Roosevelt defends wage hour policy amid defense contracts
President Roosevelt said the administration would maintain the wage hour act for defense work. The Commerce Department awarded contracts totaling 136.7 million as part of expanding Pacific and Atlantic defenses, with 30.87 million for aviation facilities including Pearl Harbor. Fleming noted only three complaints from major defense industries about overtime pay.
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Atlantic
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Ghent
Food Production urged in Britain for food security
London reports Prime Minister Lloyd George backs a government plan to convert fallow fields into productive farmland. The elderly Welsh leader, applauded in parliament, warned that without increased home food production the nation faces peril and believes action will save the country.
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Brita Hestens
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Long
Empress Zita Aims for United States Arrival
New York report says former Empress Zita of Austria Hungary, widow of Karl, mother of Archduke Otto, will arrive in the United States within days with three younger sons and three daughters. Archduke Otto, who just reached Lisbon, seeks a country estate for her as Luxembourg’s Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix may also depart Lisbon for the U S.
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Belgium
France
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Mobilization Debate Shapes Military Training Bill
The training bill would mobilize the national guard for at least a year. General Marshall urged raising trainer pay from 5 to 21 dollars monthly. A war department official said 930,000 in training by October and 1,415,000 by April 1841 if conscription passes, with initial cost around 1 billion dollars and annual 750 million thereafter.
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Night German raids widen to Scotland and England
The daily daylight raids expand to include Scotland and southern England as German bombers strike, killing several and causing widespread damage. A bomber crashed near a northeastern city, the crew perished, while heavy anti aircraft fire targeted a southeastern town. The government cites security reasons for withholding details and notes King George was briefly in danger.
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England
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Ministry of Home Security
Alfred Dat Cooper
Forced Training Bill Provisions Detailed
Washington reports outline the Burke-Wailsworth compulsory military training bill. It covers universal male registration ages 18 to 65, service eligibility 21 to 45, eight month training with home defense options, a 10 year reserve term, lot-based selection across age groups, and targeted percentages for 21 to 45 cohorts. The president may adjust training quotas where other work is deemed essential.
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Washington
Burke-Wailsworth
Amy Aigh Command
United States
Caneress
Lot
Chilean plan defense step aims at broad powers
Santiago July 1229 The Chilean government moves urgent congressional action on a national defense bill. It would authorize the president to contract defense loans up to 1 000 000 000 pesos and bring any essential commerce or industry under state control. A defense council would direct purchases of weapons and war materials.
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Santiago
Chile
Icome Tas
Rational Defense, Finance and Foreign Relations
Bastille Day Mourning Observed Across France
A Vichy dispatch reports Bastille Day will be observed as a national day of mourning France wide. Religious services will honor war dead and schools will teach the regime's new aims under Marshal Petain, followed by a Vichy military review.
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le Petit Dauphinoix
Preaate
Romania Sees No Major Transylvania Concession
Bucharest July 1207 Romanian press reports Axis powers will not demand Axis sacrifices of ethnic frontiers to fulfill Hungary's claims. An editorial from the propaganda ministry says population exchanges could settle the Transylvania dispute and 2,000,000 Romanians in the farming province need not fear Magyar domination returning after 1918.
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Ruemauie
Hungary
Carol V
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Rusia
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Italy
Germany
Transylvania
Propaganda Ministry
Boys Club Plans Brackenridge Park Hike at 3 A M
Members of the Boys Club of San Antonio will hike to Brackenridge Park at 3 a.m. under guidance of C P Behnabe, president of the board. About 200 boys will visit the zoo and museum, play games, and swim under gym instructor Billy Aldana.
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Funeral Held For Anabato Flores In Floresville
In Floresville on July 12 funeral services were held for Anabato Flores about 56 who died after a severe head injury found in a pasture near his farm. Physicians and family suspect he was kicked by a horse or mules during an incident leading to coma before death. He is survived by his wife two young daughters five stepchildren and one stepdaughter.
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Anabato Flores
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U S Interests in Rumania Affected by Monarchy Switch
BUCHAREST July 12 A state of 163 million dollars held by Americans in Rumania is set to be sharply affected by the shift from Carol's monarchy to a totalitarian regime. Rumania renounced British French ties and aligns with Nazi models, stirring concern among the American community here over 36 million dollars in investments and 127 million in loans, mostly World War I era debt.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Carol
Germany
Italy
U. S
Japs Tighten Trade Blockade In Kwankchowan Inlet
Hong Kong dispatches report that Japan sends a dozen officers to Kwankchowan, a French leased port between Hong Kong and French Indochina, to seal the remaining inlet for trade bound for China. The move follows an accord last week placing Japanese inspectors at five points in French Indochina China region.
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Kwankchowan
Indo-China
China
Kwangchowan
Mindo-Chine
Local figures listed in community roster
A lengthy OCR list names many local individuals including Harlan Oefinger Charies Patrick Bryan Dan Davis Willa Barns George Campbell Robert Weyran Darrel Boren Garia William Goodell Joe Fraser Bobby Dial Arthur Elkin Billy McKown Henry Wilson Richard Hestage Charles Kesler James Zimmermann Otis King Puller Philip Nannelly Cecil Caldwell Louis Toussaint Leo Marmolefo Billy Thompson Jerome Windlinger Donald Harris Herbert Wood Gug Rebburg Ruseel Warner Paul Hoyer Harvey Marmon Harold Myers Howard Newton Lawrence preat Robert C. Walz Gux Bohnet Hicherd Jeenherr Harold Creaswell Lake Elliott Bubba Harris Jimmy Motre George Gonzales Adolph C. Guerra Jr. Allen Rep Fischer
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Charies
Patrick Bryan
Dan Davis
Willa Barns
George Campbell
Robert Weyran
Darrel Boren Garia
William Goodell
Joe Fraser
Bobby Dial
Arthur Elkin
Billy McKown
Henry Wilson
Richard Hestage
Charles Kesler
James Zimmermann
Otis King Puller
Philip Nannelly
Cecil Caldwell
Louis Toussaint
Leo Marmolefo
Billy Thompson
Jerome Windlinger
Donald Harris
Herbert Wood Gug Rebburg
Ruseel Warner
Paul Hoyer
Harvey Marmon
Harold Myers Howard Newton Lawrence Preat
Robert C. Walz Gux Bohnet Hicherd Jeenherr Harold Creaswell Lake Elliott
Bubba Harris
Jimmy Motre
George Gonzales
Adolph C. Guerra Jr
Allen Rep Fischer
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Louis Dorantes
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Richard Gerke Fernanda Villasana
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