France Defiant Over Japanese Indo China Ultimatum
France stood defiant as Japan demanded Indo China acquiesce within 72 hours to secret new demands. Tokyo threatened to wreck talks while shifting aims toward bases. Evacuation of Japanese nationals from Haiphong to Hanoi was under way amid fears of fighting as Japan prepared to move troops into Indo China.
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Hongkong
France
Japan
Indo-China
China
Hanoi
Pasage
Shanghai
Indo- China
Far East
Germany
Italy
Taovean
Rome
Egypt
Berlin
Roosevelt warns on dangers to free elections at Penns 200th
President Roosevelt urged that true safety of democracy rests on maintaining free elections and warned against efforts to deny voting to the unemployed. He cited risks of political power concentrating in a few elites and warned such control could threaten democracy. The remarks came during Pennsylvania University's 200th anniversary observance.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
University of Pennsylvania
Hamilton
Gibraltar jammed with Italian ships seized by English
Lisbon passengers arriving from Brazil described Gibraltar crowded with Italian freighters and liners seized by Britain. The Serpa Pinto had been ordered into Gibraltar for contraband inspection. A passenger claimed 70 bombs harmed the British fortress and that Italian bombers had not attacked in 20 years, aside from damage to an allied World War monument.
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Serpa Pinto
Brazil
Gibraltar
Italy
Third Term Issue to Elect Wilkie Declared by Martin
Hartisburg reports that Republican National Chairman Martin said the third term issue could elect Wendell Wilkie. He noted a large number of Democrats might oppose Roosevelt for a third term. Martin suggested Wilkie would deliver a major labor speech in Pittsburgh in the first week of October.
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Hartisburg
Joseph W. Marti
Wendell W. Wilke
Martin
Roosevelt
Wilkie
Pittsburgh
Religious editor pushes single six year term for president
Washington reports Baptist editor Stan Jey I. Stuber urged Catholics Protestants and Jews to back a constitutional amendment limiting the president to a six year single term. He warned a third term could threaten religious liberty and democracy. Other speakers including Vance C. McCormick urged two four year terms and cautioned that Roosevelt seeking a third term would disappoint Latin America.
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Stan
Jey I. Stuber
United States Baptist
Chicago
Senate
Vance C. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Harrisburg
McCormick
Roosevelt
United States
Axis powers nearer to America if they win war
Berlin report in the Fremdenblatt claimed axis powers would be nearer to America’s bases if victorious. The paper said axis campaigns expanded to remove Britain from Africa, while authorized sources cautioned that Europe would determine Africa’s fate.
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America
Berlin
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Britain
Africa
Fremdenblatt
European
Willkie Speech Links to Western Campaign Flight
Wendell Willkie's Los Angeles address is detailed on page 7 as part of his peacetime aviation plan. He is en route to San Francisco with a stop in Madison Wisconsin for a September 27 speech and then on to White Plains New York. The train trip continues after the Madison appearance.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Los Angeles Coliseum
Willkie
San Francisco
Wendell Willkie
Madison
Wis
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White Plains
Los Angeles
Spring Street
Willkie Speech Sparks Aviation Plan and Broadcast
Republican candidate Wendell Willkie urged peacetime aviation as a major industry and proposed four business-friendly steps. Charles L. McNary’s Aurora address will be broadcast on the Columbia Network between 1:30 and 2 p.m. CST. He warned against a fully regulated economy and criticized New Deal taxes as punitive and unfair. Willkie spoke in Los Angeles after a Bakersfield train-site stop and then greeted film stars at the Hollywood Bowl, citing Mary Pickford and Bob Montgomery as friends.
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Charles L. McNary
Aurora
Ill
Columbia Network
National Committee
Bakersfield
Calif
Willkie
Los Angeles Coliseum
Special Commission
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New Deal
J. W. Henry
Sherif
Joseph Scotti
Herbert Hoover
Williner
America
Mary Pickford
Walter O'Keefe
Bob Montgomery
Draght Boards to Decide on Married Men
Washington dispatch reports administration plans for blanket peacetime exemption of married men from conscription hit a snag as a legal clause defining dependents may compel some to report to army camps. Lawyers found the provision in the act, prompting a revision of proof sheets Roosevelt will sign to give the regulations law. The clause limits dependents to those actually dependent for support in a reasonable manner. Continued on Page 2. Column 3
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John A. Reichmann
United Press
Washington
International at Glange
Nazis ambushed RAF fighters hidden in clouds and pounced on 200 German warplanes over Dover as Churchill vows to rebuild London after bombed areas. RAF bombers pound German bases and coastal targets including Heidelberg. Invasion weather favors an attack while Tokyo reports new ultimata from Paris to Hanoi and Egypt focus.
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Churchill
Heidelberg
Dortmund-Ems
Rnineland
Hitler
English Tipped Off Kill Many Germans In Landing Drills
Pittsfield Massachusetts reports a bludgeoned body of Miss Madeline Clark found in Farnham's reservoir near a bloodstained car linked to Sylvester Delear. Authorities hunted Delear after witnesses identified him as a suspect in her murder while New York and European observers described German troop losses from channel exercises prior to an invasion.
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Mass
Madeline Clark
Farnham
Asst. Dist. Atty
Harold R. Goeney
Lenox
Massachusetts
Dellear
Clark
St. Helene’s Chapel
Miss Clark
Russell Wheeler
Pittsheld
Westby Lenox
New York
Channel
Solberg
England
Dover
Ter Weele
Netherlands
Tar Weele
Lancet Estimates Bomb Risk Near London Residents
The Lancet reports that the likelihood of a bomb dropping within 50 yards of any person in London is one in 280,000, based on recent bombing patterns. The figures come from British medical journal analysis intended to reassure the public amid the London bombings.
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London
Lancet
British Medical Journal
Churchill assures crowds Britain will recover from bombings
During a Battersea tour Churchill told gathered Londoners not to worry as he inspected bombed houses. Accompanied by Chancellor Kingsley Wood, he promised Britain would get it back despite calls for reprisals against Berlin. The remark appeared in today’s press.
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London
Winston
Joint group to take on business excess profits tax debate
Washington reports a Senate approval of an excess profits tax bill with a 31 percent jump in corporation taxes and a 25 to 50 percent rate on excess profits. Congress moves to a joint committee to reconcile House and Senate versions as leaders seek speed before adjournment. Senators La Follette and Wiley voted against the measure.
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Senate
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Progressive
Wisconsin
Wiley
Wisconsn
Hot Water Tank Blast Kills Two in Chicago Subbasement
An explosion in the subbasement of the Standard Oil building at 910 South Michigan Avenue fatally scalded two men and burned a third. Victims were Herbert J. Jordan 45 chief engineer and Frank V. Wore 37 assistant chief engineer. Herbert Adelhoffer a mechanic was carried to safety by Charles Polancy 30 stationary fireman.
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Standard Oil
South
Michigan Avenue
Herbert J. Jordan
Frank V. Wore
Herbert Adelhoffer
Charles Polancy
Nazis Leave In Disorder After Clash
London faced its 24th consecutive night of raids as German bombers approached the city. British fighters claimed to shoot down over 200 German planes in a southeast coast battle, with Hurricanes and Spitfires returning home to cheering observers. A German fighter fell near the channel port of Dover, and London anti aircraft batteries kept up a heavy barrage over the estuary while RAF bombers targeted German bases and occupied ports.
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French
British Press Association
Kent
The
Press Association
Dover
Channel
Thames Estuary
Dortmund-Ems
Germany
Air Ministry
Admiralty Reports Sinking of German Troop Transport
London reports the British admiralty announces the torpedo sinking of a 10 000 ton German troop transport off Denmark in the North Sea on Sept 2. The Sturgeon submarine fired torpedoes after escort withdrawal. Nearly all of about 4 000 men aboard are believed lost.
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Admiralty
Sturgeon
North Sea
Denmark
Marion
Hamburg
Katterat
Bilbao
Spain
Cabo Tortosa
Cape Finisterre
Muelva
Wisconsin Weather Summary From Associated Press Report
Partly cloudy and warm in Wisconsin with cooler NW areas tonight and Saturday generally fair. Milwaukee observations show a max 68 and min 45 with SW wind and barometer 29.45. Other notes list Fargo at 96 and Reno at 78 with regional timing and remarks from morning to evening.
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