United States Breaks Relations with Finland Over Nazi Pact
The United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland due to its new close military alliance with Nazi Germany. Secretary Hull delivered a note to Finnish charge d affaires Thesleff stating further relations are impossible, noting Finland's partnership with Germany and its impact on Allied efforts in World War II.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Germany
Hull
Alexander Thesleff
Russia
Thesleff
George T. Summerlin
von Ribbentrop
Helsinki
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Yesterday’s Hottest Day Relieved in Frederick Area
Frederick city and county endured near 100 degree heat yesterday with a record 98 degrees in the city, 97 at a nearby weather station, and a 102 reading in Emmitsburg. The night stayed hot with a 68 degree low while a distant storm offered little relief. Cooler conditions were forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
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Frederick
CAA Weather Bureau
Here
Emmitsburg
Price And Wage Control Act Extended For Year
President Roosevelt signed today the bill extending the price and wage stabilization act for another year to June 30, 1945. After Senate and House passage on June 21 the law changes pricing regulatory and enforcement procedures while administration spokesmen say safeguards remain against inflationary trends.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Heavy Holiday Travel Seen in Maryland Rail, Bus Lines
Baltimore officials forecast the heaviest travel since Pearl Harbor as heavy capacity service is prepared for tomorrow and the long weekend. The Pennsylvania Railroad aims to run 311 trains on the Maryland division with about 170000 passengers. The Baltimore and Ohio line and area bus services plan capacity operations Tuesday and Wednesday to handle crowds.
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Baltimore
Maryland Railroad
Pearl Harbor
Pennsylvania Railroad
Maryland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Inner tubes removed from ration list and tire quota raised
The Office of Price Administration announced the removal from rationing of all inner tubes effective tomorrow. It also said 3,906,000 new passenger car tires are allocated for rationing in July and August, an increase of 50,000 tires for each month over June.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Thirty Men Report for Induction by Draft Board One
Thirty men are ordered to report for induction at the Baltimore induction station, then travel by bus from Draft Board One headquarters to the Fifth Regiment armory for assignment to Army, Navy, or Marines. The list includes 21 whites and nine colored men, with ages under 26 for most white inductees, and seven colored fathers. Names and addresses of the group are detailed, with one transfer from Allegany county and a separate colored list.
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Armed Forces
Baltimore
Draft Board
Fifth Regiment
Army
Navy
Marines
Richard Lewis Hargett
West Patrick Street
Morgan Raymond Webber
Knoxville
Kenneth McClellan Woerner
West South Street
Warren Harding Axline
Frederick
Calvin Ponticus Shafer, Jr
Middletown
Alfred Glenwood Mackley
East Sixth Street
Ernest Loraine Perkins
Walter Cromwell Eiker
Carroll Parkway
Robert Kenneth Castle
West
Patrick Street
Carl Franklin Rice
East Church Street
Elmer Joseph Hite
Main Street
Allegany County
Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln Apartments
Edward Augustus
Hiring Controls Rules Go Into Effect Saturday
Nationwide hiring controls take effect tomorrow as War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt announces a system to direct 200000 workers into essential industry through inter city shifts. Nebraska Rep Buffett denounces the move as a threat to liberty and a step toward slave labor despite congressional opposition.
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Washington
Paul McNutt
Nebraska
United States
America
McNutt
Rep. Buffett
R-Neb
Buffett
Congress
U. S. Employment Service
Deluce To Be Honored On National Radio Tonight
Chicago June 30 the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce will honor Daniel DeLuce Associated Press war correspondent and 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting during a nationwide radio broadcast tonight.
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Deluce Chicago
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Tnight
Daniel DeLuce
Associated Press
Three to four day Fourth of July holiday for Frederick industries
A three and a half to four day Fourth of July holiday looms for Frederick area industries with most plants closing Monday and Tuesday. Some departments may stay open or close earlier, while banks and post offices will observe the holiday. City offices plan limited operations, with fireworks banned but children events scheduled at Tivoli theater and Baker Park band concert, plus salvage parades and paper drives in the week after.
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Frederick
Union Manufacturing Company
Tivoli Theater
Baker Park
Braddock Heights
Brunswick
General Weygand Reported Escaped From Nazis
Reports from Madrid on June 30 say General Maxime Weygand, former French armies commander, escaped German imprisonment and is believed to be in France aiding the resistance. Unconfirmed details circulated amid the uncertainty of the war news.
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Madrid
Maxime Weiygard
France
New Blue Stamp Series Validated for Food Purchases
Washington reports a new series of five 10 point Blue stamps W8 through Z8 and A1 will be valid Saturday and good indefinitely for processed foods. The Office of Price Administration notes current Blue stamps A through V8 in ration book four remain valid indefinitely. TAKES CHILD Los Angeles report: Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, who yesterday dropped a custody suit, has left the state with his 9-year-old son Lance alongside his attorney Joseph Lewinson.
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Washington
Office of Price Adminstration
Los Angeles
Haugwitz-Revenilow
Barbara Hutton Grant
Lance
Joseph L. Lewinson
Heavy Task Force Strikes Kuriles Off Paramushiro Island
A U S Navy task force in the North Pacific launched a second attack in two weeks on Japan’s Kurile Islands. Destroyers hunted enemy ships while larger ships bombarded shore targets at Paramushiro. The action also disrupted fishing fleets feeding Suribachi canneries, striking at Japan’s food supply.
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Norman Bell
Associated Press
North Pacific
Japan
Kurile Islands
Kurabu-Zaki
Paramushiro Island
Kurabu and
Suribachi
Paramushiro
Dickerson Barn Burns on Stand ard Lime and Stone Farm
A large bank barn on the Stand ard Lime and Stone Company farm near Dickerson was totally destroyed by fire late this morning. Firemen from Independents, Gaithersburg, and Rockville battled the blaze, which spread to a wagon shed but did not burn due to wind. No livestock were lost, though hay and equipment likely burned. the origin remains undetermined. The farm is known as the old Mercer Jones place.
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Standard Lime and Stone Company
Dickerson
Haywood Blivens
Gaithersburg
Rockville
Mercer Jones
Nazis Executions Reported in German Bombed Areas
Madrid reports travelers from the Reich say defeatists and workers refusing to toil in bombed zones are being executed in large numbers. Between June 8 and 15, 741 German and foreign workers were killed in Munich, about 500 in Essen, and around 1,500 in the Cologne district. Other informants could not confirm totals, but affirmed the figures are not inflated, noting only a fraction are carried in German press.
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Madrid
Reich
Germany
Munich
Essen
Cologne
Grman
Fleeing Prisoner Shot At State Pen in Baltimore
A 21 year old prisoner Salvadore Appiti on of Baltimore was shot and killed by state penitentiary guards while attempting to escape. He barricaded himself in a stone tower on the prison wall and held officers at bay with a rifle. Another prisoner involved in the escape was recaptured unharmed.
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Baltimore
Salvadore Appitition
Reds Cross Berezina As Minsk Looms As Big Prize
Moscow June 30 Reds push into the Berezina River northeast of Minsk as Soviet engineers rush pontoon crossings to open the last natural barrier before the capital. Heavy air strikes claim 71 Nazi planes down in 24 hours as Rokossovsky and Bagramian lead rapid flanking advances toward Minsk.
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Moscow
Berezina
Minsk
Wehrmacht
Ivan Cherniakovsky
Ivan Bagramian
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Piich
Rokossovsky
Gomel-Minsk
Sergei I. Rudenko
Red Army
Baranowicze
Polotsk
Riga
White Russia
Bagramian
Lithuanian Republic
Latvian Republic
Kaunas
Lithuania
Public Eating Places Under OPA Freeze Order
Washington reports most American eating and drinking places will be covered by the Office of Price Administration freeze. Prices must be held to April 4 10 1943 levels as the agency plans expansion to virtually all venues.
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Washington
America
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Six German Generals Reported Killed in France
Berlin radio announced Col. Gen. Dollmann, commander of a German army on the invasion front in France, was killed in action. Earlier reports listed five other German generals killed in France.
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London
Dollman
Berlin
France
Exchanges to Close on Independence Day July Fourth
Financial and commodity markets across the United States will be closed on Tuesday July 4 for Independence Day. Trading will resume normal hours on the preceding Monday.
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New York
United States
Pivotal Stocks Rise in Low-Priced Demand
In New York on June 30 stocks in the low-priced category continued to crowd the recovery ranks with several Pivotals in demand as trading activity touched the market's broader comeback.
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New York
Tokyo broadcast claims 27 American ships sunk or damaged
Grass New York June 39 A NBC report heard today says Japanese claims of 27 American ships sunk or damaged in the Marianas include one battleship two aircraft carriers three cruisers five cruisers? Actually, five aircraft carriers and nine transports sunk. The broadcast also states 400 Allied planes shot down.
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New York
Tokyo
NBC
Marianas
Jone II
Tne
British Drive Against Caen Corridor Breaks German Line
Allied dispatch reports a British break through near Caen amid a German counterattack near the Odon and Orne rivers. Rommel rushes reserves to Normandy as 30 tanks and aviation support smash German attempts, with U.S. troops pressing toward St Lo and Cherbourg defenses gradually yielding.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Odon
Orne
Rommel
Normandy
Supreme Command
Lina London
Caén
St. Lo
Cherbourg
Marcelet
Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Alles
Maupertus
Omar N. Bradley
Cap de la Hague
Supreme Commando
William Sullivan
Pearl Harbor
Casablanca
Oran
Naples
Esquay
Troarn
Qodon River
Rodney
Erwin Rommel
Germany
France
Vienna Area Attacked By U S Heavies
Berlin reports American heavy bombers based in Italy struck the Vienna area for the second time in 12 hours with fighter escort. RAF Wellingtons Halifax and Liberators supported the raid from England as night battles developed over Vienna suburbs. Feuersbrunn airfield 30 miles NW of Vienna was hit. Bad weather hindered further operations across Northwestern Europe.
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London
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Britain
Feuersbrunn
U. S
Europe
Continent
England
Bay of Biscay
Air Ministry
Ninth Air Force
Rouen
Normandy Battle Front
U S Pledged To Oust Japs From Philippines
President Roosevelt signed a pledge to drive Japanese invaders from the Philippines and grant independence once normal government functions resume Civil government to be set up under constitutional officers The plan aims to restore full self rule as conditions warrant Nazis flee Rome front reports say German troops pull back along Italy west coast while Allied forces move toward Siena near Florence and French troops push nearer to the same target
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Washington
United States
Philippines
Roosevelt
Rome
Ialy
I Ceedtna
Livorno
Leghorn
Siena
Florence
Bond Purchase Allocation Acknowledges County Share
A portion of a large Sears Fifth War Loan bond purchase totaling 15000 dollars is allocated to Frederick County. Edward C Hartmann, manager of the local Sears store, says the gift supports the county quota and honors workers formerly employed by the company now serving in the country’s defense.
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Sears, Roebuck and Company
Frederick County
Sears
Edward C. Hartmann
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Boston
Cuttyhunk
Weygand
Kuriles
Roger Gre
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Vendes
Gaurus
Cheux
le Haut du Busq
Brettevillette
Corpiquet
Odon River
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