Nazi siege stance shifts as Leningrad held by defenders
German sources indicate Hitler’s forces may shell or starve Leningrad rather than storm it as Reds fight tenaciously, with 15 miles to the city and mines left by retreating troops. Finland tightens law on parachutists while diplomacy shifts in the Far East as U.S. travel tabs ease and talks resume with Japan.
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Leningrad
Adolf Hitler
Schluesselburg
Ladoga
Lenin
Russia
Berlin
Teron
Fuehrer
Red Army
Moscow
Smolensk
Kiev
Gomel
Finland
Moscow-Helsinki
U. S. State Department
Britain
United States
Canada
Lisbon
Portugal
Atlantic
Royal Air Force
England
Far East
Japan
Tokyo
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Toyoda
Fummaro Konoye
Empire Islands
Sea of Japan
Gto Vladivostok
Freedom of Seas To Be FD's Topic
President Roosevelt plans a speech to demand Germany account for American lives and ships lost at sea. Five American owned vessels sunk and at least 65 citizens dead since 1939, with talks on repealing the Neutrality Act or ordering naval fire on aggressors. Cables say British papers forecast sterner U S action in the Atlantic.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Germany
United States
U. S
Congress
Navy
Britain
Sessa and
Steel Seafarer
Greer
London
Atlantic
Berlin
Sessa
Senate Hearing Probes Propaganda Film Claims
Senate subcommittee hearing on war propaganda features Clark and Nye accusing independent theaters of booking propaganda films. Willkie denies government pressure and urges focus on facts as Nye questions government agent claims.
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NEA
Wendell Willkie
Gerald Nye
Rep
N. D
Senate
Washington
Willkie
Nye
Clark
Idaho
Wendell L. Willkie
Senator Nye
R-Nd
Bennett Clark
D-Mo
Missouri
Wilkie
Motion Picture
Expansion of Plants Banned
Washington policy by the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board blocks civilian plant expansions if they require scarce defense materials. The ruling denied Tennessee Eastman Corporation's Kingsport plastics plant expansion amid hundreds of similar applications and unknown material drain.
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Washington
SPAB
Tennessee Eastman Corporation
Kingsport
Tenn
Ohio Firms Win Two Defense Contracts Worth 1.4 Million
The War Department awarded two Ohio contracts totaling 1,396,118. Mullins Manufacturing Co. of Salem received 697,493 for shells and Ohio Steel Foundry Co. of Lima 698,625 for steel. Delivery dates were not disclosed.
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Washington
War Department
Ohio
Mullins Manufacturing Co
Salem
Ohio Steel Foundry Company
Lima
Steel Seafarer Sinking Described by Survivors
Survivors recount the Ameri can freighter Steel Seafarer sinking after a moonlit Red Sea strike Friday night. A single blast opened a waterline hole near hatch No 4, and 48 crew members survived. Lifeboats rode currents to a rocky island where a British warship and another vessel rescued the crew.
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Suez
Egypt
Red Sea
Ralph S. Pratt
New York
Young Father Killed as Rifle Fires Accidentally
Cincinnati police report Richard Croninger 23 was killed by an accidental rifle discharge while he hunted an alleged assailant after his wife reported attempted choking. The weapon discharged when the trigger linked to a seat binding caused the fatal shot.
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Cincinnati
Richard Croninger
Croninger
Eight Gallia Candidates Disqualified by Board
Gallia County board of elections at a special meeting disqualified Robert Betz from running for municipal judge and eight township trustee candidates for failing to sign certificates of acceptance on nominating petitions. State official ruled the board action illegal in a ruling to County Prosecutor John Howell.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Twenty Two New Patrolmen To Begin Work Thursday
Columbus report states Lynn Black announced a 22 man class will graduate from the state highway patrol training school and be put into duty, bringing total to 244. A new school opens Sept. 21 to push toward the 300 maximum from recent legislation.
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Columbus
Lynn Black
State Highway Patrol
Colonel Black
Dairy farmers seek higher income through milk marketing overhaul
The Agriculture Department aims to boost producer returns by revising milk marketing orders in 17 of 24 milk sheds. Revisions respond to defense production demands, drought in the East, and fluid milk diversions in the Midwest, with proposals to raise fluid milk prices in affected areas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Nazis impose civil siege in Oslo district
German commissioner for Norway Joseph Terboven decreed a state of civil siege in Oslo and nearby districts. The order, effective 5 a.m., halts communications at 7 30 p.m. bans alcohol sales and entertainment venues, closes theaters, and imposes penalties for gatherings while promising forceful suppression of resistance.
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Oslo
Norway
Joseph Terboven
Price Increase Suggested for Gas Shortage
Washington D C. Chairman Maloney proposes a price raise of less than one cent per gallon to cover the extra cost of moving petroleum by rail and offset shortages from diverted ships. The Supply Priorities and Allocations Board blocked an $80 million Texas to East Coast pipeline plan, citing lack of steel for ships. Admiral Emory S. Land pressed for steel for ships.
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Washington
Maloney
D-Conn
Senate
Texas
Defendant To Testify In Akron Murder Trial
The defendant Albert B. Lukens is listed to testify as the defense argues that a confession was obtained by violence. The prosecution says Lukens admitted choking Ruth Zwicker and cremating her body in a church furnace in a third confession.
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Akron
Albert B. Lukens
Ruth Zwicker
Lukens
E. Guy Hammond
New Chemical Claimed To Exceed Radium Power
Dr J D Kurbator of Ohio State University reported to the American Chemical Society a new chemical produced by atomic bombardment in the Ohio Cyclotron. The substance emits rays of about 2,000,000 volts far surpassing radium and used in radium therapies.
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Atlantic
N. J
American Chemical Society
J. D. Kurbator
Ohio State University
Kurbatov
Ohio
Akron man seeks $1820 dog damage from state
A Columbus letter from an Akron man asks $1820 for dog caused damages to his yard. He claims dogs become wards of the state after licensing and the state should cover losses. Summit County officials note no state bureau and no dog damage provisions exist.
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Columbus
Akron
Summit County Commissioners
Newton A. Thatcher
Thatcher
Humane Society
Agreement on Taxes Sought
A joint conference committee began work to reconcile House and Senate versions of a large defense tax bill. The Senate proposes 3.539 billion dollars in new revenue, 367.5 million more than the House plan, with optimism for a week’s compromise. The treasury faces about 2 million dollars daily loss until the new excises take effect.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Chamber of Commerce Backs Bricker's Stand
Ohio Chamber of Commerce directors support Gov. John W. Bricker in resisting mayoral demands for a larger share of sales tax revenues for cities. A. Graves Williams of Portsmouth said a recommendation praising the governor would be among items submitted at the chamber's November Toledo annual meeting.
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Columbus
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
John W. Bricker
Ohio
A. Graves Williams
Portsmouth
Chamber
Toledo
FBI Receives Nazi Spy Messages Through Island Station
The FBI has acted for a year and a half on German espionage instructions from Hamburg via a Long Island radio station. Informer William G. Sebold testified the station cleared 200 to 300 messages to and from Hamburg's spy center and that the FBI continues to work for German directives. He also related a Hamburg agent’s claim in 1940 that Germany knew America's Norden bombsight.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hamburg
Long Island
Reich
William G. Sebold
FBI
Sebold
America
City Purchases Silver Bridge in Pt Pleasant
Silver Bridge officials announced the sale of the structure to Pt Pleasant West Virginia for 1 050 000 dollars. The bridge was built 15 years ago at a cost of 1 200 000 dollars. New owners plan to issue mortgage bonds to cover the purchase price and material for a new bridge floor is arriving for installation.
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Gallipolis
Silver Bridge
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Wheat Prices Slide on Chicago Exchange
Wheat prices fell nearly three cents a bushel in early trading on the Chicago market, with soybeans down as much as 5.58 cents. Heavy selling was attributed to Morgenthau urging release of surplus farm commodities and rising Canadian wheat imports as part of inflation containment efforts.
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Chicago
Morgenthau
Britain and United States clash over lease lent trade war
London reports Britain vows to curb misuse of Lend Lease materials and blunt German propaganda. A White Paper outlines steps to prevent Germany from driving a wedge between Britain and the United States, amid accusations of United States export obstruction and reciprocal British trade moves in South America.
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London
Britain
United States
Germany
Ain
South America
Roosevelt Creates Fact-Finding Board To Avert Railroad Strike
President Roosevelt ordered a five member fact finding board to avert a nationwide rail strike involving about 1,250,000 workers and major systems. The board’s personnel will be announced later at Hyde Park New York and is expected to postpone the strike threat for about sixty days as five operating brotherhoods set a September 15 strike deadline.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Yesbtn
United States
Sessa torpedoed and shelled by submarine near Iceland
The State Department reports the freighter Sessa was torpedoed and shelled without warning by a presumed German submarine while en route from Iceland to the United States after unloading at Reykjavik. Unions face wage strife with potential nationwide rail and freight impact warned by officials.
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Washington
The
State Department
Iceland
United States
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John Halliday
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Gallia
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OPM
Defense Building Projects
City
Chicago Exchange
Bulletin
AFL
Clifford-Jacobs
Champaign
Ill
Frank J. Sheehan
Labor Department
Wilson and Company Packing Plant
Kansas City
Kas
Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee
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