London Streets Barricaded With Wire
Roy E. E. Sebern a Forest Service senior clerk has left Washington for Juneau after a special detail in the Capital U S Marshal William T Ma honey returned to Juneau from Skagway with prisoner Joseph Johnson a Marine Corps deserter aboard the Denali.
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Roy E. E. Sebern
Forest Service
Washington
Juneau
Capital
U. S
William T. Mahoney
Denali
Skagway
Joseph Johnson
Marine Corps
London
Admiralty Building
Big Ben
Superintendent Here From His Cannery in Icy Straits
Frank Wright superintendent of the packing company is in Juneau for several days and is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel to rest and discuss affairs with local officials.
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Icy Straits
Frank Wright
Packing Company
Juneau
Wright
Gastinea
Roosevelt warns on diluted poison in national defenses
President Roosevelt in a radio fireside address urged unity against foreign disunity efforts and pressed private industry to provide fast, efficient mass production for defense. He pledged continued government aid and potential new funding, defended social gains, and called for Red Cross donations for refugees from Belgium and Northern France. The Navy and Army were described as stronger, with the Air Corps expanded.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Red Cross
Belgium
France
Machine tool makers pledge first call to government
Responding to President Roosevelt's call for the best and fastest mass production, leading manufacturers promise the Government first call on tools to accelerate defense industries. Clayton Burt of Hartford, joined with Treasury, War, Navy and Commerce officials, expressing confidence in meeting the requirements.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Clayton Burt
Hartford
Conn
Treasury, War, Navy and
Commerce Department
Oregon town shaken by sharp earth tremor
Newport Oregon residents felt a strong earthquake last Saturday causing dishes to rattle and buildings to shake. No serious damage was reported. Local authorities inspected structures and posed no immediate danger. The tremor reminded residents of the region's seismic activity and prompted a brief shelter check.
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Newport
Ore
Italy Is Preparing For War
ROME May 27 Premier Benito Mussolini conferred with Army chiefs and ordered expansion of artillery production, conserving gasoline supplies and suspending civilian motor traffic on June 1.
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Rome
Benito Muesolini
Supreme Court clears unions from Sherman Act damages
The Supreme Court ruled that a labor union is not liable under the Sherman Antitrust Law for damages from a sitdown strike. In a 6 to 3 decision, Associate Justice Stone affirmed that the unions did not intend to restrain interstate commerce, overturning an earlier $711,932 judgment against the unions. Chief Justice Hughes dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Vabie
Apex Hosiery Company
Philadelphia
American Federation of Labor
Stone
Hughes
Federal Circuit
Canada to Expand Forces to Meet War Situation
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced in Commons that Canada’s military and air forces will be expanded immediately to meet the critical war situation. Ottawa May 27. The pledge signals a rapid buildup as World War II intensifies.
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Canadian Commons
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Commons
Canada
Fingerprinting Aliens Proposed in Senate Plan
Senate Judiciary Committee backs a proposal to fingerprint about 4,000,000 aliens and impose stiff penalties for subversion. Senator Connally calls it a key defense program and says aliens would have around four months to report to postmasters for registration.
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U.S
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tom Connally
Connally
New British Army Leadership Announced In London
London May 27 The British Army appoints new top leaders Lieut Gen Sir John Dill becomes Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Gen Sir Edward Ironside takes command of the home forces as part of a major reshuffle.
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Sir John Greer
London
John Greer Dill
Imperial General Staff
Edmud Ironside
Veteran Screen and Film Actor Joseph de Grasse Dies
Hollywood reports veteran silage and screen actor Joseph de Grasse was found unconscious on a street corner last Saturday and died while being treated at a hospital. The death raises questions about the circumstances surrounding his collapse in May in Hollywood California.
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Hollywood
Cal
Joseph de Grasse
Attaches of Foreign Military Barred From U.S. Maneuvers
Washington dispatch says foreign military attaches in Washington are barred from Army drills in Louisiana and Texas, allegedly for insufficient accommodation. The piece suggests attaches serve as covert observers, with Poland's blitzkrieg studies cited as an example of their intelligence gathering.
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U.S
Washington
Sam
United States Army
Louisiana
Texas
Poland
Malta Curfew Ordered By Governor Tonight
Malta May 21 The Governor of this key British naval base ordered a curfew from 11 p m to 5 a m effective tonight as a precaution against parachute invasion.
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Malta
Hias
Irish Army to be placed on war footing
London May 27 Ireland's army to be brought to war strength almost at once. Army reservists and volunteers are being called up as part of the emergency measures announced today.
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London
Ireland
Death Grips On Allied Forces In Flanders Battle
Britain reports German assault pressing French and Belgian troops and British Expeditionary Force as tanks from France join on the Allied side. The struggle aims to seal a so called Lost Million of Allied troops, with Dunkerque burning and claims of Calais captured disputed.
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London
Associated Press
Flanders
Inglish
Calais
Strait of Dover
Germany
Thenevennes
Sechel
Freeh Minh
Lens
Ypres
Navi High Command
Dunkerque
North Sea
British Warships Shell German Units at Boulogne
A BBC dispatch in German reports heavy German losses as British ships shell Boulogne on the Strait of Dover. It claims several large armored units were completely destroyed amid continuous bombardment. A separate dessert note appears with a jelly and cream pudding recipe.
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New York
British Broadcasting Company
Boulogne
Strait of Dover
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