Refugee Caravans Streaming From London like Belgium and Poland
London reporters describe a fresh flow of refugees moving from the east end toward the countryside. They recount crowded trains and trucks carrying families, mothers with babies, and individuals seeking safety as public aid centers distribute meals and beds amid continuing bombing. Shelters fail to quell the fear of air raids as the disaster echoes Belgium and France.
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London
Belgium
Netherlands
Poland
Drew Middleton
Europe
Warsaw
Brest
France
Navy rushes ship orders as Roosevelt signs defense bill
The Navy awarded contracts for 200 fighting ships and one repair vessel totaling about 3.86 billion dollars, aiming for a two ocean navy of roughly 650 ships by 1945 46 or 47. Army orders total 524 million with rapid completion expected, while 31.65 million expands naval establishments and 108 million funds 2 400 aircraft are in final negotiation.
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Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
United States
Army
Stephen Early
White House
Hyde Park
War Department
Congress
Army Air Corps
National Guard
Child Killed by Car Driven by Her Father
In Urbana a 15 month old girl, unnamed in the report, played with a wheel in front of her father Mr and Mrs Davis Smiths car. He started to drive away and the child was killed.
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Urbana
Smith
Davis Smith
Congress set to finish draft bill by Wednesday
The Senate and House expect a swift conference agreement on peacetime selective service. They plan to drop a 60 day post ponement for further voluntary enlistments and unify age brackets 21 to 44. Disputes over defense industry commandeering may shift to government ownership by condemnation.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House
Burke
D-Neb
Rep
Wadsworth
R-Ny
May
House Military Committee
Senate-House
Nebraska
Westinghouse Plans Training for 500 Skilled Workers
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co announces a long range plan to train more than 500 young high school graduates as skilled machine operators. The program supports the government's defense preparedness effort and aims for completion by early fall.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
Mercy Recommended for Slain Wife’s Husband in Main County Case
Thomas Blankenship aged 70 faced a life sentence after conviction of first degree murder in the June 8 shooting of his wife May 38. A jury after 11 hours deliberation recommended mercy. Witnesses testified the shooting followed seeing his wife dance with an acquaintance.
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West Union
Thomas Blankenship
Blankenship
Beardsley Calls for Leadership at ABA Convention
Charles A. Beardsley president of the American Bar Association urged the nations 160 000 lawyers and judges to provide enlightened leadership to keep the United States at peace and prepared against war at the 63rd annual ABA convention in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Charles A. Beardsley
American Bar Association
United States
Four Convicts Remain At Liberty After Break
Four escaped inmates, one wounded, eluded capture a week after a mass breakout at Cummins Prison Farm in Little Rock Arkansas. Authorities press Southeast Arkansas search for the final fugitives and coordinates have been issued for their recapture.
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Little Rock
Ark
Liberty
Cummins
Arkansas
Arkepsas
Safe breakers blamed for watchman's death in Sandusky
Hans Bahnsen, 82, a general store night watchman at Gypsum, was found shot to death. Sheriff Dewey Gullenen believes Bahnsen interrupted two safe breakers who entered the R. Hage Co. store last night and fled after blowing off the safe's outer door.
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Sandusky
Hans Bahnsen
Gypsum
Dewey Gullenen
Bahnsen
R. Hage] Co
WPA workers start Route 7 upgrade in Lower Middleport
One hundred fifty WPA laborers began work on the Route 7 improvement in Lower Middleport. The project is estimated to cost twenty five thousand three hundred twenty seven dollars.
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Middleport
WPA
Lower Middleport
Battle of Britain Nears Peak as Air War Rages
Dewitt Mackenzie warns the Battle of Britain has reached a decisive crisis with unprecedented German bombing of London. He notes the RAF’s resilience but stresses two critical risks: destruction of the air force and collapsing civilian morale, urging vigilance on morale as the pivotal factor.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
London
Hitler
England
Royal Air Force
Carol Seeks Exile After Romanian Seizure of Wealth
Carol of Romania begins exile in Switzerland after a military decree seizes his stocks and holdings. Gen Ion Antonescu ousts the king and appoints his 18 year old son Mihai as nominal ruler. Possibility of release or retention of the wealth remains unclear.
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Lugano
Switzerland
Carol of
Rumania
Ion Antonescu
Carol
Mihai
Riviera
Young Slayer To Deny Confession to Officers
Richard Millinder a 22 year old WPA worker faced his opening Centre County court test in Bellefonte Pa on a charge of slaying 25 year old Faye Gates last May 4 in Spook Hollow with the commonwealth seeking the death penalty His defense counsel announced Millinder will take the stand and admit he made a statement to police but deny its truth.
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Bellefonte
Commonwealth
Richard Millinder
WPA
Centre County Court
Spook Hollow
Lewis C. Harvey
Millinder
Faye Gates
Ohio Ready To Care For Paralysis Victims
Dr. R. H. Markwith state health director said Ohio is better equipped to limit crippling effects of the worst infantile paralysis outbreak in three years. New splints and iron lungs are available to health commissioners in large quantities to aid treatment.
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Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Ohio
Ohio Farmers To Vote On Control of Crops
Ohio farmers vote in 1 267 townships tonight for representatives to the Agriculture Adjustment Administration program. Each township selects three committeemen and a county convention delegate who tomorrow will vote for a county chairman vice chairman and three AAA committeemen.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robbers Take Soap Bag in Belleville Market Hold Up
Two trusting bandits robbed Al Wagner, manager of a Belleville food market, demanding the day's receipts. Wagner handed over one bag while the other bag with cash remained with him, and the thieves fled with soap.
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Belleville, N. J
al Wagner
Wagner
Three Issues To Dominate Ohio Campaign
Ohio voters face a pivotal election with three main campaign issues graft charges pensions and the economy. Gov John W Bricker airs a statewide address as Democrats promise to repeal the sales tax and guarantee $40 monthly pensions for old age recipients. Davey counterplays with planned broadcasts while liquor department officials cite savings and earnings during his tenure.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Martin L. Davey
Donald A. Fisher
Liquor Department
Davey
Fisher
Court Martial Ordered at Fort Hayes Sentry Shooting
Court martial proceedings were ordered today against Private Cecil R. Mitchell 21 of Nutters Ford West Virginia for unauthorized shooting to death of Private Herschel F. Spencer 19 of Charleston West Virginia on August 31 at Fort Hayes Army Post Columbus. Proceedings would be instituted within a week or ten days Lieut Col John Eager said Spencer a prisoner charged with being absent without leave was shot by Mitchell a sentry
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Columbus
Cecil R. Mitchell
Nutters Ford
W. Va
Herschel F. Spencer
Charleston
Fort Hayes
John Eager
Spencer
Mitchell
Maine Voting Straw in Wind
Maine voters go to the polls today in a general election seen as a test of national mood. Republicans claim an emphatic GOP win would bode well for Wendell Willkie, while Democrats argue Maine’s results have little national significance despite the old adage.
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Portland
Maine
G.O.P
Wendell Willkie
Army Garand M-1 to be tested at Camp Perry range
The Garand M-1 rifle will undergo its first competitive tests at Camp Perry Ohio. A 300 yard rapid fire event opens the day for service and civilian marksmen ahead of the national matches. Capt Rothwell Brown of Fort Benning predicts scores will surprise.
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Camp Perry
Army
Rothwell Brown
Fort Benning
Two Prisoners Escape Wyandot County Jail
Kenneth Resner 35 and Israel Myers 29 pried bricks from a wall of Wyandot County Jail and escaped over the weekend. Resner faces armed robbery charges. Myers charged with assault to rob, according to Prosecutor William Hunter.
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Upper Sandusky
Wyandot County
Kenneth Resner
Israel Myers
Resner
William Hunter
Myers
Three Southern Ohio Men Become Deacons
Announcement of ministerial assignments ends the annual Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church. Ordained as deacons are Ellsworth Allen Bartlett, Robert A. Byler of New Straitsville, and Ralph Parks of Nelsonville.
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Lakeside
Ohio
The
Methodist Church
Ellsworth Allen
Bartlett
Robert A. Byler
New Straitsville
Ralph Parks
Nelsonville
Wheat slips on air attack fears hitting London
Chicago early trading shows wheat down one cent per bushel as traders weigh air raids on London and market unease spread through the commodities pit.
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Chicago
London
Auto-Truck Crash Fatally Kills Delaware Man Near Waldo
Walter Reece, 27, of Delaware, died in an early morning auto-truck collision near Waldo. County sheriff deputies investigated the wreck and identified the victim at the scene.
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Marion
Walter Reece
Delaware
Waldo
New Assault On London Deepens War Toll
Nazi Luftwaffe strikes push London back into alert after a 12 hour lull as the city endures a fierce night raid. casualties near 600 killed and 2,600 wounded, with docks and Thames bridges heavily damaged. RAF raids hit Hamburg while Berlin claims major strikes on Kiel and other targets. London vigil continues amid warnings of possible imminent invasion.
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Britain
Associated Press
London
Germany
North Sea
Hamburg
London Air Ministry
Berlin
Kiel
Empire
Thames
Hitler
German Pilots Claim RAF Resistance Is Weakening
German pilots asserted the RAF was weakening amid a heavy London bombing campaign that damaged two museums and hit the Parliament area. Reports noted widespread fires along the Thames, bombed hospitals, and dives on central London as Goering described the raids as reprisals while Berlin debated leadership and the coming phase of the assault. In the Near East Britain reinforced forces in Cairo with thousands of troops bound for Egypt and Palestine.
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London
Air Ministry
Berlin
Hitler
British Empire
Germany
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
France
RAF
Thames River
Associated Press
Tudor Street
Fleet Street
Westminster
Thames Dock
Marshal Goering
Reich
der Tag
Britain
Near East
England
Cairo
Egypt
Palestine
Pottery Workers Vote For Readjusted Pay in Two Year Pact
Atlantic City reports wage increases in a new two year contract between the AFL National Brotherhood of Operating Potters and the United States Potters Association. The agreement takes effect October 1 and affects about twenty thousand workers in general and chinaware, concentrated mainly in East Liverpool Ohio and surrounding areas.
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Atlantic City
N. J
AFL National Brotherhood of Operating Potters
United States Potters Association
East Liverpool
Nazis Imprison Jewish Killer Grynzpan
Herschel Grynzpan the Polish Jewish assailant who killed Ernst Vom Rath at the German embassy in Paris in 1938 is reported to be serving a 20 year term under German supervision. Nazi sources say he was found in Sante Prison Paris and likely moved to a jail in Nazi occupied Europe. The 17 year old shooter sparked anti Jewish violence in Berlin and elsewhere after the incident. The US ambassador to Berlin was recalled and not replaced.
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Berlin
Herschel Grynzpan
Ernst Vom Rath
Paris
Grynzpan
Germany
Sante
Vom Rath
United States
Hugh Wilson
Washington
Beauty Contest Winner Warns of Her Sisters
Atlantic City N J Frances Marie Burke a 19 year old Philadelphia beauty chosen for beauty and talent as Miss America candidate expresses that if she wins her family the Burkes will dominate future contests She notes her sisters Jean 16 and another sister are also considered prettier
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Atlantic City
N. J
Frances Marie Burke
Philadelphia
Burke
Sh Ters
Jean
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