Ship Raids Rock British Isles as German Air Offensive
German air raiders pounded English convoys and coastal cities in day-long attacks involving hundreds of planes. Britain reported ships sunk and fighters shot down, while observers speculated on a possible invasion timing and mass raids to disrupt emergency troop movements. Government leaflets urged Britons to seek shelter and stay put as the RAF retaliated and Italian actions in Africa complicated the war outlook.
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Britain
English Channel
London
Africa
Royal Air Force
Ion Gigurtu
Romania
Adolf Hitler
Bulgaria
Hungary
Transylvania
Ttalians
Cairo
Egypt
Far East
Shanghai
Nea Hich Command
State Bankers Plan Meeting in Knoxville
State Bankers Association and the State Banking Department will hold a conference at the University of Tennessee. Officials and bankers will discuss advanced banking operations amid new problems arising from ring conditions. Local guards rallied to prepare but forgot the plan.
Mystery airattack puzzles officials over Nashville flight
Nashville officials and investigators questioned stewardess Griffith after a midair assault aboard a transcontinental night flight. A key to the luggage compartment vanished as officers and inspectors in Fort Worth and Memphis questioned crew and passengers, while the stewardess recounted a whispered threat and a blow that left her unconscious in the rear lounge.
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Nashville
Tern
S. Roasemary Griffith
C. E. Tson
Fort Worth
Texas
Civil Aeronautica Authority
R. H. Dennis
American Airlines
Paul Stanley
Roy Mitchell
Bristol
Tenn
Griffith
Enere
Alan
Yhoman Cotton
Los Angeles
Mitchell
Memphis
James Stroud
Stanley
Cotton
Steels Lead Market Gains In Early Trading Session
New York markets recovered from late lull as steels led advances with gains over a point, motors followed, and overall activity broadened before slowing. Traders cited an oversold feel, while fears over European-African developments and tax politics weighed on sentiment. Prominent movers included U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler and Allied Chemical.
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New York
Leasl
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
Chrysler
Allis Chaljteurs
North American
Pennsylvania
Santa Fe
Kennecott
Ameryificant Telephone
Seals Rowack
Sannin Kodak
Allied Chemial
Roosevelt Says Odds Favor Guard Staying In U S
President Roosevelt told a press conference the betting odds were 100 to 1 that the national guard would remain inside the United States and possessions in peace time. He noted the amendment would allow service in possessions and the Philippines, and recalled the punitive expedition into Mexico. He and Secretary Wallace discussed accepting the Democratic nomination in Des Moines on August 20.
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Clyde Park
Roosevelt
United States
Senate
Philippine Islands
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Wallace
Des Moines
Lilienthal Sees TVA as Ruhr of America
Director Da na Lilienthal continued inspection of national defense industries predicting the Tennessee Valley Authority could become the Ruhr of America. He praised cooperation from civic and industrial leaders in Mashville Jackson and Memphis and discussed joining Memphis resources to the national defense program and toured a nearby powder plant with plans for a plane trip to Gilbertsville Kentucky.
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Amlamphis
TVA
Lilenther
Tennessee Valley
Amerca
TWA
Mashville
Jackson
Memphis
Tilienthal
Mememphis
Gilbertsville
Kentucky
Lilienthal
Morgenthau calls for added defense tax to fund war needs
Secretary Morgenthau urged Congress to enact an excess profits tax to finance expanded defense spending. He warned the current deficit and debt limits threaten wartime needs, and proposed quick tax measures, faster depreciation rules, and modifications to the Vinson Trammell act to speed defense production.
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Washington
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Meant
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Budget Bulveatt
Healso
Oreons
Treasury Department
Stimson
Lewis Compton
Congressional
Anmy
Chichy
Astrplane
Compton
Navy
War Increases British Buying in United States Exports
New York reports Britain and Canadian markets now take about half of U S exports due to wartime purchases and Europe shipping blockades. Analysts note halted war orders total around 2 billion dollars with less than half shipped so far as UK demand strains American industry and rails steel needs.
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New York
United States
Europe
England
Canada
Hingland
British Isles
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Cocky Burgunder Dies in Arizona Gas Chamber
Florence, Ariz. AP report of Robert Burgunder, 23, former college prator, dying in the Arizona state death chamber at dawn after a confessed double murder. He confessed to roommates and journalists, claiming a mysterious accomplice. his last hours included writing to Chief Justice Henry D. Ross about “substantial justice” in murder trials.
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Florence
Ariz
Robert Burgunder
Arizona Penitentiary
Burgunder
Tadil
Pra
Ltor
E. B. Peterson
Ellis M. Koury
Here
Johnny Swearingen
Death Row
Swearingen
Arizons
Johnson City
Fenn
Jack Teterson
Koury
Swear Ingen
Peterson
Kaury
Hank
Cudahy Rebuked by State Department Over Belgium Interview
Ambassador Cudahy, envoy to Belgium, was publicly reprimanded by Sumner Welles for an interview in London. He was told to return to the United States immediately for consultation as his remarks were against standing State Department rules. The British press criticized his comments on famine and the German occupation.
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Washington
John Cudahy
Aierlgan
Belgium
State Department
London
Sumner Welles
Cudahy
Roosevelt
United States
Department of State
Silmson
War Department
Army
Defense Advisory Commission
Defense
Stimson
Woeless
Worl
Knudsen
Enerds Stimson
Toa
Manes
Tam
Advisory Commission
Italians Press Advance On Berbera Port Africa War
Italian forces push toward Berbera the main port of British Somaliland while British claim a major air battle in Libya. Italian columns seized Hergeisa and Cadweina and move north toward the coast to gain access to the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. British losses include two planes though they claim air superiority with 35 Italians downed.
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Cairo
Egypt
Berbera
Libya
Hergeisa
Sidi Omer
Gulf of Aden
Indian Ocean
British Somaliland
Berhora
Protectorate
Plenty of Hangovers Here Raid on Long Island Home
Kingsport area officers raided the Long Island home of Carl Zelig Cleele Thursday night striking gallons of moonshine. The hour was one of the largest busts this year as Eck was arraigned on a liquor possession charge and released under 250 dollars bond awaiting a preliminary hearing Monday. Deputies Tom Stil Brad Morelock Constables M H Witt J E Upchurch John Myers and State Patrolman Frank Whbann conducted the raid. Witt is pictured with liquor at police headquarters alongside Patrof tan John D Parker Joe Churchwell and Rob Morecloch.
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Linal
Carl (Zelig Cleele
Long Island
Kingsport
Eck
Tom Stil
Brad Morelock
M. H. Witt
3. E. Upchurch
John Myers
Defense experts warn Nazi control of vital industries not espionage
Thurman Arnold described a wartime economic fifth column in which German influence allegedly controls patents key to U S war industries. He stressed the influence stems from normal business trends, not espionage, amid grand jury probes into production bottlenecks and price fixing.
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New York
Thurman Arnold
United States
Arnold
Washington
Sambel
Isseks
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Chicago
St. Louis
National Defense Board
Senate debates Burke-Wreisworth draft bill with tragic need
Washington AP bulletin notes Sen. Shep pard of Texas argues opening arguments that compulsory military service is a tragic necessity as emergency defense preparations cannot be sped by voluntary enlistments.
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Washington
Sen
Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Windsors to Visit the United States
The Duke of Windsor said he and his American-born companions would visit the United States soon. The remarks came via AP sending a note that the royal party plans a trip across the Atlantic, signaling a future engagement with American audiences.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Duke of Windsor
United States
Embassy In Danger Chongking Bombed By Japanese Warplanes
A Chinese city on the Yangtze faced its worst bombing as 64 Japanese warplanes attacked Chongking in two waves near the U S embassy on the south bank. The strikes damaged several facilities and sparked large fires during the today’s raid.
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Chongking
United States
Yangtze River
Chungking
Roosevelt says Wallace to accept Democratic VP nomination
President Roosevelt announced that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace will accept the Democratic vice presidential nomination at Des Moines Iowa on August 29.
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Hyde Park
N. J
Roosevelt
Agriculture
Wallace
Des Moines
Iowa
British Troops To Leave China Recall Ordered
Britain orders recall of two to three thousand troops from Shanghai Peiping and Tientsin due to dangers at home and in the empire. The move comes amid Oriental appeasement efforts and reports say Japan requested withdrawal.
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United Press
Great Britain
China
Britain
Japan
Shanghai
Peiping
Tientain
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State Bankers Plan Meeting
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Preparigl
Rosemary Griffith
Orno
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U.S
Ruhr
Bobby Burgunder
Vital. S.defense
Bulletins
Windsors
U. S
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