U S and Canada Forge Permanent Defense Ties
Presidents Roosevelt and Mackenzie King announce a permanent joint defense board to study sea land and air security issues linking U S and Canada. The accord locks neutral United States into North American defense against Germany and Italy and signals closer collaboration amid wartime threats.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Canada
United States
Board of Defense
Roosevelt
W. L. Mackenzie King
Ogdensburg
Germany
Italy
New Paralysis Cases Reported in Ohio
State Health Director R H Markwith announced five more infantile paralysis cases raising the June 10 total to 68. Three new cases boost Lawrence County to seven, one Scioto County to 22, and one Hamilton County to two, with the health official deeming the situation serious but not epidemic.
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Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Lawrence County
Scioto County
Hamilton County
Markwith
Murderer Walks Away From Pen Honor Crew
Julian Krause 29 a convicted murderer escapes from an Ohio Penitentiary honor crew at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Sunday hours after starting work there. He was serving a life sentence for the October 1930 Canton merchant holdup murder.
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Columbus
Julian Krause
Ohio State Fairgrounds
Krause
Ohio Penitentiary Trusty
Canton
Band Director Bayless Resigns for Fostoria Post
Gallipolis reports A. Jord Bayless, long time school band director, resigns to take a similar position in Fostoria. The district has not yet named his successor.
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Gallipolis
A. Jord Bayless
Fostoria
Are You Superstitious Series Begins in The Messenger
Dr. A B Cartwright of the University of Oklahoma has spent over 30 years collecting more than 12 000 superstitions. The new series Are You Superstitious starts in The Messenger on Page 4 today.
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America
A. B. Cartwright
University of Oklahoma
the Messenger
Bullitt warns of German attack if Britain falls
U S Ambassador William C Bullitt urged conscription and aid to Britain in a Independence Hall address. He warned the United States faces grave danger and could be attacked if Britain falls, calling for action and naval aid to deter Germany.
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Philadelphia
U.S
France
William C. Bullitt
United States
Great Britain
Independence Square
State Department
America
Washington
Willkie Opens Kansas Speaking Tour In September
Willkie plans a nationwide tour starting in Coffeyville Kansas in mid September可能 if Roosevelt agrees to joint debates. He pressed Roosevelt to debate foreign and domestic issues face to face while noting he has heard nothing from Washington.
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Willkie
Kansas
Rushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Coffeyville
Roosevelt
Wallace Resigns as Agriculture Secretary to Campaign
President Roosevelt accepted Henry A. Wallace’s resignation as Secretary of Agriculture to allow Wallace to campaign for the New Deal. Wallace praised Roosevelt’s leadership and promised to devote his efforts to explaining the agricultural program to the American people. The move shifts campaign duties to other cabinet members as Roosevelt limits political debate due to defense concerns.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Wendell L. Willkie
Typhoid Fear Hits Flood Area In North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids and Weldon face devastating floods with 400 and 600 refugees advised to vaccinate against typhoid. The Roanoke River crest at 58 feet worsens disaster as a Halifax Paper Corp plant burns and fire crews battle flames from boats.
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Roanoke Rapids
N. C
North Carolina
Jackson
Here
Weldon
Roanoke River
Halifax Paper Corporation
Four Army Fliers Die in Ruston Area Plane Crash
Four Army airmen including two officers and two enlisted men were killed when a B-12 bomber crashed and burned in an open field seven miles southwest of Ruston Louisiana during an electrical storm. The crew apparently attempted to land at Arcadia seventeen miles west of Ruston but the storm disabled the emergency field lighting.
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Buston
Here
Arcadia
Ruston
Lucas County Convict Flees Prison Farm
London prison authorities report Howard Young a 38 year old convict from Lucas County escaped from the honor dormitory at the London Prison Farm. He was admitted in 1930 to serve one to twenty years for shooting to kill and would have faced a parole hearing in two months.
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London
Howard Young
Lucas County
London Prison Farm
W. F. Amrine
Young
Delayed Action Bombs Wreck English Homes
Delayed action bombs exploded several hours after being dropped in a southeast England town. Ten houses were damaged and a bus garage burned in the incident.
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England
Driver William Hall Dies in Lake Milton Dive
William E. Hall age 50 a driver for a railway express company died from a broken neck after a dive at Lake Milton Salem reported. The incident occurred during a recreation dive and authorities investigated the probable accidental death.
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Salem
William E. Hall
Lake Milton
Chrysler Auto Magnate Walter P. Chrysler Dies at 65
Walter P. Chrysler died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his suburban Long Island home in Great Neck. He will be buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery after a Wednesday funeral at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. Once a locomotive wiper, he rose to run 25 plants in five states and three foreign countries from his 77 story Manhattan skyscraper while calling himself a machinist.
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New York
Walter P
Chrysler
America
Long Island
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
Sleepy Hollow
Tarrytown
N. Y
mid-Manhattan
German Chemist Fined for Acting as Unregistered Agent
Dr. Emil Wolff a 52 year old German chemist was fined 2000 dollars and given a suspended three month sentence after pleading guilty to acting as a foreign agent without registration. He admitted sailing from San Francisco with a trunk carrying diplomatic documents from the German consul to its Valparaiso Chile counterpart.
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Balboa
Canal Zone
Emil Wolff
Wolff
San Francisco
Valparaiso
Chile
Dayton Honors Wright Brothers at Memorialdedication
Dayton paid tribute to Wilbur and Orville Wright with a hillside memorial on land once their 1904 test field. Four mounted plaques were dedicated overlooking Wright Field near the Army experimental station during ceremonies.
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Dayton
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Wright Field
U. S. Army
Willkie Challenge for Debate Hit by Flynn
New York Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn dismissed Wendell L. Willkie’s call for a Roosevelt debate as a cheap publicity stunt issued for pure political effect in his first press conference since succeeding James Farley.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Edward J. Flynn
Flynn
James A. Farley
Willkie
Winchells Father Jacob Dies in New York
Jacob Winchell, 70, father of Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, died here yesterday. He was long associated with his son’s work and local affairs.
Anti conscription forces push to postpone draft to 1941
Washington reports anti conscription senators rally to defer the Burke Wadsworth plan. The Maloney measure would register men 21 to 31 now but not call them to service before Jan 1 1941, contingent on voluntary enlistments and manpower needs. The Senate votes were expected this week.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate
Maloney
D-Conn
Willkie
Hoosier Nominated To Succeed Wallace
President Roosevelt nominated Claude R. Wickard Indiana farmer and undersecretary of agriculture to succeed Henry A. Wallace as secretary of agriculture. Wallace’s resignation, effective Sept. 5, was announced from Hyde Park New York. Stephen Early cited Roosevelt’s wish to have the department led by an insider.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Indiana
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wickard
Wallace
Hyde Park
N. Y
Stephen Early
Agriculture Department
Floridian Walter Dorsey Elected National Commander
Florida veteran Walter Dorsey of Jacksonville was named national commander of the Veterans of All Wars. Delegates also chose Jacksonville as the site for the 1941 convention.
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Lima
Veterans of All Wars
Walter Dorsey
Jacksonville
Fla
Hitler presses Britain with intensified air assault week
DeWitt Mackenzie reports Berlin believes October may stall large scale air battles. He notes Britain has withstood bombardment and continues offensive actions on the continent. Hitler aims for immediate invasion if Britain weakens, but British morale grows stronger despite setbacks. He warns of a reserve Luftwaffe ready for heavier attacks.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
England
Fuehrer
Britain
Berlin
J. Bull
Waters proposes lakes to save Ohio streams in droughts
Don Waters head of the conservation division told the Ohio League of Sportsmen at their mid summer meeting that half the state’s streams run dry in summer. He advocated creating lakes at stream headwaters to prevent drying up and emphasized the need for the program.
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Bellefontaine
Ohio Streams
Don Waters
Conservation Division
Waters
Ohio League of Sportsmen
Marines Delay Action in China
United States Marines will postpone taking over parts of the British defense sector of the International Settlement until further negotiations with Japanese authorities. In an emergency Shanghai meeting, the Shanghai volunteer corps will patrol the affected areas for now while defense commanders review the plan. Japanese authorities refused to accept the agreement.
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Shanghai
United States
International Settlement
West Hongkew
Soochow Creek
Three Canton firms repay $18 215 in unpaid overtime
Three pack ing companies in the Canton district are making voluntary restitution of 18 215 to 175 employees for unpaid overtime, the wage and hour administration announced today. The administration said the overtime shortfall resulted from a misunderstanding.
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Cleveland
Canton
Young Mother Leaps To Death From Bridge
Cleveland police ruled the death of Mrs Anne Tem pora a suicide. The 25 year old mother of one leaped from the Detroit Superior high level bridge, plunging about 100 feet to the river below yesterday.
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Cleveland
Anne Tempora
Detroit Superior High Level
British Claim German Production Crippled
A British broadcast heard today asserted German industrial output in the Ruhr and Rhine districts fell by more than 30 percent due to British air raids. The report highlights diminished German war production and morale impacts across key industrial regions.
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New York
Ruhr
Rhine
U S Demands Safe Passage for Refugee Ship
Washington states that the U S expects the American Legion to finish its voyage home from Petsamo Finland without molestation by German armed forces. The note to Berlin warns that mine infested waters near Britain fall within Germanys blockade area and recalls advance notice of the ship's course.
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Washington
Germany
United States
American Legion
Petsamo
Finland
State Department
Berlin
Britain
Lightning Kills Three Ohioans During Storm
A Cleveland storm killed multiple people over the weekend. Betty Eiserle 18 and Kenneth Clark Jr. 15 died when a lightning bolt struck a sheltering tree. Louis Miller 31 died atop a Cleveland cottage. Three children drowned near Williamsburg waterworks dam in Clermont County. Others died in a capsized boat on the Huron River and in a gravel pit near Granville. Additional fatalities occurred in traffic accidents.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Betty Eiserle
Kenneth Clark, Jr
Louis F. Miller
Williamsburg
Clermont County
Susanna Calvin
Ethel Malott
Robert
Sam White
William Miller
William, Jr
Huron River
Sandusky
Donald White
Granville
Paul Allen Snead
Akron
Mohican State Park
Clerfork River
Taft Opposes Peace Time Armys Conscription Plan
U S Senator Robert A Taft told the Lilly family reunion in Flat Top West Virginia that conscription would undermine freedom and democracy and our promises and treaties may fail yet America must be ready to meet force with force even as he opposed peacetime draft.
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W. Va
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Lilly
America
Balanced Budget for State Fair Forecast
Columbus report predicts a balanced budget for the Ohio State Fair for the second time in 90 years. Fair Manager Win H. Kinnan said the no free pass rule from last year will return with a modification for ladies day when women and children under 12 are admitted free ahead of the 1940 exposition opening.
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Columbus
Win H. Kinnan
Kinnan
Youth Shoots at Father and Neighbors Ends in Suicide
CHILLICOTHE. Firing a rifle shot at his father and three neighbors who were warned to stay away, 19 year old John L. Minney shot and killed himself. Coroner R. E. Oliver reported the incident noting the youth had been drinking and became enraged when asked not to leave home.
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Chillicothe
John L. Minney
R. E. Oliver
Martin Minney
Oliver
Invasion to Be Attempted in Nen Days
Britain braces for a Nazi invasion as Berlin promises a decisive week of air and sea landings. German air force weathered for a cross channel attack while RAF raids hit France Italy and Germany. Casualties and losses rise as Britain shares defense plans across England Scotland and Wales.
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Britain
Berlin
England
French
Ministry of Home Security
Scotland
Wales
Foreign Office
France
Belgium
Holland
British Press Association
RAF
Italy
Milan
Turin
Cuneo
Germany
Hitler
Channel
London
Kenley
Biggin Hill
Sutton
Croydon
Bardia
Rome
Greece
Cairo
British Somaliland
Gulf of Aden
Berbera
Somaliland
Crushed by Cow While Milking Kills Health Official
Thad Carr 66 a member of the Hardin County health commission died from injuries after being crushed against a wall while milking a cow on August 7. The incident occurred near Kenton and authorities reported the death yesterday.
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Kenton
Thad Carr
Hardin County Health Commission
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