President Requests $4.85 Billion for Defense in Special Message
President Roosevelt asked Congress to authorize an additional 4.848 billion dollars for land sea and air armaments. He argued partial defense is inadequate and urged national sacrifice and unity to build a 2 million man mobilization and expanded naval air capacities. Immediate objectives include expanding the navy, equipping 1.2 million land troops, stockpiling tanks guns and ammunition, and producing 15 000 more army planes and 4 000 navy planes.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Build Defenses Urges Woodring in First Talk
Harry H. Woodring, former Secretary of War, urged strong defenses and nonintervention as he spoke to a Topeka chamber of commerce dinner in Kansas. He said the United States should mind its own business and insulate the hemisphere from war, leaving his resignation letter private. The address aired on radio.
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Topekz
Kan
Harry H. Woodring
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Chamber of Commerce
Attempt to sabotage battleship blocked
Austin Texas UPI Rep. Martin Dees, head of the House committee probing un American activities, said a plot to sabotage a battleship under construction was found yesterday and thwarted. He said the shipyard was in Pennsylvania but would not name it or detail the plot. He added the saboteurs were caught in the act.
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Austin
Tex
Martin Dees
House
Dies
Pennsylvania
Taps
Willkie Not Anxious Over Slush Charge
Wendell Willkie rejects reports of a telegraphic campaign to boost his bid and says the New Deal jitters show opponents fear defeat. He arrived in Colorado Springs for a three week vacation and plans a mix of set speeches and informal talks during the trip.
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Willkie
William B. Ardery
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate Committee
New York
Gillette
Iowa
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Wendell Willkie
NEW Deal
Ralph L. Carr
Denver
Carr
Voice of
Colorado
Midwest Heat Wave Expected Across Central States
A one day heat wave hit the middle west as forecaster G E Dunn warned temperatures in the 90s would develop in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri with slightly lower readings in Indiana Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota. Chicago reached 89 at noon. A cooler air shower area moving southeast from the Dakotas was expected to bring relief by tomorrow night.
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Chicago
Middle West
G. E. Dunn
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Dakotas
Weather Summary for Wisconsin and Regions
Mostly cloudy with local showers tonight and Thursday morning in south and east. Cooler Thursday near Lake Superior. Reports show high 106 in Amarillo Texas and lows around 57 at Yellowstone and Oakland. Barometer 29.50 with southeast wind. Precipitation 0.2. One year ago highs 76, lows 66.
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Wisconsin
Lake Superior
Amarillo
Tex
Yellowstone
Oakland
Buckstaff
Oterrva Frem Tory
Oshkosh Sees Net Gain in 1940 Assessed Valuation
Preliminary figures from city assessor John Hackbarth show Oshkosh posts a net real estate and personal property gain of 42,450 for 1940 despite major local industrial closures. Real estate and improvements total 37,639,600 with personal property down to 4,740,275, while county tax deeds reduce taxable holdings and ward land values peak in the First Ward at 1,383,500.
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Oshkosh
John Hackbarth
Board of Review
Hackbarth
Clark Carriage Works
Banderob- Chase Company
Ashkosh
Winnebago County
Japs Demand Peck Apology At Shanghai Rally
About 1000 Japanese residents in Shanghai demanded that Col. Dewitt Peck apologize before an international gathering for insults to Japan. The rally followed the Sunday detention of 16 Japanese gendarmes in the American defense area of the international settlement.
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Shanghai
Dewitt Peck
United States
British mine field seals off northern Atlantic front
The admiralty announced a great mine field spanning from the Orkneys north of Scotland to Iceland and from Iceland to Greenland. The barrier aims to deter German invasion attempts and bottle up the high seas fleet while Britain handles Franco Italian fleets and guards Ireland and Iceland from potential landing attacks.
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Admiralty
Atlantic
High Seas
Orkney Islands
Scotland
Iceland
Greenland
North Sea
Ireland
Britain
Mediterranean
Roosevelt Poised for 1940 Bid Amid Cabinet Confirmations
The Senate confirmed Col. Frank Knox as secretary of the navy and Henry L. Stimson as secretary of war, signaling readiness for a broad defense push. Roosevelt contemplates a third term bid with Garner and Farley organizers already active in Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
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Democratic National Committee
Chicago
Roosevelt
Farley
Washington
Senate Today
Col
Frank Knox
Navy
National Solidarity
Henry L. Stimson
Oval
White House
Percy Nelson
Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
U.K
Theodore Roosevelt
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Byrnes
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Garner
Roosevelt-Garner-Farley
Sherman Hotel
New York
Hyde Park
National Committee
New York Yankees
Paistics
Milwaukee Man Sentenced Over False Citizenship Data
Vincent F. Schmalzer was sentenced to three months in the house of correction after pleading guilty to giving false information on citizenship papers. He concealed a Bucyrus burglary conviction from 1977 and admitted an automobile theft sentence, saying two convictions could lead to deportation.
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Vincent F. Schmalzer
House of Correction
F. Ryan Duffy
Schmalzer
Bucyrus, O
Camacho Leads In Mexico City Vote Totals
Early unofficial returns show Avila Camacho with 3,108,200 votes to Gen. Juan Almazan's 943,500. Final official totals expected within 100,000. Congress to convene Sept. 1 and Camacho to take office Dec. 1. Riots in the capital leave 48 dead and about 400 wounded. Almazan labeled a “slayer of women and children.”
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Mexico City
Avila Camacho
Juan Almazan
Congress
Almazan
Tim
Britain and Italy Claim Sea Victory
An admiralty communique reports a British submarine sank an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean. Rome says the battle spans the eastern central and western seas with both sides claiming victories after 48 hours of shelling torpedoing and bombing.
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Admiralty
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Associated Press
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Great Britain
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Mare Nostrum
Crete
Ionian Sea
Balearic Islands
Gibraltar
President Roosevelt Calls for Massive Defense Appropriation
Washington reports Highlights of Roosevelt's message urging a further appropriation of 4 848 171 857 dollars for national defense. He stresses sacrifice and work to keep America free, rejects appeasement, and calls for total defense with selective training to man new equipment and ready troops. The president notes progress in procurement and modernization of defenses.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Referendum on Constitution Power in Vichy France
Report notes France’s national assembly passed a bill granting Marshal Petain full power to draft a new constitution to be put to a nationwide referendum. The plan envisions rights of work family and fatherland with ratification by newly created assemblies. A dramatic Herriot defense interrupted the session amid absences of several leaders. One dissenting vote came from Marquis de Chambrun. A separate dispatch reports the Netherlands tanker Lucrecia was torpedoed off the Spanish coast with casualties.
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French National Assembly
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Herriot
Edouard Daladier
Edouard Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Georges Mandel
Cesar Campinchi
Art
Massilia
North Africa
Casablanca
New York U.A
Marquis de Chambrun
Lafayette
Pierre Laval
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
Herlin
Marquis
Maryland
Clara Longworth
Cincinnati
Count Adalbert de Chambrun
Italian Navy and RAF Clash Across Mediterranean and Britain
News brief reports Italian warships chased to shore batteries in the Mediterranean with no British casualties. RAF fighters claim a victory over Nazi planes over the British Isles as Rome admits Italian losses and a destroyer sunk. Other items cover Hungary Romania tensions, Berlin air activity, and U.S. defense moves with Stimson and Knox confirmations.
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Associated Press
London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Herce
British Isles
Rome
Italy
Ionian Sea
Vichy
France
Munich
Hitler
Hungary
Romania
Ten German Planes Shot Down Off British Coast
London reports a dramatic air battle as British Spitfires drove off German bombers and fighters off the southeast coast. The air ministry claims ten German planes were shot down during mass raids on Britain with unconfirmed additional losses. Observers saw planes crash into the sea as the fight over the English Channel involved many aircraft.
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London
Britain
Air Ministry
Germany
British Isles
English Channel
England
Hungary Warned Against Forcing Romanian Demand
German sources report Adolf Hitler and the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy cautioned Hungary against pursuing its claim on Transylvania during talks with Premier Count Pal Teleki and Foreign Minister Istvan Csaky. They stressed that revision of treaties must not destabilize the Balkans now while expanding axis integration and a tighter blockade against England was considered.
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Hungary
Adolf Hitler
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Istvan Csaky
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Balkans
Dublin President commuting Cork murderer's sentence
Dublin President Douglas Hyde commuted to life the death sentence of Tomas MacCurtain, 22, son of a former Cork lord mayor, for the slaying of Detective John Roche on January 4. A mass meeting chaired by Mayor Thomas Clarke urged clemency, following government advice.
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Douglas Hyde
Tomas MacCurtain
Cork
Thomas Clarke
Hyde
MacCurtain
Irsh Republican Army
John Roche
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