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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1941
Page
7
The Army Air Force began receiving regular dive bomber deliveries and plans to organize six squadrons by November for fall maneuvers with air and ground forces. A Navy dive bomber contingent will join the drills, while initial Army planes number about a dozen with a first air group of 54 planes planned.
Finnish forces report success on the Finnish Russian frontier with forts taken as the drive toward Murmansk continues. They claim repulsing Red Army units at multiple points and destroying 47 Russian warplanes through July 2. They also report Finnish bombers targeting Soviet airfields while a Russian submarine was destroyed in a Finnish mine field. Helsinki faced five Russian air raids with limited damage to outskirts and no casualties.
A naval board of inquiry into the sinking of the submarine O-9 during a dive off Portsmouth on June 20 closed after a four day executive session at Portsmouth Navy Yard. Rear Admiral William T. Tarrant said findings would be sent next week to the Secretary of the Navy in Washington for public release.
New York July 4 John Allegro a 40 year old salesman was charged with felonious assault after his five year old stepson John Brian was found tied up beaten and nude in the Brooklyn apartment neighbors reported seeing Allegro drag the boy into the house Allegro said he beat the child for staying away from home the boy weighed 47 pounds and stood three feet tall welts covered his back chest arms and legs a wooden moulding lay nearby which Allegro admitted was used in the whipping.
A House Ways and Means Democratic bloc calls Treasury for extra data to justify higher levies on defense excess profits. They pledge to scrutinize or oppose tentative new excises including a $5 yearly auto use levy and a 5 percent candy tax while the $3.5 billion tax bill moves to drafting. The plan would raise about 1.202 billion more from excess profits by boosting rates 10 percent, adding 10 percent on war \nindustries and revising calculation bases.
Police hunt a two men and a woman after a hit and run on the Boston Post Road fatally striking Sergeant William Bohan 54 of the Mamaroneck police and injuring grocery employee Neil Mahoney. The fleeing car headed toward New York after the crash.
Berlin sources report civilian deaths and injuries from an RAF night raid over northwest Germany. No military damage was claimed. Three British bombers were reported downed during the attack.
Berlin says British raids on the Channel coast and western Germany yesterday cost the RAF 21 planes with only two German planes missing. The German high command claims 11 RAF planes downed in daylight attacks and 10 in night raids with unimportant damages cited to Bremen industries. The Luftwaffe response follows.
Report states raids struck day and night against the English south coast near Sand's End at the Channel entrance, claiming two patrol boats sunk and a large merchant ship damaged.
A German radio broadcast reported today that Vichy government forces have rounded up thousands of Soviet citizens in unoccupied France. Special commissions have been evaluating whether the detained Russians threaten public security over a three day period.
Camp Upton will be used as an induction station for Army draftees starting Monday to relieve Fort Jay Governors Island of some duties. Some 3,583 men who passed pre induction physical tests in New York City last month were ready for induction at Camp Upton.
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