Campaign enters final weeks as draft plans near completion
Weekly news analysis reports on wartime draft deferment ideas for farm states, October 16 registration rules, and penalties. It notes army peacetime peak, officer promotions, and new welfare facilities. Willkie tours east, attacks administration while Roosevelt tours defense sites and Wallace promotes Good Neighbor policy. Hitler Mussolini hold Brenner Pass council as Britain resists andChannel combat persists.
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Mussolini
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Maryland
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Henry A. Wallace
Southwest
California
Latin America
Albuquerque
N. M
Robert M. LaFollette
Wis
LaFollette
England
Brenner Pass
Berlin
Germany
London
Britain
Channel
Nation's Press Guards Liberty And Democracy
The piece proclaims the newspaper as the American Home Town Paper, a guardian of liberty and democracy, chronicling birth to death and social life while supporting charities, education, and community building through advertising and service. It asserts unwavering civic role and friendship to readers.
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Hitler
Germany
France
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Orphan Annie
Major Hoople
William Allen White
Peter Zenger
Horace Greeley
James Gordon
Notable Deaths Across Military and Political Figures
Loss-Colonel F C Harrington 53 WPA administrator died in New London Conn. Brig Gen Francis W Honeycutt killed in aircraft crash in southeast Georgia swamp. Julian Besterio 70 last president of the Spanish republic died in a Seville prison. Marguerite Clark 54 early motion picture star died in New York.
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F. C. Harrington
Works Progress Administrator
New London
Conn
Harrington
WPA
Army
Francis W. Honeycutt
Georgia
Spain
Julian Besterio
Spanish Republic
Franco
Seville
Marguerite Clark
Mary Pickford
New York
Newspaper Readers and Democracy Need Free Press
The piece argues that a close bond between American newspapers and readers sustains democracy. It warns that attacking press freedom harms citizens and insists communities must support strong local papers to keep nations free and informed.
Roosevelt publicity edge over Willkie in third term era
Washington digest outlines Roosevelt advantages in publicity across newspapers radio newsreels and media while noting Willkie faces a political trap as campaigns rely on media presence. It discusses press agents public relations shifts since Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of government publicity corps and Charles Michelson.
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Carter Field
Western Newspaper Union
Washington
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Theodore Roosevelt
National Committee
Charles Michelson
The Boyhood of Jesus Lesson Reflection
A devotional study on Luke 2 40 to 52 describing Jesus growing from child to youth to man. It emphasizes growth in grace obedience to God and responsibility in seeking His Father’s business within Nazareth and the temple. The piece highlights the model for growing children and the path to manhood.
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Jordan
Jesus
Luke
Earth
Nazareth
Calvary
God
Volunteer enlistment likely fills first WW2 draft quota
Reports from across the nation suggest the initial 400,000 man quota to be mustered into the army by January 1, 1941, may be filled by volunteers without a nationwide draft. Veterans recall large enlistment figures before conscription in World War I.
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Washington
The President Advantage in News and Politics
Carter Field argues the president holds a media edge as what he does becomes news while opponents are defined by politics, shaping voter perception. He analyzes how this newsroom bias affects the coming election in his column this week.
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Carter Field
Field
Lesson Topics for October 13 Selected Scriptures
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts chosen for October 13 by the International Council of Religious Education under permission. The material carries copyright and is used with authorization.
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International Council of Religious Education
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English Channel
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By Roy A. Brown
National Editorial Association
Roy A. Brown
Raymond B. Howard
Washington Digest
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
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Washington Week
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