Army orders Chrysler to build tank arsenal in Detroit
Washington reports the army will award Chrysler Corpora tion a 20 million dollar contract to construct a Detroit tank arsenal and begin a 33.5 million dollar initial order for about 1000 medium tanks. The plant will cover 400,000 square feet on a 123 acre site and employ 4000 to 5000 workers. The project aims for mass production within 13 months as part of the National Defense program.
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Washington
Chrysler Corporatoma
Detroit
War Department
NPS
Man Is Lost After Return From 'Cut'
A jail visit leads to a disappearance after a woman claimed to have retrieved her husband from custody. The man, released from the House of Corrections at 6 am, vanished after she said she drove to welfare and returned to the business district. Sheriff Baker warned that they would send him home if anything is found.
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Washington County
House of Correction
Joseph D. Baker
Bin
Bids Opened for New Boilers at City Light Plant
Five bids were opened at a special Street Commissioners meeting for installing two boilers and auxiliary equipment in the municipal electric light plant. Bids ranged from about $120,000 to $187,000, with award expected at the next meeting. Construction on the addition to house the new equipment is under way.
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Municipal Electric Light Plant
Board of Street Commissioners
Air Raids Signal Invasion Plans Amid War Debates
Dispatches from London and Berlin analyze German aims to cripple Britain by destroying ships ports munitions and industry and suggest airfields like Croydon Lympne Hawkinge and Folkestone face tougher defense. The piece notes limited fighter numbers hinder raids and questions bomber vulnerability versus cockpit targeting.
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Barcelona
London
Berlin
Britain
Vickery Armstrong
Tobacco With A Bite In New Jerseyville
An explosion blew the bowl off John Broomer's pipe as he smoked. He was unhurt and found a .92 caliber rifle cartridge had fallen into the tobacco, causing the blast.
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Jerseyville
John Broomer
House Okays Mobilization of Guardsmen
The House approved a bill authorizing the President to mobilize the National Guard with a vote of 340 to 1 after debates over limits on service scope. The measure would place guardsmen and reserve personnel under a year of compulsory service in the Western hemisphere and American possessions if needed, while opponents warned of broad presidential war powers. Senate action on related conscription measures continues.
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White House
Naval Operations
House
National Guard
United States
Western Hemisphere
Senate
Army
Burke
D-Neb
Maloney
D-Conn
War Department
Downey
Calif
Euler
Morgenthau
Great Britain
Caribbean
Miller
Conn
Continental
South America
Roosevelt
Bender
Ohio
Vorys
National Labor Relations Board
Virginia Flood Closes Roads and Wrecks Crops
Floodwaters swamped streams in Southside Virginia halting highway traffic from Petersburg to the North Carolina line. Tobacco crops were washed away or waterlogged as routes 1 260 29 and 460 were blocked. A Navy fireman died and a state trooper was killed in separate crashes. landslides wrecked freight cars and several drownings occurred as the flood moved south from Western Virginia.
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Richmond
Virginia
Petersburg
North Carolina
U. S
Navy
Floyd County
William R. Holton
Suffolk
Seaboard Airline Railway
Alberta
Emporia
Danville
Farmville
Beon
Sabotage Topics Highlight Maryland Fire College Course
The University of Maryland fire training short course September 3 6 will cover sabotage and its relation to the fire service with F B I Special Agent F G McIntyre and deputy state fire marshals leading discussions. Instructors include Harry Smoky Rogers Gifford T Cook Robert Tate and others guiding defense and firefighting topics.
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College Park
Man
University of Maryland
Fire Chiefs of Maryland
F. G. McIntyre
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry "Smoky" Rogers
Chicago
Harry H. Wolf
Chicago Fire Department
Robert Tate
Baltimore
Gifford T. Cook
International Association of Fire Chiefs
Hugh Walker
American LaFrance and Fomite Corporation
G. G. Lauher
District of Columbia Fire Prevention Bureau
J. W. Just
G. Findley Pollock
Farm Problems Are Discussed at Maryland Institute
COLLEGE PARK Md Aug 1 Artificial scarcity and crop restrictions inevitably lead to low farm prices unemployment reliance on Government action and insecurity. Lincoln Ohio Farm Bureau secretary told the Maryland Co operative Institute the program harms all workers and that under consumption remains the black plague of the twentieth century until abundance is distributed. He warned heavy government intervention could become dictatorial unless farmers act independently. A Twentieth Century Fund representative cited a study showing it costs more to distribute goods than to produce them.
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College Park
Murray
Lincoln
Ohio Farm Bureau
Thuusday
Maryland Co-operative Institute
American Way
Three Day Institute
National Research Center
Beltsville
Twenteth Century Fund
Twentieth Century Fund
Edward A. Filene
Tare Free Fares Settled In Steel Terseee
Unclear OCR fragment mentions tare free fares and a terse note related to steel. No identifiable persons organizations or places are readable. summary focuses on the fragmentary cost and policy terms implied by the garbled text.
Greece and Turkey hold long talks amid tension with Italy
In Istanbul Rafik Saydam met the Greek minister and then conferred with army and navy chiefs as Greece and Turkey faced rising Italian-Greek tensions. President Ismet Inonu talked with German envoy Franz von Papen about Germany’s stance amid the crisis.
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Istanbul
Rafik Saydam
Turkey
Greece
Ismat Ineau
Franz von Papen
Germany
Italy
Sees Greater Things Ahead For Windsor
The Rev Robert A Jardine, excommunicated for officiating Edward and Wallis Windsor marriage, praises their new Bahamas governor and first lady post while predicting the Duke should have been Viceroy of India. He says war era India may face trouble and Edward may have a larger future role.
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Los Angeles
Edward of
England
Wallis Warfield Simpson
the Bahaman
Robert A. Jardine
Church of England
Duke
Duchess of
Windsor
United Kingdom
India
Mr. Jardine
Edward
Assassination of Havana University Professor Ramiro Valdes Daussa
Two students were held by police after the assassination of Ramiro Valdes Daussa a Havana University professor and noted revolutionist. He was shot at a street intersection while driving his car and is linked to the 1933 overthrow movement against President Machado.
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Havana
Auc
Ramiro Valdes Daussa
Havana University
Valdes Daussa
Gerardo Machado
British Somaliland Battle Threatens Berbera Stand
British forces in Somaliland face a critical situation as defenses around Somaliland's capital may retreat to Berbera. Reports say Berbera defenses are outnumbered by two Italian divisions while Italian columns push from the west and south toward the seaport city.
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London
Somaliland
Berbera
Jugargan Pass
Fisherman lands 795 pound tuna off Plum Island
Frederick S. Gibbs of Wabin aboard a four and a half hour battle off Plum Island landed a 795 pound tuna, breaking the Atlantic sport fishing record set July 23 by Ben Crowninshield of Annisquam and Boston for a 7534 pounder in Ipswich bay. A separate note reports Harry Stenger of Williamsport growing a tomato oxheart over 3 pounds and 3 inches in diameter.
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Newburyport
Mass
Plum Island
Frederick S. Gibbs
Wabin
Ben Crowninshield
Annisquam
Boston
Ipswich Bay
Film Comfort Sees Ocean Mood Cool Audiences
Hollywood reports psychologist M Muniz found sea pictures cooler than snow scenes using an electric device on 50 viewers. Comedy also cools unless it fails to amuse. sidesplitting laughs briefly raise temperatures.
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Hollywood
Muniz
New York
Island Adrift Lands on Manitowish Beach After Storm
Henry Kubnert lake resort proprietor seeks removal of a storm drifted island a tree covered mass about 600 feet long and 50 feet wide. It was set adrift across the lake and came to rest on the Kubnert Beach, drifting more than a quarter mile.
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Manitowish
Wis
Henry Kubnert
Stolen Car Chase Ends With 50 Foot Fall Injuring Man
In Hyattsville Maryland a 50 foot leap from an overpass during a police pursuit left Thomas Van Pelt a 51 year old steamfitter from Ardmore Maryland severely injured. The stolen car he was driving skidded into the rail car and the driver was found in a nearby lumber yard.
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Washington
Thomas van Pelt
Ardmore
Hyattsville
Foud
Cas
Job mobilization drives 100000 unemployed work found
Harrisburg police report publicized in Pennsylvania as the job mobilization committee announced it had found work for 100000 unemployed and stimulated 180 million dollars in new business for 1940 through a cooperative grass roots re employment drive.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
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Cooperative Institute
Hagerstown
Consolidated General Balance Sheet
Hagerstown Bank and Trust
Eee
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Tare
Sseewewe
Public Health Department
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Eeee
Infants’ and Childs' Health Center
Museum of Fine ‘Arts Orphans’ Home
Public Health Association
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D. Lee Staley
George KB. Slayhaugh
CPLA
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Ualty Hospital
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