Cardenas Forces Brace For Almazan Challenge Across Mexico
Mexican government tightens control with patrols on highways airports and trains as Almazan followers threaten a swift seizure of power. Troop reinforcements move to the north while Avila Camacho is favored by officials and Trechuelo predicts early uprisings in several states.
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Cardenas
Almazan
Mexico City
Juan Andreu Almazan
Mexico
Graciano Sanchez
National Confederation
Manuel Avila Camacho
Angel Trechuelo
Congress
Avila Camacho
Chamber of Deputies
Trechuelo
Chihuahua
Jalisco
Durango
Sonora
Sinaloa
Ministry of National Defense
el Paso
Tex
Almazanistas
Churchill Addresses House As Sirens Scream Warning
Churchill told Parliament that the British American destroyer exchange and defense base deal keeps the United States out of the war while warning Hitler could strike the US later. He pledged Britain will endure heavier air raids as August civilian casualties reached 1,075 dead.
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London
Winston Churchill
United States
America
Hitler
Churchill
House of Commons
England
Britain
Lunch program ruling opens free meals to private schools
Baton Rouge September 5 P Needy children in private and parochial, as well as public schools, may join the state free school lunch program under an attorney general ruling. First Assistant W D Goff says $250 000 appropriation aligns with Supreme Court decisions on free texts. He notes superintendent John E Coxe may fund a lunch supervisor from the same appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Attorney General's Office
W. D. Goff
John E. Coxe
United States Supreme Courts
Goff
Coxe
Secretary Knox Inspects Bay Area Navy Yards
Secretary Frank Knox visited Hunter’s Point Drydock and Mare Island Navy Yard as part of a defense program survey in the San Francisco Bay area. Rear Admiral Hepburn and other navy officials accompanied him on the inspection before his Hawaii-bound flight.
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San Francisco
Hunter’s Point
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy
Frank Knox
Hawaii
Knox
A. J. Hepburn
12Th Naval District
Bay Area
Two More Escaped Convicts Die in Arkansas Capture
In a Southeast Arkansas plantation cabin before dawn two more of 36 Cummins Prison Farm escapees were shot and killed while resisting capture by a posse of guards. James Scott and Raymond Harrell, ages 21 and 24, died. B G Holtzclaw, 47, was captured nearby. Scott and Harrell had been serving time for grand larceny and robbery, while Holtzclaw, alias Harry Martin, had murdered a filling-station operator and served time in Folsom and Texas prisons.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Cummins
Labor Day
Louisiana
James Scott
Raymond Harrell
Pine Bluff
B. G. Holtzclaw
Douglas
Scott
Harrell
Waterloo
Ala
Holtzclaw
Harry Martin
Louisville
Elmo Kelly
Warren
Folsom
California
Texas State
al Reed
Winchester
Measure Approved By House To Equip Army, Build Navy
EASTERN CRISIS SEEMS QUIETER The House approves a military measure to equip the army and expand the navy as tensions ease. In Indo China, French and Japanese authorities near a negotiated settlement over Haiphong and the railway. Regular shipping between Hongkong and Indo China to resume.
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Army
Hong Kong
Hanoi
Hongkong
Indo- China
Fur Platform Shoes Fashion Trend Hits New York Runway
Mary Elizabeth Plummer reports from New York on fur platform shoes elevating fall fashion with leopard coverings and three inch wedges. The feature notes Hattie Carnegie's collection, bold evening gowns, fur accents, and vivid color names like Purple ink and tomato juice red, highlighting new American designs in Fifth Avenue showrooms.
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Mary Elizabeth Plummer
New York
Hattie Carnegie
Suzi Brewster
Blackamoor
Paradise Fox
Bill Would Boost Defense Funds Past $15 Billion Mark
The House approved a comprehensive bill to provide equipment for an army of 2,000,000, start a two ocean navy, and buy 14,394 aircraft for the army and navy. The measure would push defense appropriations well beyond the $15,000,000,000 threshold and return to the Senate for changes before Roosevelt signs.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
Woodrum
Virginia
Await Volunteers Before Any Forced Reserve Call Up
Washington officials said no immediate general order would compel reserve officers to active duty. The plan relies on volunteers to meet army needs. if insufficient, the National Guard Mobilization Act would order 40 000 to 50 000 men for an army of about 1 200 000. Corps areas were asked to survey reserves, seeking lieutenants under 36, captains under 44, field officers and doctors for extended duty.
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Washington
War Department
Department
National Guard
Aswell Sues Allen Pair for 100000 in Alleged Slander
James B. Aswell of Natchitoches a Louisiana congressional candidate files a Rpades parish suit seeking 100000 in damages against A Leon Allen Harwell Allen and D M Riddle Jr alleging they acted as agents in the Eighth district to spread a malicious whisper that Aswell wrote a worthless check to hurt his campaign.
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Alexandria
James B. Aswell
Natchitoches
Congress
Eighth District
Louisiana
A. Leonard Allen
Winnfield
Harwell Allen
D. M. Riddle Jr
Pineville
Rapides Parish
Aswell
Young Allen and
Riddle
Eighth
Allen
Walker Nominated for Farley's Post
Washington September 5 Frank C Walker of New York City and Scranton Pa aged 54 lawyer and water owner was nominated by President Roosevelt to be postmaster general succeeding James A Farley who resigned Walker native of Plymouth Pa started in Montana is an old friend of the president and former head of the National Emergency Council also served as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in early Roosevelt term
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Washington
Frank C. Walker
New York City
Scranton
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Walker
Plymouth
Montana
National Emergency Council
Office of Government Reports
Democratic National Committee
Abdication and war fears cited in Balkan crisis report
AP dispatch notes King Carol II abdication to join Magda Lupescu in exile, transfer of dictator powers to new premier as 80 000 Hungarian troops advance into Northern Transylvania under axis direction. Rumanians clash with Hungarians, about 150 killed. RAF raids hit Berlin and London amid ongoing air war. Mussolini reports six British ships damaged and 17 RAF planes destroyed in Mediterranean clashes.
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Balkan
Carol II
Magda Lupescu
Transylvania
Rumania
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Tiergarten Park
Spandau Electric Works
Army
Churchill
London
Mediterranean
Four U S Ships Guarding Mines in Greenland Patrol
The Brooklyn Eagle reports four armed United States Coast Guard vessels with about 500 crew guard Greenland's cryolite mines near Ivigtut. Cutter Comanche and assigned officers return from patrol. Washington bars talk of their mission.
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New York
Brooklyn Eagle
United States Coast Guard
Greenland
State Department
Washington
Comanche
Eagle
Ciizens
George W. Campbell
Northland
Duane
Ivigtut
War Bulletins From Boston To Canada And Panama
War bulletins detail the first three of 50 United States destroyers sent to Great Britain and sailing in Indian file from Boston harbor toward a Canadian port. Nine other ships at Boston Navy Yard receive minor repairs and painting, with possible departures today. In Colon Panama, passengers on the Orduna say five freighters in the same convoy were torpedoed and sunk five days from Liverpool.
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Boston
United States
Great Britain
High Seas
Boeton Harbor
Boston Navy Yard
Colon
Panama
England
Liverpool
Antonescu Ruler as Romania Reforms Power Structure
In Bucharest the ailing King Carol surrenders vast powers to General Ion Antonescu, with Madame Lupescu reportedly banished from the throne circle. The shift follows territorial pressures from Soviet Russia and Hungary as Antonescu pledges a nationalist program to heal the nation and solidify royal understanding with the army-backed premier.
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Carol
Antonescu
Carel
Antonesecu
Madame Lupescu
Kingedom
Romania
Russia
Hungary
Nazi Troops Lost As Sub Sinks Ship With 4000 Aboard
Stockholm dispatch reports German transport Mariott of Hamburg sunk by British submarine in Kattegat en route to Norway. About 7,900 troops drowned. under 100 survivors saved by two trawlers and a destroyer. Witnesses include Swedish and Danish fishermen at Lysekil Goteborg.
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Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Baltic Sea
Lysekil
Ness Goteborg
Mariott
Hamburg
Norway
Germany
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North Sea
U.S
King Carol
Secretary Knox
Trusty Guard
Milady
Farley
Associated Press
U. S
Istanbul
Beanarabia
Bus Eovina
Moscow
Bucharest
Hlage Gard
John Milton
St. Giles
Milton
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