Tragic midair crash kills twelve army pilots near New York
June 11 news reports a midair collision over Mitchel Field New York involving twelve Army planes. All aboard perished. several houses damaged, and a witness described wing collision during V formation. Mayor LaGuardia visited the scene, calling it a training accident. Names of officers and enlisted men listed by Mitchel Field authorities.
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Mitchel Field
Watkins
F. H. LaGuardia
Trent
Paul Burlingame
West Point
Louisville
J. P. Dew
Houston
H. B. Bedient
Williston Park
Richard M. Bylander
Little Rock
Ark
P.M. Lambert
Lakewood
Fran Kelly Held
Texas
Atalt Bet
Martin J. Costello
New Bedford
Mass
Opi
T. P. Krassawski
Guttenberg
N. J
Clinton
O. Rhodes
N. Z
Claude A. Shelbner
Planes Crash Near Tulsa Kill Three In Training Flight
Near Tulsa six miles east of the municipal airport two morning planes collided in mid air during practice flights. Killed were Louis Belves, 19, civilian cadet from St. Louis. John A. Langmaid, 24, civilian instructor from Bryn Mawr. Daniel B. Stine, 24, flying cadet from Wellington Kansas. A farm girl injured slightly by debris, and a threat uncle hurt from falling aircraft.
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Tulsa
Otis
Municipal Airport
Louis
Belvés
St. Louis
Five Egyptian Soldiers Killed in Mersa Matruh Raids
London dispatch reports five Egyptian soldiers killed and nine wounded in four raids by Teljan bombers on Mersa Matruh in Western Egypt on Sunday. The British news agency Reuters cited from Mersa Matruh.
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London
Mersa
Matruh
Egypt
Rauters
Miutruh
Border Ban Open Planes Off
Washington action eases neutrality constraints to permit Allied war planes to be flown across U.S. borders. Planes bought in the United States may now cross into Canada after purchase, with ownership transfer occurring as the ship crosses the boundary.
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Washington
United States
Candian
Europe
Mussolini and Hitler May Meet on Armistice Issue
In Rome sources say Premier Mussolini will confer with Adolf Hitler in Munich tomorrow over France’s armistice request. Berlin observers speculate the meeting could be staged at Versailles, the historic seat of the 1870 and 1918 peace treaties.
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Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Munich
France
Berlin
Mussolini Dramat Searly
Versailles
Star Quits as Daver in War
Lisbon June report states Robert Montgomery, motion picture actor, en route to the United States by clipper, arrived here from France where he served several weeks as a volunteer driver.
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Lisbon
Robert, Montgomery
United Sates
France
Asa Egy
Turks Consider French Peace Step
The Turkish National Assembly debated how France's armistice request with Germany would affect Turkey. Reports say Turkey accelerated military preparations and awaited possible Italian occupation of Syria, with Mussolini potentially demanding the return of Alexandretta.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Turkish National Assembly
France
Germany
Montgomery
Russia
Syria
Mussolini
Alexandrette
Janice
Stimson Favors Military Training at Yale Commencement
At Yale University Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of state and war, warned of a far greater emergency than World War I and urged compulsory military training. The resolution, adopted during the Yale commencement, came at the request of the Military Training Camps association and pressed immediate, necessary, safe benefits.
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New Haven
Conn
Henry L. Stimson
Hoover
Taft
Yale
Stinson
United States
Nazis Send More Troops to Norway Reported by Express
The London Daily Express, via Stockholm, says German troop transports have resumed trips to Norway. German soldiers may be used against Teeland with potential air and naval bases planned in Iceland for attacks on England, with parachute troops to be landed at various sites.
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Norway
London
London Daily Express
Stockholm
I Ts
Teeland
Eustablee
Iceland
The
Express
England
Aircraft factory expands workforce in California plants
Douglas Aircraft Company reports employment of over 18,000 at Santa Monica and El Segundo, adding 1000 skilled workers in the last month. Machinists and tool designers are in demand as orders backlog surpasses 140 million dollars, including about 23 million for commercial Skyliners.
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New York
Fifly
Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
el Be- Rundo
Caliphaits
Dahald W. Coupins
Douglas
U. S
Economic bloc in Americas ponders export surpluses plan
Washington reports a cabinet study on disposing profitably of Western hemisphere export surpluses. A proposed US subsidized firm would buy up surpluses in Central and South America for resale, possibly costing $1 billion yearly and aimed at slowing German economic influence while reducing future armament costs.
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Hemisphere
White House
Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture and Commerce
United States
Canada
Carter
Americas
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Stephen Early
Treasury, Agriculture and Commerce
Western Hemisphere
American Republis
France
Commerce Department
Central
South America
State Department
Germany
Italy
Hungarian Premier Teleki Praises Hitler Over Versailles Shift
Count Paul Teleki today congratulated Adolf Hitler on France's defeat and declared Hungary pleased that German troops are in Versailles and Trianon palace. He said the Versailles peace system has ceased to exist before the Hungarian parliament.
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Buvaresy
Count Paul Teleki
38 Killed in Raid As Reynaud Motored Away
Bordeaux dispatch reports German air raid on a point in France just after Former Premier Paul Reynaud departed. Thirty eight people died, eight soldiers among the dead, and sixty were wounded, including civilians and members of Reynaud's suite.
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CNS
France
Paul Reynaud
Reviers
Bordeaux
Reynard
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