Origins of draft bill spark suspicion in Washington
Obscure origin of the draft bill raises questions about sponsorship by a lame duck senator and a Republican representative, with concerns about military propaganda and the fairness of draft boards. Personal investigations suggest administration backing and War Department support, kept non political as campaign year nears, avoiding overt links to the White House.
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Washington
New Deal
House
Aee
Military Taining Camps Association
War Department
White House
Almanac fragment lists sundial times and daylight notes
The clipped Page Three Almanac section shows daylight times for Thursday in 1940, with sunrise at 5.55 am and sunset at 4.00 pm, plus references to lunar data and lighting notes for tonight.
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Thurse Ang
Suiset
Alkatik
Monnises
Officials Map State Exposition Exhibit Plans
Officials from New Hampshire and regional groups met at the Rockingham hotel to coordinate a state exhibit for the 22nd Eastern States Exposition during September. The plan blends state, regional, and industry showcases with historic and scenic highlights to attract visitors while retaining regional identities. Participants included Maj. A Erland Goyette and Donald D. Tuttle with regional secretaries, with wives touring Portsmouth historic houses and Seacoast beaches.
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Reading
A. F. Redden
Portsmouth
A. E. Goyette
Peterborough
B. Cole
Lebanon
E. Ejlingwood
A. G. Hazeltine
Woodsville
DD. Tuttle
Concord
S. A. Spiller
New London
All. Felker
Laconia
Harold A. Hart
Wolfeboro
New Hampshire
Rockingham
Springfield
Mass
New England
Storrowton
Old
State Planning and Development Commission
State Planning and Development” Commission
Building Commission
Woodcock Grouse And Deer Plentiful This Season
Woodcock, ruffed grouse and deer are more numerous this season, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department reports. Special measures are underway to ensure good pheasant hunting, with stocking continuing through August and September. 250 and 300 birds released in Belknap, Strafford, Hillsborough, Merrimack and Rockingham counties. Birds are banded for migration studies, and hunters are urged to report banded birds with kill date and location.
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Ralph G. Carpenter
New Hampshire Fish and Crime Department
New Hampshire
Belknap
Strafford
Hillsborough
Merrimack
Rockingham
the Fish and Game
May Seize War Debt Funds Considered By U S
Secretary Maorgeelhen disclosed the United States was weighing taking World War I debt payments from frozen French funds. He said legitimacy and effects on American investments must be reviewed before any release or offset. France owes about 4.06 billion dollars from the last war.
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Washington
Maorgeelhen
United States
Treasury
Tha
France
Car Collision Shakes Somersworth Women Near Eliot
A car driven by Eugene Boire of Somersworth collided with Alice truck driven by Chester Larrabee of Kittery on a sharp curve at Farmers Corner Eliot. Several Somersworth women, one en route to visit her mother at Portsmouth hospital, were shaken up in the crash.
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Somersworth
Portsmouth Hospital
Eugene Boire
Alice
Chester Larrabee
Kittery
Farmer's Corner
Eliot
Woman Killed As Car Crashes In New Gloucester
A woman identified as Beatrice Mesher of Wilton, manager of a moving picture theater, died after a car hit a culvert abutment in New Gloucester. A man, Forrest Carleton of Auburn, was seriously injured with a fractured skull.
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New Gloucester
Beatrice Mesher
Wilton
Forrest Carleton
Auburn
Troops Parade Tonight for 197th Coast Artillery at Rye Beach
Nearly 1500 enlisted men and officers of the 197th Coast Artillery New Hampshire National Guard parade at Rye Beach at 5 15 pm in a week of intensive wartime training. An advance detachment will stop at Fort Ethan Allen and Winthrop New York while the motorized column moves from Rye to Concord Fort Ethan Allen and Winthrop. The Second Battalion with the band and medical staff travels to Winthrop from Portsmouth with two brief stops along the route.
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197Th Coast Artillery
New Hampshire National Guard
Rye Beach
Charles F. Bowen
Kanes
Upper
New York State
Francis Crowley
Fort Ethan
Alien
Winthrop
N. Y
Fort Ethan Allen
Pye
Concord
Portsmouth
Two Autos Collide. Two People Uninjured
Miss Ruth Maguire of 603 Lincoln Avenue drove a sedan that collided with a light delivery truck at the Chestnut and Porter streets intersection. James Healy of Woodbury Avenue operated the truck, owned by John Leary Grocery on Islington Street. Both vehicles were badly damaged and towed. no injuries reported.
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Ruth Maguire
Lincom Avenue
Chestnut and
Porter Streets
James Healy
Woodbury Avenue
John Leary
Islington Street
Chestnut ‘Street
State
Maguire
Forter Street
Duke Sees Bermuda Treats Crew To Beer
The Duke of Windsor onboard the American Export Line Excalibur served beer to the crew as the ship reached Hamilton Bermuda. Preparations continued for the landing and the duke and duchess appeared in good spirits aboard the liner.
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Duke
Bermuda
Crew
Duke of Windsor
Hamilton
Farley Quits Post In Roosevelt Cabinet
President Roosevelt accepted with real regret the resignation of James A Farley as postmaster general effective Aug 31 about two weeks after Farley steps down as national chairman of the Democratic party. He resigns after the Chicago convention to return to private life and amid chatter he may head a syndicate buying the New York Yankees.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
James A. Parley
Farley
Democratic Party
Parley
Chicago
New York Yankee
Wallace
Hopkins
Ted
Post Office Department
Wille
Merchants' Bureau backs paid secretary for Chamber
Portsmouth Merchants' Bureau members at a special meeting favored establishing a Chamber of Commerce with a paid secretary to promote the city as a business, industrial, and resort center. They will survey merchants, seek advice from experts like Robert J. Eustace, and gather data from other cities and the New England Council before polling merchants on revived status. Twenty members attended.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Merchants’ Bureau
Portsmouth Gas Co
Merchants’ Bureau
J. D. Hartford
Chambers of Commerce
Robert J. Eustace
Robert J.eustace Associates
Chicago
Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Bu- Tea
Hetail Merchants' Bureau
Ié¢W
New England Council
Mississippi To Keep Bandit Pair For Trial
Boston Aug. 8 AP Two young bandits Stanley Bielanski and James Tillotson were captured in Biloxi Mississippi and face arraignment for robbing the Wiggins bank of 1906. Mississippi authorities plan to try them there while New Hampshire and Massachusetts plan to indict them for other robberies and shootings but will not seek their return. A stash of nearly 300 dollars in silver was found in a swamp near Poplarville, bringing the total recovered to about 1600 dollars.
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Boston
Stanley Bielanski
Chicopee
James Tillotson
Manchester
New England
Mississippi
Biloxi
Miss
Wiggins
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
South
Concord Reformatory
Polca
Poplarville
John F. Stokes
President Roosevelt calls for nationwide day of prayer for peace
President Roosevelt proclaimed Sunday September 8 as a day of prayer for peace for Americans of all creeds. He urged the nation to seek divine blessing and a just, lasting peace as daily reports of suffering abroad intensify concern.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
RAF Beats Off Nazi Air Attack Over Channel
Britain seeks Indian help as Italy threatens Mediterranean lifeline. RAF repels large Nazi air armada over the Channel and southeast England. at least 50 German bombers, escorts, vs about a dozen British fighters. Indian constitution talks also noted in parliament.
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Associated Press
Britain
India
Italy
Red Sea
RAF
British Commonwealth
Channel
England
Commons
House of Lords
British Commonwealth” of Nations
Militia Mobilization Vote Near In Senate
Washington Aug. 8 AP Senate rejection of a plan to let National Guardsmen resign before active training moved the militia mobilization bill toward passage. Senator Barkley urged a 4 pm vote on a measure authorizing the president to call the guard and reserve officers into service for one year. An amendment granting 20 days after passage to turn in uniforms failed 47 to something. The debate split over whether conscription or voluntary enlistment should supplement the guard.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Dansher
H-Conn
Amin
Dana+her
Nortis
Hunt for Missing Girl Shifts to Vermont
Search for Patricia Cain 21, daughter of a Cambridge food magnate, moved to Vermont after two young women matching her description were reportedly seen in Waterbury. Vermont investigator Almo Franzont told Massachusetts authorities that a Waterbury woman, Mrs. Deil Couley, reported seeing a young woman resembling Cain in town hours after her sighting in Lawrence.
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Melrose
Mass
Patricia
Cain
Cambridge
Vermont
Almo
Franzont
Massachusettts
Waterbury
Deil Cooley
Miss Cain
Lawrence
Maas
Neals Outrageous Geography Rant About Russia Growth
Neal O'Hara complains about Soviet expansionism using satire and hyperbole. He jokes that Russia occupies vast territory, cites absurd per capita acre figures, and asks why Moscow keeps pushing outward while comparing it to a tea room and polar bears in Siberia.
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Siberia
Russia
Joe Stalin
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Syeyerey Ees
Greenland
Dannes Nampton
Tee Lozal
Newington
Radin
South Berwick Aeers
Stratham
New Hampshire Center
U. 5
Merchants’ Bureau Group
Bandit
Royal Air Force
Africa
London
Zeila
British Somaliland
Berbera
Solons
Hunt
Neal O'Hara
New York
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