Roosevelts destroyer deal splits Republican ranks
Washington reports Republican readers clash over President Roosevelts exchange of 50 World War destroyers for naval and air bases in British possessions. Samuel F Pryor Jr denounces it as dictatorship while Senator Austin praises strategic outposts to protect the Atlantic. Continued on Page 2.
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Samuel F. Pryor, Jr
Wendell Willkie
New York
Austin
Vermont
Senate
Taking Up Arms To Win Offices In Mexico
El Paso Texas Sept 4 General Manuel Enriquez Commandant at Juarez says two Mexican army lieutenants a colonel and three rebels were killed in a Chirango State Mexico City skirmish. Followers of General Anfrey Almazan an anti administration presidential candidate issued a manifesto calling to arms amid reports of fighting in Durango. The minister of national defense says all is quiet in Durango. A 2600 word statement from alleged Almazan electors vows to use all lawful means to secure the country’s decisive hope. They blame retiring President Lazaro Cardenas and the government for persecution of Almazan followers during the campaign. More than 12 000 political assassinations alleged.
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Burglar Takes $1000 Payroll From Rimini Camp
Thieves rifled a locked box at Rimini Camp Tuesday evening stealing about 41,033 in currency kept for payrolls of workers fighting forest fires. The camp office reported the break shortly after 6 p.m. and investigators began work. Officials could not yet comment on. incident until a full investigation was completed.
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Five Die in Constanta Riots Reported by BBC
British Broadcasting Company broadcasts picked up by CRA report five killed and 79 wounded in riots at Constanta Romania on the Black Sea port. The report notes a heavy mob action and chaos as police efforts failed to restore order.
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Arronte
Hostages Freed as Desperadoes Surrender in Field
In Columbia Louisiana three Arkansas convicts surrendered after freeing two girls and a boy held for nearly 48 hours. Aimed demands for safe passage were dropped as a 3,000 strong posse watched the scene. One girl was sent to officers with the deadline threat.
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First of destroyers depart Britain for Canada
Fealon Sept 4 Three over age destroyers bound for Great Britain sail from Boston harbor apparently headed to a Canadian port. Navy officials expect no sail before Friday as ships are hurriedly painted and repaired. Activity resembles World War II buildup with several ships in yards and tugs shuttling between the yard and Boston wharves.
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Commodities valued at 1.14 million distributed by federal surplus
Federal Surplus Commodities distribution reported for the year ending June 30 1940. Clothing and foodstuffs totaled 1 138 208 with 739 734 42 in foodstuffs and 361 088 26 in clothing plus mattresses and miscellaneous items. Major foodstuffs include butter milk eggs cereals flour sugar and fruit with pounds listed.
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Surplua Commodities Corporation
C. H. Hull
Hull
Graham
I. M. Braodford
Punishment Made To Fit Crime and Results Amazing
Philadelphia judge Harry McDevitt sentences two Black defendants for stealing a gun from a vending machine. Each is given a unique punishment of chewing two sticks and confinement at home. One receives seven years in prison and the other three years, while the officer narrates the incident.
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Hull Against Japanese Move in French Indo China
Secretary of State Hull urged Japan to stay out of French Indo China as tensions rose over potential Japanese passage for an attack on south China. He warned that recent statements about respecting the status quo in the Pacific were being tested and that the United States viewed the crisis with high concern.
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British Sink Nazi Vessel 4000 Lost in Kattegat Torpedo
Stockholm dispatch reports about 4000 German troops aboard the transport Marion of Hamburg sunk in a Kattegat torpedo strike. The vessel, attacked Monday night, was hastily identified by Swedish observers near Goteborg. Details say two armed trawlers and a destroyer accompanied the ship.
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Famous Nazi Spa Bombed by RAF Reported Hit on Kishingen
A German wireless broadcast says British planes bombed the spa at Kishingen early today, setting a fire in an apartment and injuring several people. The report, read via radio, notes the attack on the well known resort and claims multiple damages.
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Scions Come to Blows on House Floor in Draft Debate
Washington dispatch reports a heated draft bill debate on the House floor ended in a fistfight between Representatives Vincent and Sweeney. The pair exchanged blows as colleagues intervened. later apologies followed and both gave their accounts to the chamber. Sweeney asserted a long career in Congress since 1931 and described tonight's clash as unprecedented in his experience.
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Heaviest Barrage of Fire Yet to Be Heard in London
London reports a night air raid by German planes met with the heaviest anti aircraft response yet. The barrage lasted an hour and a half with around five hundred searchlights and heavy guns firing at a high rate. At least two planes were believed shot down southeast of London amid parachute flares and heavy defences.
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Hitler vows to erase cities as war chaos broadens
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler, amid a grim winter ahead, pledges city erasure and retaliation against Allied raids. Churchill addresses New Zealand troops in England, saying Britain bears the burden of the enemy’s malice yet feels undaunted as the war escalates.
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Donovan to Join Navy for Hawaii Fleet Maneuvers
Colonel William J. Donovan traveling from Billings toward San Francisco to link with Secretary Knox for an army air flight to Hawaii for fleet maneuvers. He refused to discuss a fifth column in America, praising defense coverage in his and Magor Mowrer’s articles. Donovan and Haus Crever represented Mrs. Helen Huntington Astor in a divorce proceeding from Vincent Antur, details undisclosed.
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Russia calls up boys for service amid imperial war fears
Moscow reports the soviet union calling youths ages 18 to 20 for duty beginning mid September to guard the nation at Minits of "Imperialist war and Neapttallet aneirclament." Older women whose compulsory training paused and were called.
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Carol Yields Most Powers as Romania Names Antonescu Premier
In Bucharest King Carol relinquished most royal powers to General Ion Antonescu after an all night conference. Antonescu becomes premier with supreme authority to rule Romania while Carol retains only ceremonies, police commutations, and foreign negotiations. The move follows the axis settlement and Antonescu’s demand to ban Magda Lupescu from the country.
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Survivors Brought to U S After Torpedoed Ship
Baltimore on Sept 4 reports 37 survivors of a torpedoed steamship aboard the Swedish freighter Eknuran. Capt John H Taylor says seven were injured. Details and ship name were censored. ambulances ferried the men to hospital as officials tightened information release.
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British Night Raiders Bomb Berlin in Second Straight Raid
British night bombers struck Berlin for the second night running killing a policeman in Tiergarten Park and another person in a southeast Berlin town. German reports say Luftwaffe and chasers broke up the attack, with some bombs hitting two apartment houses and a warehouse while most fell on open areas. Berliners sheltered for hours as air raid alarms sounded.
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