British Press Urges Morale as Flanders Defeat Shapes News
British press mobilizes to bolster morale after the Flanders defeat. Papers warn of German propaganda seeking to split Allies while civilians are urged to support troops and face recent losses with resolve. News touch on Dunkirk, BEF withdrawals, and looming Italian entry fears.
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London
Great Britain
Battle of
Flanders
Tommies
Possewatersyster
English Channel
Daily Express
Lord Beaverbrook
Hitler
France
Britain
Channel
the Express
News Chronicle
Maxime Weygand
Alles
Dunkerque
BEF
Jis
War Office
B.E.F
Italy
Spain
Russia
Sareuel
Madrid
Moscow
Germany
England
Dover
Galway
Ireland
Europe
United States
President Roosevelt
New Defense Board Sets Ambitious War Supremacy Goals
The article details a major defense push expanding air power to 10 500 to 11 000 planes by July 1 1941 with 2 500 new combat aircraft including interceptors and bombers. It also covers expansion of anti aircraft armor tanks and munitions plants, plus naval and RFC funding debates in Congress.
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Roosevelt
War Department
House
David I. Walsh
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Vinson
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Taft
Jesse H. Jones
House Banking Committee
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
James G. Scrugham
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Adopts Farm Rate Cuts
Rate reductions for farm products on the New York Central Lines are adopted by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western the Lee Valley and Pennsylvan ia state agriculture departments. The changes affect cargoes including beans spinach and tomatoes with adjustments per carload or per hundredweight as outlined.
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Albany
New York Central
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Lee Valley
Pennsyl
Lord Cambridge Cousin of King Killed in Action
Lord Frederick of Cambridge, first cousin once removed of King George, was killed in action while serving as a captain in the Coldstream Guards with the expeditionary force in Belgium. The report confirms his death after earlier incomplete notices.
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Lord Cambridge
King
London
Lord Frederick
Cambridge
George
Frederick
Belgium
British Soldier's Hair Turns White From German Attack
A young British private arriving from France and wounded describes his hair turning white during a German push near their lines. He recalls intense bombardment with tanks, flame throwers, planes, and bombs, saying the experience felt like hell and he barely escaped back.
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London
France
Nex
Gar
Captain Simson Killed In Action Husband Of New York Woman
London May 30 Captain David James Robert Simson was killed in action while in command of his ship. He was the husband of Arlette Thal of New York City and Paris. Simson served on the battleship King George V which led the British fleet at Jutland in 1916. The death notice did not name his ship but said he died as he wished to do.
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London
David James Robert Simson
Arlette Thal
G. J. Thal
Irs. Thal
New York City
Paris
Simson
Jutland
Former Potter County Treasurer Held on Embezzlement Charge
Earl B. Crandall former Potter County treasurer was held on 1000 bond for the June term after pleading guilty to embezzling county funds. State Policeman William King said a shortage of between 19000 and 820000 was found in Crandall's accounts before he left January 1.
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Coudersport
Earl B. Crandall
Potter County
Justice of the Peace
F. J. Vandall
William King
Crandall
Pendergast Free Faces Now After Probation Plan
Tom Pendergast former Kansas City political boss is freed to lead a clean life under a five year probation after serving a year and a day. He must avoid political activity and report monthly to a probation officer while attempting to pay $125000 of taxes and penalties by 1941.
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Kansas City
United States
Tom Pendergast
Democratic
QST
Aml Guntay
Pendergast
Leavenworth
Supreme Court
Maurice M. Milligan
U. S
Tom
Missouri
R. Emmett O'Malley
O’malley
Russian Consulate In Peiping To Close Late Next Month
Russian consulate general in Peiping to close temporarily late next month leaving no consular or diplomatic presence in Japanese occupied China. Entire staff and families preparing to depart for Moscow following prior closures of Shanghai Kalgan l and Tientsin offices.
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Peiping
Russia
Iot
China
Ioscow
Shanghai
Kalgan l
Tientsin
Letter offers sidewalk paving at 35 cents a foot
A Mobile Alabama letter from Mayor Charles Baumhauer to the school board took one year one month and four days to travel from city hall to the board headquarters. The offer proposed sidewalk paving at 35 cents per lineal foot.
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Snail Mobile
Ala
Mobile
School Board
Charles Baumhauer
Montgomery in Paris Arrives to Serve as Ambulance Driver
American actor Robert Montgomery lands in Paris from London to join the American field service as an ambulance driver. He cites applying President Roosevelt's good neighbor policy. His wife Mrs Montgomery plans to sail back to the United States aboard the liner President Roosevelt dispatched to Ireland.
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Paris
Robert Montgomery
London
American Field Service
Roosevelt
Montgomery
Elizabeth Bryan Allan
United States
Ireland
France
Roosevelt Air Invasion Panic Denounced at Air Forum
Major Al Williams accused the Roosevelt administration of meddling in international power politics and criticized the air defense as woefully deficient. He urged an independent air department and immediate emphasis on air power to defend America and win in Europe.
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Washington
al Williams
Hollywood
Roosevelt
America
Williams
Navy
National Air Forum
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
Europe
Italy to Purchase Argentine Corn Deal Signed
The Ministry of Agriculture announced Italy will buy 350 000 tons of Argentine corn in a signing today. A separate agreement with Spain covers 150 000 tons. Argentina faces a large crop of 11 020 000 tons but a shortage of buyers.
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Buenos Aires
Ministry of Agriculture
Italy
Spain
Plan to Train 54,000 Pilots for Army Air Corps Set
Washington reports a Civil Aeronautics Authority initiative with the Army and civil aviation leaders to train 54,000 pilots by July 1, 1941. The plan targets 45,000 private fliers and 9,000 advanced students at civilian schools, costing about 37 million dollars.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Army
Civil Aviation
Roosevelt
White House
Air Corps
Plattsburgs
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Randolph Field
Texas
CAA
Revised plans for James River bridge approach
War Bureau details revised schemes approved by Louis Johnson to raise the Pennsylvania approach of the New York Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission and add a 60 foot span at the Pennsylvania shore for the Shohola Pennsylvania to Barryville New York bridge across the James River.
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War Bureau
U.K
Soan
Washington
Louis Johnson
New York-Pennsylvania
Conant urges aid to Allies short of war
Harvard president James Bryant Conant called on the United States to aid Britain and France fully before entering the European war. He urged four actions including releasing aircraft, allowing Americans to volunteer abroad, tightening exports, and boosting maritime cooperation to speed munitions.
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Conant
Cambridge
Mass
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
United States
Dr. Conant
Committee
America
Germany
Hebn Ae
Hitler
France
Britain
United States Maritime Commission
Unclear fragmentary plea urges action to aid Allies
Fragmentary text shows a call to citizens to write or telegraph the President and Congress about an emergency related to Congo and U S rearmament. It references urgency in supporting Allies and a request for immediate, effective action.
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Congo
United States
Weather Scientist Describes Ring Around Rosy Pattern
Prof. Elbert F. Corwin of RPI links ten days of wet gloomy East weather to a phenomenon he calls ring around the rosy. He explains it as low pressure zones bounded by high pressure and says the cause remains to be discovered.
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Troy
Elbert F. Corwin
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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