Draft Limit Changes Narrow Conscription Age Debate
Washington AP reports Senate Army Military Committee narrowed the Burke-Wadsworth draft to men 21 to 30, keeping objections to mandatory training. Wheeler refused to drop opposition, while Barkley planned to push a separate bill authorizing a one year National Guard call up. House approved a near record defense appropriation of 4.96 billion, boosting total readiness funds.
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Washington
Senate
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Military Committee
National Guard
Barkley
House
Roosevelt
Nate Military Committee
House Military Committee
Stimson
Great Britain
Pacific
Japan
Italy
Germany
New Plan Outlined at Meeting of Officials and Business Men
Relief orders in Athens County were suspended pending a drastic financing plan. 2800 families or about 5120 people faced withheld benefits for the first half of August as Welfare officials outlined a three way plan to revamp relief administration while preserving surplus commodities.
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Athens County
Dale
Dale Ziggaroos
Theseus Sailed Under Threat From Submarine Off Ireland
The British liner Theseus, 6527 tons, reportedly sent a distress signal claiming attack by a submarine off southwest Ireland. Details were unavailable. The Theseus, owned by Ocean Steamship Co of Liverpool, may have been in a convoy to Canada possibly with refugee children onboard.
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New York
Mackay Radio Today
Ireland
Ocean Steamship Company Ltd
Liver
Canada
Cleveland coal fraud indictments total 130000 bribes
A six year coal purchase fraud in Cleveland led to bribery indictments against 12 coal company officials and a resigned city combustion engineer John L. Abbott who allegedly accepted 14863.35 in improper payments.
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Cleveland
John L. Abbott
Rothschild Deprived of Properties for Fleeing
Berlin reports Baron Maurice de Rothchild, a French senator and banking family member, among French citizens stripped of citizenship and property by the Petain regime for fleeing France.
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Berlin
Maurice de Rothchild
Petain
France
ACLU Names 13 States Over Labor Party Interference
The American Civil Liberties Union lists thirteen states including Washington and Ohio as places where interference with Communist and Socialist labor parties was alleged and guided by authorities.
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Washington
Ohio
American Civil Liberties Union
Akron Train Wreck Kill Count Rises to 43
Investigators blamed an engineman's failure to follow orders for a fiery head-on collision near Akron. A gasoline coach collided with a 73-car freight train, trapping passengers in flames and killing 43, including five children, with eight rail workers among the dead. Coroner and witnesses described escape as impossible as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Cuyahoga Falls
Akron
Columbus
R. E. Amos
Hudson
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
O. M. Lodge
New York Central
Lake Shore Limited
Little Falls
N. Y
Fair and Cool Weather Spell May Be Short
Ohio enjoyed fair and comfortable weather with a brief respite from a 12 day heat wave. However a new hot spell was forecast as cooling winds moved in from the northwest and nine heat deaths plus three drownings raised the toll to 115 for the 13 day period.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ralph C. Mize
Cleveland
Washington
France to Prohibit Freemasonry, Radio Reports
Berlin dispatch quotes Col Francois de la Rocque head of Croix De Feu claiming France will ban Freemasonry nationwide. The report cites the German radio service as the source of the statement and notes the touching on state policy.
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France
Berlin
Radio Today
Col
Francois de la Rocque
Croix de Feu
Motorman Killed in Slate Fall at Jackson Mine
Claude Downey aged 35 a motorman was killed today in a slate fall at the Jackson Iron and Steel Company mine located southeast of town.
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Jackson
Claude Downey
Jackson Iron and Steel Company
Here
Plan Aiail Pickup Service for Seven States
Representatives of American Aviation Inc discussed with airmail officials plans for nonstop airmail pickup service in seven states including Ohio. They talked about payment rates and probable start dates, meeting with post office officials yesterday.
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Washington
All American Aviation, Inc
Ohio
Post Office
Farmer nails into trees yields unexpected fruit harvest
In Dublin Georgia farmer James L Whitaker used a tip from a traveling apple man to drive dusty nails into the trunks of most of his unbearing apple trees. The nails apparently spurred the trees to fruiting and now all but one tree he skipped is loaded with harvest.
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Dublin
James L. Whitaker
Akron List of Dead From Pennsylvania Railroad Wreck
The identified dead in the Pennsylvania railroad wreck near Akron include E. C. Clifford of Cuyahoga Falls W. P. McKee and Russell Way of Akron Nelson Vaughan and Cleon Willis of Cuyahoga Falls Cameron Morris and Charles W Frank of Akron C. E. Carleton F. H. Dave Otto Bedarf 33 and Nina Jane Morey 50 of Akron Lois Helmick 22 and Jacob Henry Peters 23 of Akron Adam Ellenbrook of Akron Mary Badonsky 25 of Akron Elmer Davis of Cuyahoga Falls Mrs Lillian Gilbo and Mrs Sophia Ellis 60 of Akron.
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Here
E. C. Clifford
Cuyahoga Falls
W. P. McKee
Russell Way
Nelson Vaughan
Cameron Morris
Bruce Kelley
F. H. Dave
C. E. Carleton
Cleon Willis
Albert C. Burke
Charles W. Frank
Robert Edgar Orem
Charles T. Squires
Otto Bedarf
Nina Jane Morey
Lois Helmick
Adam Ellenbrook
Jacob Henry Peters
Mary Badonsky
Elmer Davis
Lillian Gilbo
Sophia Ellis
George White Backs Willkie for President
Former Ohio governor and ex Democratic National Committee chair George White announced support for Republican Wendell Willkie. White said he backed Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936 with reservations, but as an American and Jeffersonian Democrat he cannot vote for a third term for Roosevelt.
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Columbus
Ohio
George White
Democratic National Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
White
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Windsors To Sail For New York On Excalibur
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor traveling as Captain and Mrs Wood plan to sail aboard the Excalibur from Lisbon to New York with Maj. Gray Phillips and two aides aboard. The ship is due in New York August 9. They head to the Bahamas next for the governor post.
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Portugal
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
County committee to advance state aid plan in Athens County
A July Columbus conference led state officials and county leaders to study poor relief and propose actions for the rest of the year. A Wednesday meeting formed a committee to implement the department strategy with members including Athens officials and business figures. The Food Stamp Plan for Athens County will wait for mutual agreement on finances before launching.
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Athens
Hermann Theisen
United Mine Workers
A. E. Whaley
Athens Ice and Storage Co
Carl Beasley
F. J. Beasley and Co
T. M. Wolfe
Coal Company
Webb Walker
W. P. Oliver
Federal Surplus Marketing Administration
Athens County
Fall From Third Story Window Fatal To Baby
A 14 month old baby died after falling from a third story window in Granville as parents rearranged furniture in their new home. Marcia J. McDermott, daughter of Rev Boyd W. McDermott, was reported to have pushed out a screen before the fall. The father, a former pastor, had arrived to serve as director of town and county work for the Ohio Baptist Convention.
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Granville
Marcia J. McDermott
Boyd W. McDermott
McDermott
Federated Church
Hannibal
N. Y
Ohio Baptist Convention
Dynamite Used to Reach Bodies After Major Camden Fire
Firemen blasted fire-scarred walls of a paint factory in Camden to reach seven missing people after a $2,000,000 blaze wiped out a four-block area. Two bodies were recovered from the Hollingshead plant where explosions preceded the fire.
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Camden
N. J
R. M. Hollingshead Company
British Plane Output Equal to Germany's
The Aeroplane magazine estimated Germany's aircraft production at 1,800 per month and stated Britain and America could exceed that rate. It noted Britain has expanded output beyond Germany's and highlighted increasing aircraft shipments from Canada and the United States.
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London
Aeroplane
Germany
Great Britain
America
Canada
United States
Referendum on Corn Marketing Quotas Unlikely This Fall
Agriculture Department officials said heavy rainfall shortage in the corn belt has nearly eliminated the possibility of a grower referendum on corn marketing quotas this fall. They noted the 1940-41 quota level will depend on USDA estimates, with a July supply near 3.07 billion bushels and a 1940 crop projection of 2.416 billion, plus a 654 million carryover. Last season's supply was 3.192 billion bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Daily Worker Sold to Women
Three women of distinguished American ancestry became owners of The Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist Party in the United States. Mrs. Ferdinanda Reed, Mrs. Caro Lloyd Strobell, and Mrs. Susan H. Woodruff formed a publishing company to preserve the paper as a medium of free expression for working people. Louis F. Budenz was named to the executive board.
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New York
Daily Worker
Communist Party
United States
Ferdinanda Reed
Brattleboro
Caro Lloyd Strobell
Pekin
Vassar
Susan H. Woodruff
Tenafly
N. J
Smith College
America
Louis F. Budenz
Midwest People’s Record of
Chicago
Ohio Robbers Caught Following Court Escape
Lawrence Hill age 18 and Steve Ratcliff age 28, both of Dayton Ohio, were recaptured after leaping through a courtroom window during their trial. They had confessed to robbing a filling station in Atlantic Iowa and similar robberies in Cody Wyoming Garnett Kansas Middletown Osborne Vandalia and Dayton Ohio.
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Atlantic
Iowa
Lawrence Hill
Steve Ratcliff
Dayton
Cody
Wyo
Garnett
Kan
Middletown
Osborn
Vandalia
P. P. Edwards
Procter and Gamble Reports Largest 103 Year Profit
Procter and Gamble Co. reported net profit of 28.6 million dollars for the fiscal year ended June 39, marking the largest yearly net income in its 103 year history.
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Cincinnati
Procter & Gamble Co
Military Roads Get First Call In 4.1 Program
Ohio highway chief Beightler says the 1941 program may focus on military roads. A report due Aug 14 to Pa PWA district chief Swain requests weak links and cost estimates for strategic routes from Cincinnati to Huntington and Toledo to Indiana, detailing 30 ton weight, bridge clearances, widths and sight distances.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert S. Beightler
C. F E. Swain
Public Works Administration
Beightler
Hal G. Sours
U. S. 20
Cincinnati
Portsmouth
Ohio River
Huntington
U. S
Sunbury
Mt. Gilead
Cleveland
Toledo
Pennsylvania
Palestine
Indiana State Line
Paulding County
Why England Slept and the Rise of Youth Insight
The War Today editor reviews John F. Kennedy’s Why England Slept at age 23. He notes Kennedy’s analysis of England’s unpreparedness, leadership flaws, aristocratic influence, and wartime policy debates. The column highlights a broader surge of engaged youth seeking roles in national affairs.
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Britain
Wall
John F. Kennedy
Court of St. James
England
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Joe” Kennedy
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Hitler
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Godesberg
Munich
Chamberlain
John
Civic Sun
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