Petain Orders New Steps to Curb Sabotage
In Vichy the Petain cabinet set harsh measures against communists and saboteurs with special military courts to mete out summary death sentences. The move aligns with German orders to treat arrested French as hostages for German actions and to suppress anti-occupation activity. Interior measures fire nine mayors and 31 town councils, citing insults and hostility to national restoration, while releasing jailed anti communist labor leaders to counter worker agitation.
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Vichy
France
Henri Philippe Petain
Petain
Ministry of Interior
von Schaumburg
Paris
de Gaulle
Pierre Pucheu
Marshal Petain
Edouard Daladier
Slain French Socialist Leader Dormoy Admitted Slayings
Four youths confess to killing Sen Marx Dormoy once interior minister and socialist leader. Arrests followed links to a separate Nice bombing that killed a trio. Dormoy was assassinated July 26 in Montelimar by a bomb planted in his hotel room after release from prison. He had opposed dictatorial powers for Petain as a senator.
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Vichy
Sen
Marx Dormoy
Popular Front
Nice
Dormoy
Montelimar
France
Cagoulard
Henri Philippe Petain
Philadelphia Fire Destroys Factory Area in Five-Alarm Blaze
A five alarm fire swept two blocks in Philadelphia early Saturday, damaging defense plants and driving hundreds from homes. Eighteen firefighters were injured as the blaze spread from a lumber company yard, with initial damages estimated at one million dollars and the lumber yard hit for about one hundred thousand.
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Philadelphia
INS
Federal Reserve tightens installment credit Sept 1
The Federal Reserve Board ordered new restrictions on 24 consumer items including automobiles, boats, power equipment, and home appliances starting September 1. Credit must start with down payments and maximum 18 month terms. New limits include pianos, metal instruments, fans, stoves, sewing machines, furniture, and more.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
Weekend Forecast For Cedar Rapids With Thunder Showers
Weather outlook shows partly cloudy to start this weekend in Cedar Rapids. Humidity low earlier, highs in the 80s returning by Saturday afternoon, with a cool night around 54 and gradual climb to 70s in the day. Scattered thundershowers expected Sunday as clouds increase.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Gap Between U S And Japan Must Be Bridged Says Nomura
Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura after a 20 minute meeting with Secretary Hull said the gap between American and Japanese policy must be bridged to avoid folly of the worst kind. He called the talks frank and said both sides explained their positions as human beings. He expressed hope the gap could be bridged though exact steps remain unknown.
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Washington
INS
Kichisaburo Nomura
Cordell Hull
Hull
United States
Japan
Nomura
Blast Rocks Oil Plant in Paulsboro
An explosion and fire hit the Socony-Vacuum Oil plant in Paulsboro New Jersey on a Saturday. The blast occurred in the propane department of high pressure stills where high test gas was produced. About three hundred night shift workers were on duty and several were injured.
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Paulsboro
N. J
Mns
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Churchill pledge to US on war with Japan reported
London sources say Prime Minister Churchill told President Roosevelt Britain would declare war on Japan if the United States entered war with Tokyo, and offer full aid. Reports note coordination of Pacific forces, while Russia complains Britain withholds favored U.S. armament deliveries and urges a European diversion.
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London
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
United States
Japan
Britain
Churchill
Moscow
Russia
Ohio Police Seek Man Held in Linn County Jail
Canton Ohio residents John Philabaum Myrtle West and James Nero faced multiple charges after a gas siphoning attempt near 831 A Avenue NE led to their arrest. Philabaum, serving a suspended sentence, faced extradition on a desertion warrant while West and Nero received vagrancy or related sentences. The case triggered a Mann Act inquiry and involved police coordination with Canton authorities and the FBI.
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Cedar Rapids
John Philabaum
Canton
Linn
Philabaum
G. K. Thompson
Myrtle West
H. R. Churchill
James Nero
F.B.I
John Hanna
A Avenue NE
Three Boys Burned When Gas Tank Explodes
Three youths injured in a Friday explosion on the Whiting Dairy property at 1612 E avenue NE when a lighted match dropped into an abandoned 120 gallon underground gas storage tank. One boy, 7 year old Norman Feddern, suffered second degree facial burns and was taken to Mercy hospital. two other burned boys unnamed, treated at home. Fire inspectors found the tank buried about three feet and undamaged by the blast.
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Cedar Rapids
Whiting
E Avenue
Norman Feddern
Edward H. Feddern
1618
Avenue NE
Mercy Hospital
A. E. Whiting
Felix O'Donnell
President Roosevelt Hosts Duke of Kent at Hyde Park
President Roosevelt entertains the Duke of Kent at Hyde Park in a strictly social visit. The Duke arrives by air from Canada, lands at LaGuardia, and travels to the Roosevelt home as a guest tonight and tomorrow before accompanying the President to Washington.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Duke of Kent
King George of
Great Britain
Duke
Hyde Park House
LaGuardia Field
New York
Canada
Kent
Washington
Japan Air Force Weak Offensively Says Aviation Expert
New York AP reports Lucien Zacharoff, aero nautics authority, says in Aviation magazine that Japan's air industry is woefully weak and its air force has low offensive strength. He estimates Japan's air strength at 3,000 to 5,000 planes and personnel around 5,000, questioning its ability to defend against attacks on its cities.
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New York
Japan
Lucien Zacharoff
Aeronautics Authority
Aviation
Prowler Speaks: Safe Loot At Streit Feed Office
A prowler took 24 dollars from a safe at the M. J. Streit Feed company office 710 Third street SE Cedar Rapids reported by manager P. H. Noel at 10 40 p m Friday. The door to the safe was open when he returned at 10 30 p m and the dial had not been locked. Police found side and rear doors open with no entry method confirmed. This followed two other local sneak robberies this week, but police do not link them as same offender.
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M. J. Streit Feed Company
Third Street SE
P. H. Noel
Concern
Cedar Rapids
100 More Tankers Sought for Oil Industry
Washington report says oil industry is asked to supply 100 additional tankers to speed petroleum shipments to Great Britain. Sen. Bailey and others discuss looming inquiry into east coast rationing while Ickes notes need for many more tankers.
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Washington
Great Britain
Defense Oil
Harold L. Ickes
United States
Britain
Josiah W Bailey
N. C
Senate Commerce Committee
Francis T. Maloney
Conn
Atlantic Coast
Voroshilov Warns Leningrad Stands To The Death
Marshal Klementi Voroshilov urged defenders of embattled Leningrad to stand to the death as German forces pressed a surround and bombardment. He spoke to Red army units, civilians, and party leaders amid reports of heavy fighting around the city and a Moscow counter offensive. The message stressed courage, unity, and the sacred duty to bar German advances toward the cradle of the October Revolution.
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Moscow
Klementi Voroshilov
Leningrad
Red Army
Voroshilov
Kingisepp
Novgorod
Leingrad
Petrograd
Lenin
Stalin
Red
Germany
Russia
Germans claim two Soviet armies broken up on multiple fronts
German sources say on the Leningrad front and in the Gomel area north of Kiev, two Soviet armies were largely destroyed with 87,000 prisoners taken. The report notes captured tanks and guns, and says Gomel was captured on Aug 19, revealing Timoshenko’s HQ there.
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Leningrad
Gomel
Ukraine
Odessa
Dnieper River
Berlin
Kiev
Ilmen
Peipus
Leningrad Secor
Dnieper
DNB
Semyon Timoshenko
Crimea
Cherkagi
Dniepropetrovsk
Pripet
Helsinki
Karelian Isthmus
Vuoksen River
Viborg
CBS
Moscow
Russia
Black Sea
Leingrad
Guerrillas Harass Nazis In Yugoslavia and Crete
London reports describe a growing guerrilla force across Yugoslavia Greece and Crete fighting the Nazis. They raid railways ambush troops and disrupt communications while widespread anti-German sentiment grows in occupied Europe. A British Australian and New Zealand force remained behind in Crete after German seizure.
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Yugoslavia
Crete
London
Greece
New Zealand
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Netherlands
Royal House of Orange
France
Bucharest
Romania
Istanbul
Rumanian National Peasant Party
Sofia
Bulgaria
Germany
Moscow
Hjalmar Schacht
Hitler
Iven Mackay
Australian Imperial Forces
Australia
Near East
Couple Wed Three Days Shot To Death In Oakland
In Oakland California a newlywed pair, Robert A. Newcomb age 42 and Dorothy Dunn Newcomb age 35, were fatally shot Saturday by James H. McDonald 47 a former husband of the wife. McDonald then shot himself in the chest and faced possible death. Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Dayton identified the victims and the suspect who was an Army sergeant and ROTC instructor.
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Oakland
Calif
Robert A. Newcomb
Dorothy Dunn Newcomb
Laurence Dayton
James H. McDonald
Churchill to Speak on NBC Sunday At 2 P.M.
New York AP reports Winston Churchill will air a 30 minute address at 2 p.m. CST on Sunday marking the fourteenth radio appearance in the United States since becoming prime minister May 10 1940. The broadcast will be carried on all networks via the London short wave circuit and will include his report on a meeting with President Roosevelt.
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New York
Winston Churchill
London
Churchill
Roosevelt
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