Willkie Opens Campaign Tour With WPA Budget Critique
Willkie began work on his first major address aiming to show why New Deal policies slow recovery. He planned a comparison of this low mood with past depressions and urged scrutiny of a 90 000 WPA roster rise amid July. WPA denies net job gains and claims roster dropped about 100 000 from June to July.
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Theodore F. Koop
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
WPA
Willkie
Republican National Organization
Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson
Washington
Howard
Hunter
Congress Faces New Problem On Defense Production Plan
Washington August 24 The Defense Commission presented Congress with a plan to accelerate munitions output by allowing manufacturers to borrow for plant expansion under expanded contracts. Officials said faster airplane and material orders depend on new authority and action on a supplemental defense appropriation and two profit and tax relaxation proposals for manufacturers. Plane Contract Signed Further details appear on page eight.
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Washington
The
Defense Commission
Commission
Congress
Grafton Sentinel invites Eleanor Jacobs to theater shows
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Eleanor Jacobs of 456 Walnut Street to tonight's Strand Theatre showing of My Favorite Wife starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant and to the Dixie Theatre showing Law of the Pampas featuring Hopalong Cassidy with William Boyd.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Eleanor Jacobs
Walnut Stret
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
Strand Theatre
Hopkins to Quit Cabinet in Health Drive
President Roosevelt accepts Harry L Hopkins resignation as secretary of commerce and signals a replacement by Jesse H Jones. Hopkins, a longtime adviser, plans to become Hyde Park librarian as illness limits him to six hours of work daily. he will not return to business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Commerce
Jesse H. Jones
Hopkins
Hyde Park
N. Y
Chicago
Willkie Seeks Cabinet Post For Aeronautics Secretary
New York August 24 Wendell L Willkie urged creating a cabinet secretary of aeronautics to lead military, naval and aeronautic operations. He proposed one cabinet member to oversee all three branches or, in the interim, a secretary of aeronautics to coordinate aviation defense.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Fancy Prices At Dairyman's Auction Peak at WV Dairy Meet
Dairy cattle fanciers paid an average of 100 dollars for 23 animals at the West Virginia Dairy men's convention in Jackson's Mill. The top price of 225 dollars was paid by B M Davison of Jane Lew for "Quincy Mahamet Elsie," Guernesy Keifer, consigned by John Dickinson of Charleston.
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Jackson's Mill
West Virginia
B. M. Davison
Jane Lew
Association For “Quincy
Mahamet Elsie
Guernesy Keifer
John Dickinson
Charleston
German Air Raids Reported Over Kent and Channel
Berlin reports multiple waves of German air attacks on Kent southeast of London and claims British shipping in waters near Britain is nearly paralyzed in the first week of the Nazi blockade. Berlin says fierce air battles over the Channel left many enemy planes shot down and notes German fighters rescued crews.
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Berlin
Kent
London
Channel
OC. P
England
New York
McNutt Challenges Willkie To Public Debate
Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, offered to debate Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican nominee, in public. He made the offer amid a Democratic state convention speech in New Haven, citing Roosevelt's rescue of the nation during dire times and recalling past debates.
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Newhaven
Conn
Paul V. McNutt
Wendell L. Willkie
Federal Security
Willkie
Roosevelt
McNutt
America
France
England
Draft bill to pass by ten votes eyed in Senate
Senate strategists predicted passage of the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training bill next week by at least ten votes and in a form for immediate conscription. A substitute by Senator Maloney to delay the draft until January faced a margin of two to four votes against it as Roosevelt urged speedy action. Barkley forecast a final vote sometime next week after extended debate.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Malonjey
D.-Conn
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Barkley
Downdraft blamed for bomber wreck in Denver
Civil authorities tentatively blamed a terrific downdraft for a bomber crash that killed nine aboard during an electrical storm near Denver. Army officials ruled out lightning or a bomb explosion and noted eight or nine theories under study. Fifteen unexploded bombs were found, loaded only to puff smoke on impact. Coroner Hatfield said the downdraft was to blame.
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Denver
Leo H. Dawson
Lowry Field
Jay M. Hatfield
Spud Splinter Festival Closes In West Virginia
In Richwood on August 24 the fourth Spud and Splinter festival concluded after a three day celebration of potatoes and lumber. Lumberjack contests tested wood cutters from Nicholas county camps while pistol matches and a fly casting contest appealed to visitors. Yesterday featured the Cherry river Navy with West Virginia leaders commissioned as admirals as the Cletheson underwent dry land trials.
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Richwood
Nicholas County
Cherry River Navy
Cletheson
U S May Act in Epidemic in West Virginia
U S health officials plan conference with state officers to curb a polio outbreak in southern West Virginia. Dr. James P Leake of the Public Health Service will visit Huntington area, where most cases and delays in school openings are noted. Jimmy Phillips, 3, died in Raleigh County. total cases exceed 100 in July August.
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Charleston
A. E. McClue
James P. Leake
Raleigh County
Jimmy Phillips
Price Hill
West Virginia
Huntington
McClue
Cabell County
McDowell County Delays School Opening Start
McDowell County will delay the start of the school term by one week from September 3 due to an infantile paralysis epidemic. County Superintendent George W. Bryson announced after advice from health officer Dr. J. A. Bennett. Ten cases are in the county, including one reported yesterday.
Mother Held In Hospital After Drowning Children
In Dayton Ohio a 30 year old mother is guarded in a hospital as detectives investigate the drowning of her two children found in a bathtub. The bodies are Lela Mae two weeks old and Walter Weyrauch Jr seven. The father, a druggist, discovered them when he returned home. A note led investigators to the mother who wandered dazed in a nearby park.
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Dayton
O. L. Kincaid
Lela Mae
Walter Weyrauch
Italians Admit Loss Of Another Submarine
Italian high command admitted the loss of a submarine sunk by a British torpedo plane in the gulf of Bomba Libya. The communique noted Italian air attacks on Alexandria Egypt Sidi Barrani and Khartoum, and targets at Mersa Matruh as part of the operations announced from Rome.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Sidi Barrani
Khartoum
Mersa Matruh
High Command
Gulf of Bomba
Libya
Border fight not settled between Hungary and Romania over Transylvania
Report from Turnu Severin Romania Aug 24 states Hungary presses Romania for a plan ceding territory as talks resume to resolve the Transylvania border dispute. Romanian delegates retreat to answer while Hungary insists on territorial revision over population exchange. In London an air raid interrupts news with anti revisionist activity and mass bombing across the Thames estuary as defense fires dot the city.
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Turnn-Severin
Rumania
Hungary
Transylvania
London
Julia Thunder
Maniu
Peasant
Thames
Anl
Hungary Calls Up Reservists After Transylvania Talks Fail
Hungary announces immediate army reservist mobilization as talks with Romania over Transylvania collapse, signaling heightened security measures amid wartime tension.
Niece of Millionaire Marries Young Clerk
Elmsford New York August 24 Mary Jane Schwab 23 niece of late Charles M Schwab and John Wassung an insurance company clerk were married today Parents denied knowledge of the marriage friends said plans were kept secret He is said to work for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co in New York He lives in Queens Village New York Mrs John Wassing said her son had known the Schwab girl only a short time and they had been put together only a couple of times.
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Elmsford
N. Y
Mary Jane Schwab
Charles M. Schwab
John Wassung
Bridgegroom
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
New York
Queens Village
John Wassing
Schwab
Four Year Old Die In Auto Wreck West of West Union
Four year old Walie Mae Bee of Oxford Doddridge county died from a crushed skull when the car driven by her father Sherman Bee overturned on a curve one mile west of West Union on U S route 50. Others escaped serious injury.
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West Union
Walie Mae Bee
Oxford
Doddridge County
Sherman Bee
Here
Pottery Strike Ends As Grafton Plant Reopens
Labor dispute at Carr China Company potteries halted operations since August. Agreement reached after conferences with Brotherhood of Operative Potters and local Union No. 98, ratified unanimously. Plant to resume grinding and full force by Wednesday. Union notes harmony and no bitterness.
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Grafton
Carr China Company
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Unio No. 98
Tika
James Duffey
Hast
Ohio
Boop
Wedat
Iat
Big Berthas Blast Dover as German Guns Hit Coast
German long range guns on the French coast shelled the Dover area while the Luftwaffe renewed bombing raids for the first time since last Sunday. Three shells hit the 7th South Kent coast injuring several people as waves of bombers crossed the southeast coast. A Junkers 88 formation was counted under Messerschmitt fighter escort.
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England
Germany
Exigglish Channel
Shelly
Kent
Messerschmitt
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