Nashville Scrap-Ch Bobcats Lose 46 to 7 at Homecoming
Nashville Hope Scrap-Ch led by Shaddox and Huddleston defeated Hope Bobcats 46 to 7 at Scrapper Field in front of a large crowd. The game featured multiple long drives and a late Nashville score as the home team dominated the visitors.
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Charles Ferguson
Nashville News
Nashville
Ark
Turing
Gleven
Hope Bobcats
Scrapper Field
McCullough
Smatch
Ted Geore
Éanford
Hope
Scrappers
Wepfer
Wipfer
Noble
Shaddox
Ackles
Phinge
Shandox
A & Yard
Co-operation By The President's Secret Tour
The two week presidential tour was kept secret as newspapers and radio deferred to the President. Critics note wartime censorship went beyond prior limits, suppressing itinerary details and even basic reports of his speeches to avoid aiding enemies.
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Roosevelt
House to Act on Lowering Draft Age Today
The House refused to allow amendments to lower the draft age for men 18 and 19 and to bar teenage troops from foreign combat until they are trained for a year. The body adopted a rule limiting floor amendments, and with Marshal’s letter backing the plan, expected passage grew for a bill to raise the selective service lower age to 20.
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House
Washington
Alex Singleton
George C. Marshall
Army Chief of Staff
Wadsworth
Marshall
Congress
War Department
Marhall
Military Committee
Army
Roosevelt
May
Senate
Reds Setback at Stalingrad Deepens Siege Pressure
Soviet dispatches describe four German advances around Stalingrad as Red Army units withdraw from an industrial district. Berlin broadcasts claim German forces cut off Red Army troops northwest of the city while fighting rages near the Volga and in the Caucasus, with heavy losses reported on both sides.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Volga
Berlin
Stalinrad
Izvestia
Red Star
Soviet Information Bureau
Novorossisk
Yeserday
Central Caucasus
Mozdok
Markin
Grozny
North Caucasus
Hird
Aly -Aoree
Anf
Caucasus
Black Sea
Terek
Kalinin
Satlingrad
Dzerzhinsky
Red October
Spartakowka
Flashes of Life by the Associated Press
A playful column variety item recounts short vignettes from across the country. Items include WHAMS proposed by Dr. H Hughes Wagner, a meth odist pastor noting homemaker contributions to the war, a sheriff’s time-saving horseback journey in Colorado, a Los Angeles motorcycle mishap, a Kansas City drug store encounter with a burglar, and a Chicago armistice story involving Mr and Mrs Tourkildsen with a potential divorce suit.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
WHAMS
H. Hughes Wagner
Kansas City
John Mike Brulda
J. H. Fritts
Fritts
Brulja
Adolph Tourkildsen
Torkildsen
Joseph Sabath
Errol Flynn Denies Attack on Young Girl
Los Angeles reports state film star Errol Flynn denied a rape charge involving a 17 year old party guest at a Bel Air home. The complaint, urged by DA John F Dockweiler, alleges Flynn raped Betty Hansen of Lincoln Nebraska on September 27. Flynn, aged 34, was released on $1000 bail and has prior marriage to Lily Damita. He maintained he did not harm the girl.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
John F. Dockweiler
Flynn
Betty Hansen
Lincoln
Neb
Bel Air
Fred McEvoy
Dorothy Pulis
Lily Damita
Japs Withdraw Under Pressure in New Guinea Mountains
Allied mountain troops pushed the Japanese back a short distance in the Owen Stanley range near Templeton’s crossing as fighting intensifies. Japanese machinegunners and snipers slow Allied progress through forested terrain while new air raids target Buin in the Solomons, with results not observed.
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MacArthur
Australia
Owen Stanley
New Guinea
Templeton
Mambare
Buna
Washington flood kills and displaces thousands
In the worst flood in Washington history, fatalities, wrecked homes, and stranded communities spread across Maryland Virginia and West Virginia. President Roosevelt tours the danger zone as Red Cross mobilizes, while towns like Front Royal Win t Chester and Fredericksburg face isolation and outages. Authorities fear broader losses as water recedes slowly.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Potomac River
Red Cross
Tri-State
Front Royal
Winchester
Culpepper
Rappahannock
Fredericksburg
Citieens
Mary Washington Hospital
Roosevelt
Shenandoah Valley
Potomac
Army
Navy
Point of Rocks
Shenandoah
John BE. Buell
Bethesda
Mds
Joseph Lamp
Power Company
Fineman
Joseph S. Beatin
Elizabeth
Baltimore
Laval's Order Sparks Fatal Attacks Across France
London dispatch cites Pierre Laval's forces killing forty French at Lyon and fifteen at Amberieu with 200 wounded at each, as crowds protest shipment of French workers to Germany. Disturbances reported in Marseille Toulouse Tarbes and other cities amid resistance to forced labor for Hitler. The Times says Vichy mobile guards police and legion stormtroopers used rifle and grenade fire. Gestapo officials sent to Lyon.
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London
Pierre Laval
Legion
137 Crown As Sub Sinks Ship Off Canada
Sydney Nova Scotia Oct 17 An enemy submarine torpedoed and sank the 2200 ton Newfoundland steamer Caribou with 137 deaths among passengers and crew on an overnight run from North Sydney to Port Aux Basques. Among victims were 13 Americans and 95 Canadian service members plus civilians. Only one of 15 children survived. Several bodies recovered, including Captain Ben Taverner and two ship officers. Survivors described lifeboats torn by the blast as passengers fled in night clothes. The Caribou, two hours from port, sank after attempting to reach the submarine.
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Scrappers
Bobcats
Nashville
Hope
Shaddox
Noble
Nashie
Hay Ramsey
Huddleston
Cats
Wepfer
Scrapers
Stanford
Wepler
Sydney
N.S
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Newfoundland
Caribou
North Sydney
N. S
Port Aux Basques
U. S
Leonard Shiers
Halifax
Cabot Stright
Thomas P. Fleming
Ben Taverner
Channel
Downey
Harold
William H. Gerth
Camden
N. J
James Flynn
New Haven
Conn
Lewis Gagne
Woonsocket
John Sheppard
Rueburn
N. Y
Charles Berry
Mount Vernon
Taverner
George Smothers
Toledo
Navy Cook
Smothers
Gladys Shiers
Leonard
St. John's
Limer Shiers
Treasury, WLB to Control U.S. Paychecks
Washington reports the Treasury and the War Labor Board will jointly control the size of American paychecks. James Byrnes announced at the Economic Stabilization Board meeting that the five agencies will share authority, with Agriculture handling farm wages and proposals for machinery. The War Labor Board will cover salaries under 3000 and those up to 5000 under wage agreements. President …
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Washington
Treasury
War Labor Board
America
James V. Byrnes
New Economic Stabilizatoin Board
Wickard
Agriculture Department
Naval battles loom in Solomon Islands clash
War Editor Roger D. Greene reports Washington foresees a major sea clash between United States and Japanese fleets off Guadalcanal as Army and Marine forces fight stubborn ground battles in the jungles of the island. Navy notes a large enemy fleet concentration near Shortland Island with torpedo craft probing. MacArthur says Allied units push Japanese back in Owen Stanley ranges and bomb Buin while plans hint at possible North Africa counter moves.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Washington
Naval Quarters
Toda
United States
Solomon ‘Island
Guadalcanal
Knox
H E
Coral Sea
Shortland Island
Pacific
Aleutian Islands
MacArthur
Buin
Bi Age
United Trons
North Africa
New India
Archibald P. Wavi
India
Burma
Local Pastor J E Hamill Elected Southwest Presbyter
The Rev J E Hamill pastor of Hope Gospel Tabernacle was elected Southwest Arkansas-Sectional Presbyter at the nineteenth annual Arkansas Assemblies of God council held in Russellville He will oversee more than a dozen churches from the Oklahoma line to El Dorado and from Malvern to Texarkana Next year’s district officers were re elected including David Bur as superintendent T J Gore and Robert Sellers Other officers include Mrs J Hamill director of the Women’s Missionary Council for the Southwest section The 1930s council was noted as the largest attendance with about 1300 minister delegates and visitors present
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J. E. Hamill
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Russellville
Hamill
Arkansas Assemblies of God
S. A. Mays
Tabernacle
Southwest Tkansas
Oklayhome
el Dorado
Alvern
Texarkana
Malverd
Assembly of God
David Bur
T. J. Gore
North
Little Rock
Supe
Robertc. Sellers
Hot Springs
J. Hamill
Women’s Missionary Council
Southwest
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Railway Express Office
Little Rock ‘Wanch
St Louis
Haye
FWD
Jeffries Motor Company
Nash Com
Pennsylvania
New York
S. Burton Heath
Iself
Europe
Gunnison
Colo
H. G. Lashbrook
Lashbrook
Schofield Pass
Owen W. Nolsen
Hhin
Plynn
Laval
Canada
WLB
U.S
Department of Agriculture
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