British Syria Army Closes In on Aleppo
British and Indian mechanized forces push toward Aleppo from Central and Eastern Syria after taking Deir Ez Zor and Tell Kotchek. In Lebanon, Royal Navy shells a French fort hindering Australian Beirut advance while Vichy reports RAF strikes on Beirut and Soueida driving civilians to hills.
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Jerusalem
Syria
Aleppo
Deir Ez Zor
Tell Kotchek
Lebanon
Royal Navy
Beirut
Middle Euphrates
Damascus
Palmyra
Homs
Damour
Vichy
RAF
Soueida
Jebel Ed Druz
Levant
Two Italian Garrisons Left in Ethiopia Besieged
Cairo reports Mussolini era in East Africa has shrunk to two Italian garrisons. Gondar remains besieged while a small force hides near Assab. Gen. Pietro Gazzera surrendered with all Fascist troops in Galla Sidamo. General Wavell assesses Middle East progress, noting sticky Syria and high desert morale.
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Ethiopia
Cairo
Egypt
Benito Mussolini
Pietro Gazzera
Galla Sidamo
Gondar
India
Syria
Western Desert
Rome Admits Loss of Ethiopian Post
The Italian High Command acknowledged that hunger forced the surrender of the Fascist garrison at Debra Markos, Ethiopia after weeks of siege. British reports state 4,200 Italian and native troops gave up the fight, encircling Gongar as the last Italian garrison in Ethiopia.
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Rome
Debra Markos
Ethiopia
Gongar
Child Playing With Chums Slain By Mystery Bullet
In Buffalo on July 4 a stray bullet killed three year old Kenneth Gerstner as he played with friends in Cheektowaga suburb. Police probe the unknown origin of the shot while Kenneth’s parents Mr and Mrs Francis Gerstner mourn his death at a local hospital.
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Buffalo
Kenneth Gersaner
Als
Kenneth
Francis Gerstner
Cheektowaga
Twenty Two Bus Passengers Injured in Crash
Twenty two Greyhound passengers were treated for minor injuries after a bus skidded and collided with another vehicle in Darien Connecticut. Flames erupted from the rear of the bus but all passengers were led to safety by an officer and fire crews extinguished the blaze.
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Darien
Conn
Greyhound
Roosevelt War Cabinet pledge echoes liberty across seas
President Roosevelt urged loyalty, unity and toil to defend democracy and freedom abroad and at home. He warned of dictatorship threats while announcing unified action in the Western Hemisphere and seas as Chief Justice Stone led the oath from Colorado. Willkie urged aid to Britain and the navy’s role in delivering supplies, with translated broadcasts to Europe and Latin America.
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Harlan Fiske
Stone
Colorado
Marine Band
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
America
Justice Stone
Colorado Rockies
Jackson
Europe
Latin America
United States Navy
Britain
Asia
Willkie
British Broadcasting Corporation
Willkie Sees Need For Naval Convoys
Wendell L. Willkie predicted in New York that naval convoys are necessary as a strategic measure for wartime defense. He spoke during a public address, outlining the potential benefits of grouped merchant ships protected by escort ships to deter enemy sub attacks and safeguard vital supply lines.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Reds Claim Nazi Losses Approach 180000 Prisoners
Soviet forces report heavy fighting near Pskov Lepel and Tarnopol as Germans cross the Berezina and push toward the Dnieper. Berlin claims 180000 prisoners in two weeks. British raids hit German targets. Japan weighs extending waters to cut Vladivostok from wartime supply lines. Roosevelt signals wartime aid readiness in a Fourth of July speech.
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Red Army
Moscow
Ukraine
Tarnopol
Berezina
Berlin
Minsk
Rome
Dnestr
Lorient
Brest
Germany
English Channel
Britain
Japan
Russia
Pacific
Vladivostok
Shanghai
London
Reich
Indo-China
Thailand
Singapore
Netherlands East Indies
South ‘Pacific
Roosevelt
Washington
Hyde Park
German Dead Heaped High as Front Holds in White Russia
Moscow war bulletin reports heavy fighting along the Berezina from Borisov to Bobruisk with German dead on riverbanks and Nazis unable to cross toward White Russia. In the north and south fronts Soviet troops repulse tanks and defend Tarnopol Lepel and Dvinsk while air missions claim 62 enemy planes shot down and 43 German losses to 27 Red air force planes.
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Novograd Volynski
Moscow
Murmansk
Kandalaksha
Karelian Isthmus
Finland
Berezina
Borisov
Bobruisk
Minsk
Bessarabian
Prut
Dvinsk
Latvia
White Russia
Lepel
Tarnopol
Baltic
Black Sea
Red
Luftwaffe
Deadlock in Seamen Strike Talks Baffles CIO Leaders
Negotiations to settle a strike by unlicensed seamen from three Great Lakes package freight firms stalled despite CIO leaders and company chiefs trying to clear a bottleneck in defense material movement. Ralph Rogers, CIO National Maritime Union official, failed to secure an agreement after meetings with transit executives. The union rejected the firms 10 percent wage rise, seeking an average 24 percent increase for 200 or more workers quitting sporadically.
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Buffalo
Great Lakes
CIO
Ralph Rogers
CIO National Maritime Union
Cleveland
Rogers
Paderewski Body Placed in Arlington Vault
The body of Ignace Jan Paderewski lay in Arlington National Cemetery after a solemn procession. Services were led by Apostle Delagate Amleto Cicognani. Five thousand mourners, including Lord Halifax and Acting Secretary of State Welles, viewed the lying in state at the Polish Embassy before the Arlington rites.
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Paderewski
Arlington
Washington
INS
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Arlington National Cemetery
Poland
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
Lord Halifax
Welles
Northern Lights Dwarf Fireworks Show Over Seattle Sky
Sky rockets paled beside an unusually bright Aurora Borealis seen near Seattle during a fireworks display. The northern lights flashed across the northern sky for about an hour, enhanced by scattered clouds and rare visibility at this latitude.
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Seattle
Chinese War Death Toll Surges past Two Million
Tokyo reports 2,015,000 Chinese troops killed since the Sino-Japanese war began. The release cites Japanese casualties in China and the Russo-Japanese Manchukuoan frontier clash totaling 109,250 killed.
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Tokyo
Berlin Drives Toward Decisive Battle Near Kiev
War bulletin reports progress toward Kiev with scattered Red Army units destroyed by German reserves. In the Baltic, pursuit of the beaten enemy continues and German Finnish advances face rugged terrain. On the southern front Hungarian claims of Stanislawow and Kolomyja arise as a major clash looms near the Stalin Line with 180000 prisoners reported so far.
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Ukraine
Kiev
Red Army
Baltic
Finland
Stanislawow
Kolomyja
Carpathian Mountains
Galicia
Poland
Russia
Berezina
Moscow
Minsk
Adolf Hitler
Black Sea
Gulf of Finland
Dnestr River
Mogilev Podolski
Zhitomir
Dnepr
Vitebsk
Pskov
Lake Peipus
Maginot
Berlin
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Karl Behrend
Bialystok
Plane Crash Fatalities Kill Odessa Family Aboard Luscombe
Officials of the Civil Aeronautics Authority investigated the crash that killed Thomas L. Miller, 50, Odessa jewelry store owner, and his son Lamont, 22, en route from Odessa to Ruidoso, New Mexico. The two seater Luscombe struck trees and crashed five miles east of Mescalero near the Mescalero Indian reservation during a vacation trip.
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Mescalero
N. M
INS
Civil Aeronautics Authority Today
Millers
Odessa
Tex
Thomas L. Miller
West Texas
Lamont
Ruidoso
Luscombe
Ellsworth Seeks Inca Tombs on Peru Expedition
Ellsworth captain Lincoln leads Ellsworth on a voyage toward Peru to search for the lost tombs of Inca emperors hidden under Mount Misti near Arequipa. He is on two months leave from the Navy and will plan a fifth Antarctic expedition after Peru.
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Ellsworth
New York
INS
Com
Lincoln
High Seas
Peru
Mount
Misti
Arequipa
Navy
Antarctic
State Labor Board closes most cases in four years
New York State Labor Relations Board has closed 92.8 percent of its cases since formation four years ago without formal decisions. Formal decisions were issued in 144 of 7,675 unfair labor practice cases filed. In the four years ending July 1, 556 cases are pending, down from 790 a year ago.
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State Labor Board
New York
New York State
Labor Relations Board
Firemen Hurt as New York blaze rages across towers
A major New York City fire injured 29 firefighters and burned through a 22 story blaze at 200 Broadway. Fire units battled backdrafts and fought flames from adjacent 198 Broadway, detouring traffic on Broadway and nearby streets. Battalion Chief James McMahon Jr and Deputy Chief James Hanley were among the injured. The fire was extinguished by 7 15 A.M.
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Hanley
Broadway
John
Dey
Fulton
Nassau Streets
RAF pounds Hitler bases in day raids on French and German targets
Bombs fell on quays and shipping as a large warehouse roof was blown off and set afire. U boats at Lorient damaged. docks and harbor hit. Lighter bombers hit Cherbourg docks and Rhineland targets. Bremen bombed in daylight after Ruhr raids. Bremen and Bremerhaven attacked. Essen bore the brunt of the Ruhr strikes. Sixteen German fighters destroyed, three British fighters and one bomber missing. Cap Gris Nez guns fired to divert ships.
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Air Ministry
Norway
Lorient
Cherbourg
Rhineland
Bremen
Abbeville
France
Blentheim
Bethune
United States
Ruhr
Norderney Island
North Sea
Essen
Bremerhaven
English Channel
Folkestone
Cap Gris Nez
Nazis Claim Great Fires Set in Britain
Berlin reports large fires in raids on Birmingham and the Midlands Plymouth and other ports along the southeast coast. German communique says British planes were defeated with 13 Britons downed and two German planes missing. The port of Plymouth and industrial Midlands named as main targets. A 5,000 ton merchant ship sunk in Bristol Channel.
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Berlin
Birmingham
Midlands
Plymouth
English
High Command
Channel
Brest
RAF
Germany
Bristol Channel
Plane victims inquest Mosinee Wisconsin July 5
A coroner's inquest was scheduled into the death of Norman Halla 22 who was killed when his rented plane struck a tree during a landing attempt. James Emrich 31 was seriously injured in the crash near Mosinee Wisconsin the IN S dispatch notes.
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Mosinee
Wis
Norman Halla
James Emrich
Firecracker sticks to jam covered hand in Albany incident
A 12 year old Donnie Van Eaton burned minorly after a firecracker stuck to his jam covered fingers while he tried to toss it in Albany Oregon on July 5. The second item reports Juan R Quintana fined for reckless driving after dumping piggy banks' contents on the bench to settle a $42.17 court action in Phoenix July 5. Emory and Ernest Hicks twins from Birmingham, Alabama, travel to Chicago for a twins convention and unexpectedly wear matching suits on the train.
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Albany
Ore
Donnie van Eaton
Donnie
Phoenix
Ariz
Juan R. Quintana
Quintana
Justice of the Peace
Harry Westfall
Chicago
Emory
Ernest Hicks
Birmingham
Ala
Ernest
Gary solves street cleaning with alternating side sweeps
Gary Indiana introduces a traffic rule allowing overnight parking on the non sweeping side. Street cleaning alternates by date: even house numbers swept on even dates and odd numbers on odd dates. Motorists must park on the side not scheduled for sweeping each night.
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Gary
Ind
Eyewitness Bares Speed Of Nazi Army Onslaught
A reporter describes lightning German advances across southern Poland into Russia, with motor columns, air raids, and massed casualties. Russians and Germans report rapid battles, many prisoners, and widespread executions as German forces push east under brutal occupation.
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Poland
Russia
Richter
South Front
Nazis Attack Soviet Base at Hango Finland
Dispatches from Helsinki report German and Finnish forces attacked the Soviet base at Hango on the southwest coast of Finland. After fierce fighting the Russians withdrew from several islands surrounding the fortress, ending their long lease from the 1939 40 war. The report notes the action occurred amid ongoing Far East banking disruptions.
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Stokholm
Sweden
Helsinki
Hango
Finland
Japan Eyes Southward Move Amid Russo-German War
The Imperial Conference in Tokyo signaled a cautious Japanese stance toward Russia with a potential southward push once a Russo-German break occurs. Observers note large transfers to Formosa and Hainan, aiming to fortify positions in Southern Indo-China and Thailand to threaten British shipping lanes and disrupt defenses in the South Pacific.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Russia
Soviet Far East
Manchukuo
Manchukuan
Vladivostok
Formosa
Hainan
Far East
South China Sea
Indo-China
South Pacific
China
Burma
Thailand
Work Begun on 5 637 Mortgage Insured Homes Last Week
Washington reports that construction started on 5 637 homes financed through insured mortgages, a new weekly record. The Federal Housing Administration noted June insured loans for property improvements rose 35 percent from a year earlier, while May construction costs edged up to 111.6 percent of the 1935-39 average.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Norse Pilot Shoots Down German Plane
A 25 year old Norwegian who traveled around the world to join the Royal Air Force was officially credited today with shooting down a German plane becoming the first Norwegian to score a victory with the British. He is a lieutenant and fighter pilot who had been in Finland when Norway was invaded in 1940. After attempting to return home he reached Sweden, flew to Moscow and crossed Siberia to Canada to enlist.
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London
Royal Air Force
Finland
Sweden
Moscow
Siberia
Canada
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