Swiss Planes Shoot Down German Bombers Near Rhine Valley
Swiss fighters downed a German bomber returning from a Rhone Valley raid near Yverdon on Neuchatel Lake. The crew suppressed a fire, landed, and surrendered after Swiss forces surrounded the aircraft. German raids from Baden and the Black Forest extend into the Rhone Valley as Italy contemplates entering the war.
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Bern
Rhine
Rhone
France
Rhone Valley
Yverdon
Neuchatel
Baden
Black Forest
Berlin
Italy
Po Valley
Japan to Honor Chinese Dead in Occupied China Monuments
Under Prince Chichibu's suggestion Japanese officials announced monuments for Chinese war dead will be built alongside those for Japanese soldiers in 25 cities across occupied areas. Chinese regimes allied with Japan are asked to cooperate in financing the project.
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Peiping
North
China
Chichibu
Blood pressure readings vary at home and clinic says Boston doctor
Dr. David Ayman of Boston tells the Massachusetts Medical Society that patients who monitor blood pressure at home show notably lower readings than those taken in a doctor's office. He warns against overreacting to elevated clinic readings and urges home monitoring for accuracy.
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Boston
David Ayman
Massachusetts Medical Society
Pittsburgh Family It Seems Had New York Ties
Gladwin Hill reports a playful collage of bizarre facts from the past week. Notable items include a New Jersey city stamping hostesses on street cars, San Jose coeds forming a parachute squad, a census remark on Arizona’s vanishing Americans, and a Pittsburgh woman born in New York with family roots split between the two cities.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Goofy Gazette
Atlantic City
N. J
San Jose
Calif
Finney County
Kan
Washington, Ga
Arizona
Farley
New London
Ariz
Lawrence
Madison
Wis
Ontario
Turkish Premier Says Army Ready To Repel Aggression
Premier Refik Saydam declared Turkey's army prepared to repel any aggression. He urged citizens to resist foreign radio propaganda and watch for fifth column activities while stressing unity and readiness amid the uncertain international situation.
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Ankara
Turkey
Refik Saydam
Great Britain
France
Italy
Saydam
Brick Donors for Panhandle-Plains Museum Fund
A long list honors Horace Mann School students who donated bricks for the Canyon museum. Notable names include H B Taylor Billy Joe Jackson Wilma Pepper Patsy Price Mary Ann Holt and many others. The roster preserves community support for the Pan handle Plains Historical Society project.
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Panhandle - Plains Historical Society
Italy Moves Toward War as Mussolini Presses Mobilization
Rome reports a general mobilization under way as Fascist press officials say Italy will enter the war soon. Ansaldo says conscription is by individual summons while the nation weighs moral and political reasons for stepping into the conflict and securing Corsica Tunisia Gibraltar and Suez.
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Rome
Giovanni Ansaldo
Italy
Ansaldo
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Il Telegrafo
Leghorn
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Duce
Frank
Dino Alfieri
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Europe
Corsica
Tunisia
Gibraltar
Suez
Il Resto del Carlino
Grand Council
Smallpox Scare Ties Up Missouri Glee Club Reunion
The University of Missouri Small pox Glee Club, famed for a 1914 Southwest and Pacific Coast tour, plans a fall reunion at Columbia. Coach C L Brewer recalls memories as the group faced flood delays and a smallpox outbreak, with members quarantined and hospitalized on return.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
C. L. Brewer
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Strongest Engine Demonstrates Power in Tests
The world’s most powerful freight engine completed exhaustive tests in Oakland. It pulled 84 cars through mountain passes and ran from Salt Lake City to the Pacific Coast without refueling. Powered by Diesel engines with 32 driving wheels, railroad men say it is economical only on runs needing up to 75 miles per hour.
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Oakland
Calif
Salt Lake City
Pacific Coast
Old Bailey to suspend flower tributes in wartime
The Old Bailey will suspend the custom of presenting bouquets to the judge and court officials and spreading aromatic herbs in the courtroom for the duration of wartime. The practice has only been halted twice before, most recently during the last World War.
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London
Eng
The
Old Bailey
Linen from South African flax eyed for export boom
African Linen Probable CAPETOWN may lead to a flax growing program to meet overseas demand. Proposals follow a plan executed 23 years ago by authorities to promote linen production.
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Capetown
South Africa
U.P
Local roster lists community names and participants
Margaret Ann Newkirk and a list of local residents including A. T. Ogg Har old Pascoe Glen Phillips Dorothy Rice Mildred Rollins Mary Alice Smith Lorene Stanton Donald Snyder Betty Taylor Eugene Vaughan Loy Warren and Billy Roy Wert comprise the community roster.
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Margaret Ann Newkirk
A. T. Ogg
Harold Pascoe
Glen Phillips
Dorothy Rice
Mildred Rollins
Mary Alice Smith
Lorane Stanton
Donald Snyder
Betty Taylor
Eugene Vaughan
Loy Warren
Billy Roy Wert
Plains Man Runs For Judge Post
William Richard Watkins, Amarillo born, Fort Worth attorney and former court reporter, announces candidacy for associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He cites long tenure in Amarillo and Fort Worth, emphasizes nonpolitical stance and focus on appellate briefing across state and federal courts.
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William Richard Watkins
W. A. Watkins
Amarillo
Supreme Court of Texas
Watkins
Fort Worth
Fisk
Trinidad
Colo
Clarendon
Memphis
University
TCU
Wichita Falls
U.S. Could Send 1000 Planes to Aid Allies
Washington reports that the United States could fly 1,000 bombardiers across the Atlantic within three weeks to aid England and France if approved. Some experts see this force as a decisive airpower swing, though a move is not planned and has been rebuffed.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic Ocean
England
France
Hitler
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Europe
Dancers Fight Blaze at Centerville Fire Department Ball
Centerville volunteers in the fire department stopped a drug store blaze across the street during their annual dance. In uniform party dress, they extinguished the fire and resumed dancing, losing barely a chorus.
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Butte
Mont
Centerville
Law as vocation and request for non endorsement signatures
The speaker says law is their life and asks for no written endorsements or petitions to be circulated in their name while expressing appreciation for aid and personal influence.
Sadler Calls for Special Session Over Resource Tax Plan
Granbury reports Jerry Sadler offering to quit the governor race if Gov. O'Daniel calls a special session to pass a bill taxing natural resources for old age pensions. Sadler accuses O'Daniel of opposing legislative cooperation on the measure and blocking two similar bills. The item also notes a separate feature about British Columbia and a locally built float described as a sea-going schoolhouse.
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Granbury
Jerry Sadler
W. Lee O'Daniel
Sadler
O'Daniel
Sound
British Columbia
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