CAUGHT IN THE ACT
SABOTEURS IN UNITED STATES ATTEMPT ON BATTLESHIP UNDER CONSTRUCTION STATEMENT BY MR DIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) ' (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) AUSTIN (Texas), July 10. IVlr Martin Dies (chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee investigating un-American activities) stated that a plot to sabotage a battleship under construction in a Pennsylvania shipyard was discovered yesterday and frustrated. He declined to give details, but said: “I will say that they were discovered in an act of sabotage.”
President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress asking for 4,848.000.000 dollars for defence, a Daventry broadcast states.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 5
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