Italy Calls More Men To Arms In War Drift
Rome reports Italy has called up 10 000 non commissioned officers to join 40 000 enlisted soldiers from last fall amid northern maneuvers near Florence. A Spanish mission to Berlin travels through Italy as Britain’s Gibraltar demand intensifies. Diplomatic circles note Italy may join Germany. editorials promise arms to enforce territorial aims against France and Britain.
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Italy
Florence
Canovas
Berlin
Madrid
Gibraltar
Francisco Franco
Germany
International Relazioni
France
Britain
Fasti&t
North American Theological College
Grigore Gafencu
Ion Gigurtu
Athens
Greece
Lower
Somme
Flanders
England
Spain
Mediterranean
Weather forecast overview for southern states
A weather summary notes fair to partly cloudy conditions across South Carolina Georgia and Alabama with some thunderstorm potential in Florida this afternoon and Sunday. Northwest Florida shows fair conditions tonight and Sunday with light to gentle variable winds.
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Weatiter
South
Solons Rally Behind FDRs Defense Plan
Washington June 1. General George C Marshall pressed for congress to grant Roosevelt authority to call out the National Guard if needed amid fears of dangerous hemispheric developments. War Department cautions on mobilization and bipartisan support for defense measures accompany a projected military bill near 4.7 billion dollars. Senator Vandenberg calls the National Guard proposal shocking as neutrality policy guidance is debated.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
Congress
Roosevelt
Marshall
National Guard
War Department
Carshall
Presiden
Martin
Massachusetts
America
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Rivers Acts To Curb Probing On Road Board
Federal investigators seek highway records from Georgia state government and must request in writing to Governor Rivers. Governor Rivers says he will answer in writing and maintain confidentiality where required. The case follows grand jury charges against Dr. Hiram W. Evans and John W. Greer Jr. in related highway department matters. Bonds totaling 5000 each were posted for Evans and Greer as investigations continue.
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Rivers
Atlanta
Georgia
Highway Department
J. Ll. Rivers
T. H. Jervey
I. Clark
Highway Board
FBI
Ellis Arnall
Governor River
Arnall
Law Department
Hiram W. Evans
Kuo Klux Klan
John W. Greer, Jr
Georgia House of Representatives
Evans
United States
David J. Meyerhardt
Greer
Rome
Hursday
Paul Lindsay
Ivan Allen
Lindsay
Rescue in Flanders Ends in Narrow Escape for BEF
London reports that all but one British division of the original 175,000 BEF has been saved from Flanders. A rear-guard action by French and British forces at Dunkirk kept most troops from annihilation as Luftwaffe losses mounted and evacuation continued. Authorities warned of imminent air raids and urged school evacuation plans to begin next week.
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London
Flanders
Malcolm MacDonald
England
MacDonald
L’ammies
Rene Jacques Adolphe Priuux
Allied Supreme War Council
Paris
Royal Air Force
Dunkerque
Priuox
John Moore
Penisula
B. BE. F
Britain
Artois
Lille
Belgian
Nazis Open Somme Offensive Launch Air Raids on France
Paris reports German forces opening an offensive in the Somme region and intensified air raids across southeastern and central France. Bombs hit Marseille harbor killing and wounding civilians, while Belgian troops reportedly joined Allied forces near Dunkirk and contact with British units was established.
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France
Paris
Marseille
Dunkirque
Leopold
DeKrahe
DesFontaines
New York
Columbia Broadcasting System Today
Lyons
England
Flanders
National Defense Investigation Unit Formed
Washington reports the creation of a national defense investigation unit to probe fifth column activities. Hugh H. Clegg will head the group. Dies committee plans hearings into communist employment in the Tennessee Valley Authority and Birmingham steel sector with a proposed national home defense council under Roosevelt leadership.
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Washington
National Defense Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hugh H. Clegg
G-man
FBY
Dies Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
Birmingham, Ala
Dies
D. Tex
South
Roosevelt
Council of Home Defense
Manhattan Liner Delayed Sailing From Genoa
Genoa June 1 The liner Manhattan's sailing was postponed until noon tomorrow due to crush of Americans awaiting departure. Italian war preparations visible as troops move along the coast toward the French frontier and troops and munitions are being unloaded at ports facing Corsica.
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Genoa
Manhattan
Italy
Mediterranean
Corsica
Cox Unopposed for Congress Renomination
Congressman Eugene E. Cox of Camilla is unopposed for renomination as representative from Georgia's second district. The noon deadline passed without any other candidate filing, though John C. Parker had qualified earlier but withdrew while recovering from an operation. Cox's supporters anticipate his return to Congress.
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Eugene Cox
Camilla
Georgia
H. G. Bell
Caf Bainbridge
Democratic Executive Committee
Eugene E. Cox
Bainbridge
Times-Enterprise
Frank S. Jones
John C. Parker
Moultrie
Georgia House of Representatives
Atlanta
Cox
National Air Show Opens at Birmingham
Birmingham hosts a two day national air show at its municipal airport with stunts by top pilots and links to the Army Air Corps training push at Randolph Field Texas. Capt. Alexander Papana appears among the elite fliers as the event aligns with renewed military aviation funding amid wartime tensions.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
Birmingham
America
Army Air Corps
Randolph Field
Texas
Alexander Papana
British Battleship Nelson Sunk By Nazis Reported
Berlin sources claimed the 33 950 ton Nelson flagship of the British home fleet was sunk with 700 of 1520 crew lost. The report followed parallel German claims of successes on the Somme front and wider European moves as Italy wavered and Hungary aligned with the Axis.
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Nelson
Associated Press
Berlin
Somme
Paris
Royal Oak
Scapa Flow
Flanders
Smngland
Adolf Hitler
Dino Altieri
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Italy
British
Air Ministry
Fleet Air Army
Balkans
Hungary
Germany
Italy Provides For Month To Month Financing
Rome June 1 amid growing indications that Italy may go to war with Britain and France the government announced month to month financing through treasury bonds payable in one month to a year. Interest ranges from 2.25 percent on two month bonds to five percent on 12 month securities.
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Rome
Italy
Great Britain
France
Treasury
Swiss Plane Shoots Down Nazi Bomber Over Switzerland
A Swiss military plane shot down a German bomber over Biel Switzerland on June 1 according to dispatches from the Swiss authorities. The action occurred on Swiss territory with no immediate reports of further incursions or casualties.
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Switzerland
Biel
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