Eddy Gilmore's Volga travel contrasts with Texas tunes
Wide World reporter Eddy Gilmore travels 1600 miles along the Volga behind the Russian front. He finds Volga residents sing Deep in the Heart of Texas and My Old Kentucky Home, while Americans abroad hear Song of the Volga Boatman. Debate over sugar supply continues as the Office of Price Administration says stocks are smaller than believed and shipping may not stay favorable. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Wide World
Volga
Gilmore
Iiver Steumer
Ike
Flore Tam
Texas
Kentucky
Hoatmin
Susgar
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Senate House Take Up Huge Farm Bill Amid Parity Clash
Senators and House members clashed over a $680,000,000 farm bill as talks resumed after a temporary funding accord. The Senate authorized parity bans on six major crops, while a stop gap $56 million July fund was approved to keep Agriculture Department operations flowing. President Roosevelt expected to sign to avoid pay delays. dispute persists over selling surplus wheat for livestock at below parity, with House opposition likely to block final terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Department of Agriculture
Senate
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Russell
D-Ga
Bankhead
Burley
Benate
Barkley
Page Ge
Retown
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
Kiwanis Speaker Recalls Insurance History
Clyde H. Hendrickson of Metropolitan Life spoke at the Kiwanis meeting on the history of insurance from its origins in 4600 B C to modern wartime developments. He noted Friedrich Krupp of Essen founded the steel works there in 1810 by acquiring a small forge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde H. Hendrickson
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Kiwanis Lab
B. C
Mr. Hendrickson
Friedrich Krupp
Essen
Sub-Sinkings Toll Reaches 344 In Western Atlantic
AP reports total ship losses by United and neutral vessels in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor hits 344. All 47 aboard a Dutch cargo ship were saved after it was sunk by a submarine. Mexico claims a Gulf of Mexico dive bombing hit crippled an enemy sub. Argentina orders its ships to dock only at U.S. Gulf ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Caribbean
Navy
United and
Neutral Nations
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Buenos Airs
Argentina
Vesels
United United States
Germany
Ex Husband Found Hanging Near Farm After Slayings
Gallatin Missouri dated July 3 1934 sheriff and prosecutor report a hammer slaying at Eugene Farrer's farm. Mrs Ea Jean McBrayer and two children died from blows. Willard Linville divorced husband of the woman was found dead nearby, a rope around his neck, no note. A young injured girl recovered, Linville's car found in lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallatin
Willard Linville
Sam T. Evans
Linville
Ea Jean McBrayer
Leslie Gail McBrayer
Eugene Farrer
Betty Mie Linville
J. E. Reeder
Reeder
Farrer
Charles
Billie Linville
Hempstead County USO Drive Lags By 12.80 Needed
Hempstead County lags its USO drive by 12.80, with 48 of 75 counties meeting quotas. The campaign shows county totals at 1197.20 toward a 1250 goal, leaving 52.80 or more to raise. Rotary club contributions noted as 10.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Hempstead
USO
Hope Rotary Club
Film Director Chokes on Steak, Dies
Robert A. Golden, 45, an assistant film director, choked on a piece of steak early today. Doctors removed the obstruction but he died shortly afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Robert A. Golden
Buried Treasure Sugar Book Found After Tornado
In Blackford County near Kokomo Indiana a farmer unearthed Virginia Baker's sugar ration book blown away by a tornado that destroyed her home last month. Also notes former athlete Walter Troyer joined Navy recruiting duty and a sewer digger finds a felon phone cable cutting power to 50 telephones in Concordia Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Kokomo
Ind
Virginia Alice Baker
Blackford County
Here
Troyer
San Diego
Navy
Concordia
Kas
Eight Germans On Trial For Treason InSecret War Crimes Case
In a hush of secrecy under armed guard, eight German born men faced a military commission in the Justice Department on charges of wartime treason and Nazi sabotage. The defendants, including leaders of landings on Long Island and near Jacksonville, are unappealablely facing death penalty under four counts of the Articles of War. The trial, first of its kind since the Civil War, is to be decided by a five to two vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
FBI
Long Island
Florida
Bulding
Ilself
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Roosevelt
Francis Bidd
Seadle
Biddle
George John Dach
Amagansett
Edward John Kerling
Jacksonville
Ernest Peter Burger
Herbert Hans Haupt
Henry Harm Ieinek
Hermann Otto Neubauer
Richard Aubrin
Crimea
Red Army
Kerch
Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Dnieper
Novgorod
Smolensk
Nikolaev
Kiev
Odessa
Leningrad
Russia
Voronezh
Kursk
Kupyansk
Kharkov
Hitler
Voronezh Front
Cotton acreage forecast for 1941 crop reaches over 24 million
Washington reports a tentative 1941 cotton crop of about 10,915,000 bales based on last season yields and 1932 to 1940 abandonment trends. July 1 cultivated area stood at 24,005,000 acres, with the Agriculture Department barred from issuing formal forecasts until later. If yields match the 1930-39 average, production could drop to about 9,665,000 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Planes Active in Undecided Fight for Middle East
British air and patrol actions against Axis forces near the Nile border show no decisive battles yet as both sides probe strengths. RAF strikes on Tobruk and oil storage continue while Axis activity includes attacks on Malta and potential Rommel countermeasures. reinforcement movements and desert lines hold in a tense stalemate.
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Cairo
Nile
RAF
Tobruk
North African
Malta
Mediterranean
Qaitara
el Alamein
Erwin Rommel
Stockholm
Berlin
Rommel
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
London
Europe
Four Killed as U S Army Plane Crashes in Iowa
Sioux City July 8 17 An Army plane crashed into a hillside yesterday afternoon killing one officer and three non commissioned officers. Among the victims was Staff Sergeant Robert W Shores of Bentonville Arkansas whose mother Mrs Erie Shores lives at route one Bentonville Shores widow aged ten days was in Spokane at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Here
Second Air Force
Robert W. Shores
Bentonville
Ark
Erie Shores
Shores
Spokane
Japs Launch New Attack in Kiangsi-Hunan Rail Corridor
Chinese defenses hold a 23 mile Chekiang Kiangsi railway line as Japanese forces push southwest from Nanchang toward the Kiangsi Hunan trunk. Fengchang and Changshu are said to be penetrated with fierce fighting around both towns as Chinese troops close on advancing units.
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Chungking
Chekiang- Kiangsi
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Hunan
Shanghai
Singapore
Fengchang
Changshu
Hunan Province
Canton
Chuchow
Changsha
High Command
Hope City Council Defers Street Oiling Bid
The Hope city council met last night approving 100 for J H Jones to attend a Texas A&M civilian defense training course and 25 for maintenance of the city restroom. No aid was given for Walker street oiling. Ray Allen protested a church rewiring without a license and the council deferred action while department reports including a perfect volunteer firemen attendance were heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope City Council
J. H. Jones
Texas A & M
State Defense Council
Arkansas
A. B. Patten
Walker Street
13Th
Ray Allen
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Fire Department
Hundred Hempstead Men Report for Army Duty
One hundred Hempstead county men receive draft notices to report July 17 at Camp Joseph T. Robinson for induction under the selective service act. The list includes Guy Warren Askew Charles Malone Victor Cobb Wingfield Stroud William Stephenson Albert Stuart Wilson Shackleford Barney Gaines Claude Tolleson Joe Ball Garland Grant Lee Moody Richard Pipkin Amos Beard Clarence Logan James Wolf John Walker Berley Clayton Ervin Dodson David Smith Marvin Bennett Willis Lott Ottis Devault James Power Gilbert Otwell Edmond Wren Odell Luck Robert Pruitt Dewey Woolsey Wesley Barton Harvey Nichols Robert Byers Joe Clingan Carl Bryant Clyde Calloway Coy Mims Shirley Alford Paul Bain David Rogers Dolphus Whitten Olin Purtell Horace Fielding Howard Reece James Feece Cobb Hubert Monts Henry Fenwick Leroy Henry Howard Miller Walter Miller John Cumbie Ray Cornelius Marshall Bailey William Kinard J. W. Cheatam Clarence Cornelius Robert Muldrow Robert O Nea l Verdon Walker Robert Bonds Orie Gilbert James Jones William Russell Orval Taylor Coy Rodgers Beggs Douthit Reese Page Eugene Howson Charlie Aichley Gordon Glover James Stevens Lige Bearden Malcolm Akins Taylor Rider Dennis James Nations Jack Green Williams Denyer Goynes Ryan Rider James Rogers James Mitchell Murphy Crider Stan Reeves Paul Erwin Felice Flaherty Haywood O Bryant Troy Mechanie Richard Fenwick Collins Charles McElroy Sarr Oliver Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope and Hempstead County
Joseph T. Robinson
United States Army
Guy Warren Askew
Charles Alva Malone
Victor Humphrey Cobb
Wingfield
David Stroud
William Pearson Stephenson
Albert Loyal Stuart
Wilson Mike Shackleford
Barney Forrest Gaines
Claude Anthy Tolleson
Joe Well Ball
Garland Thomas Grant
Lee Roy Moody
Joe William Clingan
Carl Stanley Bryant, Jr
Clyde Calloway
Coy Olen Mims
Shirley Noel Alford
Paul Franklin Bain
David Luther Rogers, Jr
Dolphus Whitten, Jr
Olin Daniel Purtell
Horace Otis Hardy
Milton Hunter Fielding
Howard Henery Reece
James Tony
Joe Douthit
Reese Thomas
Page
Frank Eugene Howson, Jr
Charlie Earl Aichley
Gordon
Louis Glover
James D. D. Stevenson
Lige Bearden
Malcolim
Angus Akins
Chester Howard Taylor
Terril
Nevil Rider
Carl Dennis James
William Archie Nations
Jack D. Green
William Boyce Williams
Denyer Mac Goynes
Ryan Tillman Rider
James Walter Rogers
James Dewey Mitchell
Murphy Crider
Stan Warren Reeves
Paul Stell Erwin
Felice Ursery Flaherty
Haywood O'Bryant
Troy Ward
Mechanie
Richard Nelson Fenwick
Claude Darrell Collins
Dromer
Charles Allen
Warren James Durham
Dorsey Claude Steen
Murry Greer Crane
Cecil Charles
McElroy
Arthur Hoge
Sarr
Oliver Wright Mills
Hold New Lines Near Voronezh Amid Counter Attack
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army holding new lines near Voronezh amid strong German pressure. Soviet information says tank and infantry counterattacks slowed the assault and kept Voronezh contested, with heavy fighting ongoing along the Don basin and Staryi Oskol sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Voronezh
Henry C
Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Russia
Red Star
Don River
Soviet Information Bureau
Staryi Oskol
Setor
Staryi
Oskol
Vilelage
Information Bureau
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Alex, H. Washburn
By S. Burton Heath
C. H. Hendrickson
Kiwanis
Seattle
Walter Troyer
Miles
Orlef
Hrazaan
Soviet
Kharkove
Ros
SER OF
Azov
Strastors
Black Sea
Xrasnodar
Bon River
Middle East
Pacific
Council
Army
Africa
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