Knox says U S Navy conveying aid as convoy plan unfolds
Secretary of the Navy Knox confirmed American warships are conveying lend-lease aid while refusing to reveal method details. Observers expect weapons shipments to Iceland and escort of vessels around Africa to Britain, with U S ships aiding Middle East supply routes. He pledged using all means to aid Great Britain, noting changes since World War I.
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Iceland
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Middle East
Great Britain
Rhineland Bombed Again by British Forces
British bombers struck Germany's Rhineland for a second night in a row with heavy raids on Karlsruhe and other targets in Nazi occupied France. The daylight raid on France earlier caused fierce aerial battles over the English Channel as Berlin reported 16 RAF planes shot down.
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Germany
Rhineland
France
Karlsruhe
Berlin
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Lawrence County Farmers to Celebrate 25 Years of Extension Progress
Lawrence County Agri cultural Extension Association marks 25 years since founding as the Farm Bureau. Banquet at Epworth Church tonight honors the group’s contributions to local agriculture and farming. A city query confirms Grant Street is proper. Christmas is 97 days away. leaves begin to fall earlier in some areas. Specimens of fringed gentian and bottle gentian sit on The News business desk.
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Epworth Church
Lawrence County Agricultural Extension Association
Lawrence County Farm Bureau
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Daily Weather Report for the United States
The 24 hour period ending at 9 am shows a maximum temperature of 80 and a minimum of 45 with no precipitation. River stage is 4.6 feet. The date a year ago recorded a max of 79 and a min of 43.
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United States
President to Sign Record Tax Bill Today
President Roosevelt expected to sign the $3,553,400,000 tax bill today, the largest in U.S. history. Sen. George Ga. predicts enactment of another measure to raise large sums next year as the law becomes effective almost immediately. Corporate and individual taxes rise due next spring. new excise levies take effect October 1.
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Navy pledges to convoy lend lease ships to Britain
Washington Sept. 18 The United States Navy defied Axis threats to sink lend-lease cargo ships by convoying merchant ships bound for Great Britain as fast destroyers patrol the Pacific to locate a German raider. Administration officials emphasize resolve to keep vital munitions flowing to Britain and Russia despite noninterventionist charges. Secretary Knox publicly confirms convoying as part of strengthened arms supply effort.
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William S. Neal
Hitler
British Bombers Hit France In Daylight Raid
A large force of British bombers with fighter escort crossed the channel toward the French coast in daylight. The raids continued a nonstop campaign against western Germany and occupied France with repeated attacks on the Meiland industrial area after prior heavy blows.
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International News Service
London
Germany
France
R. A
Mieland
Stambaugh Seen Likely as National Legion Head
Milwaukee Sept 18 election of Lynn A. Stambaugh Fargo North Dakota lawyer as national commander of the American Legion appeared certain as the convention neared its final session. Three candidates remained Stambaugh Scheiberling Albany New York lawyer and Raymond Fields Guthrie Oklahoma newspaper publisher with Roane Waring Memphis withdrawing to back Stambaugh.
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Lynn A. Stambaugh
Fargo
N. D
American Legion
Milo J. Warner
National Legion Convention
Stambaugh
Edward N. Scheiberling
Albany
N. Y
Raymond Fields
Guthrie
Okla
Roane Waring
Memphis, Tenn
City approves four dozen modern street lights for district
The council authorized the Pennsylvania Power company to install about forty eight modern 600 candlepower street lights in the Long avenue Moravia street district at no cost to the city due to an existing contract. Demonstration lights on the South Side showed reflectors directing illumination downward. Lights will be mounted on brackets in a stagger system with possible removal of iron standards.
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Moravia Street
Pennsylvania Power Company
Russia Moves To Add To Red Army Reserves
Moscow reports a new war bulletin says all males between 16 and 50 will be groomed for military service. Soviet air force planes bombed a train with troops and munitions on the southern front near Dniepropetrovsk. The Red Army claimed a victory over Heinz Guderian’s Nazi tank forces at Bryansk with heavy losses for the enemy.
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Leningrad
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Guderian
Bryansk
Armory inspection by state officials at New Castle
A Pennsylvania Armory board delegation led by Acting Adjutant General Robert M. Vail and including Major-General Edward C. Shannon and Col. John Woodend inspected the Joseph V. Cunningham Armory in New Castle late Wednesday afternoon. The party, staying at The Castleton Hotel, planned and carried out further inspection at Grove City the next morning.
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Joseph V. Cunningham
Pennsylvania Armory Board
New Castle
Robert M. Vail
Edward C. Shannon
John Woodend
T. J. Elliott
Mervin L. Bingaman
Vail
Castleton
Grove City
Russian Major General Taken by German Forces
Berlin reports Pavel Chistoff, a top Stalin aide and Russian Major General, captured five miles from Bryansk on September 3. He was found while inspecting a planned defensive line between Bryansk and the Dnieper mouth near the Desna river, with the Lenin order noted as a recent decoration.
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International News Service
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Josef Stalin
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Crimea
Leningrad
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Wnieper River
Stalin
Desna
Death Record Notices for September 18 1941
Rev. W. W. Sniff of Harlansburg road and Louise R. Rohrer Brown aged 66 of 718 East Reynolds street are listed in the death record.
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W. W. Sniff
Harlansburg Road
Louise R. Rohrer Brown
East Reynolds Street
Lawrence County Extension banquet marks 25 years of service
The Lawrence County Agricultural Extension Association celebrates a quarter century of farm service with a banquet at Epworth Church at 7 30 this evening. President Robert P Peebles will preside. Organized officially July 15 1916 the group has grown to bring specialists and demonstrations to farmers, with M S McDowell delivering the principal address.
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Lawrence County Agricultural Extension Association
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Robert P. Peebles
Scott Township
M. S. McDowell
Pennsylvania
Margaret
Finnish Warship Ilmarinen Sunk Off Hangoe
The Finnish warship Ilmarinen has been sunk after a sea battle with Russian ships off Hangoe at the Gulf of Finland entrance. About 250 of the 330 crew are feared lost. Ilmarinen, 3,900 tons, was Finland's key battleship alongside the Vaeinoemoeinen. Further details were not yet available.
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Nazis Retreat After Russian Victory On Leningrad Front
London reports Nazi forces have retreated nine miles after a Russian victory on the Leningrad front. The Leningrad radio quoted that Soviet troops fight to be victors and note enemy divisions entering the battle while Russians push counter blows amid heavy losses.
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International News Service
London
Leningrad
Indian Mound Unearthed Near Bradford With Relics
Arch aeologists of the Pennsylvania Historical Society excavate a mound at Bar Smith farm west of Bradford revealing 16 burials and about 200 relics nine centuries old. Edmund Carpenter leads the dig as three skeletons are found in cis t number one near the Kinzua dam area.
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International News Service
Bradford
Pennsylvania Historical Society
Bar! Smith Farm
Allegheny River
Edmund Carpenter
Rochester
Tutankhamen
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Vania
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Kinzua
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Point Peninsula
County Men to Leave Friday for Induction in New Cumberland
Twenty local draftees from county Boards One and Two depart Friday for New Cumberland Pa to enter military service. Eight farm easterners board at Ellwood City 5 45 am headed for Ellwood City via P L E Railroad for induction.
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L. E
William Bell Morrison
Pershing Street
Victor Zenas Copper Jr
Crescent Avenue
Robert Paul Hazen
Hazen Avenue
Henry Stanley Gurgacz
Ralph Avenue
New Castle
William Harold Friday
Joseph Arnold Brandon
Line Avenue
Peter Paul Jaskolka
Wampum
West Side
Pennsylvania R. R
William Gerald Nelson
Bessemer
Elon Ray Coates
Dominick Donald Tropen
R. F
New Middletown
William S. Pilch
Bluff Street
William Frederick Thompson
New Wilmington
Jose Mike Ostrosky
Russell Donald Widdowfield
New Galilee
Walter Fred Galbreath
William Gierlach
Fred Natale Gallo
Hillsville
Frederick Omar Donaldson
William Edward Parkes
Lincoln Grade School Closes After Polio Report
Beavers Pennsylvania Sept 18 Lincoln grade school shut after nine year old girl found to have infantile paralysis. George A McCormick said other schools might close as a precaution.
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Lincoln
George A. McCormick
Hard Coal Miners Protest Dues Increase Nationwide Walkout
Twenty two thousand insurgent UMWA members show no sign of ending a nine day walkout that has cut anthracite coal production in Pennsylvania. They demand the $10 dues and assessment raise be reversed and plan a meeting to decide on broadening the strike to Scranton Wilkes Barre and Schuylkill areas. Four thousand Scranton area miners returned to work yesterday. Local leaders in Mahanoy City threaten to join if John L Lewis does not appear within two weeks to defend the hikes.
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International News Service
Hazleton
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre
Schuylkill Valley
Scranton
Mahanoy City
John L. Lewis
Former Ridgway Postmaster Placed on Probation
William C. Salberg former postmaster of Ridgway was given five years probation after pleading guilty to embezzlement totaling 1400 dollars. He claimed the shortfall was from overdrawing a private account later repaid within days. Judge Nelson McVicar noted the unusual circumstances and indicated leniency.
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Pittsburgh
William C. Salberg
Ridgway
Nelson McVicar
Salberg
McVicar
First U S Plane Shipment Reaches Soviet Russia
Washington reports the first consignment of American made warplanes has arrived in Soviet Russia. Aimed at speeding aid to the Soviet front, the volume and exact types remain secret but a steady flow from the United States and Britain is anticipated. An American aviation team has also arrived to train Soviet crews. The route and counts are undisclosed.
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Great Britain
Russia
Soviet Union
Near East
Africa
Reprisal Steps Are Taken By Germans Against Chileans
Berlin reports that several Chileans have been taken into custody in reprisal for the arrest of 28 alleged Nazi leaders in Chile. The action mirrors past retaliations where Latin American nations move against Germans within their borders.
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Berlin
Germany
Chile
Wailing coachers cry over ruined team in damp weather
Arthur Memeter notes the football squad suffers injuries and poor material. He describes the running back with grip, fullback with knee pain, and tackles with sprains. He claims the tale of woe is a familiar act to mislead the audience as the weather is seventy four.
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