Governors Face Draft Shuffle In Local Selective Service
Milton Bronner explains the new selective service regulations aim to decentralize the draft to state and county levels. Governors must appoint state heads and local boards while balancing harvest season deferrals with quota allocations to cities and agricultural counties without showing bias between rural and urban areas.
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Milton Bronner
Nea-Messenger
Selective Service Information Bureau
Washington
Selective Service
Willkie Warns Axis He Will Favor British Aid Aboard Train
On route to Cleveland Willkie denounces Lehman speech as false and subversive. He argues for unity in foreign policy, cites current defense spending and employment plans, and outlines a three point program to boost jobs and production as his train stops in Michigan en route to Ohio. A stone windowing incident injures a reporter but does not stop the campaign schedule.
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Willkie
AXIS
Cleveland
Wendell L. Willkie
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Japan
Britain
Lehman
Grand Rapids
Adrian
Mich
Toledo
Oak Harbor
Bandusky
Elyria
Ohio
Michiee
Pontiac
Flint
Lansing
Sundown
America
Adrian, Mich
Smith urges special House committee on national finance
Rep Frederick Smith of Ohio calls for a broad inquiry into the money system and its link to total defense. He announces a resolution to appoint a special committee to examine the adequacy of federal finance in emergencies and normal times, saying the national debt is serious and menacing.
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Washington
Frederick Smith
Ohio
Congress
Germany Receives Reminder of War Debt to U.S.
The United States sent Germany a semi annual reminder of postwar indebtedness and did not offer a settlement. The debt, about 271 million dollars, covers mainly the cost of the American occupation army in Germany after the war.
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Germany
Washington
United States
Man Killed by Runaway Horses In Marion
Frank Seiter aged 60 was fatally injured yesterday when a team of runaway horses threw him from his wagon in Marion.
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Marion
Frank Seiter
Roosevelt denounces misconduct by REC worker in Willkie campaign
President Roosevelt condemned missile like acts during Willkie campaign in Michigan. A scrap basket dropped at Detroit and an egg thrown at Pontiac were cited as assaults. Roosevelt said a Reconstruction Finance Corporation employee may be involved and should forfeit her position.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roosvelt
Wendell L. Willkie
Michigan
Willkie
Detroit
Pontiac
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Voluntary Enlistments Break Peacetime Record
Army officials said September voluntary enlistments continued breaking peacetime records. They predicted another high with reports showing 36 099 men volunteered for three year hitches. Officials expected August’s record of 38 616 to be topped.
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Washington
War Department
Britain Renames 50 Over-Age Destroyers in Lend Bases Deal
The Admiralty announced new names for 50 over-age destroyers handed to Britain by the United States in exchange for basing rights in the Western Hemisphere. Forty four ships were named after towns common to both nations, with examples such as Lancaster Mansfield and Newark.
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London
Admiralty
Britain
United States
Hemisphere
United Kingdom
Lancaster
Mansfield
Newark
Defense Chief Praises Newspapers for Service in War Effort
Lieut. Col. Stanley J. Grogan of the general staff press section lauded American newspapers as providing a magnificent service to national defense. He said censorship is often worse than what it aims to prevent and that the press would likely cooperate to render censorship unnecessary. The remarks, delivered for the Overseas Press Club at the World's Fair, outlined Army press relations policy.
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New York
War Department
Stanley J. Grogan
General Staff Press Section
Army
Grogan
Overseas Press Club
Bricker Urges Nationwide Ban on Communist Ballots
Gov. John W. Bricker called at the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association convention for a national ban on Communist candidates. He urged writing a law to permanently keep Communist names off ballots in the United States.
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Ottawa
John W. Bricker
Northwestern Ohio Medical Association
Tax Measure Will Not Pay Defense Cost
The excess profits tax bill reaches the White House after swift passage by both houses. Opponents call it a tax atrocity while supporters cite its defense funding aims. The measure would raise the corporate tax on large firms, tax excess profits, suspend limits on government contract profits, and allow deductions for defense expansion over five years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
White House
Congress
Perry County First To Set Up Draft Groups
Perry County led Ohio with complete selective service registration plans. Dwight Wolfe, county election board clerk, said two volunteers were assigned to each of 65 precincts to register men ages 21 to 35, while the county committee recommended draft advisory and appeals board members for Governor Bricker’s appointment.
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Columbus
Perry
Ohio
Dwight Wolfe
County Election Board
County Selective Service Committee
John W. Bricker
War in Europe Sees Britain Holding Line as Winter Looms
Dewitt Mackenzie argues Britain’s survival amid a prolonged war signals a strategic edge as Germany and Italy lack resources for a long conflict. He predicts two main fronts: air warfare with Britain and the Mediterranean battle, with submarine countermeasures aimed at a British blockade.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Europe
Britain
France
England
Germany
Italy
Series To Open Under Perfect Autumn Skies
Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers prepared for Game 1 of the 1940 World Series under ideal fall baseball weather. A projected 33,000 crowd filled the right field bleachers as comedian Al Schacht entertained. Manager Bill McKechnie was undecided on the starter, with Paul Derringer and Buck Newsom as leading candidates given their season records.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
al Schacht
Bill’ McKechnie
Redleg
Paul Derringer
Louis
Buck) Newsom
Detroit
Newsom
Derringer
Defense price hike protest backed by Ohio merchants
The Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, at its 18th annual meeting in Columbus, urged merchants to report unjustified wholesale price rises tied to defense activity, curb stockpiling speculation, and oppose misleading ads while endorsing the current Ohio sales tax collection system. Bolton S. Armstrong was elected president and John W. Rudin named trustee.
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Columbus
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Merchant Association
Ohio
Bolton S. Armstrong
Cincinnati
John W. Rudin
Mount Vernon
Cosmetology Board Approves Tiered Minimum Wage Scale
The Ohio Cosmetology Minimum Wage Board approved a sliding base pay scale for beauty operators with lower minima for beginners and students. Minimums are $13 weekly in towns under 5000, $14.50 in towns 5000 to 50000, and $16 in larger cities or metropolitan areas including Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Akron Dayton Youngstown Canton and Toledo.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Akron
Dayton
Youngstown
Canton
Toledo
Restrictions on Jews Forecast in France
Radio broadcasts from German occupied Paris forecast that France will adopt restrictions on Jews similar to Germany. The measures would bar Jews from professional employment and could establish camps for Jewish refugees unable to leave France.
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Vichy
France
Germany
Paris
Private Gomer O. Thomas Dies After Rifle Accident
Pvt. Gomer O. Thomas age 51 of Columbus died after a rifle misfire struck him while climbing from a practice pit at the It. Logan Army Range. The incident occurred last night and is being investigated by base authorities.
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Chillicothe
Gomer O. Thomas
Columbus
Logan
Axis Powers Abandon Plan To Drag Spain Into War
British RAF bombers strike Berlin and 16 targets as London reports fires and destruction. German pilots clash with Hurricanes over the Ruhr while Madrid informs Madrid sources that Spain remains non belligerent amid war talk. RAF defending London shoots down incoming formations and disrupts daylight raids.
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England
Blitzkrieg
Germany
London Air Ministry
Berlin
le Havre
Madrid
Spain
Rome
Iberian Peninsula
RAF
London
Air Ministry
Thames River
Britain says blockade is exhausting Nazi war needs
London reports from AP that Hugh Dalton declares the blockade is achieving remarkable success as Axis shortages grow in alloys rubber lead copper and textiles. He says Nazis have exhausted looted oil and must provision overrun countries, while RAF strikes and undersea warfare intensify. Casualties rise from bombs in Merseyside East London. Invasion chances fade as Germany shifts to North Africa with Italian reinforcements. UK fears invasion weather worsens. Japan-US talks stall until U S accepts its New Order.
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Mediterranean
Hitler
Mussolini
Europe
Britain
England
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Egypt
The
London
RAF
Hugh Dalton
Dalton
Children's Overseas Reception Board
Merseyside
East London
North Africa
Great Britain
Italy
Strait of Dover
Germany
Berlin
United States
Japan
Yukichiro Suma
Foreign Office
Officer Rescued by Lakewood Volunteers After Chase
Motor cycle Patrolman Bert Sullivan was rescued yesterday by a dozen Lakewood residents who used garden tools and brooms to fend off two men who beat him after he stopped them for running a red light.
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Cleveland
Bert Sullivan
Lakewood
Detroit Police Seek Judge in Triple Shooting
State police search for Common Pleas Judge Robert F. Sage after a shooting in a county office building left Ralph Nadell dead and Al Nadell Maurice Smiley wounded. The judge fled the scene hatless and coatless after firing at three associates during a business dispute.
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Detroit
Common Pleas
Robert F. Sage
Paul ©. Whitman
Ralph Nadell
Birmingham
al Nadell
Maurice D. Smilay
Judge Sage
Charge Reich Detains U. S. Envoys in France
Pan American official states U. S. State Department couriers to Germany are being detained deliberately by German consular officers in occupied France. The delays, described as a German retaliatory measure for destroyer sales to Britain, allegedly span up to three weeks.
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New York
Pan American Airways
U. S. State Department
Germany
France
Britain
Paul Miscione
Pan American
Lisbon
Portugal
Clipper
No Fines Library Plea for Late Books
West Hartford Public Library will place a berth on the front steps from October 7 to 12 to receive books overdue more than six months. No fines and no questions asked, the notice said, urging residents to search under radiators sofas and car cushions during fall housecleaning.
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West Hartford
Conn
West
Auto Plunge Fatal for Steubenville Man
Milan Wukelic, 31, mine operator near Steubenville, was killed last night when his automobile plunged 150 feet over a William Penn highway embankment east of Cambridge.
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Cambridge
Milan Wukelic
Steubenville
Here
Steubenville Twin Death After Shotgun Accident
An eleven year old boy Paul ailies IV died after a shotgun incident while he and his twin Norbert played with the weapon. Authorities investigated the accident at their Steubenville residence.
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Steubenville
Paul Ailies IV
Norbert
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