United States must act against communism, DA warns grand jury
District Attorney Baron Fitts urged firm action against communist influence in America in a grand jury address reported by the Los Angeles Times. He warned that destruction of legitimate unions and other organizations is a step toward overthrow of government, urging decisive measures to protect the country from Russian treason at home.
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Rumania Opens Territorial Talks as Hungary Dispute Grows
Rumania begins territorial talks with Bulgaria over Depnija province while awaiting HUngarian terms on Transylvania. Bucharest papers soften anti-Hungarian stance amid Berlin criticism as regional tensions rise and communications between Paris and German-occupied zones are suspended.
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Hungary
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War blame trial begins in Riom old city
Riom, France. August 8 1941. The Supreme Court of defeated France opens the war blame inquiry to determine who led the country to disaster and what punishment they should face. Pierre Caous, former president of the wartime court, presides the seven member panel with Henri Lagarde as vice president amid names like Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Leon Blum, Georges Mandel and Pierre Cot mentioned in the press as possible targets of charges. The inquiry may take days to months of investigation before any formal charges are entered.
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Air
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Reaiwins
Friends Leave Man Kills Self in Dallas
In Dallas a man named John Titus Keen shot himself after asking two friends to leave his room. They heard a shot, found him wounded in the neck with a pistol beside him. Justice of the Peace Lewis Steryvely ruled death by his own action.
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Johnn Titus Keen
Keen
Justice of the Peace
Lewis Steryvely
Weather MPRMATURES Readable Weather Summary
Weather forecast notes Wednesday and Thursday with temperatures around 78 degrees and a peak 82. It reports humidity levels, daytime highs near 78 to 82, and evening lows around 60s. The text mentions precipitation expectations and wind data, plus a rough monthly rainfall total near 1.55 inches.
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Army Arsenals on 3-Shift Basis
War department plans three shift operation at six arsenals to boost gun and ammunition output. Factories in Rock Island Watertown Philadelphia Dover Picatinny and others will hire thousands more workers and pay time and a half for hours over forty. The move aims to raise production by about 65 percent and increase skilled and unskilled labor across the facilities.
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Picatinny
New Zealand Begins General Reserves Enrollment Draft
Wellington Aug 8 The government issued a proclamation for enrollment of general reserve manpower for compulsory national service. The first division targets single men aged 19 to 45 with exemptions for native Manis.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Day of Prayer Set by FDR
Hyde Park N Y August President Roosevelt designates Sunday September 8 as a day of prayer for all Americans. He urges people of every creed to seek divine aid for the land and troubled world requesting a righteous enduring peace and a just permanent settlement among nations.
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Hyde Park
N. X
Roosevelt
Devine
State Prison Fig Dis Haylem Captain Dies In Crash
Captain ALN Owen 58 in charge of the Haylem state prison farm near Sugarland died at 6 40 a m after his car collided with a heavy moving van on the Houston San Antonio highway Just inside Harris county His car was demolished and he was pinned under the engine of the auto truck in the wreckage
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Sugarland
Houston, San Antonio
Harris County
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