Draft Bill Awaits Roosevelt's Signature and Draft Plan
Roosevelt was set to sign the peace-time conscription bill and issue a proclamation with an ABC explanation. The registration date for men aged 21 to 35 would be fixed, with about 16.5 million called to register and 400,000 draftees planned by year’s end.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
White House
ABC
Early
Wythe Williams
Justice
War Department
Congress
Willkie Seen At Odds With Republican Leaders
National Democratic Chairman Edward Flynn said Wendell Willkie would line up with the President’s farm relief unemployment pensions and conservation program, arguing a large Republican majority in House and Senate rejects his views. Flynn spoke at a Cleveland steel roast with Cuyahoga County Democrats noting the conflict within Willkie’s party.
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Cleveland
Wendell Willkie
Edward J. Flynn
House
Senate
Flynn
Cuyahoga County
Willkie
AP News System Insures Impartiality
AP system ensures accuracy and impartial treatment of news, editor Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer asserted to about 100 newspaper executives at an Ohio AP meeting. Publisher John S. Knight of the Akron Beacon Journal hosted the weekend gathering.
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Akron
Associated Press
Paul Bellamy
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bellamy
Ohio Associated Press
John S. Knight
Akron Beacon-Journal
Swedish Freighter Laponia Stranded by tropical storm
Three rescue ships braved hurricane seas to reach the Swedish freighter Laponia caught in a tropical storm east of Cape Hatteras. The vessel’s steering gear was dis posed and water poured into its low decks, leaving the crew in distress.
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New York
Laponia
Bahamas
Cape Matteras
Cholera Epidemic Reported Dead in Fukien Coast
Chinese dispatches state 5,000 Chinese deaths in the last month from a cholera epidemic sweeping the Fukien coastal region. A separate notice reports Arthur T. Cavey, 60, president of Carthage Mills Inc., died yesterday from a heart attack in Cincinnati.
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Hong Kong
Fukien
Cincinnati
Arthur T. Cavey
Carthage Mills, Inc
Bankhead Remembered at State Funeral in House Chamber
Washington honors Speaker William B Bankhead at a state funeral in the House chamber. The 66-year-old leader died after internal hemorrhage following a week with illness in Baltimore before a rally. Sam Rayburn is chosen to succeed him as Speaker prior to the services.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William B. Bankhead
House
Baltimore
Bankhead
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Probers Blame Train Crew for Hudson Crash
The state utilities commission chief railroad inspector Harry M. Evans found the July 31 collision near Hudson, Ohio, of a Pennsylvania Railroad gasoline coach was caused by crew failure to execute orders. The commission will inspect the site and equipment before issuing an official statement.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hudson
Harry M. Evans
Interstate Commerce Commission
George C. McConnaughey
Evans
Spanish diplomat arrives for talks on possible Axis alignment with Germany
BERLIN Ramon Serrano Suner, Franco kin, arrived for talks with Hitler and Ribbentrop amid hints of a forthcoming understanding with the Rome Berlin axis. Observers expect Nationalist Spain may join the war on the side of Germany and Italy.
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Berlin
Ramon _ Serrano Suner
Francisco Franco
Spain
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Italy
Mrs. Dewena Morton Dies at Pomeroy Home
Dewena Morton 42 died Sunday at her Willis Hill home after a three year illness. Survived by husband Charles five children two brothers Will and Harvey Lewis of Pomeroy two sisters Luella Riley of Cleveland and Lucy Cousins of Pomeroy. Services Wednesday at 2 30 p.m. Naomi Baptist Church burial Beechgrove Cemetery.
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Morton
Pomeroy
Dewena Morton
Willis Hill
Charles
Will
Harvey Lewis
Luella Riley
Cleveland
Lucy Cousins
Naomi Baptist Church
Retired Publisher James L Patterson Dies at 85
James L Patterson, 85, a retired newspaper publisher, died over the weekend. He lived in Fremont with prior ties to ports mouth Findlay France Fremont and McConnelyville.
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Fremont
James L. Patterson
Portsmouth
Findlay
France
McConnelyvild
Willkie Delegates Speech Duties to Landon During Tour
Willkie, strained voice, assigns most speechmaking to Alf M. Landon to save his throat for an address at Coffeyville Kansas. Willkie's talks through Missouri and eastern Kansas are largely extempore while a throat specialist treats his voice. Landon notes Willkie has not lost ground despite New Deal propaganda and will deliver the Coffeyville speech.
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Kansas City
Coffeyville
Kas
Wendell L. Willkie
Alf M. Landon
Missouri
Kansas
Willkie
Claremore
Okla
Will Rogers
Tulsa
Landon
Resume Work At Wrecked Powder Plant
Dynamite production restarted at the Hercules Powder Company plant after an explosion. Unemployed men gathered at the gate seeking jobs as relief crews and investigators probe possible subversive links. Robert B. Barker reports findings to Washington while Sheriff Quick leads a Bund camp raid nearby.
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Renil
Hercules Powder Company
Dies Committee
Washington
Robert B. Barker
House Committee On
Denton J. Quick
Bund
Nordland
Quick
Hercules
Weirton Steel renews NLRB fight over jurisdiction
Pittsburgh bureau report says Weirton Steel Company of Weirton West Virginia facing a preliminary NLRB ruling. The firm contests agency jurisdiction and filed 129 pages of exceptions. The decision orders disestablishment of independent worker groups and reinstatement with back pay for 17 CIO steel workers committee members dismissed for outside union activity.
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Pittsburgh
Weirton
CW. Va
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
State Tax Examiner in Meigs Co Dead
POMEROY Staff Special Judd Bradford aged 61 of Rutland Harrisonville Road died yesterday after years of illness. He was a farmer and a state tax examiner. Survived by wife daughter Mrs Harold Smith Rutland son Kenneth Columbus sister Mrs Lena Shank Rutland. Funeral at residence 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Burial Miles Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Judd Bradford
Rutland-Harrisonville
Bradford
Harold Smith
Rutland
Kenneth
Columbus
Lena Shank
Miles Cemetery
Steel Production Rate Tops 10 Months at 92.9 Percent
The American Iron and Steel Institute said U S steel mills will run this week at 92.9 percent of capacity, the highest in nearly 10 months. The rate rises one point from last week and compares with 89.7 percent a month ago and 79.3 percent a year ago.
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New York
United States
American Iron & Steel Institute
Col Lynn Black Reported In Fair Condition After Flu
Col Lynn Black state highway patrol superintendent was reported in fair condition by hospital attaches after being taken to a hospital yesterday with influenza.
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Columbus
Lynn Black
Fair
Hull Denies Roosevelt Phone Claim On Munich Pact
Secretary Hull rebutted Wendell Willkie on Munich, saying Roosevelt never spoke by phone to Mussolini or Hitler. Hull called Willkie grossly ignorant of recent history and accused him of shifting responsibility for Czechoslovakia’s fate onto the President.
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Washington
Hull
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Illinois
Willkie
Hitler
Mussolini
Goering Flies Over London in Ju88 Escort
German sources report Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering flew over London at the controls of a JU-88 last night accompanied by two destroyer planes. He claimed the air force is a decisive weapon and noted its role in Poland and Norway. His Normandy headquarters were reportedly well camouflaged to avoid air detection.
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Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann T
Wilhelm Goering
London
Junkers
Goering
Normandy
France
Poland
Norway
England
Close NM Democratic Senate Primary Narrows Gap
In Albuquerque the Dempsey Chavez race tightens as remaining county results favor Chavez. With 753 of 914 divisions reporting, Dempsey leads 42 554 to 40 811, as northern Spanish American precincts still unreported.
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Albuquerque
N. M
John J. Dempsey
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Dempsey
Chavez
First 60 000 Guard Units Are Mobilized
Washington reports 60 000 National Guard members mobilized in the first federal move since World War days. They head to training centers within 10 days after medical exams and paperwork. Roosevelt orders induction under regular Army for a year’s training with about 242 000 total guardsmen. more units to follow.
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National Guard
Washington
National Guard Bureau
Roosevelt
Motorcyclist Killed When Struck by Auto
Mount Vernon dwight Phillips a 19 year old motorcyclist died from injuries after his bike was struck by a car yesterday Bertha Johnson 16 riding with him sustained severe leg injuries The auto was forced into Phillips path by a second car whose driver fled the scene according to highway patrolman G P Miller
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Mount Vernon
Dwight Phillips
Bertha Johnson
Phillips
G. P. Miller
Methodists To Assign Northeast Pastors
The annual northeast Ohio conference of the Methodist church ends with pastors being assigned for 10 months. Conference officials said the 1941 session will conclude with the June appointments.
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Methodists
Delaware
Northeast Ohio
The
Methodist Church
British Resistance Grows as Nazi Air Assaults Continue
The article reports a claimed record 185 German planes downed against London with 25 RAF losses, while Britain repels another major Nazi attack. Dover is bombarded from the French coast, sparking invasion fears as Mussolini’s Egypt drive prompts King Farouk to pray for peace. The outlook centers on the German push against England and Italy’s risky Mediterranean venture.
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Mussolini
Egypt
Sybian
Farouk
Italy
Near East
England
Turkey
Hitler
Dr Glenn Frank and Son Die in Wisconsin Car Crash
Dr Glenn Frank 52 a Republican adviser and author died in a car crash on the election eve near Green Bay while en route between campaign events. His 21 year old son Glenn Frank Jr died later at the hospital. A campaign aide suffered minor injuries from acid exposure.
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Greenleaf
Wis
Glenn Frank
Frank
U. S
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Theodore Stumpf
Waukanee
Stoughton
German Press Attacks Sweden Government and Press
Berlin reports a concerted attack by German media on the Swedish government and press. Volkischer Beobachter led the charge accusing Swedish papers of insulting Germany and unequal punishments for different accusations of terrorism tied to Britain in Iceland.
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Sweden
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Iceland
Jap Chinese Clash in Indo China Feared
Foreign observers warn that early moves by Japan in French Indo China could trigger Chinese intervention. Such a clash might threaten France’s 60 year control over the 230000 square mile region in eastern Asia.
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Indo-China
Hanoi
China
France
Asia
Mexico marks 130 years of independence celebration
Mexico wrapped up a two day independence observance in quiet fashion after sporadic clashes left two dead and 59 injured nationwide. President Lazaro Cardenas pledged continental solidarity amid the turmoil and hospital authorities called the casualties small for the event.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Spain
Relocation of Ohio Highways to Begin Soon
42 state and county road projects in the Muskingum conservancy district will start within months. Lieut. Col. J. D. Arthur Jr. of the district army engineers reports the work will cost about 2,350,000 dollars to be undertaken by the government.
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Huntington
W. Va
Ohio
Muskingum Conservancy District
J. D. Arthur, Jr
District Army Engineers
Train Collision Kills Four In Van Wert Crossing
A Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile on Washington Street in Van Wert killing four. Victims were Robert Hueck Jr of Cincinnati ages 23 Nancy Hueck 13 Janet Hueck 10 and nurse Mrs Clementine Suttoff of Cincinnati. Wreckage required cutting by blowtorch.
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Hueck
Nancy
Mrs.Suttoff
Beards Dies At Home In Pomeroy
John W Beards aged 72 of E Main St Pomeroy died Sunday at 10 pm of a heart attack. He formerly conducted for the Pomeroy street car system and later ran a taxi service. He is survived by wife Dora a daughter Mrs Norma Wilson a grandchild and four brothers Fred C August Chris and Herman C Funeral arrangements to be completed today.
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Pomeroy
John W. Beards
E. Main St
Dora
Norma Wilson
Fred C
August
Chris
Herman C
Government Dismisses Milk Industry Cases
The government dropped antitrust charges against 45 individuals corporations and associations in the milk industry after a consent decree enjoining price fixing supply control and suppression of competition in the Chicago market was entered.
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Chicago
Life-Long Meigs County Resident Dies Sunday
Jud Bradford aged 61 a long time Meigs County resident died Sunday after years long illness He served four years as deputy treasurer and was once cashier at Albany Bank Funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 30 p m at the Presidence church with Rev Bolton officiating
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Rutland
Jud Bradford
Meigs Co
Albany Bank
Bolton
Britain and Germany trade heavy shell and air actions
Long range German guns fired on the French coast toward Dover while British coastal batteries and RAF fighters attacked German bases. In London and over Britain, Luftwaffe raids killed or forced down planes as both nations fought to repel invasion efforts. Berlin claimed British losses. Britain reported strong air victories and continued defense.
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Dover
Britain
Channel
London
RAF
Hitler
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Probers
Ribbentrop
Weirton Steel Company
NLRB
NEA
George
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Royal Air Force
John W Beards
Dover Coast
Empire
Antwerp
Ostend
Calais
Rodolfo Graziani
Cairo
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