France Refuses to Fight Britain in War Crisis
London dispatch reports RAF bombing of German bases 2000 miles away as Britain and France refuse to engage directly while German invasion plans are described. London stores suffer casualties from a large bomb, with fog and bad weather limiting raids and ground operations by the RAF.
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England
Britain
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Royal Air Force
Germany
Bull
Strait of Dover
Midlands
Bicknell Attacks Hanson and McKay in Salem Campaign Speech
Democratic nominee Lewis W. Bicknell charged Peter V. Hansen with undermining the party and claimed Hansen is an alien who has lived in the United States 27 years without citizenship. He also alleged welfare director Charles McKay enabled his stepfather to receive $26 monthly, urging others to drop welfare. He touted Bushield era grievances and pledged a unified state department of labor if elected.
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Lewis W. Bicknell
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Peter V. Hansen
Salem
Limzel
United States
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Bicknell
Charles McKay
Social Welfare
Henry Wyss
Bridgewater
Bushield
State Department of Labor
BIC
Rumanian Press Outlines Axis Ambitions
Bucharest reports front page Universul dispatch outlining Axis plans including Spain entering the war with Gibraltar attack, Japan acting after Burma road reopened, and France joining before the U S election. Diplomats deem the move a warning to America as Axis pursues broad strategy.
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Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Japan
Britain
Burma Road
China
France
United States
Axia
America
War Trumpeted By Europe War Shifts Roosevelts Third Term Stand
Gallup survey shows Willkie leading Roosevelt 55 percent to 45 percent with no war in Europe, except in the Solid South where Roosevelt remains stronger. War abroad would propel Willkie, undermining New Deal support and shaping the 1940 campaign.
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Draft to Catch Sickness Fakers Exposed in Public
Washington reports a new draft aid book for medical examiners to spot malingerers and fake illnesses. The guide lowers medical standards slightly and directs doctors at local boards to report suspected fakers to officials for possible prosecution while noting many tricks may still fail.
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Selective Service
United States
Beadle County Draft List To Be Published Saturday
Beadle County will publish its complete draft list this Saturday in The Evening Huronite. A staff of clerks is tallying and arranging about 2 000 names in alphabetical order with individual draft numbers included.
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Pye
How Gallup Poll Works And Why Interviews Matter
The Gallup Poll uses scientific sampling to reflect national opinion with a carefully chosen set of barometer communities. It interviews about 63 000 people in roughly 2 000 communities to forecast elections, with a 1 in 1000 chance any individual will be polled.
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Literary Digest
United States
Franco and Hitler To Meet Belief Flows From Lisbon Report
Lisbon reports Franco is en route toward San Sebastian near the border and informed circles sense a possible meeting with Adolf Hitler tonight. Earlier dispatches say Hitler was in France near Paris, where he met Pierre Laval.
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Francisco Franco
San Sebastian
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France
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Pierre Laval
FDR Promises To Take Off Gloves In Smash Finale
President Roosevelt campaigns for a bang up finish with plans to speak in Philadelphia tonight as Willkie questions his claims to keep war away from shores. Ickes says Roosevelt will take off the gloves, Farley backs the straight Democratic ticket in a New York statement.
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Philadelphia
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Willkie
Chicago
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Farley
New York
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Willkie Beaned Assailant Nabbed in Chicago Incident
An unemployed former baseball player, Charles Mulrain, 53, confessed he threw two frozen eggs at Wendell L. Willkie, striking him on the head and soiling Mrs. Willkie's dress. Mulrain faced a charge of carrying a deadly weapon after the confrontation in Chicago.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Charles Mulrain
Harold P. O’connell
Mulrain
Thomas J
Willkie
American observers doubt France will enter war on Britain
Washington dispatch reports that informed observers in the United States and France doubt Paris will rejoin the war on Britain unless Britain makes a drastic misstep. Rumors of France allying with the Axis for favorable terms circulate but are consistently discounted.
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France
Britain
Berlin
Hitler Laval meeting signals shift in war plans on France
Reports describe a secret Hitler Laval conference near the French border as Axis powers push for rapid moves before the U S election. Paris vows no military action against Britain while Berlin hints at potential Franco German collaboration despite Petain opposition, with unrest in unoccupied France and arrests in Marseille Lyon and nearby areas.
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Burma
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Loire
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Laval
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Pau
U S Plans Repossession Of Foreign Warplanes
Washington reports outline three moves to reclaim more than 200 U S made warplanes sold to foreign nations now needed by the army air service. President Roosevelt orders 110 pursuits and bombers repossessed from Sweden despite Swedish protests, with 60 pursuit planes and 50 bombers to be compensated. Action seeks similar gains for planes detained en route to Thailand and aboard the French carrier Bearn, amid ongoing repossession efforts.
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Cortelyou Financier and Former Treasury Secretary Dies
George B. Cortelyou Sr a noted financier and former secretary of the treasury died today at Alewag He was a president of the Consolidated Gas and served under Presidents McKinley Theodore Roosevelt and was named to head the treasury department in 1904 marking a long career in Republican politics
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Theodore Roose
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