Britain Battles Nazi Air Raid Over Firth of Forth
Early week sees Edin burgh residents fish from small boats amid bomb debris from the first raid to reach British shores. Nazi bombers struck Rosyth and the Firth of Forth bridge. British and German reports conflict on casualties and damage.
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Firth of Forth
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Berlin
Southampton
Scapa Flow
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Reich
England
Chamberlain
Hitler
Diplomats meet in Stockholm on neutrality pledge
Four elder statesmen led by King Gustav V gather at Stockholm palace to back neutrality amid new Moscow Finland talks. Roosevelt and Kali nin exchange signals as Turkey, Britain, and Germany shift stance and war pressures ripple through Balkans and Dardanelles.
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Denmark
Christian X
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Haakon VII
Finland
Kyosti Kallio
Roosevelt
Istanbul
Poland
Balkans
Rumania
Russia
Dardanelles
Turkey
Britain
France
Mediterranean
New Deal Era Labor and Crime Debates At Home And in Industry
The piece covers health care access for middle income Americans and a push for more surgeons, plus a major crime cost and calls for better correctional staffing. It reports wage hour law enforcement results and a high stake Chrysler labor dispute with UAW demands and plant closings as a potential nationwide strike looms.
1940 Auto Show Trends and Newark Airport Debate
The 1940 auto models promise longer roomier cars with sealed beam lights and fluid drive while GM projects a $70 billion 1940 US income and 3.8 million vehicle output. Newark protests delay a $40 million WPA airport project as LaGuardia dedicates the 558 acre terminal. Congress faces deadlines on un American activity probes with added time and funds deemed necessary for leads. Safety officials note more drunken pedestrians than drivers among fatalities.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
National Safety Congress
Atlantic City
Refugees and Revision Wars Shape Global Settlement Efforts
At the White House and State Department officials from 32 nations discussed accelerating refugee placements as World War II reshapes migration. The talk covered evacuations for German Jews, Spaniards in France, and others, with Mindanao and other options considered amid new restrictions and looming mass displacements.
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France
Spain
Britain
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Germany
Poland
Russia
White House
State Department
Philippine
Mindanao
Royal Oak Sunk by German U-Boat in Arctic Waters
Britain loses the 29 150 ton Royal Oak after a minefield breach near Scapa Flow. Churchill calls it a remarkable exploit and Germany touts a new super-explosive threat. U-boat claims include sinking Repulse and other Allied ships. Allied losses total 79 vessels. Roosevelt bars bellicose submarines from U.S. ports.
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Scapa Ow
Kney Islands
Scotland
Insten Churchill
Rmany
Gegen
Royal Oak
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Churchill
France
Roosevelt
U. S
War Talk Voices From Allied and European Leaders
Lord Gort warns that man remains master of the machine and the best men will win. Eduard Benes argues for a United States of Europe as the final solution to save Europe from collapse. Anton de Haas predicts Russia’s philosophy could fuel chaos in Germany unless the Allies act soon to prevent a greater problem.
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Lord Gort
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
United States of Europe
Europe
Anton de Haas
Harvard
Russia
Germany
Short Short Stories Drowned and Other 1930s Headlines
A collage of brief items notes a Yangtze boat tragedy 450 Chinese dead, Sally Rand bankruptcy filing, a failed telecast from 20 000 feet, 140 Hungarian Nazis accused, Bulgaria’s Premier resigning, Kansas City wins a safety award, Norman W. Kruse named Star Farmer of America, several notable deaths, Swarthmore president chosen to head Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, a major aqueduct project, Amoy crisis ends, a fatal trial appeal denied, Warren K. Billings freed in California, and indictments of ex Governor Lewhe and Mayor Maverick in separate cases.
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Bulgaria
George Kiosselvanoff
Kansas City
National Safety Council
California
Amoy
China
Weeklong events and historic milestones listed for late October
National Pharmacy Week begins on Sunday October 22. On Monday October 23 the Better Parenthood Week continues and the National Academy of Sciences convenes in Providence Rhode Island. October 24 marks the 10th anniversary of the Black Thursday stock market crash and new federal wage hour standards take effect. Thursday October 26 features a president’s address in New York and Belgium’s King Leopold III addresses the U S by radio. Friday October 27 is Navy Day and marks Theodore Roosevelt’s 1st birthday as hearings begin on a proposed U S Chile reciprocal trade agreement in Washington. Saturday October 28 notes the 17th anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome and the 21st anniversary of the birth of Czechoslovakia with Pope Pius XII set to publish his first encyclical.
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R. I
New York
Belgium
King Leopold
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Theodore Roosevelt
Rome
Czechoslovakia
Pius XII
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