Roosevelt to push wartime neutrality revision in Congress
President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to revise the neutrality law to arm U S merchant ships and to allow them to enter combat zones, aiming for swift House action and quick Senate consideration. Leaders expect hearings on arming ships and repeal of combat zone prohibitions, with Cordell Hull likely to testify.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
House
U. S
Halifax
British Isles
Senate
North Atlantic
Iceland
Tom Connally
Texas
Sol Bloom
New York
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cordell Hull
Alben W. Barkley
White House
Nazi Claims of Major Soviet Breakthroughs Reported
The article reports on German and Soviet claims amid the Vyazma and Bryansk fighting near Moscow. It notes encirclement efforts, Luftwaffe pressure, and Red Army resilience, with Moscow and Berlin presenting contrasting outlooks on encirclements and potential Moscow fall. A shift to Hollywood news follows, detailing Virginia Weidler’s seven year Metro deal.
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Moscow
Ted Fleet
Europe
Berlin
Vyazma
Smolensk
Semyon Timoshenko
Red Army
High Command
Timoshenko
Hollywood
UPI
Virginia Weidler
Miss Weidler
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Weidler
Margaret Weidler
Fake Romanian Doll City Tricks Bombers at Ploesti
American travelers report a German decoy city near Ploesti Romania built to mislead Russian bombers. The scale model includes refineries and electric lights with a miniature railroad, designed to appear and function like the real oil center to deter night raids.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Rumania
Plesti
Ploesti
Slavs Battle Nazi Troops in Yugoslavia Front
Tass reported fierce fighting along a line from Valievo to Sabac to Obrenovic with Jugoslav guerrillas surrounding Valievo and capturing hundreds of German officers and men. The front lies west of Belgrade as German and Italian troops face sustained resistance. In Belgrade the Baltic dispatch noted executions of 32 people for communist gang membership in Tscharpurija and Jagodina.
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Moscow
U.P
Tass
Jugoslav
Jugoslavia
Valievo
Sabac
Obrenovic
Belgrade
Shabats
Jugoslav Capital
Berlin
Tscharpurija
Jagodina
Fire Prevention Week runs with speeches at local schools
Fire Marshal Ed Spann scheduled four speeches on fire prevention for Fire Prevention Week at Guadalupe School St Marys Academy Price Memorial College and St Francis School. Bob Brummell planned a KGNC talk at 730 pm and Dorsey Smith spoke on KFDA this morning.
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Ed Spann
Guadalupe School
St. Mary's Academy
Price Memorial College
St. Francis School
Bob Brummal
KGNC
Dorsey Smith
KFDA
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
The forecast covers Amarillo and surrounding areas with clear to partly cloudy skies this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Temperatures rise with today’s high near 72 and tonight’s low about 50. Central portions may see scattered showers while western regions stay partly cloudy.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Russell Stationery Company
Lend Lease Fund Details Revealed in Hearings
A wartime report outlines the lend-lease program as Congress weighs an omnibus bill totaling about 6.16 billion dollars with 1.875 billion for agricultural goods and 1.19 billion for ordnance and stores. It notes expected delivery by mid 1943 and stresses no armament cutbacks or draft suspensions.
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Congress
Budget Bureau
Roosevelt
Ordnane
Britain
Stimson
George C. Marshall
Army
Russia
Girl Marries Another Girl, Is Arrested
Frances Orlando, 31, confessed to posing as a man for 15 years and marrying an 18 year old Sacramento girl last Labor Day. She worked as a carpenter in Los Angeles under the name Richard Orlando and claimed eloping to Nevada completed the marriage. Sacramento police asked for further questioning as officials decide on disposition.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Frances Orlando
Sacramento
Richard Orlando
Elizabeth Nunz
Miss Nunz
Minden
Nev
Fog Chases Frost From Panhandle
Fog prevented frost formation in the Panhandle with a low of 51 briefly. warm southeast air kept temperatures from dropping. Fog delayed airline travel but cleared by mid morning. highs near 70 and lows around 50 with light southwest winds and no precipitation.
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Texas
Panhandle
Sergeant Bell Plans Three Year Retirement Joke
Sgt. F. M. Bell of Marine Recruiting told recruits he could retire in three years for a fat income. A youth asked what then, and the sergeant said he would wander the woods in his uniform until an old soldier asks about his cap insignia, then he would stop and stay.
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F. M. Bell
Marine Recruiting
Bud
Borger City Manager's Wife Buried in Aledo
Mrs. Anna Louise Davis, 57, wife of Borger city manager L. M. Davis, died in a Wichita Falls hospital. Funeral services are set for 3 P M today in Aledo Texas. Funeral home listed as Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Wichita Falls
Anna Louise Davis
L. M. Davis
Borger
Aledo
Texas
Show Producer Earl Carroll Seeks Beauty Priorities
Dallas report says producer warns that defense jobs have drawn away top women, reducing chorus applicants from 200 to 40 for his Vanities at the Texas State Fair. He telegraphed Donald Nelson asking for a priorities number and offered favors in exchange.
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Dallas
Earl Carroll
Donald Nelson
Nazi Menace Arrested in U S
George Sylvester Viereck a 56 year old journalist faced arraignment on a charge of withholding information when registering as an agent of a foreign power. Bail set at 20000 with removal to Washington for indictment. Prosecutor William Power Maloney described him as a major menace and noted payments from Germany up to 40000 in a year for propaganda work.
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New York
George Sylvester Viereck
State Department
U. S
Isaac Platt
Viereck
Washington
William Power Maloney
Tragedy Near Vincennes as Mother Dies in Crash
Three year old Anna Marie Snyder flagged down help after her mother Margaret Skinner Snyder newborn 24 of Fritchton died when an automobile ran off a road and overturned. A truck driver who stopped said he noticed the child standing by the highway and waving. The child was unhurt. A local resident reports finding a pigeon's nest in an electric sign at 605 Taylor Street.
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Vincennes
Ind
Anna Marie Snyder
Margaret Skinner Snyder
Fritchton
Revolt Fears Hit Bevin On Wartime Labor Policy
In London Ernest Bevin warned critics of wartime manpower policy that extreme labor measures could spark revolt, citing Germany’s experience with wage levelling and overtime controls. He urged caution and said parliament should consider possible repercussions before acting.
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London
U.P
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
House of Commons
Germany
Labor
Britain
Record line production reach new daily zinc output high
Amer can Zinc Institute reported September slab zinc smelter output at a record daily average of 2,441 tons, surpassing August's 2,436 ton peak, in New York. The note cites Wallpaper ideas at Dwight Newby's.
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New York
Amercan Zinc Institute, Inc
Nazis Gain Vital Metal in Turkey Deal Talks
Turkish chromium exports to Britain and America would reportedly continue through 1942 while Germany secures at least half of Turkey’s chromium and pledges $15 million in military equipment. Diplomats in Ankara indicated a deal shaping to give Germany control after 1942, drawing warnings from Britain and the United States.
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Preston Grover
Ankara
Turkey
Germany
United States
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
J. W. A. Mac Murray
London
Washington
MacMurray
Britain
America
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