Trotsky Assassination Blamed On International Plot
Mexico City police said the pickax killing of Leon Trotsky bears the marks of an international plot. Trotsky died in a police hospital after being attacked by Frank Jackson, who posed as an admirer of the exiled Russian leader. Stalin and the OGPU are named in charges connected to a second assault earlier in the year. Jackson's confession came after Trotsky's death and a detained woman friend is mentioned as part of the case.
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Mexico City
Jesus Galindo
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky
Russia
Mexico
Frank Jacksn
Stalin
Jackson
Joseph Stiin
Soviet Union
OGPU
Alsace Area Isleaned Up
German authorities in Alsace and Lorraine completed removal of all state employees of non-German origin. Last group left yesterday on German orders for other parts of occupied France or the Vichy zone. They could take 50 pounds of baggage and 250 marks, with other property confiscated. Germans filled positions since July 15 with German appointees, including many Alsatians who moved to Germany.
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Basel
Switzerland
Alsace
Lorraine
France
Vichy
Germany
Grafton Sentinel invites to two theatre showings
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs J N Wagner of 239 West Boyd Street to tonight's Strand Theatre presentation of Raffles featuring Donald Niven and Olivia de Havilland or Abe Lincoln in Illinois with Raymond Massey at the Dixie Theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
J. N. Wagner
West
Boyd Street
Raffles
Donald Niven
Olivia de Havilland
Strand Theatre
Abe Lincoln
Mlinois
Raymond Massey
Minow
Dixie Theatre
Mildred Graham
West St. Charles Streets
Bob Steele
Wild Hare
Wale Jey
Singapore
Opera House Theatre
Trotsky Attacked Again at Mexico Home by Stranger Friend
Exiled Communist leader Leon Trotsky was stabbed at his heavily guarded Coyoacan suburb residence in Mexico by a man described as his friend for about a year. The attack marks a second stabbing since his arrival in the country.
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Mexico
Leon Trotsky
Coyoacan
Cabell County Records 47th Poliomyelitis Case
Cabell County recorded its 47th case of infantile paralysis as school districts in the state considered delaying openings. Classes in Cabell County are postponed to September 30 and Wayne County to September 16. Dr. Raymond Curry reported one new case, with 27 removed from active status. Fayette County district leaders urged meetings to discuss similar measures.
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Charleston
Cabell County
Wayne County
Fayette County
E.R. Vawter
Fayetteville
County Board of Education
Logan
Boone
Raymond Curry
Huntington
W.W. Strange
Logan County Delays Schools for Three Weeks
Charleston August 22 Logan county orders 17000 pupils to stay home for three weeks delaying 1940 classes due to infantile paralysis epidemic. Opening postponed from September 3 to 23 and the board was to formalize the plan. Another poliomyelitis case reported in Logan county raises July August total to 29.
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Charleston
Logan County
West Virginia
Board of Education
New Bridge Over Leading Creek Opens to Traffic
Elkins reports a temporary bridge on State Route 219 opened to autos Wednesday evening, replacing the structure that collapsed three months ago. Traffic had been detoured. The bridge was completed in ten days after the first pile was driven.
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Elkins
Leading Creek
Commission
Senate chief seeks ballot on draft bill
Senator Pepper proposes a new draft industry plan to end defense order delays and curb excess profits, aiming to amend the Burke Wadsworth compulsory service bill. Senate Leader Barkley pushes for a final vote by Friday as a Saturday session may be called if needed.
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Washington
Senate
Pepper
D.-Fla
Barkley
Barke‘Wadsworth
Berkley
Brilliant New York Lawyer Passes Away
Max D Steuer, famed New York trial lawyer known as a 500 a minute attorney, died of a heart attack in a Jackson New Hampshire hotel at age 69. Born in Austria, he built a swift, imaginative technique and claimed a 95 percent win rate in 2500 cases from 1893 to 1908 before becoming too busy to track averages. His body was brought to New York for funeral services.
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New York
Max D. Steuer
Jackson
N. H
Austria
Steuer
Overloads Reported In Several West Virginia Institutions
West Virginia board of control reports a total inmate overload of 2106 across charitable, penal and correctional facilities. Largest excess at the state penitentiary with 1001 over capacity. Moundsville prison complex houses 1906 inmates with 571 in road camps and 223 in Huttonsville. Weston hospital over capacity by 410, Spencer by 404, Huntington by 311. other facilities vary.
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Charleston
Board of Control
State
Moundsville
Huttonsville
Weston State Hospital
Spencer State Hospital
Huntington State Hospital
Noted British Leader Dies At Home In Malta
VALETTA Malta Aug 22 Lord Strickland 79 former prime minister of Malta died today He was the first Baron Strickland and the Maltese count Della Catina He had been ill there days The picturesque nobleman once was involved in a quarrel with the Pope over church authority to order a priest who was a British subject to leave the island
Willkie Plans Southern Aid Network Across Democrats
Willkie seeks to coordinate anti Roosevelt activities among southern Democrats. He flew from Rushville to New York for rapid conferences with ex Treasury official John W. Hanes and budget director Lewis W. Douglas, who head an independent Democrat group backing Willkie. The plan includes forming a national unity party in the South to attract anti Roosevelt voters without voting Republican.
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Theodore F. Koop
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Rushville
Ind
Hanes
Douglas
Willkie
John W. Hanes
Treasury
Roosevelt
Lewis W. Douglas
South
Marshall says army ready to draft under Burke-Wadsworth
General George C. Marshall asserts the War Department has plenty of material to train all men drafted under the Burke-Wadsworth bill. He dismisses equipment concerns, saying there are enough 30 caliber rifles for 3,000,000 men and that training is not hindered by rifle type.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
War Department
Senate
Marshall
Farmer slain by neighbor over mule dispute in Martinsburg
Allen Hess, 36, a farmer of Martinsburg, was shot and killed during a feud with a neighbor over a mule. State Trooper A. T. Hodges said the neighbor was taken into custody but denied firing the fatal shot. Hess had burns on his shirt.
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Martinsburg
Allen Hess
A. T. Hodges
Hodges
Hess
Germans Shell Ships as Channel Lull Persists in Air Blitz
London reports long range German coastal batteries near Boulogne shelled a British convoy through the Dover straits as the aerial blitz continued. Four guns fired every 15 minutes at small merchant ships and an escort of war vessels while Spitfires pursued three attacking German planes off the northeast coast.
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London
Straits of
Dover
Boulogne
Channel
Royal Air Force
Conference on Acquiring Western Hemisphere Bases
Washington August 22 President Roosevelt summoned top military, foreign and legal officials to a conference on acquiring western hemisphere naval and air bases from Great Britain. Attending were Secretary Stimson Secretary Knox Attorney General Jackson and Sumner Welles undersecretary Stephen Early. The talks would follow up yesterday’s meeting on legal aspects of the base negotiations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Stimson
Knox
Jackson
Sumner Welles
Stephen Early
Whitehouse
U S Consider Canada as 49th State
Prof Carl M Frasure of West Virginia University urged the state dairymen at their convention to admit Canada as the 49th state for the present If Canada is protected the British fleet could be freed to guard their shores reducing the need to sell American ships to England The talk on Americas Foreign Policy also touched on buying Latin American surpluses and using U S aid for dairy advertising with a proposed 10 percent appropriation of the cost of all dairy animals.
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United States
S. M. Salisbury
Association
Bullitt Plans Active Role In Roosevelt Campaign
Ambassador William C. Bullitt, under criticism from Congress, reportedly plans an active role in President Roosevelt s re election campaign. Sources say he could appear as the chief administration spokesman on foreign policy matters and share in invitations to follow up his Philadelphia speech.
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Bullitt
Roosevelt
Washington
William C. Bullitt
France
Philadelphia
Confederate Veteran James H Sills Dies at Morgantown Home
James Henry Sills 95 longtime Confederate veteran died after a brief illness at his Morgantown home. He served with General Robert E Lee and witnessed the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Survived by daughter Mrs Stewart Galford of Morgantown and brother John Sills of Linden Virginia.
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Morgantown
James Henry Sills
Robert H. Lee
Appomattox
Sills
Stewart Galford
John Sills
Linden
Hold Husband in Death Case
Greene county authorities filed formal charges against Robert Headley for assault and battery with intent to kill and conspiracy to commit murder in an alleged attempt on his wife Ada Headley. Judge Waychoff denied release, noting the case involved two women who admitted shooting the woman. Headley was held without charges for a week.
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Waynesburg
Greene County
Robert Headley
Ada
Jack Orndoff
Justice of the Peace
Frank Sutton
Headley
Challen W. Waychoff
Waychoff
Japan Recalled Ambassadors in Major Diplomatic Shakeup
Tokyo reports Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka recalled Kensuke Horinouchi the U S ambassador and four other ambassadors in a sweeping shakeup of the diplomatic service. Domei says 19 ministers and 16 consular officers including posts at New York Chicago San Francisco Honolulu and Manila are affected, with strong impact in the Americas.
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Tokyo
Yosuke Matsuoka
Kensuke Horinouchi
United States
Comet
Yoshisuke Aikawa
Japan
Great Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation
Horinouchi
Domei
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Honolulu
Manila
Americas
Egypt Ready for Invasion Threat and Defense Stance
Cairo reports War Minister Keissy Pasha stating Egypt has formed a mobile division to resist any invasion, likely from Libya where Italian forces are concentrated. He vows no offensive action but will defend with Britain if attacked, keeping entry to the war or neutrality dependent on Italy. The Sabry Pasha government leads the country.
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Cario
Egypt
Keissy Pasha
Libya
Britain
Italy
Hassan Sabry Pasha
Fleeing Nazi Prisoner Captured In Ontario
The National Defense department reported a German war prisoner who tunnelled from a north Ontario internment camp was captured crossing the Victoria bridge in Montreal. Identified as Guenther Lorentz, with Werner Koche also listed. A second prisoner, a German civilian from northwestern Ontario, remains at large.
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Ottawa
Ont
National Defense Department
North
Ontario
Victoria Bridge
Montreal
Guenther Lorentz
Snot Werner Koche
Lorentz
Foreign Office Denies Talk Of U S Alliance
London officials deny Britain seeks a military alliance with the United States. A spokesman laughed off a reporter’s question about refusing an alliance if offered, despite earlier remarks from supposedly well-informed circles that Britain was seeking one.
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London
Foreign Office
Britain
United States
Nazis Refuse Safe Conduct for Refugees
German high command reports extensive RAF bombing of 15 airports and industrial sites across England including Skegness Great Yarmouth Coventry and Southampton while claiming losses of seven planes and noting only minor damage on German targets. They state a total blockade makes safe conduct for United States ships impossible and reiterate refusal to guarantee safe passage for refugees.
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Berlin
Skegness
Great Yarmouth
Witney
Coventry
Bournemouth
Bridlington
Seamat
Southampton
Anothi
England
Acro
London
Brighton
Germany
High Command
Britain
Ources
United States
DNB
Italy flays U S policies on naval bases
Rome dispatch notes that Italian newspapers accuse the United States of seeking to extend control in the Western Hemisphere by leasing naval bases. Bologna’s Il Resto says Washington aims to seize Canada and later Australia, warning Japan of growing American imperialism and suggesting Britain’s possessions could be paid for with troops, destroyers, or other concessions.
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Rome
Ital
United States
Japan
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