Trade doors closing threaten postwar world economy
Mary warns that canceling import permits and foreign currency for payments drives trade toward barter, endangering normal global commerce. War disruptions shrink normal trade, as occupied nations remain under German control, prompting plans to bolster trade with free nations, diversify imports from South America, and prepare for a barter era after the conflict ends.
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Mary
Norway
United States
Belgium
Netherlands
Italy
Holland
Poland
Czechoslovakia
South America
Tightening Best Mexico Oil Experiment Shows Limits
Mexico’s oil workers benefited briefly from expropriation and worker ownership but two years later the government ordered payment of back taxes and a leaner payroll. It cut jobs and wages, limited overtime, and warned that output must rise before further gains.
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Mexico
Rio Grande
Tax plan to fund defense and war prep
The piece argues federal taxes will rise on all incomes to finance a vast peacetime armament program. It warns against adding further taxes after the election and cites municipal and state levies as burdens growing from defense spending. It also notes fear of Nazi invasion tactics and a mechanized war buildup.
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Roosevelt
Navy to cut Annapolis course to three years for more officers
Washington reports plans to trim the naval academy program at Annapolis to three years, potentially graduating 165 more ensigns annually. Ju niors would miss the South American cruise, midyear 1941 graduations for a sped-up curriculum, with English and foreign language courses cut and emphasis on navigation, gunnery, electricity and steam.
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Washington
United States Navy
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Grapevine
Navy Department
South America
Annapolis Postgraduate School
Wavy
Atlantic
Army
West Point
Man About Manhattan by George Tucker
New York sees a lively blend of entertainment hype and city lore as a Ballyhoo style stunt, opening night gimmicks, and long time showbiz figures like Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and George M. Cohan are spotlighted. The column recalls Laubery and Pat Rooney on Broadway and notes Cohan’s 50 years on stage with a wary wink at retirement.
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New York
Ballybroo
Manhattan
Lach
Hed Nichols
52Nd Street
Tommy
Jimmy Dorsey
Astor
Jimmy
Pennsylvania
Western Union
Brother
Pat Rooney
Broadway
George M. Cohan
Quotes on education and wealth spark sharp political jab
In remarks attributed to Mrs Mildred J Langston dean of Katharine Gibbs School New York she notes students need paper to divide a two figure number by two A top congressional figure Martin L Sweeney criticizes Doris Duke urging Cromwell to leave the republic in a bold political aside
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Mildred J. Langston
Katharine Gibbs School
New York
Cromwell
Doris Duke
Republic
Martin L. Sweeney
Dem
Ohio
Judge Sam Blair Seeks Eighth Term Circuit Seat
Judge Sam C. Blair of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit announces as a Democratic candidate to succeed himself. Blair, appointed after Judge Nike G. Sevier’s death, has served six months on the bench and earned praise from attorneys and court staff. He has a long lineage in law, with ties to James T. Blair Sr. and James T. Blair II, and has held roles as assistant district attorney and Kansas City city counselor.
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Sam C. Blair
Blair
Nike G. Sevier
Western
Missouri
Kansas City
James T. Blair
Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
Cumberland University
Tennessee
James T. Blair II
Tennessee School
Curtis Quimby
Baker, Botts, Wharton and Andrews
Deaths and moves in brief from across the nation
William H Waste of Berkeley California is named chief justice of California Edward E Clive a 60 year old British born film actor is reported in North Hollywood W G Sullivan a photographer with the Savannah Evening Press is noted in Savannah Shell Oil announces moving its offices from St Louis to New York next fall The article also notes South America's area as 7 870 000 square miles representing about 14 percent of the world land surface
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Shell
ST. Louis
Shell Oi Company, Inc
New York
South America
Danger Spots Developed in French System of Defense
Dewitt Mackenzie reports Weygand’s defense lines facing two危 danger points near Abbeville and the Chemin des Dames. German forces press along the Somme coast and the Aisne front, threatening to turn the Allied left flank and trap Paris. Weygand emphasizes holding soil as France braces for intensified fighting and potential Allied relief weeks away.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Wey- Hand
France
Hitler
Somme
Abbeville
Aisne
Chemin Des Dames
Suissens
Paris
Weygand
le Havre
England
Flanders
Chemin Bes Dames
Forscoth
Springfield student loses bar entry against state court
Judge Sam C. Blair sustained a demurrer in Springfield court, ruling Arthur Humes, a Springfield law student, failed to state a cause against the state supreme court and state board of law examiners over a $49,000 damage claim. The judge to return to bench June 15 after Cooper county session. Dr Elsworth S Smith dies in St Louis at 76, former president of the American College of Internal Medicine, WWI medical adviser board chair.
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Sam C. Blair
Arthur Humes
Springfield
State Supreme Court
State Board of Law Examiners
Humes
Blair
Cooper County
Smith
ST. Louis
Elsworth S. Smith
American Congress of Internal Medicine
Fourth Medical Advisory Board
Missouti
National Defense
French In Need of Manpower to Halt Germans
In wartime dispatches from Bern dated June 7, Allied observers report a manpower shortage forcing Weygand to fight defensively along the Somme with little immediate aid from Britain. France remains artillery-strong but outnumbered in manpower and gear, while German forces mass along a 400 mile front and beyond. Also noted is Japanese invasion of Shaohsing, a famed Chinese wine region.
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Charles
Bern
Switzerland
Maxime Weygand
Somme
France
Weygand
Alps
Moselle
English Channel
BEF
England
Flanders
Holland
Belgium
Siegfried Line
Wey- Land
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Jack Stinnett
George Tucker
Sam Blair
Associated Press
William H. Waste
Berkeley
Calif
California
Edward E. Clive
North Hollywood
W. G. Sullive
Savannah, Ga
Pictor
The
Savannah Evening Press
Pope's
TELA
Kwoi
Andy Devine
Helen Vinson
Cole County
Frank Raithel
J. R. Robertson
B. H. Richter
Henry L. Heidbreder
4Th Judicial Circuit
Carl F. Wymore
Paul E. Allen
Harry Mackey
Thomas Huegel
W. C. Dixon
RcAe Cum
Leigh- Taylor
Mmar Bridge
Rhone
Shaohsing
China
Central
Moerschel
NEW Lemon Soda
Peter James
Madison
Eric Mutter Gretohe
I Dept
Federal Schools Bldg
Minneapolis, Minn
Federal
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