Ellender Urges Senate Back British Aid Bill Compromise
Senator Ellender proposes a substitute for his amendment limiting troops in the western hemisphere while administration members draft a noncombatant defense article focused reform. Barkley warns that such policy could hinder the secretary of state as aggression risks rise worldwide. See Congress on Page 16.
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Washington
Ellender
D-La
Senate
Hemisphere
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Ebiender
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Barkley
Far East
Senator Ellender
Europe
Asia
Philippines
Phillippines
Seven Seas
George
D.-Ga
Congress
Tucson Kiwanis Visit to Phoenix Interclub Event
Tucson Kiwanis club members join an inter club gathering in Phoenix starting with a 7:30 dinner at the Arizona club. The program includes golf and bowling tours Sunday with Kiwanis from Yuma Douglas Bisbee Clarkdale Prescott Flagstaff Litchfield Park Phoenix and Tucson. Major Robert E. Adams of New York City will speak at the Santa Rita hotel noon meeting on world economics and current conditions.
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Tucson
Turkey may join war if Salonika falls says Red Star
The Red Star cites foreign observers predicting Turkey could enter the war if Germany captures Salonika. It says Turkey would defend its territory and allow British ships through the Dardanelles to attack Germany from the Black Sea, using Turkish soil for British land forces.
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Moscow
U.P
Red Star
Turkey
Germany
Salonika
Dardanelles
Russia
Balkans
Greece
Black Sea
Axis
Yugoslavia
House Passes State School Funds Measure
The Arizona House approved a bill to fund schools with a $65 to $95 per pupil state apportionment, replacing county levies except for a reserve fund not exceeding five percent. Rural districts could raise funds beyond the state allotment, with annual estimates due by July 15 to county supervisors.
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Phoenix
House of Representatives
Senate
House
R. H. Forbes
Pima County
Forbes
County Boards of Supervisors
Osborn Loses Battle Over Employes Pay
The Arizona supreme court ruled Governor Osborn cannot veto or review the state industrial commission's employee list without the commission's consent. Justice Henry D. Ross wrote the unanimous opinion ordering State Treasurer Joe Hunt to resume paying the salaries held up for weeks. The ruling clarifies control over staffing and pay rests with the court and treasurer rather than the governor.
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Phoenix
Arizona Supreme Court
Osborn
State Industrial Commission
High Tribunal
Henry D. Ross
Joe Hunt
Hunt
Tucson Airport Expansion Push Delivers 538752 Funds
President Roosevelt approves a 538752 allocation to finish the Tucson Army airfield project. The site will feature a 300 by 2000 foot concrete apron and taxiways linking mile long runways, with a planned total runway plan over two square miles. About 3000 personnel will be based there as a U S defense outpost.
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WPA
U. S. Army Airfield
Washington
Roosevelt
Carl Hayden
E. W. McFarland
John R. Murdoch
W. J. Jamieson
Federal Works Projects Administration
United States
la Guardia
New York
Tucson
Sculptor Borglum, Creator of Mount Rushmore, Dies at 69
Chicago reports the death of sculptor Gutzon Borglum at Henrotin hospital after a brief illness. The artist, famed for Mount Rushmore, lived through a long career using mountains as studios and dynamite as a tool. His wife, son Lincoln, and daughter were with him at his bedside.
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Chicago
Gutzon Borglum
Borglum
Henrotin Hospital
Mount Rushmore Memorial
Black Hills
South Dakota
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
America
U S Demands Italians Close Two Consulates
The United States notified Italy that Italian consular movements in the United States will be restricted and asked that consulates in Detroit Michigan and Newark New Jersey be closed. The action marks a rare peace time move against a foreign state with which the U S maintains ties.
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Washington
Mar
United States
Italy
Detroit
Newark
N. J
State Department
Naples
Palermo
Hull
Department
Germany
Border Patrolman Takes Air Course
Gregory O. Hathaway border patrol inspector based in Tucson since last August has gone to Fort Sill Oklahoma for autogiro pilot training. He will stay about 30 days then fly back to El Paso where the aircraft will be stationed for El Paso district use. Hathaway previously served as a deputy U S marshal and was appointed after the death of Colby S Farrar.
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Gregory O. Hathaway
Border Patrol
Tucson
Fort Sill
Okla
Carson Morrow
Morrow
Hathaway
el Paso
U. S. Marshal
U. S. Marshall
Colby S. Farrar
Weygand Meets Petain Amid Flight Rumors From Syria
General Maxime Weygand arrived at Vichy for a face to face with Marshal Petain in five months. The Paris press warned of a possible British move on Syria while speculation swirled over Weygand’s purpose and talks with Darlan, Laval, and De Brinon as war aims and mandates remained unsettled.
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Vichy
U.P
Maxine Weygand
Africa
Syria
Henri Philippe Petain
Paris
France
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
Marshal Petain
Weygand
Pare Hotel
Petain
Jean Chiappe
Chiappe
Mediterranean
Jean Darlan
Pierre Laval
Fernand de Brinon
War Ministry
Turkey
Greece pledges fight on as Eden vows support
Greek leaders and the press reaffirmed resolve to resist Germany as forces mass on the Bulgarian frontier. Eden promised Britain would stand by Greece until final victory, while reports say civilians are being moved from Thrace and eastern Macedonia ahead of any German advance.
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Athens
Anthony Eden
Greece
Eden
Britain
Asyrmatos
Balkan Peninsula
Balkans
John Dill
Imperial General Staff
Belgrade
Thrace
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Senate OKs 1941-43 State Budget With Amendments
In Phoenix the senate approved the general state appropriations bill for 1941-43 after adding 47 937 50 to the house total. The 18 to 1 vote featured only one negative vote by Senator William F Kimball of Pima County. The measure now returns to the house for concurrence amid a long series of amendments.
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Associated Press
Phoenix
Senate
House of Representatives
William F. Kimball
Pima County
Kimball
Appropriations Committee
House
Hitler Stalin Wits Clash Across Balkans and Bases
The column weighs unconfirmed reports of a Soviet demand for Black Sea naval bases and notes British sources calling the tales propaganda. It cites mass Romanian forces on the Russo Romanian frontier and signals a sharpening of tensions as Hitler and Stalin test each other amid Balkans moves.
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Germany
Russia
Balkans
Balkan
Bulgaria
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
Messrs
Hitler
Stalin
Red Army
Rumania
Turkey Asked By Hitler To Discuss Plans
Ankara dispatch reports that Germany seeks talks on Balkan strategy aimed at controlling the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Turkish radio says plans would be hard to apply if Yugoslavia resists.
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Turkey
Hitler
Ankara
Germany
Balkans
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Yugoslavia
Nazi Forces Sweep Southeast Through Bulgaria
Bulgarian front tensions rise as German expeditionary force under Sigmund List meets King Boris III and war ministries. Bomber waves, motorized support, and rail and telegraph control signal looming invasion while Greece strengthens defenses in Salonika corridor. Diplomatic moves involve Antonescu in Vienna, belief of Soviet demands, and Turkey pledges loyalty to Britain.
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Associated Press
Sofia
Bulgaria
Sigmund List
Boris III
War Ministry
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Balkan
Bern
Greece
Fourth Air Fleet
Salonika
Albania
Ion Antonescu
Bucharest
Vienna
Reichmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Antonescu
Moscow
Goering
Belgrade
Soviet Russia
Rumania
Black Sea
Britain
Tokyo
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Hitler invites Turkey to send or receive high official for closer cooperation
Diplomatic sources report Hitler proposes closer cooperation with Turkey and asks either a Turkish statesman visit Berlin or a Nazi official visit Ankara. The note also denies any threat to the Dardanelles and rejects aggressive aims, while noting German troop concentrations in Thrace and a Turkish bank rush by residents.
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Ankara
Mar
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Turkey
Germany
Hitler
Ismet Inonu
Thrace
Istanbul
Dardanelles
House Appropriations Panel Seeks 193 Million Deficiency Bill
The House appropriations committee advanced a 193.913 million deficiency bill funding various federal activities, about 80 percent for national defense. FBI would gain 975 thousand dollars for 700 more agents and 603 staff, reaching 5,558 total. The panel cut Roosevelt’s defense housing request and deferred a new 75 million fund to pay old contractual obligations. Helium output at Amarillo plant received 175 thousand dollars, with broader defense allocations outlined.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Roosevelt
Amarillo, Tex
New Radio Station at Nogales Denied by Mexico City
Mexico predicts definite denial of Abelardo Rodriguez bid to build a powerful Nogales Sonora border radio station. Officials cite Havana convention limits on frontier stations and wavelength interference rules governing North American broadcasts. Rodriquez previously ran a commercial station at Rosarito Baja California.
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Mexico City
Abelardo Rodriguez
Nogales
Sonora
United States
Ministry of Communications
Mexico
Frontier
Rodriguez
Camacho
Rosarito
California
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