Rental plan under draft 5 approved in House
Washington report notes House Military Committee approved an amendment to the peacetime conscription bill. It would authorize the government to take over industrial plants on a rental basis to produce defense materials, paying "fair and just" compensation. Debate opened on a peacetime draft, with differences over age limits and scope of drafting industry.
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House
Washington
House Military Committee
May
Senate
Smith
Connecticut
Mey
Kentucky
Representative Short
Missouri
Overton
Democrat
Louisiana
Russell
Georgia
Hoffman
Michigan
Powder Bomb Explodes At Lake Geneva Theater
A bomb placed against an alley exit door at the Geneva Movie theater exploded last night during a showing of 800 patrons. Patrons were shocked but unharmed. door and nearby businesses sustained light damage. Police say two unexploded bombs were found nearby recently and a manager offered no explanation.
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Geneva
Convicts escape Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas event
A mass jailbreak at Cummins Prison Farm Arkansas ends with 36 convicts on the run after killing a guard and wounding another during a Labor Day breakout. Two ringleaders captured after a 30 minute gun battle near Garland City, while a third wounded escapee was found hiding. A separate band near Columbia Louisiana killed posseman Frank Gartman and abducted three youths who remain missing.
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Cummins
Ark
Y— Grim
Arkansas
Louisiana
Garland City
W. E. Barner
Union County
Columbia
Frank Gartman
Ray~ville
Gartman
Anna Laura Diamond
Rayville
Vondele Williams
Jerry Harnigie
Frank Conley
Troy Wade
Claude Martin
Conley
Wade
Martin
Percy Loflin
Labor for Defense and Conscription Debate on Labor Day
Labor's pledge to aid national defense drew strong union support while opposition to peacetime conscription surfaced from leaders William Green of the AFL and John L. Lewis of CIO. They urged shorter enlistments and higher pay for volunteers, warning compulsory service could bring dictatorship.
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Associated Press
Labor
William Green
A. F
John L. Lewis
C. S O
Organized Labor
Congress
Perkins
Boston
Green
Dar
Denver
Lewis
Washington
Milwaukee
George W. Lawson
Minnesota Federation of Labor
Lawson
America
Carl F. Zeicher
Herman Seide
Milwaukee Federated Trades Council
American Federation of Labor
Zeidler
God
Romanian resistance rises as Hungarian advance worries Balkans
Berlin warns Ruanians to stop rioting as an attempted assassination of King Carol is reported at the Bucharest palace. Romanian leaders Gen Dargolina and Gen Comiciu vow to resist, while Cluj and Brasov scenes show rallying followers and public oaths against the Vienna dictated cession.
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Bucharest
Transylvania
Balkans
Berlin
Ion Dargolina
Mihai Comiciu
Cluj
Julius Manin
Vienna
Germany
Italy
Brasov
National Guard Ordered to Report for One Year Active Duty
Washington announced sixty thousand National Guardsmen, first contingent under new mobilization law, ordered to report September 16 for a year with the regular army. About a fourth of the mobilization was named, including the Forty fourth Thirty first Forty fifth and Forty first divisions, 18 coast guard artillery regiments and four observation squadrons, with tank units excluded. Wisconsin units were not affected.
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Washingston
National Guard
War Department
Roosevelt
Coast Guard
International at a Glance: Air War and Balkan Tensions
Reported air battles over the Southeast coast and London alarms with limited damage. British raids on Genoa injure and kill. Central Mediterranean attack damages battleship carrier cruiser and destroyer in Italian claims. Bakhtar party leader organizes resistance in Transylvania amid Romanian border tensions. Soviet Russia seeks clarification from Germany on Romanian border guarantees.
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Associated Press
London
Scotland
Channel
Boulogne
Berlin
Germany
Genoa
Italy
Mediterranean
Batkars Peasant Party
Transylvania
Rasa
Wallace Carroll
United Press
Uri
Royal Ar Force
Air Ministry
Kent
Essex
Ships Won’t Be Sunk Assured in British Policy
The United States received definite assurances from Britain that its fleet would not be surrendered or sunk if waters around the British Isles became untenable. Secretary Hull and Lord Lothian issued a public exchange confirming this settled policy amid plans to trade 50 aging destroyers for air and naval bases.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
British Isles
State Department
Hull
Lord Lothian
White House
British Commonwealth
Italy claims success for new Picchiatelli dive bombers
Rome reports newly formed Picchiatelli squadrons surprised a British naval squadron in the central Mediterranean and scored hits on a battleship, an aircraft carrier, a cruiser and a destroyer. Four British planes were shot down. Italian losses not stated. One Italian raid also damaged the British base at Malta with three Italian planes lost.
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Rome
Italy
High Command
Mediterranean
MaMa
Willkie Opens Parleys With Eastern States Leaders
Rushville Ind Willkie launches a series of political conferences to plan party work for the November election. A Thursday campaign meeting with 22 eastern and midwestern states and the District of Columbia will conclude the series. He will attend a luncheon at Masonic Hall at which Republican officials are served by members of the Order of Eastern Star. Willkie, busy drafting addresses, waved to crowds from his front porch as Mrs Willkie greeted well wishers.
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Rushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
Midwestern
District of Columbia
Masonic Hall
Order of Eastern Star
Willkie
Roosevelt Says Bases Abroad Key to Defense
On a special train to Washington President Roosevelt stated that air and naval bases acquired in British crown colonies from Newfoundland to British Guyana would keep the enemy away from America. He called the bases possibly the most important defense move since the Louisiana Purchase and suggested further distant bases might follow. He said bases would be under American control, final locations to be decided by a British American board, and the 30 overage destroyers traded to England would be transferred soon. He declined to reveal if ships were en route to England and noted Canadian or British crews would man them.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Newfoundland
Gimana
America
Western Hemisphere
England
Greenland
U. S
United States
Marquette May Get Naval ROTC at Wisconsin Campus
Washington debates a 210000 Navy ROTC funding line in the second supplemental national defense appropriation bill. Wisconsin Senator La Follette backs Milwaukee's Marquette University for a local ROTC unit after consulting university rep Rev B J Quinn and navy officials. House must now review the bill changes.
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Washington
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Wisconsin
Marquette University
National Defense
Senate
la Follette
Mibhwaukee
Naval
R O. T. C. Nnt
Stem
B. J. Quinn
University
Navy
Senator Byrnes
South
Caroline
Appropriations Committee
House
Courageous British Children Rescue After Torpedoing
Britons hailed the courage and training of 320 child war refugees after a liner carrying them to Canada was torpedoed. The ministry of information noted it took only three and a half minutes for the children to reach lifeboats, then were removed to unpowered vessels. The vessel’s name and the torpedoing location were not announced.
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Londor
Canada
Ministry of Information
Wisconsin death toll rises in Labor Day weekend crashes
WI reported twenty three fatalities over the Labor Day weekend from highway crashes and a Jefferson County raceway collision. Victims included Larry Drews and William Denhardt in Milwaukee and Madison, and Joan Snyder in Janesville.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
Larry Drews
Madison Township
Dane County
William Denhardt
Milwaukee
Lester B. Peachy
Burnett
Guy Hopkins
Rockton
Frank Wierer
Chicago
Henry Leonard
Joan Joseph Snyder
Janesville
Arthur M. Easton
Hanover
Wis
Vairgil Remiker
Cato
Drews
Middleton Road
Denhardt
Blue Mound
Milwaukee Couniw Olne
Peachy
Hopkins
Watertown
Wreter
Jefferson County Foorgrounds
Wierer
Leonard
Chippewa
Accient
Snyder
Aalanesq
Madison man saves boy from lake during checkering case
Madison 28 year old Fritz Winter Botham, awaiting a superior court sentence in an alleged checkering conspiracy, rescued seven year old William Clausen from Lake Manitora yesterday. The boy had fallen from a boat about 100 feet from shore. Winter Botham, a filling station operator, and two passersby pulled him to safety. Sentencing was postponed for one week due to Winter Botham’s exhaustion.
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Madison
Fritz Winter- Botham
Superior Court
Dsr
Checketing
William Clausen
Roosevelt Agreement Lets U S Lease Bases, Transfer Destroyers
President Roosevelt notified Congress of a U S Britain naval base exchange and destroyer transfer deal. The plan frees bases in Newfoundland Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana while 56 destroyers move to Britain. First eight ships at Boston for Canadian port transfer to British crews.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Great Britain
South Atlantic
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Bahamas
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad
Antigua
British Guiana
Jackson
White House
Navy Department
Britain
Boston
Navy
Senate
House
Lord Lothian
Hull
Union Lake Waters Recede Aids City as Guards Stay On
Flood waters at Union Lake receded and the 33 foot dam remained guarded after a night of sandbagging. The city of Millville, population 18 000, saw 400 families return home as river levels dropped, but new washouts and roads closed in southern New Jersey. Wireland’s downstream dam failures continued to threaten the region while authorities warned of lingering danger along Allanue County avenues.
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Millville
Union Lake
New Jersey
Stili
Pineland
Allanue
Weather Summary From Wisconsin and Midwest Readings
Weather report from Associated Press noting warmer, fair and partly cloudy conditions in Wisconsin and central regions. Observations list 7:30 am and 1:00 pm readings with highs and lows for Milwaukee and other cities, mentioning winds from the southwest and barometer readings.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Rome
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