RAF Strikes Twice at Foe In Wide Raids
British fighter planes operated over northern France as heavy RAF night raids targeted Cologne Le Havre and Boulogne. The government reported seven bombers and four fighters missing from yesterday operations while three bombers were missing on night forays. Scilly Islands bombs killed two people and injured others amid limited home air activity.
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London
France
Kent
Royal Air Force
Cologne
le Havre
Boulogne
Scilly Islands
England
Family Slayings in Brooklyn Tie to Desperate Delusions
In Brooklyn a mother and three children were found slain in a ground-floor apartment. Police say the note cites suffering from disease and investigators suspect the mother killed the children then herself while the father lay unconscious. A fourth child was seriously wounded. Neighbors heard screams and found the bodies amid blood-stained weapons.
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New York
Brooklyn
Ferey
William Morey
Edward Heffernan
Morey
William, Jr
Pickets At Kokomo Hotel Francis Trigger A Pattered Strike
In Kokomo Indiana at Hotel Francis a strike unfolds with orderly picket lines according to manager Thomas E Callen and police chief Clinton Jackson. A nearby union leader confirms orderly conduct but cites bystander sympathizers as causing trouble. Des Moines Iowa reports a separate note about a Des Moines grade school arithmetic book tied to Vice President Wallace. A Miss Barbara Beller 9 intends to keep the book despite a state senate purchase authorization.
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Kokomo
Ind
Francis
Thomas E. Callen
Clinton Jackson
Des Moines
Towa
Henry A. Wallace
Barbara Beller
Wallace
Senate
Farmer Mistakenly Brings Wrong Car Home
Farmer Ray Loucks received calls from two sheriffs demanding the return of an auto. He insisted the only car he owned was his own. By mistake he had driven another car home from Sabetha Kas.
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Ray Loucks
Ee Auto
Sabetha
Kas
Oklahoma flyer completes 22 second plane run
F D Whiting of Oklahoma City timed his southwest model flight at 22 seconds in the Dallas event. The plane vanished in a rain cloud and reappeared two days later at Lake Creek Texas about 100 miles away.
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NICE
Dallas
Tex
F. D. Whiting
Oklahoma City
Lake Creek
British Planes Shot Down by Nazis Report
Berlin reports German sources said seven British Spitfires were shot down before noon while attempting to pierce the French and Belgian coast. The list also claimed 16 British losses on yesterday’s air fighting, with 14 over the channel and two in raids on Western Germany.
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Berlin
Channel
Germany
Luftwaffe Attacks East Coast Harbor and Airfields
German counter blasts claim Luftwaffe attacked harbor facilities along the Ritsh east coast and destroyed five grounded planes at bombed airports overnight.
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Theritsh
Steel Worker Fatally Falls at Bethlehem Steel Plant
Vincent Colangelo 31 died after a scaffold fall at the Bethlehem Steel Company plant in Lackawanna yesterday. Medical Examiner Paul J. Rutecki released the report on the incident.
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Lackawanna
Vincent Colangelo
Bethlehem Steel Company
Paul J. Rutecki
First Battalion Attacks Second In Army Maneuver Lark
In Rockingham North Carolina on August 27 the First Battalion of the 41st eee attempted to attack the Second Battalion during a small scale drill. The Second Battalion broke from the plan by marching wide and seized its rival’s trucks including the kitchen and returned to camp. The First Battalion then hiked nine miles back to their base.
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Rockingham
N. C
41St Eee
Batalion
Defense Victims Richmond Barbers Priced Haircuts Up
Richmond barbers voted to raise their price from 40 to 50 cents to meet higher living costs. Their attorney Benjamin Lowenstein said they are suffering from national defense more than any other trade. He noted people work hard and have little time for haircuts.
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Richmond
Benjamin Lowenstein
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English Channel
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Ion Antonescu
Rumania
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Bessarabian
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Paul Morey
William
Furniture Company
Morey, Jr
C.S.O
Elmer Josephman
Paul
Junior
John
Union
Iowa
Fall City
Neb
Wells & Coverly University
America
Wells & Coverly, Betts. Building
Salina
Empire
Manhattan
Phoenix
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Tyrol
St. Louis, Mo
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