British Woman's Letter Reveals Calm Courage Of Island Under Bombings
A letter from Mrs. Albert Hart in Portslade near Brighton describes daily civil defense during sustained naval air raids. She notes children playing outside, nightly blackouts, radio interference from planes, and families enduring raids with quiet endurance while London suffers the worst air attacks.
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England
E. J. Triobe
Waterea Street
Trioba
Albert Hart
Hart
Portslade
Brighton
London
Royal Air Force
Collier Jury Deadlocked in Murder Case at Blountville
A Sullivan County jury failed to reach a verdict in the first degree murder case of Collier of Bristol. Judge Ferguson instructed a retrial after the jury reported being hopelessly deadlocked. Separate trial activity continued for PF D. Jones in the Dallas Light fatal shooting at Kingsport workhouse.
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Blountville
Sullivan Break
Shelburne Ferguson
Oon
Fd Callier
Bristol
Hugone B. Brown
WPA
Fer Bruson
F. 20. Jones
Kingsport
Dallas
Collier
Brown
Helournes Ferguach
PF. D. Jones
Frnal
One Dies In Betsy Wreck Near Blainbethton Western NC
A head on collision between an automobile and a truck near Blainbethton Western North Carolina on Wednesday afternoon left one dead and several injured. Mrs Roy Clemons of Newland and Mrs McQuire of Newland were in the car and seriously hurt. Marl English of Crossmore and Will Robbins of Crossmore sustained injuries. Robbins helped English when the crash occurred. Mrs Clemons and Mrs McQuire were taken to Banner Elk hospital. Robbins and English were taken to Crossmore hospital.
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North Carnling
Blianbethton
North Carolina
Tri City Gets New Service From Dixie Air Lines
President Kenneth Franis of Dixie Air Lines announced a new Birmingham to Pittsburgh passenger route to begin by January 1. Two daily round trips will stop at Chattanooga Knoxville Tri Cities Charleston West Virginia and Wheeling. Dixie Air Lines plans four Lodestar aircraft with over 100 seats and hopes for a certificate by December 2 to start the service.
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Dizie Air Lines
Tri-City Airport
Birmingham
Pittsburgh
J. Fred Johnson
Tri-Cities Commission
Chattanacoge
Knoxville
Tri-Cities
Charleston
West. Va
Wheeling
Fran
Dixie Air Lines
Lockherd Co
Frank
Lockheed Company
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Franke
Bristol
Johnson City
Upper East Tennessee
Perdans
American Airlines
Mokeollar Airport
Accoss
North Central
Bombers Hit Nine French and Belgian Ports
London announces that Royal Air Force bombers struck nine ports in France and Belgium causing much damage to shipping and military stores and starting numerous fires. Washington moves to house approved defense housing funds for the coming conscript army, sending a large appropriation bill to the Senate for army post barracks and construction.
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London
Hooval Air Force
Washington
House
Senate
Banks Washington-2-Schater Glass Defends Fed Bond Purchases
Defends banks as being maneuvered into buying new federal bonds. He says banks fear not to buy, citing their early support for the Federal Reserve system.
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Washington
Schater Glass
D.a
Federal Reserve Banking System
Libya at risk after sudden naval incident in Benghazi
British naval planes attacked near Benghast on the Libyan coast causing a merchant ship to burn and reportedly sinking a destroyer. Several other vessels were damaged as the admiralty announced the incident today.
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London
Bengast
Rands
Iralian
Libya
Admiralty
FDR To Speak Washington
President Roosevelt will depart the capitol tonight for Philadelphia where he will inspect army and navy defense projects and address the public in Convention Hall tomorrow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol
Philadelphia
Army
Navy
Plane Contracts Washington War Dept signs war plane contracts
Secretary Stimson announced the War Department has signed contracts since July 1 for 18,641 war planes, using funds provided by Congress in this session.
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Washington
Stimson
War Department
Willkie Speech to Be Broadcast by NBC in Los Angeles
NBC's network will carry Willkie's Los Angeles coliseum address starting at 2 PM Pacific Time next week. The event, to be aired in Central Standard Time, underscores the wartime political coverage on the network.
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Los Angeles
NBC
Res
Willkie
Los Angeles Coliseum
First of Draft Forms Issued
Distribution of draft registration forms began today with master copies of the first four blanks speeding by air to 48 states for reproduction. The projected 64 cards, questionnaires and placards will enroll 16.5 million men from 21 through October 16 and select some for service. Printing costs reach about 1.5 million dollars. 32 million registration cards and 24 million certificates and questionnaires are planned, with state draft organizations forming ahead of presidential action. The Senate added an excess profits tax provision to enable dependents of draftees to receive allowances, to be refined later. General Marshall is to testify on funds for starting the draft as Roosevelt seeks additional cash and contracts for the program.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Senate
House
George C. Marshall
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Navy
History's Biggest Air Raid Batter London
Italy has thrown 14 Libyan divisions into the drive into Egypt and pushed back the British in a disorderly retreat. The British Mediterranean fleet bombarded Sidi Barrani and Royal Air Force planes damaged Italian forces while fires spread for miles. Egypt remains non belligerent as Cairo officials and British reports describe the clash along the Libyan Egyptian frontier.
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Rome
Italy
Egypt
Rodolfo Graziani
Mussolini
Cairo
Sidi Barrani
Hassan Sabry Pasha
Royal Air Force
Leas
Buqbuq
Begazi
Libya
North Africa
Mediterranean
Malta
Lee County Man Given 20 Years
Jonesville Virginia articles report John Houston sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to the murder of Albert McBee in a case tied to a July arson at Promston home. The court also continued Henry Duncan’s murder case, while Andy Berry received five years for sex abuse and George Willis got two years for housebreaking.
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Sutte News
Jonesville
Albert McBee
John Houston
State Penitentiary
Lee County
Houston
McBee
Bfonston
Henry Duncan
Hiram Payne
Blackwater
Bell County
Cumberland Mountain
Famed
Pinnacle
Andy Berry
George Willis
Sleeping Beauty Recovering After Car Crash In Tennessee
Miss Martha Crawford 25 of Kingsport remains unconscious at St Marys hospital Knoxville since an August auto wreck. Today she slowly regains consciousness able to talk and recognize some relatives though memory is clouded. Fractured skull brain injury, she slept for days but last week began to respond to nurse and sister-in-law Mrs Walker Crawford. If no complications arise doctors expect complete recovery.
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Martha Crawford
Knoxville Hospital
Walker Crawford
Knoxville
St. Mary's Hospital
Kingsport
Miss Crawford
Nazis Warn War May Linger Through Winter In Nazi Press
Berlin reports say British raids on northern Germany provoke fury in Nazi papers while hinting Britain’s action could extend into winter. German outlets call for unlimited bomb warfare on England and retaliatory strikes on British civilians, with threats against nonmilitary targets and press emphasis on escalating retaliation.
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Garmany
Britain
England
Bethel
Bielefeld
Prussia
Hamburg
Oldenburg
Oqsaarbrueck
Berliner Zeitung
Treacher
Winston Churchill
der Angriff
Goebbel
Nachtausgabe
Lokatanzeige
Von Ribbentrop Arrives In Rome
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Rome by armored train for crucial Axis talks with Mussolini and Count Ciano on future policy. Spanish envoy among greeters as Franco's connections figure in conferences. invasion scenarios and Mediterranean theater prospects loom for the coming winter.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Mussolini
Galeazzo Cisno
Axis
Count Ciano
London
Carrabee
Ribbentrop
Berlin
Ramon
Britain
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Suez
British Isles
London Bomb Night Attacks Peak in Wartime Onslaught
London endures a 13th straight day of devastating raids as German bombers strike across the metropolis and beyond. Incendiaries, fire bombs, and heavy explosives ignite fires, collapse buildings, and kill and injure hundreds while residents seek deep shelters for a brutal winter ahead.
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Lord Croft
Estate For War
Chelaea Royst Hospital
Thames
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Westminster Bridge
Houses of Parliament
English Channel
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England
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Sussex
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Merseyside
Peter Robinson Department
Oxford Circus
British Museum
Wallace Art Collection
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Public Recorde Office
Oxford
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West End
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Wnlh
Germany
Luftwaffe
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Sure Nee
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