Conscription Foes Expect Bill To Pass In Senate
The senate rejected an amendment to the Burke Wadsworth bill and voted 55 to 27 against delaying conscription. Senator Wheeler admitted defeat as leaders said the fight was over. A key proposal would delay the draft until war or invasion, while Maloney’s plan sought January 1 delay with voluntary enlistments to meet manpower.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Wiley
R.-Wis
Wheeler
Chamber
D. Mont
House
Maloney
D.-Conn
Willkie Opens Campaign HQ in Rushville on Main Street
Wendell L. Willkie opened his presidential campaign headquarters on Rushville Indiana Main street and urged President Roosevelt to appoint assistant secretaries for aviation in the War and Navy departments. He traveled from Indianapolis after listening by radio to Senator Charles L. McNary’s acceptance speech and spoke of power issues.
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Theodore F. Koop
Rushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Main Street
Roosevelt
War
Navy
Indianapolis
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Willkie
New York
Grafton Sentinel Presents Evening Film Double Feature
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs R C Hudson of 113 East Main Street to tonight’s Strand Theatre program featuring An Angel From Texas with Eddie Albert Rosemary Lane Wayne Morris and Jane Wyman. Also at the Dixie Theatre a double feature of Free Blonde and 21 with Lynn Bari and The Secret Seven with Bruce Bennett is listed.
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Grafton Sentinel
R. C. Hudson
East Mainstreet
Texas
Eddie Albert
Rosemary Lane
Wayne Morris
Jane Wyman
Strand Theatre
Lynn Bari J
Bruce Bennett
Dixie Theatre
Johnson wins contest in four-state primaries
Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California led a Republican sweep and likely carried Democratic and Progressive ballots as well in key primaries. Incumbents in Congress won in South Carolina Mississippi and Arkansas while Dry advocates backed a prohibition referendum in South Carolina.
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Associated Press
Ins
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Roosevelt
Republcan
Johnson
Wilson
League of Nations
Bilbo
Congress
South Carolina
Mississippi
Arkansas
House Collapses If Wrecked Bus Moved
Parkersburg Aug 28 A bus carrying 12 passengers escaped injury when it nosed into a roadside dwelling at Cairo. The owner Duke May of St Marys said the house would collapse if the bus were removed and must be rebuilt. None of the tenants were hurt. Driver Dutch Stanley said he swerved to avoid an automobile stopping suddenly.
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Parkersburg
Cairo
Duke May
St. Marys
Dutch Stanley
St Albans Attorney Dies of Heart Attack
Levi Arthur Edwards, 56, of St Albans, attorney and former legislator, died of a heart attack while taking a state police test for a driver license. Edwards was secretary of the Kanawha County National Farm Loan association and a Republican candidate for the county board of education. He served in the 1925 legislative session.
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Charleston
Levi Arthur Edwards
St. Albans
Edwards
Kanawaha County National Farm Loan Association
County Board of Education
Six Aircraft Shot Down Over Kent by British Defenders
British air defenses claimed six enemy planes were shot down this afternoon as two formations of 18 and 21 aircraft approached the Kentish coast toward London. Both waves were disrupted after a 30 minute battle from Kent to the Thames, with damage reported in a residential town area.
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London
Air Ministry
Kentish
Middle Kent
Thames
McNary Attacks Trade Pacts Ahead of Campaign
Salem Oregon August 28 Republican vice presidential nominee Senator Charles L McNary renewed his attack on the New Deal farm policy and reciprocal trade treaties planning an early campaign tour He said the Willkie running mate would begin campaigning after September 20 with an agriculture focused address in the Midwest He condemned the two price system and criticized the reciprocal trade program as ineffective and harmful to farmers and national interests.
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Salem
Ore
Charles L. McNary
Wendell L. Willkie
Midwest
Senate
Slayer of Divorcee Hunted In Mountains
Webster Springs police seek John Fitzwater 40 a merchant as the slayer of Mrs Jes sie Wood 23 of Camden on Gauley and the wounding of her nephew Charles Wood 17 after a car attack near Camden on Gauley Webster county Fitzwater a former Nicholas county court member and Calvin resident is believed to have fled to Nicholas county authorities hold warrants for his arrest the woman was shot Monday night and died in a Webster county location while her nephew was critically injured in Richwood hospital
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Webster Springs
John Fitzwater
Nicholas County
Jessie Wood
Camden-on-Gauley
G. F. Parsons
Fitzwater
Calvin
Nicholas Co polio death reported in West Virginia
The state health department announced the infantile paralysis death of a Nicholas county child, the eleventh West Virginia poliomyelitis death in the July to August epidemic. Schools in Nicholas county will not open as scheduled, and nationwide pupil delays bring total affected to 188,000 in the state. Dr. Price and Dr. Leake head to Spencer to investigate a Roane county case while officials say the epidemic is the waning phase.
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Charleston
State Health Department
Nicholas County
West Virginia
James L. Creasy
Roane Co
A. M. Price
James P. Leake
U. S. Public Health Service
Spencer
Roane
Health Department
National Guard Bill Signed By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signed legislation authorizing calling out 396 000 National Guard and Army Reserve members for 12 months of active duty. The White House said action was completed last night after congressional action last week. Military experts call the measure a step toward drafting a conscript army for training and organization.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Perilous Sea Journey Of Army Transport Is Ended
The army transport American Legion arrived in New York harbor with 800 plus American refugees after a voyage from Petsamo Norway on Aug 16. It passed mine areas north of Scotland during German unrestricted warfare. Norwegian Crown Princess Martha and her children were rescued and taken ashore by coast guard. they headed to Waldorf Astoria. Mrs Florence J Harriman and other diplomats remained aboard.
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Army
American Legion
New York Harbor
Petsamo
Norway
Scotland
Germany
Martha
Scandinavia
Coast Guard
The
Battery
Waldorf’ Astoria Hotel
Florence Jaffray Harriman
U. S
Brooklyn
Knox Reports On Planes Contracted For By Navy
Secretary Knox defended plane purchasing policy and disclosed Navy inventories including 1,031 combat planes 1,489 training planes and 21 miscellaneous craft under contract but undelivered. He reinforced Roosevelt’s note that 10 015 planes were under construction across services.
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Knox
Navy
Washington
Army
Konoye Rejects Totalitarian Rule For Japan
Tokyo August 28 Prince Fumimaro Konoye denounced totalitarianism as unsuitable for Japan in a surprise speech to 26 political leaders forming a committee for a new national political structure. He said Japan will not base its system on a single party and urged uniting the people to fulfill their duty as subjects of the 100000000 nation.
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Tokyo
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Prince Konoye
Night Crew Of Mine Killed In Arkansas Explosion
Ten men, the entire night crew of the Bates Coal corporation mine, were killed by a blast deep in a slope shaft a few minutes after arriving for work. State Mine Inspector J W Fitzfarrell led an investigation to determine the cause as bodies were moved to mortuaries in Heavener Oklahoma and Hartford Arkansas, with the mine located near the Oklahoma border.
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Bates
Ark
Bates Coal Corporation
J. W. Fitzfarrell
Fort Smith
Heavener
Okla
Hartford
Oklahoma
Pair Held In Miner's Death Freed In West Virginia
FAIRMONT Aug 28 Chief Deputy Sheriff Felix Yanero ordered the release of Anna Potoczny and Sam Deskinko who had been held in connection with the death of Fred Orloff a Farmington miner. The miner was found dead on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad right of way near Farmington. The case is not yet closed and the investigation will continue.
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Fairmont
Felix Yanero
Anna Potoczny
Sam Deskinko
Fred Orloff
Farmington
Orloff
Baltimore and Ohio
Yanero
West Virginia Aliens Register At Post Offices
West Virginia post offices saw a rush of about 500 non citizens seeking registration for the federal alien register. About 50 registered in Fairmont with fingerprints and histories. 7,000 estimated statewide. Postmaster J W Shingleton reported 30 first day registrations and 100 blanks issued.
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West Virginia
Charleston
Fairmont
J. W. Shingleton
Singleton
Axis Ministers Meet Over Transylvania Border Row
German and Italian foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Ciano hold a Salzburg session to shape a four power approach to the Hungarian Romanian dispute. Vienna will host talks with the Hungarian and Romanian ministers as Axis leaders seek a speedy settlement to avoid incidents that could disrupt the war effort.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Salzburg
Transylvania
Europe
Ribbentrop
Ciano
Vienna
Balkan
von Ribbentrop
Count Ciano
Foul Play Discounted In Aged Woman’s Death
Pittsburgh dispatch reports police dropped foul play theories in the death of Mrs. Thomas Anderson, aged about 80, whose body lay in a Squirrel Hill home for over two weeks before discovery. She lived alone since her husband, a noted nose and throat specialist, died about ten years ago. Last seen August 10 or 11. post mortem led to verdict of death from undetermined causes.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas
Anderson
Squirrel Hill
Italians Bomb Suez Canal Entrances Raids Close
British communique reports enemy air raids on Port Said and Alexandria early today. No damage or casualties found at the canal entrances as the first wartime raid on Port Said occurred. Alexandria also saw an air alert with no bombs dropped.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Port Said
Suez Canal
Britain
Egyptain
Air Corps appoints new command at Gulf Coast center
Colonel Millard F. Harmon, former commander at March Field and instructor at Fort Leavenworth, assume duties as commanding officer of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center headquartered at Randolph Field Texas, part of the West Point of the Air program.
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Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
Randolph Field
Texas
West Point of the Air
Millard F. Harmon
March Field
Cal
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Italy Admits Bomb Damage Across Regions
Rome reports British air raids across northern Italy to Ethiopia acknowledged by the high command. Italian fliers repelled attacks on Haifa and limited damage in Piedmont and Lombardy. Derna in Libya hit a lumber ship. two killed and five injured in additional damage.
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Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
High Command
Oir
Haifa
Palestine
Piedmont
Lombardy
Michelino
Turin
Derna
State Firemen Meet Opens in Morgantown Thursday
West Virginia State Firemen’s Association opens annual sessions in New Martinsville Thursday with about 800 delegates from five departments in 75 towns. A plan for a statewide Firemen’s Day and a resolution asking Governor Holt to proclaim it will be on the convention agenda. The meeting will be addressed by C. J. Powell, president and state motor vehicles registrar, and Fred B. Watkins, state fire marshal.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Britain Stops Shipping for French Indo China
Hongkong August 28 British authorities suspended shipping clearances for French Indo China and recalled British vessels en route there. The move follows three prior suspensions in two months as officials await clarity on French posture toward the war. Indo China’s position has been unclear since the French German armistice in June.
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Hongkong
Hongkong-Indo- China
Indo-China
Border Clash Deepens Crisis Between Romania and Hungary
In Budapest and beyond, the Rome Berlin axis presses to avert wider war as Hungary and Romania clash over Transylvania. Ministers head to Vienna for talks while reports cite intense border fighting and Soviet Romanian hostilities. Berlin signals firm commitment to quick settlement amid broader European tensions.
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Budapest
Hungary
Balkans
Vienna
Transylvania
Buda
Bucharest
Berlin
Britain
Rumania
Romania
Austria-Hungary
Border Clash Inquiry Opens in Bucharest and Frontiers
A mixed Romanian Russian commission opened today an investigation into a frontier clash in Bucovina near Adancata that reportedly killed hundreds of soldiers. A Romanian air force claim said a Russian recon plane was shot down on the border highway near Botosavi as frontier hosts remained closed. A second aerial clash reportedly saw two Soviet planes shot down by six fighters. a separate Romanian plane was fired upon but escaped. Continued on page seven.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Adancata
Bucovina
borodhoi-Botosavi
Lockwood to Attend Tim McCoy Frontier Show Tonight
Mrs G E Lockwood of Rochelle Road is invited to attend tonight’s program at the Opera House featuring Tim McCoy in Frontier era and Higgins presenting Grandpa Goes to Town as the current attractions at the Holle Theatre.
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Gratton Sensinel
G. E. Lockwood
Rochelle Road
Tim McCoy
Higgins
Opera Holle Theatre
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