Hitler Delays Statement On Nazi Advance
German commander postpones full disclosure of military gains as bombing of a Soviet remy staff HQ at Foror Castle is reported. The delay fuels speculation whether Berlin inflated early Nazi victories while Moscow denounces official war communiques as exaggerated.
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Hitler
Pierre J
Huss International News Service
Berlin
Foror Castle
Reichsfwehrer
Adolf Hitler
Tuehrer
Moscow
Gennan
Tbr
Areawide Summer Preparations Prompt Local Hints and Plans
Competition along Wilmington road features four lemonade stands spaced about 7000 yards apart. Scotland Lane to be hard surfaced with blacktop as West Washington extension links Route 422. Early registrations for Boy Scout camping rise. Fourth of July events loom with Bessemer planned celebration. Weed-cutting programs on berms due to heavy rains and heat. Fishermen prep for bass and trout season as streams recover.
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Wilmington
Scotland Lane
West Washington Shiver
Boygeont
Bessemer
Daily Weather Report Summary Card
Daily weather report for the United States shows a 24 hour period ending at nine a.m. with a maximum of 89 degrees and a minimum of 54 degrees and no precipitation. River stage stands at 4.8 feet. A year ago the high was 81 and the low 54 with 1s inches of precipitation.
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United States
U S Material Aid To Russia Depends Upon Fight
American aid to Soviet Russia will be moral support for now, not major defense material. The U S government will bolster Russian morale while awaiting clear evidence of determinate, maximum effort to fight. If Russian forces hold, Washington may supply practical military aid such as American war planes.
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U.S
Russia
Kingsbury Smith International News Service
Star
Washington
Soviet Russia
United States
Non-Interventionists Oppose Sending Vital War Supplies
Washington June 26 Non-Interventionists plan a five fold move to curb shipments of vital war materials from the United States to Soviet Russia. Proposals include a congressional act opposing such shipments and a resolution declaring a state of war existing between Germany and Russia. The plans aim to trigger provisions of the neutrality act barring U S vessels from war zones. The State Department said Roosevelt will not officially recognize the new war, allowing ships to transport goods to Russian ports. Continued on two.
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United States
State Department
Roosevelt
Britain
New Air Raids Made By RALF
International News Service reports a large RAF force attacked the German occupied French coast after night raids on Bremen Kiel and Boulogne. British fighters patrolled the Channel as bombers crossed the coast again in daylight. one RAF plane was lost.
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Charles A. Smith
London
Bremen
Kiel
Boulogne
English Channel
French
Kent
France
Air Ministry
National Youth Administration Center May Open Friday
The National Youth Administration Work Experience Center in town was tentatively scheduled to open Friday, June 27, but completion of equipment was not certain. About 60 boys were ready to enter, including some from Lawrence County and nearby counties. J. C. Pella, appointed supervisor, arrived and planned the opening activities.
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National Youth Administration
Lawrence County
J. C. Pella
Reunion At Volant College Site Renewed
Former Volant college alumni and residents gathered yesterday at the site of the old college now occupied by Volant Presbyterian church to renew memories and greet boyhood friends. After a church supper the group met in the auditorium with John B Shaw in charge as president. The reunion group voted to restore annual reunions under the old setup with James G Leslie elected president for next year. Ralph Cunningham vice president. Olive Clinefelter secretary and treasurer. Mary Minnihan Memorial chair.
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Old Volant College
Old College
Volant Presbyterian Church
John B. Shaw
James G. Leslie
Ralph Cunningham
Olive Clinefelter
Mary Minnihan
Italy Urges Japan To Enter War Now
In Rome on June 26 Admiral Gino Ducci of the Italian navy urged Japan to join the war immediately in the Giornale Ditalia. He warned the United States may intervene suddenly and urged Japan to seize Siberian strategic advantages before it is too late.
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Japan
Rome
Giornale Dtialia
Gino Ducci
Tinlian Navy
United States
Siberian
America
Fordham Needle Records Quake
Fordham University seismograph recorded two distinct earthquakes described as sharp. The first shock occurred at 8:11 a.m. EDT and the second two minutes later. The quake center was estimated at 3,500 miles from New York with no stated direction.
Death Record for Rosale Harris and Infant Jackman
Death notices list Rosale Harris of Atlantic Iowa and infant Jackman of 316 Elizabeth Avenue. The brief item records the two deaths dated Thursday June 26 1941 in the local obituary column.
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Rosale Harris
Atlantic
Infant Jackman
Elizabeth Venue
Soviet Airmen Bomb Bucharest
Soviet bombers pounded Bucharest twice in a day long attack beginning at 5:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., each raid lasting about three hours. Reports from Budapest say Constanza remains burning after prior bombing. Several civilians were killed or injured as Soviet planes struck central Bucharest with 20 millimeter bombs.
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I International News Service
Budapest
Bucharest
Constanza
Pope Pius to Broadcast World Message On St Peters Day
The Vatican announced Pope Pius will address the world at 12:30 p.m. E.C. next Sunday, St. Peters Day, to discuss the influence of divine providence on human events. The message will be broadcast from Vatican City.
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Cinternational Laws
Vatican City
Vatican Today
Pope Pius
St. Peter's Day
Sweden Will Stay Neutral Amid European Tensions
Sweden maintains neutrality amid Soviet Russia versus Germany and Finland hostilities. A foreign office spokesman says Sweden granted transit for a German troop division through Finnish territory to aid Finland, with Germans not to remain in Sweden and no other German demands reported. Berlin says German Stuka dive-bombers sank a British heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, and a tanker off Tobruk in a sudden Libyan sea action.
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Hy Sten Hedman International
Bratt
Stockholm
Russia
Germany
Finland
Foreign Office
Sweden
Cinternational
Berlin
Tobruk
High Command
Desperate Stalin Efforts to Avert German War
A June 26 dispatch from Berne, via International News Service, reports Stalin knew by May 6 that war with Nazi Germany was inevitable despite appeasement efforts. The message cites Stalin addressing Red Army graduates and warning that conflict was coming, followed by detailed Kremlin ceremonies.
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Germany
Soviet Russia
Berne
Cinternational News Service
Stalin
Red Army
Kremlin
Russian Bombers Attack Finnish Towns And Cities
Finnish and Soviet forces clash as 26 Soviet raiders are shot down in the first 24 hours of hostilities. Bombing hits towns and area near Helsinki as Finnish air force resists. Parliament meets in secret to hear Premier Rangel describe acts of war and defend Finland with all military means.
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Ifikk International News Service
Helsinki
Litte Finland
Red Russia
Hangs
London
Russia
Finland
J. W. Rangel
Rangel
Soviet Union
Eduskunta
Italy to Send Force to Russia Front
Rome reports the Italian government announced three Fascist expeditions will be sent to the Russian front to aid Germany against the USSR. The force is expected to depart without delay.
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Rome
Germany
Ussr
German Auxiliary Cruiser Is Sunk In The Atlantic
The German auxiliary cruiser Penguin was sunk by the British cruiser Cornwall in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the German high command. Separately, a U S bomber on a training flight from Panama crashed about 166 miles from Lima, killing crew members.
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Trdian Ocean
High Command
Lima
Peru
United States Legation
Fanama
War Developments Of Day In German Advances
Wartime dispatches describe German forces claiming smashing victories over the Soviet army and Luftwaffe. Berlin press touted attacks on Soviet headquarters, a long armored column destroyed, and major blows to the Red Air Force while bombing Turku and Bucharest. The pocket battleship Admiral Scheer earns renown as a raider in the North Atlantic amid heavy shipping losses.
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Moscow
Lithia
Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
Red Air Force
Turku
Rabo
Bucharest
Paris
Admiral Scheer
Graf Spee
North Atlantic
Nazis Pushing Four Attacks Against Russia
British mill reports Germany plans four major offensives on the USSR with the heaviest striking the northwest. The Baltic front is said to be breached toward Leningrad as German bombers hit the city yesterday, while other thrusts move toward the same region.
Judge Braham to Speak at State Bar Session
Bedford Pa June 26 Judge Walter W Braham of Lawrence county was set as principal speaker at the 47th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in session near Bed Springs He would discuss The Lawyers and Changing World Other speakers included William M Margest president of Dauphin county and Jacob M Lashley president of the American Bar Association
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Internaonal News Service
Bedford
Walter W. Braham
Lawrence County
Penisy Bar
Beds Springs
Western Pennsylvania
William MM. Margest
Dauphin County
State Bar Association
Jacob M. Lashley
American Bar Association
Two Killed in Army Plane Crash Near Randolph Field
In Texas, two servicemen John W. Crews Jr. and Dennis Eckleberg died when an army observation plane crashed twelve miles north of Randolph Field during a weather night flight. The wreckage found today confirmed the deaths of Crews, 22, of Columbia, S. C., and Eckleberg, 38, of Belleville, Texas.
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Loos Ervder
San Antonio
Tex
John W. Crews, Jr
Columbia
Dennis Eckleberg
Belleville
Randolph Field
Lient
Crews
Eckleberg
Russia Claims Drive Against Ukraine Halted
Moscow reports the main German drive against Ukraine has been halted and Soviet troops repulsed a three field attack on Cernaut Bukovina. The communique cites heavy German losses with 76 planes shot down yesterday while 17 Russian planes are reported missing. It accuses Germans of doping troops before battle and notes counter advances near Vilna and Oszmiany with land troops holding firm.
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Ukraine
Pruth
Vilna
Old
Lithuania
Cernaut
Bukovina
Fumanien
Comsuanm
High Command
Bagnoxitch
Osamiany
German Pocket Battleship Scheer Raids Atlantic Shipping
Berlin notes the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, Graf Spee’s sister, raiding in the north Atlantic and sinking about 152000 tons of merchant ships. An official tally also states 27300 gross register tons destroyed near England since the campaign began.
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Berlin
Geran
Admiral Scheer
Graft Spee
North Atlante
High Command
International
Graf Spee
North Atlantic
Crus
England
Europe
Arthur Mometer and the Hellyenders Kids Days
A fragmentary piece describes children’s days spent swimming hiking and playing at a mountain lake site. It notes warm weather and carefree recreation with no conflicts or marriages mentioned, focusing on daily outdoor activities and routines.
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Yun
Trey
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