Newsmen Face Capture At War Games In Louisiana
Washington reports that in a massive 60 000 troop exercise in Louisiana newsmen photographers and radio reporters covering the armies will be subject to capture and detention to prevent disclosure of operations secrets. The games will climax a summer training program funded with 25 million dollars by fon Bress and announced by the war department.
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fon‘Bress
War Department
Gester
Army tests gear and strategy in vast September drill
The nation readies a large scale maneuver September 1 to 3 across about 20 000 square miles around Beauregard Louisiana under Gen George O Marshall and Gen Lesley J McNair. New dive bombers will work with II and 2nd armored divisions while the 801st parachute battalion prepares for action. Equipment shortages force use of improvised weapons as red and blue forces clash to test command skill. Government rules bar disclosing correspondent coverage to protect security, requiring dual coverage analysis.
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George O.marshall
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Red Force
Probe of German Drug Firms Attract US Attention
MEXICO CITY July 3 F Senator Salvador Franco Uriag asked federal attorneys to investigate two German drug firms accused of earning 90 to 39 percent profits on sales instead of the usual 6 percent. The senator also charged the firms had recently smelled an offensive act against Mexican and Spanish Republican companies. In a separate note, Senator Tito Livio Cabanna suggested expropriation of German coffee plantations in Chiapas.
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Mexico City
Salvador Franco Uriag
Federel
Gale
Mrs F D R to Be Radio News Broadcaster
New York July 21 Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt is slated to become a sponsored radio news commentator in September She will be heard on a series of 15 minute weekly broadcasts over a nationwide network sponsored by the Pan American Coffee Bureau announced yesterday by Eurico Penteada chairman of the bureau which represents coffee growers in Colombia Mexico Venezuela Costa Rica Cuba and El Salvador.
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New York
Pranklin D. Roosevelt
Harenu
Eurico Penteada
Chairoan
Pyault
Colombia
Mexico
Venezuela
Cuba
el Salvador
Japanese Fleet Reported Leaving Canton River Coast
An European observer said a fleet of 15 Japanese military transport ships sailed from the Canton River mouth for an unknown destination. The report ties the move to Japan's axis alignment and recent Far East tensions after the June conflict between Germany and Russia.
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Air Crew Members Reported Saved in Admiralty Report
London reports the Lady Somers rescue confirmed as a row of air officers and sailors saved. New York cites a mayoral candidacy announcement amid political turmoil. Texas drowning near Lake Crockett prompts searches. Montevideo suspends the pro Nazi Libertad newspaper for 19 days after a congress attack.
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Ousted Consuls Near Portugal Move Toward Lisbon
More than 300 American consular officials and their families are ordered out of Axis-occupied Europe and travel toward Lisbon by special train or ship to New York. The exodus includes diplomats from Germany Norway occupied France the Netherlands Belgium and Yugoslavia plus Greeks Italians and others en route to Lisbon then Madrid. Also mentioned are released prisoners and U S correspondents including Jay Allen and Richard Holtel. A prior group of 48 consular officers from Greece and Italy is en route across France toward Lisbon.
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Jay Allen
Alliance
Horder
Richard Holtelet
United Press
Berlin
Zamsam
Leslie E. Reed
Athens
Wis
Gveast
Shailor
Mussolini Targeted in Alleged Assassination Plot
Moscow radio reports an attempted hit on Mussolini as he prepared to depart for the eastern front. Two shots were fired by a monarchist officer, per Trans-Swiss frontier dispatches quoted by Moscow broadcasts. A separate broadcast claims Germany aims to seize the Dardanelles within five to seven days.
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Mroadicast
Mussolini
Pattara
Yadia
Germany
Dardanelles
Officials Delay Corpus Blackout
CORPUS GHAISIT July 2 A blackout scheduled Tuesday night has been postponed indefinitely. Recording indicates the delay affects the local power shutdown and related commercial operations. Further details were not provided.
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Corpus Ghaisit
Shave
Jeff Hel
Inar
Commeron
Comedian Fields Succumbs at 74
Beverly Hills July 94 Comedian Lew Fields dies at 74, once half of the Weber and Fields vaudeville duo. Born Lewis Mauricci Fields in New York, they began together as children and formed a company in 1886. By 1894 they owned Weber and Fields Mousie hall on Broadway, a famed Broadway hotspot.
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Dayle Woetield
Dewolf Bopper
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Will Collier
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Fields
New York
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Mousie Halk
Yeas
Oie
Broadway
All Are Invited to Molly's Wedding
Austin report notes Molly O'Daniel daughter of Governor Senator W. Lex O'Tantel will wed at the governor's mansion in Austin. The new governor says crowds attended prior gatherings there and expects invitations for this ceremony amid public interest in Texas political circles.
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Konoye Holds Military Talks Amid Cabinet Reorganization
Tokyo July 2174 Premier Prince Fuminaro Konoye chaired an 80 minute palace session with army and navy high command to coordinate the armed services with government. Denel reports the aim to create fuller unison and maintain policy unchanged for July 2. Emperor Hirohito received new foreign minister Vice Admiral Tekpen Toyoda, in absentia, the first time Toyoda assumed the post. A broad home and office goods feature occupies space in Classifications 165 to 116, Light Writ Ads.
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Tomorow
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Pope Suffering From Exhaustion Declines War Duty
Vatican officials report Pope Pius XI is nervously exhausted and will rest in the Vatican gardens during the hot month ahead. He has refused to serve the Vatican during the war after years of heavy work, but officials say there is nothing alarming in his condition.
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Pius XI
Vatican Gardens
Vatican
Lightning strikes kill two at Denver air show
Thousands watched as two air show sergeants were struck by lightning near Cervet municipal airport. Sgt. Henry Levin of Philadelphia and Sgt. Dwaine Moore of Benawick Neb failed to recover after more than two hours of resuscitation. In New Rochelle, publisher and agents mourn Besmond Fitzgerald 16, former Denver publisher.
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Army Air Serjeants
Cervet
Air Suichy
Lowry Flora
Henry Levin
Philadelphia
Dwaine Moore
Bunawick
Neb
New Rochelle
Wpy Besmond Fitzgerald
Pacific Coast
Latin Leader Proposes Seizure of Axis Assets in Americas
Latin American labor head Vincente Lombardo Toledano urged confiscation of German and Italian assets in the Americas to curb North American economic influence. He called for a Latin American merchant fleet, using expropriated axis ships, to foster inter-American trade and resist shifting ties toward the United States, while seeking fewer export restrictions on Latin resources.
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F— WeXican
Vincente Lombardo Toledano
Americas
Latin America
Confederation of Latin American Workers
United States
Hosiery Workers Get Higher Minimum Wage Order
Washington July 21 771 The wage hour division chief Philip B. Fleming ordered a new minimum wage for the seamless hosiery industry effective September 15 The industry employs about 62000 workers and has been under an earlier wage standard based on hours worked
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Washington
Texas May Get Powder Factory
Officials say the War Department is considering sites for one or more smokeless powder plants to serve the army, with East Texas under serious consideration due to a shell loading plant at Texarkana already contracted for. Other areas are also being reviewed as potential locations. Plans may use wood pulp as a basic material in production.
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Planta
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War Department
Texarkana
Fatal Weekend In Austin Claims Four Lives Involved Crashes
Four people died near Austin over the weekend in separate incidents. Bryan machine shop worker Glyde D. Gossel t, 22, and a woman identified as Mrs. Mary Jane Moore, about 40, perished when their vehicle collided with a truck nine miles north of Austin and burned. A. G. Pace of Waco, driver of the truck, survived with multiple injuries. Also killed was Frank Johnson, 35, after his bicycle hit a car. Sredlena Garza, 30, died in a tavern fight with his brother Felix Garza sustaining serious knife wounds.
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Jane Moore
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A. G. Pace
Waco
Inne Austin Hospital
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Sredleno Garza
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Land expropriation for public schools in Mexico City
Mexico City reports President Avila Camena signed a decree authorizing expropriation of land in the federal district for public school sites. The action was announced Sunday by the president's offices.
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