Germans Threaten Leningrad From Three Sides
German forces menace Leningrad on three fronts as Russian Marshal urges a defense to death to hold the huge city. In Paris, German and French police arrest 6000 people, many Jews, in a mass roundup aimed at quelling unrest. Two men executed for alleged Communist activity as blockades seal the Eleventh Arrondissement.
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Leningrad
Paris
Vnchy
France
Moscow
Red Army Northwest Command
Klementi Voroshilov
Warsaw
Poland
U S Will Soon Surpass Nazis in Aluminum
ALCOA and United States Aluminum Co. expect output to rise to 1.1 billion pounds annually with 50,000 workers, aided by a government $100 million expansion and a two cent per pound price cut. The plant expansion aims to outproduce Germany, despite bottlenecks in power and ship delivery of bauxite.
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T.2 Aluminum Company of America
Germany
Marilo
Fee
America
ALCOA
Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Alfred E. Hunt
Roy A. Hunt
U. S
Roosevelt cites sea meeting with Churchill and anti Nazism pledges
President Roosevelt reported to Congress on the sea meeting with Prime Minister Churchill. He said the declaration of principles agreed there was clear and hard to oppose without accepting compromise with Nazism. He warned a world peace favoring Nazism would be a gift that promotes future war.
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The Grafton Sentinel Invites Mrs Franklin L Sloan
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Franklin L Sloan of 137 Ross Street to tonight's screenings. The Strand theater offers The Get Away while Honeymoon for Three plays at the Dixie theater.
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Grafton Sentinel
Franklin L. Sloan
Ross Street
Strand Theater
Dixie Theater
Amos
Christiana Street
Tombstone
Opera House
Senate probe urged of east gas shortage
A New England senator urged a quick congressional inquiry to determine if the region faces a gasoline shortage. Senator Maloney asked the Senate Commerce Committee to act on his resolution, noting the situation as perilous and citing a 893,000 barrel drop in eastern stocks last week.
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Washington
New England
Defense Petroleum Office
Maloney
D.-Conn
Senate Commerce Committee
Ralph K. Davies
Davies
Army Morale On Downgrade In Third Corps Area
Baltimore August 21 Major General Henry C Pratt fresh in command of the third corps area says morale may require strenuous efforts to uphold though he is not worried about the nation’s armed forces. He notes the third corps area covers Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and the District of Columbia. He is confident contact with soldiers proves resilience in war. Burton August 21 a homecoming crowd panicked when bleachers collapsed injuring more than twenty in a show tent section.
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Henry C. Pratt
Third Corps
Pratt
Second Army
Wilmington
Del
Walter S. Grant
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
United States
Burton
Roosevelt Son Says US War Entry Could Be Decided Elsewhere
Capt Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, told London reporters that if the United States enters the war it might be determined by others. He warned one of the U S ships might be fired on and that the defense of ships and men would be his priority. He added that rank and file believed Allied victory would hinge on Britain, and he noted a relaxation in war effort among Britons and Americans. He was in London on a mission for the air corps after a sea meeting between his father and Churchill.
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London
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Churchill
Air Corps
Fdr
Chorus Swells for British Invasion of Europe via Landing
British, Polish and Norwegian strategists urge a continental invasion as the only way to defeat Germany. They deem RAF bombings insufficient and press for a second front, with proposed landings along the European coastline including a northern Narvik option in Norway. Page 6.
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London
Germany
Frank Owen
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Owen
Italy
Narvik
Norway
Vik
Recommendation to erase all personal income tax exemptions
Walter A. M. Cooper, chair of the taxation committee of the American Institute of Accountants, urged Congress to remove all personal income tax exemptions. He noted current exemptions of 2000 for married and 800 for single filers, while the treasury proposed 1500 and 750. He also called for withholding normal income taxes at the source on salaries, dividends, interest, and other fixed or determinable income.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Walter A. M. Cooper
American Institute of Accountants
Treasury
Cooper
White Plains
N. Y
Grogger Threatens Deadbeats With Billboard Display
Clem Pizzutelli a Monongahela grocer and debt collection figure announced plans to post the names of 700 delinquent customers on an 8 by 24 foot billboard after 30 days if more than $20,000 owed is not paid. He erected a $150 billboard in the industrial city near Pittsburgh and notified debtors by registered mail.
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Monongahela
Clem Pizzutelli
Pizzatelli
Pittsburgh
Gas Measurement Short Course Sets Attendance Record
Morgantown August 21 1942 record attendance marked the fourth annual Appalachian gas measurement short course at West Virginia University School of Mines. A general committee led by J E Overbeck of Columbus Ohio will plan next year’s program as 415 men from nearby states registered for the course which concluded yesterday.
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Morgantown
J. E. Overbeck
Columbus
West Virginia University School of Mines
Committed To Jail For Concealing of Assets
Charles F. Gobel of Charleston West Virginia was jailed in lieu of 1500 bond after a hearing before a U S commissioner. Gobel faced charges of concealing from the bankruptcy estate drilling machinery an engine and other oil well drilling equipment.
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Pittsburgh
Charles F. Gobel
Charleston
W. Va
U. S
Gobel
C. M. Kelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Red defense ring breached near Leningrad and Ukraine drive
German forces breach three key towns Novograd Kingisepp Narva near Leningrad cutting 75 miles from Soviet second city. Hitler bulletin claims Kherson fall and destruction of 25 Red Army divisions as heavy fighting continues around the Dnieper and across Ukraine.
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Vireavenen Uuiuig
Soviet Information Bureau
Novgorod
Leningrad
Gomel
Odessa
Red Army
Oo An
Shah
Novgorrod
Kingisepp
Narva
Voroshilov
Berlin
Novograd
Soviet Russia
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Kherson
Dnieper
RFC Will Loan Soviet Money
Washington, Aug 21. RFC head Jesse Jones said the United States would consider a loan to the Soviet Union for its war effort if needed. He noted discussions with the Soviet ambassador but no formal application yet and that the loan size would likely be smaller than rumors of a billion dollars.
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Washington
Russia
Germany
Jesse Jones
Constantin Oumansky
Jones
Charleston Names Carl Early City Manager
Charleston council approved Carl B. Early as city manager after approving his appointment by Mayor D Boone Dawson. The decision follows the dismissal of Malcolm R Mathews from the post last night.
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Charleston
Carl B
D. Boone Dawson
Malcolm R. Mathews
Detroit Street Car Strike Debates Over Bargaining Agent
Detroit remains strike bound as AFL and CIO fight over sole bargaining rights for street railway workers. Mayor Jeffries seeks talks to restore service for hundreds of defense workers and office staff while nationwide sympathy actions loom. The Detroit stalemate echoes a similar Kearny NJ yard strike, with White House involvement anticipated.
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Associated Press
Detroit
AFL
CIO
Kearney
N. J
White House
Edward J. Jeffries
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Motor Coach Operators
Department of Street Railways
State
Municipal Workers of America
Jeffries
Policeman Files $100,000 Damage Suit Against B&Os
Delmer G. Brown, a B&O railroad patrolman, filed a federal suit seeking 100000 dollars, claiming an accident in Grafton West Virginia freight yards left him with a lost arm after a lump of coal struck him while inspecting seals on interstate shipments.
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Pittsburgh
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Delmer G. Brown
Grafton
W. Va
Brown
Survey on West Virginia insanity treatment facilities planned
Charleston August 21 A US Public Health Service representative will study West Virginia facilities for treating insane adults and children at Governor Neelys request Surgeon General Thomas Parran has assigned Dr Raphael W Hamilton to conduct the survey The Weston state has See SURVEY STATE page 3
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West Virginia
U. S. Public Health Service
Neely
Thomas ‘Parran
U. S. Service
Rapa
Hamilton
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