U S Seeks Detention of Belligerent Ships
President Roosevelt issued sweeping decrees to detain and search ships in all American ports amid fears of a widening European war. Belligerent conversion ships will be interned, with expanded Panama Canal garrison and naval air defenses boosted by troops and aircraft from multiple bases.
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Washington
INS
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
Senate
Bridges
N. H
Clark
Ida
Foreign Relations Committee
Sec
Woodring
Navy
Fort MacArthur
Calif
Fort Sheridan
Fort Totten
N. Y
Continental
Long Neutrality Battle Forecast in Senate Fight
Senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Clark of Idaho predicted a long hard Senate battle over President Roosevelt's plan to repeal arms embargo provisions in the neutrality law. They warned of rising public opposition to exporting munitions to belligerents as Europe edges toward conflict amid growing war clouds. They said they were surprised by reports of a break in isolationist ranks.
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Washington
INS
Bridges
New Hampshire
Clark
Idaho
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
Con
New Kid Sidesteps Girls as Mother Seeks Wealth or Fever
Willie Willis notes the new boy acts oddly around girls. He observes that a kid dressed up may indicate either a rich mother or romantic interest, calling the behavior “girl fever.”
Crisis Bulletins From War Tides Across Europe
New York dispatch reports British admiralty orders to return merchant ships from German Danish Dutch waters to UK ports. Swiss army seizes rail, communications, hospitals as state of alert is declared. Daladier signals tensions while Downing Street faces Fascist protests. Morgenthau sails home aboard a coast guard cutter. American legation news from Budapest follows.
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New York
New York Herald-Tribune
Admiralty
Germany
North Sea
United Kingdom
Berne
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Council
50 Percent Paid for Girl's Slaying in Camden Case
Peter Shewchuk 21, former sweetheart of Wanda Dworecki, told detectives the girl's minister father offered $100 but paid only 50 cents to kill her for life insurance. Police Judge Gene Mariano ordered the pleas changed to innocent after Shewchuk and Rev Walter Dworecki pleaded guilty to murder at a preliminary hearing. Detectives also investigated the death of Dworecki's wife, Theresa, in July 1938.
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Camden
N. J
Peter Shewchuk
Wanda Dworecki
Gene Mariano
Shevchuk
Walter Dworecki
New Jersey
Mariano
Dworecki
Theresa
Coun
Warsaw Accepts Mediation in Polish German Crisis
Poland accepts mediation by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and King Leopold of Belgium as Britain and France back the move. President Moscicki and aides, with Beck and Smigly-Rydz, discuss peace plans and the Gazetta Polska proposes a mutual minority exchange similar to Tyrol.
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Wilhelmina
Leopold
Britain
France
Warsaw
INS
Poland
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Belgium
Ignacy Moscicki
Josef Beck
Smigly-Rydz
Gazetta Polska
Foreign Office
Germany
Reich
Danzig
Easton Again Named CIO President in West Virginia
John B. Easton was chosen by the state CIO to serve a third term as president after a nominations without opposition. The convention urged two federal investigations into the unemployment compensation department and alleged campaign funding abuses tied to miners idle during the Appalachian shutdown. They also pressed probes into alleged influence by whisky, gas and oil interests and other groups.
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Huntington
John B. Easton
West Virginia
CIO
Easton
Old State Federation of Labor
Industrial Union Council
State
U. S
New Bombs To Be Worst Of Horror Creators in War
New types of bombs hurled from the air threaten to be the most terrifying weapons if war comes to Europe. Germany and England push rapid bomb development, with the Nazi state summoning science to aid the four year plan and aims to build decisive weaponry.
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New York
Europe
U. S
Germany
England
German State Council For Research
Berlin optimism grows after Hitler replies to British Poland plan
Adolf Hitler presents Germany's reply to Britain's Poland plan in the Reich Chancellery. Sir Nevile Henderson meets Hitler for twenty five minutes and reports back. German officials indicate optimism for continued talks while keeping the exact reply secret. Chamberlain had earlier received Hitler's general views in a note sent by plane.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Poland
Sir Nevile Henderson
Reichschancellery
London
Hitler
Fuehrer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Foreign Office
Reich
Henderson
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Parking Meter Delay Is Seen for Kanawha Streets
Mayor Dawson says meters will not be rushed and only a few tight streets will test them after Maj. O Connor's traffic committee reviews it. No new jobs created for collection. deputies will handle rounds with existing duties. The change may require adjusting 30 minute limits versus meter operation.
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Dawson
Maj. R. E. O'Connor
Kanawha Parkway
Capitol Street
E. F. Dalton
Miss Bess Laing Crowned West Virginia River Carnival Queen
Miss Bess Laing daughter of Mr and Mrs A W Laing of 1416 Kanawha Street will be queen of the first West Virginia River Carnival in Charleston Officials from the Charleston Boat Club and The Gazette announced Her duties include presiding during the parade down the Kanawha River at noon Labor Day and presenting trophies at the Monday night dance for contestants and members at the boat club
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Bess Laing
A. W. Laing
Kanawha Street
Charleston Boat Club
Gazette
Miss Laing
Kanawha River
Boat Club
Hitler’s Soviet Trap Said To Endanger German Victory
An intensive study of German Soviet non aggression and trade accords argues Hitler blundered into a trap by Stalin seeking profits from both sides. Analysts doubt Stalin’s hopes will be fulfilled and note a British French blockade may prove decisive in the coming conflict.
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Washington
INS
Fuehrer
Hitler
Stalin
anti-Comintern
Russia
State Hall
Germany
Abe Names New War Chief and Cabinet Reform in Japan
Gen Nobuyuki Abe forms a new government with Gen Shunroki Hata as minister of war and consolidates ministries from fifteen to ten. He aims for a moderate foreign policy while pursuing unresolved war in China and reassigns ambassadors linked to Axis ties.
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Gen. Abe
Tokyo
China
Shunroki Hata
Nobuyuki Abe
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Hiranuma
Rome
Berlin
Toshio Shiratori
Hiroshi Oshima
Axis
U. S
Kensuke Horinouchi
Evacuation plan ready as U S Navy to act
INS commentator W W Chaplin describes a tested U S government plan to evacuate 106,000 Americans abroad in case of war. The navy, merchant ships, and the Maritime Commission coordinate under authority from the 1936 shipping act and Joseph P Kennedy, once chairman, now Britain ambassador, overseeing efforts.
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Europe
U. S. Navy
Uncle Sam
America
U. S. Maritime Commission
Navy
State Department
Maritime Commission
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Restrain Nazis Il Duce Urged Peace Appeal
British ambassador Sir Percy Loraine met Italian foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano as London seeks Mussolini help to persuade Hitler toward peace talks. Mussolini acts as go-between while Italian war preparations continue, with Libyan food control and air raid precautions under way in Rome.
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Rome
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Percy Loraine
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Percy
Hitler
London
Il Duce
Germany
Libya
North Africa
Tunisia
Man in Street Feels Fed Up in Britain War Clouds Rise
British common folk voices express impatience with appeasement and urge decisive action against Hitler. Bank clerk, chauffeur, housemaid and others say they want the government to act, ending suspense as fear of war lingers across daily life. In Berlin, the street mood remains wary yet hopeful that Hitler can avoid full-scale war despite mobilization and rationing.
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London
Downing Street
Short Street
Neville Chamberlain
No. 10
Britain
Mosley
Oswald Mosley
INS
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Hiss Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Britain considers Hitler reply on peace or war
Cabinet meets after Hitler's note to Britain is delivered via Berlin. Chamberlain and Halifax study the document and warn war remains possible if Poland is attacked. They stress Britain's readiness and insist on restraint while pursuing a lasting Anglo German accord.
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Nazifuehrer
Nevile Henderson
Berlin
London
Europe
No. 10
Downing Street
Chamberlain
Halifax
Foreign Office
Alexander Cadogan
Foreign Secretary
Danzig
Fuehrer
Hitler
Poland
House of Commons
Britain
Germany
Viscount Halifax
House of Lords
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U.S
FDR
Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
Paris
Edouard Daladier
War Ministry
Bergen
Norway
Henry Morgenthau
U. S. Secretary of the Treasury
Coast Guard
Budapest
Man
Preacher
Herr Rust
Confer
Soviet
Pact
W. W. Chaplin
Ciano
John
Parliament
William Hillman
Chamberlain Studies
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