British to Hit Nazis Harder in Air War Speech
London July 19 Sir Archibald Sinclair air minister told Liberal assembly British planes will strike deeper at Germany. He said Blenheim bombers sunk 300000 tons of enemy shipping in five months and losses by RAF remained lower than German losses. He warned Hitler offers no peace terms and praised RAF pilots as resourceful and valiant.
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London
Sir Archibald Sinclair
Germany
Liberal Party
Archibald
Royal Air Force
Sinclair
Hitler
Europe
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Dr. Goebbels
War Today: Hitler Could Offer Peace If Russia Falls
The analysis discusses German advances against Bolsheviks amid air and armored superiority, noting Britain’s possible peace terms should Hitler conquer Russia. Lord Halifax cautions no peace with Hitler, while Eden warns against dealings with Nazism. A long war may follow if Britain and Allies must confront Hitler directly.
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Atlantic
Hitler
Britain
Lord Halifax
Washington
San Francisco
Reich
Europe
Heust
Eden
Long
Lion's den
Court clears deaf mute woman in Camden disorderly conduct
A Camden judge dismissed a charge against a woman described by police as deaf mute after bringing her to court on a drunken and disorderly count. The judge ordered her to go home, then lent a dime when she asked how she would get home without fare, ending with no thanks from the woman.
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Camden
N. J
Gene ‘Mariano
Gre
Lawyer's Legacy All Eaten Up by Attorneys' Fees
New York July 19 Murray Wanlan an attorney hired a host of lawyers to resolve his share of a 1,000,000 estate now reduced to 340,000 with many claimants. Kaplan's portion trimmed to 74,755 but lawyers seek 89,000 in fees prompting a court challenge. Elkhart Indiana July 19 City Judge D Russell Bont rager recalls a rainbow trout 28 inches seven pounds three ounces captured after a 15 minute fight. Santa Fe New Mexico July 19 The state young Democratic band reorganizes minus federally paid workers barred from politics under Senator Carl Hatch law. band has not played since.
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New York
Murray Wanlan
Kaplan
Elkhart
Ind
D. Russell Bontrager
Birch Lake
Michigan
Santa Fe
N. M
Highway Department
Carl Hatch
D-N. M
Free sewing service for soldiers launched in Albuquerque
Mrs. J. H. Lynch opens a free sewing service for men in uniform from 1 to 4 PM on Wednesdays at her home in Albuquerque. In Evota, Minnesota, the village boasts debt freedom after paying 2000 of its 5000 well and pump contract, completing the project ahead of schedule.
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Albuquerque
J. H. Lynch
Evota
Minn
Eytota
Minnesota
Deputies Find Wanted Man After Ditch Rescue
Merrill Wisconsin July 19 sheriff's deputies sought Elmer Schneider on a worthless check charge but couldn't locate him after a two hour search. En route home they were flagged for help by a man whose car was in a ditch. The man was Schneider and he was placed in jail.
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Merrill
Wis
Elmer Schneider
Schneider
Sortie Made At Tobruk
Italian and German forces reported air and ground actions around Tobruk with British troops attacking Italian positions and failing. The Italian High Command claimed raids on Matruh, Malta, and Cyprus while anti-aircraft crews downed a British plane over Tripoli. A British bomber allegedly landed in Italian territory and six crew members were detained.
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Rome
Tobruk
Matruh
Egypt
Malta
Cyprus
Tripoli
Libya
Bengasi
British Raids at Tobruk Inflict Serious Axis Casualties
Cairo reports three simultaneous British attacks on Axis troops at Tobruk. The Middle East HQ says the assault caused heavy casualties and forced an extensive enemy artillery barrage for nearly three hours.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Middle East
Six Lackawanna Officials Face Delayed Sentences in Fraud Case
Buffalo July 19 Up report says Supreme Court Justice Almon W. Lytle halted sentencing of six Lackawanna City officials including Mayor John Aszkler to allow a thorough probation department probe. Convicted of conspiring to defraud the city via payroll padding, the defendants may appeal. Maximum penalty is one year in prison and a $500 fine.
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Lackawanna
Buffalo
Supreme Court
Almon W. Lytle
Lackawanna City
County Probation Department
John F. Aszkler
Lytle
Appellate Division of
Justice Lytle
Two Killed in Albany Park Crash Near Thacher Park
Albert J. Manchester aged 28 from East Berne and Charles J. Miller aged 23 from Voorheesville were killed when their car swerved off the highway and plunged down an incline near Thacher Park as it rolled to a crash scene.
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Albany
Albert J. Manchester
East Berne
Charles JA. Miller
Fensselaer- Ville
Thacher Park
Nazis Claim Hits Upon 3 British Ships
Berlin reports German bombers sank a 1500 ton freighter and damaged two other merchantmen off England during the night. A 3000 ton ship east of Hartlepool was seriously damaged by a Luftwaffe attack on a convoy off Hull yesterday. The High Command says no British planes entered Reich territory and credits German forces with shooting down ten English aircraft, five pursuing planes, three patrol boats, and two artillery units.
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Berlin
England
High Command
Hartlepool
Hull
Reich
Alexandria
Egypt
U.S. Tightens Immigration In Spy Hunt
The Roosevelt administration tightens visa screening to block foreign agents posing as immigrants. Officials note many applicants promised to act as German agents and that refugees in France and other countries seek U.S. visas. Additional committees will handle about 400 cases daily as thousands apply.
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Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
State Department
United States
Spain
Portugal
Switzerland
Japan
Shanghai
Russia
Institution of
Romanian Oil Fields Afire Reports Reach Ankara
An authoritative source says Russian bombers destroyed big refineries in Romania's Ploesti oil fields and tanks containing 20 000 tons of oil. Intense raids caused vast fires and black smoke over the oil region. The Unirea Company holdings suffered major damage while British sources noted remaining crude stocks and concerns over gasoline deliveries to Germany.
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Ankara
Turkey
Rumania
Ploesti
Unirea Company
Germany
LaGuardia Expected To Bave Third Term Intentions Monday
New York reports July 19 indicates Fiorello H. La Guardia may seek a third mayoral term as Fusionists plan a Monday conference led by Samuel Seabury. La Guardia, also national OCD director and U S Canadian Joint Defense Commission chair, is seen amid party competition with William O Dwyer as Democratic candidate for mayor.
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Office of Civilian Defense
Joint Defense Commission
Democratic Organization
William O'Dwyer
Kings County
Nail polish fails bracelets mark month old triplets
Weston Missouri July 19. Adhesive tape and red nail polish failed to distinguish the month old triplet daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bley Fees. They now use bracelets to tell Joyce Fay Judy May and Janice Kay apart with bracelets showing one two and three respectively.
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Weston
Joyce Fay
Judy May
Janice Kay
European revolution urged as V campaign grows
The speech warns Hitler cannot easily defeat England and calls for a socialist European federation. It describes a coordinated V campaign, with Allied broadcasts and sabotage reports from Paris, Norway, and the Netherlands. It promotes a mobile "V Army" of millions and urges visible support across occupied Europe.
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Russia
Hitler
England
America
Europe
United Press
Vichy
Paris
Epinay Sur Seine
Norway
Netherlands
Germany
Britton
V Army
Berlin
Counter V Drive On in Holland Amid German Campaign
German counter offensive in the Netherlands launches a broad V for Victory drive. Amsterdam sees a 30 foot white banner from Queen Wilhelmina's former palace proclaiming V is victory. Similar banners, orange V posters, maps, and Morse V signals spread across occupied areas and in Oslo reports of a parallel campaign in Norway.
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Holland
Amsterdam
Wetherlands
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Germany
Europe
Bethoven
Oslo
Norway
One Year Ago July 19 1940 Hitler Warns Britain for Peace
One year ago on July 19 1940 Adolf Hitler told the Reichstag that Britain must accept a German last chance peace offer or face destruction. The same date in 1916 marked British counterattacks regaining ground at Langeval and Detwilte Wood north of the Somme as German naval aviation bombed Reval in the Gulf of Finland.
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Hitler
Britain
Langeewal
Detwilte Wood
Somme
Reval
Gulf of Finland
Continues New Gains on All Fronts In World War II
Unofficial German and British reports describe fresh Soviet setbacks as Smolensk falls and German advances push beyond the Dnieper Dvina line. News notes claim heavy Luftwaffe action, rail junction bombings near Cherkasi, and air losses for Soviet forces amid ongoing Eastern Front warfare.
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Berlin
Moscow
Anattack
Riga Bay
Dvina
Dnieper
Red Army
Leningrad
Kiev
British Exchange Telegraph Agency
Istanbul
Bulgaria
Turkey
DNB
Cherkasi
Dnieper River
Lake Ilmen
Novgorod
Lake Peipus
DNE
Atlanta Auditorium barred to Wheeler by vote in council
In Atlanta on July 196?, the city auditorium was barred to Senator Burton Wheeler D Mont, after a seven member council voted unanimously against permitting its use for his law address. No reason given. Trammell Scott, serving as Southern Baseball Association president and WW veteran, said Wheeler was abusing his Senate position to curb free speech. Granger Hansell, Atlanta attorney, represented local peace advocates urging freedom of speech.
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Atlanta
Burton
K. Wheeler
D.-Mont
Trammell Scott
Southern Baseball Association
Wheeler
Granger Hansell
Hansell
100 Lawyers to Be Pupils in Arnold's Anti-Trust School
Washington reports that Thurman Arnold's anti trust division will run a special training school for about 100 lawyers. The program starts around August 1 and lasts three weeks with eight hour days. Participants must pass an examination at the end or be dropped.
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Arnold
Washington
FBI
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Heckscher Widow's Will Missing and No Heirs Found
AP dispatch from New York reports that August Heckscher widow's will disposing of most of the late phil anthropist financier's fortune is missing. An exhaustive inquiry found no known heirs or next of kin. Mrs Virginia H Heck scher died July 10 and left a small portion to her husband. the leather will is missing. Her attorney George F Thompson disclosed in Surrogate's Court that potential heirs in the west estate are yet to be evaluated.
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New York
August Heckscher
Virginia H. C. Heckscher
Russians resist German advance in Smolensk region battle report
A Soviet communique described heavy fighting across the Polotsk Nevel Smolensk and Bobruisk areas as Red Army troops dig fox holes and deploy bayonet charges to slow the German wedge toward Smolensk. Soviet aviation claimed seventy one German planes destroyed. Moscow and Kazan see partial embassy staff movements. Poland and Czechoslovakia gain political moves with the Soviet Union while Berlin presses west and north.
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United States
Kazan
Moscow
Red Army
Polotsk Nevel
Smolensk
Bobruisk
Leningrad
Kiev
Bessarabia
Dnieper
Dvina
Nevel
Izvestia
Red
Tavestia
People's Army
Joseph Stalin
Istanbul
Turkey
Tut
Pskov-Porkhov
Polotsk-Nevel
lPolotsk
DNB
Polotsk
U. S
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Kronstadt
Lower Danube
Four Million Soviet Reds Ready Behind Moscow For Nazi Hit
An Axis diplomat in Moscow says another Soviet army of four million troops waits behind the capital to strike at the German forces when the moment is opportune. The force is reported to be separate from Russia’s Far Eastern army.
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Istanbul
Moscow
Russia
RAF Claims Four Ships Hit In Nazi Convoy
London reports RAF bomber forces probably destroyed four ships totaling about 22 000 tons off the Netherlands. Blenheims struck a German convoy escorted by anti aircraft ships three vessels about 6000 tons each were set afire and the fourth about 4000 tons blew up after a stern hit. Beaufort coastal command bombed a German supply ship off the Norwegian coast.
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London
Netherlands
Air Ministry
Beauforts
Coastal Command
Norwegian
Fog Shuts LaGuardia Flights Lands at Newark Airport
Sea fog along the New England coast forced planes bound for New York and eastern points to divert to Newark. Among those grounded was Army undersecretary Robert P. Patterson, en route to Springfield to speak at the arsenal, whose broadcast from New York studios was hindered. Patterson returned to Washington aboard the Douglas. Newark handled all LaGuardia traffic from 7 P.M. until morning.
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LaGuardia Field
Newark
N.J
N. J
New England
New York
Newark Airport
Army
Robert P. Patterson
Washington
Springfield
Mass
Arsenal
Patterson
Douglas
LaGuardia
Sailor Rescued After Erie Lake Plunge Over 55 Cents Lost
David H. Doherty, 23, of Flint Michigan, fell from the steamer Great Buffalo into Lake Erie off Ashtabula. He paddled for two hours 25 miles from shore before spotting the tanker Britamolene and being rescued. He clung to $17 in soaked bills and complained of losing 55 cents in change when his clothes were discarded. He was brought ashore in Toledo yesterday.
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Erie
Toledo
David H. Doherty
Flint
Mich
Great Buffalo
Lake Erie
Ashtabula
Doherty
Italian Flyer Ferrarin Dies In Test Plane Crash
Rome July 19 P Lieutenant Colonel Arturo Ferrarin aged 46 a pioneer aviator killed when an experimental plane he piloted crashed He helped fly the South Atlantic from Rome to Tokyo in 1921 competed in Schneider Cup races in 1926 and 1927 and made a Rome to near Natal Brazil non stop flight in 1928 Mussolini named him personal pilot in waiting in 1928.
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Rome
Arturo Ferrarin
South Atlantic
Ferrarin
Tokyo
Natal
Brazil
Mussolini
Plunge Kills Couple on Motor Vacation at Kings Canyon
In Central California, John L. Hawley and Louise Arbogast Hawley died after plunging from a 1000 foot cliff during a vacation drive. Park rangers informed their children. the final diary entry read Weve had such a happy trip. Also noted are War Department contracts worth 14 432 557 for southern city school constructions.
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Los Angeles
John L. Hawley
Louise Arbogast
Kings Canyon National Park
Central
California
Hawleys
Moratorium Plan Urged to End Strikes
The Associated Press reports Albert W Hawkes of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged a national strike moratorium using labor management and public committees to mediate. In Toledo a five five eight board saved wages and production time, while Edmund Ruffin cited 181 disputes settled without stoppage involving 36 244 workers. George Meany noted minimal strikes affecting defense work and affirmed AFL workers commitment to the arsenal of democracy.
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Associated Press
Albert W. Hawkes
United States Chamber of Commerce
Toledo
Hawkes
Chambers of Commerce
John Q. Carey
Edmund Ruffin
Blue Ridge
N. C
Alvin E. Dodd
American Management Association
Southern Conference On Human Relations In Industry
Dodd
New York
George Meany
A. F. of
Meany
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Great Britain
Conti Japan Edging From Axis Alliance Hints
Conti Japan hints edging from axis alliance and cabinet reshuffle aimed to curb Matsuoka the foreign minister. Konoye’s new cabinet unlikely to shift fundamental policy toward settling China war and avoiding wider conflict. Kokumin urges stance toward United States and Russia while countering third power machinations.
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Teijiro Toyoda
Matsuoka
Fumimaro Konoye
Kokumin
United States
Russia
Japan
Fate of Russian Women With Army Pondered by Nazis
Berlin reports on Russian women serving with the Red Army provoking German debate on who is a soldier. Officials say organized units in uniform are military personnel, while unforming attackers may be treated as snipers and possibly executed if convicted by a military court.
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Berlin
Vichy Prohibits Art Exports Amid Historic Property Rules
In Vichy France a government edict bans export of artworks and historic items without a Secretary of Education permit. The restriction covers furniture before 1830 and artworks completed before 1900, with a five percent tax on objects used for travel or departure.
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Vichy
France
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