Restitution Demanded Over Robin Moor Sinking by Nazi Uboat
The state department will demand restitution for loss of American life and property after survivors confirmed a deliberate torpedo attack on the Robin Moor by a German submarine. Twelve survivors described a three minute abandon ship order and the U-boat firing thirty shells, with a painted cow insignia on the conning tower.
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State Department
Roosevelt
White House
Walter J. Linthicum
United States
Pernambuco
Brazil
Osorio
South Atlantic
Lorricke
Lorrckke
Green H. Hackworth
Department
Germany
Washington
Prien Prien
Scapa Flow
Prien
Robin Moor
U-boat Attacks Prompt German Acknowledgments and Moor Sinking
Washington recalls the first American wartime submarine attack the 1915 Gulflight incident and notes 28 German attacks before U S entry. The Robin Moor fell to a submarine with crew and passengers in lifeboats amid a tense diplomatic aftermath and scattered survivor accounts in Recife and Perlin.
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Washington
Robin Moor
United States
Scilly Islands
England
Wilson
Congress
William P. Frye
Evelyn
Carib Greenbrier
Sea Conner
Leelanaw
Vincent
Lanao
Columbian
Chemung
Housatonic
Lyman M. Law
Algonquin
Vigilancia
City of Memphis
Illinois
Healdron
Aztec
Marguerite
Prinz Eitel Freidrich
Carib
Greenbrier
Sea Comnet
City of
Rayville
Austral
South Atlantic
Fair Enough and Embarrassing Moment in Washington
A political column criticizes the C I O as a Kremlin outpost influencing California policy and press freedom. It cites San Francisco Oakland Newspaper Guild tactics and predicts public government recapture from racketeers. An unrelated Washington quiz incident ends with a student profiting from an embarrassing moment story.
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Kremlin
San Francisco-Oakland
Newspaper Guild
Guild
United Press
San Francisco-Oakland Guild
United Press News
California
Ham ‘N’ Eggs
Communistic Guild
Joseph Stalin
Washington
Bob Hawk
W F W Opens State Meeting With Parade and Balls
W F W opens its state encampment led by Mrs Mabel Tanner of Jefferson City Mo national auxiliary president. A four day program includes a 3 30 pm Saturday parade by 1500 troops from Camp Claiborne and a 9 30 pm commander's ball. The encampment ends after officer elections Sunday. The United States consumes about 65 percent of the world tin output.
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C. O. Laser
United States
Car Payments Reduced As Much As One Half
Credit ad promises halved car payments and extra cash. No Monroe residence required and no signature beyond yours. Visit 500 Walnut St to borrow cash.
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Walnut St
WPA
Vicksburg Rotary Guests Banquet at Monroe Hotel Virginia
Rotary club members and wives from Vicksburg joined Monroe Rotary at Hotel Virginia for a Thursday night banquet. 146 attendees enjoyed an inter club meeting with talks by Cy O Neill and John O Neill, song leading, and a warm reception from Monroe hosts.
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Rotary Club
Vicksburg
Monroe Rotary Club
Virginia
Alston Prophit
Hstornelle
Estornelle
Cy O'Neill
Edley Jones
Vicksburg Club
Maimo Minter
John O'Neill
Rotary
Monroe
Prophit
Cast Metal Pill Boxes Defend U S Bases
Down, June 13. Army plans to install thousands of armor plate pill boxes around army, navy and air bases from Bermuda to the Far East. The Blaw-Inox company showed the fortresses to war correspondents. William P. Witherow, company president, said the total production would be in the thousands with some sent to England. Government permission was noted.
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Pittsburgh
Army
Bermuda
Far East
England
Union
Blaw- Inox Company
William P. Witherow
Pill Box Turret Showcases Maginot Line War Installations
Reporters observed nine foot high pill boxes with four foot projection and a rotating cast armor turret. Details include a 50 caliber or 37 millimeter gun port and dual below ground holes. also seen were a National Tube Co factory producing bomb casings and shell casings, and Mesta Machine equipment for 45 six inch guns to start in July. In Honolulu an Army estimate states 86 000 of 179 000 residents live in bombing areas with evacuation feasible for half and others remaining for vital industries.
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National Tube Company
Mesta Machine Company
Honolulu
Hawaii
Move Requires Joint Returns
Washington June 13 The Ways and Means Committee proposed that married couples living together must file joint income tax returns. The plan would often raise tax bills. Some members favored preserving the 4 percent normal tax while adding a surtax starting at seven percent on the first dollar of taxable income.
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California
Texas
Oklahoma
Washington
Louisiana
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Idaho
House
Ways and Means Committee
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el Paso
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Camp Robinson
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