Roosevelt plans national defense emergency coordination group
The White House announced plans to name a national defense emergency coordination group. It will include both government officials and private sector experts from industry finance agriculture transportation communications labor and consumers. The plan aims for flexibility and broad representation to coordinate defense efforts without disrupting American life.
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Conway accuses SP of spreading misinformation in train limit case
Arizona Attorney General Joe Conway moves to strike all propaganda from Southern Pacific in his suit over the Arizona Train Limit law. He claims SP used notices wires and speeches to misquote court rulings and influence railroad employees. The filing follows a federal ruling dismissing SP’s challenge and cites W E Patterson’s political Candidacy.
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Threaten England With Secret Weapon Climax Near In Allied Attack
Paris dispatches report a dramatic Allied push along the English Channel coast as air power targets German tank columns while French forces drive into the Northeastern wedge toward Boulogne and Calais. The battle center shifts near Peronne and Bapaume with hopes to rescue trapped Allied troops.
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Baseball finals and scores across leagues
National League action shows St Louis and Cincinnati split doubleheaders with 7 8 runs in one game and 4 2 in another. Chicago and Pittsburgh clash with late inning rallies while American League results feature Chicago Philadelphia and Washington posting double digit run totals and decisive wins.
Oxygen Bomb Fails To Kill Or Hurt Goats
Inventor Lester Barlow tested a 1000 pound liquid oxygen bomb at Aberdeen proving ground. 84 goats were unharmed and only one claimed to be the tester. Army ordnance officials doubted the claim while Barlow seeks congressional action on funding and a patent judgment.
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Unemployment Drops Sharply in April Report
The National Industrial Conference Board reported unemployment fell to 8,981,000 in April from 9,267,000 in March, a 3.1 percent drop. Agricultural work gains lifted total employment to 45,962,000 in April from 45,618,000 in March, despite declines in most other sectors.
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Nogales Meet Of Democrats Ends In Fight
The Arizona Young Democrats convention in Nogales split as five counties seceded led by Helena Patten Tucson alleging dummy clubs and unfair recognition. Delegates from Pima Yavapai Cochise Yuma and Santa Cruz formed a minority bloc and planned a separate organization. The break prompted morning session cancellation as caucuses aimed to avert rupture before a final session with officers elected and 1942 convention city chosen.
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Britain tightens wartime news ban as bombs hit England
British forces report raids by Nazi bombs injuring eight people in Yorkshire Essex and East Anglia while authorities withhold details of fighting in France. Churchill appeals for unity as RAF and fleet harass German positions near the English Channel.
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Mexican oil workers unveil plan to reorganize industry
The Petroleum Workers union presented a new plan for reorganizing the government-administered oil industry in Mexico to rank-and-file members. It calls for dismissing 1,675 employees, wage cuts of 5 to 40 percent, and consolidating key divisions, with projected annual savings of five million pesos.
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Subcommittee Approves Alien Fingerprinting
Washington May 25 A Senate judiciary subcommittee approved a bill requiring registration and fingerprinting of all aliens in the United States. Senator Connally Democrat Texas said the measure was added to a comprehensive bill to protect armed forces and national defense. Senator Danaher Republican Connecticut called the bill a necessary part of defense programs.
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Half Million Nazis Lost In Ten Days
NBC reported a German short wave broadcast from London cited Paris estimates that at least 500000 German soldiers were lost in the last ten days. The Frankfort on the Oder division, blamed for recent Aisne attacks, was said to have been repulsed with about half its men lost.
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Refugee Tragedy Amid Paris War Echoes
An old Frenchwoman watches her home bombed and husband killed as refugees flood Paris. Soldiers force her back to join the streams toward the capital while nine refugee trains have been bombed or machine gunned this week.
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German Army Readies Paris Attack After Belgian Campaign
Berlin reports more than one third of the German army is in Belgium the Netherlands and northern France and will mop up encircled areas before aiming at Paris the Maginot line or England. An authorized source says swift German advances in Flanders assure annihilation of trapped Allied armies and a secret weapon may follow against England.
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RAF Bombings Disrupt Nazi Supply Lines
The air ministry described large scale RAF raids on German transport lines rail junctions and bridges in northeastern France Belgium and Germany. Twelve German planes were shot down and fires started as communications were disrupted. Three RAF planes were lost in the operations amid continued fighter and bomber support for allied forces.
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German and Allied Forces Fight Near Calais in War Update
AP report from Berlin on May 25 details heavy street fighting in Calais as German dive bombers strike channel harbors at Dieppe Dunkerque Ostend and Blankenberghe. Axis forces tightened a ring around the Belgian army and Allied forces with Ghent Courtrai taken and Boulogne under threat.
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Trotsky Charged Stalin With Staging Raid
In Mexico City on May 25 Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of personally directing yesterday’s raid. The exiled leader claimed the incident was plotted to justify U.S. intervention, aided by Dies Committee agents, and framed Mexico as facing a provocation by unidentified gunmen posing as police.
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