Draft Not To Rob Industry Of Men
New Orleans AP reports that local selective service boards were told to avoid fanatical diligence and pressuring all men into training. Major Joseph F. Battley urged liberal deferments for civilians and warned against disrupting national functions as the draft gears up for the October 1 registration.
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Fengland
Germany
Flands Ors
Kone
Halsey
Batley
Rulal
Scott Teachers To Assist Draft In Gate City
County teachers will assist registration officials across 23 precincts on registration day October 16. They will help registrants aged 21 to 35 subject to selective service training, as directed by County Schools Superintendent Noblin and electoral board member Fugate who said qualified women would be assigned to assist in the work.
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Gate City
A. Sendl Nablin
Mace
Pugate, Jr
Bear
Fugate
Electoral Board
Noblin
Wmself Miust
Hershey Named Temporary Draft Director for Selective Service
Lewis Hershey, a former California officer with World War I service, is appointed temporary head of the nation’s first peacetime conscription program by executive order. He gains power to issue directives, appoint subordinates, and oversee steps for conscription as Roosevelt names potential permanent directors including Gullion and Johnson.
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Lewis R. Hershey
Spade Sehool Asa Price
Hell's Point
Oman
Roosevelt
Cel
Hershey
Director of
Selective Service
Ahi
Allen W. Gullion
Kentucky
Cal. Louis Johnson
Angels, Inc
Hell's Poinr School
National Guard
Bulletin urges states to bar ballots in overthrow bid
Washington report notes House approval of a bulletin urging states to keep off ballots for political parties accused of forcible overthrow of the government. The measure passed the House today and goes to the Senate for action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Destroyers Pushed Madrid-T The Strait Acts as Route
The Spanish news agency Citra, via Cento, Morocco, reports two French destroyers racing through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic, closely followed by several British warships.
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Madrid
Citra
Cento
Spanish Morocco
Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantic Ocean
Japanese Mobilization Drive Expands as Council Weighs Laws
The national mobilization council discussed broadening the mobilization law to strengthen Japan’s Far East war effort. Eleven cases for wider application were reviewed as part of this policy push.
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Tokyo
Far East
Eleven Bik
National Mobilization Council
Roosevelt to Confer on Japan Crisis Pressures
President Roosevelt will meet with State Department officials today to discuss the far eastern crisis. He will review proposals to apply additional economic and financial pressure on Japan as the United States seeks options to influence events.
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Washington
Roosevelt
State Department
Japan
May Reports Hint at Kussig Alliance With Vichy Forces
Unconfirmed diplomatic notes suggest Savior Kussig may join or approve a new axis pact with Vichy France. If true, the move would mark a shift toward a bloc directed away from the United States. Hull and British Ambassador Lothian discussed the Japanese German Italian alliance as Britain considers reopening the Burma road next month to allow supplies to China.
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Vichy
France
Kussig
He Paet
United States
P — Sceretary Hull
Lord Lothian
Britain
Burma
China
Student Dies In Plane Crash At Knoxville Field
A Tennessee University freshman Dick Mather, 20, died when a rented plane failed to land on a football practice field near the University of Tennessee stadium. Companion Robert Alley, 21, was gravely injured with multiple fractures. the aircraft struck two trees and a house. Witnesses said the plane circled UT stadium before descending toward the field. Alley’s family noted he had served in the army and had football ties to Mercer College and Knoxville High School.
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Knoxville
Dick Mather
University of Tennessee
Robert Alley
Witnessea
Alley
Mercer College
U. S. Army
Mather
Conscripts To Give U S Healthiest Army Conscripts
The army plans 400000 men after October 16 registration as the healthiest conscription group in U.S. history. General Washington era oversight yields a near perfect pool, with rigorous medical and rudimentary mental tests to ensure fitness. Conscripts must be tuberculin and X ray free, without major ailments, sound teeth and feet, literacy, no infectious disease, and pass a basic intelligence check.
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Washupton
Tate Service
Union Cieneral
George Washerington
Thamng Parran
United State Public Health Service
Nazis Aim At Treaty With Reds
Berlin streets excitement over a new offensive with possible visits by Ribbentrop to Moscow or Molotov to Berlin. Pravda interprets the triple axis pact as widening war, noting Russia remains neutral while the United States and Great Britain intensify aid to England and transferring bases, signaling a broader conflict ahead.
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P—aAxi
Russia
Bosin
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Moscow
Prechler
Mulotoff
Ssother
Communist Party
Pravda
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Germany
England
Virginia Towns May Get Funds For Airport Development
Bristol area lines earmark 2.612 million dollars for national defense airport work in 14 Southwest Virginia towns. Allocations list Norton Clinchco Marion Emory Galax Bristol Narrows Tulasi Roanoke Tazewell Wytheville with sums ranging 34 009 to 324 900 dollars. Total Virginia outlay could reach 16 million plus. program aims to start with 36 thousand in cash and 50.9 million in contracts.
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National Defense Airport
Norton
Clinch. Co
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Emory
Galax
Narrows
Tulasi
Roanoke
Tazewell
Wytheville
Virginia
Congress
DOD
Britain Halts Repeated German Raids On London
British air defenses repelled waves of German warplanes as they struck London four times. RAF fighters and anti aircraft batteries clashed in fierce sky duels along the Dover to London corridor. Berlin hints at gas warfare while London eyes a potential axis push toward Gibraltar and an India summer invasion scenario.
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Air Ministry
RAF
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Jover Dungeness
Berlin
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Gibraltar
England
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Londo Daily Express
Adolf Bittler
Britain
Tie Naeils
Val Valco
Ramon Suner
Rowe
Franjen
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Iton
Mediterranean
Italy
Germany
Tensions Rise as U S and Japan Clash in Orient
A stream of incidents worsens U S Japanese ties in the East. Admiral Wart protests Japan over beating of an American sailor and a Haiphong report claims Japanese troops seized an American Far Eastern Trading warehouse. London and Berlin gossip touch on gas mask drives, naval moves, and a broader Axis diplomacy with Russia and Spain stirring a new offensive agenda.
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Orient
United States Asiatic Sect
Thomas C. Wart
United States
Haiphong
American Far Eastern Trading Company
Tokyo
Russia
Spain
Profits Tax Bill Nears Congressional Action
The Profits Tax Bill, refined by both chambers, would raise the corporate income tax from 20.9 to 24 percent and add a 40 to 60 percent excess profits levy. An exception keeps lower rates for corporations earning under 25,000 dollars. A Sunday conference committee ironing differences left final agreement possible Tuesday. The administration seeks swift passage to aid the defense program, including accelerated tax deductions for defense facilities begun after June 19, 1940, at 20 percent annually for five years.
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Senate
House
Harrison
D-Miss
Conerence
Roosevelt
Spen
Defense Guy
IMO
Gibraltar Attack Grave Threat For John Bull
Gibraltar faces a grave threat as Axis powers consider bases in Spain to attack the fortress. Rome-Berlin alliance aims to deny Britain control of the Mediterranean, with Britain preparing possible assaults and Spain’s potential entry kept under discussion amid broader war pressures.
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Gibraltar
John Bull
Spain
Germany
Italy
Japan
Britain
Mediterranean
Rome Berlin Axis Plans Forge Unified Italy Spain Pact
A Berlin conference reported by Virginia Gayda claims Rome and Berlin have unified plans with Spain as a potential base for attacks on Gibraltar. Italy tightens wartime rationing while Italian planes claim torpedo strikes sink a British battleship.
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Gibraltar
Berlin
Wilhelm Weitel
Virginia Gayda
I Giornale D'Italia
Galeazzo Ciano
Joachim von Ribbestrop
Francisco Franco
Spain
Willkie Denies Any Supermen In Washington
Wendell L. Willkie told a fogbound South Bend crowd that the idea of a single indispensable man in Washington is a myth. He argued there are many capable individuals across the country who can handle federal duties as well as any lone figure. He spoke as the Republican candidate on the Willie Train en route to Detroit.
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Willie
Detroit
Wendell L. Willkie
South Bend
Ind
Washington
Pevery
Tadigha Towa
Indiana
Vale
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