Roosevelt to Call Congress This Week For Special Session
President Roosevelt expected to summon Congress to a special session this week mainly to revamp the neutrality law and delete the arms embargo. Debate over cloture and filibuster fears delay the call, with early October possible. Roosevelt met leaders and attended services with his mother listening to Habakkuk at a church service.
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Mr. Wilson
Rise to power and anti Semitic roots in Hitler’s youth
The text traces Hitler’s early formation in Vienna as anti Semitic fashion, his Catholic opposition, and his disdain for Jews and bourgeois society. It notes his fascination with Germany and Anschluss, his enlistment in the German army to avoid Austrian service, and his belief in serving a great German Reich.
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Four Hurt in Nitro Fairground Crash Near Dunbar
Four Nitro residents were injured when a car struck them as they left the Kanawha Four-H fairgrounds near Dunbar at about 2 am. One, George Conrad Tidquist, 24, suffered critical head and leg injuries. James Postlewhaite, 17, had a broken leg and shock. Thelma Carney, 22, fractured right arm. Mabel F. Carte, 20, broke left leg. Virginia Kelly and Buell Lewis, 19, escaped with bruises. Driver H L Wiley, 26, of Reed, questioned. Tidquist and Postlewhaite at Staats hospital. Carney and Carte at Mountain State hospital.
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George Conrad Tidquist
James Postlewhaite
Thelma Carney
Mabel F. Carte
Virginia Kelly
Buell Lewis
N. C. Rigger
West Virginia Free Fair
H. L. Wiley
Reed
Wiley
Tidquist
Staats Hospital
Miss Carney
Miss Carte
Mountain State Hospital
Charleston
Mays
Cooke
West Virginia Colleges Join Civilian Pilot Training Program
Four West Virginia schools among 166 colleges in 41 states approved to participate in the civilian pilot training program by the Civil Aeronautics authority. WVU Davis and Elkins College Marshall College and West Virginia State College will train about 11 000 new civilian pilots next school year. CAA chairman Robert A Hinckley said at least 300 schools will be approved by Sept. 18.
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CAA
Miss America 1939 Patricia Donnelly Wins Title
Patricia Mary Donnelly of Michigan captured Miss America 1939 in Atlantic City after 42 contestants. She phoned her Detroit mother to share the news and said the prize will help with her mother’s hospital and medical expenses. Donnelly, a 19 year old model and singer, is the daughter of a railroad brakeman.
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Patricia Mary Donnelly
Detroit
Miss Donnelly
Canada Under U S Embargo As War Moves Quicken
President Roosevelt imposed a U S arms embargo on Canada shortly after Canada entered the war against Germany. The proclamations of neutrality and an executive order placed Canada with England Germany France Poland Australia South Africa and New Zealand in the embargo category. Officials prepared documents in advance as the administration readies for possible emergencies and calls for a special session of Congress.
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Canada declares war on Germany in historic move
Ottawa reports Canada formally declares war on Germany effective today. Prime Minister Mackenzie King sent a special Gazette edition to the press as Parliament approved the course after Britain’s declaration. London will sign King George VI’s war proclamation as Dominion leaders align with the Allied effort.
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Springfield Indians Edge Charleston in Deciding Series Game
Springfield's Indians rallied to tie and win the deciding Middle Atlantic league playoff game against Charleston, despite six hitters by Charleston righty George Diehl. Harold Loafman held the Indians to three hits until a fourth inning rally produced the tie and eventual victory.
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Sky Blasts At England Likely Soon
INS report outlines a German plan for a swift aerial blitz against England as the next step after Poland. It notes England’s preparation, British defenses, and the strategic aim to fight one nation at a time with limited fronts.
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Britain Expands Naval War Effort Across Seas
Britain and France coordinate now to safeguard empire communications and commerce after three more British merchant ships are sunk. A day of peak government activity precedes a warning of a war lasting years, with Poland aided and air defense units reinforced as the English Channel is mined.
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Hitler makes flight over eastern front report says
Berlin dispatch from the official German news agency states Adolf Hitler conducted an extended airplane flight over the eastern front today. His first flight covered the Kusz Radom region where Polish divisions were declared surrounded, then ascended to 1000 meters and followed the retreating Polish army toward Warsaw.
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Men Wanted Signs Go Up Across Industrial Cities
Labor department experts note widespread "Men Wanted" signs as skilled labor demand rises in Chicago Detroit Cleveland Baltimore Pittsburgh and other industrial hubs due to European war and domestic needs. Officials estimate September factory employment may reach 96 percent of the 1923 25 index with about a million more jobs possible in fall.
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Berlin Admits Fighting French on Western Front
Berlin reports skirmishes between German and French outposts along the Siegfried and Maginot lines as a new feature of the war communiques. The Polish front notes Lodz captured and encirclement of Warsaw expanding, with German forces pushing into Radom area. A government spokesman explained Warsaw entry as motorized advance reaching the city center yesterday before encountering difficulties.
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Lodz
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Warsaw
Radom
J F Miley UMW Leader Dies in Fairmont
J Frank Miley aged 49 president of United Mine Workers district No 31 since 1933 died suddenly tonight while dining at a Fairmont restaurant. Doctors said heart attack caused death after he had spoken earlier about coal mine employment prospects. His father died in mining accidents when Miley was a child.
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Polish Defenders Halt German Siege in Warsaw Withdrawals Reported
Warsaw radio said Polish soldiers and civilians slowed German siege troops near Warsaw early today after two days of fierce street fighting. Reports described heavy casualties on both sides, widespread fires, and thousands of refugees fleeing toward the Soviet and Romanian frontiers as German air raids and ground assaults continued.
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Germans Launch Counter Drive On French Positions
In Basel Germany began a fresh counter offensive in the Saarland near the Siegfried line. Highly trained shock troops attacked newly captured French positions under heavy fort fire in night raids continuing into today. Reports from Switzerland said the strikes met varying success as French forces regrouped and renewed their assault at daybreak yesterday.
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