Big Nazi Vessel Attacks and Allied Bombing Campaign
British heavy bombers struck northern France hitting Lille’s steel and engineering works. The raid followed a Brest harbor assault, with ships Scharnhorst Gneisenau Prinz Eugen targeted and a 4000-ton German vessel hit off the Belgian coast. Coastal raids hit Hauge Sund and Kristiansand. Lorient Brest and Cherbourg targets noted.
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London
France
Lille
Gerheld
Brest
Anr
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Germany
Air Ministry
Norway
Haugesund
Kristiansand
Lorient
Agaist
Ouachita Parish School Board Adopts 1941 42 Budget
Ouachita Parish school board tentatively adopts a 1941 42 budget with estimated receipts and expenditures of 561853.54 and votes the three mill constitutional tax and four mill special tax. The same teaching staff and salaries are approved with minor changes, plans for five to six new buses, repairs authorized, September 8 opening date set, and petitions from Bryant addition colored residents noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Wilson Ewing
News- Star
Bryant
Camp Polk Sergeant Killed Girl Shot Near Alexandria
In Alexandria Louisiana on July 5 Captain Houston D Greene reported Sergeant Leonard D Bailey 27 of Camp Polk fatally shot with a girl companion wounded on a gravel road. Bailey and Anne Moore 19 Cheneyville were let from a car by two soldiers then found in a blood pool at 2 am. Ford and Bryant gave statements. No arrests yet.
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Alexandria
Houston D. Greene
Leonard D. Bailey
Camp Polk
Bailey
Betty Bailey
East 4Th Street
Chattanooga
Tenn
Greene
Anne Moore
Cheneyville
J. C. Ford
Charles Bryant
67Th Field Artillery
Miss Moore
Ford
Bryant
Detroit
Mich
Weekend toll of lost lives on Fourth of July
The Associated Press reports a deadly long weekend as soldiers on leave in Louisiana and Mississippi faced crashes, drownings, and a shooting. Ten holiday fatalities include two soldiers in Louisiana and three Mississippi deaths tied to Camp Shelby. An Army truck crash near Meridian left two soldiers dead and one wounded. a mystery shooting near Alexandria claimed Sergeant Leonard Bailey.
Nurses Tell of Ship Torpedoing
American Red Cross nurses aboard the Maasdam survived a torpedo strike in the Atlantic last month. They said rough seas capsized lifeboats and several nurses spent an hour or more in the water before rescue. Nine of the 17 nurses on board reached England yesterday. two are missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
John Gordon
Red Cross
Roosevelt Returns to White House for Defense Briefing
President Roosevelt resumed duties in Washington after a Hyde Park rest, meeting with defense and foreign policy aides including Sumner Welles George C Marshall Henry Stimson James Forrestal and Royal Ingersoll. They reviewed developments and planned inspections of aircraft ships and ordnance as Knudsen prepared a tour of production facilities.
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Washington
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Denmark
George C. Marshall
Army
Hemisphere
Henry L. Stimson
James V. Forrestal
Navy
Royal E. Ingersoll
William Ss. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
191 Safety Record and Traffic Rule of the Day
Safety data show accidents to date this year 217 vs last year 232 and injuries up this year 37 with 1 death so far this year compared to 4 last year. The day’s rule states it is unlawful to drive a vehicle without an efficient muffler and to use a cut-out that bypasses the muffler.
Drug Clerk Foils Explosion Plot Across Los Angeles
A drugstore clerk in Los Angeles disrupted a planned explosion by altering a four ingredient prescription after a caller posed as a physician. Police warned all druggists to beware explosive orders and unnecessary fillings as investigators described the plot as diabolical and tied to a maniac with chemical knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Vern Rasmussen
Homicide Squad
Rasmussen
Famous British Officer Alec Bell Dies at 54
London July 5 Bell Alexander Alec a Scot who looked like John Bull died today at age 54. He headed the C I D at Scotland Yard and is credited with introducing criminal psychology and advanced detection methods. During 30 years on the metropolitan police force he solved more than major cases.
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London
Alexander
Alec”” Bell
John Bulli
Scotland Yard
Bell
Metropolitan
Southern coal contract near completion to end stoppages
A draft labor contract aiming to eliminate the last chance of a stoppage in soft coal production was reported ready for signatures by the CIO United Mine Workers and Southern soft coal operators. Representatives reviewed it yesterday and postponed final action to today, a delay reportedly requested by operators for further perusal.
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Associated Press
C. I. O. United Mine Workers
Southern Soft
John L. Lewis
L. Ebersole Gaines
Price fixing showdown under Roosevelt marred by delay talk
A congressman confidant says President Roosevelt will likely be urged to push mandatory price fixing next week. Leon Henderson presses for prompt action while White House aides debate delaying to avoid a lengthy Senate fight amid tax bill work. Senate leaders and Hill indicate any measure will be thoroughly reviewed before a final call.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Administration
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Capitol
White House
Senate
Chamber
House
Hill
Alabama
Governor Jones Signals Partial Solution to Louisiana Reorganization
Baton Rouge July 5 Governor Sam Jones said he sees a partial solution to untangling Louisiana government as a backward step from phases of his reorganization plan. He announced renewed effort by Jerome A Hayes to investigate public funds irregularities and issue public reports.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Louisiana
Jerome A. Hayes
Jones
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
A. P. Tugwell
Treasury
Louisiana Training Institute
New Conway Memorial Charity Hospital
Monroe
Louisiana State Hospital
Pineville
Fence-Sitting Policy Seen Guiding Japan in War News
Kirke L. Simpson analyzes Japan's cautious stance as Tokyo weighs extending territorial waters and aligning with Germany while avoiding direct breach of the tripartite pact. He notes Japan's aim to watch the Soviet and Allied moves, keeping Vladivostok usable and the American fleet in view.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Japan
Vladivostok
Tokyo
Germany
Berlin
Rome
Russia
Ukraine
Leningrad
Manchuria
China
London
Washington
Siberia
Pacific
Washington- Tokyo
Vichy Government Negotiating With Britain Over Syria Endgame
NEW YORK July 5 A NBC Ankara dispatch reports Britain and the Vichy government in a pre armistice phase to end the war in Syria. An authoritative diplomatic source says discussions have occurred though no armistice talks have begun and a great neutral power acts as go between.
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Vichy
Syria
New York
Britain
Martin Agronsky
National Broadcasting Company
Ankara
Agronsky
Cleanup of land permits sought in Ouachita parish
Ouachita parish efforts push for 100 percent signing of maneuver agreements by landowners before July 8 1941. George D. Pipes urges ward councils led by Sheriff Milton Coverdale and others to speed signatures and finish the final cleanup for national defense. Ward 1 names Fletcher Studdard M T Perry and Guy Barr as officers.
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Ouachita Parish
George D. Pipes
Pipes
Quachita Parish
Hitler
Mr. Pipes
Milton Coverdale
Bert Coverdale
R. Dean Farr
D. L. Bornman, Jr
Joe Renwick
Fred Thatcher
Major Niels Poulsen
Fletcher Studdard
M. T. Perry
Guy Barr
Three Killed in Basile Collision Near Ville Platte
Three people died and three were hospitalized after a car struck a rear of a truck near Basile. The dead were Atney Ardoin 23 Miss Elsie May Ardoin 17 and Tansy Ardoin 66 all of Mamou. The injured include Willie Mae Taylor Eunice Hadley Vidrine Basile and Lieuetta Manuel Eunice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soileau
Red Army Drives Baltic Counterattack as German Forces Press
Soviet dispatch reports heavy fighting in the Baltic region with Ostrov retaken and German armor and motorized units blamed for losses. Moscow says German blitz efforts toward Moscow falter, while clashes persist near Polotsk Borisov and Novograd Volynski.
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Associated Press
Baltic
Red Army
Latvia
Ostrov
Moscow
Baltic States
Dvina
Polotsk
White Russia
Upper
Minsk
Dvinsk
Novograd Volynski
Borisov
Berezina River
Eden predicts Hitler to offer peace during Russian campaign
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned in Leeds that internal German pressures could push Hitler to propose a peace to Britain during the Russian campaign. He dismissed such an offer as a false gesture and pledged Britain will intensify the war until Hitler and his cause are destroyed.
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Leeds
England
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Anthony Eden
Eden
Scotland
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Russia
Illness May Delay Nazi's Departure in New Orleans
Er win Geiger, 32, a German consular clerk in New Orleans, may be exempt from the U S demand that all German consular officials leave by July 10. He recently underwent appendicitis surgery and remains hospitalized with infection. his physician says he cannot travel by sea. The German embassy asks the State Department for an exception so he may stay until fit to travel.
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New Orleans
Erwin Geiger
United States
Geiger
McComb, Miss
Baptist Hospital
State Department
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Quachita
Louisiana and
Mississippi
Camp Shelby
Camp Blanding
Fla
Meridian
William Whalen
Bluefield
W. Va
William G. Fletcher
Company M
150Th Iarentry
Basile
Atney Ardoin
By Eddy Gilmore
Ireland
Royal Berks
Southern Coal
Urals
Far East
Far Eastern
Atlantic
Murmansk
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Red
River Dvina
Stalin Line
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