Conscription Plan Narrowly Bypasses 60 Day Delay
A joint Senate House conference abandons a 60 day delay and settles on a peacetime draft for men 21 through 35 with a 35 year maximum. About 16.5 million would register for service and 5 million could be eligible for a year of training. The report goes to both chambers for quick action as Roosevelt weighs executive use of industry if needed.
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Roosevelt vows no war involvement pledge for third term
President Roosevelt urged universal training and government power to seize plants for defense as he campaigned for another term. He pledged not to send forces abroad and to implement labor friendly social programs, speaking before AFL members in Constitution Hall and criticizing anti labor opponents.
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Roosevelt
International Teamsters’ Union
AFL
Constitution Hall
Chicago
Americas
Republican Party
Wendell L. Willkie
Ameran
Labor
Miner Kills Teacher then Wounds Self in Montown Incident
In Montown Pennsylvania a 35 year old coal miner named William Kuhns shot and killed Carolyn Del Amen a 29 year old teacher then shot himself after their friendship ended. Police said Pupils fled or hid as the gunfire erupted. Kuhns was critically wounded and taken for treatment.
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Walter Heuer Seid
Carolyn del- Amen
Heuer
William Kuhns
Murder Mob Suspect Surrenders to Police
In New York a terrified man rushed into a church seeking protection and told investigators that three killers were pursuing him. He identified Vito Socks Gurino, 33, as a key figure in the murder mob inquiry and named the ring's top man after six months of pursuit.
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Vito
Socks) Gurino
Brooklyn
Kiam F. O'Dwyer
Willkie Attacks Roosevelt as Foreign Policy Clumsy
Willkie labeled Roosevelt's handling of foreign affairs as clumsy and said the United States cannot win the current world struggle under such leadership. He urged voters to reject what he called class conscious and economically destructive doctrines and outlined plans for a western speaking tour with 69 scheduled speeches. He also warned that continued power in one group threatens democracy and previewed his third term stance.
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Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
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Blum
France
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Straitsville Man Crushed Under Coal Truck
Ernest Everts 31 of New Straitsville died at Cherrington Hospital Logan after a stalled coal truck he helped push rolled over him. He slipped and was crushed by the six ton wheel while aiding driver George Nye and others at the Thompson coal mine. Survived by wife Edna, parents Charles and…
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Ernest Everts
Cherrington
Logan
Thompson
Everts
New Lexington
George Nye
Edna McKnight Everts
Charles Everts
Grayton
Elsie
Columbus
Youth Crushed Under Tractor Near Pennsville
Cecil Earich aged 19 son of Mr and Mrs George Earich of near Pennsville died when a tractor overturning on a hill while dragging logs crushed him He was employed by Cray Lumber Company near Reinersville The body was found two hours after the accident and taken to McConnelsville Burial is planned at Wolf Creek He was the youngest of seven children
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Cecil Earich
George Earich
Cray Lumber Company
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McConnelsville
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Borden Harriman Dies In Eight Story Plunge
PHILADELPHIA. Borden Harriman 34, a member of a prominent family and nephew of the minister to Norway, died after an eight story plunge from his room at the Central Y M C A. In his room was a letter from his mother saying she had no money to send and suggesting he come home.
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New York
War Dept Plans 530000 For Tents At Patterson Field
The War Department schedules a 530000 dollar expenditure for temporary tents and warehouses to accommodate the growing air corps personnel at Patterson Field Dayton Ohio.
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War Department
Air Corps
Patterson Field
Dayton
Only 25 Per Cent of Children Go to Dentist
The American Dental Association reported that government surveys show about 25 percent of U S children visit a dentist while 25 percent are indigent and cannot go and the remaining 50 percent can go but will not go. Dr Frank C Cady of the U S Health Service discussed child welfare at the convention.
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United States
American Dental Association
Frank C. Cady
U. S. Health Service
British accuse airmen of potato bug attack in Europe
Berlin authorized German sources claim British airmen drop Colorado Potato Bugs into potato fields in Germany Luxembourg and Belgium to ruin the food supply. They say the bugs multiply rapidly and are hard to control and call it another example of British unfairness.
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Germany
Luxembourg
Belgium
Forecast Sees Warm Up After Cold Ohio Night
The forecast points to rising temperatures Friday across Ohio after a chilly night. Readings fell to 44.2 in Cincinnati the lowest Sept 12 in 23 years, with Akron 43, Cleveland 48, Columbus 48, Dayton 49, and Youngstown 49.
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Dayton
Youngstown
British Air Attacks Hit Libyan Targets In Libya War
British war planes bombed Libyan objectives damaging Italian airfields and destroying dock facilities across multiple raids. Cairo reports confirm attacks targeting Libyan ports and military sites as part of ongoing hostilities.
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Cairo
Egypt
Berlin fire bomb raid and Hamburg Bremen pressure
British RAF warplanes bomb Berlin centering on Tiergarten near government buildings and chancellery while pounding Hamburg and Bremen. London reports heavy casualties and new anti aircraft tactics aid defense as raids continue. Casualties climb with a rising body count and air battle losses on both sides.
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Tiergarten
Hamburg
Bremen
Hitler
Reich
Wilhelmstrasse
London
Anhal
Pershing to Observe 80th Birthday Friday
General John J. Pershing will celebrate his 80th birthday with a busy day ahead in Washington. The observation marks eight decades since his birth as crowds plan to honor the former World War I commander.
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Pershing
Washington
John J. Pershing
Pittsburgh Scientists Make Coal in One Hour
In a Pittsburgh Institute of Technology lab, grass leaves seaweed wood molasses and cornstalks are converted into coal or oil in under two hours and even executes fuels and asphalts. Dr Ernst Berl reports to the American Chemical Society that costs are lower than European methods and could undercut US oil and coal supplies.
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Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
American Chemical Society
Ernst Berl
Dr. Berl
Europe
America
Berl
Powder Plant Blast Kenvil Injures Dozens at Hercules Facility
Two explosions at the Hercules Powder Plant in Kenvil near Dover N J caused heavy casualties. Dover General Hospital received around 50 patients and state troopers were dispatched as police cut communications with Kenvil. The plant employs 220 people and the blast was heard across Westchester County.
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Tarrytown
Fifth Column Nationality Code Approved by House
The House approved swiftly on a voice vote a plan to create a new code of naturalization aimed at Fifth Columnists. The measure would strip U S citizenship from many abroad and expatriate citizens serving in foreign armies or holding foreign offices. It would also bar aliens who vote in foreign elections or advocate overthrow. Rep. Rees said the rules could block Communists Nazis and Fascists from becoming citizens.
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Bricker Declares U S Safe From Invasion At Kiwanis Dinner
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker told the Kiwanis Ohio Michigan Governors Day crowd that America must be strong but warned that no hostile nation would dare land a soldier on U S shores. He spoke as an honor guest beside Michigan Governor Loren D. Dickinson.
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Gary
John W. Bricker
America
Bricker
Kiwanis
Loren D. Dickinson
Michigan
Sales Tax Receipts Higher Than in 1939
Columbus report shows income from the sales tax up to September 7 totaling $32,653,910 versus $29,372,885 in the same period last year, as stated by State Treasurer Don H. Ebright.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Mrs McNeill Dies Wife of ROTC Colonel at 1 A M
Mrs. Thomas F. McNeill wife of Colonel McNeill of the Reserve Officers Training Corps Ohio University died at their home 11 Park Place after a months long illness. She was born near Blanchester Ohio a Valparaiso graduate and earned a Nebraska master’s degree. Married in Seattle in 1909 they lived in the Philippines Hawaii and across the United States. She and Colonel McNeill had a daughter Jean and she leaves seven brothers and sisters.
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Colonel McNeill
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Ohio University
Park Place
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Jean McNeill
Murray Conklin
Columbus
Wilson Ingersoll
Toledo
Bliss Snyder
Cincinnati
Carolyn Gilpatrick
Seattle
Blaine Jackson
Dayton
George Jackson
Tacdma
Wash
Arthur Jackson
Chicago
Woman Shouted Hurray for Hitler in Columbus Parade
A woman spectator cried out a pro Hitler chant during a patriotic Columbus parade last night and police had to move in to separate her from a protesting crowd.
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Columbus
Hitler
Talmadge Reelected Governor of Georgia
Eugene Talmadge won a third term as Georgia governor in a Democratic primary promising support for the party ticket in the national race. With virtually complete unofficial returns, the lawyer farmer defeated two opponents after a four year retirement. Nomination in the primary is effectively election in Georgia.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Lawyer-Farmer
Paralysis Epidemic Closes Three Schools in Dover- County
Four Tuscarawas County schools with about 300 students were closed to curb infantile paralysis after reports of bus-pupil mingling. A fourth had already been shut. State health officials reported 70 cases in the state, shaping the outbreak discussion.
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Tuscarawas County
K. E. Bennett
Columbus
R. H. Markwith
Private Employment Rises During August
Columbus reports private industry added 8 089 workers in August, a 15.8 percent rise over July. The employment level is 18.9 percent higher than August 1939, according to the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.
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Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
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