British Raiders Clash Over London as German Bombers Suffer Losses
British anti aircraft fire and swift fighter planes repelled waves of Nazi raids over London. The air ministry reported 11 German planes destroyed by 50 p in anti aircraft fire and fighters by 4 pm. Allied bombers hit targets in Germany including a Fokker factory near Amsterdam and invasion port facilities.
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London
Britain
Fzondon
Altho
British
Air Ministry
Channel
Fokker
Amsterdam
Longdon
British Press Association
Oxted
Godstone
Tadworth
Surrey
Ealing
Kingsworth
Croydon
Germany
Death by own action ends career of noted author
The 58 year old writer Courtney Ryley Cooper was found hanged in a hotel closet. FBI officials cited no evidence of foul play and said he had been in a state of nervous exhaustion from overwork. Cooper, famed for crime lore and circus ties, had explored Mexican matters regarding German fifth column activity and held ties to J Edgar Hoover. He left behind works such as Lions n Tigers n Everything and Caged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Caswell Jacobs
Frierds
Cooper
Hoover
Kansas
City
Kansas ‘City
Annie
Oakley
White Desert
England Prepares for Invasion and Gibraltar Drive
British sources warn of a October axis campaign targeting Gibraltar and a potential invasion of England during Indian summer conditions. Berlin talks report unified plans among Germany Italy and Spain to use Spain as a base for assault on Gibraltar.
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England
Gibraltar
Hershey Named Temporary Head of Draft System
Lt Col Lewis B Hershey was named acting head of the nations peacetime selective service program with full powers of director of selective service. President Roosevelt had chosen the permanent appointee but withheld the name pending feasibility. Hershey, 47, long linked with draft planning, was born near Angola Indiana and served on the Mexican border and in World War I.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Hell’s Point
Roosevelt
Hershey
Selective Service
Allen W. Gullion
Col
Louis Johnson
Angola
Ind
Army and Navy Selective Service Committee
Strafe the Kingdom German raids devastate British war targets
Berlin reports Nazi war planes strafed the United Kingdom from Aberdeen to the English Channel causing fires in Merseyside port facilities and warehouses after strikes on Liverpool. The high command cited 18 British losses to four German and noted destruction at a Midlands armament plant with two convoys dispersed off the east coast.
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Berlin
United Kingdom
Aberdeen
English Channel
High Command
London
Liverpool
Edinburgh
Leith
Scotland
Merseyside
Midlands
English
Resolution Urges States to Bar Forcible Overthrow Parties
Washington September 30 The House passed a resolution urging states to keep parties advocating forcible overthrow of the government off ballots and sent the measure to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
Willkie Denounces Superman Myth in Defense Drive
In a train route stop near Notre Dame and Kalamazoo, Wendell Willkie urged Indiana and Michigan voters to prize capable individuals over a single indispensable leader. He praised Father Nieuwland’s synthetic rubber effort and warned against brain trusts while pledging stronger ties with Bill Knudsen on rebuilding defense.
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Willkie
Detroit
Wendell L. Willkie
South Bend
Ind
Washington
Indiana
St. Mary’s College
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Nieuwland
University
Toledo
Niles
Mich
Wendell Willkie
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Clare Hoffman
United States Administration
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Kalamazoo
Bill Knudsen
William S. Knudsen
Defense Advisory Commission
Franklin Roosevelt
America
Landon to Campaign for Willkie in Nebraska Hastings Rally
Former Governor Alf M. Landon will campaign for Wendell Willkie in Nebraska tomorrow addressing a night rally at Hastings on the topic Election of Wendell Willkie. Tonight he will speak at a life insurance company banquet in Excelsior Springs Missouri.
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Willkie
Topeka
Alf M. Landon
Nebraska
Wendell Willkie
Hastings
Life Insurance Company
Excelsior Springs
Census Bureau Reports Kansas Business Rise in Eight Months
The Census Bureau notes Kansas business rose 10.3 percent in August from a year earlier based on 630 stores. First eight months of 1940 up 3.8 percent over 1939. Furniture, men's clothing, jewelry and dry goods led gains. restaurants showed a drop. Kansas City and Wichita posted notable increases. one city Tonka reported a decline.
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Census Bureau
Kansas
Washington
Thasanoun Kuwsnaw
Usndad Vulcau Dai Pate
Toneka
Kansas City
Wichita
Hutchison
Coffeyville
Emporia
Lawrence
Parsons
Pittsburg
Salina
McPherson
Candidates Have a Heavy Schedule
Topeka reports Gov. Payne Ratner will miss a few days for a Washington conference with the president on defense industry pleas. He will return for 35 talks in four days. Democratic candidate Burke plans 31 talks in six days across eastern Kansas ending at Emporia with stops in Lindsborg Solomon and Abilene. Kansas Democratic leaders plan a Kansas City conference with Edward Flynn and a series of campaign schools led by women to ready precincts for the late month drive.
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Topeka
Payne Ratner
Kansas
Washington
Midwest
Defense Industries
Ratner
Burke
Emporia
Northeast
Lindsborg
Solomon and
Abilene
Fees
Kansas City
Edward Flynn
Lynn Brodrick
Paul V. McNutt
Clever German jailed for leg line deception
A German man was sentenced to four years for selling a pencil device that imitates silk stockings by drawing lines up the back of a woman’s legs. Purchasers paid in advance and received brown gray pencils to create the illusion of sheer stockings.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Prize cockerel wins Hutchinson show on tour at hatchery
The grand championship cockerel was bought by J. R. Standing and is shown at the Douglas County hatchery. Nine thousand White Rocks were exhibited from a pool of 60,000 chicks sold to Hutchinson youths last spring by the Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce. The third bird purchased by Standing won $185 in prizes.
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Hutchinson
J. R. Standing
Douglas County
Stock Market Index Mild Momentum With Friday Slip
The index combining 60 stocks stood at 44.5 on the latest close, slipping to 44.3 the previous Saturday as market activity cooled. The narrow dip follows a week of mixed gains across sectors.
Health Board Reports Ample Serum Supply for Paralysis Victims
Topeka reports an ample supply of infantile paralysis serum at state board offices and sub stations for Kansas physicians. The board notes 14 new cases today, 45 for last week, and 395 cases this year, with donors invited who had polio in the past decade.
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Topeka
State Board of Health
Kansas
Bilt
Army to offer officer commissions from candidates schools
Washington reports the army will let conscripts become lieutenants via candidates' schools in the last months of service. About 50,000 overcoats and Melton garments from World War I era will be issued to avert shortages as contracts for uniforms and cloth push ahead. total clothing costs for 1940-41 are expected above $300 million.
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Washington
Army
George C. Marshall
War Department
Melton
Congress
Espionage convictions and probes in Japan and Romania
War bulletins report seven British residents in Japan convicted of espionage while three others were indicted and five more under investigation. In Bucharest Gheorghe Tatarescu, long time prime minister, placed under house arrest. Berlin circles estimate Londoners spent about 15 hours daily in air raid shelters over the last two weeks with most alarms between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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Tokyo
Japan
Domei
Bucharest
Gheorghe Tatarescu
Romania
Berlin
London
German airman prisoner reported in Britain
London Sept 30 A 32 year old German airman described as a son of a leading Hitler adviser in the art of murder from the air was reported to have been taken prisoner in Britain. The Rev E L Macassey said the capture was passed by the British censor, but air ministry and war office had no knowledge of any such flier fitting the description.
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R.A.F
Rome
Gibraltar
Berlin
Wilhelm Keitel
Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale d
Italia
Spain
Ramon Serrano Suner
County Galeazzo Ciano
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Keitel
Francisco Franco
London
Hitler
Britain
E. L. Macassey
Mapledurham
Air Ministry
War Office
Fatal Polio Case in Erie Kansas Report
Infant Sandra Kay Bowman two died in Fort Scott hospital from polio. She was ill since Friday and this marked Erie’s first polio case. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Bowman of Erie.
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Erie
Parsons
Kan
Sandra Kay,Bowman
E. M. Bowman
Fort Scott
Return Visit to Dr O Bryans Dental Office
Patient notes returning to the dental office of Dr C F OBryan in Massachusetts with the provided phone and zip details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. O’bryan
Mass
Army to Organize Special Commands for Faster Training
Army chief of staff General George C. Marshall announced a drastic reorganization to speed training of soldiers including National Guard units and draftees. Nine tactical corps will be created with training as their main role under general headquarters supervision. supply and maintenance remain with corps area commanders. Four corps commanders were named with their headquarters and assigned divisions listed.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army Chief of Staff
Generalarshall
Two Injured in Eudora Highway Crash
A Pontiac and a Model A Ford collided on Highway 10 in Eudora Saturday afternoon around 3 30. LeRoy Stone 15 of Eudora drove the Ford east toward a Phillips 66 station and turned into the station when Gilbert LaVar of Kansas City Mo drove the Pontiac westward. Mrs LaVar suffered a windshield bruise and Mrs Campbell a scalp wound and concussion as the doors opened and the latter fell out. The LaVar family left Eudora that night.
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Highway 10
Eudora
LeRoy Stone
Gilbert LaVar
Kansas City
LaVar
Sue Campbell
Emporia
KU to Hold Physical Tests for Civilian Aviation Course
Physical examinations to select 50 KU students for the primary civilian aviation course will not be completed until late today. Flight instruction cannot start until all students are approved. Those who pass will take trial lessons at the airport, with replacements possible if any fail the first lesson.
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Earl D. Hay
Policies Council Meets for School Safety Plan
The School Policies council met at 4 15 PM with members including the superintendent, clerk of the board, principals, supervisors and teacher reps. Lathrop Read Jr chairman of the Lawrence Safety council spoke on safety to be stressed in schools this year. Howard Sutherland serves as the school representative on the safety council.
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Lathrop Read Jr
Lawrence
Former Colorado Governor Dies in California
Oliver H. Shoup aged 69 former Colorado governor from 1919 to 1922 died in Santa Monica California of a heart attack at his home on September 30.
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Colorado
Santa Monica
Calif
Oliver H. Shoup
Four Capone mob figures named in Chicago union probe
Four remaining Capone era gangsters Frank Nitti Murray Humphreys Louis Campagna and Paul Ricca were named by a county grand jury in an alleged mob controlled bartenders union case. Louis Romano union president also cited in indictments seen as conspiracy to extort by threat. The probe stemmed from a suit by George McLane claiming intimidation to seize union control.
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Chicago
al Capone
Frank
Nitti
Murray Humphreys
Louis
Little New York
Campagna
Paul Ricca
Bartenders Union
Louis Romano
George McLane
Roosevelt Tours Maryland Defense Plants and Testing Grounds
President Roosevelt toured a 28 000 acre ordnance laboratory in Aberdeen Md observing anti aircraft guns bombs and a ballistic laboratory. He boarded the Potomac after a 21 gun salute and planned visits to the Glenn L Martin plant near Baltimore and Fort Meade to review civilian conscript training and bomber production.
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Aberdeen
Army
Roosvelt
Maryland
Roosevelt
Potomac
Washington
Potomac River
Chesapeak Bay
Glenn L. Martin
Baltimore
America
Britain
Fort George G. Meade
Maine
Virginia
Ice packed flight saves patient in 450 mile/flight mishap
Don Ashcraft flew his Aeronca from Scottsbluff Nebraska to Lawrence Kansas with ice packs replenishing Bob McElhinney after an emergency appendectomy. He refueled and landed in a harrowed field near St Marys then transported the patient to Lawrence Hospital arriving about 11 that night.
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Bob McElhinney
McElhinney
Missouri Street
News Week Fazine
Lawrence Hospital
Don Ashcraft
Aeronca
Scottsbluff
Neb
Ashcraft
MckElhinney
Kansas
St. Marys
Lawrence
City Council to Meet This Evening
The city council will convene this evening at 7:80 in the council room at city hall to discuss official business and public matters.
Governors Seek War Time Plants For Nine-State Midwestern Area
Governors Cochran of Nebraska Payne Rather of Kansas and Leon Phillips of Oklahoma led a nine state defense council to urge defense officials to establish war time industries. They met with Secretary Stimson and defense officials and planned further talks including an appointment with the President.
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Washington
R. L. Cochran
Nebraska
Payne H. Rather
Kansas
Leon C. Phillips
Oklahoma
Jhlicslalo
Defense Council
Kansas City
Senator Capper
J. C. Nichols
Donald Nelson
Commission
E. F. Johnson
Defense Commission
Harry Rutherford
Joint
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Knox
Louis Compton
Navy
Sidney M. ‘Kraus
William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Secretary of War
Patterson
Chubb Sees Bluff In New Axis Pact
Professor H B Chubb of the University of Kansas warned Lawrence Rotarians that the Japan axis agreement is a “marriage of convenience” aimed at bluffing the United States and Russia. He urged careful diplomacy, noted U S trade reliance in the Indies, and warned of potential shifts if Japan gains French Indo China.
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Japan
United States
Russia
H. B. Chubb
University of Kansas Political Science Department
Chubb
Germany
Haly
Pacific
Atlantic
Far East
U.S
U. S
East Indies
Islands
Indies
Britain
Italy
Mediterranean
Asia
Orient
Singapore
Australia
Hitler
France
England
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Bizerte
Tunisia
Express
Adolf Hitler
RAF
London Mirror
Walter Fees
Ratner and Burke
Anthony
Kiowa
Medicine Lodge
Attica
Harper
Norwich
Kingman
Cunningham
Zenith
Stafford
St. John
Macksville
Larned
Gaffeld
Sterling
Little River
Geneseo
Lyons
Chase
Ellinwood
Claflin
Hoisington
Olmitz
Albert
Pawnee Rock
Pratt
Otis
Bison
la Grosse
Mccopahen
Hays
Victoria
Gorham
Russell Burke
Enterprise
Chapman
Wakefield
Clifton
Clyde
Concordia
Belleville
Greenleaf
Waterville
Blue Rapids
Marysville
Frankfort
Onaga
Horton
Seneca
Sabetha
Hiawatha
Highland
Troy
Norton
Atchison
Effingham
Nortonville
Valley Falls
Oskaloosa
Lyndon
Pretty Leg Ersats
Bird
Health Board
Tactical Corps
First Corps
Walter C. Short
Columbia
S. C
Jacksonville
Fla
Fort Bragg
N. C
National Guard
Fifth Corps
Campbell D. Hedges
Camp Beauregard
Guard
Eighth Corps
Walter Krueger
Texas
San Antonio
Ninth Corps
Kenyon Joyce
Fort Lewis
Wash
Fort Owis
Policies Council
Hearst Lathrop
Old Capone Mob
Bartenders Association
Dinkownacy
U. S Near East
Mein Kampf
Eeerena
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