Bicycles rationed beginning July 9
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King visits Buffalo
Buffalo, NY –
King Peter II, Yugoslavia’s 18-year-old monarch, arrived from Detroit today to inspect war plants.
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Senator hopes to outlaw NYA along with CCC
Byrd will seek passage of McKellar’s bill to kill youth agency
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Restore funds cut by House, OPA head asks
Administration showdown with Congress over inflation due
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Eisenhower at base
U.S. Army base in Northern Ireland –
Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of all U.S. forces in the European Theater, visited this base and found American troops fully prepared for any task, it was said today.
Australia believed safe for time being
Jap invasion impossible for at least 3 months, observer says
By Harold Guard, United Press staff writer
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Enemy broadcast –
Japs say China loses five million troops
Dispatches from enemy countries are based on broadcasts over controlled radio stations which frequently contain false propaganda. Bear this in mind.
Tokyo – (Japanese broadcast recorded at San Francisco)
An Imperial Headquarters spokesman, commenting on the fifth anniversary of hostilities with China, said today that the Chinese had lost five million men killed, wounded or missing.
Japanese casualties, he said, were 106,000.
Th Chinese casualties included 2,300,000 men left on the battlefields, he said, Booty captured by the Japanese included 4,900 guns of various calibers, 23,000 heavy and light machine guns, 600,000 rifles, 1,400 vehicles and tanks, 2,400 railway cars, and 500 large vessels.
Safe-conduct pledge ended by Germany
Nazis cite mining of American waters and mining of U.S. coast
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U.S. War Department (July 3, 1942)
CHARGE SHEET
Charges and specifications in cases of Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward John Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin, and Werner Thiel.
Charge I: Violation of the law of war
Specification 1:
In that, during the month of June 1942, the prisoners, Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward Kohn Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel, being enemies of the United States and acting for and on behalf of the German Reich, a belligerent enemy nation, secretly and covertly passed, in civilian dress, contrary to the law of war, through the military and naval lines and defenses of the United States, along the Atlantic Coast, and went behind such lines and defenses in civilian dress within zones of military operations and elsewhere, for the purpose of committing acts of sabotage, espionage and other hostile acts, and, in particular, to destroy certain war industries, war utilities and war materials within the United States.
Specification 2:
In that, during the month of June 1942, the prisoners, Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward Kohn Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel, being enemies of the United States and acting for and on behalf of the German Reich, a belligerent enemy nation, appeared, contrary to the law of war, behind the military and naval defenses and lines of the United States, within the zones of military operations and elsewhere, for the purpose of committing or attempting to commit sabotage, espionage, and other hostile acts, without being in the uniform of the armed forces of the German Reich, and planned and attempted top destroy and sabotage war industries, was utilities and war materials within the United States, and assembled together within the United States explosives, money and other supplies in order to accomplish said purposes.
Charge II: Violation of the 81st Article of War
Specification:
In that, during the month of June 1942, the prisoners, Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward Kohn Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel, being enemies of the United States and acting for and on behalf of the German Reich, a belligerent enemy nation, and without being in the uniform of the armed forces of that nation, relieved or attempted to relieve enemies of the United States with arms, ammunition, supplies, money and other things, and knowingly harbored, protected and held correspondence with and gave intelligence to enemies of the United States by entering the territorial limits of the United States, in the company of other enemies of the United States, with explosives, money and other supplies with which they relieved each other and relieved the German Reich, for the purposes of destroying and sabotaging was industries, transportation facilities or war materials of the United States, and by harboring, communicating with, and giving intelligence to each other and to other enemies of the United States in the course of such activities.
Charge III: Violation of the 82nd Article of War
Specification:
In that, during the month of June 1942, the prisoners, Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward Kohn Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel, being enemies of the United States and acting for and on behalf of the German Reich, a belligerent enemy nation, were, in time of war, found lurking or acting as spies in or about the fortifications, posts and encampments of the armies of the United States and elsewhere and secretly and covertly passed through the military and naval lines and defenses of the United States, along the Atlantic Coast, and went about through and behind said lines and defenses and about the fortifications, posts and encampments of the armies of the United States, in zones of military operations and elsewhere, disguised in civilian clothes and under false names, for the purpose of committing sabotage and other hostile acts against the United States, and for the purpose of communications intelligence relating to such sabotage and other hostile acts to each other, to the German Reich, and to other enemies of the United States, during the course of such activities and thereafter.
Charge IV: Conspiracy to commit all of the above acts
Specification:
In that, during the month of June 1942, the prisoners, Ernst Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Haupt, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Edward Kohn Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel, being enemies of the United States and acting for and on behalf of the German Reich, a belligerent enemy nation, did plot, plan, and conspire with each other, with the German Reich, and with other enemies of the United States, to commit each and every one of the above-enumerated charges and specifications.
F. GRANVILLE MUNSON
Colonel, U.S. Army
Before me, the undersigned, authorized by law to administer oaths in case of this character, personally appeared Colonel F. Granville Munson, U.S. Army, this 3rd day of July, 1942, and made oath that he is a person subject to military law, and that he personally signed the foregoing charges and specifications, and that he has investigated the matters set forth in said specifications, and that the same are true, to the best of his knowledge and belief.
MYRON C. CRAMER
Major General, U.S. Army
The Judge Advocate General
The Pittsburgh Press (July 3, 1942)
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