Jersey City underworld figures and Hague mask the vice racket
The piece alleges Frank Hague presides over a vast Jersey City horse gambling network with ties to Miami and New York. It claims Erickson faces a New Jersey prosecution, while Hague maintains multiple residences and a public persona shielding criminal activity.
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Erickson
Frank Erickson
New Jersey
la Guardia
Wall Street
Frank Hague
Miami
Tropical Park
Jersey City
Hague
Florida
Jersey Shore
New York
Britain Warns Japan as Troops Reach Saigon Front
Japanese transports disembark troops at Cap St. Jacques near Saigon while 15,000 more land at Saigon harbor. In Nhatrang 7,000 troops sail ashore with 20 aircraft arriving. Britain’s Eden urges Japan to reconsider its expansion and respect French Indo China’s territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Indo-China
Cap St. Jacques
China Sea
Texas and
Secony Oil Companies
Fye
Nhatrang
House Committee Backs Longer Army Training for Guards and Selectees
The House military committee approved a bill to retain selectees and all active soldiers for extended training beyond one year. The 15 to 7 vote matched the Senate version except for allowing presidents to extend guardsmen’s service beyond a single 12 month period.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Army
Senate Military Committee
May
Kentucky
House Committee
Rules Committee
House
Congress
United States Army
Short
Missouri
Senate
Gasoline sales rise amid possible rationing plan
Tulsa reports show seven eastern refiners increasing gasoline sales by 1.5 million gallons in a week despite transport hurdles. Officials warn voluntary conservation may fail, prompting involuntary rationing and possible 12 hour filling station closures after Labor Day. A 1.56 thousand mile Texas to East pipeline project advances with a $70 million aerial survey contract to add 250 000 barrels daily to the New York Philadelphia corridor. completion could take about 16 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Ickes
New York
East Texas
New York-Philadelphia
Heat Wave Relents as Cooler Air Presses In
Two cool air masses from the Atlantic coast and the Dakotas meet to ease the worst heat wave of 1941. The nine day scorcher caused 305 deaths from heat and drownings, Minnesota 30 heat deaths, Michigan 26 drownings. Violent storms followed the relief with wind and rain. Milwaukee saw a 95 to 73 drop in three hours amid power outages. Northern Ohio cooled from the 90s as storms scattered. Washington DC cooled to 73 from 100 as a high for Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Atlantic
North Dakota
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Mercury
Milwaukee
Ohio
Washington, D. C
Hopkins to Talk with Soviet Heads
Harry Hopkins arrives in Moscow on a surprise visit to discuss lend-lease needs of the Red Army fighting Nazi Germany. He travels with Brig. Gen. Joseph T. McNerney and Lt. John R. Alison as U S officials meet Soviet generals Golikov and Repin on a parallel mission.
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Moscow
Harry Hopkins
London
Red Army
United States Army
Joseph T. McNerney
John R. Alison
Air Corps
Washington
United States
Filip Golikov
Repin
Harvey Couch Dies Reveals Southern Utility Empire
Harvey Crowley Couch 63, noted southern utility and rail magnate, died at Couchwood Lake Catherine near Hot Springs Ark at 7 45 am. He headed Arkansas Power and Light and Kansas City Southern Louisiana and Arkansas Railway lines and had been ill for over a year. Funeral set for Pine Bluff and burial at Magnolia. Born 1877, he built a rural telephone line and built AP L and other networks in the South and Southwest.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Harvey Crowley Couch
Southern Utility
Couchwood
Lake Catherine
Here
Couch
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Kansas City Southern Louisiana and
Arkansas Railway Lines
Pine Bluff
Magnolia
H. A. Boaz
Methodist Church
Thomas C. Couch
Louisiana
Bell
Arkadelphia
Malvern
Critics Press Churchill Critics Continue to Press Demand
UK critics press Prime Minister Churchill for production minister as he defends a 92 minute wartime speech. The News Chronicle notes industrialists and workers doubt output can improve while The Daily Herald says leadership and strategy rest on Churchill and one man.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
News Chronicle
Daily Herald
Laborite
Tugwell Nominated Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt
Rexford G. Tugwell of New York, an original New Deal agriculture adviser, nominated by President Roosevelt to be governor of Puerto Rico. He will succeed Guy J. Swope of Harrisburg who resigned to join the interior department as director of the division of territories and island possessions.
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Washington
Rexford G. Tugwell
New York
Agriculture Administration
Roosevelt
Puerto Rico
Tugwell
Guy J. Swope
Harrisburg
Division of Territories and
Island Possessions
Interior Department
United States lodges immediate protest over Tutuila bombing
The United States lodged immediate representations with Japan after air raids near Chungking damaged the gunboat Tutuila, part of the Yangtze patrol. Sumner Welles announced no details of the representations but noted 26 Japanese bombers over the Chinese capital and proximity to American property. President Roosevelt was informed and a statement by Welles was anticipated.
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Washington
United States
Chungking
Sumner Welles
Kichisabura Nomura
Welles
U. S. S. Panay
Shanghai
Yangtze River
Navy
Roosevelt
Silence Greets Jap Liner Request Off Pacific Coast
The Japanese liner Tatuta Maru was granted permission to discharge passengers and was about 30 miles off shore with roughly 100 American citizens aboard. The State Department signaled no shift in daily relations with Japan as Japanese officials pressed for more security before ordering ships to dock.
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San Francisco
NYK Line
Washington
State Department
Japan
Pacific
Cadet Killed in Navy Plane Collision Near Pensacola
Two planes from the naval air station collided east of Pensacola Fla one cadet died and another crewman is missing The wreck of one plane was found near Milton Fla with Cadet John G Donovan's body located nearby his parachute entangled in the chute The navy began an aerial search for the second plane and its two occupants.
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Pensacola
Fla
Naval Air Station
Here
Milton
John G. Donovan
Navy
Germans press on Leningrad as Smolensk battle rages
Nazi claims of a twin north south drive threaten Leningrad while a Smolensk battle rages near Moscow. Soviet reports say two Russian divisions were destroyed. Moscow says German advances stalled as Red armies go on the offensive. Britain warns Japan in the Far East crisis and Konoye calls for decisive action. Japan blames Allied meddling for Indies disruptions. US officials report seizure of Japanese boats in Hawaii.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
Smolensk
Moscow
Japan
Far East
Konoye
United States
Chungking
Netherlands East Indies
China
Washington
Hawaiian
Roosevelt seeks ceilings on prices and rents to curb inflation
President Roosevelt asked Congress to authorize price and rent ceilings and to empower purchase of essential materials to ensure price stability. He urged labor cooperation on wages, warned inflation threatens defense, and noted looming bills from the banking committee. Congress faces a split on price controls and farm price limits amid a pending economic-rail of bills.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Rayburn
Steagell
Alabama
House Banking Committee
Steagal
Senate
Leon Henderson
Office of
Price Ac
Aluminum Drive Falls Short of Goal at Central Grammar
A total of 1,600 pounds of aluminum scrap was moved from Central Grammar School to M. Kaplan and Son yards as Ouachita parish ended its defense drive short of the 2,000 pound target. Boy Scouts conducted a two day house to house collection. nine other parishes will store their aluminum at Kaplan’s until the state program consolidates.
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Central Grammar School
M. Kaplan and Son
Adams Street
Ouachita Parish
Boy Scouts
Parish
Kaplan
National Center
Clan H. Black
Parish Defense Council
Caldwell
East Carroll
Franklin
Jackson
Morehouse
Madison
Richland
Tensas
Union
West Carroll
Defense Council
Black
British Advance Beaten Near Tobruk and Across North Africa
Rome reports strong British patrols near Tobruk were repelled with heavy losses. Italian high command says British barracks and mechanized units at Salam were machine gunned while British aircraft bombed Bengasi. In Ethiopia, British attacks were beaten off in Culquebert and artillery duels occurred in Wollochefit area.
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Rome
Tobruk
High Command
Salam
North Africa
Bengasi
Libya
Ethiopia
United States weighs recognizing Czechoslovak refugee government
Washington reports the United States may grant full recognition to the refugee Czechoslovakian national committee in London as the government of Czechoslovakia. Reestablishing ties would align Czechoslovakia with other western republics and end partial suspensions since German occupation in 1939.
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Washington
United States
London
Czechoslovakia
Sumner Welles
Republic
Republic of
Poland
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Greece
Yugoslavia
Luxemburg
National Committee
Vladimir Hur
Cotton futures drop after Roosevelt price control speech
In New York on July 30 cotton futures fell sharply after President Roosevelt urged price control, with losses reaching as much as 5.15 a bale on the New York Cotton Exchange. A rapid recovery pared the drop to 2.50 to 3 a bale by the close, marking a multi year wide swing.
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New York
Roosevelt
Congress
New York Cotton Exchange
Cotton Exchange
Japanese Halt Business by Foreign Firms in Occupied Areas
Reports from North China say American and British firms in Japanese occupied zones are barred from doing business except within Peiping and Tientsin quarters. Japan froze assets. Shantung properties placed under protective custody. Oil firms faced closures amid dock dynamite rumors. freighter Dona Nata sailed almost empty. Thailand preserves neutrality while Japan presses toward a new Asiatic order.
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Shanghai
China
Peiping
Tientsin
Japan
Shantung Province
Texas
Socongol
Nanking
United States
Oil Company
Dona Nata
Manila
Bangkok
Thailand
Saigon
Polish Soviet Agreement Signed Amnesty Keying Poland Russia
London reports an agreement between Poland and the Soviet Union granting amnesty to Polish prisoners in Russia and annulling territorial changes from 1939. It provides for a Polish army in Russia under a Polish commander reporting to the Soviet supreme command, drawn from about 200000 Polish POWs.
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London
British Foreign Office
Russia
Poland
Soviet Union
Germans Claim Soviet Relief Effort Futile Near Smolensk
Berlin reported Red Army counter-attacks to rescue trapped troops east of Smolensk were fierce but futile and costly. German bulletins said advance units remained about 130 miles from Moscow in a front from Mogilev to Vyazma, with further fighting near Leningrad and Lake Peipus.
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Berlin
Red Army
Smolensk
Moscow
Mogilev
Vyazma
Leningrad
Russia
Lake Peipus
Estonia
Parnu
Viljandi
Lake
Peipus
DNB
Germans Claim Suez Bombing and Far North Raids
German high command reports bombing of military objectives at the Suez canal and air operations in Africa including attacks near Tobruk and Matruh. They say a 6,000-ton freighter sunk near Tobruk and a tanker damaged off Tobruk, with other raids in central England and at least one raid on an airfield.
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Berlin
Suez Canal
High Command
United States
Britain
Middle East
Cairo
Nile Delta
Africa
Tobruk
Matruh
Tynemouth
England
The
Reich
191 safety record and traffic rule of the day
Accidents to date this year 327 vs last year 278. Personal injuries this year 42 vs last year 47. Deaths this year 4, same as last year. Traffic rule Section 41 forbids throwing glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or obstructions on streets or alleys likely to injure people, animals, or damage vehicles.
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Westbrook Pegler
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Eden
Tokyo
U. S
Great Britain
Orient
Dutch East Indies
Anthony Eden
Prince Fumimaro
Hopkins
Harvey C. Couch
Harvey Couch
RAIL
Ige
Yangtze
FD. R
Judy
Dave Rose
Judy Garland
Burbank
Calif
Las Vegas
New
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Suez
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