U S Embassy Opens In Chateau Near Tours France
A makeshift American embassy operates from a chateau near Tours with staff including First Secretary Hugh S Fullerton and Trade Commissioner Leigh Hum. Allied forces report German moves toward Bordeaux while staff observe crackdowns, evacuations, and displaced civilians as Paris-area battle lines shift.
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Jack Sterling
Bordeaux
Tours
Chateau de ,Cande
Exchange Telegraph
United States
William C. Bullitt
France
Paris
Etampes
Orleans
Amboise
Blois
Loire
Cher
Associated Press
Orleansours
Couple Seek Son Missing Before Graduation in Pittsburgh
Russian immigrant couple, Mr and Mrs John Zellen, seek their 17 year old son Walter who vanished just hours before his graduation. Authorities say Walter never attended high school or completed junior high, while his parents believed he was going to school daily and funded his lunch. The family hoped for his return and forgiveness.
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Pittsburgh
John Zellen
Walter
Zellens
Pittman Hopes Britain Delays No Longer On New World Fight
Senator Pittman says Britain should move quickly to fight from the new world with its navy. He warns delay would hinder Britain's plans and could prolong Hitler's world conquest.
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New World
Washington
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western Hemisphere
England
Britain
Hitler
Learn to Cooperate in Girl Scout Day Camp Visit
Miss Leah Parker of Kansas City executive director of Girl Scouting in the Covered Wagon region visited the Lawrence day camp. About 109 girls cooked outdoors, learning cooperation and different viewpoints as part of activities shaping citizenship and family and community roles.
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Leah Parker
Kansas City
Lawrence
Miss Parker
Ben Brown
Parker
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Colorado
Navy Awards Contracts For Aircraft Engines And Planes
The Navy awarded contracts to three manufacturers totaling nearly 7 million dollars. Stearman Aircraft division of Boeing, Wichita, Kansas, received a 3,779,628 dollar order for planes and parts.
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Washington
Navy
Stearman Aircraft Division
Boeing Airplane Company
Wichita
Kan
Dyche Museum Nears Reopening With $10 000 Aid
Dyche Museum plans a spring reopening after eight years closed since Thanksgiving Day. A $10 000 legislative appropriation becomes available July 1 for remodeling and exhibit preparation. Curator H H Lane reports progress on mammalian and North American displays, with artist Sam Dickenson completing a large panorama and two new staff members joining the six-employee team.
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Dyche Museum
H. H. Lane
Sam Dickenson
Woods
Alaska
Clinton 4 H Girls Elect Officers At First Meeting
The Clinton 4 H club held its first project meeting on Wednesday June 19 at Mrs Tom Houts home. Leona Tibbetts explained projects and records while three dresses were judged by five members. Officers elected were Doris Anderson president Augusta Hade vice president Martha Demeritt secretary treasurer and Betty Jean Harrell reporter. Next meeting set for June 26 at foods leader Mrs Otis Heine.
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Clinton 4-H Club
Tom Hout
Leona Tibbetts
Doris Anderson
Augusta Hade
Martha Demeritt
Betty Jean Harrell
the Foods
Otis Heine
Ripening Delayed by Weather Across Kansas Fields
A June crop report from Topeka notes rain and cool weather slow wheat ripening in eastern Kansas while hot winds speed up premature ripening in the northwest. Heavy rains caused lodging in Kaw valley and some grain loss. combines and binders work on eastern crops as the west harvests hay. Corn and grain sorghums prospered, pastures dry in the northwest, ponds low there, alfalfa growing well, blue stem ponds mostly full, chinch bugs move to row crops prompting creosote barriers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Northwest
Kaw Valley
Blue Stem
Irishman sentenced for aiding state information
Stephen Carroll Held was sentenced to five years in prison after police raided his home found a parachute swastika radio transmitter and telescope indicating he aided an unidentified person to obtain information prejudicial to the state police believed he sheltered a man landed by parachute in Ireland London raised penny bus fares to one and a half pence after July 3 due to war costs Wimbledon all England lawn tennis tournament cancelled today basis and casualties from today’s German action
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Dublin
Stephen Carroll
Ireland
London
Wimbledon
Britons Sheltered in Shelter as Bomb Drops Nearby
A man in a steel shelter near a doorway was struck by a heavy bomb drop and rushed to hospital with shock and abdominal bruises. Several others in the shelter escaped unharmed. The report notes continued Allied air defense actions over Naples and a postwar collaboration pledge between Britain and Poland after a Churchill Sikorski meeting.
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British Isles
London
Poland
Britain
Winston Churchill
Wladyslaw Sikorski
British
Ministry of Information
Great Britain
Clinton 4-H Club Holds June Meeting at Hadls
The Clinton 4-H Club met Thursday evening June 20 at the home of Augusta and Jeanette Hadl. The vice-president called the meeting to order as eleven members answered roll with favorite 4-H songs. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved, and the group decided to drop their point system. Jack Anderson reported on the Man roundup.
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Clinton
Talk on milk and music ends meeting with refreshments
Augusta Had spoke on milk as food while Doris Anderson discussed Stephen Foster for music appreciation. The program concluded with group singing. Next meeting set for July 18 at Richard and Ludwig Heine’s home.
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Hattan
Augusta
Doris Anderson
Stephen Foster
Richard
Ludwig Heine
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Wichita Company
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Rocky Mountains
Orville Gilpin
Elmer 8. Riggs
Field Museum
Chicago
Walter A. Yost
School of Fine Arts
California
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Glider
Miller’s
Rome
High Command
Naples
Carter
Elea
K. U
Chevrolet
America
Ruguc Bea
Flint
Mich
New Hampshire Street
Matthew Mitchell
N. H. St
The
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