Governor's Day at State Fair Boosts Gate Totals
Governor's Day at the State Fair drew large crowds with Minnehaha County and Pierre delegations. Through Tuesday, gate and grandstand receipts totaled 90229.78, surpassing last year’s two day showing by 2052.24. Tuesday’s attendance neared 6090, with bands performing downtown and a Townsend Pension Club address.
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Kennedy 51 today urges sending U S boats for Americans
United States Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy celebrated his 51st birthday in London while pressing Washington to start American ships to evacuate Americans from Britain. He worked in his office with sleeves rolled as British and neutral boats face full bookings and cancellations after the Athenia disaster.
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Gandhi backs Britain and France in war
Gandhi told Lord Linlithgow that his sympathies are with Great Britain and France in their war against Germany. He disclosed he had written a personal letter to Adolf Hitler appealing for peace.
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Bushfield Bets Lamb On Dakotas Baseball Final
Governor Bushfield offered to bet Governor Moses a South Dakota lamb on the outcome of the Dakota championship series in which Renner, S D champions, beat Lamoure, N D champions. Moses accepted to wager a North Dakota blue ribbon 4 H Club lamb as the SD team aims to win. The series, in Aberdeen, was set for Saturday and Sunday with Moses not returning from Washington until Thursday.
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British Defense Holds Off Planes
London reports the first enemy air raid since the war began was repelled by British anti air craft guns and fighters. No bombs fell as raiders probed the east coast and Thames approaches. alarms paused London traffic while anti aircraft fire lit the sky and ground observers heard machine gun fire.
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FDR Moves to Bolster Navy as Neutrality Grows
President Roosevelt, amid the arms embargo and neutrality acts, plans to strengthen the navy to peacetime levels, recommission 215 World War II destroyers, outfit crews, and guard against communist propaganda while debating a special congressional session to modify neutrality rules. Belligerents include France, Germany, Poland, the UK, India, Australia, and New Zealand, with later territories covered as needed.
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Pupils Register For New Term In Gurortown
Gurortown pupils due to enter junior high school at the start of the term are urged by Supt. A J Lang to register Thursday and Friday to allow for principal conferences. The 1939 40 term begins next Monday September. Senior high students register Wednesday to Friday, receive books then, with advance registrants not reporting until Monday afternoon.
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Fedora 4-H youth wins 1939 State Fair Baby Beef Grand Champion
Galen Kelsey, 15, of Fedora wins the richest 4-H prize at the State Fair with his Aberdeen Angus calf named grand champion baby beef. Reserve honors go to Robert Donnelly of Elk Point. Galen has shown multiple animals and is active in Miner County 4-H livestock projects and judging team.
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Bremen reported arriving safely in unidentified neutral port
Bremen, the German liner missing since sailing from New York last Wednesday, was tonight reported to have reached an unidentified neutral port safe from British warships though immediate confirmation was not available. No word reached Hamburg America Line for several days amid reports of British capture. In mid Atlantic, the North German Lloyd liner Inn sank after sailing August 15 for Hamburg, with a crew of about 30. Officials doubt any passengers were aboard when it sailed. Markets showed war normalcy as offers returned to futures trading while industrial stocks dipped then rebounded.
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U S Setup Sea Patrol To Spot Belligerents
Roosevelt authorized a naval and coast guard patrol off the American coast to identify belligerent vessels. Stephen Early stated the move is precautionary and for information, with two destroyers and two coast guard cutters already deployed in the northeastern waters, to be extended to Puerto Rico and Antilles patrol areas.
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Polish Army Chief Denies Resignation Report
A denials statement refutes claims that Polish Army leader Edward Tmiginayan offered his resignation to President Mc Moavicki. The Park It. 5 SP Att cansader dulles Balasiewiega issued the response.
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Report on Nazi Zeppelin factory blast and French frontier moves
Reports from Basel claim a massive explosion hit the German Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance near the Swiss frontier. Paris reports French advances toward the Saar region and artillery duels near Strasbourg, with civilians evacuated as German and French forces clash along the Rhine.
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Eliot to Clarify War Front Dispatches for The Evening Huronite
George Fielding Eliot, noted military expert and author of The Ramparts We Watch, wraps a three months Europe tour and will cover the war for The Evening Huronite and NEA Service. He aims to make front line reports clearer for readers.
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Fear Poles May Become Trapped
Associated Press reports fear among American military experts that Poland’s Polish army faces a disaster as German forces drive toward Warsaw from the north and south. A 20 000 square mile trap may form in western Poland as retreat routes eastward along the Poznan Kutno Warsaw line are bombed or destroyed.
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Germany Moves To Stop Sniping By Civilians Women
German forces face widespread sniping in Polish areas as civilian males of military age are rounded up in Silesia. The reporter recounts Czestochowa violence and a lieutenant killed, noting brutal security measures and raids across occupied Polish territory.
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Krakow Falls to German Forces in Poland
Berlin reports the capture of Krakow, Poland's ancient capital with 242,000 inhabitants. German troops advance through the city and toward Warsaw while Polish radio urges citizens to dig trenches. Wawel Castle and Cathedral, burial sites of Polish kings, receive homage to Marshal Pilsudski.
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Germans Close In On Warsaw Amid Anticipated Battle
War dispatches report German troops pressing from the north near Warsaw, with fighting intensifying in the Parta Kamiensk area and a 35 mile northward advance noted between Pionsk and Ciechanow. Berlin denied Berlin raid claims as Poland braces for possible heavy artillery damage to the capital.
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