Senate action nears on army service extension bill
Senate leaders push final approval of the army service extension, adopting the House version by one vote in a 203 to 202 roll call. Both drafts add 18 months of service for selectees guardsmen reservists and regulars plus a 10 dollar monthly raise after year one. A five senator bloc warned they could not block final approval. A second item reports a sweeping War Department revision of selective service induction procedures to curb last minute rejections by army doctors.
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Senate
White House
House
Administration
Johnson
Calif
LaFollette
Wis
Taft
Ohio
Clark
Danaher
Conn
War Department
Army
Department
Pennsylvania
High Command
Ceiling on Coal Prices May Be Set Next Month
Washington AP reports a ceiling on soft coal prices to curb rising costs may be fixed by the bituminous division with hearings set to begin September 9. Director Howard A. Gray approved the date after a petition by coal consumers counsel, proposing about a 10 percent top rise from present minimums.
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Washington
Howard A. Gray
Coal Consumers Counsel
Pennsylvania
Maryand
West Virginia
Ohio
Panhandle
Kentucky
Virginia
Tennessee
U S Sends Gas to Soviet as Ickes Announces Oil Shipments
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced the first avia tion gasoline shipment to Russia aboard an American tanker would depart Los Angeles for Vladivostok. He said more tankers would follow and noted east coast gasoline deliveries rose 8 percent last week despite blackout conditions. Potential rationing of supplies to service stations was hinted at as a possible future measure.
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Washington
Ickes
Russia
Los Angeles
Vladivostok
United States
East
Atlantic Seaboard
McKechnie Secures Two Year Reds Managerial Pact
Cincinnati report states William B. McKechnie signed for two more seasons as manager of the Reds. Terms not released but industry chatter links him to about $25,000 annually plus a $5,000 attendance bonus. McKechnie joined Cincinnati in 1938 from Boston and transformed a last place club into a pennant winner by 1939 and a World Series champion in 1940.
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Cincinnati
William B. McKechnie
Cincinnati Reds
McKechnie
Reds
Boston
War Alters Soap Box Derby Wardrobe Plans
Akron news reports a wartime shortage forces a wardrobe change for the international soap box derby. Derby director J P Gormley says a shipment of duraluminum crash helmets ordered from England is overdue and presumed lost at sea. One hundred twenty five local champions from Canada, Alaska, Mexico and the United States will wear football helmets which they will keep.
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Akron
J. P. Gormley
England
Canada
Alaska
Mexico
United States
Former Ohio State Star Named Gibisonville Coach
Byron Eby from Chillicothe, a former Ohio State University football star, was named basketball coach at Gibisonville High School. He succeeds Tom Rose who led Gibisonville for six years and has moved to a position in Hardin County.
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Logan
Byron Eby
Chillicothe
Ohio State University
Gibisonville High School
Eby
Tom Rose
Gibisonville
Hardin County
July air raid toll tops previous month in Britain
London reports July casualties totaling 501 civilians killed or missing and 447 needing hospital care, bringing war totals to 42,257 dead and 53,125 injured since the war began. July deaths exceed June figures, and September 1940 saw peak monthly losses with 6,955 killed and 10,624 hospitalized.
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London
Home Security Ministry
Conscientious Objector Refuses Uniform in Induction
The Army Fifth Corps Area Judge Advocate's office investigated Roger M. Hostetler a 23 year old Urbana Ohio selectee who refused to wear his Army uniform after induction Local draft board reportedly did not recognize his conscientious objector claim He is a Mennonite opposed to military training
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Columbus
Army
Fifth Corps Area Judge Advocate’s Office
Roger M. Hostetler
Urbana, O
Urbana
Mennonite Church
Five year old dies in clothing fire in Rossford
Toledo report says five year old Jeanette Kopp died last night after her clothing ignited from matches. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kopp of Rossford.
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Wanda Brownell
Harry Brownell
Racine
Toledo
Jeanette Kopp
Charles Kopp
Rossford
Japs Seize Mission and Hold American Prisoners
Shanghai reports say Japanese troops seized the American Southern Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsaingkiangpu on July 31. Forty military police forced Americans to gather on a mission residence and have since been kept incommunicado.
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Shanghai
Southern Presbyterian Mission Hospital
Tsaingkiangpu
Presbyterian Mission
Fifth Columnist Act Turned Down by Army
The Army in Southwest Arkansas rejected civilian participation as fifth columnists. The War Department in Washington ordered Lt. Gen. Ben Lear and Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger that civilians must not be enlisted in any unauthorized fifth column operations.
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Arkansas
War Department
Washington
Ben Lear
Second Army
Walter Krueger
Third Army
Pottery Worker Kills Wife Then Shoots Self
Cadiz coroner A B Tubbs reports William Woods aged 34 killed his wife Gertrude 32 and then shot himself after a quarrel in their Scio home last week. Both were pottery workers.
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Cadiz
A. B. Tubbs
William Woods
Gertrude
Scio
Toledo Boy Killed Riding Fertilizing Machine Gears
Donald Swartzwalder ten year old son of Mr and Mrs Otto Swartzwalder of Lake Township was killed yesterday when he was thrown into the gears of a fertilizing machine he was riding.
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Toledo
Donald Swartzwalder
Otto. Swartzwalder
Lake Township
Rendezvous for Victory Pledge Between Roosevelt and Churchill
A pledge to achieve the final destruction of Nazi tyranny was concluded at a secret Atlantic meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Rumors had circulated since the President sailed on the yacht Potomac on August 3.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Great Britain
Potomac
Army Housing Program Too Expensive Says Senate Panel
A special Senate committee found the army's billion dollar housing program unduly costly largely due to cost plus fixed fee contracts. The panel stopped short of accusing officials of dishonesty while urging better advance planning and use of available information to trim excess costs.
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Washington
Senate
War Department
Strikers End Walkout At Curtiss Wright Plant
Caldwell New Jersey members of Lodge 703 International Association of Machinists voted unanimously to end the strike at Curtiss Wright Corporation propeller plant with $100 million in defense orders. Delegates urged ending the walkout after a national defense mediation board conference in Washington. The strike began Friday as an unauthorized welders demonstration and was later taken over by the AFL union.
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Caldwell
N. J
AFL
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Lodge 703
International Association of Machinists
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
Picketing by 300 CIO Members Shuts Gypsum Plant
Three hundred CIO members from Toledo Sandusky Cleveland and Genoa Ohio picketed the Gypsum Ohio plant of the U S Gypsum Co today preventing the day shift from entering The United Mine Workers District 50 called a strike at 21 company plants August 1 seeking a national contract The Gypsum plant was closed temporarily but resumed operations under an injunction by Judge A F Allyn Ottawa County common pleas court
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Gypsum, O
CIO
Toledo
Sandusky
Cleveland
Genoa
Gypsum
Ohio Senator Urges Change After Six Months in Senate
Ohio's junior Republican Harold H. Burton of Cleveland said in six months in Washington that fiscal policies must change. He urged a shift in House control in 1942 and national administration in 1944, signaling urgent change for the country. A separate Akron item reports two year old John Danestoz drowning in a neighbor's ornamental pond, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Danesis.
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Washington
Senate
Ohio
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland
House of Representatives
Drowns
Akron
John Danesis
George Danesis
Indicted Pack Firms Face Sherman Antitrust Probe
Nine Ohio firms led by the Stedman Co of Athens and one executive were among 118 corporations and individuals indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for conspiring to fix prices on Easter ham. The American Meat Institute denied any conspiracy, claiming only legitimate activities and urging housewives not to blame price differences on wrongdoing.
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Chicago
Ohio
Stedman Co
Athens
American Meat Institute
Packers
Hope To End Wheat Dispute
Rep J Harry McGregor says new legislation sent to the White House would ease Ohio protests over the wheat marketing program. The bill would let farmers feed excess wheat to livestock or use it at home, avoiding a 49 cent per bushel penalty for quota overruns. Senator Burton predicted the measure would address the Ohio situation.
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Washington
J. Harry McGregor
Ohio
White House
Burton
Two Are Killed Three Injured In Auto Wreck
Two persons died and three were injured when a car struck a utility pole then hit another vehicle and careened down an embankment near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Washington D. C. Doris Whaley Brannon, 19, was thrown into Paint Creek and died. James Armstrong, 28, of Mount Sterling, also died.
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Washington D. H
Baltimore and Ohio
Doris Whaley Brannon
Paint Creek
William Miller
James Armstrong
Mount Sterling
Investigation Into Oil Tank Explosion Kills Three
An inquiry began in Cleveland to determine if sabotage caused an oil tank explosion that killed three men at the Cleveland Hardware and Forging Co. yesterday. The men operated a die casting machine with an attached oil tank and furnace when the blast shook the four story plant. Officials said the tank was two months old and government inspected.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Hardware and Forging Co
75 Year Old Japanese Vice Premier Shot in Tokyo
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, the vice premier and minister without portfolio, was struck in the chest by a pistol bullet fired by a 33 year old assailant in Tokyo. Despite severe wounds he chased the attacker to the gate and was captured with the help of a gatekeeper.
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Hiranuma
Fumimaro Konoye
Nishiyama
No Change in U S Attitude Toward Communism
Milo J. Warner of Toledo, national commander of the American Legion, told the New York State Legion convention that U S attitude toward Communism should not change. He urged increased aid to Great Britain while reaffirming opposition to Communism and Stalin despite Russia’s invasion of Germany.
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Rochester
Russia
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Milo J. Warner
Toledo
American Legion
Warner
New York State Legion
Legion
Stalin
Communist Party
Brother-in-Law Held In Fireman's Slaying
Cincinnati police arrest Harry H. Frey aged 54, the brother-in-law of fireman Edward C. Woelfel, 53, in a fatal shooting at a western hilltop street intersection. Frey blames Woelfel for his sister in law’s death and for alleged attentions to his wife.
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Cincinnati
Edward C. Woelfel
Woelfel
Harry H. Frey
U S Plans Improvement of Iceland’s Harbors
Reykjavik report says an agreement calls for U S forces to expand Iceland harbor facilities with U S materials and Iceland labor, giving U S absolute priority on facility use. Warehouse facilities will also be extended.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
United States
Train Auto Collision Kills Hamilton Girl
A train auto collision killed Doris Jean Buell, 13, in Hamilton yesterday. Her father Walter Buell of Somerville leaped to safety before the crash. Doris Jean was the driver.
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Hamilton
Doris Jean Buell
Walter, Buell
Somerville
Doris Jean
Roosevelt and Churchill Issue Secret Atlantic War Aims
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced a joint eight point declaration after a secret sea meeting. They pledged to pursue the final destruction of Nazi tyranny and to examine munition supplies for nations resisting aggression.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
White House
Germany
Churchill
Propaganda Blunt View of Roosevelt Churchill Aims
Berlin dismisses the Roosevelt Churchill war aims declaration as propaganda. The White House release notes eight principle goals for postwar peace while Beaverbrook heads to Washington to discuss supplies. Hopkins location remains uncertain after Moscow talks.
Nazi Rumanian Forces Reach Black Sea Coast Odessa Envelopment
Nazi Fuehrer headquarters report German and Rumanian troops reached the Black Sea coast between the Bug River and Odessa in pursuit of the Red Army in the Ukraine. High command said Romanians encircled Odessa and Germans surrounded Nikolaev as fighting intensified along the coast and inland toward Smolensk and Vyazma.
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Adolf Hitler
Black Sea
Bug River
Odessa
Russia
Ukraine
Nazi Fuehrer
Red Army
Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Nikolaev
Bug
Ategion
Straya Russa
Moscow Leningrad
Smolensk
Berlin
Vyazma
J Stuart Blackton Pioneer of Film Dies at 66
Hollywood mourns J Stuart Blackton a pioneer motion picture producer who rose to fame before the 1929 crash and later faced bankruptcy. He died yesterday at age 66.
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Hollywood
J. Stuart Blackton
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