Result Of Fight Still Uncertain RAF Harries Foe
Axis attack on Tel El Hisa at dusk in Egypt's corridor battle zone pressed by British forces. RAF played a major role destroying some tanks and attacking Tobruk. Ground clashes continued in northern and coastal sectors with limited enemy gains while RAF inflicted heavy blows on armored units.
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AIRO
A.P
Tel El Hisa
Egypt
R.A.F
Tobruk
Mediterranean
Qattara
Alexandria
R.AF
ren
Mala
Axis Tanker Sunk In Channel near Cherbourg
British light forces destroyed an Axis tanker and damaged two escorting trawlers in the English Channel near Cherbourg this morning, the admiralty announced.
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LONDON
admiralty
English Channel
Cherbourg
Budget Plan Is Given U K Budget Plan Is Given U K
Ottawa July 15 government conditions on the return of excess profits tax refunds after the war were debated in the house. CCF members with New Democracy urged the money be used for rehabilitation not dividends or bonuses. An amendment by M J Coldwell was defeated 60 to 16. The budget, by Finance Minister Asley, levies at least 40 percent on corporate profits and taxes excess profits at 100 percent with a 20 percent refund provision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
house of summons
C.C.F
New Democracy
M. J. Coldwell
C.CF
house
Asley
Ford Family Engagement Noted in Detroit Press
The St Thomas Times Journal reports Detroit industry figures Ford and Ford connected through engagement news. Miss Josephine Clay Ford, aged nineteen, announces engagement to Weller Buhl Ford, son of Frederick Clifford Ford of Grosse Pointe. The Detroit Free Press notes Walter has been taking Josephine out, per the back page continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Detroit
Henry
Edsel Bryant Ford
Giesse Paimt, Mich
Seal Harbor
Josephine Clay Ford
Weller Buhl Ford
Frederick Clifford Ford
Grose Point
Josephine
pelite
Detroit Free Press
Walter
Jomphine
Main Jap Fleet In Home Waters
Official circles said the main Japanese fleet is concentrating in Japanese home waters in the North Pacific after the Coral Sea and Midway battles. The fleet is expected to stay there until positions are consolidated following losses of aircraft carriers.
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LONDON
North Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway
Elks Elect Sullivan Grand Exalted Ruler at Omaha Meet
Boston attorney Mark Sullivan was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the 78th annual national convention in Omaha. He succeeds Judge John McClelland of Atlanta, Ga.
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OMAHA
E. Mark Sullivan
Boston
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
John 5. McClelland
Atlanta
Trial Goes On Washington Nazis Trial in Progress
Witnesses in the eight Nazi saboteur case are shown as the military commission continues. Edward Kerling alias Kelly is named as ringleader and Gerda Melind a Detroit widow and Haupt associate becomes a key state witness. Four operatives landed by sea in Maine and four in Florida as the government seeks the death penalty. The noon statement notes the session focused on prosecutors readings and cross examination of witnesses who identified the prisoners statements.
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Washington
Edward John Kerling
Kelly
Gerda Melind
Detroit
Herbert Hans Haupt
Maine
Florida
federal bureau of investigation
Tariff debate presses Canada to start postwar free trade
In Ottawa July 15 Gordon Ross MP urged early tariff relief and a free trade policy, warning delay risks postwar access to raw materials. He pressed reductions on machinery for tar sands oil and cautioned regional over industrialization could hurt others. Johnston and Mackinnon noted tar sands study while Howe cited oil shale prospects and Alberta tests.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
house of commons
Gordon Ross
Lib
Moose Jaw
house
Ibsley
Ross
Mr. Ross
Atame
C.E. Johnston
Bow River
Alberta
United States
MacKinnon
Johnston
Howe
Hanson
New Brunswick
New Guinea Base Raided Airfield Hit
Allied bombers struck the Salamaua airfield in New Guinea targeting the runway used by Japanese forces for raids on Port Moresby. A second flight sank a Japanese vessel and sparked fires at Kalabahi port on Alor Island near Timor. Air Minister Drakeford warned the battle for Australia could be fought in the skies.
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Australia
Salamaua
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Kalabahi
Alor Island
Timor Island
Netherlands East Indies
Falabahi
Arthur Drakeford
Canberra
United States
Prime Minister Tables Letter on Hong Kong Report Delayed
Ottawa July 15 Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced in the commons that the tabling of Lt Colonel George A Drew s letter on the Hong Kong report would be postponed to 3 p m E D T 6 p m MDT to allow King to confer with C C F house leader M J Coldwell who requested the document be tabled in the house Coldwell agreed to take responsibility for tabling the letter and King said he would table it today The note continues on page three
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OTTAWA
C.PJ
Mackenzie King
house of commons
George A. Drew
Hong Kong
pa. E.D.T
King
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
commons
Mr. Coldwell
Coldwell
Former U S Guardsman Held as Spy
A 35 year old former U S coast guardsman born in Germany was arrested on espionage charges in New York. Washington Gilendale Spiegelberg was seized on Hempstead Long Island and charged after police found plans and diagrams of B 24 bomber parts. He faced a $25,000 bail and appeared in Brooklyn court. He had worked as fisherman miner and sailor in Alaska from 1929 to 1835 and once sought a pilot license for ships near the Aleutians.
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NEW YORK
Germany
Federal Bureau of Investigation
P. E. Foworth
FBI
Washington Gilendale Spiegelberg
Hempstead
Long Island
N.Y
P.B.1
Ford Motor company
Spiegelbere
Brooklyn
United States
Martin C. Bpstein
F.S
Spiegelintg
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
No Reviews on Military Court Death Sentences in Netherlands
A wartime report from The Netherland cites the workholm newspaper Altenbledst noting military beheading sentences imposed by Geran courts are no longer affirmed by civil courts. A new decree abolishes the necessity for civil review of military court actions.
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LONDON
Midway dive bomber logs reveal pilots' taunts during battle
U S Navy releases wartime radio log extracts from a dive bomber squadron in the Battle of Midway. Pilots describe targeting a rear battleship, expressing grit and fear, and urging further attacks with vivid, aggressive banter about Japanese ships and flares of explosions.
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WASHINGTON
United States Navy
Midway
Wally
Smith
Skeleton found near Seddon's Corners after lost boy case
Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported a skeletal fragment found in a bush near Seddon's Corners ten miles east of Beausejour. The fragment, from a skeleton, could belong to two-year-old Elmer Schoenborn of Winnipeg who vanished June 28. An anatomist will examine the remains to identify if it is a child.
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BEAUSEJOUR
Man
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Seddon's Corners
here
Elmer Schoenborn
Winnipeg
H. G. Fishman
Aid Sodium Plant in Saskatchewan
Ottawa July 15 Finance Minister Isley tabled in the house a tax concession agreement for Natural Sodium Products Ltd of Bishopric to finance a new plant at Harden Saskatchewan. The firm mines and refines salt cake and Glaubers salts and estimates the plant will lift exports to the United States from 10,000 tons annually to between 50,000 and 60,000 tons, boosting business by about $350,000 US. Plant cost is estimated at 150,000 to 195,000 dollars.
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OTTAWA
Isley
house of commmons
Natural Sodium Products Ltd
Bishopric
Sask
Hardene
Glauber
United States
Hoarders Fined $150 in Winnipeg Court
Abraham C. De Fehr was fined 150 dollars in city police court for hoarding groceries in violation of Wartime Prices and Trade Board regulations. An alternative of three months in jail was provided. The court charged he had accumulated enough groceries to stock a store.
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WINNIPEG
Prices and Trade Board
Abraham C. De Fehr
De Fehr
Invaders Halted Near Voronezh As City Defended
Canadian Press dispatches from OSCOW report German forces advancing to the western outskirts of Voronezh were repulsed in heavy fighting. Russians say a break-through by fresh troops and tanks was checked near the town, with Germans losing a motorized division and retreating across a bridge before destroying it.
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OSCOW
Voronezh
Don river
Midland fire destroys rail station and boat works
Midland Ont July 15 Firemen with Barrie Orillia and nearby crews battled a massive blaze in central Midland. The fire destroyed two small naval craft a large building at the Midland Boat Works and the Canadian National Railways station along with eight houses. Hundreds helped contain the flames as the blaze swept eastward toward the shipyard.
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Midland
C.P
Midland Boat ‘Works
Canadian Nations
Barrie
Orin
Praetangnishene
Five Days Adrift A Canadian Sailor Survives North Sea Ordeal
London reports Sgt Gerald Phalempin and three others spent five days adrift in a rubber dinghy in the North Sea. The crew endured slim rations and no water while awaiting rescue, then returned to base ready to fly back into Germany. The Wellington crew included Sgt G D Murray Enniskillen, Sgt J G Cameron Toronto, Sgt R Dempsay Cobalt, and an RAP man. Continued on Page Three.
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LONDON
Germany
sitman
tom Edmonton
fve
North Sea
B.CAP
Gerald Phalempin
Phaumpin
G. D. Murray
Enniskulen
Tokyo seeks to calm Russia amid war news and alliance talks
London sources voiced belief that Japan may strike Soviet Russia if Germany wins in Russia while Tokyo announced Shigenori Togo’s report that Moscow’s mutual aid pact with Britain and the United States has no Japan provisions. Togo cited the 1941 neutrality treaty as governing Japan Russia relations. The report suggests renewed reassurance to the Russian side.
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London
Russia
Soviet
Tokyo
Shigenori Togo
Osak2
Japan
Moscom
Britain
United States
Togo
Refuse Request For Maj Singer Trial Papers
Ottawa July 15 New Democracy Leader Blackmore failed to win a production of papers tied to the court martial in England of Mak A C Singer of the 2nd Canadian Anti Tank Regiment. Defence Minister Ralston opposed and said military authorities handled the case and parliament is not a court of appeal.
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OTTAWA
C.P
New Democracy
Blackmore
England
Mak
A. C. Singer
house of commons
Ralston
Edmonton golfer Martell shoots low qualifying score
Henry Martell of Edmonton led Alberta Amateur Golf championship qualifying at Mayfair with 7& 2 over par, two strokes better than Calgary's Johnny Richardson. Twenty two players advance to match play as Stan Howard, winner of the district title, posted 73. Calgary entries included W. L Hipley 77 and Billy Tait 0 among others.
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EDMONTON
C. P
Henry Martell
Johnny Richardson
Calgary
gunning
Stan Howard
Lethbridge
W. HL Hipley
Bemp Richardson
Billy Tait
Vic Ockenden
Spitfires strike German front in 200 mile raid
London reports two hundred Spitfire fighters conducted a daring low level attack along a 200 mile front from Cherbourg peninsula to Etaples. In Egypt heavy desert fighting persisted as Rommel attacked British positions at dusk and continued overnight. Allied shipping gains are anticipated as RAF targets U boat bases and factories. Axis troop movements into Italy's Dodecanese area noted near Satonika, with six divisions reported near the Turkish coast.
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ONDON
C.P
Cherbourg
Etaples
air ministry
EGYPT
desert front
shen
Martins Erwin Rommel
LONDON
CP.i
RAF
North American
skh
AXIS
DODECANESE ISLES
ISTANBUL
Turkey
Italy
Britain
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RAF Harries
North End
Line
Channel
U.K
Queen Elizabeth
GRRIVE
EDWARD KERLING
MES
GEEDA
MELIND
PARLIAMENTAR
U.S
Tojo
Manitoba
Aid Sodium
Saskatchewan
HOAEDERS
Don
INVADERS
Ontario
Royal Amy
Libya
Maj. Singer
Howard
Martell
Newapa pes
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