Petain orders dissolution of Freemasonry in France
The Petain government ordered the dissolution of Freemasonry and other secret societies in France. Le Nouvelliste denounced Freemasons for undermining France and undermining Petain's work family and fatherland program. The move echoes totalitarian patterns abroad and follows by new depelle with rationing and restricted imports this August.
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Vichy
France
Petain
Freemasonry
Marshal Petain
le Nouvelliste
Lyon
Freemasons
Nice
Eclaireur de Nice
Gringgire
Blum
Popular Front
Edouard Daladier
Camille Chautemps
Albert Sarraut
Yvon Delbos
Vincent Auriol
Pierre Cot
Tokyo protests over arrests of Japanese executives in London
Spokesman calls action shocking and promises full details of arrests of Makihara and Tanabe, both described as pro Britain. Makihara, long London rep for Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, and Tanabe, recently moved to Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, face police action as UK inquiry continues amid claims of no papers taken. Mitsubishi and Mitsui dynasties hold sway in major Japanese industry. Elsewhere, report notes massive Italian casualties and war booty losses as Italian forces sustain heavy blows.
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Shigemitsu
Britain
Makihara
London
Mitsuibishi Shoji Kaisha
Tanabe
Mitsui Bussun Kaisha
Putney
Mekihara
Associated Press
Nylist
Mitsubishi
Mitsui
Mall
Frontline Chaos and Political Shakeups Across Europe
Reports from Cairo detail British and Italian losses on the Libyan frontier with tanks and matériel captured as observers note heavy casualties and unburied dead. In London, Charles de Gaulle condemns French surrender and vows future victory while speculation rises about Lord Beaverbrook joining Churchill’s cabinet and possible shifts in information policy.
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Cairo
Cair
London
Egypt
Sonman Mine Inquiry Ends In Ebensburg After Review
Ebensburg August 3 State mine inspectors will finish their field inquiry into the Sonman mining explosion that killed 83. They plan to move to Harrisburg to complete a formal report Deputy Secretary Richard Maize said. An inquest into the disaster likely will be held the week of August 14 Coroner Patrick McDermott said a definite date depends on the state report.
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Ebensburg
Harrisburg
Richard Maize
Pennsylvania
Patrick McDermott
Fraud Charges Shake Civil Service Lists in Harrisburg
Harrisburg August 3 Secretary of Labor and Industry Lewis G Hines threw out all civil service lists for jobs paying over 1800 a year in the unemployment compensation bureau claiming widespread fraud and falsification He asked Federal Social Security Board funds to fund new merit tests and will visit Washington to press the plan The move affects administrative accounting managerial statistical visitors upper clerical and stenographic ranks while about 500 of the 3360 employees remain outside civil service with lists exhausted after two years and a Justice Department opinion backing his action.
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Harrisburg
Lewis G. Hines
Secretary of Labor and Industry
Unemployment Compensation Bureau
Federal Social Security Board
Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
Hines
Department of Justice
War News Warns Hitler Needs Trade To Work War Machine
The report notes Germany has large stockpiles of captured materials but cannot profit without a functioning blockade end. It argues Hitler must export or die and seeks a food import flow from Danubian regions as European disarray deepens. Hunger and famine threaten across Europe as distribution falters.
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Mark
Norway
France
Hitler
Europe
Fuehrer
Germany
Reich
Danubian
England
International News Roundup From The War Front
In Europe the Petain government bans freemasonry and secret orders as it reorganizes France while Japan expands influence in Indochina. New Caledonia pledges support to Britain despite armistice terms. British raids strike northwest Germany and air raids on British ships continue with scattered damage. Lord Beaverbrook joins the British war cabinet and Chamberlain remains hospitalized after surgery. In New York, Miss Chevaldine and Miss Maxine Thomas return from visiting relatives and nursing student Evelyn Thomas, who played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, remains in Brooklyn before joining the Indiana visit with family.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Chamberlain
Beaverbrook
Lord Halifax
Liberal
Beaversbrook
Ministry of Information
Alfred Durr Cooper
House of Comimons
Strona
News-Chronicle
Dem
Petain
France
Far East
Japan
Pelain
New Caledonia
Sidney
Britain
Germany
Bremen
Scotland
Midlands
England
Bristol Channel
Neville Chamberlain
Counco
Mome
New York
Chevaldine
Maxine Thomas
Huber Thomas
New York City
Evelyn Thomas
Women's College Hospital
Brooklyn
N.Y
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Indiana
Clergyman’s plan goes over big in prison service
The Reverend Lanter Snyder proposed two weeks of prison freedom annually for well behaved inmates at Western Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Inmate reactions were unanimously favorable, with guards skeptical that many would return after a two week head start.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Western Penitentiary
Lanter Snyder
Local Man Killed in Bolivar Motorcycle Crash
Private L G Washington of the State Motor Police reports that Hummel died after a motorcycle traveling south on Route 259 entered the Route 22 intersection at high speed. Truck driver John Markley, 32, of Lancaster approached from the east. It is believed the motorcycle may have struck the truck’s right rear. Investigation continues.
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L. G. Washington
State Motor Police
Hummel
John Markley
Lancaster
Nazi aviation and Romanian population shifts amid wartime notes
The report outlines German naval losses and successes including seven armed British ships sunk by a U boat under Lieut. Capt. Kretschmer, plus the destruction of the British destroyer Daring. It also notes air raids on England and fires at Thameshaven. In Bucharest, German circles discuss mass transfers of 1.5 to 2 million people to resolve RomanianHungarian territorial issues, relocating Hungarians, Germans, and Romanians accordingly.
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Ing
High Command
Kretschmer
Daring
Harwich
Hebrides
England
Thameshaven
Thames River
London
Bucharest
Adolf Hitler
Rumania
Hungary
Transylvania
Reich
Thh
Burke pushes six year presidential term proposal
Senator Burke of Nebraska says he has written to about 150 opponents of a third term to testify on a constitutional amendment creating a single six year presidential term hearings will start soon before a Senate judiciary subcommittee The proposal would not apply to President Roosevelt now and would affect presidents elected after the current election ratification would require 36 states
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Washington
Burke
D-Neb
Nebraska
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate Judiciary
Roosevelt
Congress
Five dead, four missing in Camden paint plant blaze
The death toll in the $2,000,000 Camden blaze rose to five with the recovery of part of a body at the R. M. Hollingshead Paint Co plant. Four plant workers remain missing after explosions and fire. Mayor Brunner said a city investigation is delayed until the fire department's report. A New Jersey Labor Department spokesman said the probe continues. Firemen blamed a spark from a repairman's wrench for the explosions.
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Camden
N. J
R. M. Hollingshead Paint Company
George &Brunner
New Jersey Department of Labor
Five Siamese Kittens Do Fine in Palmer Report
McClellandtown Aug 3 Five Siamese kittens born to a cat at a Negro family home in Palmer near the coal mining hamlet were reported doing all right today. Postmaster Michael Heffren said three are black and white and two are all black. all five were joined together at birth yesterday.
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Mcclellandtown
Palmer
Michael Heffren
Stock Market Snapshot Amid Mixed Equity Lifts and Dips
A bustling trading day shows Allied Steel and Allis-Chalmers gaining while Am Car and Foundry and American Can advance modestly. Downticks appear for several heavyweights including General Electric, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, and Union Carbide as investors weigh inflation signals and corporate earnings.
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Allied Stra
Allis-Ch Mig
Alco
Arm
Ane Armstrong Cork
Atlas Tack
Bendix
Beth Steel
Blaw
Coro Curtis Publishing
Dy Curtis Pub
del Lack
West Bay du Pont de
East Ead
Gen Foods
Goodrich
Houd-Hershey
Hudson Motor
Nick Canal IT
Kennecott
Kresge
Lorillard
E Macy
McCrory Stores
Mini-Moline
Montgom Ward
Nash-Kelv
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pr
Central RR
North Ameria
North Pac
Ohio Oil
Otis Steel
Packard Motor
Phillips
Procter and Gam
Pullman
Puer Oilery
RCA
RKO
Rand
Sperry Corp
Cal
Ind
Oij
Studebaker Corp
TM Swift
Texas Corp
Texas Gulf Rulph
Pye L Trust
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
UAS Rubber
U & Bteel
Vanadium Cor
Iet Woolworth
Millionaire Inheritance Fails To Change Quiet Life
Lansdowne Pa Aug 3 Walter H Dilworth heir to 2752044 estate from bachelor uncle Foster C Hennion who died intestate in Hoboken N J He received admin letters from Surrogate John H Gavin at Jersey City Dilworth and his wife live in a duplex and plan a three week Canada vacation with no concrete plans for the fortune after retirement from business a year ago.
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Lansdowne
Walter H. Dilworth
Philadelphia
Dilworth
Foster C. Hennion
Hoboken
N. J
John H Gavin
Jersey City
Canada
Cherry Tree to Dedicate Penn Monument Park
Cherry Tree will dedicate Penn Monument Park on August 24 with an address and dinner. The park covers about one third of an acre by the Penn Monument. Delmont Notley said full arrangements are not yet set, but an interesting program is planned and everybody will be welcome.
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Cherry Tree
Penn-Notley Park
Penn Monument
Delmont Notley
Cherry Tree Burgess
Roundup of sports notes and upcoming bets
Sports Roundup fires a fast mix of names and feats. Kekus Bananas Banara wins the Senior AAU javelin for St Stanislaus College Louisiana in 1925. John Caton becomes a fourth generation trotter driver. Merv Henley of La Crosse clocks a two win iron man night in Wisconsin State League. Henry Picard stakes a pro win at Hershey. Billy Webb of White Sox praises Don Kolloway. Tennessee’s Johnny Rhett Butler gains ten pounds and sharpens his edge for Vols’ foes.
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Bill White
Brietz
New York
Kekus Bananas Banara
St. Stanislaus College of Louisiana
John Caton
Merv Henley
la Crosse
Fond du Lac
Henry Picard
Hershey
Billy Webb
White Sox
Don Kolloway
Okla
City Farm
Guardsmen Head for New York Camp Train Deployments
More than 8,000 Pennsylvania citizen-soldiers will ride 181 railroad coaches and 78 baggage cars to a large peace-time army camp near Lisbon and Canton New York. Units depart Sunday with trains from Greensburg Latrobe Indiana Blairsville and other home stations, en route for three weeks of drill.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
New York State
Lisbon
Canton
N. Y
Greensburg
Latrobe
Indiana
Blairsville
Tennessee Duke Rose Bowl Consolation Ticket Demand Heaviest
The piece notes unprecedented demand for tickets to the Tennessee versus Duke game dubbed the Rose Bowl Consolation. It also references players Ed Monski and Box Foxx, plus other sports notes and a fatal highway accident in Bradford, with Bruce Alten among the deceased.
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Ed Monski
Vols
Murray Warmath
Box Foxx
Tennessee
Tommy O'Brien
Atlanta Ball Club
Boston
Atlanta
Blairsville to get airmail service announced
Three of five airmail pickup routes approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board will begin August 12 with service from All-American Aviation. Routes run Pittsburgh to Huntington via Morgantown and other points, Pittsburgh to Philadelphia via Harrisburg and more, and Pittsburgh to Jamestown via several towns. Morning and afternoon flights will serve intermediate towns, with express service planned later.
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Wilmington
Del
Civil Aeronautica Board
All- American Aviation, Inc
Pittsburgh
Huntington
W. Va
Morgantown
Charlestown
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Jamestown
Richard C. Dupont
West Newton
Mount Pleasant
Scottsdale
Connellsville
Dunbar
Uniontown
Masontown
Fairmont
Clarksburg
Grafton
Phillipps
Bellington
Elkins
Buckhannon
Weston
Glenville
Grantsville
Spencer
Charleston
St. Charleston
St. Albans
Nitro
Hurricane
Milton
Barboursville
Pittsburgh- Philadelphia
Irwin
Jeannette
Greensburg
Latrobe
Derry
Blairsville
Johnstown
Dale
Franklin
Portage
South Fork
Lilly
Altoona
Duncansville
Hollidaysburg
Williamsburg
Huntingdon
Mt. Union
Chambersburg
Gettysburg
Hanover
MecSherrytown
York
West York
Columbia
Wrightsville
Lancaster
Coatesville
Delaware
New Castle
Marshallton
Chester
Claymont
Marcus Hook
Natrona
New Kensington
Tarentum
Brackenridge
Freeport
Butler
Slippery Rock
Grove City
Oil City
Rouseville
Titusville
Corry
Youngsville
Warren
Police Clash Over Dual Bosses in Clairton
In Clairton Pennsylvania Victor Matz returns to work as police chief but is blocked by Mayor John Mullen who orders officers to ignore him and forbids use of city police facilities. Matz, reinstated by court, vows to issue orders and use equipment if needed as the force faces a loyalty dilemma.
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Clairton
Conrad F. Matz
John J. Mullen
Matz
State Supreme Court
First Iron Warship to Be Preserved
Harrisburg August 3 A move to save the U S Wolverine the nation s first iron warship launched at Erie Pa in 1843 plan discussed by Richard P Brown state secretary of commerce and James K Shields secretary of the Erie Chamber of Commerce as navy department reportedly plans to dispose of the old vessel
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Harrisburg
U. S
Wolverine
Erie
Richard P. Brown
Mondey
James K. Shields
Evie Chamber of Commerce
Shields
Navy Department
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