Registration for selective service begins soon to train 100000
Washington AP reports tentative Sept 1 registration for the draft under the Burke Wadsworth bill with 400000 conscripts to start training a month later for one year. Senate committee favors enactment amid opposition while states prepare lists and draft offices receive forms for the 21 to 45 age bracket.
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Congress
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Senate
A Keesen
Relief From Heat Seen in Ohio Valley
The Ohio Valley faces more heat with only limited relief possible. Ohio forecast maps show a cooling trend by Friday but no widespread break yet. The heat wave has caused 68 deaths and 179 drownings nationwide, with multiple states reporting extreme temperatures and crop damage from storms and floods. In Ohio, severe storms damaged crops near New Lexington, and Emma Marekel was killed by lightning in a field. Officials foresee continued warmth for today with some scattered showers and a gradual cooldown by week’s end.
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Sa Gusky
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Reliefer Loses Court Battle in New York Appeal
Westchester County man loses bid to overturn a 1939 removal order under an interstate deportation law. New Yorks highest court upholds the ruling returning the two year old to Ohio for applying for relief within his first year of residence in New York. The decision rejects Claims of constitutional rights to free movement among the 48 states.
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Iai
British Planes Battle Germans Over Thames Estuary
RAF fighters battled about 60 aircraft over the Thames Estuary as Nazi bombers targeted a merchant convoy. Six German planes were shot down, with three more raiders downed elsewhere, amid reports of a looming big-scale assault on Britain. Highlighted were claims of Stuka dive bombers setting a 17000 ton merchant fleet aflame and a submarine sunk in the North Sea.
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Rural Ca Rural Ca Receive Praise From Bricker
Nearly 400 members of the Rural Letter Carriers Association and auxiliary gathered as Gov. John W. Bricker and George I. Emsch praised carriers for spreading knowledge. The convention discussed optional annuity after 30 years and urged using gasoline tax and vehicle license revenues for road improvements.
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George I. Emsch
Washington
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Plans for Defense of Hemisphere Conference Sessions in Havana
In Havana three commissions of the Conference of the 21 American republics met in secret to press for a rapid accord on hemispheric defense. They aim to conclude by July 30 with Rio Janeiro as a likely next meeting site. Proposals include collective trusteeship over Western Hemisphere colonies and strategies to counter Fifth Column activity, with US input on colonial mandates and economic cooperation.
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Rio Janeiro
United States
Commission On Maintenance of Peace
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Logan To Represent District In Tourney
Logan American Legion team will represent District B in the state tournament to be held July 31 in Canton. The Logan squad beat McArthur last week and aimed to meet them again today with McArthur’s manager only attending today, giving Logan two wins in three games and earning the district bid.
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McArthur
Middleport Road Job To Be Let On Aug 9
State Route 7 resurfacing in Lower Middleport will be let on August 9, Sen Tom W Jones announced. The project, delayed for years, aims to repair the highway and improve traffic flow in the district.
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Starf Special
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Tom W. Jones
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Charles A. Ferguson
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Reuters
Britain Says Germans Have Lost 5000 Planes
The report states Britain claims German air losses near 5000 planes as of mid year, citing official records and Reuters notes. It mentions RAF figures and German Luftwaffe losses, with references to bomber and fighter counts, along with libel action involving a Zanesville publisher.
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Alte
Vargas Expropriates Brazil Railway Company
President Getulio Vargas expropriated the Brazil Railway Company a holding firm with vast utilities and colonization interests. An informed source says French capital dominates with Belgian and British funds, but no American investment. Also reported a father of 15 died in Columbus Ohio as James C. McAlster aged 50, a building contractor, left widow and fifteen children.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Iimes
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Columbus
Seuth Westerday
James C. McAlster
One Killed Two Injured In Truck Car Wreck
A truck loaded with sheet steel crashed into two autos on Granger Road Hill in Valley View near Cleveland last night. Driver John F. Bonker 43 of Garfield Heights died, Carol ine Deucher 27 the other driver was seriously injured, and truck driver Robert Dunigan 25 of Clyde suffered grave head injuries. Senator's wife dies accompanying text truncated.
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Granger Road Hill
Ohio Canal
Valley View
John F. Bonker
Garfield Heights
Caroline Deucher
Rob Tert Dunigan
Clyde
Army to mine New York Harbor approaches soon
The 52nd Coast Artillery plans to mine the harbor approaches around Sandy Hook after maneuvers. Mines to be electrically controlled from shore, with advance shipping warning. The defense move contrasts European types. In Cleveland, hotel hires elevator operators due to defense work surge.
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New York Harbor
52Nd Coast Artillery
Sandy Hook
Willkie Wrings Out Anti Big Government Call in Wyoming
In Cheyenne Wyoming Wendell L Willkie urged Republicans to curb big government saying leadership should not be controlled by corporate wealth or backroom trusts. He spoke at a rodeo dinner with 700 attendees and noted Europe’s loss of liberty while praising the party’s new leadership.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wendell L
Willkie
Wyoming
Roosevelt
Seyte Pe
Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Mercury
Europe
America
Mrs. Jane Saxton Dies At Dexter Residence
MIDDLEPORT Staff Special Mrs. Jane Saxton 75 died at her Dexter home Tuesday evening Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 PM at Dexter Church Rev Harley Bolton to officiate Burial in Robinson Cemetery Survived by husband Louis Saxton five children Dale Grimes J Colby Grimes S W Davis E R Bent Wade R Saxton and two step children Mrs Harley Carr and Mrs Adx Williamson placeholders indicate truncated names
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Dexter Church
Harley Bolton
Robinson Cemetery
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Louis “Saxton
Dale Grimes
J. Colby Grimes
Columbus
S. W. Davis
Kamloops
B.C
E.R. Bent
Charleston
W. Va
Wade R. Saxton
Harley Carr
Harrisonville
Adx Williamson
Addi
Plot Against Hitler Charged Exiled Nazi Leader Captured
Bertha Jary Bower, 68, author of Chip of the Flying U and several western novels, died last night in Los Angeles. Otto Strasser, once a Nazi foe, and Herschel Grynszpan, the Polish Jew linked to the Paris diplomat killing, were reported to have fallen into German hands amid reports of a Munich bomb plot against Hitler.
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Otto Strasser
Gestapo
Munich
Dolf Hitler
Herschel Kynszpan
Paris
Los Angeles
Bertha Jary Bower
Chip of the Flying U
Judge Suspends Costs in Municipal Court Cupid Assist
Columbus judge John Matthias presided as a couple sought a marriage-impeding court order. The truck driver, charged with history conduct typeation, had funds posted to avoid jail. The judge suspended costs and ordered the return of $10 the couple planned for the wedding.
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Debt rise on treasury bond sale amid deficit spending
Washington reports an overnight rise in the national debt as the Treasury sells bonds to replenish cash reserves depleted by recent deficits. The borrowing pushes the debt near the legal ceiling of 43.1 billion, a limit raised to 49.0 billion for a major defense program.
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Alebt
Plans Call for Selects Million Youths During 1941
The army plans to induct 400000 trainees on Oct 1 and classify them within 30 days. An additional 400000 from 11000000 pool could be summoned on Apr 1 1941, with possibly 600000 more the next Oct 1. If the mandatory training bill passes by Aug 1, registration may occur Sept 1. Authority could mobilize the National Guard to around the same time. The program envisions one year of training and extended service in reserve, at about 215 per month base pay, costing $1.0 billion in the first year and $750 million annually thereafter.
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Ato
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Marine Corps
War Department
Ohio Factories To Receive Defense Work Assignment
Saveland lab area investigators report Ohio and Michigan industries may handle national defense orders under Walsh Healey Act. J. I. Bellow and W. B. Machenicholls are assigned to the Wage Hour division to investigate complaints. 1,843 employees affected as preliminary step toward defense program. standard wage hours rules apply to suppliers of contract holders.
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Saveland
U— Lab
P” Ohio
Michigan’ Industries
J. I. Bellow
W. 8
Machenicholls
Bellow
Hunger Ends Con Strike on Water Tower Refuge From Prison
A 20 year old convict was brought down from a 100 foot water tower at the Federal Penitentiary in New Jersey after a 19 hour standoff ended. Warden J W Sanford said the man had taken refuge there to avoid return to Georgia prison. European shortages of foodstuffs and extreme heat accompanied the ordeal as the man described a long stay in Europe since February.
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Atlanta
Federal
Sersey City
N.J
John
W! Maloney
Georgia
Europe
J. W. Sanford
Drew Jackson Wynne
Maloney
France
Air-Conditioned Bed Invented by Dr F K Kirsten at UW
University of Washington unveils an air conditioned bed by Dr. F K Kirsten. The device warms in winter and cools in summer via a headboard knob. An air cushion, air-blanket, and porous fabric allow controlled climate and a call feature using an upstairs press button.
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Seattle
University of Washington
F. K. Kirsten
Est Mater
New Pension Racket Found Reported In Hamilton County
Prosecutor Carl We Rich announced a new pension racket involving old age pensions. The scheme promised homes for life and other perks to victims, then kept pensions for themselves. Rich urged city officials to consider an ordinance to license Fest
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Hamilton County
Rich
John Dails
Ity
Child Uninjured in Three Story Plunge
New York report of a two year old fell from a mid floor fire escape into a yard though bruised by the fall the child was unhurt aside from scratches. Nearby onlooker Patrick McKeown calmly alerted his mother, saving the moment from panic.
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New York
Thomas O'Donohue
Patrick McKeown
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