Draft Bill Is Blocked By Senate Vote In Washington
In Washington Aug 21 a Senate vote 54 to 23 blocked an effort to attach a wealth conscription amendment to the Burke Wadsworth draft bill. House committee had rejected a similar plan to defer drafting. Senator Lee sought to conscript wealth, while Ellender ruled the move a revenue measure beyond Senate scope.
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Senate
House Military Committee
Lee
Oklahoma
Ellender
Louisiana
Lees
House
Walsh
Massachusetts
Deverat
Tydings
Maryland
Great Britain
House Olkkays
Burke-Wadsworth
Military Committee
Army
Britain
Britain May Seek Alliance With U. S.
London sources report Britain seeking a military alliance with the United States to defend Canada and western hemisphere possessions and to shape far eastern diplomacy amid the European conflict. Canadian American talks are viewed as the opening wedge toward a full Anglo American defense accord. both nations feel few powerful friends remain elsewhere.
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London
United States
Britain
Canada
Far East
Great Britain
Italy Launches Total Blockade in the Mediterranean
Rome reports a total blockade of British territories in the region with seven British planes shot down in a fierce Mediterranean air battle. Italian air squads attacked large targets as British ships, supported by lighter vessels and Gladiator fighters, resisted with significant effect and Malta base bombardments continued. Virginia Gayda claims Albania and Italy will defend against Greco British pressure while noting British efforts to ignite Albanian nationalism in Greece as a pretext for imperial maneuver.
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Rome
Mediterranean
Italy
Stefani
Gayda
Balkans
Albania
Greece
Italian Troops Reported Massing On Greek Border
Italian forces were said to mass near Albania opposite the Greek frontier as Metaxas held talks with King George I. Rome accused Greece of Albanians’ killings while Greece cancelled leaves, warning of possible invasion and Italy pressed for influence over Athens.
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Associated Press
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Greece
John Metaxas
Geoge I
Italy
Albania
Diamaria Frontier
Ciaramatia
Britain
Tiave
Attiki
Sicily
Piraeus
Athens
Palermo
Daut -Hoggia
N D Sheriff Wounded In Gun Affray Near Medora
Medora North Dakota August 21 Sheriff Fred A Patrikus of Billings County was critically wounded when he was shot on a country road eight miles southwest of Medora. Acting Sheriff Paul Lebo said Clarence Lorentz is jailed in Beach as a fugitive from Minnesota’s St. Cloud reformatory. A companion, Vernon Vincent Krogh, is being sought after fleeing Medora after supper.
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Medora
N.D
Fred A. Pateikus
Billings County
Beach
Clarence Lorentz
Paul Lebo
St. Cloud, Minn
Lebo
Lorentz
Patrikus
Vernon Vincent Krogh
St. Cloud
Tragic double death in Rapid City car
Rapid City reports the deaths of Mia Royce Grimm and her 10 week old daughter from carbon monoxide fumes inside a locked garage. Grimm, a mining promoter tied to Jack Dempsey projects, left home Monday for a drive with little money. no note was found and no inquiry is planned. The incident was discovered by a neighbor who found the car around 7:30 p.m. and alerted authorities.
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Rapid City
Mia
Royce Grimm
Ray KE. Lemley
Sheriff's Office
Trotsky Near Death After Mexican Pickax Attack
Leon Trotsky exiled in Mexico remained in grave condition after a pickax assault in his Coyoacan home office. The attacker, Jacques Mortan Vandendreischel, 36, a Persian-born former France student, confessed citing Trotsky’s recent anger over political views. Trotsky suffered a skull wound exposing brain and fractures, with additional injuries to the shoulder and hip. surgeons operated last night as police noted hopes of saving his life.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Leon Trotsky
Napoleon
Mexico
Trotsky
Coyoacan
Jose Menuel Nunez
Federal District
Stalin
Josef Stalin
Vandendreischd
Jacques Mortan Vandenreischd
Persia
Vandenreischd
Lawyers Arrive For Bar Meeting In South Dakota
Lawyers from across the state gathered in Huron for the 10th annual South Dakota Bar Association meeting opening Thursday at 9 a.m. Before the convention, meetings of prosecutors, county judges, and circuit judges were held.
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Huron
South Dakota Bar Association
T. H. Luby
Herons
Tis
Benjamin D. Minieners
H. O. Lund
Pierre
C. A. Wil
Hot Springs
W. W. Knight
Brookings
Lester Price
Willkie Presses Roosevelt For Public Debate On Defense
Willkie accuses the administration of a hopeless defense program and urges a public debate with President Roosevelt during his visit to preparedness projects. He questions what equipment is on hand versus on order as a test of campaign stamina amid White House resistance to campaigning.
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Bushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Will
Douglas B. Cornell
Hyde Park
White House
Bee Hoosevelt
Pagea
Officers Break Burglary Ring Ends Four CCC Enrollee Careers
TERRE Aug 21 Agent Fred Searls of the attorney general’s investigating division credited Brule and Hand County sheriffs with ending the crime careers of four CCC enrollees and a fifth youth. Mortenson confessed to five burglaries and implicated ac complices McKenna Troxell Baker and other youths. About $400 in merchandise was taken and loot worth $245 recovered. the group may face federal charges.
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Kimball
White Lake
King & Quantity
Scarly
Gilbert Baker
Parkston
McKenna
Ribbon Brothers
Wagner
Troxell
Speirs
Ree Heights
Mortenson
Tae
Sal Searls
Bruce Campbell
Chamberlain
Carl Almond
Miller
New Forest Fire Outbreaks Hit Idaho and Montana
In Hamilton Montana and surrounding forests, about 50 fires erupted after a dry lightning storm swept northern Idaho and western Montana. A 750-man force contained another blaze in the Lolo National Forest as Bitter Root leaders called conditions perhaps the worst in history with tinder dry woods.
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Hamilton
Mont
Bitter Root National Forest
Idaho
Montana
Lolo National Forest
Bitter Root
C. B. Sulliff
Bitter Root Forest
England Believes Balance Shifting Over To Her Side
British reports say German raiders are adopting hit and run tactics across England and Wales with heavy damage in the Midlands. Three enemy planes shot down. RAF raids deeper into Germany praised as shifting initiative from Luftwaffe.
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London
England
Wales
Midlands
Germany
RAF
Sir Archibald St Clair Tald
House of Commany
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Billy) Fiske
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