Robin Moor Indemnity Set At 1 060 000
The United States will demand more than 1,000,000 dollars in compensation from Germany for the sinking of the American freighter Robin Moor. The claim includes ship value and passenger and crew personal effects, with damages drawn from German assets in the U S after funds were frozen. The mixed claims commission ceased at midnight after 19 years, having awarded nearly 160,000,000 dollars in total.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Robin Moor
South Atlantic
Maritime Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
Mixed Claims Commission
Germany
N. J
Kingsland
Franklin’s Parachute Plan Recalled From 1783 Excerpt
The Geneva Staff School Military Review reprints Franklin’s writing noting five thousand balloons each lifting two men could cost less than ten ships of the line. It asks where the prince could afford such a force and suggests 10 000 men descending from the clouds might threaten defenses before a ground force can assemble.
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Geneva Staff School Military Review
Franklin
Navy Seeks British Report on Maarsden Sinking
Navy requests full British Admiralty report on the torpedoing of a Dutch ship in British service carrying Marines and Red Cross nurses bound for England. Nurses aboard number 17, six have reached land, 11 believed aboard rescuing vessels. Marine casualties unclear.
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Washington
Navy
Admiralty
Red Cross
England
Red Cross-Harvard
United States
London
32 Suspects Held in Spy Ring Case as Grand Jury Sits
New York July 1 32 arrests mark the spy ring case with 26 men and 3 women awaiting grand jury indictments U S Attorney Kennedy seeks charges. J Edgar Hoover reports three more seamen arrested as couriers for German agents in South America. Twenty five arraigned 7 guilty pleas lead to 18 not guilty pleas and bail set at 25000 for all.
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New York
INS
Brooklyn
U. S
Harold M. Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
F.B.I. Armeed
Hoover
South America
Martin C. Epstein
Kennedy
Grand Jury
Conradin Dold
Adolf Walischewsky
Dold
G-men
New York Harbor
Walischewsky
Moore-McCormack
Uruguay
Heinrich Clausing
Argentina
Santos
Brazil
United States
FBI
Lilly Stein
Axel Wheeler-Hill
Alfred Brokhoff
Hartwig Kleiss
Leo Waalen
Franz Stigler
America
Sperry
Norden
Lang
Roeder
Gederal
Carlos Pietzuck
Cassela Postale 1067
Genoa
Italy
Lightning destroys house east of Remsen in Barneveld
Lightning struck the home of Charles Roberts seven miles east of Remsen Saturday night, starting a fire that burned the house and belongings. Neighbors fought the blaze and saved nearby property.
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Charles Roberts
Remsen
Vichy Urges French To Form Battalion Against Reds
A Vichy roundup targets Russians in unoccupied France as the regime urges Frenchmen to join a pro German expeditionary corps against Soviet Russia. Recruitment requires Nazi approval, with limited legal exceptions for age and emigration bans. Police detain 250 Russians in Vichy, 25 White Russians freed as exams begin.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
Vichy
France
Vichy Regime
Soviet Russia
Germany
Stalin
Paris
Jacques Doriet
Paris Cri du Peuple
Henri Petain
Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Finns Delay Blow at Foe Amid War Front Shifts
Finnish forces hold back a full scale offensive along the Soviet frontier while testing Red defenses with artillery and patrols. Reuters reports Finland attacked Hango naval base as part of 1940 peace concessions. Sweden seeks Russian interests transfer. about 200 Russians detained in Finland including Soviet Minister Orlov.
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Helsinki
Finland
Red Army
Reuters
Hango
Russia
Sweden
Karl Westman
Intensifying of British Forces Due
Special Cable from London reports a German push against Russia and the Ukraine prompting a major British buildup. Gen Archibald Wavell may command Middle East forces while Gen Claude Auchinleck could lead India. Auchinleck, noted as a hard hitting strategist, has extensive campaign experience and led Narvik forces in early war.
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Helen Kinhpatrick
Chicago Daily News, Inc
London
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Ukraine
Black Sea
Middle East
India
Archibald Wavell
Claude Ruthinneck
Claude
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Indian Northwest
Narvik
Sir Claude
Britain
Claua
Wavell
Basra
Vichy
Syria
Ethiopia
Warship Labor Dispute Threatens New Jersey Yard
The National Defense Mediation Board tries to avert a walkout at the Federal Shipbuilding plant in Kearny New Jersey as Navy contracts for 5 light cruisers and 37 destroyers face disruption. Union seeks 72 cents more per hour vacation pay and reclassification while production continues under mediation.
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Associated Press
New Jersey
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
Kearny, N. J
Federal Shipbuilding Corporation
CSO, Shipbuilding Union
Maritime Commission
Perkins
Brotherhood of Scientific Istrument Workers
Compton
Sper Gyroscope Company
Brooklyn
Buffalo Feed Mill
A. F. of L
United Automobile Worker
Army
United Automobile Workers—A. F. L
Electric Auto Light Corporation
Port Huron
Mich
C. I
Wilson- Jones Company
Chicago
Elizabeth
N. J
Ahe
Southeast faces power shortages amid large scale grid expansion
The region moves to build private generation and municipal facilities to boost a regional grid and stave off severe power shortages. Officials cite drought reduced hydro output and rising defense demand as drivers for urgent new generating capacity in the Southeast.
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Ord
Atth Cooperatives
Defense
OPM
Icoi
Florida
Windsani
Virginia
Suil
Overheated furnace blamed for 100 degree night
Buffalo July 1 UP it was a hot sultry night but the heat was outdone by an overheated furnace at the home of Mr and Mrs John J Klinger Firemen traced the blaze to a defective thermostat allowing oil to flow into the heating system and ignite The Klin gers canary died from suffocation
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Buffalo
John J. Klinger
Daniel A. Reedy
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