Military lineup of big six powers naval forces
The report details German air raids on Britain including London and Liverpool with heavy losses and fires. It notes British aircraft losses and German victories, plus impacts on Midlands plants and Scottish targets as 5000 tons of bombs reportedly dropped. The piece also mentions Allied bombing raids on Berlin and a prologue about a new German Italian Japanese alliance.
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England
Britain
London Docks
High Command
Merseyside
Liverpool
Midlands
English
Germany
Reich
DNB
Rolls Royce Motor Works
Derby
Baron von Butler
Edinburgh
London
Birkenhead
RAF Breaks Up Wave Of Attacks Over London
Nazi air raids strike London as 180 German planes push a major thrust north of the city. British fighters engage in hours of dogfights while anti aircraft fire roars. Several planes are downed near Oxted Godstone Tadworth and the Earl district. London shelters endure alarms as both sides exchange blasts across the Channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Outekirta
London
Lanedon
Channel
Oxted
Godstone Tadworth
Surrey
Earl
Air Ministry
Germany
English Channel
French
Calais
Harebor
Dover
Government files anti trust suit against oil majors
The United States sues the American Petroleum Institute and 22 major oil companies for monopoly, price fixing, and conspiracy under the Sherman act. The suit seeks dissolution of API and a halt to their anti competitive practices across crude oil reserves and pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Petroleum Institute
Justice Department
Federal District Court
District of Columbia
The
Petroleum Institute
Atlantic Refining Company
Barnsdale Oil Company
Cities Service Company
Consolidatedil Corporation
Continental Oil Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Ohio Oil Company
Phillips Petroleum Company
Pure Oil Company
Shell Union Oil Corporation
Shelly Oil Company
the Socony- Vacuum Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Kentucky
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Ohio
Sun Oil Company
Texas Corporation
Tidewater Associated Oil Company
Union Oil Company of
California
Department
Jackson Sunday
Anti-Trust Division
National Defense Commission
HouseAction urges states to bar forcible overthrow parties
Washington D C September 30. The House passed a resolution urging states to keep off ballots political parties advocating forcible overthrow of the government. The measure was sent to the Senate for consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Viay
Senate
Traffic Deaths Jump in August
The National Safety Council reports August traffic fatalities at 3 220, the highest monthly rise since March 1937, up 18 percent from 2 730 the prior August. Surge blamed on vacation travel with a 25 percent rural highway rise and only large cities showing decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
The
National Safety Council
Storm warnings posted from Sandy Hook to Nantucket
Weather bureau issued storm warnings for the coast from Sandy Hook New Jersey to Nantucket Massachusetts. Forecasts indicate winds of gale force could hit the area within the next 36 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Sandy Hook
N. J
Nantucket
Mass
Burglar Trapped by Patch of Pants in Grocery Theft
Police tied a break in at a Oak Street grocery to Jesse Edwards after a fabric patch from the transom patch matched a patched suit found in his room. Detectives recovered the suit a pocketknife with matching paint and forged discharge papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Edwards
Frank Pettit
Louis Meek
Edwards
Vero Cascio
Oak Street
Captain Pettit
Sergeant Meek
Cascio
Little Weather Change Forecast In Louisiana
Weather Bureau in New Orleans forecast only minor temperature changes for Louisiana Monday night into Tuesday. Cool nights lingered Sunday and Monday with lows near 46.5 and 47.9, while Sunday’s high reached 81.1. By early Monday afternoon temperatures rose to 80.2 as mild nationwide conditions persisted with below normal readings in parts of the Northeast and Southeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Civil Aeronautics
Selman Field
Mercury
Associated Press
Maine
Upstate
New York
Bangor
Caribou
Burlington
Syracuse
Albany
N. Y
St. Louis
Appalachian
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
Boston
middle-Atlantic
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Miami
el Paso
Tex
Montana
U S Prepared On Food And Fiber Declared Best Supplied Nation
I W Duggan southern regional director for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration told the Southern Regional Conference in Enid Oklahoma that the United States stands foremost in the world as the best supplied nation for food and fiber. He said no country has ever had as great a supply and noted the storehouses are full in a world of uncertainty. Farm officials from eight states attended the four day conference discussing the 1941 federal farm program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid
Okla
United States
I. W. Duggan
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Duggan
AAA
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Texas
Amphibian crash near Tampa Bay claims two airmen
A life jacket found four miles off Pinellas Point raises fears that a Coast Guard single engine Grumman amphibian crashed last night with two occupants. Pilot Lieutenant T. G. Miller and Seaman First Class T. B. Redman departed St. Petersburg at 6 30 p.m. for a routine patrol and were due back at 7 30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Pinellas Point
Tampa Bay
Coast Guard
T. G. Miller
T. B. Redman
Music campaign opens tonight in Monroe civic affair
Mrs. Mercedes Walker from Chicago addresses the Civic Music Association dinner at the Virginia Hotel at 8 p m opening the 10th annual civic music campaign. More than 100 locals attend. S A Moss presides and Rev Edward F Hayward gives the invocation. A vocal solo by Eloise Temple with Floyd H Kennedy at piano. Membership open. campaign runs to Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercedes Walker
Civic Concert Service
National
Chicago
Civic Music Association
Virginia Hotel
Monroe
S. A. Moss
Edward F. Hayward
Grace Church
Eloise Temple
Floyd H. Kennedy
Northeast Junior College Music Department
C. C. Calvert
Chamber of Commerce
D. B. Allbritton
P. A. Poag
Cliffie Olmstead
C. W. Oseland
Mark Person
P. E. Massey
Fagan Cox
John Sanders
R. M. Troy
George Varino
Walter Holloman
Roger Frisbie
Paul Duer
Harry Lemert
Dallas Goss
Beulah Doerr
H. M. James
E. C. Gibson
L. V. E. Irvine
Lowery Jefferson
J. Kern
Storment
LSU enrollment falls 170 from last year
Baton Rouge September 30 Louisiana State University enrollment including its branches stood at 7602 today, 170 less than at the end of the registration period last year. Students may register until October 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
War at a Glance on Fronts Across Europe and Atlantic
British fronts report long range gun duels across the Channel with daylight raids on Britain following night attacks. RAF bombs German coasts while Berlin endures a one hour fifty minute alarm. London suffers heavy toll as invasion danger lingers. Gibraltar crisis looms as Axis drive nears. Voice of Fascists foresees Spain joining the Axis. Pravda claims Britain and United States cooperation. Russia remains neutral. Mediterranean combats include Italian air strikes on fleets and bombed British bases as rationing begins in Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English Channel
Britain
RAF
Germany
Berlin
England
London
Gibraltar
Virginio Gayda
Axis
Spain
United States
Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Italy
Pact said to widen war front as axis ties form
Pravda declares the three power pact signals broader war expansion and new spheres of influence. Pravda notes Russia was informed in advance and remains neutral while Germany and Italy push non intervention in far eastern affairs. Axis diplomacy moves toward Moscow or Berlin as talks with Russia intensify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
United States
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
Germany
England
Europe
Africa
China
Japan
Italy
Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Spain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Molotoff
Wilhelmastrause
von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Rome
Kidnap Case Hero Declines Reward in L.A.
Cecil Wetsel, called The Kidnap Hero, declines his $12,500 share of a $25,000 reward for rescuing 3 year old Marc de Tristan Jr. Wetsel, an El Dorado county sawmill operator, says he turned down the sum because he has children of his own and is making personal appearances at a theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cecil Wetsel
Marc de Tristan, Jr
Wetsel
el Dorado County
Weiss Faces Contempt Trial Before Judge Oser
Seymour Weiss already serving a federal sentence for mail fraud stood trial before Criminal Judge Fred Oser on contempt charges for refusing to answer parish grand jury questions. He and former Governor Richard Leche, a Song political figure, were linked to alleged "hot oil" deals as the grand jury probe began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Seymour Weiss
Fred Oser
Dock Board
Huey
Richard v. Leche
Nazi's Stocking Substitute Earns Him 4 Prison Years
Berlin reports a German man who sold a pencil device to mimic silk stockings as a nonrationed substitute. He charged 3.34 marks and sent a brown gray makeup tool with instructions to draw seams on the legs for a realistic look. The scheme led to a four year prison sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Associated Press
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BIG Six Powers
United Kingdom
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Edinburg
Leith
Scotland
USA
AIR Forces
Ada
U. S
Institute
House Action
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Council
U.S
Pettit
Meek
Southern
Headquarters
Weiss
Oser
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