Refugees flee stricken France to Britain by sea
Knickerbocker reports 7,500 French refugees reach England aboard a ship with limited capacity after bombings and minefields. The escape follows a four day voyage from Bordeaux with near total loss of possessions. Survivors include Eve Curie and Henry Bernstein as the British embassies staff in France also flee. Escorted by British naval vessels, the group frames Europe’s wartime exodus.
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Bordeaux
France
Europe
Paris
America
Eve Curie
Henry Bernstein
G Men Probe Bombing Plot in New York
Federal state county and city agents joined a vast manhunt for bombings at the Nagi consulate and the Communist Daily Worker in New York nine injured. District Attorney Thomas E Dewey led the investigation with wide agency cooperation in a coordinated hunt for a single terrorist band. He called the attacks no mere scare.
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International News Service
New York
Nagi
Daily Worker
G-men
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Casile
Formal bridge slam noted at informal gathering
Mrs. F F Urey of Leasure avenue achieved a rare perfect hand of thirteen hearts during a casual bridge session Tuesday afternoon and promptly bid a slam, which was uncontested, requiring only the play of the hand to win. Traffic warnings urged double parking arrests as heavy weekend traffic risks persist. The calendar marks the first day of summer 1940 amid cool conditions and a W P A paving project on Temple avenue nears completion.
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F. F. Urey
Leasure Avenue
Daily Weather Report for 24-hour period
United States weather statistics for the 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. Thursday show a maximum of 75 and a 46 minimum with trace precipitation and a river stage of 6.3 feet. Year-earlier figures record a maximum of 82 and minimum of 87 with 0.8 inches of precipitation.
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United States
Refugees Tell Of France's Ruin
Refugees describe France's collapse and a near encounter with a German submarine. 1793 refugees arriving in New York on the Washington report Bordeaux as a ruined city with starvation and exhaustion. Mrs. Kenneth Downs and Josanne McDaniel provide stark testimonies amid wartime peril.
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Walter Kiernan
International News Service
New York
France
United States
Washington
Bordeaux
Kenneth Downs
Josanne McDaniel
Atlanta
New Castle
First Day Of Summer Brings Historic Cold In Pennsylvania
On the first day of summer Pennsylvanians shivered as temperatures reached historic lows reported by the Harrisburg Weather Bureau. Freak snow flurries appeared in scattered areas with chill breezes for early risers. Corry saw snow in northwestern PA and Mt Jewett in McKean County dropped to 24 degrees. Light snow fell near Altoona in Buckhorn Mountain.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
German Advance Gains Ground From Loire to Burgundy
German high command reports continued advances between the Loire River mouth and the Rhone Valley with the capture of Lyon after a battle. French forces in Alsace and Lorraine are being squeezed, Maginot line fortifications attacked, and Strassbourg and Colmar captured. German air and Stuka units bombarded Maginot defenses and ships off La Rochelle, sinking a 10 000 ton transport and a 4 000 ton auxiliary warship.
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Gironde
G O P Leaders Mark Cabinet Move as War Issue
Republican leaders hailed Roosevelt's coalition cabinet with Stimson and Knox as creating a major war issue for 1940. They expelled Stimson and Knox from party speaking roles, while Knox resigned as a convention delegate. Taft and Dewey seen as advantaged by anti intervention stance, though nomination outcomes remain unsettled.
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New York
Thomas BE. Dewey
Europe
Roosevelt Names Knox and Stimson to Cabinet Posts
In a move toward a non partisan defense cabinet President Roosevelt shifts James Knox to Secretary of the Navy and Henry L Stimson to Secretary of War in Hoover era cabinet changes Stimson succeeds Woodring Knox succeeds Edison and marks a cabinet realignment with Frank Knox of Chicago as the new Navy secretary and Stimson taking the War post
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James Cal
Frank Knox
Chicago
Navy
Henry L.stimson
Herberk
Hoover
Stimson
Harry Woodring
Knox
Charles Edison
Roosevelt third term plans spark GOP speculation
Tense speculation arose among Republican leaders after President Roosevelt appointed five Republicans to his cabinet including Frank Knox and Henry Stimson. Alf Landon associates argued the president abandoned a 1940 bid, while others claimed the cabinet moves signaled continued interest in a third term. Continued on page two.
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Bancroft
JRI
International News Service
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
GOP
Frank Knox
Henry K. Stimson
Alf M. Landon
Matty
Knox
Landon
Stimson
Kuy
New Castle
Duke of Windsor and Duchess Arrive in Spain
London dispatch reports the Duke and Duchess of Windsor reached Barcelona en route to England with nine aboard. They planned to go to Madrid and then likely travel to England via Lisbon. The couple indicated a stop at the British embassy in Madrid.
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Spain
International News Service
London
London Evening Standard
Barcelona
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Windsor
England
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Tomorow
Lisbon
Portugal
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Casttle
Republicans In Senate Against Long Recesses
The Senate GOP leadership announced opposition to long recesses during the Philadelphia convention week, aiming to keep sessions ongoing to push a national defense program a tax measure and four large appropriations totaling about 44 billion dollars. House and Senate leaders worked on the defense tax bill with hurdles over excess profits and war profits amendments. The sugar contract extension cleared the House but faced possible veto over refined sugar import restrictions. In other items, a Pennsylvania highway project award of 1,192,505 dollars was announced for Route 288 in Ellwood City, and Sharon, Pennsylvania mother Mrs Hugh ONeill, 62, died. she was the city civil service commission’s only woman member.
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Ellwood
Lutc International News Service
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State’Highway Department Today
Lawrence
County
J. N. Pattison
Tor
Sharon
Death Record for Mrs B P Stillwagon at Slippery Rock
Mrs B P Stillwagon aged 67 died on Friday January 21 1940 in Slippery Rock. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by the Stillwagon family.
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B. P. Stillwagon
Slippery ‘Rock
Roosevelt Defends His Selections Of Stimson And Knox
President Roosevelt defended his choices of Henry Stimson for war and Knox for navy posts amid partisan criticism. He spoke at Hyde Park after arriving home and outlined a Pan American trade cartel to curb Nazi and fascist influence in the Americas, clarifying it would not replace reciprocal trade aims.
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George Duano
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United States
Senate Panel Delays Stimson Hearings For Post July 1
The Senate military committee agreed to hold hearings on President Roosevelt's nomination of Henry L. Stimson as secretary of war, delaying congressional action after July 1. Hearings will be set after the Republican convention. Col. Frank Knox's nomination to secretary of the Navy is to be considered by the Naval Affairs committee tomorrow.
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Edward B. Lockett
International News
Servicea
Washington
Senate Military Committee Today
Rosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
Ware
Congression Gaelson Ounsil
Stimson
Philadelphia
Col
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Sheppard
Tex
Gibson
Brattleboro
Governor James Opens Campaign Headquarters in Philadelphia
Governor Arthur H. James opened campaign headquarters at the Benjamin Franklin hotel amid Pennsylvania Republican leaders. He declared himself puffed with pride and said he is not an announced candidate but would not decline the nomination if offered.
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Bank Teller Shot in Hold-up at Hummelstown Bank
A lone bandit shot and seriously wounded teller Ray Gruber during a hold-up at the Hummelstown National Bank near noon. He fled in a car with a bag of money, firing at bystanders as bank employees were warned to stay quiet. Gruber was taken to a Harrisburg hospital with a chest wound, condition serious.
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International News Service
Hummelstown
Hummmelstown National Bank
Ray Gruber
Harrisburg
Roosevelt Warns Americas Unite For Trade
President Roosevelt urged immediate unity between the Americas to form a vast trade bloc as Europe rages in war. The warning targets critics who accuse him of shaping a war cabinet while shoring up domestic party influence. He arrived at Hyde Park for a weekend stay amid cabinet reshuffles and power plays.
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Hyde Park
Dutchess County
Navy
Washington
Roosevelt
Ceremony in France as Hitler reveals armistice terms
In the Compiegne woods, Adolf Hitler, flanked by Nazi leaders, reads Nazi armistice terms to French delegates in a formal one sided meeting aboard the historic railway coach. The scene mirrors 1918. Only a few newspapermen present as the terms are disclosed.
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Singland
Germany
Reichsfuerer
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Hinder
Walter von Brauchitsch
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Wilhelm Keitel
New Castle
Turkey Calls Up More Troops
ISTANBUL June 21 Turkish military authorities in the Istanbul area were reported to have called up several classes of reservists to the colors. They requisitioned numerous trucks motorcycles and other motorized vehicles for service in eastern Turkish Thrace. COLOGNE Germany June 21 Six persons including three policemen were killed by enemy air raiders on the nights of June 19 and 20 and some apartment houses in Cologne were destroyed and damaged, German authorities said.
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International News Service
Istanbul
Thrace
Cologne
Germany
British Warplanes Bomb Northeast Germany Reported
A Reuters dispatch from Bordeaux cites a French agency report that British warplanes bombed northeastern Germany. The item notes attribution to the French agency and mentions a connection to a Australian news outlet.
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London
Reuters
Bordeaux
Germany
Hlavas
New Castle
Whimsical Maiden Spring Heads Far Off
A fragment recalls Arthur Mometer describing a spring maiden as gay hearted and free. The farmer and fruit grower fear for crops, while the whimsical lass plans to leave at dawn as the aurora and74 weather chatter.
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Wille
Aurora
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