Supporters Still Confident After Draft Postponement Vote
Washington AP dispatch reports conscription leaders regroup after the House voted 185 to 155 to defer the Burke Wadsworth bill for 60 days while seeking 400000 volunteers for one year. Roosevelt urged speed on defense bills as the Senate rejected a similar postponement amendment.
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Washington
House
Rep. Fish
RNY
Army
National Guard
The
Fish
Senate
Hayden
D-Ariz
F. D
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Beightler Defends Highway Record in Ohio Campaign
Ohio State Highway Director Robert S. Beightler accused former Gov. Martin L. Davey of delivering the worst highway administration in Ohio history. Davey, a Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, had charged the cement trust controlled highway management and Bricker’s administration failed to improve roads. Beightler dismissed the claims as political trickery and urged voters to recall Davey’s prior defeat.
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Columbus
Robert S. Beightler
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Davey
John W. Bricker
Cement Trust” Row
Bricker
Beightler
Red Petitions To Be Probed
Columbus prosecutor Ralph Bartlett said he would ask the grand jury opening Sept 16 to investigate fraudulent practices in Communist party petition circulation. Hundreds of signatures were reported as obtained by deception or from signers who did not know what they were signing. Gov. John Bricker signaled a possible state wide inquiry if evidence shows fraudulent petition names.
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Columbus
Ralph Bartlett
Franklin County
Communist Party
Thee
John W. Bricker
Mrs. Cora Starr Dies At Logan Residence
Mrs. Cora Starr 63 wife of Harry K. Starr died today at her Logan home after a year long illness. Funeral plans not announced but services expected Monday. She is survived by her husband two daughters Mrs Joseph Parkin Pittsburgh and Mrs Letha Starr Brooks Columbus four sisters and two brothers.
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Logan
Cora Starr
Harry K. Starr
Three More Arkansas Fugitives Are Captured
Three of 36 Cummins Prison Farm escapees were captured with no resistance at McGehee last night after a Labor Day breakout that left six dead and eight still at large.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Cummins
Liberty
McGehee
1940 national cornhusking contest set near Davenport
A 60 acre field of hybrid corn on the Henry Keppy farm seven miles northwest of Davenport will host the 1940 national cornhusking contest on October 30. The event gathers top huskers for state and national bragging rights and prizes.
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Davenport
Henry Keppy
Father Gets Jail Term For Spanking Infant
Gordon Hedgecoth and Frances Hedgecoth were sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Oscar Hunsicker to one year in jail for spanking their five month old son. The husband received a three month term after mercy was shown while the wife had hers suspended on condition they give up the baby. The infant has a broken leg and is recovering at Children’s Hospital.
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Akron
Gordon Hedgecoth
Common Pleas
Oscar Hunsicker
Hedgecoth
Frances
Children's Hospital
Navy Plans 2 617 Scouting Planes And 27000 Propellers
The Navy disclosed new agreements with aircraft manufacturers for 2 617 additional fighting and scouting planes and 27 000 airplane propellers. Formal contracts will eventually replace the agreements.
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Washington
Navy
Japan Rejects Western Protests Over Indo China Stand
Tokyo reports say Premier Ko n oye and ministers rejected U S and Britain calls to preserve the status quo in French Indo China. Domei cites four officials as deciding the stance while London and Chungking dispatches note Tokyo may ignore the protests.
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TOKYO
Kokumin
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Domei
Foreign Office
Yukichiro Suma
Hull
Britain
Robert Leslie Craigie
London
Haiphong
China
Hongkong
Indo-China
Greater East Asia
Ex Governor White Leads Willkie Dems in Ohio
Former Ohio governor George White accepts advisory chairmanship of the Ohio Democrats for Willkie movement. He vows to deliver Ohio’s electoral votes for Wendell Willkie on Nov 5 and notes Roosevelt’s bid for a third term faces strong opposition. Willkie may tour Ohio in October. David Ingalls asks for a Buckeye tour after the Detroit federation meeting. The Republican committee schedules Sept 18 for the state convention.
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Columbus
George White
Ohio
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
David S. Ingalls
Buckeye
National Federation of Republican Women's Club
Detroit
Republic State Central Executive Committee
Year-Old Boy Drowns In Pickle Container
Ohio records seven deaths in 24 hours with six from traffic. One year-old Larry Keith Dewitt of Spargursville near Waverly drowned after falling into a pickle brine container.
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Columbus
Ohio
Larry Keith Dewitt
Spargursville
Waverly
Must Attend Church Middletown Case Noted
John Hall, 48, was brought to court for interfering with a religious service. He chose 90 days in jail or 90 Sundays in church and replied five go to church.
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Middletown
John Hall
Draft Will Cut College Enrollment
Ohioans weighed in on conscription as Dr. Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati warned that draft uncertainty would lower college enrollments this year. Ohio figures also cited funding refunds for students drafted into immediate service, while Ohio leaders offered mixed views on the draft's impact on industry and national defense.
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John M. Vorys
Ohio
Sais
Washington
East Heaviest Draft Quota Estimated for Second Corps Area
Defense officials provided tentative figures for the Burke-Wadsworth draft, naming the second corps area covering New York New Jersey and Delaware as likely to supply the largest portion of 400000 trainees. Estimated totals: New York 67481 New Jersey 43830 Delaware 767. Ohio listed at 20590.
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Washington
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Senate
Defense
Ohio
Methodist Official Promotes Broad Lay Participation in Church
Dr. Donald Timmerman told the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church that the new Methodist Church broadens lay participation and representation. He said debts are being liquidated not juggled. Bishop H. Lester Smith announced $25,000 in relief aid for Chinese war refugees.
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Lakeside
Donald Timmerman
Zanesville
Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church
New Methodist Church
H. Lester Smith
Cincinnati
Conference
Thomas Says Roosevelt Leading U S To War
Norman Thomas Socialist presidential candidate opened a 15 000 mile speaking campaign in Akron arguing that President Roosevelt s foreign policy may draw the United States into war before the election and that participation would spread Fascism more than defeat it in Europe.
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Akron
Norman Thomas
Roosevelt
Europe
Dunlavy Files Nominating Petitions for Supreme Court Seat
Columbus Democratic State Utilities Commission member Dennis Dunlavy filed nominating petitions last night for the unexpired term on the state supreme court ending January 1 1943.
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Columbus
Dennis Dunlavy
State Utilities Commission
Supreme Court
Five new community forests established in Ohio
The forest service reports that five new community forests totaling 346 acres were established in Ohio last year.
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Washington
Ohio
Forest Service
Willkie backs selective service for U S industries
Rushville Indiana AP Wendell L Willkie favors a selective service plan to allow government seizure and operation of defense industries in emergencies. He supports a specific clause prohibiting conscription of workers for industry and notes he has not seen final text of a House amendment to Overton Russell.
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Rushville, Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate
War
Navy Department
Bass Stock Rescue Foiled by Floods at Lake Hickory
Catawba county rod and gun club planned to move 15,000 juvenile bass from rearing pools to Lake Hickory but floods washed them into the lake. The incident involves local anglers and environmental impact on the lake ecosystem.
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Hickory
N. C
Catawba County
Rod and Gun Club
Lake
Road workers reject union efforts near Castalia
Sheriff Williams reports a Castalia town hall meeting where 75 workers in 17 cars halted Route 269. American Federation of Labor organizers urged organizing operating engineers truck drivers and laborers but the group declined to hear proposals in separate sessions.
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Sandusky
Sheriff Williams
Souter
Castalia Town Hall
American Federation of Labor
Castalia
Bellevue
Ohio Reports 12 New Infantile Paralysis Cases
Dr. R. H. Markwith announced 12 new infantile paralysis cases in Ohio, including five in Montgomery County. Two additional deaths were listed, one in Montgomery and one in Wayne County, bringing active cases to 63 and total deaths to 17.
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Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Ohio
Montgomery County
Wayne County
Engineer Learns of Pennsylvan ia Rail crash toll in Ohio
In Orrville Ohio engineer Thomas Murtaugh, recovering from skull fracture, learns 43 people died in the ill fated July crash of the Doobie bug. Conductor Harry Shafer lost an arm and a leg while survivor Todd Wenn escaped moments before impact. Murtaugh recalls applying air brakes and sand but cannot explain why he did not take the siding as ordered.
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Akron
Thomas Murtaugh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harry Shafer
Ohio
Murtaugh
Orrville
City Hospital
Shafer
Todd Wenn
Cuyahoga Falls
Pennsylvania
Silver Lake
Romanian King Abdicates and Flees Into Exile
King Carol II of Romania abdicated in favor of his son Mihai VI and fled amid riots in Bucharest. Mihai VI took the oath at 7:30 a.m. as authorities battled to quell violence.
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Carol II
Rumania
Mihi
Carol
Switzerland
Carol II of
Romania
Mihai
Bucharest
Mihai V
Balkan
Ion Antonescu
Russia
Hungary
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Mme. Lupescu
Black Sea
Constanta
It’s a Strange Place For a Family Reunion
In Middletown 16 year old William Burktart woke in a hospital bed after a car crash. He found his cousin Roscoe Sloan with a fractured leg and his uncle Elmer Miller with a crushed hand nearby in the same ward.
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Middletown
William FE. Burktart
Roscoe Sloan
Elmer Miller
Drys Seek Help Of Kentucky Churches
Wilmore Kentucky delegates hear a plea from Walter J. Hoshal to the Kentucky Methodist Conference to back a prohibition drive in the state the nation’s leading whisky producer. He says church members could vote to dry the state if they unite against liquor. Judge Fred Bales accuses Methodists of being involved in liquor business and heavy drinking.
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Wilmore
Kentucky Methodist Conference
Kentucky
Methodist Church First
Walter J. Hoshal
Louisville
State Anti-Saloon League
Fred Bales
Columbus
Bertha Kidd Dies at New Athens
Mrs Bertha Kidd 43 died Thursday at her New Athens home. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 30 PM at the New Athens Methodist Church with burial there. Survived by her husband Frank and eight children. Sister in law of Floyd Kidd Millfield.
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Millfield
Bertha Kidd
New Athens
Frank
Floyd Kidd
Davey Revives Talk of Repeal of Sales Tax
Columbus reports Ohio Democrats at their biennial platform convention reasserting repeal of the sales tax. Governor candidate Martin L. Davey backs a platform plank for tax repeal and a guaranteed $40 monthly income for the aged, funded by a tax revision study commission.
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Davey
Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
1964 Men Enlisted in August Sets New High
The Fifth Corps area of the U S Army recruited 4 964 men in August, an all time high, surpassing July by 709. Recruits were assigned to units in Kentucky Alabama and Florida within the Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and Indiana region.
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Balkans
London
Berlin
Turin
Italy
Mussolini
Picchiatelli
Suez Canal
Fort Deli Mara
Britain
Mediterranean
Malta
Air Ministry
Kingdom
Piccadilly Circus
Adolf Hitler
Enland
Columbus
Fifth Corps
Army to Award 1,000,000 Service Shoes in New Bids
The Army base announced that 1,000,000 pairs of service shoes for the United States Army would be awarded to eleven successful bidders if the second supplemental national defense appropriation act is enacted by Congress and approved by the President.
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Boston
Army Base
United States Army
Boy Blinded After Contact With 6900 Volt Transformer
A 14 year old, Daniel Feazell, was electrocuted by a 6900 volt transformer while attempting to lift a dead bird. He was thrown 385 feet and severely burned, resulting in blindness.
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Portsmouth
Daniel Feazell
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