Germans unleash massive fresh divisions in northern France
The German assault widens with more than twenty fresh divisions and armored units joining seven divisions already in action. Allied resistance slows progress as the Oise front sees intensified air and artillery bombardment. German losses mount while armor and infantry push toward Amiens and the Chemin des Dames sector amid a widespread capital threat.
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Oise
Peuyat
Somme
Aisne
Chemin Des Dares Heights
Sois- Ors
Boissons
Longwy
Forges- les-Aux
Bethune River
Deppe
France bombs Berlin as German tanks push on
French forces claim air raids on Berlin and targets across Germany with 69 naval planes aiding the attack. Paris reports Hitler at the Somme front while front-line officers describe a generally favorable situation yet show anxiety over tank breakthroughs on both wings.
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Berlin
Germany
Hitler
France
Aumse-Noyon
Paris
Paris-Soir
Tuer
Somme
Forges-les-Eaux
Bresl
Royal Air Force
Council of Ministers
Paul
Reynaud
Albert Lebrun
Super-Fast Plane Designed in U. S.
Detroit reports Preston Tucker unveils a fast armored single seat fighter with a 700 mile range, using liquid plastic plywood fuselage, unnamed gun armament, and a 443 pound engine claimed as the lightest of its type. An accompanying armored car aims for 114 mph top speed, powered by a 250 horsepower bus engine.
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Detroit
Preston Tucker
Tucker Aircraft Manufacturing Company
Tucker
Concerts Slated at River Theater in San Antonio
The best of a weekly series by the Mexican Tipics orchestra, sponsored by the WEA and San Antonio city, will be performed at the open-air river theater starting 8 p.m. Sunday. Recent La Villita Saturday nights by the same orchestra were spoiled by construction work interruptions.
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Mexican Tipics Orchestra
WEA
San Antonio
River Theater
la Villita
Man Quits Drinking Tale Prompted by Missing Funds
Police investigated after H A Darby of Bowie Street reported lending $10 to a friend for beverages for two, but the companion did not return by late hour. Darby told officers the episode prompted him to quit drinking.
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H. A. Darby
Bowie Street
Darby
San Antonio Man Leads Texan Mexican Chamber Federation
Corpus Christi June Federico Arredondo of the San Antonio Mexican chamber of commerce was elected president of the Federation of Mexican Chambers of Commerce of Texas at the closing session of the fourteenth convention here yesterday. He succeeds Onvazos of Mission.
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Corpus Christi
Federico Arredondo
San Antonio
Underground depot of motorcycles found near coast
London dispatch reports an underground depot containing motorcycles with reserve gasoline tanks, ready for use by Nazi chutists, uncovered as Scotland Yard rounded up Nazi sympathizers. The discovery, cited by the London Sunday Graphic, follows fears of German parachute troops invasion.
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London
Tsundayj
INS
London Sunday Graphic
Scotland Yard
Hinds Plants Gain Defense Contracts
Chicago June 8 The Tilinois Manufacturers Association announced that military and naval supplies contracts totaling 368 479 were awarded to Tilinois manufacturers during the week ended June 1 as part of the national defense program.
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Chicago
INS
Tilinais Manufacturers' Association
Italian paper vows fourfold bomb reprisal
Rome reports Italy will strike back fivefold for every Italian city bombed. The Giornale D Italia edited by Virginia Gayda quotes Mussolini spokesman and rejects a Telegraph suggestion that Italian cities may be attacked if Italy enters the war. London would suffer greater bombardment in response.
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Rome
CNS
Italy
Germany
Giornale D'Italia
Virginia Gayda
Mussolini
London Daily Telegraph
Giornale
London
Boy Tied to Post by Father in Sun
In Greenville Alabama authorities investigate an alleged punishment of a one year old, Leon Armstrong, by Hillary Armstrong. Neighbors found the child tied to a post in a garden facing the sun. Officers freed the boy after he refused to move, then questioned the father at the prosecutor's office.
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Greenville
Ala
Hillary Armatrong Aginst
Leon
Armstrong Garden
Prose
Cubing
Werth ‘Thugard
Austin chase ends with suspected thief struck down
In Austin on June 8 a 26 year old Black man named Obie Hedges was killed after fleeing officers who had ordered him to stop. Deputies Blair and Lee had spotted him unloading brass fixtures from a nursery irrigation loot and pursued him when he attempted to drive away. The man reportedly collided with a vehicle or object while fleeing, ending the chase.
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Austin
UNS
Obie Hedges
Paul Blair
N. E. Lee
Injury Fatal to Accident Victim In San Antonio
Mrs Georgia Hernandez aged 42 of 2827 South Flores Street died at Robert B Green hospital Saturday night after being struck by an auto at Booth Flores and Dolorosa streets during a whist storm. Police list driver H C Uhr of Monterey Street. Her death raises San Antonio traffic fatalities for 1940 to 28.
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Georgia Hernandez
South Flores Street
Robert B. Green Hospital
San Antonio
Two Appleton Boys Die Trying to Save Friend
In Appleton Wisconsin an eight year old drowned after diving to rescue a pal from Fox River. Buddy Behrent twelve, leaped from Queida street bridge and the younger Tavis Vajko Jeaped after him. Services for the two boys will be held next week.
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Appleton
Wis
Buddy Behrent
Queida Street
Fox River
Tavis Vajko
Gandhi Praises Allied Morale
Gandhi commends the morale of Britain and France in Harijan urging Indians to stay steadfast. He says Britain will die hard and reverses may come but demoralization will not, advising people to continue work and business as usual and to keep deposits and cash flow steady.
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Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Great Britain
France
Harijan
Gandhi
Britain
No substitute for the new sult producing Dower of Light Want Ads
An odd garbled line touts a new want ads service calling Dial 1231 for a vocation writer, but the text is unclear and contains nonsensical phrasing. The readable fragment suggests a classified advertising offer with a mysterious dialing instruction.
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Garden Pottery
U. S
S. A. Man Heads CC. Federation
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Boy
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Tuthors
Ccadia
Tred Raen
J.M. Briles
Optometrist
Texas Protective Life Insurance CO
San Antonio, Tex
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Xchang
W. Crockett ST
Sherwin-Williams
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