Britain Downs 10 Nazi Planes In Renewed Air War
An air ministry communique stated ten enemy bombers were destroyed today as British anti invasion measures tightened. Gunfire and raids across England left two British planes missing while the Warrior Second patrol yacht was sunk in the English Channel.
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London—i
Air Ministry
Britain
London
Admiralty
Warrior
English Channel
Wallace Carroll
United Press
U.P
Isles
England
Scotland
Home Ministry
Royal Air Force
Italians Claim British Carrier Set On Fire In Malta Battle
Italian high command reports its warplanes damaged and set alight a British aircraft carrier and seriously damaged two destroyers in a four day Mediterranean engagement. A bomber hit the carrier, flames visible, while a freighter was sunk. The battle raged near Malta as Italian and British forces exchange attacks across the Ionian Sea and across North Africa.
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Rome
High Command
Malta
Africa
Italian
Libya
Egypt
Kenya
Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
Britain Tightens Home Front Controls In War Time
Britain tightens civilian life measures to strengthen the home front against invasion and conserve food. Orders in council empower the government to curb strikes, fortify buildings, remove fire fuels, regulate vehicles, and take over fields to maximize food production amid a German blockade.
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London
Britain
England
Germany
British Isles
Willkie Opens Colorado Swing With Potomac Range Promise
Willkie tells a Community Cowhands crowd in Colorado Springs that after January the “chuck is going to be better and the range greener.” He attends a cowboy dinner with Gov. Ralph Carr and greets locals in bright outfits as a band plays Home on the Range. Illinois hopeful C Wayland Brooks hails Willkie as the man for America while Richard J. Lyons asserts Indiana will back the Republican crusade for decency in government.
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William B. Ardery
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Denver
Colorado Republican State Committee
Potomac
Willkie
Ralph Carr
Colorado
Roosevelt
C. Wayland Brooks
Senate
Brooks
America
Timeis
Lincoln
Indiana
Richard J. Lyons
Timneis House of Representatives
Wilke
Campaig
Lyons
Cruiser Reaches Chile On Goodwill Tour
The United States light cruiser Phoenix arrived in Valparaiso Chile today for a goodwill cruise visiting South American ports and strengthening regional ties.
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Valparame
Chile
United Sates
Phoenix
South American
Roosevelt May End Dunce Cap Club Rumor
White House reporters once banished to the dunce cap corner ask President Roosevelt to dissolve the Dunce Cap club as membership grows and a Chicago meeting is planned. Roosevelt says he will review the list and notes progress among correspondents returning to their desks.
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White House “Dunce Cap Club
Washington
Roosevelt
Chicago
Germany claims vast enemy shipping losses in war effort
Berlin reports 4,329,213 tons sunk since the war began with 300 ships damaged, plus air attacks on southern and central England. It says losses exceed half Britain’s entire World War I tonnage and cites starved supply aims. A British source disputes the figure as more than four times Britain’s July 1 losses.
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Berlin
High Command
Great Britain
Germany
British Isles
England
English Channel
Italy
French cabinet resignations precede Petain reshuffle
Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain accepts the resignations of all members of his old cabinet in Bern. A 12 minister group under his new authoritarian powers is to be formed. The new list was expected to be announced the following day, French radio said from Vichy.
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Bern
Switzerland
Henri Philippe Petain
Vichy
France
Fire losses five women at Cincinnati hospital building
Five women died and seven or more were injured when a four story building housing 30 aged workers on the St Francis hospital grounds caught fire just after midnight in Cincinnati. Rescue efforts used ladders ropes and an inside stairway collapse trapped several occupants. Miss Julia Waechter 78 alerted others from her attic room as smoke filled corridors.
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Cincinnati
U.P
St. Francis Hospital
Mary Theders
Mary Rose Watkins
Roselina Burns
Minnie Brandhoff
Hamilton
Regina Niekamp
Julia Waechter
Typhoon Strikes Korea Killing Fifty-Two and Razing Bridges
A typhoon hit Keijo and Chosen Korea causing 52 deaths, 100 injuries, and thousands homeless. Soldiers patrolled for refugees and to curb looting as about 100 bridges were destroyed. Heavy winds and rains persisted with damage in Japan, Kobe, Osaka, Niigata, and Yamagata.
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Tokio
Keijo
Chosen
Korea
Japan
Kobe
Osaka
Niigata
Yamagata
Secret military truck sabotaged fire at Fort MacArthur
A dramatic blaze behind a guarded fence damaged an experimental giant military truck after four months of testing at Fort MacArthur. Trojan Truck Company officials reported two men fled the area, suggesting the fire was meant to deceive guards and steal truck plans while destroying the vehicle. The 65 mph diesel truck, with 12 rear wheels, was designed to carry a 90 ton load and would mount two six inch坦 guns. Authorities from the FBI began an investigation into the fire’s circumstances.
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Tes Angeles
Fort MacArthur
Trojan Truck Company
Co. D. Juneau
Federal
Bureau of Investigations
Roosevelt Plans Defense Build Up With 6000 Tank Force
The United States unveils a 4.848 trillion dollar preparedness program to double tanks to about 6,000 and press for a 1,200,000 man army. Regulars aim for 280,000 by August while national guard boosts push total near 1.2 million. Congress also clears a two ocean Navy expansion and weapon orders totaling hundreds of millions.
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Roosevelt
Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Europe
War Department
National Guard
George C. Marshall
General Staff
Congress
Johnson
Army
National Defense Commission
White House
Mediterranean battle claims push by Rome and Berlin
International reports say Italian bombers damaged British aircraft carrier and two destroyers, while Berlin claims sinking five ships in the English Channel. British denial follows. Spitfires down eight German aircraft and a bomb hits a Scottish town as King George narrowly escapes an air raid. Haile Selassie’s government recognized. Vichy consolidates powers. readiness programs advance in Washington. Chile moves defense finance.
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Rome
Caxist
Sky
King George
Batain
Haile Selassie
Sland
Petain
France
Washington
Santiags
Chile
Wheeler Arrives At Chicago Will Be Candidate If
Washington reports that about thirty thousand communists and nazis on WPA relief rolls may have abandoned their jobs or hidden affiliations. A nationwide poll found only four confessing communist sympathies among over a million workers. Wheeler arrived in Chicago and announced his name would be placed before the Democratic convention as a candidate if Roosevelt has not announced by nominations.
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Virginia Hayes
Billings
Mont
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Chicago
Wheeler
Roosevelt
Washington
New York
Detroit
Philadelphia
Col
F. C. Harrington
WPA
United States
Commerce
Harry Hopkins
Weather summary and temperatures from Wisconsin forecasts
The report notes generally fair conditions tonight and Saturday with a warmer Saturday across Wisconsin. It lists observations from Milwaukee and Wausau with high and low temperatures, precipitation, wind direction northeast, and barometer readings, plus a brief note on record highs and lows from the prior day.
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Lenzih
Associated Press
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Hughest
Phoenix
Wausau
Backstaff
Plan Huge Factory to Produce Powder
Washington reports a planned $30,000,000 smokeless powder plant in the Teusville Kyo industrial area. The War Department and the DuPont Powder Company have reportedly agreed on construction.
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Washington
Teusville, Kyo
War Department
DuPont Powder Company
Roosevelt declines Chicago trip for Democratic convention
President Roosevelt told a press conference he would not attend the Democratic national convention in Chicago, leaving his third term intentions unclear. He stressed he remains president and business must continue, planning only a Potomac cruise and a Hyde Park visit, as pre convention strategy forms at the capital.
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T. F. Reynolds
United Press
White
Chicago
Roosevelt
United States
Potomac
Hyde Park
Weirton Steel to dissolve independent unions at two plants
The National Labor Relations Board orders Weirton Steel Company to dissolve independent unions at Steubenville Ohio and Weirton West Virginia plants and reinstate 17 of 200 dismissed workers with back pay. It refuses to recognize the CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee as bargaining agent. The action ends a four year proceeding led by Ernest T. Weir.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
Weirton Steel Company
C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Weirton
Ernest T. Weir
New Deal Fee
NRA
Steudenville
W.a
Illinois enters plea for greater diversion
Illinois argues the Chicago waterway needs a larger Lake Michigan flow to carry sewage, seeking an increase from 1500 to 3000 cubic feet per second until Chicago treatment facilities are finished by 1992. Representatives from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York oppose.
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Chicago
Ulinois
Lake Michigan
Hlonte Lemarn
Whlinois
Michican
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ohi
Permaylvania
New York
United States Supreme Court
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Winston Churchill
Churchill
Ivwapa Perraghaie
William H. Lawrence
United Press Staff
Illinois
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