Spectacular fires mark third dusk to dawn London raid
German warplanes struck central London in a nine hour assault, setting fires near St Pauls Cathedral and the Bank of England. Bombs weighing 800 to 1,000 pounds caused warehouse blazes as fire crews fought for hours amid alarms and evacuations. Londres RAF and British officials say the war is widening. Berlin promises more planes for London as daylight raids resume.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Wall Street
Bank of England
Guildhall
General Post Office
Berlin
Britain
England
Midlands
Wales
Scotland
Empire
Draft bill delays and age range clash in Washington talks
A Senate House conference committee shifts on the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training bill as House favoring a 60 day delay and 21 through 44 age range contends with Senate resistance. Observers expect a compromise to widen the registration to ages 21-44 with immediate conscription for those selected.
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Washington
Senate House Conference
Congress
Rushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate House
Senate
Clark
D-Mo
House
Chamber
Barkley
Kentucky
Charge Fraud In Obtaining Housing Loans
TOLEDO six persons and two firms indicted in an alleged conspiracy to defraud the Federal Housing Administration. The government accuses defendants of padding loan applications to cover other debts and posing as government officials to lure customers with promises the government wanted to build houses. H E Talbot and Benjamin Reese pleaded innocent. Melvin Reese is ill in hospital. three others not yet in custody. Paramount Improvement and Construction Co and Old Dominion Inc are out of business.
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Toledo
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
H. E. Talbot
Benjamin Reese
Labor Dispute Shuts Buick Plants In Flint Michigan
A labor dispute closed Fisher Body Plant No 1 and suspended several Buick Division departments in Flint Michigan. Buick officials said body production interruption would likely close most Buick operations by nightfall. The two General Motors companies employ about 20 000 workers.
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Flint
Mich
Fisher
Buick
General Motors
Lawrence County Records Rise in Infantile Paralysis Cases
State Health Director R H Markwith said four new infantile paralysis cases in Lawrence County were not alarming as cases were scattered. Active victims fell to 14 after recent discharges. Hamilton County added three cases, Wayne and Jackson one each. one new death occurred. State active total declined from 74 to 70.
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Lawrence County
Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Hamilton County
Wayne
Jackson
15 Year Old Girl Held for Auto Theft in Newark
Delaware police arrest 15 year old Barbara Weiller of Newark for auto theft. The girl allegedly posed as Judge J. D. Barnes’s daughter to take a Columbus stolen car from an Applegate garage. The vehicle was set afire near a gasoline pump after arrival in Delaware.
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Delaware
Earl Amrine
Barbara Weiller
Newark
Columbus
J. D. Barnes
Sidney
Amrine
Barnes
Bricker To Speak at Farm Bureau Field Day
Governor John W. Bricker will be principal speaker at the annual Farm Bureau Field Day on the Ohio State Fairgrounds on Tuesday September 17. L J Bennett of the Ohio Farm Bureau says about 20 000 farmers are expected to attend the meeting.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
State Farm Bureau
Ohio State Fairgrounds
L. J. Bennett
Ohio Farm Bureau
Steel Company Seeks NLRB Ruling on Dismissals
Follansbee Steel Corporation plans to appeal to the national labor relations board over the firing of about 250 workers, triggered by a new cold roll mill replacing older hot mills. The CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee urged dismissal of all employees with under one year of seniority to shift older hot mill workers to new roles.
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Follansbee
W. Va
Follansbee Steel Corporation
National Labor Relations Board
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
France Likely To Bar Carol From French Riviera Stay
Lugano Switzerland reports ex King Carol seeking sanctuary possibly in Portugal as France’s refusal grows. Carol and Mme Magda Lu pescu consider a town near Lisbon if rebuffed. An toonescu seizes vast assets including armament stocks sugar refineries and mines.
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Lugano
Switzerland
Carol
Portugal
Vichy
French Riviera
France
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Lisbon
Ion Antoonescu
Expansion of Army's Dental Corps Planned
Dentists at the American Dental Association convention in Cleveland heard the Army will begin expanding its dental corps from 500 to 3,000 officers starting Monday. Brig. Gen. Leigh C. Fairbank said the full complement is expected by April 1, with 4,600 dental reserve officers to be drawn upon first.
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Cleveland
American Dental Association
U.S. Army
Leigh C. Fairbank
Dental
Ohio to Get Five Million Forty One Thousand in Federal Road Aid
Washington report from John M. Carmody of the federal works administration says Ohio will receive 5,041,000 in federal aid for highways for the 1942-43 fiscal years by December. The total includes 3,581,000 in regular aid 627,000 for secondary roads and 833,000 for grade crossings.
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Washington
John M. Carmody
Federal Works Administrator
Ohio
Motz Named Finance Director for Ohio Democratic Committee
Akron attorney and publisher Clarence E. Motz was selected to serve as finance director for the Democratic National Committee in Ohio. The appointment aims to coordinate fundraising and party operations within the state.
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Columbus
Clarence E. Motz
Akron
Democratic National Committee
Ohio
Bricker pledges decency in government in Ohio race
Gov John W Bricker frames reelection bid on decency in government. In a radio address he says the record as governor cannot be obscured by name calling and mudslinging. Bricker cites Democratic attacks on Davey and quotes Cox criticizing Daveys administration for corruption and decency violations.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Martin L. Davey
James M. Cox
Dayton
Davey
Two Women Die in Collision North of Salem
Mrs. E. C. Woods aged 50 and Mrs. Eliza C. Morrall aged 73 of Youngstown were killed when their car collided with a truck just north of the city. Both were riding together when the crash occurred. Investigators reported the fatal accident shortly after the scene.
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Salem
E. C. Woods
Eliza C. Morrall
Youngstown
Here
Maine Republicans score sweeping statewide wins in primary
Maine voters gave Republicans a string of decisive wins including a U.S. Senate seat, a governor, and three House picks, with Brewster ahead by about 45,000 and Sewall leading by over 70,000. Willkie lauded results as a good omen for November amid broader primary activity across eight states and several key races.
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Maine
United States
House of Representatives
Ralph O. Brewster
Louis J. Brawn
Sumner Sewall
Arizona
Colorado
Minnesota
Louisiana
Michigan
New Hampshire
Vermont
Washington
Georgia
New Mexico
Willkie
Huey P. Long
Sam H. Jones
Shipstead
Farmer-Laborite
Harold E. Stassen
Vandenberg
Hitler Strategem Focuses on Sapping London Morale
Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes the Luftwaffe blitz over London, noting civilians suffer while British morale holds. He cites anti aircraft defenses and RAF raids on Berlin as signs of resilience and discusses weather’s potential to alter the Battle of Britain and Britain's winter endurance.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
Royal Air Force
Berlin
England
Britain
Hitler
United States
New Dealers Push $500 Million Latin American Loan Bill
Washington leaders push Senate approval for a $500 million Latin American loan bill proposed by President Roosevelt to expand Export-Import Bank lending. Senator Wagner says the aims are to broaden Latin American trade, secure mutual materials for defense, and market Latin surplus. Senator Taft seeks to narrow scope by stripping two points and limiting loans to Western Hemisphere resource development.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Wagner
D-Ny
Taft
Ohio
Bigelow Seeks 40 Dollar Pensions For Ohio Elderly
The Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, Cincinnati preacher-politician, filed with the secretary of state a form to start a state law guaranteeing old age pensioners a minimum income of 40 dollars a month. To present the bill to the Legislature, petitions must gather 72,387 signatures and be filed at least 10 days before the January session. If the Legislature rejects or amends the measure, Bigelow would push a referendum with roughly the same signature goal.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Secretary of State
General Assembly
Bigelow
Acts To Keep Health Units of Cities Intact
State Health Director R. H. Markwith moved to assure normal operation of local health units and asked city and county health commissioners to list staff with National Guard or reserve affiliation to defer their summons to active duty.
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Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Markwith
National Guard
Army
Navy
Woman falls 200 feet to death from Detroit Superior Bridge
Miss Louise Pallas aged 25 died after plunging about 200 feet from the Detroit Superior high level bridge to a pier on the Cuyahoga River last night.
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Cleveland
Louise Pallas
Detroit Superior
Cuyahoga River
British Retaliate With Attacks on Berlin and French Coast
Night raids left a death toll near 900 as British bombers hit Berlin and a German assault on the French coast prompted German naval fire. Rescue crews struggled amid wreckage while London and other regions faced disrupted food supplies and ongoing shipping losses.
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Berlin
VV Crey
Hitler
High Command
London
Great East Indian
Royal Victoria
Thames
Berliner Zeitung
Warsaw
Rotterdam
Winston Churchill
Germany
Conscription Bill Attacked By Ohio Methodists
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church calls the pending conscription bill a tragic defeat for democracy and says it curtails liberal education and the free pulpit. It commends Senators Donahey and Taft and the Ohio Congressmen for opposing the bill.
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Lakeside
Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church
Donahey
Taft
Ohio
Water Transport Regulation Bill Cleared by Congress
President Roosevelt anticipated to sign a bill placing inland and coastal water carriers under federal regulation like rail and road transport. The measure won final congressional approval after a nearly two year dispute.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Legionnaires Urged To Attend Red Meeting
Akron officials urged American Legion members to attend a Communist rally at Perkins School Auditorium where James W. Ford the Communist vice presidential candidate was to speak, as a response to protests against the event.
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Akron
American Legionnaires
Jhead
Board of Education
James W. Ford
Perkins School
Romanian General Removals In Postking Regime Shakeup
General Ion Antonescu continue probe into former King Carol regime while eleven Romanian generals are dismissed for alleged role in recent territorial losses. Antonescu directs purge amid political upheaval in Bucharest.
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Carol
Bucharest
Romania
Ion Antonescu
Wallace Bids for Farm Vote in Nebraska Tour
Wallace urged Nebraska farm audiences to back candidates who will support the administration’s agricultural program. He said heat and drought cause damage that crop insurance can mitigate and endorsed a crop insurance plan for corn once a farmers’ majority shows support, though he added it is not enough.
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Hastings
Two Children Die as Car Plunges Into River
Authorities opened an investigation into the drowning of two children aged 2 and 4 who were trapped in the rear seat of their father's car when it plunged into the Mahoning River from an abandoned bridge northeast of Alliance. Three adults, including the father Fred Teague, 46, escaped and were found on top of the vehicle when help arrived.
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Alliance
Mahoning River
Here
Fred Teague
W. D. Parr
Committee To Allocate Shoe Orders Proposed
United Shoe Workers of America CIO proposed setting up a committee to allocate government shoe orders. Leo Goodman research director urged Sidney Hillman to sponsor a joint conference for management labor consumer and government purchasing agents to oversee the process.
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Washington
United Shoe Workers Fof America
CIO
Leo Goodman
Sidney Hillman
National Defense Advisory Commission
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