Army Ready to Hold Back Japs Think Big Red
United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew met with Japanese Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda in Tokyo for a lengthy discussion deemed highly important. Reports indicate a large Russian Far Eastern army is fully mobilized at the Siberian border as Washington studies Japan’s refusal to provide clearance papers to the steamer Coolidge.
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Tokyo
Siberian
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Teijiro Toyoda
Pacific
Domei
Chiang Kai-Shek
Moscow
China
Japan
Joseph Co. Grew
United States State Department
President Coolidge
Foreign Office
Washington
Army Officers View Lightning War at Camp Polk
Chief of Staff Lesley J. McNair and 16 aides observed Third Army war games at Camp Polk Louisiana as 250000 troops from 32 states train in a lightning armored advance. Two hundred light tanks destroyed horse cavalry and cleared the way for medium tanks as units practiced coordination under Lieutenant General Walter Krueger. Blackouts of troop movements followed the demonstration. the maneuvers prepare for September against the Second Army in Arkansas.
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Camp Polk
Washington
Third Army
Lesley J. McNair
Second Armored
McNair
Second Army
Arkansas
Walter Krueger
Polio Outbreak Study Underway in Walker County Alabama
Two New York specialists from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will arrive in Jasper Alabama to join Dr. A E Casey LSU Medical School epidemiologist and Dr. A M Waldrop county health officer. The study follows 62 polio cases reported in Walker County with local officials coordinating.
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Jasper
Ala
New York
N National Foundation For
Walker County
James Trask
John R. Paul
A. Ee. Casey
Louisiana State University Medical School
A. M. Waldrop
A. C. Jackson
Walker County Board of Health
Alabama
German consul in Cuba expelled amid pressure
An authorized source said a German consul in Cuba was expelled, attributed to North American pressure. The spokesman noted Berlin had taken no counter measures.
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Berlin
Cuba
Reich
Henderson Attacks Dies Committee Amid Senate House Alarm
Westbrook Pegler reports Leon Henderson price administrator attacks the Dies committee on treason probes while noting its charges against Tippett and Browder. He questions Henderson’s mandate and condemns Roosevelt era aides who shield Communists, urging closer scrutiny of administration appointments.
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House of Representatives
Leon Henderson
Dies Committee
United States Congress
Josef Stalin
Martin Dies
Congress
Tom Tippett
Henderson
Dies
Tippett
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
Mr. Dies
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Harold Ickes
New Lend-Lease Plan Discussed in Washington
Senator Connally predicted Congress would be asked to appropriate about 4 billion dollars more for lend-lease if needed after a White House conference on international affairs. President Roosevelt showed leaders a picture of his Atlantic meeting with Churchill and discussed a further lend-lease appropriation. Budget leaders called the briefing confidential and summarized three days of talks in an hour and a half.
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Washington
Senator Connally
Texas
White House
Congress
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Congressional
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
House
Deynoodt Denies Resignation Request in City Caucus Talk
New Orleans August 18. Joseph F. Deynoodt chairman of the state administrations city caucus denied being asked to resign after a conference with Governor Sam Jones. He said Jones instructed members of the Jones city caucus to meet the week to discuss successors to five ward leaders whose resignations were asked.
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New Orleans
Joseph F. Deynoodt
State Administrations City Caucus
Sam Jones
Baton Rouge
Jones
Jones City Caucus
British, Red Move Toward Iran Likely
London reports indicate Britain and Soviet Russia prepare a decisive Iran action amid German infiltration fears. The Daily Mail urges rapid steps as Tehran faces Nazi intrigue and potential pressure under German influence across the region.
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Iran
Roosevelt weighs order to seize shipyard at Kearny N J
President Roosevelt considered a government takeover of the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock yard at Kearny New Jersey where a CIO strike halts 493 million dollars of naval and merchant ship work. Demonstrators from 30 unions massed around the yard as Hawkes Congoleum Nairn president attacked the closed shop.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Navy
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kearny
N. J
C. I. O. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
National Mediation Board
Churchill
England
Federal Yard
Albert W. Hawkes
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congoleum-Nairn
Hawkes
Union
Second Soldier Dies of Injuries at Camp Polk
Private Patrick K Call aged 22 died in Camp Polk Hospital from injuries suffered August 14 when a reconnaissance car overturned near DeRidder Louisiana. He is the second fatality in the current Army maneuvers. Private First Class James D Robinson aged 20 of Columbus Georgia died yesterday from leg fractures and internal injuries after a tank overturn.
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Camp Polk
Patrick K. Call
DeRidder
Katherine Cail
Cold Street
Columbus
James D. Robinson
Robinson
66Th Armored Regiment
Second Armored
Churchill Returns to Britain After Sea Parley with Roosevelt
Prime Minister Winston Churchill sailed back to Britain aboard the battleship Prince of Wales after a historic sea meeting with President Franklin D Roosevelt and a visit to Iceland. He was greeted by Bren den Bracken and raised cheers as troops were inspected and a probable broadcast date was noted.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Roosevelt
Iceland
Brenden Bracken
United States
Churchill
Atlantic
Maine
Labrador
Roosevelt Signs Draft Age Bill
President Roosevelt signed into law a draft deferment measure for men 28 and older under the selective service act. The act lets eligible men request release from service when practicable and not harming national defense, and applies to those reaching 28 by July 1 1941. It also updates posting of board classifications and exempts some honorably discharged personnel.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Selective Service Act
Coast Guard
German siege pushes toward Odessa amid Ukrainian retreat
Reports say German forces close on Odessa from Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog with a plan likened to Tobruk or Dunkirk. The Red Army concedes Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog losses and counters on the northern flank as Russians claim 25 000 German casualties and heavy division depletion. Moscow reports a 20th air raid alert while raid success falls short. British and Russian raids continue in Iran amid protests from London and Moscow.
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Associated Press
Nikolaev
Krivoi Rog
Odessa
Red Army
Ukraine
Moscow
Germany
Iran
London
Arkansas Army Games Startled by Night River Crossing
Soldiers drove army trucks along a widened cattle path to a river edge in total blackout before dawn. Hidden by darkness, drivers crossed floating bridges with less than a foot clearance, while infantrymen moved on foot with full packs and rifles amid the eerie stars.
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Arkansas
Missouri River
Monroe Flight Teacher Killed In Auto Crash
Wayne Wireman a 32 year old flight instructor at Northeast Junior College was killed when his car hit a guard rail on highway 80 nine miles east of Monroe. Lelia Davis 19 and James K Reed 22 were injured as the 1941 Hudson convertible veered while dodging livestock. Wireman died on impact. Davis suffered back injuries and Reed had minor bruises.
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Wayne Wireman
Northeast Junior College
Lelia Davis
Washington Street
James K. Reed
Jena
Monroe
Wireman
Miss Davis
Reed
Rayville
St. Francis Sanitarium
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Abilene
Tex
Dixie Funeral Home
Junior College
Woman killed in seven story plunge in Cincinnati
Regina Fuhrer aged 33 of Greenwood Mississippi a junior executive of the Union of American Hebrew congregations died after plunging seven stories on a busy downtown Cincinnati street Police say she tripped over an extension cord near a fan while closing a window in her Merchants building office.
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Cincinnati
Regina Fuhrer
Greenwood
Miss
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Julius Bell
Merchants
Lear says Army morale is good over Life and Time claims
Lt Gen Ben Lear praised the Second Army and disputed Life and Time articles depicting low morale. A morale officer’s Washington inquiry found morale “is good,” and Lear tied national morale to preparedness, speaking at a Second Army staff conference in Prescott Arkansas.
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Second Army
Prescott
Ark
Ben Lear
Life and Time Magazines
Citizen Army
Life and Time
Washington
Life
Lear
Fire and Explosions Hit Brooklyn Waterfront Tragedy
A blaze caused by rapid explosions tore through the Brooklyn waterfront injuring about 55 people and destroying the Cuba Mail line freighter Panuco and a 3570 ton vessel. The towed Panuco burned near Buttermilk Channel as workers searched for survivors.
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Cuba
New York
Brooklyn
Lewis J. Valentine
East River
New York Harbor
Pier 27
Panuco
Buttermilk Channel
Governor’s Island
Guantanamo
Maestri Seen as Likely Candidate for New Orleans Mayor
New Orleans Aug 18 Mayor Robert S Maestri urged to run again by Alic Burke Regular Democratic leader amid a radio talk at Maestri fifth anniversary celebration Maestri said his administration operates on a sound cash basis and has reduced city debt by 20 million dollars since 1937 Open house at city hall marked the anniversary and the mayor spoke to citizens about his record New Orleans Open house celebration at city hall marked the anniversary
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New Orleans
Robert S. Maestri
Maestri
Alic Burke
First Ward
Huey P. Long
Earl K. Long
City Hall
Six Children Die in Farmhouse Fire Near Punxsutawney
In Grange near Punxsutawney Pennsylvania a farmhouse fire killed six children aged two to 11. Merle Bush 47 WPA worker said the blaze began from a coal stove soot explosion. Buck his wife and two other children escaped. victims Leora 11 Fanny 10 Curt 7 Shirley 7 Nancy 5 and Letha 2 were found upstairs.
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Punxsutawney
Grange
Pennsylvania
Merle Bush
WPA
Buck
Elva
Clay
Leora
Fanny
Curt
Shirley
Nancy
Letha
Germans lose heavy in new Ukraine push and port falls
Russian counter attacks save a Ukrainian city possibly Kiev as German forces suffer up to 20 000 casualties after advancing within five miles. Soviet dispatches claim continued Red Army gains on the northern flank while other fronts report city takeovers and major offensives along the Baltic to Black Sea frontline.
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Associated Press
Ukraine
Kiev
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Moscow
Nikolaev
Odessa
Krivoi Rog
Baltic
Black Sea
London
Adolf Hitler
Estonia
Leningrad
Semeon Budgonny
Dnieper
Defense work seen likely for northeast Louisiana
Mayors H H Benoit and H M Williams and Chamber official George D Holland returned from Washington praising reception of a study on alumina and aluminum production in the area. They say more alumina plants can be built if bauxite is imported from South America despite ship shortages. Foreign bauxite from British and Dutch Guiana would arrive at New Orleans and Mobile. An alumina plant near the Twin Cities would lie within the 200 mile Gulf coast limit for defense industries.
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Louisiana
H. H. Benoit
H. M. Williams
Chamber of Commerce
George D. Holland
Washington
National Defense
South America
British
Dutch Guiana
New Orleans
Mobile
Lake Charles
Baton Rouge
Twin Cities
Gulf Coast
Defense
Safety Record Update Shows Traffic Accidents and Injuries
This year 346 accidents and 45 personal injuries compare with 292 accidents and 4 injuries last year. Deaths are 4 so far this year, matching last year. A traffic rule bans left turns from any part of a street when another vehicle is near enough to risk collision, requiring a signal using the army left turn signal.
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Army
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