Slayer's Death Sentence May Not Be Carried Out
Clifford Hayes 30, ex convict, pleaded guilty to murder and asked for the death penalty. Judge Howard Babcock sentenced him for the week of August 9 1942, a first in over 25 years, but execution depends on governor clemency or a reprieve and the state lacks an electric chair.
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South Dakota
Clifford Hayes
Howard Babcock
Hayes
Melbourne Lewis
Milbank
Babcock
Tailor Speaker Sees North Market Strainites Supplies
M. G. Moore of Moore's Tailoring reports from a trip to Chicago and Cincinnati that large tailoring houses struggle to secure supplies. His firm, backed by a major supplier, can still meet all orders.
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M. G. Moore
Moore
Chicago
Cincinnati
89 Finds Owner After 20 Years in Illinois Bonus
Advertising man William Prichason finally received a World War I bonus after 20 years. About 200000 Illinois veterans were eligible, but his address was unknown. Treas urer Warren Wright delivered the check to Prichason personally upon his return from vacation.
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Los Angeles
William Prichason
Illinois
Prichason
Warren Wright
House Approves Broad Tax Bill Including Surtaxes
The measure would raise individual taxes through a five percent starter surtax up to 75 percent for high incomes and boost corporate levies with excess profits taxes. New excises would total about 880 million, including a $5 annual auto tax and a 5 percent monthly phone levy. Officials project 12.5 billion in revenue this year with a 10 billion deficit.
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Treasury
Wheat Growers Form Statewide Opposing AAA Quotas
More than 100 Pennsylvania wheat growers representing about 400 000 of 907 000 acres form a statewide group to oppose the Agricultural Adjustment Act quota system. They denounce federal regulation and plan a statewide meeting within 10 days.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Audley Boak
Pennsylvania Grange
Boak
State Grange
John H. Light
Midwest
Indiana
Totalitarian Movements Amid South American Turmoil
Reports describe actions by Argentina Bolivia Paraguay and Colombia against perceived totalitarian influences. Germany’s Transocean propaganda ties surface amid raids arrests expulsions and military plots. Also noting heat and fly related dairy losses in the United States during July and August.
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Transocean
United States
Parana
Alliance of National Youth
Bolivia
Ernst Wendler
Paraguay
Soldiers Head For Louisiana As Vast Convoy Moves Out
A large troop movement as 14 500 officers and men depart for Louisiana with major units listed. Separate groups from Fort Bliss El Paso begin a 50 mile convoy toward the maneuvers area. Additional formations depart to Camp Barkeley and Dallas area bivouacs with long hikes and channel routes noted.
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el Paso
First Cavalry Division
Fort Bliss
San Antonio
112Th
Balmorhea
Mertzon
Brownwood
Athens
Pelican
Dallas
63Rd
22Nd Coast Artillery
Camp Barkeley
Stanton
Big Spring
45Th
Abilene
White Rock Lake
Mesquite
Lifeguards Save Two Men In Surf Near Laguna Beach
Captain Rolf Beck and an assistant pulled two men from rough surf off Laguna Beach and revived them after a call for help interrupted a lifeguard test with 14 students watching.
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Laguna Beach
Calif
Rolf Beck
Beck
United States Extends Aid to Russia Amid Tensions
The U S disclosed steps in a diplomatic exchange tied to Russo American trade renewal. It details priority aid orders for a country fighting aggression, unlimited export licenses for defense supplies, and potential use of American ships to move the aid.
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United States
Russia
Texas
Japan Presses Thailand as U S Warships Visit Australia
The US navy reports heavy cruisers Northampton and Salt Lake City arrived at Brisbane for refueling and recreation during a South Pacific cruise amid rising East Asia tensions. Bangkok sources say Thailand faces a crucial choice in its dealings with Japan Britain and the United States as reports of Japanese pressure and troop movements mount.
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Associated Press
United States
Australia
Navy Department
Orient
Russia
Thailand
Far East
Navy
Northampton
Salt Lake City
Brisbane
South Pacific Ocean
Bangkok
Japan
Britain
London
Singapore
Kokumin
Manchoukuo-Siberia
Manchoukuo
Shanghai
Yellow Sea
Dairen
Manchukuo
Siberian
Washington-Tokyo
United States Pacific Coast
American
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Washington
Cordell Hull
Tokyo
Kunio Akiyama
China
Akiyama
Manchusa
Texas Oil Operators to Give Britain Oil
Texas crude oil producers will donate August 17 about 1.3 million barrels valued at roughly 5 million dollars to Great Britain under the lend lease program. The move, backed by Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel and the Texas Railroad Commission, follows federal approval and a San Antonio plan by John F. Camp with Ickes’ office coordinating the effort.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Great Britain
Texas Railroad Commission
State Oil Regulatory Agency
England
John F. Camp
San Antonio
Harold Ickes
United States Treasury Department
Division of Defense
Federal Emergency Management
Jerry Sadler
Washington
Sadler
Olin Culberson
Bauxite Trade from Surinam to United States
The United States sources much of its bauxite ore for aluminum from Surinam, a Netherlands colony on the northeast coast of South America.
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The
United States
Surinam
Netherlands
South America
American missions damaged in Japanese air raids on China
Central News Agency reports that a U S Baptist mission and a British mission school in Kweilin were badly damaged when 21 planes bombed the city. Yenan and Hengyang also faced heavy raids as 34 and multiple planes struck western and central provinces with no casualties reported.
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Chungking
China
Kweilin
Kwangsi Province
Yenan
Shensi
Hengyang
Hunan
Japanese Vessels Sail From U.S. Ports Amid Tense Trade Moves
Shanghai sources report all Japanese ships have left U.S. harbors and tied with American vessels. The Asama Maru, last seen leaving Honolulu for San Francisco, may be ordered back though radio silence persists. Japanese consul Kawasaki cites an export permit for North China wheat and contends the U.S. must decide on payment release. Five carloads of silk from the Tatuta Maru reached the East after unloading in San Francisco.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Vancouver
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China
K. Kawasaki
Dominion
Seattle
Kawasaki
United States
Washington
Japan
Housing Work Here Near Moore Plans Two Projects
The negro housing effort will occupy 11 acres with 1051 feet of frontage on Texas avenue between South Eighth and South Eleventh streets. Each project includes a 1-acre playground and a community house. A Monroe Housing Authority will form a local office to handle details. members include B A Trousdale Jr, Cagle, Sam Rubin, J D Petty, and Dr A Collins. Representative D Ross Banister aided the push.
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Moore
Texas Avenue
South Eighth
South Eleventh
Guerriero
Monroe
Hosiery makers eye new cotton design method
The Department of Agriculture notes 85 percent of U S hosiery machines can adapt to a new cotton based production method. Young and associates aim to finish a dictionary of 300 new designs by year end. Developments will be shared with the industry as soon as possible.
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Department of Agriculture
Young
Germans Press 10 Mile Drive as Britain Moves
Nazi forces renew thrusts near Smolensk and threaten toward Kiev while Britain readies rapid moves to secure Thai and Malayan borders. The United States pledges broad military aid to Russia and considers shipping via Vladivostok despite Japan’s warnings.
Anders Return From Vacation in Hendersonville
Willis H. Anders, sales manager of the Columbian Gasoline Corporation, and Mrs. Anders, have returned from a month long vacation in Hendersonville North Carolina. They described ideal conditions with cool nights requiring a blanket and a day temperature around 86 degrees. The News Star reported it was slightly over 100 degrees in Monce that day. Delegations from Minneapolis St Petersburg Florida and other places enjoyed the favorable summer weather.
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Willis H. Anders
Columbian Gasoline Corporation
Minneapolis
St. Petersburg
Fla
Artillery Group to Go to Camp Shelby
Artillery of the 3rd armored division nicknamed Bayou Blitz will leave Friday and Saturday for Camp Shelby Mississippi for four weeks of firing practice. Colonel Vincent Meyer announced the move moving via Many Natchitoches Winnfield Vidalia Natchez to Hattiesburg. Military authorities at Shelby have been cooperative with the 67th field artillery regiment and the 54th field artillery battalion as maneuvers approach.
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Camp Polk
3Rd Armored
Camp Shelby
Miss
Vincent Meyer
Shelby
Meyer
67Th Field Artillery Regiment
Armored
54Th Field Artillery Battalion
Natchitoches
Winnfield
Vidalia
Natchez
Hattiesburg
Prospects Spark New Gold Trek Toward Devil's Oven
Prospectors fan out to the Eliza Lake region near Devil's Oven after assays show gold ore as high as 100 dollars a ton. George Murray of the British Columbia legislature notes two young prospectors located the ore about 160 miles northeast of Vancouver, with access limited to pack train and trail.
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B. C
Devil's Oven
Eliza Lake
Rocky
George Murray
British Columbia
Vancouver
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