent IRA bombings in England.
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London
British
Home Office
Sean Russell
Irish Republican Army
California
England
Ireland
Nazis Welcome Franco Veterans in Hamburg Homecoming
Several thousand German soldiers who fought for Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain arrived in Hamburg to a Nazi welcome. Field Marshal Goering greeted the Condor Legion on the Hamburg bridge as torpedo boats led the ships into harbor. The event echoed the 23rd anniversary of the Battle of Jutland and drew crowds celebrating Germany’s role in the Spanish Civil War.
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Hamburg
Francisco Franco
Spain
Elbe
Condor Legion
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Europe
Africa
Hitler
Voelkischer Beomachter
Germany
Goering
Jutland
Milan
Italy
Galeazzo Ciano
Gerarchia
Labor Leader backs postponement of Philippine independence
Este ban Vasquez, head of the Philippine Labor Union with 17 000 members, publicly favored indefinite postponement of independence set for 1946. He warned that if the United States withdraws, Japan would move in, and expressed preference for America over Japan.
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Manila
Esteban Vasquez
Philippine Labor Union
United States
Philippines
Japan
America
Hunger strike ends as Rose Carina eats in hospital
Rose Carina a 45 year old widow tied to the East's mass murder probe ends a nine day hunger strike by taking light nourishment in a Philadelphia hospital. Police say she faced a murder charge after voluntary admission and prior forced feeding.
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Philadelphia
Rose Carina
East
James Kelly
Oregon Ex-Governor Attacks Labor Board Over Violence
Former Oregon governor Charles H. Martin told a Senate Labor Committee hearing that the National Labor Board sided with the CIO and AFL battles in the Lumber District, saying the board meddled and helped provoke violence. He cited 76 prisoners jailed for conspiracy or violence.
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Washington
Charles H. Martin
Oregon
National Labor Board
Senate Labor Committee
Martin
CIO
Royal Tour Brings King George and Queen Elizabeth to Canada
The royal couple wrap up a westward Canadian visit and plan a return through Canada en route to the United States. The 12 car royal train departs Vancouver toward Halifax with a stop schedule including Jasper National Park, Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Ontario before crossing the border at Niagara on June 7.
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Victoria
B. C
Britain
Canada
T. D. Pattulo
British Columbia
Pacific
England
Halifax
Jasper National Park
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Ontario
Niagara
Hull
United States
Britain Aims to Set Up Terrorist Center in Germany
A German official accused Britain of attempting to establish a terrorist center in Germany and warned of a possible protest in London. The claim followed a Southport speech by Labour MP Philip Noel-Baker who said Britain would feed propaganda to illegal publications to enlighten the German people.
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Berlin
Britain
Germany
London
Southport
England
Philip Noel- Baker
Labor Party
Noel-Baker
Britain revives prewar posts for Preparedness Day
London May 31 The British War Office revived two prewar inspector general posts for July 1 as part of an intensified preparedness drive. General Sir William Edmund Ironside becomes inspector general of overseas forces and General Sir Walter Kirke named inspector general of home forges.
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London
British War Office
William Edmund Ironside
Gibraltar
Walter Kirke
Territorial Army
Home Forges
Molotov Rejects British French Peace Front Plans in Parliament
Premier Foreign Minister Molotoff criticized the British French bid for a three power mutual aid pact as insufficient and warned that vigilance is needed to defend Soviet frontiers. He cited Outer Mongolia and warned of limits to patience amid border skirmishes with Japanese forces. Stalin entered to applause as Litvinov sat nearby.
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France
Russia
England
Geneva
Georges Bonnet
Ivan Maisky
London
Lord Halifax
Moscow
Molotoff
Supreme Soviet
Stalin
Britain
Baltic States
Germany
Soviet Union
Outer Mongolia
Arrests in Briggs Strike Fallout Send 14 Detained in Detroit
Detroit police arrest 14 men during Briggs Manufacturing strike fears. Three Ho mer Martin faction UAW members named as suspects, with 11 others seized near a restaurant besieging a pro Martin worker. Jesse Taylor of Briggs tied to cellar raid. Ferris, Briggs CIO vice president, wounded critically.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
United Auto Workers Union
CIO
Briggs
Special Investigation Detail
George Grisham
Samuel Miller
Fred Mitchell
Evansville
Ind
Homer Martin
UAW
Martin Auto
Jesse Taylor
Taylor
Joseph Ferris
Briggs Cio Law Local
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Floyd Hendley
Greensboro
Emerywood Country Club
J. T. Martin
Jean Yates
Minnie Atkinson
Winston-Salem
Leroy Stadler
J. B. Cooper
High Point
Catholic Palace
Harlan Mine
U. S
Whitley
James N. Wilkerson
Kansas City
James True
Robert Edmonse
John J. Mitty
San Francisco
Pope Pius
Mitty
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Bankhead
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Dtex
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