Missionaries Killed in Sudan By Italian Troops
Sudan government reports two American missionaries killed and two wounded in an Italian machine-gun attack on an isolated mission post in the upper Nile region near Kurkuk on August twenty third. A Miss Walsh survived. The Grieves died as they waved a large American flag to deter the assault.
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Cario
Sudan
Egypt
Gallabat
Ethiopia
Kassala
Eritrea
Doro
Sudan Interior Mission
Upper Nile
Kurkuk
Robert Grieve
Kenneth Oglesby
Miss Walsh
Profits Bill Passes House in Quick Action
The excess profits tax bill cleared the House in under four hours and moves to the Senate where opposition from Sen LaFollette signals possible revisions. The measure, set to impose 20 to 50 percent excess taxes, faced few dissents as supporters said it would clear tax uncertainty for defense contracts.
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Washington
House
Senate
Finance Committee
LaFollette
Grafton Sentinel invites attendance at two films
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. Fred Kunst of 18 West Washington Street to attend tonight's presentation of Texas Stampede starring Charles Starrett at the Dixie theatre or Pear Gas Squad playing at the Strand theatre currently.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Fred Kunst
West Washington Street
Charles Starrett
Dixie Theatre
Strand Theatre
W. J. Wilt
East Bluemont Street
Midnight Limited
J King
Green Hornet
Jennshore House
Worcester hospital worker dies as human guinea pig
Authorities probe the death of Catherine Duggan a 21 year old worker at a Massachusetts state hospital in Worcester who volunteered to test a drug aimed at improving insanity related physical condition. She died ten minutes after an injection and officials pursue the cause.
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Catherine Duggan
Worcester
Mass
Central Presa
Willkie Denounces Conscription Amendment as Step Toward Dictatorship
Wendell Willkie criticized the Overton Russell amendment to the conscription bill calling it revolutionary and a path to socializing American free enterprise. He urged Roosevelt to state his views and said the issue warrants debate as the campaign moves forward.
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Theodore F. Koop
Bushville
Ind
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate
Willkie
Germany May Transfer Prisoners From France
In sources from LES VERRIERES the German army of occupation considers moving all French war prisoners from the occupied zone to Germany due to expected continued fighting through winter. More than 1,000,000 prisoners are involved. Germans would free them in occupied territory but fear sabotage and disorder, and the Vichy government is unequipped to care for them in the non-occupied zone.
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Les Verrieres
Germany
Vichy
Wheeling Ready to Host State Legion Convention
Wheeling hung out Welcome Legionnaires signs and completed plans for a state convention expected to draw about 1,000 West Virginia veterans and additional hundreds from neighboring states. Legionnaires from Ohio and Pennsylvania are anticipated to attend due to concurrent regional conventions.
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Wheeling
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
West Virginia
Three German Air Attacks Repulsed Over London
German raids totaling about 400 planes attacked London and its outskirts in three waves. British fighters and anti aircraft batteries repulsed the assaults, with Berlin claiming heavy losses for Britain and the British reporting six German planes shot down. The air ministry noted six RAF planes were lost.
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London
Air Ministry
Berlin
England
Air and Home Securities Sministics
Shipping Centers Set Ablaze By Nazi Bombs
Berlin reports says night raids set Liverpool and Birkenhead ablaze on the Jersey river, Britain's west coast shipping hub. The German high command claims limited reconnaissance preceded the attacks, noting 19 Allied planes shot down and seven German planes lost. Industrial sites at Felixstowe Weybridge Langley South Wells and ports at Dundee Leith and Hartlepool also targeted by fighter planes.
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Berlin
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Jersey River
Britain
High Command
Felixtowe
Suffolk County
Weybridge
London
Langley-South Wells
Dundee
Leith
Hartlepool
Bandits Grab Cash in Daylight Robbery at Trenton Plant
In Trenton New Jersey three armed bandits stormed the Crescent Insulated Wire and Cable plant on Olden avenue taking bags estimated at twenty five thousand dollars from the payroll cash. An armored car crew had just delivered the money and the getaway car was found abandoned near the Philadelphia New York highway. Miss Viola Elmer a telephone operator was threatened with revolvers during the hold up while Charles Pearce was processing the cash. The crime was reported by the Trenton detective bureau.
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Trenton
N. J
Crescent
Trenton Detective Bureau
Olden Avenue
Viola Elmer
Charles Pearce
Philadelphia
New York
Roosevelt Refuses To State View On Draft Provision
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park declined to answer Wendell Willkie’s demand on a conscription bill provision allowing government seizure of private plants. He said efforts to draw him into political controversy are being made and urged that people stop there.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
Debate Opens on Peace Time Conscription Bill
Washington August 30 A.O Pre debate skirmishing surfaced in the house over the Burke Wadsworth compulsory military training measure foe s call unneeded supporters predict swift passage by end of next week An eight man minority report condemns the bill arguing it would conscript farmers Debate to begin Tuesday targets age 21 to 44 for registration differing from Senate 21 to 30 lines note Continued on Page 3.
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Washington
House
Senate
Minority
Pythian Lodge Asked To Aid Memorial Hospital
Charleston August 30 Knights of Pythias lodges were asked in a resolution by state convention delegates to contribute 1200 to furnish a ward at Morris Memorial hospital for crippled children at Milton. The organization elected Truslow S. Waldo of Elizabeth as grand chancellor and chose Parkersburg as its next meeting place. Mrs Helen Morris of Montgomery was elected grand chief of Pythian Sisters.
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Charleston
Knights of Pythias
Morris Memorial Hospital
Milton
Truslow S. Waldo
Elizabeth
Parkersburg
Helen Morris
Montgomery
Pythian Sisters
First Guardsmen Will Be Called September 15
Army officials said the first contingent of about 55,000 national guardsmen will be mobilized for active service around September 15 after Roosevelt signs the enabling law. They will undergo two months of basic training before modern warfare tactics are taught at scattered camps. A second group of a similar size would be called around October 15.
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Washington
National
Roosevelt
All-Steel Buses Replacing Older School Fleet Statewide
State education officials push for all steel pupil transport with county ownership replacing private contracts. Summer repairs, safety upgrades and repainting accompany fleet upgrades. Of 136 mixed body buses, 89 have been replaced. 847 of 1,072 were all steel last year, leaving 121 older buses after replacements.
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Power
Department of Education
Axis Powers Guarantee New Romanian Frontier
Berlin reports that Germany and Italy have guaranteed Romania's new frontiers, extending protection to borders with Russia. The pact signals aid to Romania against potential Hungarian or Bulgarian attempts to expand. The DNB notes special arrangements with Hungary and Romania to safeguard German communities in both nations.
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Berlin
Germany
Italy
Rumania
DNR
Russia
DNB
Hungary
Farley bids farewell as possible successor named
James A. Farley said goodbye to old friends in Washington while remaining tight lipped on his successor as postmaster general. His resignation from the cabinet becomes effective tomorrow and President Roosevelt indicated a pick would come within days. Democratic senators speculated New York lawyer Frank C. Walker might take the post if he agreed.
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Washington
James A. Farley
National Capital
Farley
Prank C. Walker
New York
Democratic National Committee
Post Office
Roosevelt
Walker
Annual Tomato Festival Opens In Berkeley Springs
In Berkeley Springs Morgan county prepares for the fourth annual tomato festival as Harley C. Michael is named the festival king. Virginia Orton of Concord College heads to Washington to present a basket of Morgan County tomatoes to Acting Secretary Grover Hill at a luncheon marking the opening.
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Berkeley Springs
Morgan County
Harley C. Michael
Court of
Virginia Orton
Concord College
Miss Orton
Grover Hill
Washington
Russian Navy Begins Open Sea Maneuvers
The Red Fleet announced that the Russian navy has started maneuvers in open sea with submarine flotillas scouting theoretical enemy bases. The exercise aims to allow surface fleets to operate at sea for mock battle as the Red Army conducts maneuvers in western Russia.
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Moscow
Red Fleet
FDR Praises Wallace Nomination During August Address
President Roosevelt hailed Henry A. Wallace for his acceptance speech as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. From Hyde Park, Aug 30, the president and Mrs. Roosevelt listened with son Franklin Jr. as Wallace delivered a formal nominating address and declared his running mate status.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin, Jr
Wallace
Four More New Infantile Paralysis Cases Listed
Four new infantile paralysis cases were reported in West Virginia on August 30. Three occurred in McDowell county and one in Huntington. Health officials ordered theatres churches and public gatherings to bar children under sixteen. The Kanawha county library closed its children's department until September 23, the school opening date. In McDowell county the Gary district accounted for all four new cases, raising July August totals to fourteen.
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Charleston
McDowell County
Huntington
Herbert Wise
Kanawha
West Virginia
J. A. Bennett
Gary
Appeasement issue dominates Wallace speech in Des Moines
In Des Moines Aug 30 Henry A Wallace Democratic VP nominee warned that a Republican victory would force the United States into repeated economic concessions to totalitarian powers. He said appeasers control the GOP through political and financial support. The crowd size was about 7,000. Continued on page five.
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Des Moines
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Wallace
GOP
Scarlett O Hara Weds Popular English Star
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh tied the knot at San Ysidro ranch in Montecito near Santa Barbara. Actress Katherine Hepburn and Garson Kanin served as attendants, with Municipal Judge Fred Harsh presiding. Witnesses included A C Weingand and County Clerk Jack Lewis.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Laurence Oliver
Vivien Leigh
Katherine Hepburn
Garson Kanin
Fred Harsh
San Ysidro Ranch
Montecito
A. C. Weingand
Jack Lewis
Plan Nurses Addition At Pinecrest Sanitarium
CHARLESTON August. Eda Contract for the construction of a nurses addition at Pinecrest sanitarium near Beckley will be awarded to J O Freeman of Beckley on his low bid of $66 104 79, President Walter R Thurmond of the board of control announced. At the same time the board set September 20 for the opening of bids on the proposed 750 000 Mineral Industries building at West Virginia university.
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Charleston
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley
J. O. Freeman
Walter R. Thurmond
Board of Control
Mineral Industries
West Virginia University
Transylvania Cedes Most of Territory to Hungary
In Vienna and Berlin today the long Transylvania dispute between Hungary and Romania neared closure via German Italian arbitration. Hungary gains about 19,300 of Transylvania’s 35,000 square miles as negotiations in Belvedere Palace began to end the Balkan stalemate. Leaders present included Von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, Kail Manoilescu, Count Pal Teleky, and István Csáky.
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Vienna
Rumant
Transylvania
Hungary
Germany
Italy
Belvedere Palace
Joachim’ ‘von Ribbentrop
Galeazea Clano
von Ribbentrop
Rumania
Ribbentrop
Kail Manoilescu
Uier
Pal Teleky
Ist van Csaky
von Ribbent
Balkans
Berlin
Soviet Army Opens Drills Near Western District
The Soviet Russian Army began maneuvers in the western special military district near Moscow as officials seek a prompt reply to protests to Romania. Red Army troops trained offensive tactics under Marshal Semenov observation, with artillery smoke screens and engineers building bridges, amid border tensions and reports of clashes.
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Moscow
Romania
Red Army
Semen
Pagit
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Mia
Wester
FDR
Scarlett O’hara
Carol
Opera House
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