North Africa Front Flare Tests Axis in Gambut Break
Britain reports renewed action on the Libyan frontier with tanks crossing into Libya and attacking Axis forces in Gambut west of Bardia. Mussolini’s Italy claims the Salum front holds as Luftwaffe cited for aerial successes. Damascus Beirut invaded as Syria and Lebanon see British and Free French advances.
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Associated Press
Libya
Gamput
Bardia
London
Archibald P. Wavell
Army of the Nile
Salum
Tia Deritich
Gambut
Mussolini
Salum Front
Hitler
Middle East
Damascus
Beirut
Syria
Lebanon
Cyprus
Far East
Dutch East Indies
Tokyo
Indies
East Asia
Soddu
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Ambassador Grew Delivers Protest Over Chungking Bombing Near U S Gunboat
United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew personally delivered a 300 word protest to Foreign Minister Matsuoka after Sunday bombing near Chungking. Bombs fell in the U S safety zone, narrowly missing the gunboat Totol B. The envoy acted on receipt of notices, noting at least five bombs near the embassy and shelter, with windows broken and offices damaged. Jackson reports the tenth annual convention of Greco American order in session, with related societies scheduled.
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Tokyo
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Yosuke Matsuoka
Chungking
U. S
Totul
State Department
Matsuoka
Aeeastbony
Russo-Nazi Crisis Near as Tension Grows Between Powers
A foreign source in London says German Russian talks near a fork where unity in a Pan European economic bloc could form or hostilities resume. Pressure for oil grain and ore fuels fear among Russians that German dominance in the Balkans and Black Sea could leave Russia as a secondary power. Soviet agency in London claims relations remain amicable citing official statements.
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Germany
Russia
Balkang
Black Sea
Ndon
Tsistérice “Oy
Food Conspiracy Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
Chicago report says sixty nine persons firms and organizations were indicted by a federal grand jury examining food price fixing. The group includes 31 canning companies and three national canned pea marketing associations accused of conspiring to fix prices for canned peas in violation of the Sherman antitrust act. Since 1938 they allegedly agreed on acreage reductions and annual pack, suppressed competition, and fixed non-competitive prices.
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Chicago
Aluminum Firm Accused in Senate Hearing
Interior Secretary Ickes told a Senate committee that the Aluminum Company of America hindered aluminum production during the war and may be blamed if history records the war as lost. He said the government had not decided to take over the company, replying that he did not know.
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Washington
Ickes
Senate
Aluminum Company of America
Connally
D-Tex
Parade Floats Sought For Ludington Fourth Of July
Plans for Ludingtons Fourth of July parade show organizers inviting enterprising groups to submit comic float entries. Steve Godin and Don Quinn will supervise the division, with John Sniegowski as chairman announcing broad city participation. Whitehall report notes Arthur Pierson, 33, died after contacting a 6900 volt line while working a switch in a power changeover. Meteor showers names appear in fragment.
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Ludington
Steve Godin
Don Quinn
John Sniegowski
Whitehall
Arthur Pierson
Italy freezes American money in swift reprisal
Rome reports Mussolini ordered immediate registration of all American property in Italy after US measures blocked Italian and German funds. Americans faced abrupt account freezes, with banks instructed to block withdrawals. Estimated American holdings in Italy around 142 million dollars, including stakes in about six Italian companies. Talks expected to resolve funds transfers for living expenses once measures are clarified.
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Rome
Gocd
Italy
Mussolini
United States
Bank of Italy
Washington Dispatches
Nazi Consulates Ordered Closed in United States
Washington announced the closing of all German consulates and removal of German nationals connected with those agencies. The order, to be completed by July 10, also requires closing the German Library of Information, railway tourist bureau, and Transocean News Agency, while preserving diplomatic relations and German staff in Washington.
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Washington
United States
Welles
Lbrary of Information and Railway Tourist Bureau
Transocean
Germany
Famed Mississippi Steamer Wrecked
The Golden Eagle, a once famed Mississippi and Tennessee river packet, struck a hidden obstruction Saturday night and sank in the Mississippi with 55 passengers and 58 crew aboard. 54 survived. George Washington Weems, a 28 year old cabin boy, died. A coroner’s jury returned his death accidental. Captain William Leyne guided the ship to shore as it sank in 20 feet of water. The underwater obstruction remains undetermined.
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Chester
Oldman River
Mississippi
Tennessee
George Washington Weems
William
Buck) Leyne
Remaining Survivors Of U S Steamer Reported Safe
Union seeks to resume shipyard work as AFL and CIO machinists clash over pay. Harvey W. Brown says he will go to San Francisco to urge compliance with Roosevelt as defense mediation board proposals surface in Washington. CIO locals ratify a two year pact to curb strikes across 55 Atlantic shipyards with wage adjustments and no strikes or lockouts.
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Harvey W. Brown
American Federation of Labor
International Association of Machinists
San Francisco
Roosevelt
National Defense Mediation Board
CIO
AFL
Washington
Brown
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Taeek Neon
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Atlantic Coast
Presidential order to end prejudice in defense hiring
President Roosevelt ordered the Office of Production Management to ensure defense industries fully use the nation’s manpower without regard to race religion or national origin. He cited reports of qualified Negroes and others being barred from industry gates and demanded immediate steps to abolish discrimination nationwide. The memo to Knudsen and Hillman urged swift action during labor stringencies to maximize productive manpower.
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Washington
Roosevelt
OPM
Wiliam S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Roosevelt Becomes Navy Ensign in Three Month Course
John Roosevelt, youngest son of the president, enters active service as an ensign in the navy and begins a three month course in the naval supply corps school at Harvard Business School. James Peters, 68, dies from burns sustained Friday when a cigarette ignited a bed, police say.
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John Roosevelt
Navy Boston
Navy
Naval Supply Corps
Harvard Business School
James Peters
Auto Accidents Fatal to at Least 14 in State
Weekend crashes on Michigan highways killed at least 14 people. Among the dead were Second Lieut. Dan H. Eaton, 23, of Kalamazoo, a recent West Point graduate, and Mrs. Dan H. Eaton Sr., who was seriously hurt. Fatalities occurred in Alpena, Grand Rapids, Lapeer, Ann Arbor, Holland, Marquette, Wakefield, and Sturgis as cars collided, overturned, or struck trees.
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Associated Press
Michigan
West Point
Dan H. Eaton
Kalamazoo
Sturgis
Alpena
Charles Hodgins
Grand Rapids
Herschel McDuffee
North Park
Lapeer
Philip Mudge
Dryden
Alvin Fisher
North Branch
Jennie McGinnis
Edward
Holland
Andrew Karsten
Lake Michigan
Here
Karsten
Marquette
Lothrop Anderson
Thomas C. Richards
Ishpeming
Wakefield
Anthony Longhhart
Howard Duquette
Kalama- 200
U. S. Military Academy
Dan H. Eaton Sr
Pease Turn
United States takes six Danish freighters into service
The U S placed six Danish freighters into active service under a new law allowing government operation of foreign vessels for just compensation. The ships Nora Maria Jenna Rita Maersk Herta Maersk Jutta were idle in U S ports and are now government property via the Maritime Commission.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Maritime Commission
Commission
Nora
Maria
Jenna
New York
Rita Maersk
Herta Maersk
Boston
Jutta
Portland
Legal Arguments Delay McKay Graft Trial in Detroit
Federal agents testimony on the admissibility of FBI witness accounts delays the case against National Republican Committeeman Frank D. McKay and 11 co-defendants charged in a $500,000 liquor graft scheme. Cross examination focuses on a mail fraud count tied to a $2,029.98 receipt mailed to Isadore Schwartz and Charles Leiter. The government argues the McKay Dembinsky receipt was issued June 24, 1940 to conceal a graft payoff following the Brand jury inquiry.
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Detroit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Republican
Isadore Schwartz
Charles Leiter
McKay-Dembinsky, Inc
Brand Jury
Survivors of Robin Moor Reach Capetown After Ocean Ordeal
Thirty five survivors including seven Americans and 98 crew members arrived in Capetown aboard a British ship after abandoning the Robin Moor amid a torpedo attack on May 21 in the mid Atlantic. Eleven more had reached Recife, Brazil, aboard a Brazilian steamer Ozorio, with the total group awaiting US identification of the U-boat.
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Union OF South America
Robin Moor
Legation
Recife
Brazil
mid-Atlantic
United States
Ozorio
William A Gross Dies. Ludington Photographer Passes
William A Gross a longtime Ludington photographer died Sunday at Paulina Stearns hospital at 2 p.m. He was 85 and had operated in Ludington for 31 years with a landmark street display case on East Ludington Avenue. Born in New York City March 30 1876 he moved to Colorado Springs and came to Ludington in 1910. He married Harriet Harrington in 1906 in Colorado Springs. Surviving are the widow a daughter Helen Harriet Perham of New Haven Conn a son William Gross of Midland three grandchildren a sister in Colorado and two nieces. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dorrell chapel with Rev F E B Anderson officiating burial in Lakeview cemetery.
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William A. Gross
Ludington
Paulina Stearns Hospital
Gross
Hoto
Herogwvas
Ludington Avenue
New York City
Colorado Springs
Colo
Harriet Harrington
Helen Harriet Perham
New Haven
North Robert Street
F. E. B. Anderson
Lakeview Cemetery
Affirms Japanese Pledge to Axis
Tokyo reports Admiral Nobumas Sugetsugu former home minister and council leader says if the United States enters the war Japan must be ready to participate honoring the Axis pledge. He urges a highly organized national defense and notes the three power treaty does not bind Japan to fight the U.S. in Europe but obliges aid to Axis partners if attacked by powers not in current conflicts.
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Tokyo
Nobumas Sugetsugu
Centra Cooperative Council
United States
Japan
Huge Hawaiian Shelter Planned
HONOLULU Army officials unveiled plans for a 600 foot long food storage tunnel on Oahu that could serve as an air raid shelter. It would have a dedicated power plant water system cold storage and ventilation with capacity for 15 000 tons of food at an estimated cost of 750 000 and excavation slated to begin August 2 with seven months of construction.
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Honolulu
Oahu Island
Steenget
Army Offic|cials
State Police Plan Safety Campaign Against Fast Driving
Michigan State Police announce a safety drive targeting speeding motorists, especially for the Fourth of July. Commissioner Oscar G. Olander said troopers will take strict action against drivers whose speed is unsafe for traffic, highway, or weather conditions after Memorial Day deaths reached 49 in the state.
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East Lansing
Oscar G. Olander
Michigan
Olander
Dozen Selectees Honored by Elks
An even dozen draftees were guests at Ludington Elks' Sunday dinner and Flag Day ceremonies. Prosecutor Eugene Christman presided as toastmaster for a brief program with talks by Col. Max Murray Lieut. Col. William Muller and Lieut. Collins. Small silk flags were given to selectees and officers by Harry Price grand exalted ruler of Ludington Elks.
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Ludington Elks
Elks
Weather details for Lower Michigan and Detroit area
Weather watcher notes cloudy periods with light rain or drizzle in southeast Michigan. Forenoon trends show partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures today and Tuesday. Detroit area expected light rain or drizzle in the forenoon, with partly cloudy conditions and a rise in temperatures into Tuesday. sunset around 4 06 p m Tuesday. Maximum 54 observed with minimum not provided.
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Detroit
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