Willkie urges peacetime aviation as major industry
Wendell Willkie, aboard a Bakersfield train en route to San Francisco, calls for rapid, peaceful aviation growth to lead world air leadership. He criticizes New Deal tax rules as punitive and promotes stable business, limited government competition, and profits for growth, while backing pro-labor reforms administered nationally.
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Willkie
San Francisco
Wendell L. Willkie
Bakersfield
Calif
Los Angeles Coliseum
J. W. Henry
Sheriff's Office
Labor
America
FDR Emphasizes Free Elections At Penn Anniversary
President Roosevelt argued the safety of American government rests on free elections and warned against stripping voting rights from jobless relief recipients. He spoke at the University of Pennsylvania's 200th anniversary in Philadelphia after touring the Navy Yard and inspecting warship and aircraft production.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Naval Aircraft Factory
Navy
Film Stars Not Likely To Be Conscripted
Washington experts say privately that few movie stars will be drafted as they are needed to bolster civilian morale by entertainment in the armed services.
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Washington
Armed Services
Draft Registration Costs Nation OnePoint Six4 Million Monthly
Selective service officials announced that 6 500 local boards will have at least one paid clerk and tentative clerical allotments are set at 10 cents monthly per registrant. The Census Bureau estimates 16 404 000 men aged 21 to 35 are in the draft age range.
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Census Bureau
House
Senate
Army
National Guard
Fr Coughlin cancels air talks plan
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin cancels his plan for a weekly radio talks series set to begin October 20. In Social Justice he says radio figures forced the decision and notes most large stations declined while some small stations accepted. He states he will not take part in the presidential campaign.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Father Coughlin
Ohio draft age population and veterans benefits update
The census bureau estimates 859000 Ohio men are of draft age from 1940 preliminaries and 1930 figures. The American Legion reports Ohioans received 155730 dollars in war service benefits to World War veterans or their dependents during the year.
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Washington
Ohio
Census Bureau
Boston
American Legion
British Fleet Returns Intact to Alexandria
Britain's Mediterranean war fleet steamed back into Alexandria Harbor today after a three week voyage covering the Aegean Ionian and Eastern Mediterranean seas. Officers reported no encounter with Italian forces nor bombing by Italian aircraft as the fleet completed a 2500 mile sweep.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Britain
Mediterranean
Bids on Hocking Road Project Prompt State Bids
State highway department received bids on seven projects totaling an estimated $594,988. Key bid results include Hocking county roadside improvement on 2.4 miles of U S Route 33 with bidder E X Birkmeyer of Coldwater at about 14,895 dollars and an estimated 14,970 dollars.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Hocking County
Logan-Lancaster
E. X. Birkmeyer
Coldwater
Nazis Demand Wheat From French Victims
Official British forces report Germany seeks 30 million bushels of wheat from occupied France plus 8 million dollars daily to support Nazi soldiers.
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London
Germany
France
Ohio man kills himself after leaving infant with aunt
Sheriff says 38 year old Harry Taylor shot himself with a shotgun last night after consigning care of his 14 week old infant to his aunt. Mrs Taylor shot herself to death Monday.
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Columbus
Harry Taylor
Jacob Sandusky
Government Doubles Farm Surplus Totals
Washington reports the Agriculture Department will double its distribution of unmarketable farm surpluses within 90 days to support the nation's needs as war ties down export markets. The plan targets the $800 million annual farm products export sector.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Bricker to Probe Camp Shelby Health Conditions
Governor John W. Bricker ordered Adj. Gen. Gilson Light to investigate health conditions at Camp Shelby Mississippi where 8500 Ohio National Guardsmen are stationed. He warned it would be unacceptable to deploy without proper health standards and may send a medical officer for inspection before October 15. He also said he would protest to the War Department if conditions are found lacking.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Adj
Gilson D. Light i
Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio National Guardsmen
Bricker
Light
War Department
Sheriff Killed When Auto Strikes Culvert
NEW PHILADELPHIA sheriff Wayne T. Host aged 48 of Tuscarawas County died early today when his car struck a culvert six miles south of town. State Patrol reported the body with a crushed skull found along the road after a car driven by Charles Greenlee Uhrichsville merchant and former state representative crashed into the sheriff’s wrecked vehicle.
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New Philadelphia
Wayne T. Host
Tuscarawas County
Here
Host
Charles Greenlee
Uhrichsville
1924 Standard Bearer Opposes Third Term
Washington John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic presidential nominee, told a Senate subcommittee he would not trust the expanding powers of the presidency to any man for more than eight years.
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Washington
John W. Davis
Senate
Draft Information To Be Posted in Precincts
Master copies of a two foot placard explaining how to answer questions to be put conscription registrants were being sent today to the 48 states. The placard will be reproduced for posting in each of thousands of voting precincts throughout the country. An enlarged reproduction of the registration card, the placard contains exact instructions for the information which will be wanted from every man.
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Washington
Rome boy dies from oil stove blast burns
Charles Cook aged 12 from Rome died yesterday from burns after an oil stove exploded. Funeral plans and further details were not immediately available.
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Columbus
Charles Cook
Rome
Senate House Group Studies Taxes Problem
Congress sent the tax bill to a joint committee to work out differences after the Senate approved it 46 to 22 and added a wartime tax-raising rider. The measure allows corporations to write off defense facility costs over five years, while a proposed tax on future federal state and local bond income was rejected 44 to 30.
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Washington
House
Senate
French Reject Jap Demands Crisis in Hanoi
In Hanoi French Indo China negotiations with Japan reach a crisis as Major General Issaku Nishihara ends talks over a Vichy grant of limited facilities for Japanese troops. He warns that departure from French territory may signal a breakdown in talks and the crisis is at hand.
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Hanoi
Japan
Issaku Nishihara
Haiphong
U S Pilots Join Canadian Air Force Enlistments Rise
Ottawa reports that in two months 107 U S pilots instructors and air crew joined the Royal Canadian Air Force with 65 more en route bringing total U S personnel to about 150 in the RCAF as part of wartime cooperation.
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Ottawa
Power
United States
Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAF
Sovers Urges Americans To Pledge Selves Anew
Loren E Souers president general of the National SAR spoke at Ohio University convocation urging renewed pledges to the flag and Constitution. He warned against foreign ideologies and called for positive patriotism while defending the U S constitutional system and its balance of sovereign states.
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America
United States
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
Loren E. Souers
Canton
The
National Society, Sons of the American Revolution
Herman G. James
James
Europe
Switzerland
England
Churchill Vows Ultimate Retaliation For Luftwaffe Attacks
British defense reports describe a large Luftwaffe assault over Dover halted by RAF fighters. Churchill pledged harsh retaliation as RAF bombed targets in the Reich and occupied Europe. Berlin and London announced civilian casualties and continued air raids as weather improved.
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Churchill
London
Dover
Hell's Corner
Winston Churchill
Battersea
Agriculture predicts higher 1941 cash income for livestock
The Agriculture Department forecast that livestock farmers will earn more cash from meat animals in 1941 than 1940 despite fewer animals to sell. Next Jan 1 inventories are 3 to 4 percent below 1940 on an animal unit basis, with hog decreases offsetting cattle gains, leading to smaller slaughter supplies and higher prices as defense spending boosts demand.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Robin Hood figure jailed for coal theft in 1930s report
EAST LIVERPOOL a Robin Hood described Frank Stevens who dumped coal from freight cars to aid the poor received a 30 day jail term and a $25 fine after being charged with stealing $2 worth of coal from the Pennsylvania railroad in a recent case.
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Robin Hood
Frank Stevens
Pennsylvania Railroad
War Department Signs For 9 174 Airplanes
Washington secretary Stimson announced that since July 1 the War Department signed contracts for 9 174 of 18 641 war planes funded by Congress this session.
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War Department
Washington
Stimson
Congress
Sinking of German Transport Reported by British Admiralty
The British admiralty said a 10,000 ton German troop transport was torpedoed and sunk with heavy loss of life off Denmark on Sept. 2 with smoke and flames visible. The submarine Sturgeon reportedly targeted the vessel after a naval and air escort pushed it into the North Sea.
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Berlin
Heidelberg
Reichland
High Command
England
Liverpool
Britain
Air Ministry
Lancashire
Essex
Surrey
Berkshire
Kent
Midlands
London
Straits of Dover
Dover
London—.Y
Sturgeon
North Sea
Denmark
London Prepares for Nightly Raids and Dispersal
The article notes plans for warm underground shelters as nightly German raids loom. London's population is dwindling from 8.5 million to 7 million with 1,000 children leaving daily under dispersal. Rail traffic shows families moving to the countryside, amid Axis signals on Egypt and Mediterranean influence.
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Gan
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Egypt
Middle East
Europe
Mediterranean
Jail Witnesses In Red Probe At Columbus
Franklin County Grand Jury continues inquiry into irregularities in Communist Party nominating petitions. Judge Edward C. Turner jailed Donald Rodgers and Esther Rodgers for contempt after they refused to answer questions about petition circulation. The probe stems from signers alleging misrepresentation and requests to remove their names.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Grand Jury
Edward C. Turner
Common Pleas
Donald Rodgers
Esther
Turner
Ralph J. Bartlett
Communist Party
H F Thurness Dies At Logan Home
Logan dispatch reports H Fenton Thurness age 72 a retired cabinet maker died this morning at his East Main Street home after a heart attack last night He was a Knights of Pythias member and a Methodist Church attendee and is survived by his wife Olive and daughter Josephine Allen Columbus Funeral arrangements are pending
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Logan
Fenton Thurness
E. Main St
Knights of Pythias
Methodist Church
Olive Thurness
Josephine Allen
Columbus
Willkie Would Change Date of Thanksgiving
Fort Wayne editorials report Wendell L. Willkie's reply on Thanksgiving 1941. If elected president he favors the traditional late November date, not Roosevelt's proposed shift. Willkie called for the old fashioned date in a wired response from California.
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Willkie
Fort Wayne
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
California
Wife of New Lexington Schools Head Killed
NEW LEXINGTON UP Mrs. Noah P. Blatt wife of the school superintendent was killed last night in an automobile accident near Roseville.
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New Lexington
Noah P. Blatt
Roseville
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