Italian Troops Massed for Attack on Keypt as Key To Mediterranean Control
Britain faces a strategic crisis as Italy massed for a potential invasion of Egypt and control of the Suez route. In Washington negotiations began for hundreds of millions in allied war supplies, while Mussolini appears ready to risk a large campaign in Africa. Italian columns move toward Berbera and Zeila, with a main force threatening Hargeisa and a path to Berbera, amid warnings of possible Italian successes.
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Arthur Greenwood
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France
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Benito Mussolini
Egypt
Mussolini
Suez
Daily Express
Minister For Aircraft Produc
Zeila
Hargeisa
Odweina
Nazi Diplomat Shakeup in Western Hemisphere Seen
Washington reports forecast a shakeup of German diplomatic and consular staffs in the Western Hemisphere after Havana talks on Fifth Column activity. Speculation cites possible withdrawals and replacements with less active Nazi officials, amid FBI and Congress moves on wiretaps and probes. Noted figures include Dr. Gerhard Westrick in New York and Baron Edgar Von Spiegel in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
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Three Dead in Plant Blast at King Powder Plant
A blast at the King Powder Co. plant in King's Mills shattered the plant area and sent debris across the Little Miami River. Three men were killed Charles Resibois Ho bart Combs and William Reed all with families. Witnesses reported the 1,000-pound roller and building fragments tossed into the air and windows blown for miles around.
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King Powder Co
King’s Mills
Charles Resibois
Hobart Combs
William Reed
Little Miami
Milford
Combs
Resibois
Rains Needed In Grain Belt
Washington report cites drought damage across several states with the Weather Bureau saying the corn crop in the mid western feed grain belt needs rain. Damage greatest to early seeded corn in Nebraska and Kansas. Ohio Valley upland crop firing and tassel short. Recent showers improved late crop in Nebraska and South Dakota. in Iowa progress and condition described as good though about a quarter of crop in some areas suffered permanent damage.
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Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Kansas
Ohio Valley
South Dakota
Iowa
Coal minimums set for three states clarify pricing
Washington reports the bituminous division has set coal minimums for three states. Ohio and West Virginia consumers will pay mine prices ranging from 1.35 to 3.30 dollars per ton for Southern West Virginia smoke-Jess coal and for Eastern Kentucky and Northeastern Tennessee coals under the new minimums.
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Washington
Ohio
West Virginia
Smoke- Jess
Kentucky
Tennessee
Crushed by Logs Fatal for Man at West Liberty Farm
Otis B. Lockwood, 56, was fatally crushed by falling logs at his West Liberty farm yesterday. The accident occurred on his property and prompted an immediate emergency response.
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West Liberty
Otis B. Lockwood
Taxpayers Oppose Bridge Bond Purchase in Huntington
Two Cabell County Taxpayers' League members petition for a circuit court restraining Cabell County from issuing bonds to buy the Huntington-Ohio Bridge for 2 million dollars. They call the price grossly excessive and note the Lawrence County Ohio Bridge Commission planned condemnation to acquire the span.
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W. Va
Cabell County Taxpayers’ League
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Huntington-Ohio
Lawrence Country
Ohio
Housing Shortages Widen With Defense Drive
Washington reports imminent housing shortages in nearly 200 key cities as the national executive committee of housing authorities cites expansion of the national defense program. The warning highlights critical gaps affecting workers and defense project staff nationwide.
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Escaped Reformatory Man Drowns in River
Ben Turner age 23, recently sentenced in Florida for forging government checks, escaped from a work detail at the U S Reformatory yesterday and drowned after entering the Scioto River while swimming.
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Chillicothe
Ben Turner
Florida
U. S. Reformatory
Scioto River
Vote Near on Bill To Permit Calling Militia
Washington reports progress in Congress as the Senate nears a vote on a bill allowing the President to order the National Guard into active training. Debate featured sharp exchanges between Holt and Minton over conscription, with factional battles shaping the path to a broader Burke-Wadsworth showdown and a potential shift to voluntary enlistment before any draft.
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Sheppard
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D-Neb
Maloney
D-Conn
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D-Pa
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House
France
South America
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Hitler
Jacksonville Votes on Tax Levy in General Election
Jacksonville village will seek a two mill levy for current expenses at the November 5 general election. The council adopted the resolution to submit the question and the levy would apply to tax duplicates for 1940 through 1944. Mayor Caldwell sent the notice. council president Judson and village clerk Hilt certified the resolution.
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Jacksonville
O. K. Parrett
Election Board
C. C. Caldwell
Joe Judson
William C. Hilt
Chinese Mass Troops On Indo China Border Warn Tokyo
Reuters dispatch from Shanghai reports China warning French authorities against allowing Japanese bases in French Indo China. Chinese press says troops are moving toward the Indo China frontier and defensive preparations are being rushed.
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Indo-China
London
Reuters
Shanghai
Gayda denies Axis plan to war into Americas
Virginio Gayda, Italian Fascist editor, responded to US Secretary Hull's warning by saying Germany and Italy have no intention of extending the war to the Western Hemisphere. He accused Hull of creating a phantom threat and asserted Italy and Germany will not threaten other continents.
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Virginio Gayda
United States
State Hull
Germany
Italy
Gayda
Il Giornale D'Italia
Hull
U S Arms Plants To Be Permanently Established
Washington AP reports a permanent munitions industry to be largely government owned, aimed at supplying 2,000,000 men. About 60 ordnance plants are planned with long life design, yet operated only as needed. Army has $244 million of $700 million for the program. a $25 million DuPont powder plant is under contract in Southern Indiana. Labor shortages may delay some plants.
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Washington
Patterson
Army
DuPont
Operals
Souuthern Indiana
Alleghenies
Mississippi
Seven Ohioans Die Tuesday in Auto Crashes
In Ohio seven people were killed in separate crashes on Tuesday. Among the dead are George F. Matthews, 71, of Cincinnati, and his daughter Johanna Walker, 41, of Akron, in a head on collision on State Route 18 near Montrose Summit County. Injured is Mrs. Matthews who was taken to an Akron hospital. Three Columbus residents returning from an Illinois funeral died in a crash near Marion Indiana. They were Henry Igel, his wife, and William Buck. James McKean, 24, of Ashtabula died when his motorcycle left the road. Gladys Handerson, 21, OSU coed, Saybrook Township, also died in a separate crash near Ashtabula with two relatives critically hurt. Matthew Loney of Columbus was injured.
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Montrose
Summit County
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Michigan
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Germans Impatient Over Hungary Romania Territorial Delay
Diplomatic observers report German impatience at the stalled Hungary Romania territorial settlement as Raoul Bossy Romanian minister to Rome leaves for Budapest to learn Hungary's minimum demands for Transylvania. Romanian neighbors' claims faced less press attention in the controlled press.
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Hungary
Rumania
Raoul Bossy
Rome
Budapest
Transylvania
Romania
Nazis Would Wipe Out Jews
European paper The Black Guard, organ of Hitler’s SS Elite Guard, stated that a German peace would require banishing Jews from Europe. It warned Jews would be driven from hiding places across occupied and neutral territories, including Norway Denmark Holland Belgium and France, despite supposed restraint.
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Das Schwarze Krops
Adolf Hitler
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Denmark
Holland
Belgium
France
Mussolini’s Assault Aims to Split British War Effort
The piece argues Mussolini’s Africa offensive seeks two major British operations, threatening Egypt and the Suez Canal. It warns of a collapse of British imperial lifelines to India and the Far East, boosting Japanese aims, while noting Graziani as a strong Italian desert commander who once shifted North Africa’s balance.
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Suez
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Turkey
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Balkans
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Rodolfo Graziani
Graziani
Itas
Wirenaica
Libya
Stander Willing to Answer Questions in Probe of Communism
Lionel Stander says he will answer questions in the film industry probe into alleged Communism but accuses Prosecutor Baron Fitts of political ambition. The comedian was among more than 50 film figures subpoenaed.
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Lionel Stander
Baron Fitts
Beightler Promoted to Brigadier General in Ohio National Guard
Col. Robert S. Beightler, chief of staff of the 37th Division, was named brigadier general in the Ohio National Guard by Gov. John W. Bricker. The promotion, pending War Department approval and a board exam, places him commander of the 174th Infantry Brigade covering the 147th and 166th regiments. Lt. Col. Whittier B. Bird also promoted to colonel and named chief of staff of the 37th Division.
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Columbus
Robert S. Beightler
Ohio National Guard
John W. Bricker
Frank D. Henderson
Ohio Penitentiary
Beightler
War Department
C. B. Hodges
U.S. Army
Fifth Corps
Army General Staff
Washington
Whittier &. Bird
Adj
Gilson D. Light
Ohio
Bigelow Abandons Pension Plan Bid for November
In Columbus the deadline for constitutional amendments for the November election passed with indications none would reach the ballot. Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincinnati, an old age pension advocate, abandoned plans to re submit his guaranteed income proposal. The plan would give single persons over 60 years old $50 a month and married couples $80, a measure defeated overwhelmingly last November.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Communist Candidate Convicted of Fraud in West Virginia
Beckley West Virginia Communist candidate for governor O Wheeler aged 54 faced a six to fifteen year prison term after a jury of coal miners convicted him of fraudulent solicitation of names on the petition to place the Communist Party on the November ballot. The jurors deliberated less than two hours after the trial last night.
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Beckley
W. Va
Olwear O. Wheeler
West Virginia
Communist Party
Meigs County Man Hurt in 35-Foot Fall at Salt Works
Elisha Rizer aged 50 of Minersville Meigs County suffered serious injuries after falling 35 feet at the White Rock salt works this morning. He was hospitalized. Rizer is married and father of four sons.
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Gallipolis
Elisha Rizer
Minersville
White Rock
Rizer
Farmers fined for torching horses in as-of-yet unclear case
Scottsville Kentucky reports Floyd Stafford and Jack Mitchell were fined ten dollars plus costs after charges that they poured inflammable liquid on two horses and set fire to them to force work. The incident occurred yesterday in Scottsville.
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Scottsville
Floyd Stafford
Jack Mitchell
Axis grand strategy eyed in East attacks
Reports describe coordinated Axis moves across Africa and toward Egypt with Italian forces advancing from Libya and Somaliland while German plans threaten Gibraltar and the Red Sea region. Britons warn of renewed bombings and a London target. Soviet Estonia treaty linked to US trade pact amid war tensions.
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Aden Protectorate
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Belgium
John Cudahy
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Greenwood
Hitler
Excess Profits Tax Proposal Presented to Congress
A house subcommittee offered a bill to raise 300 to 500 million dollars yearly from corporate earnings under the defense program. The excess profits tax would levy 25 to 40 percent on certain portions of industrial profits to fund defense.
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Washington
Congress
House
Holy Land Bombed Jerusalem Raid by Italian Planes
Italian war planes raided Haifa for the third time today. Damage and casualties were believed slight. Local authorities reported no major destruction and ongoing investigations into the incident.
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Holy Land
Jerusalem
Haifa
Check Diplomat on Interview
The State Department sought a complete text of John P. Cudahy’s London interview, which criticized Belgium’s food famine claim. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said the interview was granted without State Department consultation or authority.
Gulf Coast Storm Impacts Morgan City Missing 19
A tropical disturbance moving westward along the Louisiana coast left 19 people missing from Morgan City on fishing trips. The storm drove Gulf waters to near record heights inland, forcing trappers and fishermen to seek refuge in courthouses and schools, with notable missing include Rev Jules S Toups and Russell Brownell.
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Louisiana
Texas
Gulf
Morgan City
Jules S. Toups
Russell Brownell
Russian Fleet Sails Pacific for Large Scale Maneuvers
New York report says the Russian fleet including light and heavy ships submarines and aircraft has entered the Pacific for large scale maneuvers. The announcement was picked up by the BBC and relayed via NBC short wave service.
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New York
Pacific
British Broadcasting Company
NBC
War Department Contracts Awarded for Bar Racks Chairs
The War Department awarded Marc He tta Chair Co a contract worth 45 318 dollars for bar racks chairs, with terms and delivery to be specified by military procurement officials.
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Washington
Marchetta (O.) Chair Co
War Department
Woman Captures German Aviator Near Bristol Road
London socialite Lady Buckland widow of Lord Buckland and sister-in-law of Lord Camrose publisher of The London Daily Telegraph captured a Nazi aviator who had been roaming England nine days. She spotted him on a country road near Bristol, questioned him and took him to authorities after noting his unusual appearance. The flier had bailed from a disabled plane and was at large before the encounter.
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Lady Buckland
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Lord Camrose
London Daily Telegraph
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