Draft Law May Put Married Men In Army
Washington reports a draft bill section that may conscript some married men despite an administration pledge to exempt all. Legal wording leaves a wife technically independent, prompting concern among propagating plans and the vast manpower task ahead. Administrators project about 1.62 million monthly registrations nationwide with 6,500 local boards needing clerical help as the selective service gears up for compulsory service.
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Tax Bill Faces Difficult Path in Congress
Senate and House leaders clash over a sweeping tax bill that would raise individual and corporate taxes while extending war finance aims. The measure, dramatically altered in the Senate, calls for a flat rise in corporate rates and expanded excess profits levies, with final adjournment hoped by next week.
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Virginia Tenn Offer 642000 In Army Draft
Virginia Tennessee offers 642000 eligible for the draft as registration nears on October 16. Census-based figures determine quotas by state with North Carolina at 330000 and West Virginia at 22800, shaping nationwide conscription projections.
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Free Elections Stop Dictators Say FDR Declares
President Roosevelt argued that free elections ensure enduring safety of government and warned that if the few elites seize power they threaten democracy. He cited past dictatorial attempts and urged Americans to defend the vote against any move to curb it.
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Willkie Urges Air Industry Development
Wendell Willkie urged rapid peacetime aviation expansion as a major U.S. industry. Speaking in Bakersfield before 70,000 supporters, he tied tax reform and business profit to national strength and proposed a commission to study whale revenue. He warned against totalitarian economic regimes and planned a San Francisco stop and broader Northwest tour.
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New Air Service Planned At Biz Stone Gap Va
Captain Charles G. Baughan World War ace who runs a flying school at Kingaport leases Biz Stone Gap to establish a new air service. A passenger route between the local airport and the Wel-City airport is planned as work on a long flood control field continues. Training has begun with Beat Purcell assisting. Local flyers are invited to land at Biz Stone Gap. An office and concession stand will be built at the field corner.
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Two Go On Trial In Officer's Death
Blountville Eugene and Waylard McCracken of Kingsport face first degree murder charges in the fatal shooting of Traffic Officer John Mills as their circuit court trial begins. Meanwhile two other juries deliberate on separate first degree murder cases involving P. D. Jones and George W. Parrott, both of Kingsport.
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Japs Stir New Crisis In East
Reports from Hanoi and Haiphong describe Japanese demands shaping a new crisis in French Indo China with Tokyo pressing for settlement terms while negotiations stagger under threat of breakdown. In American court news, Blountville's George W Parrott is found guilty on three charges with a recommended year and a day for Manslaughter in the death of Betty Jane Barker, while other trials proceed amid courtroom deadlock and shifting juries.
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Attractive Choir Singer Found Bludgeoned to Death
Pittsfield and Lenox police probe the murder of Miss Clark, a soprano at St. Helen's Chapel in Lenox, found bludgeoned near a river after a church service. Harold Gooney, Massachusetts officials, and regional police coordinate a nationwide teletype for the suspect, Dellair, a 34 year old Pittsfield man who was married but separated.
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Man Dies on Way to Visit Wife in Virginia
Norton Va prominent retired businessman Paul D. Greever died of a heart attack Thursday while driving with his young daughter from Norton to Abingdon to visit his wife in hospital after a prior automobile accident. He leaves a large family including four daughters and several siblings, a Chilhowie native with ties to Johnson City and Kingsport.
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Axis pavers near bases hint expanded war aims
Berlin bulletins note axis pavers, if victorious, closer to America's strategic bases than before. Hamburger Fremdenblatt says axis aims include eradicating Britain from Africa. In Belfast Irish Republican Army raiders struck banks and post offices, exchanging fire with police and guards.
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German Railways Smash At Great Britain's Southern Network
German reports state large bombardment forces smashed major lines along Britain south network aiding troop movements. The lines are described as vital to counter any potential Nazi invasion landing in the southeast coast.
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Pacific Washington Talks Signal New Pacific Diplomacy
Watchers report rising U S state department activity in the Pacific amid conferences with Japan and discussions over French Indo China demands. Officials indicating shifts in policy as tensions shape regional diplomacy and potential moves ahead of further talks.
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Plead Innocent in Gypsum Industry Price Fixing Case
In federal district court today Washington office corporations and mine individuals pleaded innocent to charges of violating anti trust laws by allegedly fixing gypsum industry prices.
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British Planes Hit Italians From Libya to Somaliland
Italian high command said British bombers attacked from the Libyan coast to Ethiopia and Somaliland to disrupt Italian defenses as Italian airmen sank a British submarine. The communique tallies raids on Tobruk and Bamba in Libya and Salam and Sidi Barrani in Egypt with minor casualties and limited damage in East Africa. Eight British planes were described as destroyed in the raids the previous day.
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New Tax Moves Impede Stocks
New York stocks receded as profit taking and tax worries weighed on market tone. Traders cited scattered gains in rails and copper issues, but overall action remained rangebound near Thursday’s levels with about 400000 in dealings. War news offered limited support while anticipated corporate earnings trimmed by taxes dampened risk appetite. Notable movers included Anaconda Kennecott Santa Fe Great Northern and United Aircraft with several large industrials lagging.
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Retaliation pledged as RAF stymies German air armada
German raids over Dover drew a massive RAF response as Spitfires and Hurricanes attacked the invasion armada. Churchill pledged ultimate retaliation while crowds in London faced air raids. Weather and night bombardment shaped the day as shelters housed millions and dispersal continued.
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Axis seeks Spain's aid in war against Britain
Foreign observers report Germany and Italy pressing Spain to join the war with promises of rewards such as French Morocco and Gibraltar. The Fascist press calls Spain a potential ally as Axis powers aim to secure the Mediterranean by moving through Spain to strike Gibraltar and tighten a blockade on the British Empire.
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600 Germans Reported Killed In RAF Attacks
Berlin reported six hundred German fatalities and fourteen hundred wounded from British raids since the war began. Heidelberg, near Mannheim, was bombed with three killed, and seven others perished in western and southwestern cities. Phosphorus incendiaries and smoke were used as RAF bombers clashed with German fighters amid poor weather. The emphasis shifted to Egypt, with Nazi channels predicting independence for Egypt under Axis influence and Rome discussions with Mussolini.
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