Warren declines vice presidential nomination in 1940 convention
Governor Earl Warren of California said he could not accept a nomination for a place on the national ticket and asked Oregon delegates not to place his name. The GOP platform backed postwar cooperation, with Willkie and other leaders weighing in on the foreign policy plank while Luther Bricker remained in his own camp.
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Chicago
Earl Warren
California
Whee
Big Californian
Oregon
Ble
Warren
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Everett Dirksen
Ilinois
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
William Hutcheson
American Federation of Labor
Eric Johnston
Robert A. Taft
Willkie Willkie
Willkie
Taft
Warren Austin
Vermont
Platform Committee
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Bolt Austin
Bolt
Dewey Nomination Plans Signal Quiet Convention Week
Delegates hear no change in plans for Dewey to place his name for the Presidency with an acceptance speech possible tomorrow or Thursday. Warren warns Californians against a Vice Presidential nomination, while Hoover praises the party platform and attacks personal power diplomacy. The convention approves credentials reports and elects Martin as permanent chairman.
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Ditto
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Dewey
Albany
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warren
Roosevelt
America
Wilson
Martin
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
Seaman Cramer In Navy Eight Months
Bluejacket Seaman Cramer, in the Navy about eight months, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cramer of Center street. His wife, Mrs. Kathleen Cramer, resides at 100 East South street. His address is Seaman Cramer, U. S. N. RB. S., 495 Summer street, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Seaman Cramer
Charles Cramer
Center Street
Kathleen Cramer
East South Street
Summer Street
Boston
Mass
White House Averted War Comment Sparks Debate
A slim, blonde lawmaker charged the Administration with distorting democracy into dictatorship and said the New Deal produced a decade of confusion that led to war. She urged her party to nominate a standard bearer who loves country over power.
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White House
Yap Island Bombed in 35 Ton Sweep Across Carolines
Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific struck Yap Island with 35 tons of bombs destroying nine enemy aircraft. MacArthur’s bombers sank a Japanese freighter and damaged three merchantmen off Northwest New Guinea. Additional raids hit Noemfoor Nanokwari Woleai and Palau as part of ongoing Saipan support.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Yap Island
Carolines
Saipan
Douglas MacArthur
Northwest New Guinea
Noemfoor Island
Dutch New Guinea
Nanokwari
Woleai
Palau
Wewak
British New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Flying Bomb Opens New Type Of Warfare
London reports Germany’s flying bomb has shown great potential and raises a political problem for postwar control. An American radar expert says the weapon could be mass produced, fired secretly from peace time, and used against foreign capitals, with an uncertain accuracy and a need for international oversight.
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London
Germany
England
Europe
Cherbourg
Wounded Returning Home by Air Across Atlantic
London reports that within the next few days about 400 American soldiers will fly home to the United States. They have completed their duty in the western invasion and some were wounded as recently as four or five days ago in Normandy.
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London
Normandy
Community mobilizes to staff Frederick county corn canneries
Charles W. Willis reports Kiwanis Rotary and Lions clubs that 122000 acres across 1000 farms need 500 more workers for corn canning. Pay scales rise to 50–55 cents for women and 60–65 cents for men as plants recruit part time labor. Six week season runs August to September with transport arrangements planned.
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Frederick County
Charles W. Willis
Kiwanis
Rotary
Lions Clubs
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Price Bros., Inc
Everedy Company
Union Manufacturing Company
Muse Tailor
U. S. Employment Service Office
Willis
Willkie silent on Republican foreign policy plank
Willkie declined to say if he would back the Republican foreign policy plank adopted at Chicago. Warren Austin predicted Willkie would support the policy to promote peace and organized justice, but Willkie offered only a Priscilla Mullins style reply. The convention adopted a post war cooperative system to prevent aggression and use peace forces to deter conflict.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicago
Warren Austin
Vermont
Priscilla
Warren
Willkie
Priscilla Mullins
John Alden
Republican National Convention
Crim
Retire Scheer From Reading Presidency
Roy B. White announces the retirement of E. W. Scheer from the Reading Company presidency after nine years in the post. The retirement takes effect July 1. Scheer began in railroading over 50 years ago with the Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore Railroad. Revelie W. Brown will succeed Scheer as Reading president.
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Baltimore
Roy B. White
Reading Company
E. W. Scheer
Scheer
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore
Revelie W. Brown
Thhe
Lehigh Valley Railroad
The
Seaman Misner On Duty Aboard Atlantic Vessel
Seaman Misner serves on duty in the Atlantic aboard a navy ship. He has been in the Navy for six months. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Victor Misner of Thurmont Maryland.
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Seaman Misner
Atlantic
Navy
Victor Misner
Thurmont
Soft drink supply unlikely to meet wartime demand
Baltimore, June 27. Joseph Lapides warns that soft drink makers will not fill more than half of summer demand from war factories despite a 12.5 percent sugar ration increase. He notes industry now uses 80 percent of 1941 sugar allotment, but hot plant needs are higher and full shipyard orders could cut retail availability to under 56 percent. Bottled beverages are consumed in war plants at over two billion bottles annually.
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Baltimore
Joseph Lapides
Lapides
From Board Two Join Armed Forces
Seventeen men from Draft Board Two left yesterday to enter the Army and Navy. White inductees included several Thurmont residents. among others are Melvin Dixon, Jay Wolfe, Bernard Lewis, and Emory Barnhouse. Also listed are Charles Boller and Howard Tregoning with various towns. A separate line notes colored inductees, including Harry Griffith Jr. and William Timpson. Teachers’ salaries in 1942 3 averaged 1550 dollars.
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Army
Navy
John Oliver Ramsburg
Thurmont
Jhose
Melvin Quentin Dixon
Motter Ave
Frederick
Jay Henry Wolfe
Bernard George Lewis
Emory Roger Barnhouse
Detour
William Joseph Matthews
Carroll Meredith Kline
Smithsburg
William Oscar Fox
Westminster
Warren Elwood Bowers
Rocky Ridge
Daniel Webster Pittinger
Union Bridge
Joseph Morgan Shepley
Myerstille
John Richard Flohr
Keymar
Charles Henry Boller
Howard Husted Tregoning
Harry Griffith Jr
Rt, i
Tramsville
William Luther Timpson
Samsville
Germans Send Finland Help
Nazis move troops into Helsinki bound for the Eastern Front after Finland pledged to stay in the war with German aid. German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop promised armed assistance, including five divisions and 500 war planes, as Ryti and Ramsay declared a perfect understanding with Berlin. Sturdevant reports the U S Finland relationship shifting to a day to day basis.
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Stockholm
Helsinki
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Finland
Russia
Associated Press
Robert Sturdevant
Legation
Berlin
von Ribbentrop
Risto Ryti
Henrik
Ryti
United States
Dual Road On Urgent List
Maryland Governor O’Conor announced twelve highway and bridge projects rated urgent by the State Roads Commission were sent to the War Production Board for 1944 construction approval. Top priorities include Halethorpe grade crossing elimination and the Frederick-Hagerstown highway relocation with 17 miles paved as the first lane of a proposed dual highway.
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Annapolis
Maryland
State’ Roads Commission
Facilities Review Board
War Production Board
O'Conor
Halethorpe
Frederick-Hagerstown
Reisterstown Road
Westminster
Laurel
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Wendell Willkie
Republican Party
Herbert Hoover
Clare Boarne Luce
Bricker
C. W. Sherburne
San Antonio
Tex
Signal Corps Radiotelephoto
NEA Telephoto
Bluejacket
Edward L. Cramer
U. S
Reading
Brunswick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
English Channel
Howell Dodd
British Isles
James W. Misner
Allen’s
North Market ST
Frederick i
South Market
C.E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
O’conor
Hendrickson
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