Attack on Shanghai Rail Line Marks Fourth Anniversary War
Chinese guerillas attacked the Shanghai Hanchow Railroad within Shanghai, dynamiting track as the war entered its fifth year. Reports say Chiang Kai Shek’s forces, with vast manpower, prepare renewed offensives in 1941 while Japan touts continent-wide gains and a tightening US policy.
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Shanghai
Shanghai-Hanchow
Chiang Kai Shek
Japan
Kung
Chungking
China
All Japanese Pray For Victory In War
The Japanese nation offered silent prayers at noon today marking the fourth anniversary of the war’s start. Citizens gathered nationwide to observe the somber anniversary with reverent silence and collective resolve.
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Tokyo
British Flier Fools Nazis Disguised as Arab Woman
A 22-year-old South African Tomahawk pilot, based in Johannesburg, fooled German sentries by posing as a veiled Arab woman with a camel during a desert escape after being shot down near Cyrenaica. He crossed 100 miles of desert on foot, hid six days at a waterhole, and later returned to base after a perilous disguise and a tense dawn in a desert camp.
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Godfrey H. P. Anderson
Western Desert
Desert
Paul Bunyan Pancake Crown Awarded in Wisconsin
Ephraim Wis July 74 Perry C Hill Jr Milwaukee won the Paul Bunyan pancake crown by eating 31 standard pancakes, one more than prior champ James J Lowe Chicago. He followed derby rules by first consuming the standard breakfast items. Philadelphia July 7 A 34 year old man asleep in a ransacked machine shop blamed weather for the nap and claimed burglary intent before police.
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Ephraim
Wis
Perry C. Hill, Jr
Milwaukee
James J. Lowe
Chicago
Hill
Philadelphia
Man crafts coffin he would use in death and is buried in it
Huntington Indiana July 7 Eight years ago Plenty Jefferson Hite began a woodworking project to fashion a coffin. He died at age 84 at a daughter's Bluffton home and was buried in the self made coffin he carved for his own burial.
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Huntington
Ind
Plenty Jefferson Hite
Bluffton
Flea scare and barefoot recruits mark July headlines
Two scenes unfold from Kansas City to Tulsa. In Kansas City two barefoot recruits rest beside a George Washington statue after a Fourth of July furlough. In Tulsa city offices evacuate as Joseph T. Lantry fights a flea infestation with an exterminator planned if spraying fails.
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Kansas City
George Washington
Valley Forge
Uncle Sam
Service of Supply
Tulsa
Okla
Joseph T. Lantry
Lantry
Women Shoppers Storm West End Stores Over Coupon Sales
Women shoppers mobbed London West End stores as the Board of Trade set July 6 to August 16 for coupon based summer wear sales. Stores advertised deep cuts on bathing suits dresses sandals and other hot season items, drawing crowds even where stock was low.
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London
West End
Board of Trade
Cabinet Agency
Woman Held In Gun Death Of Attorney
Bloomington Indiana July 7 Prosecutor Floyd E Cook advanced a jealousy motive for the pistol slaying of attorney examiner Charles P Mattingly 41 of the Indiana Public Service Commission He was shot five times through the back while visiting at Gus Nickas confectionery with his wife Mrs Lurayne Wit chen The divorcee Mrs Caroline Payne 43 business manager of the Bloomington Daily Telephone was taken into custody Coroner Demotte ordered Payne held for the county grand jury convening September 8 The deathbed statement alleged past threats by Payne and letters found in her purse suggested motive The case ties to Mattinglys college days and Payne s former role as a friend and benefactor
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Bloomington
Ind
Floyd E. Cook
Monroe County
Charles P. Mattingly
Indiana Public Service Commission
Indianapolis
Gus Nickas
Caroline Payne
Weapons Found At Mrs Payne Home In Footprints Case
Police recovered a .32 caliber pistol and a .38 cal revolver from Mrs Payne’s residence. Five of the six chambers in the .38 were emptied. Shoe prints matching casts taken outside Nickas' window were reported as evidence.
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Matic
Wickard Creates Farm Defense Units To Aid in Emergency
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced the creation of farm defense boards in each state and every agricultural county. The boards will include representatives from the Agriculture Department agencies such as AAA, BAE, FSA, FMA, AMS, Forest Service, Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal State Cooperative Extension Service to adjust crop supply for the national emergency.
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Wickard
Washington
Agriculture Department
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Farm Security Administration
Surplus Marketing Administration
The
Agricultural Marketing Service
Tthe Forest Service
Rural ‘Electrification Administration
Federal State Cooperative Extension Service
British Information Head Won't Campaign For U S War Entry
Sir Gerald Campbell head of the British Information Service in the United States said Britain would win headlines in the American press without campaigning for U S entry into the war. He urged informing Americans about Britain's war actions and warned against pressuring the United States to enter. He also recommended more war photos be supplied to the American press.
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U. S
London
Gerald Campbell
British Information Service
United States
America
Britain
British Take German Trenches in Somme Fighting
British forces seize German trenches at three points in the Somme sector amid bitter combat. In the east, Russian operations push along a 300 mile front from Riga to Baranovichi as the war widens.
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Somme
Riga
Baranovich
Lawes Quits as Sing Sing Warden After 21 Years
Ossining July 7 After 21 years as warden of Sing Sing Prison Lewis E Lawes 57 disclosed that the New York State Commissioner of Correction had accepted his resignation He will receive about 6000 a year in pension and plans to write lecture and advocate causes He has presided over 303 executions and helped transform Sing Sing into a modern corrective system He notes 2500 inmates will feel his departure and recalls many who have been saved from the chair and life sentences
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Ossining
INS
Sing Sing
Lewis E. Lawes
New York State
Peterson's Ointment Ad Treats Eczema Relief
An advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as a simple quick relief for eczema pimples and irritated skin due to external causes. It claims itching subsides and skin improves while also soothing tired feet and cracked toes. Available at druggists with a money back guarantee.
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Peterson
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Eiki Tojo
Sudan
Ethiopia
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Charles O. Mattingly
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