House Military Committee backs Burke-Wadsworth draft bill
The House Military Committee approved a Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill widening the draft to ages 21 to 44 inclusive. The panel set a 1 000 000 conscript limit to cover Navy needs, and debated aligning brackets with the Senate. Debate and House action expected to continue next week.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Senate
House Committee
House
May
Kentucky
Senate Military Committee
No Third Term Movement Organizes in Texas
A Texas group led by Mike Hogg forms to back Wendell Willkie and oppose a third term for any president. The meeting at Fair Park Auditorium pledges Democratic support for Willkie to preserve the republic and seeks a constitutional amendment to bar third terms.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Wendell Willkie
Mike Hogg
Houston
Fair Park Auditorium
Hogg
James Stephen Hogg
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Navy Signs 17000 Engine Contract With United Aircraft
Washington Aug 29 An agreement between the navy and United Aircraft Corp for 17000 airplane engines for army and navy at 160 million dollars was announced by Secretary Knox. The deal covers 1941 and 1942 fiscal years and requires funds from the defense appropriation bill pending in Congress.
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Washington
Navy
United Aircraft Corporation
Army
Knox
War Department
United Aircraft
Congress
Freed by Jury Indian Chief Faces Tribal Council
A circuit court jury in Macon Mississippi acquitted Choc taw Indian Chief Cameron Wesley of murder in the June slaying of Evans Tubbee at Dancing Rabbit Creek. Wesley testified self defense citing rocks and a club threat, and said he would face tribal trial in Neshoba County under Indian law.
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Macon
Miss
Cameron Wesley
Evans Tubbee
Dancing Rabbit Creek
Wesley
Tubbee
Neshoba
Johnnie Cotton
Cotton
Annie Wallace
Balkan Envoys Dispatch Terms To Governments
Hungarian and Romanian delegations met in Vienna to hear Rome and Berlin proposals for a Transylvanian settlement after separate two hour talks with German and Italian foreign ministers. Axis leaders indicated possible progress toward a four nation roundtable as Old Belvedere Palace prepared for formal talks.
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Edwin Shanke
Vienna
Old
Austria
Rome
Berlin
Pal Teleky
Istvan Csaky
Mihail Manoilescu
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Imperial Hotel
von Ribbentrop
Ciano
Axis
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Czecho-Slovak Republic
Carpatho-Ukraine
Ruthenia
Bel
Spelling Spider Spreads War Message in New Town
In Monroe's New Town quarter a so called spelling spider spun a web beneath a crepe myrtle beside Lula Coleman’s 612 Stone Ave home, displaying the phrase War in America. Neighbors gathered to read the letters a m r c w as wind damages the web and the spider struck at a reader.
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New Town
America
Lula Coleman
Stone Avenue
Lula
Labor Day Closures Announced by Twin Cities Chamber Official
Dave Silverstein, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Merchants Division, announced that businesses in the Twin Cities will close on Labor Day Monday in observance of the holiday.
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Twin Cities
Dave Silverstein
Chamber of Commerce Merchants Division
London Raid Bus Ride During Blackout
Newsman Milo M Thompson describes riding a blacked out London bus during a heavy air raid. He details eerie half light, searchlights, a lone driver, and silent passengers as the bus travels toward a bridge amid German raids.
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London
Associated Press
Wallace T92 Accept Party Nomination Debut in Des Moines
Henry A. Wallace will debut as the No. 1 Democratic national campaigner tonight in Des Moines when he formally accepts the party's vice presidential nomination. He was chosen weeks ago to lead the campaign speeches as Roosevelt plans to stay close to Washington amid the international crisis.
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Des Moines
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Roosevelt
Washington
Girl Dies of Burns After Fall Into Yard Incinerator
In Mississippi City, 17 year old Betty Harbert collapsed into a yard incinerator while burning trash with her brother John. She died from burns at the Harbert home, with her Birmingham parents.
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Gulfport
Miss
Betty Harbert
John M. Harbert
Birmingham
Harbert
Mississippi City
John
War Bulletins Lemons Sell For One Shilling Each
London August 29 Lemons imported mainly from Italy before the war are selling at one shilling each. Each purchaser is allowed to buy only one lemon.
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London
Italy
Paris reports Noel believed killed in action in May
In Vichy reports Jules Noel famed French weight and discus champion and captain of the 1924 Berlin Olympic team is believed killed in action on May 19. The dispatch notes Noel’s status as a noted athlete and team leader.
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Vichy
France
Pres
Jules Noel
Berlin
British Mother Records First Birth in Air Raid Shelter
Mrs Anne Plume claimed she was the first British mother to give birth in an Anderson air raid shelter after a German raid. The seven pound boy was named after Sir John An n. Continued on Eighth Page.
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London
Anne Plume
Anderson
Sir John An
Gambling King McManus Dies in Sea Girt After Acquittal
New York mourns "Gambling king of Broadway" George McManus who died at 48 in Sea Girt New Jersey after a six month illness from a heart attack. The famed gambler once faced murder accusations in the Arnold Rothstein case and was acquitted in 1928.
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New York
Big George” McManus
Sea Girt
N. J
Arnold Rothstein
McManus
Rothstein
Manhattan
Charles McManus
Harlem
War At A Glance Battles Wider Blitz Across Britain
AP reports a night aerial war with a wave of 200 Nazi planes as the Luftwaffe mounts its largest night attack on Britain yet, hitting London outskirts, industrial targets, and several cities while British bombers raid Berlin killing and wounding workers near government offices.
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Britain
London
Berlin
Liverpool
Chatham
Middlesbrough
Thameshaven
Balkan
Vienna
RAF Intercepts 200 Nazi Raiders In Dover Region
Allied air forces repelled a mass Nazi raid as RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes fought off 200 German planes over southeast England near Dover. Several craft penetrated coastal defenses and headed toward London but withdrew after British attacks.
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Associated Press
England
Dover
Hell's Corner
London
Britain
Portamouth
Releft
Tocey
Berlin
Boy dies after auto accident
Milburn L Edwards nine died at Vaughan Wight Bendel Clinic after a truck trailer rolled over him Tuesday at Walnut and Louisville avenue. He is survived by parents Mr and Mrs Robert W Edwards Monroe and grandparents Mr and Mrs R N Edwards Choudrant. Funeral by Dixie Funeral Home.
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Milburn L. Edwards
101 Street
Vaughan-Wight-Bendel
Dixie Funeral Tenens
Hue
W. & Hammons
Confetti Used by German Airmen as Escape Tactic
British airmen report German bomber crews drop confetti into the slipstream to blind pursuing fighters when on the bomber's tail. A pilot quipped that the Germans turning the blitz into a paper chase is no concern to them.
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London
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