Nazi Air Attacks Repulsed Off English Coasts Shocking Casualties Feared
German raiders attacked shipping and inland targets as RAF and ground defenses claimed success. The torpedo boat sank the French Meknes near Portland, with 1,300 transferred home and about 200 feared lost. Eyewitnesses described nonstop thunder and intense anti-aircraft fire across the southeast coast.
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Associated Press
London
Admiralty
Meknes
England
Portland
France
Air Ministry
RAF
Scotland
Britain
Argentina Seeks Inter American Solidarity at Pan American Conference
At Havana on July 25 Leopoldo Melo led Argentina’s delegation signaling readiness to submit four proposals on foreign possessions inter American neutrality and security zone child protection and defense coordination. The plan aims to keep hemisphere unity while a new US proposal targets fifth column threats across the Americas and expands cooperation to counter foreign subversion.
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Havana
Argentina
Leopoldo Melo
United States
Americas
Expropriation suit over school building boundary dispute
The Ouachita Parish School Board seeks a fair price from A J Clark for land needed after a gymnasium auditorium built for Okaloosa High School extended onto Clark's property. District court heard Thursday as a jury was selected to hear evidence and determine compensation. Jury members named include F A Collie and Roy Barr among others.
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Ouachita Parish
A. J. Clark
David I. Garrett
Okaloosa High School
Luther Reed Jr
Frank Howers
Reese Camp
J. B. Brown
D. M. Boyd
W. J. Brown
C. C. Beadles
Pearl Case
R. T. Faulk
Oscar Dopson
Texas Candidates Stage Vaudeville Campaign Shows
Texas political hopefuls stage minstrel style events to woo voters ahead of July 27 primaries. Gov. W Lee O’Daniel allies rely on banjos and radio style acts while rivals enlist singers and guitar players to attract support in both small towns and cities.
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William E. Keys
Austin
Texas
Uncle Sam
Leon Huff
W. Lee O'Daniel
O'Daniel
LSU Board in Closed Session on 7 Million Budget
Louisiana State University's Board of Supervisors met in executive session in Baton Rouge to review the 1940-41 budget and how about seven million dollars in public funds would be spent this fiscal year. The session excluded reporters and included discussion of paying athletic coaches.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Board of Supervisors
Sam Jones
Roland B. Howell
Thibodaux
Howell
Roosevelt Stops Shipment of Oil
President Roosevelt issued an export licensing order for petroleum and related products, scrap iron, and metals after Morgenthau confirmed halting two oil shipments to Spain. The move tightens controls on materials deemed essential to national defense, updating rules set on July 2.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Spain
War at a Glance Across Fronts and Home Fronts
Berlin, London, Rome, and other locations report rapid air raids, vessel actions, and shifting wartime measures. British air defenses claim heavy RAF activity against the blitz bases, while Italy faces food shortages from blockade and drought. Latin American bodies discuss rearmament and oil industry reorganizations amid economic strain.
Subsidy Sought On Cotton Crop In Louisiana District
Bayville July 25 Special Congress urged to provide a subsidy or other aid for the 1940 cotton crop due to 60 days of heavy rains in Northeast Louisiana. Richland Parish and Community Agricultural Conservation Committee adopted a resolution asking Congress and senators to seek surplus commodities for destitute families and to reestablish credit for farmers and suppliers. Copies were sent to Ellender Overton Mills Wallace Farm Bureau and various agencies.
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Bayville
Congress
W. P. Greer
Richland Parish and Community Agricultural Conservation Committee
Louisiana
Greer
Allen J. Ellender
John H. Overton
Newt V. Mills
Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Cotton Belt
W. E. Coates
R. B. MacKay
J. P. Bell
T. F. Henson
Carl Pardus
O. J. Miller
O. C. Robertson
Jack Farmer
M. Madcock
Ben Cheek
E. L. Melnnis
W. J. Berry
M. M. Lizenby
A. Traweek
F. P. Mulhern
W. O. Chapman
J. M. McKay
M. B. Cooper
R. L. Bell
Youth confesses to holdups and robberies before fatal leap
Niagara Falls police report Jackson Brown, 21, of Chicago, left a suicide note and confessed to holdups, mail and jewel robberies, and bogus check thefts from New York to Hollywood. The note lists crimes in multiple cities and amounts, and a birth certificate shows he was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
New York
Hollywood
Jackson Brown
Chicago
Ill
Boston
Brookline
Mass
Winthrop, Mass
Suspects Held In Texarkana Murder Case In Shreveport
Two men were taken into custody in Shreveport for questioning in the murder of Mrs. R. J. O'Dwyer a 42 year old Texarkana resident. Her body was found with throat cut and head battered as the home was ransacked a diamond ring a wedding band and a gold wrist watch torn from her hands. Arrests followed information from Texarkana authorities as the suspects were found riding the blinds of a passenger train.
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Texarkana
Ark
Shreveport
R. J. O'Dwyer
Governor Jones Plans Sunday Sermon at Shreveport Church
Baton Rouge July 25. Governor Sam Jones, who spoke from many platforms in the winter political campaign, will deliver a Sunday night sermon on July 2 at Shreveport First Methodist Church.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Shreveport First Methodist Church
Texas Newsprint Used In News Star
Eight of the twelve pages of the News-Star edition are printed on Southern Newsprint from the Lufkin mill in Texas. The paper is made from Southern pine and is expected to spur Southern industrial growth. The mill, financed by Southern publishers, was completed after extensive research. Plans for additional mills in the South are underway.
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The
News-Star
Southern
Lufkin
Tex
South
Slate Cleanses Huge Theft Case From 1904
An elderly man who embezzled 15000 from a Galveston bank in 1904 avoids prosecution due to the statute of limitations. Sheriff Schmid says blackmail thwarted any recovery, and the man, now penniless, faces possible deportation as an English native living in Dallas since 1952 after seeking citizenship.
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Wallas
R. A. Schmid
Schmid
Carroll D. Paul
C. T. Tucker
Galveston
Costa Rica
England
Dallas
Daladier Aides Face Trial By French Court
In Vichy France a special tribunal will be set up to try former Premier Edouard Daladier and other ex-government members for responsibility in France’s entry into war and its defeat. A military court will handle cases of officers at war’s start. Daladier and aides arrived after the armistice signing with Petain’s government, and journalists may also be tried.
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Basel
Switzerland
France
Germany
Vichy
Daladier
Havana
Buenos Aires
Chamber of Deputies
Argentina
Mexico City
Cardenas
Washington
Italy
Spain
Edoverde
Teibonalems
Neure
Gerre the Eens
Akee
Dalad Daladier Ey
Macseiltes Eee Rocco
Philippe Petain
Oon
le Petit Parisien
Ieee
Oun
Sheriff Killed in Alam o by Man Believing Recruiter Attack
In Alam o Tenn a sheriff was killed after a man claiming to be an army recruiter opened fire. The assailant, identified as Avery, barricaded his wife and three children before fleeing. A physician accompanied the sheriff to the scene and later aid escaped.
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Dr. Bush
En Avery
British Airmen Cut Off Nazi Plans With Raid Blitz
London reports that British airmen hit major industrial and military targets in Germany and occupied territories. The RAF operations, described as large scale and nightly, aimed to disrupt German mass attacks on Britain and bring enemy air bases closer to British shores.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Vickers Aircraft Factory
Channel
English
Hitler
Britain
Rome
Italy
Germany
Seule
Gur
U S Pledges Factories to Back Britain Plane Program
Secretary Morgenthau said the United States would supply every facility to enable Britain to buy 2000 military airplanes monthly, with large orders and new factories to be built to meet the pledge. The program aims to produce one batch of planes per year, as set by President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Morgenthau
United States
Roosevelt
Ghost Named Co respondent In Hollywood Divorce Case
In Los Angeles July a divorce trial named a ghost as a co respondent before Superior Judge Thomas C Gould. Dr William A Boyce Hollywood eye specialist alleges his wife’s suit for divorce includes a so called spiritual co respondent Sha Sha who allegedly influenced her, with references to voices of George Washington Robert Ingersoll Huey Long and Will Rogers heard during deposition.
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Los Angeles
Thomas C. Gould
William A. Boyce
Hollywood
Boyes
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