SAY SUB FIRED ON SINKING ATHENIA
The article reports the United States invoking the Neutrality Act to bar belligerents from buying arms and war materials, with President Roosevelt moving to push Congress to widen the act. It notes plans for naval escorts, Anglo American cooperation, and Pan American consultations under the Lima declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAY
Athenia
Washington
Great Britain
France
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
Poland
State Department
Navy Department
Lima
Americans Still In War Areas
Ninety thousand American citizens are estimated to be in potential European war zones. Repatriation work is led by Breckenridge Long, with Hugh R. Wilson as deputy, and additional American flagships will be assigned within 24 hours to bring home refugees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Breckenridge Long
Italy
Hugh R. Wilson
Germany
Maritime Commission
Two Killed Near Lodi As Cycles Auto Collide
Medina U P report says Denis Kurtley 24 of Mt Vernon and Gladys Spees 17 of Newark died near Lodi late yesterday in a crash involving four motorcycles and an automobile. They were riding one of the motorcycles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina
U.P
Denis Kurtley
Mt. Vernon
Gladys Spees
Newark
Lodi
Wheat Futures at Limit as War Drives Grains Higher
Wheat futures in North American markets rose the 5 cent limit as war fears boost demand. Corn gained 4 cents, oats 3 cents, rye 5 cents, and soybeans 4 cents higher at Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Labor Day Death Toll Falls Short of Last Year
United Press survey shows at least 248 deaths across traffic drownings shootings and other incidents during Labor Day weekend with total expected near 348 after full reports. Among the figures are 167 traffic deaths 29 drownings 52 from miscellaneous causes and a deadly Illinois Central express incident in Chicago involving six people at a station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
United Press
Illinois Central
Memphis
Amrine Named Acting Head at London Prison Farm
Columbus U P Thomas C Jenkins given three month leave as superintendent of the London prison farm and William F Amrine state superintendent of correction and formerly acting warden of Ohio Penitentiary put in charge temporarily by State Welfare Director Charles L Sherwood
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Thomas C. Jenkins
London
William F. Amrine
Ohio Penitentiary
Charles L. Sherwood
Sugar Fluctuation Hits Limit in Heavy Trading
Heavy speculative demand lifted world and domestic sugar futures by 25 points to the day limit. Similar gains were posted in Friday trading. Saturday dealings were suspended for the usual summer weekend holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Youth Kills Self Rather Than Return to School
Harold Cullins aged 16 shot himself at his Dresden home an hour before resuming classes. Coroner Dr. Ray McDaniel said he had failed three times in his grade and did not pass the eighth grade last term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanesville
U.P
Harold Cullins
Dresden
Ray McDaniel
Muskingum County
White House Locks Gates After Dark War Time Precedents
The White House gates are locked at night echoing World War I and II era security. The measure recalls President Wilson’s era and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s time as assistant secretary of the navy.
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White House
Washington
U.P
Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War Flames Spread Across Western Europe from Poland to Scotland
Western Europe sees German offensive actions from Poland and aerial bombardment of Polish cities. British air raid against Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel damages two German battleships. Royal Air Force reports casualties as the Maginot Line waits for orders to strike.
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Poland
Scotland-Ireland
Athenia
Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Britain
Maginot Line
France
Europe
British
Ministry of Information
Royal Air Force
Brunsbuttel
North Sea
Kiel Canal
Polish corridor fight and Allied neutrality notes from war briefings
War brief items from Paris Amsterdam New York Johannesburg Rome and Tokyo report a German raid on a Red Cross train near Szydlowicz Poland, Dutch anti aircraft fire over Central Holland, President Roosevelt liner crowded with 539 passengers, anti German rioting in Johannesburg, German front disorders in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Italy’s neutral stance and potential shipping role, Polish forces crossing west of Gdynia, and Japan’s formal neutrality notice to major powers.
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New York
President Roosevelt
Paris
Germany
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Essen
Czechoslovakia
Friedrichshafen
Exchange Telegraph Agency
Limes
Rhineland
France
Denmark
Copenhagen
Holland
Romania
Japan
United States
London
Capetown
Johannesburg
Roosevelt
Olinda
Ajax
Poland
Baltic
Gdynia
Westerplatte
Danzig
Unification of Ohio Methodist bodies to be completed
The Ohio Annual Conference of the old Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its final session in Delaware this week and vote itself out of existence. The former Methodist Protestant Church conference at Sabina last week also voted to merge. The new Methodist Church in Ohio emerged from a Kansas City merger last spring joining three branches.
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Delaware
U.2
Ohio
Northeast Ohio
Lakeside
Old Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
Sabina
New Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Kansas City
Gallipolis Association To Add Electric Lines
The Rural Electrification Administration adds 41000 dollars to the Buckeye Rural Electric Association of Gallipolis Ohio to construct 44 miles of power lines serving 132 farm customers in Lawrence and Gallia Counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Rural Electrification Administration
Buckeye Rural Electric Association of
Gallipolis
Lawrence
Gallia
Farm Bureau Leaders Named to Plan 20th AFBF Convention
Ohio Farm Bureau leaders are appointed to committee posts to assist in planning the American Farm Bureau Federation's 20th anniversary convention in Chicago from December 4 to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Duke of Windsor to Return to England Pending Gov't Orders
Cannes dispatch says the Duke of Windsor plans to return to England and will await formal government orders as stated by his spokesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannes
France
U.P
Duke of Windsor
England
Death Toll of Disaster Fixed at 90
Survivors report the Athenia torpedoing marked the war's first great ocean disaster. About 90 died, with many missing among 1400 passengers as lifeboats battled rough seas and aid vessels stood by.
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London
Athenia
Two Pomeroy Women In Warsaw Bombarded
Miss Eva Blazewicz and her sister Mrs Richard Frey, both Pomeroy natives and high school graduates, are reported in Warsaw Poland as the capital suffers bombardment. Eva remains for work at the American Consulate while Helen Frey works in the YMCA and both may leave if able to travel. Their parents in Pomeroy receive word of the situation.
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Pomeroy
Eva Blazewicz
Richard Frey
Warsaw
Poland
Germany
Stanley Blazewicz
Lincoln Hill
Pomeroy High School
Helen
General Motors Corporation
Frey
United States
Partial List of Ohioans On Athenia Announced
The state department released a partial list of Americans aboard the torpedoed British liner S S Athenia. Ohioans named include George Cottle and Laura Cottle of Cleveland Bronson Price of Columbus Charles W Cotterman of Dayton Alma Bloom of Cincinnati Tila Vincent of Cleveland Heights Jessie H Sutherland of Youngstown Mrs Mary E Kely and daughter Florence of Cleveland and Mrs Mark G Feder of Cincinnati.
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Washington
U.P
S. S. Athenia
State Department
Lewis Attacks Government's Labor Policy
In Ogden Utah on Labor Day John L. Lewis assailed the Roosevelt administration over its labor policy. He accused the government of failing to provide jobs for more than 10,000,000 unemployed and urged workers to back candidates promising job guarantees and an end to foreign wars. He condemned European quarrels as distracting statesmen from American hardships.
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Ogden
Utah
U.S
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
U. S
CIO
Lewis
Europe
Three Die in Plane Crash Near Lake Erie
A single engine cabin plane carrying four people crashed on a Vermilion area farm after leaving an emergency airport. Harold Howard 29 owner and pilot, Lloyd Adkins 30 commercial pilot, and Mrs Valentine Erickson 30 died. The four were returning from the National Air Races in Cleveland. Three perished and one was seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
Department of Commerce
Lake Erie
Vermilion
Petitions Near Complete For Civil Service Vote
The Democratic state organization seeks 146000 signatures for a referendum on the Ohio Civil Service Act before today’s deadline. Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the interior secretary, is reported doing nicely at Johns Hopkins Hospital after giving birth to a seven and a half pound son on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Democratic State Organization
Ohio Civil Service Act
U. S. Envoy Drexel Biddle Exits Warsaw
U S Ambassador Anthony A J Drexel Biddle Jr and his family departed Warsaw today ending their official visit amid wartime tensions and diplomatic duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Warsaw
Anthony A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
British Planes Bomb Nazi Naval Bases in Polish War News
Reports from Paris and London describe German advances into Silesia with key city Katowice captured, as Nazi bombers target Warsaw and allied air raids strike Wilhelmshaven. France began Rhine operations while Britain claims damage to German battleships and Kiel Canal incursions with aerial bombardment and naval clashes ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
United Press
Kattowice
East Prussia
France
Rhineland
Wilhelmshaven
Kiel Canal
Thompson Trophy Race Rescheduled for Today in Cleveland
The Thompson Trophy Race, postponed from Labor Day due to a thunderstorm, will close the National Air Races in Cleveland this afternoon. Managing director Clifford W. Henderson estimated three day attendance at about 130000, below last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
Clifford W. Henderson
Granger Leader Urges Farmers To Keep U S Out Of War
Louis J. Taber master of the National Grange told farmers at Nevada near Upper Sandusky Ohio that agriculture must help America stay out of war. He said there is no independent farm or labor organization left in a dictatorial state.
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Upper
Sandusky
America
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
Nevada
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TOKYO
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