R A F Blasts Ith Straight Night at Nazis
Allied air action and shore raids are described as the RAF and Russian forces clash along multiple fronts. The narrative notes Red airman raids on Constanta Bucharest and Ploesti while Berlin reports suggest Soviet forces prepared for central European offensives. German claims of aerial losses accompany reports of Finnish fire as northern front tensions rise.
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Vilna
Minsk
White Russia
Baranowicze
Brody
Pinsk
Ukraine
Red
Kremlin
Constanta
Bucharest
Ploesti
Europe
Berlin
Finland
Russian invasion era news stalls hope for refugees
Britain protests Sweden over allowing German troop transit to Finland as war expands across Europe. Reports say Axis ships torpedoed off Italy and British planes strike shipping. Ankara notes Turkey allowed Vichy forces transit. Levant campaign nears end. Luftwaffe claims sinking British shipping while Soviet air activity is limited. continuous war updates from Cairo and Pravda.
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Britain
Finland
Sweden
Norway
London
Anthony Eden
Bjorn Gustaf Pritz
Stockholm
Mediterranean
Middle East
Ankara
Turkey
Syria
Levant
Damascus
Cairo
Vichy Mandate
Gems
Vichy S
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Turu
Pravda
Moscow
Com
Fire tears through Ogden home and canning plant
William Burch saw flames from a canning plant roof, rushed to help, and watched the blaze destroy the plant before returning to find his own home burning as firefighters battled the roof fire.
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Ogden
Utah
William Burch
Communist Party Claims British Air Supremacy Over Germany
The Communist party paid a high tribute to the British offensive on Germany's western air front. It claimed that more than 2,000 German planes had been lost there and warned that British aviation, reinforced from America, has grown greatly. It said Britain already has qualitative superiority and will soon have quantitative superiority.
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Munist Party
Germany
America
Public responds to NYA invitation anniversary event
The Quachita NYA unit marked its sixth anniversary with open houses at nine parish project centers in Monroe and West Monroe. Ed C. Ap, chairman of the parish advisory board, said public response to the projects was most gratifying and pledged continued service to the community and youth as the NYA program progresses. The event showcased 30 local youths involved in the program and the progress made over six years.
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Quachita Nya
Ed C. Apperson
NYA
Monroe
West Monroe
Births and oil production figures from Jonesboro and Hodge
In Jonesboro and Hodge LA births are announced for several families with dates in June. Mr. and Mrs Harold Breard welcomed a son at St Francs san itarium. Woodrow Wilson, a son. C L Steadman, a son. J F Naylor Sr, a daughter. T A McCloskey, a daughter. In 1940 world crude oil production totaled about 2 150 000 000 barrels with related fuels adding 110 000 000, for a combined 2 260 000 000 barrels.
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Harold Breard
Jasmine Street
St. Francs Sanitarium
Jonesboro
Woodrow Wilson
Hodge Clinic
C. L. Steadman
Hodge
J. F. Naylor
T. A. McCloskey
Roland L. Davis Named Rotary Club President
Roland Lee Davis was elected president of the Monroe Rotary Club at a noon luncheon yesterday at the Virginia hotel. He succeeds Alston Prophit with Joe Marx as vice president and City Judge W M Harper as secretary-treasurer. Prophit received a silver water pitcher in appreciation of his service.
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Roland Lee Davis
Monroe Rotary Club
Virginia Hotel
Davis
Alston Prophit
Joe Marx
W. M. Harper
Prophit
Iowa welfare board seeks small staff amid clutter
In Des Moines on June 27 the Iowa social welfare board cited file room congestion causing inefficient procedure and delayed operations. Chairman King R. Palmer said they are forced to use only the small and slender girls in the room to speed work.
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Des Moines
Iowa Social Welfare Board
King R. Palmer
Iowa Executive Council
Rayville deputy dies by suicide at home
Edward A. Jones 46, a Richland parish deputy and bookkeeper, killed himself with a pistol at his Rayville home Thursday afternoon. Coroner Dr. T. M. Sayre ruled death by own action at 3:45 p.m. Jones, member of the Rayville Kiwanis Club, is survived by his wife, mother, a son, three brothers, three half brothers, and a sister. Services set for 4 p.m. Friday at the Baptist church, with burial in Masonic Cemetery under Mulhearn Funeral home guidance.
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Rayville
Edward A. Jones
Richland Parish
T. M. Sayre
Sayre
Jones
Sheriff's Office
Rayville Kiwanis Club
Thelma Jones
Annie Jones
Edward A. Jones, Jr
C. B. Jones
Cleveland
Miss
Bobby Jones
Kyser
Ark
Frank H. Jones
Memphis
Tenn
John P. Jones
Sikeston
Generals Strive for Victory in China's Fight Back
Chiang Kai-shek leads China’s 400 million in a united anti Axis struggle. The March of Time film China Fights Back spotlights Chiang and his staff directing the effort to drive out Japanese invaders and defend a free democratic way of life.
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China
Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Volunteers Must Register For Military Training
Brigadier General Raymond H. Fleming announced that volunteers for military training who will be 21 by July 1 or have already turned 21 after October 16, 1940, must register at local boards. The registration on July 1, while already registered locally, will not affect their position on the local board. Such men are eligible for induction later as directed by selective service.
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Raymond H. Fleming
Selective Service
Selective Service National Headquarters
Fleming
Navy seeks authority to hold enlisted men past service end
Washington June 27 The Navy urged Congress to allow retention of enlisted personnel beyond their enlistment if national interests are imperiled. Rear Admiral C W Nimitz told the Senate naval committee that rapid fleet expansion caused a personnel drain and recommended enacting a rule similar to one-year army conscripts to keep sailors in service when ordered by Congress. The text notes Henderson North Carolina being set aside as a bird sanctuary.
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Navy
Congress
C. W. Nimitz
Senate Naval Committee
Nimitz
Bureau of Navigation
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