Big Five Named To Direct Russia War Effort
The Associated Press reports Russia forms a Big Five to guide the war, naming Premier Joseph Stalin Molotov Foreign Affairs Commissar, Marshal Voroshilov in the inner circle. Sketches recount their rise from revolution to leadership with brief life highlights and wartime roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Russia
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Vissarinovich Drugashvili
Siberian
Siberia
Trotsky and
Lenin
Communist Party
Maxim Litvinov
Litvinov
Red Army
Kliment ‘Eleemovitch Voroshiloff
Staelin
Donbas
Russian Social-Democratic Party
Archangel
Baku
Stalin
Controversy Over Jewish Links To Bolshevism Sparks Debate
A writer argues that identification of Bolshevism with Jewishness is widespread and reinforced by propaganda. He notes non Jewish militants and Irish politicians cited as Communists, warning against conflating religion or ethnicity with political faith while urging careful reasoning amid heated discourse.
U S Building Unprecedented Bomber Fleet
American aircraft firms plan a cooperative output to rush a large fleet of long range four engine bombers for the United States and Britain. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce says 500 bombers monthly could be produced in 1942, with Ford, Boeing, Douglas, Vega and Consolidated among the cooperating plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
United States
Britain
Aviation News Committee
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
John H. Jouett
The
Aeronautical Chamber
America
England
Boeing
Seattle
Douglas
Monica
Calif
Vega
Cooper
Consolidated Aircraft Corporations
San Diego
Mir
Consolidated
Worth
Tex
Douglas At
Tragic Monhegan Boat Ride Yields Five Deaths
Five women aboard a Rumford bound charter boat from Monhegan were found dead after a voyage in foggy Casco waters. The vessel, a 44 foot craft carrying about 40 to 50 passengers, reportedly exploded or burned severely, with Miss Ellis Howard and Miss Bessie Strople among the identified victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jme
Lower
Casco
Rumford
Monhegan
Jon Smith
Don
Ellisoward
Howard Ath Hemingway
Bessie Strople
Anne
Nive
Hangar Contract Signed for Sel yan Field Aviation Courses
A new hangar at Sel yan field in Baton Rouge was contracted for 18 903 dollars by Northeast Junior College aviation programs. The 125 by 120 foot building will include classrooms and offices, sit on a 200 by 200 foot site, with steel ordered and no delays expected.
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Selyan Field
Baton Rouge
C. C. Calvert
CAA
C. E. Andrews
Ruston
Selman Field
Stinson
Monroe
el Dorado
Dallas
Tex
Australians Fight Like Savages In Syria Says French Official
General Charles Huntziger accused Australian troops of savage fighting in Syria near the Levant coast. He cited extreme casualties from a French unit of 1000 with only one officer and three men surviving. Survivors described an Australian ambulance fire and an Australian shooter of prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tricty
France
Charles Huntziger
Syria
Levant
Free Speech First, Oil Executive Says at Convention
Union Oil president Reese H. Taylor urges vigorous defense of press freedom as vital to democracy and national resilience. He frames war economics and warns nations cannot win modern warfare without preparedness, mechanization, petroleum, and morale preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara
Calif
Reese H. Taylor
Union Oil Company
Taylor
Pacific Advertising Clubs Association
England
Fiscal year in Congress ends after record appropriations
Washington July 1 congressional clerks pressed to sign over four billion dollars in appropriations ending the last strenuous session at midnight. The house adjourned 10 30 p m eastern time and the senate at 10 44 p m. Major measures dispatched include 910 905 000 relief bill 1 60 500 063 farm measure 1195 861 940 labor supply bill 1 030 000 000 deficiency bill 400 000 000 for 2236 new naval planes 54 183 106 dc supply 25 002 256 congress maintenance.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
Roosevelt
Labor Department
The
Security Agency
District of Columbia
Congress
Governor Delayed In Plane Flight Here
Governor Sam H. Jones departed Baton Rouge by plane for Monroe to attend the opening of the E A Conway Memorial Hospital, delaying from the planned 10 a.m. departure. The luncheon hosted by the Ouachita parish police jury on Hotel Frances roof drew about 300 guests, with J M Breard heading arrangements and Frank Hawthorne serving as master of ceremonies.
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Sam H. Jones
Baton Rouge
Monroe
E. A. Conway
Department of Institutions
Quachita Parish
Frank Hawthorne
J. M. Breard
O Daniel Leads Texas Senate Race As Ballots Count
O Daniel held a 379 vote lead over Lyndon Johnson in Texas with 200 to 300 ballots left to count after 250 of 254 counties reported. The result requires a canvass by the state election board before a successor to Morris Sheppard is officially named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
W. Lee O'Daniel
United States
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
New Deal
Martin Dies
State Election Board
Morris Sheppard
O'Daniel
Johnson
Election Bureau
Louisianians Named Acting Assistant Surgeons in Navy
In New Orleans on July day, nine residents of the Eighth naval district were appointed acting assistant surgeons with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. The Louisianians include Dennis A. Casey Jr., Curtis Asher, Harold M. Gibbons from New Orleans and Marvin N. Lymberss from Alexandria.
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New Orleans
Eighth Naval District
United States Navy
T. A. Thomson, Jr
Dennis A. Casey, Jr
Curtis Asher
Harold M. Gibbons
Marivin N. Lymberss
Alexandria
Recess Taken In Hearing On Crime Board
A taxpayers suit to enjoin the state crime commission went into recess until July 8 after an all day hearing in Baton Rouge. Judge James D. Womack had already issued a temporary restraining order halting the crime commission and allowed plaintiffs to study its records. Governor Sam Jones refused to answer a subpoena and stated he would not be drawn away from his duties amid protests by demagogues and enemies of good government. The subpoena was later annulled as Womack emphasized authority over potential armed conflict.
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Baton Rouge
State Crime Commission
James D. Womack
Crime Commission
Sam Jones
Womack
James H. Morrison
Jones
High Court
Stanley
Supreme Court
Bere
Record High U S Marriages in 1940 Reach 1.5 Million
Washington reports 1.5 million marriages in 1940, with 11.8 marriages per 1000 people. The rate tops 1939 and trails 1920 wartime levels, as demographic waves from 1920 births reach marrying age amid selective service impact. Birth statistics already reflect many 1949 weddings.
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Washington
Credit Defense
Dan Cupid
United States
Census Bureau
Lohengrin
Time to Strike While Hitler Assaults Russia
Sumner Welles announced two French vessels would sail to French North Africa for needed supplies. He also said Russia had made overtures for U.S. supplies to defend against Germany. Knox urged immediate use of the navy to clear the Atlantic, saying now is the time to strike while Hitler assaults Stalin.
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Knox
Navy
Atlantic
Hitler
Russia
Washington
L—P
Sumner Welles
United States
Welles
Constantine Oumansky
Soviet Russia
United States Navy
Boston
Conference of Governors
Stalin
New Jersey Shipyard Faces Possible Strike Loom
A labor dispute threatened to paralyze the Kearny New Jersey shipyard of the Federal Shipbuilding corporation where workers on five cruisers and 37 destroyers seek higher pay. Peter Flynn vice president of local 16 of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers said there is no danger of a strike. The National Defense Mediation Board rushed to avert a work stoppage and urged full production at the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Kearny
N. J
Peter Flynn
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
New Jersey
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
Federal Shipbuilding Corporation
C. I. O. Shipbuilding Union
Roosevelt Signs Army Expense Bill
President Roosevelt signed an army appropriation bill totaling 10 384 821 624 dollars and extended his monetary powers for two years to June 30 1943 The measure funds an army of 1 518 799 officers and men and enlarges the stabilization fund and the dollar devaluation authority
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Treasury
World Today News Roundup on Nazi Push Toward Moscow
The report notes Germany's drive toward Moscow and Ukraine checked at two points, Germany claims capture of Lwow, Riga reportedly taken, and Vichy declines to object to French volunteers with Germany. Smolensk proximity cited as 250 miles from Moscow, Leningrad defenses cited, and Allied air raids on Cologne and western Germany. Navy discussions in Washington raise talk of using the US Navy for a decisive strike on Hitler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Russia
Moscow
Ukraine
Lwow
Stockholm
Riga
France
Vichy
Smolensk
Lithuania
Latvia
Leningrad
Cologne
Rehearing Sought in Louisiana Reform Case
Louisiana Attorney General to ask the state supreme court for a rehearing of yesterday’s ruling voiding the reorganization amendment. Governor Jones vows a statewide campaign to defend the plan and says democracy is at stake if 140,000 voters’ will is vetoed. The court’s stay keeps the injunction on the amendment in force until a ruling on the rehearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Eugene Stanley
Supreme Court
Sam Jones
Government pushes espionage cases in New York
The U S government moved quickly in the anti espionage drive netting 32 alleged spies in three days. Federal prosecutors opened evidence before a Brooklyn grand jury against seven self confessed spies including one woman, all arraigned and held on twenty five thousand dollar bail. Hoover reported three more suspects seized on ships bringing total to thirty two with four already in federal custody. Suspects include Conradin Otto Dold Adolf Henry August Walischewsky and Heinrich Clausing nabbed on ships or in Brazil.
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New York
United States
Harold M. Kennedy
Brooklyn
Martin C. Epstein
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Conradin Otto Dold
Adolf Henry August Walischewsky
Moore-McCormack
Uruguay
Heinrich Clausing
Argentina
Santos
Brazil
German and Soviet forces clash in broad frontline actions
Russian reports claim they halted German tank columns near Minsk and Brobuisk while Berlin reports say Nazi columns push east of Minsk toward Smolensk. Both sides report heavy losses and renewed attempts to break through toward Ukraine as fighting rages from Minsk to Murmansk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Russia
Minsk-Brobuisk
Luck
Moscow
Soviet Ukraine
Minsk
White Russia
Smolensk
Lwow
Ukraine
Beetween
Bialystok
Stockholm
Riga
Latvia
France
Rome
Hitsler
Mussolini
Red Army
Brenner Pass
Berlin
Poland
Brobuisk
Arctic
Murmansk
Black Sea
New York Stock Exchange Names Emil Schram Chief
Emil Schram, newly elected president of the New York stock exchange, begins his first day by locating the Broad and Wall streets building. The former RFC chairman takes the post once held by William McChesney Martin Jr at a salary of 48000 dollars annually.
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New York
Emil Schram
New York Stock Exchange
The
Stock Exchange
RFC
Broad and
Wall Streets
Schram
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Exchange
William McChesney Martin, Jr
1941 Safety Record Summary
Accidents to date this year 269 compared with 226 last year. Personal injuries this year 35 vs 37 last year. Deaths this year 1 vs 4 last year. Traffic rule of the day requires bicycles on streets or alleys to have a white front light from sunset to sunrise visible 300 feet and a red rear light or reflector visible 300 feet.
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