Hitler’s Press Chief Claims Soviet War Is Near Over
Dr. Otto Dietrich in Berlin says the Soviet Union is militarily finished and the 110 day eastern front war nearly decided. He cites encirclements around Bryansk and Vyazma trapping 60 to 70 Soviet divisions totaling about 900,000 to 1,050,000 troops. The Nazi high command warns of annihilation and a future German campaign unfolding at will.
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Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Moscow
Otto Dietrich
Berlin
Fuehrer
Eastern Front
Volga
Sea of Azov
Shanghai
High Command
Russia
Bryansk
Hign
Vyazma
Timoshenko
Nere
Dietrich
War Update Warns Britain Not To Invade Continent Areas
German spokesman warns Britain against landing in Norway Holland Belgium or the French coast. Russians report withdrawal from Orel while fighting around Bryansk Vyazma as Red Army and civilians join in defense. Berlin says Luftwaffe targets retreating Soviet forces toward Rostov. Far East fighting expands with Chinese offensives near Zchang and reports of German influence efforts via Heinrich Von Stahmer’s appointment to Nanking regime.
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Britain
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Orel
Bryansk
Moscow-Kharkov
Red Army
Semeon
Timoshenko
Central Front
Vyazma
Moscow
London
Hitler
Berlin
Rostov-on-Don
Russia
Far East
Shanghai
Zchang
United States
Heinrich von Stahmer
Families seek farms in Ohio as shortages grow
INDIANAPOLIS Ind About 1200 rural Ohio families aided by the Farm Security Administration could not find farms in the past year. Regional Director P G Peck said 7000 families across five corn belt states face a critical shortage of Coe farms due to larger units and power machinery. New farms are unavailable for 2300 displaced by defense projects. 13889 acres in Ohio bought for relocation but funds are exhausted.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ohio
Farm Security Administration
P. G. Peck
FSA
Peck
Corn Belt
Coe
Pamela Hollingworth Lost Eight Days Reunites Over Ice Cream
Pamela Hollingworth five year old of Dunstable Massachusetts was found after eight days lost on a mountain. She regained hope of ice cream today but remained in a New Hampshire hospital with father Joseph E. Hollingworth from Lowell Massachusetts noting she may be moved back to a Lowell hospital for full recovery.
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North Conway
N. H
Cherry
Pamela Hollingworth
Dunstable
Mass
Joseph E. Hollingworth
Lowell
Perry County Prosecutor Dies From Car Crash Injuries
ZANESVILLE. In an automobile accident Saturday night injuries led to the death of T. B. Williams 70 New Lexington Perry County prosecutor. He succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital. Williams had served as prosecutor for Perry County for several years.
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Zanesville
T. B. Williams
New Lexington
Perry County
Have You A House For Rent? Classified Ad Guide
Daily Messenger classifieds invite readers to place ads for renting houses or farms. The notice explains interest in available properties and suggests using the classified section to reach potential tenants, emphasizing ease of listing.
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The
Messenger
Classified Ad Plan to Rent Property Now
Plan now to rent your property before cold weather. Write your ad today for Sunday Classifieds. Three lines three times cost only 72c. The result number.
Man Drives 150 Miles After Amputation At Hospital
St Paul man Walter Reichel, 32, applied a rope tourniquet to his mangled left foot after a shotgun accident while hunting near Marshall Minnesota. He then drove 150 miles to join his wife who was a patient at the same hospital. Doctors amputated the foot due to the severity of the injury.
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ST. Paul
Walter Reichel
Marshall
Minn
Non-Defense Construction Banned Under Emergency Rule
The SPAB issued a sweeping policy decree forbidding new public or private construction using materials essential to defense or public safety. The rule covers power, navigation, flood control, offices, post offices, hotels, highways, and housing, suspending nonessential building for the emergency. It implies the Priorities Division could block Congress approved public works by denying materials.
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Washington
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board
SPAB
Donald M Nelson
Congress
Draftees to undergo single physical examination plan
Columbus Ohio draftees will be required to take only one physical exam under a plan to start about November 1. Col H E Boucher, chief selective service medical officer, said eight examination stations will operate with Army doctors aided by civilian specialists. Centers include Cleveland Toledo Columbus Zanesville Canton Dayton Fort Thomas Huntington. Ohio counties listed for centers Columbus Fort Hayes Hocking Vinton Athens Zanesville National Guard Armory 814 Elberon Muskingum Washington Morgan Perry Huntington Meigs Gallia.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. E. Boucher
Selective Service
U. S. Army
Cleveland
Toledo
Zanesville
Canton
Dayton
Fort Thomas
Huntington
W. Va
Boucher
Fort Hayes
Hocking
Vinton
Athens
National Guard
Elberon Ave
Muskingum
Washington
Morgan, Perry
Meigs
Gallia
Draft Evaders Finish Terms
Seven members of a family in Pine City Minnesota who refused to register for the draft on religious grounds completed federal sentences and returned to their farm. They were sentenced in December to a year at Sandstone Reformatory and released this week with good behavior time. They will receive selective service questionnaires and face arrest if they fail to return them.
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Pine City
Minn
Sandstone
Reformatory
Third Time Is Charm For Girl Cake-Baker
Dallas report notes 16 year old Mild red Sessoms baked her third cake after not liking the icing she left it at home yet returned to the state fair when her cake drew attention and won the blue ribbon.
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Dallas
Texas
Mildred Sessoms
Eastern Seaboard Air Raid Test Begins Across Coast
The Eastern Seaboard staged a large air raid drill starting at 6 a.m. with three planes off Asbury Park, N J. The test aims to gauge air force efficiency and civilian spotter readiness, involving 40 000 volunteers and continuing through Oct 16 with staged flights then unannounced operations.
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New York
Seaboard
Asbury Park
N. J
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Army
United States
New York City
Defense Orders Delayed By Strike at Buffalo Point
Buffalo Forge Company in Buffalo New York, handling 13.47 million dollars of defense orders, faced a CIO strike over higher wages and reinstatement of three discharged union men. AFL and CIO actions halted San Jacinto and Texarkana ordnance projects, Fairfield steel mill shut by CIO strikes, and a Gary Indiana plant settlement followed a police clash with a picket.
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Buffalo
N. Y
CIO Steel
San Jacinto
Texas
AFL
Texarkana
Fairfield Steel Mills
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Birmingham
Ala
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Hai
CIO
Carnegie-Illinois Sheet and Tin
Gary
Ind
Senate Pushes Labor Policy Stance in Housing Bid Row
President Truman said Sidney Hillman will be summoned before the Senate defense investigation committee to explain why the Wayne County Michigan housing contract was not awarded to the low bidder P J Currier Lumber Detroit. He cited fears by OPM officials that awarding to Currier, CIO employer, could provoke AFL repercussions and vowed contracts be let to qualified low bidders.
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Washington
Truman
D-Mo
Sidney Hillman
OPM
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Wayne
John Carmody
Federal Works
Currier
CIO
AFL
Slower Driving Would Help Defense
Washington report notes John Carmody of the Federal Works Administration says limiting top speed to 45 mph could save 185 million gallons of gasoline annually and conserve oil and tires, aiding national defense efforts.
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Washington
John Carmody
Federal Works
Travel Costs Rise Tonight
Washington reports a five per cent federal travel tax takes effect at midnight, part of a recent tax bill. The levy applies to passenger travel on rail, bus, air, and ship routes, with exemptions for local buses, street cars under 35 cents and taxicabs.
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Washington
German Born Newsman Indicted on Five Counts
George Sylvester Viereck, a 56 year old German born journalist, is free on $15,000 bail in New York awaiting federal court in Washington to plead to a five count indictment alleging failure to disclose material facts in registering as a representative of a foreign government.
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New York
George Sylvester Viereck
Washington
Movement To Organize Agriculture Under Way
Washington reports an effort began to unite millions of farmers and all arms of agriculture into a powerful unified group. The aim is to secure agriculture a share of prosperity from the national defense program amid wartime demands.
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Washington
Horse Kick Injures Gallia County Farmer in Thurman Area
Luther O. Jones, 67, a prominent Gallia County farmer near Thurman, was kicked by a horse today and sustains a fractured skull. His condition was reported critical this afternoon.
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Gallipolis
Luther O. Jones
Gallia County
Thurman
Morgan Brothers Sentenced in Ohio Shooting Case
James and John Morgan brothers were sentenced to one to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to shooting with intent to wound State Highway Patrolman C. F. Shaw yesterday. The plea followed their arrest related to the incident on a Portsmouth street in which the officer was wounded.
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Portsmouth
James
John Morgan
Ohio
C. F. Shaw
State Defense Council Sends Plans To Cities Ohio councils urged to form local defense groups
Columbus report states the State Defense Council mailed model organization charts to mayors of over 900 Ohio communities. Courtney Burton, executive director, says councils should mirror the national and state patterns. The chart lists wardens, bomb squads, fire watchers, medical corps, emergency food and housing agencies, demolition, and road crews. Burton seeks universal local cooperation across the state.
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State Defense Council
Ohio
Courtney Burton
Ohio Board
Burton
Electrification Program To Be Stepped Up
President Roosevelt told Representative Gehrmann that electrification will be expanded as defense production declines. The rural electrification program is seen as key to shifting from a defense to peacetime economy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gehrmann
Canton man pleads guilty in first degree murder case
Ernest Reed, 49, of Canton interrupted his trial to plead guilty to slaying his estranged wife Otis Elizabeth. He received a life sentence at Ohio Penitentiary.
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Cleveland
Ernest Reed
Canton
Otis Elizabeth
Ohio
Roosevelt Calls For Neutrality Act Change To Arm Merchant Ships
President Roosevelt urged Congress to revise the Neutrality Act to permit arming American merchant vessels and to sharpen measures against Nazi aggression. He warned Americans cannot allow Hitler to dictate seas, stressing the need to defend freedom of the seas and national security.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Hitler
Adolf Wither
Long Island Sound
San Francisco Bay
Argentine Dairy Exports Rise To United States Demand
Argentine butter and eggs are entering the United States in rapidly increasing quantities. Trade statistics show high prices in the American market drawing Argentine dairy products despite tariffs. Two years ago breakfast would have been impossible with Argentine dairy, but today imports are mounting and profitable for producers.
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Chicago
Argentina
United States
Department of Commerce
Grave Danger in Central Front as German Forces Press
The war report warns the central sector west and southwest of Moscow is at grave risk with two long salients threatening encirclement. Nazis claim to have crushed the Red lines, potentially encircling up to seventy divisions, challenging Soviet defense led by Timoshenko against Von Bock’s encirclement strategy.
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Moscow
Smolensk- Vyazma
Bryansk- Orel
Timoshenko
Fedor von Bock
von Bock
Ohio Farmers Get Benefits and Quotas Set
Farm leaders from two Northern Ohio counties gathered to receive suggested quotas in a national campaign to raise agricultural output. Hog quotas fell by up to 40 percent in Richland and 10 percent in Lake, while milk quotas rose 5 percent in Cuyahoga and Lake and 11 percent in Carroll and Knox counties.
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Akron
Ohio
Lake County
Richland
Cuyahoga
Lake Counties
Carroll
Knox
Ohio Farmers Meet To Hear New Quotas
Washington reports Ohio farmers received about 4.8 million dollars in parity payments under the 1940 program. The Agricultural Department listed county totals including Athens 5277.97, Gallia 7194.55, Hocking 6909.73, Meigs 9779.53, Morgan 6036.25, Perry 34379.19, and Vinton 3714.29, with the nationwide parity fund totaling about 210 million after administrative costs.
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Washington
Ohio
Agriculture Department
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Iron and Steel Scrap Placed on Priority List
Washington reports Donald M. Nelson, director of priorities of the OPM, placed iron and steel scrap under full priority control to prevent shortages in mills. The order authorizes Nelson to issue specific delivery instructions, including designating source destination or amounts for each person.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
OPM
Nelson
Songwriter Gus Kahn Dies at 54 in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, Calif. Gus Kahn, 54, famed lyricist of hits like My Buddy Mammy No No Nora Yes Sir Thats My Baby and My Blue Heaven, died last night after a long illness. He collaborated with Walter Donaldson and produced enduring tunes shaping American popular song.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Gus Kahn
Walter Donaldson
Nora
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