Petain backs full collaboration with Germany in radio appeal
Vichy leader Marshal Petain announced support for full collaboration with Germany in a radio address to the French nation. He urged unity with Darlan's expanded powers, defended the eastward war as civilization’s defense, and asked the United States for understanding while noting France’s parliamentary policy was effectively dead. The announcement followed Darlan being given supreme military power.
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Vichy
Marshal Petain
Germany
Jean Darlan
Russia
Petain
United States
France
Darlun
United
Hull Warns On Army Extension Exceedingly Bad Impact
Cordell Hull warned that Congress failing to extend the army’s service would have an exceedingly bad effect on American foreign relations. As House debate opened on an 18-month extension, Hull emphasized the need to keep selectees guards and reservists in uniform. Democratic sponsors floated votes for a tighter 18-month compromise, while House opposition suggested the bill would fail if extended indefinitely.
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Washington
A.P
Congress
United States Army
Cordell Hull
Administration
House of Representatives
Hull
House
Wheat acreage reduction claims filed in Cypress areas
About 3,400 final claims have been made across 240 townships in southeastern Alberta’s Cypress regions under the wheat reduction plan. Fieldmen are inspecting claims ranging from 319 to 2000 dollars. James Connors, supervisor, said farmers eligible receive 4 dollars per acre, with an extra 2 dollars per acre if the land is seeded to crested wheat grass or rye this fall and remains so next July.
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Tilley Boat
Cypress
Alberta
James Connors
Oliver's nameplate and hospital entrance work progress
A brief note describes Oliver's nameplate above a store and the ongoing enlargement of the General Hospital entrance this morning. A grass fire north of the CPR track near Riverside caused no damage and no school board meeting occurred last night.
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C.P.R
Riverside
Kiddles
RAF Blitz Hits Cologne In Bold Daylight Raid
London reports a daylight RAF strike on Cologne described as possibly the heaviest such attack yet against Germany. The raid forms part of a broad air offensive against Nazi-occupied France and German targets along the coast.
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London
C.P
R.A.F
Cologne
France
Britain
Rhineland
The
Press Association
Germany
Red Cross Ships 36190 Articles From Medicine Hat Branch
During the first six months the Medicine Hat Red Cross Society shipped 36190 articles. Chairwoman Mrs. W. C. Campbell reported to the executive. The branch was close to last year’s total with 29781 shipped in twelve months. Members supplied helmets gloves mitts socks scarves sweaters and sea stockings for the armed forces along with surgical dressings and hospital supplies.
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Medicine Hat
Red Cross Society
W. C. Campbell
Women's War Work Committee
W.A.T.S
Lavette Committee
Community War Council
Kitailano Boys’ Band
Vancouver
Western Canada
Pricipal
Red Cross
House votes to extend training for reserves and guards
Washington reports the House tentatively decided to extend training for selectees, national guardsmen, and army reserves by 18 months beyond the originally set year. Montreal notes a deadly air crash killed 22 people, seven U.S. including none from Alberta. Shanghai reports France Indo China bans most exports except to Japan. Ankara says 117 Serbs executed in Yugoslavia amid rising revolt.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Nazis Press Toward Black Sea Ports Near Odessa
London reports German military dispatches claim Odessa and Ochakov are doomed as German troops push along the Bug river. German propaganda says bombers sunk six Russian transports off the Ukraine coast near Odessa while inland escape routes are cut off. Advices say Hitler has massed up to a million troops in the Ukraine and German armor nears Nikolaev, about 65 miles east of Odessa.
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London
Russia
Black Sea
Odessa
Bug River
Red Army
D.N.E
Proganda
Ukraine
Ochakov
Britain Loses Two Air Aces in Missing Report
London reports Wing Commander Douglas Bader missing after credited with 15 aerial kills and a recent bar to his DSO. Also listed missing is Acting Flight Lieutenant H E S Lock, 21, holder of DSC and DFC, famed for 30 German planes shot down and nicknamed Sawn off Lockie.
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London
Douglas Bader
R.A.F
Britain
Bader
HE. S. Lock
D.S.C
D.F.C
Bat
Lock
Sawnoff Lockie
Russians Capture Galicia Areas and Front Advances Reported
Twenty five years ago on August 12 1916 Russians captured Eterna and Podgaicy in Galicia and French units advanced on the Somme front from Harde court to Buscourt. German sea planes raided Dover.
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Eterna
Podgaicy
Galicia
Maurepas
Somme
Hardecourt
Buscourt
Dover
Red Army Holds Firm in Smolensk Salient 28 Days In
Moscow reports the Red Army maintaining a stubborn defense in the Smolensk salient as combat continues into its 28th day. Strong German pushes threaten the north and south flanks near Solsu and Unvin areas between Kiev and Odessa. The German side notes a Russian raid on Berlin with limited success. Berlin says two planes reached the capital region. Continuous Moscow air raids mark the night’s activity.
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Odessa
Red Army
Smolensk
Bel Tserkov
Kiev
Moscow
Solsu
Leningrad
Unvin
Berlin
Eastland Says Canadian Mills Import Brazilian Cotton
Senator James O Eastland sa y that Canadian mills receiving overflow US cotton orders import Brazilian cotton instead of US grown cotton. He and Senator W Lee O Daniel plan legislation to restrict funds to cotton grown in the United States, arguing the South faces a large surplus and higher costs to buy Brazilian cotton.
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Washington
James O. Eastland
United States
Brazil
Mastland
Senate
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
Congress
South
Eastland
If Japan Wants War There Will be War
Far East crisis advances toward explosion as London warns if Japan seeks war there will be war and if peace is desired it will come. Tokyo papers denounce anti Japanese pressure while Australia’s Menzies calls a second war cabinet session. US Senator George says break with Japan possible. Soviet Far East fears US aid via Vladivostok. Japan warns against US arms to Russia and massing troops near the Soviet border. Alberta's Bowen urges citizens to conserve gasoline for Canada’s war effort.
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Pacific
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Kokumin
United States
Great Britain
East Asia
Melbourne
Australia
R. G. Menzies
J. H. Curtin
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Walter George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Shanghai
Kuniq Akayama
Russia
Vladivostok
America
Akayama
Manchukuo
Japanese Plan 180000 Troops for Indo China West Cambodia
Manila dispatch reports the Japanese high command plans to deploy 180000 soldiers in French Indo China with most forces in West Cambodia near Thailand. Observers say Japan may enter Thailand once organized to face British troops on the Burma Malaya border. Japan reportedly controls Indo China and has stripped the administration from the government.
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Damel
Hanoi
Japan
Manila
C.P
Cambodia
Thailand
Burma
Malaya
Bus Turns Over Injuring Nine In Transit Crash
A Greyhound bus left the trans-Canada highway near Pinpoint Sask at 4 am tipping over. Nine passengers including Mrs Myrtle Baker of Philadelphia and Miss Marion Lang of Toronto were hospitalized under observation in Maple Creek with cuts and bruises. Others were treated and released and the remaining 22 passengers continued by another bus.
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Myrtle Baker
Philadelphia
Martha MacLean
Kingston
Ont
Agnes Lind
Winnipeg
Lillian Lind
Marion Lang
Toronto
Maple Creek
Sask
Pinpont
Hanna LaChapelle
Seattle
Simpson Sternberg
Mowatt
H.B
Red Deer
Hugh Miller
Chapman
Man
F. N. Sparling
Medicine Hat
F. B. Dawson
Gibson Discusses ATR Medicine For High Altitude Flight
Squadron Leader Gibson, medical officer of No. 34 S.F.T.S., addressed the Rotary Club at the noon luncheon about medical science in aviation. He outlined difficulties of high altitude and high speed flying and explained methods to counteract effects on the human body.
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Gibson
No. 34
S.F. T.S
Rotary Club
Mennonites Choose Army Over Labor Service
In Prince Albert Saskatchewan 16 Mennonite conscientious objectors volunteered for enlistment in the Canadian active army at the local recruiting office. They were among 200 Mennonites called for labor service in lieu of compulsory training.
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Prince Albert
Offer to turn Kearny shipyard to Navy rejected
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company proposed handing the Kearny New Jersey yard to the United States Navy but could not accept the maintenance of union contract urged by CIO strikers and the Defence Mediation Board. Navy officials declined immediate comment as government moves to resume work on 493 million dollars of naval and merchant ship contracts intensify.
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New York
A.P
Kearny, N.J
United States Navy
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
C.I.0
Defence Mediation Board
Navy
C.I.O. Inustrial Union
of Marine and ,Shipbuilding
Not European War Warns Australia Minister in Des Moines
Australian minister Richard G. Casey told the Iowa American Legion convention that democracy would lose political and economic freedom if the war is lost, even without invasion. He called the conflict a world wide battle for freedom and warned against viewing it as Europe’s war. Also notes three new infantile paralysis cases push New Brunswick total to 70 in three weeks.
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Des Moines
Richard G. Casey
United States
Iowa American Legion
Casey
Britain
Greece
Norway
Brazil
Germany
Hitler
New Brunswick
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