House Defers Draft For 60 Days In Wartime Bill
Washington reports the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill passed by the House with a 200 to 200 vote deferring the actual draft for 60 days to test voluntary enlistment. The measure sets 21 to 44 as draft registration ages, with Senate limits at 21 to 30 inclusive, and aims to recruit 400,000 volunteers in 60 days, with conscription possible to reach that target. A plan to conscript if enlistments fall short shapes the path back to Senate and final agreement. The House also endorsed an amendment empowering the President to conscript industry to compel production for defense orders if private or foreign contracts delay defense material.
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London Under Massive Daylight Bomb Raid by German Air Force
German air forces bomb London in their largest daylight raid of the war, with Heinkels Junkers and Messerschmitts dropping two ton bombs. British losses include downed planes and fires at docks, gas works, and storage facilities. Berlin also hit. German claims say 500 planes participated, and British defenses were overwhelmed.
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Iron Guardists Attack Carol Lupescu Train in Yugoslavia Chase
Iron Guardists armed with revolvers and dynamite attacked former King Carol's special train crossing into Yugoslavia near Timisoara. They sought Magda Lupescu, fired on the train, wounded the fireman, and pursued toward Jimbolia before soldiers halted the group. In Bucharest General Antonescu urged national prayer and blamed former leaders. Romania ceded Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria as Carol fled toward Switzerland.
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London air raid ends after eight hours eight minutes
The all clear signal in London marked the end of the longest air raid alarm of the war, sounding at 4 50 am local time on Saturday after an eight hour and eighteen minute alert.
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Arrests of French Leaders in War Blame Trials
The three top postwar French leaders Maurice Gamelin Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud were arrested today in the war blame cases and detained at Chateau Ghaserin near Chatel Guyon.
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U. S. Pursues Tax Break in Proposed Corporate Levy
Senate Finance Committee voted to exempt corporate earnings up to eight percent of invested capital from the proposed excise profits tax. In Hazard Kentucky, a Holiness church group from nearby Duane faced fines after pleading guilty to violating a late anti snake handling law. three children aged 14 months to four years were present during the event.
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State Bar examiners release new passing list
Memphis area release shows Bristol Carl White Leslie and Johnson City EB Washburn among those who passed the state bar examination. Broader list names additional examinees released today by Secretary of State Strate A. Broadbent, chairman of the state board of law examiners.
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No State Payment Doubts Over Tennessee Ad Funding
Nashville Governor Cooper stated the state did not pay for an advertisement in the Tennessee yearbook. He suspected the ad was funded by private individuals or a business firm rather than state funds.
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Place Your Picture In My Casket Mills
Traffic Officer John Mills urged his sweetheart Beatrice Henley to place her picture and gifts in his casket if he should die. Beatrice, aged 17, promised to comply as tears filled the Hamilett Dobson funeral parlors on Charlemont Street.
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John E Mills Ambushed and Killed by Ambush
John Elisha Mills a 30 year old Kingsport Police Department member was ambushed while searching a thicket for two suspicious men and fatally shot. A massive manhunt followed for brothers Eugene and Wayland McCracken fugitives from Bristol jail. Mills was born in 1910 and joined the force in 1934. the shooting prompted citywide alarms and a call for National Guardsmen.
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