Willkie presses Baltimore debate with FDR in focus
Willkie renews push for a Roosevelt debate on national issues as his campaign moves toward Milwaukee Chicago and New York. He says backers secured a large Baltimore hall for Oct 30 and Roosevelt may join on the same platform. Roosevelt noncommittal suggests Brooklyn Academy event.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Baltimmore
Washington
Wendell Lillkie
Stephen Early
Academy Offic Hall
Brooklyn
Fire damages Crosley plant near Lebanon Ohio
Workmen repaired a burned antenna tuning house at Mason near Lebanon so Crosley Corp could renew beam broadcasts to South America from WLWO a short wave station one of the nation’s most powerful. James Shouse vice president estimated the fire accidental and damaged several thousand dollars of specialized equipment.
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Mason
Here
Crosley Corp
South America
WLWO
James Shouse
Shouse
Fighting Anywhere Is Urged is Necessary
Milo J. Warner, new national commander of the American Legion, says fighting may be necessary to defend the United States and that the nation should be prepared to fight abroad if needed to maintain American security. He spoke at a weekend meeting in Toledo.
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Toledo
United States
Milo J. Warner
American Legion
Press Comment Issue Reaches High Court
The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a newspaper may editorially comment on court cases before final settlement. The case centers on The Los Angeles Times contempt of court conviction tied to editorials about two labor cases and a woman politician.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Los Angeles Times
Roosevelt Prepares Five Day Speech Tour For Third Term
President Roosevelt heads to the capital to finalize plans for a rapid campaign push over the next two weeks. He will speak in Philadelphia and brief NBC listeners on a so called deception campaign while a National Roosevelt Youth Day rallies in 3,740 counties is organized. He plans to visit key states including Pennsylvania New York Ohio New Jersey and possibly Maryland. Hyde Park hosts royalty Earl of Athlone and family attend church while Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix visit with the President.
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Roosevelt
Philadelphia
United States
NBC Red
Mr. Roosevelt
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New York
Ohio
New Jersey
Maryland
Hyde Park
N. Y
Canada
Earl of Athlone
England
George VI
St. James Episcopal Church
Hyde Park House
Grand Duchess
Charlotte
Prince Consort
Felix of Luxembourg
Long Island
Draft Lottery Details Awaited
Washington authorities expect the national draft lottery date and details to be announced early this week. Selective Service officials urged boards to speed up assigning serial numbers to the 17,000,000 men who registered, with the drawing determining each registrant's order number for possible service.
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Washington
Selective Service
Two BIS Runaways Arrested in Columbus
Two boys from the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster tried to run down a city patrolman early today. One, John Hollaway a 17 year old from Cleveland, was shot in the shoulder and held at University Hospital. His companion John Robinson 15 of Akron was burned on a power line and treated at the Juvenile Detention Home. Both are Negroes and escaped the reformatory Sunday.
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Lancaster
John Hollaway
Cleveland
John Robinson
Akron
Hollaway
University Hospital
Robinson
Ohio Firms Are Given Large Defense Orders
The Army and Navy Departments announced contracts to Ohio firms. Hoff Manufacturing, Mansfield, first aid packet pouches five figures. Hanson Clutch and Machinery, Tiffin, power shovels about $21k. Hercules, Marion, rollers about $19.6k. Navy: Monarch Machine Tool, Sidney, lathe about $15.1k.
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Washington
Army
Navy Departments
Ohio
Hoff Manufacturing Company
Mansfield
Hanson Clutch and Machinery Company
Tiffin
Hercules Company
Marion
Navy
Monarch Machine ‘Tool Co
Sidney
Vanguard of Ohio National Guard Arrives for Mississippi Training
The Ohio National Guard advance units arrived by train at Camp Shelby Mississippi as the 37th Division prepares a year of training in a southern pine setting. Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler surveys the site while noting the soldiers’ unfamiliar greeting. About 10 000 Ohioans are expected at the camp with multiple units arriving this week.
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Miss
Ohio
National
Southern Pines
de Soto National Forest
Robert S. Beightler
37Th
Beightler
38Th
37Th Division
112Th Medical Regiment
74Th Brigade
166Th Infantry
Cleveland
145Th Infantry
Perry County People Named In Death Note
In Sioux Falls hospital a wounded man died outside a rooming house where a woman about 26 was found dead from throat slashes. A note signed Trixie Wells requested notifying Mrs Eva Johnson care of Sprague Zimmerman Perry County Ohio. Cards in the man s pockets bore Grover Franklin Johnson 24 Waco Texas and Frank Johnson Route 1 Shawnee Ohio.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Trixie Wells
Jay Vandiver
Eva Johnson
Sprague Zimmerman
New Lexington
Perry County
Vandiver
Grover Franklin Johnson
Waco
Tex
Frank Johnson
Shawnee, O
Urges Jap Troops To Cultivate Art of War
War Minister Lieut. Gen. Eiki Tojo told army commanders to cultivate the art of war to secure a premier world position. The directive followed a grand military review attended by Emperor Hirohito and called on officers and men to renew loyalty and strengthen solidarity while boosting military prestige.
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Tokyo
Eiki Tojo
Hirohito
British Seize Jap as Secret Agent in East
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Singapore says Kitsuji Kashiwabara, a Japanese national, was charged under the official secrets act with passing troop and aircraft movement information to the Japanese consulate press attache. The attache was detained a month ago with several others, some released quickly.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Singapore
Kitsuji Kashiwabara
U S Embassy in London Damaged by Bomb Blasts
The United States embassy at Grosvenor Square and the YMCA in Great Russell Street sustained damage in recent air raids. The embassy suffered mainly broken windows and shattered panes.
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London
United States
Grosvenor Square
YMCA
Great Russell Street
El Paso Times Editor Hubert Hunter Dies at 54
Hubert S. Hunter, 54, editor of the El Paso Times since 1928 and longtime southeast newspaperman, died last night in El Paso. He built a wide reach in regional journalism and led the paper through decades of change.
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EL Paso
Tex
Hubert S. Hunter
el Paso Times
All Comforts of Home Arranged for New Soldiers
Alexandria Louisiana treated new civilian guardsmen to comforts of home as officers prepare to train up to 100000 soldiers in pine forests. First unit from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived to find tents pitched with electric lights, hot breakfast, six men per tent, pine flooring, stoves, cotton mattresses and three blankets. Army plans emphasize good roads water sewage power showers and cooking facilities to support the large camp.
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Alexandria
America
Louisiana
John Doe
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ambulance Fire Delivers Baby En Route to Hospital
An ambulance on the way to the hospital caught fire as volunteers battled the flames. Inside, Park Guard Frank Janowiak helped deliver a six and a half pound son to Mrs. Josephine Vander Plum, 23. Mother and baby were later moved to another ambulance and both remained unharmed.
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Philadelphia
Frank Janowiak
Josephine Vander Plum
Missing Ohio School Head Kills Himself
Homer B Woods 50, superintendent of Pickerington schools, disappeared after inquiry into trumpet theft. Police issued a warrant when he did not appear at headquarters as promised. A note found in his hotel envelope directed further notification to state education officials.
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New Orleans
C. Grenes Cole
John H. Sieler
Columbus
Homer B. Woods
Ray G. Woods
State Department of Education
Ohio
George Walton
Pickerington
John Phillips
Woods
North Carolina frees Ohioan parole for Deitz in 1935 case
Granville Deitz, once a fugitive from prison and convicted of second degree murder in the 1929 slaying of Southern Pines police chief, is released on parole after good conduct since rearrest on November 5, 1935. He married his sweetheart, worked on a West Virginia farm, and served as an oil firm employee in Ohio.
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Raleigh
N. C
Granville Deitz
Jackson
Clyde Hoey
Dietz
Southern Pines
Deitz
West Virginia
Ohio
Oil Company
Axis aims in the balkans loom as Greece and Turkey resist
The piece analyzes Nazi plans to attack Britain via the Near East and notes Romania Bulgaria Yugoslavia and allies forming a axis line near Greece and Turkey. It warns that British naval power and autumn mud could stall a blitzkrieg until spring and suggests Turkey and Greece may face force if Russia is neutralized.
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Hitler
Balkans
Britain
Near East
Yugoslavia
Rome
Romania
Bulgaria
Greece
Turkey
Russia
Dardanelles
Europe
Signor
Virginio Gayda
Balkan States
Soviet Turkish Talks Reported Over Military Moves
Reports from Budapest indicate Soviet Russian Turkish military talks may be under way and Turkish forces are increasing near the Dardanelles. Travelers in Athens say Turkish troop trains fill Adrianople lines, with as many as half a million troops in the Dardanelles region and rumors of new fortifications. Bucharest and nearby Ploesti experience a blackout seen as a disciplinary move to bolster German occupation claims.
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Hungary
Dardanelles
Near East
Balkans
Turkey
Athens
Adrianople
Garian
Magyar Nemzet
Axis
Bucharest
Romania
Ploesti
Rumania
Greece
Britain
Urges Return To Old Method
The National Metal Congress heard that U S steel production for defense could be sped by restoring the Bessemer process. H W Graham of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co Pittsburgh argued the Bessemer method is self-sufficient on scrap and yields scrap as a by product, while open hearth consumes more scrap than it creates.
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Cleveland
National Metal Congress
United States
H. W. Graham
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Graham
Weiss Denied Review By U S Supreme Court
Seymour Weiss once a top Huey Long lieutenant failed to win Supreme Court review of his conviction for using the mails in a scheme to defraud Louisiana State University. Co defendants Louis Lesage and J Emory Adams were also denied review over the $75 000 sale of hotel furnishings LSU already owned through its hotel purchase.
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Washington
Seymour Weiss
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Supreme Court
United States
Louisiana State University
Louis Lesage
J. Emory Adams
University
New Orleans
Beer Parlor Operator Dies in Letart Fire
Silas Conrad a 60 year old beer parlor operator was burned to death in a fire at Letart West Virginia. His wife Mrs Conrad escaped uninjured after the building housing the business burned overnight. He had occupied the structure with her only a week earlier and neighbors could not reach him in time.
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Pomeroy
Silas Conrad
Letart
W. Va
Conrad
Circleville Girl Dies In Sunday Collision
Circleville residents Katherine Stapleton 22 died and Millard Campbell sustained serious injuries in a head on crash Sunday night. Andrew W. Wright 34 of Dayton drove the other car and was detained by Sheriff Charles Radcliff for questioning.
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Circleville
Katherine Stapleton
Millard Campbell
Andrew W. Wright
Dayton
Charles Radcliff
Death toll in French floods may pass 100
More than 100 people are dead or missing as heavy rains and floods strike French Catalonia. Officials estimate damage at a billion francs. Perpignan evacuated as Tet river floods lower city areas. Pyrenees-Orientales reports about 100 dead or missing. Weather in Perpignan shows rain stopping.
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Vichy
France
Catalonia
Paris
Perpignan
Tet
Pyrenees-Orientales
Cagliari
Italy
Sardinia
Six Die in Midair Collision at Arkansas Air Show
In Marianna Arkansas six people died when a sightseeing plane tangled with a parachutist's chute during an air show and plunged 500 feet Eyewitnesses say a circling stunt to give four passengers a close view preceded the crash The deceased include parachutist Ipaul Nalejawa passenger George Zorn pilot Lawrence De Marke and four others aged 35 55 34 and 30 with Nalejawa's 181st jump noted.
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Marianna
Ark
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Ipaul Nalejawa
Browerville
Minn
George Zorn
Greenville
Miss
Lawrence de Marke
Paul Bowie
J. M. Cook
Joe Campbell
Nalejawa
Italian Raiders Attack British Oil Holdings
Rome dispatch reports an Italian bombing of Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf with 2,800 mile flight. Stefani quotes a political motive to boost anti British sentiment in India as Italian forces hit oil centers, pipelines, refineries and tanks.
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Rome
Stefani
Bahrein Island
Persian Gulf
India
Gulf of Persia
Quakers Decry Peacetime Draft as Drift Toward Totalitarianism
Richmond Ind reports the five years meeting of Friends in America condemns peacetime conscription as a drift toward totalitarianism. Spokesmen in session branded the move as an alarming trend and urged reconsideration of the draft policy.
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Richmond
Ind
United States
Meeting of Friends In America
Smoke from Bayonne Refinery Fire Spreads Toward New York Harbor
A leak in a hot pitch line at the Standard Oil refinery in Bayonne New Jersey caused a fire and a large smoke plume over New York Harbor. Company officials said the damage was negligible.
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Bayonne
N. J
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
New York Harbor
RAF Bombardment Across Europe Redraws War Front
British air offensive travels from Italy to Norway and Berlin with heavy bomber raids overnight. The British press agency cites at least 15 000 bombs dropped in two and a half hours. Berlin shelters and Italian provinces report casualties as raids strike London and Liverpool.
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England
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Italy
British Press Association
Air Ministry
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