Roosevelt pleads to end embargo on arms to warring nations
President Roosevelt urges Congress to repeal the arms embargo to aid cash and carry exports. Senate isolationists threaten a long fight while White House allies claim growing conservative support. Lawmakers weigh emergency powers and safeguards as three day recess ends.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Democratic
Hyde Park
N. Y
Democratic Front
Carter Glass
White House
New Athens High Stadium Dedicated With Night Game
New Athens High School opens its new 40 000 dollar stadium with a dedication tonight and the first night grid game against McArthur High. Floodlights illuminate the 2 200 seat concrete venue as Frank Gul lum presides, with Jack Beasley and Don Peden speaking for students and citizens.
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Athens High School
Athens
McArthur High
Harry Lackey
Frank B. Gullum
Jack Beasley
Don C. Peden
Floyd Prince
Richard Chapman
Jimmy Williams
Gene Kissner
Sylvia Schuler
Allison Gibson
Pan-American Delegates Meet to Safeguard Western Hemisphere
In Panama City delegates at the Pan-American neutrality conference discuss defending the hemisphere from European political and military threats. The opening is set for tomorrow as talks shift to wartime economic issues and aiding economically strapped neighbors until world markets revive.
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Panama City
Panama
U.P
United States
Youngster Killed by Auto in School Zone
Eight year old David Jackson son of Mr and Mrs Donald Jackson died from skull chest and leg injuries after being struck by an automobile in a school zone. Police said manslaughter charges will be filed against Wil tur Love of Wellsville who was driving the car. Love is held in jail.
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East Liverpool
U.P
David Jackson
Donald Jackson
Wiltur Love
Wellsville
Love
French Picture Star Called for War Duty
Paris reports film star Charles Boyer has been mobilized for military service at Agen in Southwestern France per Petit Parisien. The move places the actor in the French wartime mobilization effort during the conflict.
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PARIS
Petit Parisien
Charles Boyer
Agen
France
Liquor Board Cites 121 Permit Holders on Gambling Charges
The State Liquor Control Board cited 121 permit holders to appear next week as it aims to wipe out petty gambling in liquor sale locations. Most face charges of exhibiting gambling devices.
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Liquor Board
Columbus
U.P
State Liquor Control Board
West Virginian Heads Mine Sealing Program
State Health Director Roll H. Marwith named Kenneth D. Pratt of Charleston as engineer in charge of a mine sealing program run by the state the U S Public Health Service and the WPA.
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Columbus
Bigelow Sues for Pension Plan on Ohio Ballot
Cincinnati minister Herbert S. Bigelow, 69, filed supplementary petitions with 162,734 signatures to push his old age pension referendum onto the November ballot. He previously submitted 241,288. county checks found 173,493 valid. He was given 10 days to file again by 6:30 p.m.
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Columbus
U.P
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bigelow
Earl Griffith
County Boards of Election
G Men Track Huge Spy Syndicate In New York
Federal agents pursue one of the largest spy rings ever seen in the United States with arrests expected soon. Reports say secret police from two nations are in New York in force and that several Gestapo were aboard the Bremen when it left.
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New York
California field chosen for new aeronautical lab
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics announced the selection of Moffett Field near Sunnyvale California as a new aeronautical research laboratory. It will augment Langley Field Virginia, giving the government a major research center on each coast.
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Washington
U.P
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Moffett Field
Sunnyvale
Calif
Aeronautical Research Laboratory
NACA
Langley Field
Earthquake Strikes Smyrna Region Causing Fears of Toll
A powerful earthquake rocked Smyrna and nearby Istanbul. Authorities fear heavy casualties as rescue teams rush to the hardest hit areas.
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Smyrna
Istanbul
U.P
Germans and Russians Split Conquered Polish Territory
Germany and the Soviet Union agree to split occupied Poland along the Vistula and San rivers, creating a new front line from East Prussia to Hungary. The move halves Poland while Poland’s industrial districts fall to the Nazis and oil fields to the Soviets as both powers plan broader war aims.
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Russia
Nazi Germany
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Pisia
Narew
Vistula
San
East Prussia
Red Army
Lwow
Vilna
Bialystok
Brest-Litovsk
Lublin Lwow
Warsaw
Hitler
Josef V. Stalin
Fuehrer
Rhineland
Rumania
Germany
West
London
Paris
United States
Roosevelt
Berlin
Congress
Evacuation of Foreign Diplomats From Warsaw
The army high command said 178 foreign diplomats and 120 other foreigners were evacuated from Warsaw yesterday through German lines. They were moved by special train to Koenigsberg where all were safe. It was believed remaining US consular staff in Warsaw joined the group.
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Berlin
U.P
Army High Command
Warsaw
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
United States
Romanian Iron Guard Slayers Are Executed
In Bucharest crowds watched nine Iron Guard assassins executed for the murder of Premier Armand Calinescu. A public display showed the bodies on Boulevard King Carol II with a stark warning to terrorists. The government announced mass arrests as it crushes Iron Guard remnants.
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Bucharest
U.P
Armand Calinescu
Iron Guard
Carol II
Calinescu
Submarines Sighted Off Alaska and Nova Scotia
President Roosevelt disclosed at a press conference that two foreign submarines were sighted off Alaska and near Nova Scotia. He declined to state their nationality while confirming a neutrality patrol along the northeast Atlantic coast.
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Washington
U.S
Roosevelt
Alaska
Nova Scotia
Neutrality Patrol
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Compromise Reopens U S Merchant Ships at Sea
New York report states American merchant ships held at docks for a week by a seaman strike returned to sea under a compromise settlement. Sailors secured a 25 percent pay raise a $150 clothing allowance and continuing pay if interned by belligerent nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.S
Huge Steel Plant in East Ohio To Resume Operations
The Laughlin Tin Plate Company plant at Martins Ferry, idle for a year, will resume operations in two weeks. It will employ about 1700 workers and was announced today.
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Ohio
Martins Ferry
U.P
Laughlin Tin Plate Company
Warsaw Stands Firm as Siege Kills 700 Civilians
Warsaw radio reports 700 civilians dead in yesterday’s shelling and bombing, destroying both embassies and injuring Soviet staff. The siege enters its 14th day with defenders vowing to fight to the last man and cartridge amid attacks on churches, hospitals, and a Red Cross facility.
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London
U.P
Warsaw
Europe
Red Cross
August Relief Money Fails To Meet Need
Columbus state welfare director Charles L. Sherwood allocated 750000 dollars as the state share of August relief costs, the maximum permitted. The outlay covered 32.7 percent of total expenditures of 2294917 dollars for the month, with county allocations including Athens 555 dollars Hocking 1312 dollars Meigs 1521 dollars Morgan 178 dollars.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Athens
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan
Ohio Guard Allotted Further Enlistments
Adj. Gen. Gilson D. Light announced the War Department allotted 1,602 for additional enlistments in the Ohio National Guard. The new enlistees will join existing units without forming new ones, with more details to come.
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Columbus
U.P
Adj
Gilson D. Light
War Department
Ohio
Ohio National Guard
Light
Red Cross Campaign Opens in Athens for War Relief
The Red Cross inaugurates a district roll call in Athens with 76 delegates from 17 counties. Funds already sent to England aid Athenia survivors and Polish wounded, including two $10,000 grants to Ambassador Kennedy for Athenia victims.
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Red Cross
Ohio
Hotel Berry
England
Athenia
Hugh K. Dawson
Lakewood
Cleveland Red Cross
Blaine R. Goldsberry
Athens County
W. N. Mantle
Lawrence County
C. C. Cornell
Dawson
American Red Cross
Polish Red Cross
Poland
Kennedy
Cleveland
Home Service
Europe
Contracts for Army Aircraft Are Sold Today
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson announced awards totaling 58 585 061 dollars for army aircraft under the air corps expansion program. Top contracts went to Gilgen L Martin Co Baltimore for 16 125 586 dollars, North American Aviation Inglewood for 13 049 601 dollars, Consolidated Aircraft Corp San Diego for 8 613 674 dollars, and Boeing Aircraft Co Seattle for 8 102 892 dollars.
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Washington
Louis Johnson
Army
Air Corps
Gilenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
San Diego
Calif
Boeing Aircraft Co
Seattle
Wash
Desertion Dodger Faces Court Martial After Escape Charge
Grover Cleveland Berg, a World War draft dodger once wearing a U S uniform at Governor's Island, is pictured. Already serving a five year sentence for desertion he faces court martial on charges of escape.
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U. S
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Governor's Island
New York
Artillery Fire Reported on Western Front
The official high command communique No. 37 reports artillery action on all sectors of the western front. Our advance guard fought south of Saarbruecken and east of the Blies with fighting along the entire front. German long range guns pounded the French rear overnight as both sides gather intelligence on movements.
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Paris
U.P
High Command
Saarbruecken
Peak West heat subsides after record wave with 55 deaths
The West encountered an all time heat wave with at least 55 fatalities and thousands of prostrations. Forecaster L H Daingerfield warned relief would be slow and several days away as California faced highs including 106 in Los Angeles and a Bay Area all time 100 in Oakland.
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Los Angeles
California
L. H. Daingerfield
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland
Butler Justice Pierce Butler Not Satisfactory Condition
The 73 year old Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler remained in Garfield Hospital with a bladder ailment. His physician said his condition is not entirely satisfactory after a six week illness from his Maryland farm.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pierce Butler
Garfield Hospital
Maryland
Utilities Board Bans Gas Rate Rehearing
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission overruled Columbus citys motion for a rehearing on a 56.22 gas rate. City attorneys continue to contest the councils 48 cent rate in court with Chairman George C McConnaughey dissenting.
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Columbus
U.P
George C. McConnaughey
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Countess Haugwitz Von Reventlow Applies for France Safe Conduct
Former Barbara Hutton, Countess Haugwitz Von Reventlow, sought a safe conduct pass from French police to Holland today. The request was submitted in Paris, aiming to travel abroad.
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France
Paris
U.P
Haugwitz von Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Holland
Sugar futures rise in New York trading
World sugar futures climbed 112 points higher in New York trading as buyers pushed prices up amid uncertain supply and demand dynamics.
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New York
U.P
British Acknowledges RAF Clashes Over Western Front
London reports that British war planes are operating on the western front and have shot down at least one German fighter. The ministry of information confirms the first official acknowledgment of clashes between German aircraft and the Royal Air Force on the western front.
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London
A.P
Ministry of Information
Royal Air Force
German Prisoners Arrive in England
London reports that German prisoners have started to arrive in England as announced by the Ministry of Information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
U.P
Ministry of Information
Strike Ordered by Utility Workers at Consumers Power
The Utility Workers Organizing Committee today ordered a strike at Consumers Power Company plants serving most of Lower Michigan outside Detroit. The action affects power facilities and labor negotiations across the region.
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Lansing
UPR
Utility Workers Organizing Committee
Consumers Power Company
Lower
Michigan
Detroit
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