Fire Sweeps Brooklyn Waterfront and Five Die
A blaze on the Brooklyn waterfront destroyed the Cuba Mail Line freighter Panuco and damaged nearby piers and craft. Five men were killed and many seamen injured as flames sent boats and oil barrels exploding. Police, investigators, and fire officials probed possible sabotage while crews battled the inferno along the East River.
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New York
Brooklyn
Cuba
Panuco
Lewis J. Valentine
Week-end Auto Crashes Claim The Lives Of 13
Thirteen people were killed in Wisconsin traffic accidents over the week end. Five died in a single Milwaukee area crash and victims span Milwaukee Oneida Eau Claire Waukesha Oshkosh and Wausau. Names include Anna Brow Patrick Dillon Sylvester Ziemski Lillian Stein Katherine Gruber Mary Kump and others. Two more were critically injured in a two car collision west of Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Anna Brow
Patrick Henry Dillon
Sylvester Ziemski
Lillian Stein
Katherine Gruber
Mary Kump
Milwauee
Willis Skenadore
Oneida
Peter Mille
Eau Claire
George Katzfey
Waukesha
Frank J. Yeroshek, Jr
Louise Sheets
Oshkosh
Olga Tietz
Wausau
Alberta Breese
Brow
Stein
Gruber
Dillon and
Ziemski
Kohler Co Named Source Of Supply For Army Order
Labor department division of public contracts announced three Wisconsin firms will serve as sources of supply for government contracts completed the week ending August 9. Kohler Co of Sheboygan was listed as supplier on an 18379.68 dollar plumbing fixtures contract for the War Department awarded to Dallman Supply Co of San Francisco. Borden Co of Browntown appears on a 26973.08 dollar powdered milk contract awarded to the Borden Co of New York by the War Department. Koppers Co of Carrollville was named on a 39264 dollar paying materials contract awarded to Payne and Dolan of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, by the Treasury Section, Works Progress Administration.
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Washington
labor department
division of public contracts
Wisconsin
war department
Dallman Supply Co
San Francisco
Calif
Kohler Co
Sheboygan
Wis
Borden Co
Browntown
More Than 100 Bombers Attack German Industries
British air ministry reports more than 100 bombers attacked German industrial areas including Bremen and Duisburg during a weekend raid. German planes retaliated against Britain with coastal targets. RAF losses for the week were 76 planes, while Axis losses were eight bombers and 39 fighters.
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Thich po
Germany
Bremen
Duis
Rhine
Thund
Ger- Eres
Duisburg
Britain
air ministry
RAF
Berlin
London
Lease-Lend Fund To Be Increased
Senator Connally after a White House conference on international affairs predicted Congress would be asked to appropriate about 4 billion dollars more for the lend-lease program if needed. He said much of the initial 7 billion remains unspent and some funds may be recouped. Barkley declined to reveal confidential details but noted a discussion of a further lend-lease appropriation.
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Washington
Connally
D.-Tex
White House
congress
senate foreign relations committee
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Texas
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
house
Bill To Defer Selectees Over 28 Is Signed
Washington report states President Roosevelt signed a bill deferring from military service men aged 28 or older on July 1. The measure, signed Saturday, allows deferment and extends service terms for selectees, national guardsmen, and reservists to two and a half years, with four and a half years for regulars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
house
Keefe Accused Of Misquoting Halifax At Wisconsin Rally
The State Journal reports Congressman Frank B. Keefe in Baraboo misquoted British ambassador Lord Halifax during a public GOP gathering. Keefe touted a three hour private talk claiming Halifax warned of limited sovereignty under a British protectorate, a claim the paper says misrepresented the ambassador’s remarks and breached on record discussions.
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W. J. BOLLENBECK
Madison
Wis
Frank B. Keefe
Oshkosh
Sheboygan
Lord Halifax
Washington
Wisconsin
Baraboo
Wisconsin State Journal
Henry Ringling
Keefe
Hitler
Ambassador Halifax
Britain
Halifax
Congress Enjoys Holiday After Eight Months Work
Congress enters a four week rest period after eight months of work. With taxes and price fixing bills pending in committees, Roosevelt may request more lend-lease funds. Senate and House leadership expect little action until September. Price control hearings resume after Leon Henderson testimony, with expected debate on ceilings.
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Washington
congress
Roosevelt
Barkley
senate
finance committee
house banking committee
Leon Henderson
house
Foreman Denies Armory Work Slowdown in Sheboygan
Joe Rezash, armory construction foreman, says work at the Sheboygan armory is on schedule with daily crews averaging 71 and peak totals higher than before. He notes the auditorium section moving to completion and predicts closing in before cold weather, despite a Milwaukee paper claim of a labor shortage.
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Milwaukee
Sheboygan
Joe Rezash
WEA
Rezash
State Court Rules Against Dr Dykstra
Madison Wisconsin Circuit Judge August C Hoppmann ruled that Clarence A Dykstra president of UW cannot demand state compensation for time he served as director of selective service He was found to be an office holder not a state employee and thus ineligible for such pay The ruling cites the state constitution barring compensation for US office holders of profit or trust Continued on page 4 column 2
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Madison
Wis
Clarence A. Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
selective service
United States
August C. Hoppmann
Hoppmann
Dykstra
U S Will Maintain Restriction Until Policy Is Changed
American Ambassador Joseph Grew reportedly told Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda that the United States would not relax economic restrictions against Japan until Washington fundamentally alters its far eastern policy. The note followed Tokyo protests over U S hostages remarks and cited ongoing tensions from Japan’s actions in Indochina and possible moves on Thailand.
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Toyoda
Tokyo
Joseph Grew
Teijiro Toyoda
United States
Japan
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United States state department
Thailand
Britain
United
Reds Counter Attack To Save Ukraine City
Fierce Soviet counter-attacks claimed to have saved a Ukrainian city identified as Kiev. Germany reportedly lost 20,000 troops after nearing the town, while Red Army forces pushed the German wedge back on the northern flank. On other fronts, Timoshenko’s defenders repulsed Nazi columns as fighting raged along a 1,200 mile front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
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Associated Press
Ukraine
Kiev
Red army
Semeon Timoshenko
Moscow
Nikolsev
Odessa
Krivoi Rog
Nikolaev
Baltic
Black Sea
Lon
Little Girl Seriously Hurt This Morning
Janice Weinberger a 3-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Gottlieb Weinberger of 1526 N Eleventh street was seriously hurt when struck by a car in the 1500 block of N Eleventh street. Driver Alden Wagner of 1527 N Twelfth street said the child darted in front of the car and he could not avoid the impact. Taken to St Nicholas hospital with uncertain prognosis and possible skull fracture.
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Janice Weinberger
Gottlieb Weinberger
N. Eleventh street
Alden Wagner
N. Twelfth street
Churchill Returns After Atlantic Meeting With Roosevelt
Prime Minister Winston Churchill has safely returned to Britain from a sea meeting with President Roosevelt and a Iceland visit. He toured Icelandic troops and was aboard the battleship Prince of Wales for the Atlantic rendezvous while a British film captured the shore background and the roosevelt visit aboard. Roosevelt attended services with Churchill and sang Hymns as planes passed overhead. United States sailors joined the president aboard the British ship and exchanged gifts of fruit and cigarettes with British sailors.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Roosevelt
Iceland
Brenden Bracken
United States
Churchill
Atlantic
Maine
Labrador
Prince of Wales
Land of Hope and Glory
Miss Kunstman Hurt In Weekend Auto Crash Near Sheboygan
Miss Marie Kunstman twenty of 70 North Fourth Street is in critical condition at St Nicholas hospital after a car she rode in ran off Highway 23 near Sheboygan Falls. The vehicle rolled six times, officials said, with Kunstman suffering a dislocated neck, fractured pelvis, severe concussion, and multiple facial lacerations. Her passenger Henry Weinberger received nonfatal injuries. both drivers other occupants were treated. A second crash two miles west of Millerstown involved Lawrence Moersch and Robert Basnener with several injured.
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Marie Kunstman
Fourth Street
St. Nicholas hospital
Sheboygan county
Kunstman
Henry Weinberger
Lake Shore drive
Highway 23
Lawrence Moersch
Elkhart Lake
Robert Basmener
Sheboygan Falls
Millers- Ville
Hubers
Gannon
Bassuener
Moersch
Patay Schreiner
Vincent Haag
Andrew Welland
Lester Voight
Francia Bertram
Elkehart Lake
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