Hocking County Fair Opening Day Draws 4 000 Admitted
Fine weather and School Day provisions boosted attendance as the Hocking County Fair opened its second day with about 4 000 visitors on opening Thursday. Judging began with draft horses and dairy cattle followed by beef stock and sheep. A Friday style revue and 4 H booths drew judges from Ohio State University. The fair features a full running card at 2 15, elections for seven county agricultural society directors, a pony race, and musical acts by local bands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Churchward
Ohio State University
John T. Mount
Montgomery County
Owen Strine
Marion County
F. K. Blair
Pickaway County
L. K. Best
Fairfield County
William Franklin
Shepherd
Columbuus
Hocking County Agricultural Society
County Board of Elections
Fair Secretary
Murray City
Union Furnace
Logan American Legion
Klein
LeRoy Conkle
Fairgrounds
Karolyn sees the fair at Daily News booth
A diary style report from a fair day notes sun warmth crowd size and standing room only hopes. It mentions misidentified exhibitors H C Godman Brooks, the Geneen Miller Jones exhibit, Army encampment for enlistment goodwill and a missed county school tent near the Art Hall.
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H. C. Godman
Brooks
Nelsonville
Geneen
Miller-Jones
Art
Daily News
Air Defense Plans Sent To Defense Plant Firms
War Department released four page air raid precaution suggestions to firms expanding defense orders. The memo urged locating plants to fit protective terrain, dispersal of buildings, blackout provisions, and protection against bomb splinters and utility line damage, with concealment of facilities as much as possible. It also noted potential underground hangars and storage dumps for munitions and aviation fuel.
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Washington
War Department
Spain
Poland
Finland
Holland
England
Japan Faces US Clash As Axis Pact Looms
Tokyo officials insist Japan will not join the European war though the Germany Italy Japan pact forms a ten year axis front against outside interference. Asahi newspaper warns a clash with America now seems inevitable and posters near the U S embassy proclaim resistance to Western interference in East Asia.
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Japan
United States
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
U. S
Washington
Pacific
Germany
Italy
Orient
Tokyo
Asahi
America
Britain
East Asia
Army and Navy Screen Plans for Atlantic Bases
The Army and Navy guard wartime plans for eight new Atlantic bases acquired from Great Britain. A joint survey recommends development of the northernmost sites with Bermuda and Newfoundland work possible under a $200 million defense fund. Naval officials say even before improvements, neutrality patrol planes and ships could use the North Atlantic bases once limits are fixed, though exact air fields docks and fortifications remain secret.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Atlantic
Great Britain
Army-Navy
Roosevelt
Bermuda
Newfoundland
Neutrality Patrol
Caribbean
Saturday Fair Schedule Highlights Local Events
Gates open at 9 A.M. Stock parade at noon in front of the grandstand. L. H. S. Band parades to the fairgrounds at 1 P.M. and performs 1 to 2 P.M. A sequence of running races starts at 2:15 P.M. with additional races through 5:15 P.M. The L. H. S. Band returns for a 7 to 8 P.M. concert, followed by Klein's Rhythm Review at 8:30 P.M. a free act.
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Klein
Willkie Tours Plains and Farm Policy Appeals
Willkie travels across Iowa from Omaha urging a farm program to expand markets and improve federal agricultural projects. He pledges to invite farm factory labor and consumer representatives to the White House to end economic stagnation and prevent a common disaster. He tells Omaha supporters to improve the New Deal program while addressing root causes and expanding both domestic and foreign markets.
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Willkie
Madison
Wis
Wendell L. Willkie
Iowa
Omaha
White House
Munitions project to close highways near Ravenna
Ohio officials warn that five to ten miles of state roads will be closed as the federal munitions loading plants near Ravenna begin construction. Route 627 from Route 5 north to Windham will be blocked, and Route 80 to the west may close from 5 north to Freedom Station.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hal G. Sours
Windham
Freedom Station
Polio cases drop. Pickaway and Lawrence counties show activity
Columbus report shows only two new infantile paralysis cases, smallest in weeks. State totals fall from 82 to 72 as 10 patients are discharged, with Pickaway County recording its first case and Lawrence County reaching its thirtieth.
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Columbus
State Health Department
Pickaway County
Lawrence County
State Fair Manager Praises Local Exhibit Visit
Ohio State Fair manager Win Kinnan praised the local exhibit during a visit to the grounds on Thursday. He spent time in the livestock and poultry barns and toured the many other displays, calling the fair the finest he has visited this year.
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Win Kinnan
Hocking County Agricultural Society
Kinnan
Japan Aligns With Axis Amid Growing Allied Cooperation
Washington officials described Japan's three power pact with Germany and Italy as anticipated. The move follows Tokyo's closer ties with Berlin after the Konoye government took power and seeks to create a new East Asian order during a war seen as lagging Britain’s side.
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Washington
Japan
Tokyo
State Department
Germany
Italy
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Konoye
East Asia
Berlin
Pact Signatories Show Guarded Tone on Japan
The article notes Tokyo Berlin and Rome signed a pact with tongues in cheeks. It suggests the agreement aims to deter U S aid to Britain and divides Europe and Asia among the powers. It states Japan seeks hegemony in Eastern Asia at all costs.
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Japan
Tokyo
Berlin
Rome
America
England
Europe
Asia
Eastern
Poultry Exhibit Hen Shows Off Hatch of Quail
Fair notes include a pen with a hen and young quail hatched weeks earlier, as superintendent Lloyd Whisler describes. Pony judging outdoors near the cattle barn drew a large crowd with young riders under 15 evaluated on form and riding ability. Concessionaires praised Friday morning patronage, calling it the best morning business of the fair season.
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Lloyd Whisler
Busy Friday at county fair exhibits with Smoot
James Smoot, county extension agent, handled judging duties and moved between tents. A loud speaker from the U S Army detachment at Fort Hayes explains enlistment advantages. Parents and boys are invited to visit the exhibit and question soldiers.
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James Smoot
Smoot
Fairgrounds
U. S. Army
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Official ballots minus Communist candidates
Secretary of State George M. Neffner ordered official ballots mailed to county election boards minus Communist party candidates. The Ohio Supreme Court refused the Communist party’s bid to compel placement of their candidates on the November ballot.
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Columbus
George M. Neffner
Communist Party
Ohio Supreme Court
Hocking County Agricultural Society Election Prompted
The notice urges members to vote on Friday as the sole voting day for the Hocking County Agricultural Society election.
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Hocking County Agricultural Society
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