Royal Canadian Air Force plane crash claims five lives
Five Royal Canadian Air Force personnel die when a pontoon aircraft crashes off Vancouver Island en route from Alliford Bay to Patricia Bay. Names listed include Squadron Leader R. C. Proctor and Flying Officers H. L. Gordon J. G. Desbiens. Search parties and salvage work begin at dawn. Also notes Mrs Alonzo Cope en route with two children visiting Campell River area.
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Campbell River
British
Columba
Discovery Passage
Royal Canadian Air Force
Vancouver Island
R. C. Proctor
Edmonton
H. L. Gordon
Regina
J. G. Desbiens
Vancouver
G. H. Bourne
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Ottawa
R, G. Brown
M. N. MacAlphine
Alliford Bay
B. C
Queen Charlotte Islands
Patricia Bay
Southern Cross
Hitler says no plan to visit Western Hemisphere
Washington reports show American isolation as Hitler cautions against South America. He told Hearst interviewer Karl von Weigand he has no intent of visiting the region. King Features quickly offered to sell the interview to Latin American papers, then discovered Hitler had already released the speech through German channels. Meanwhile GOP leaders in Des Moines debated the McNary Hagen bill, vetoed by Coolidge and Hoover, with Senator McNary central to the effort.
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Washington
Hitler
U. S
Great Britain
Navi
United States
Europe
Western Hemisphere
Adolf Hitler
Hearst
Karl von Weigand
South America
King Features
Weigand
Latin America
Des Moines
McNary- Hagen
Congress
Coolidge
Hoover
Charles McNary
Wet
Old Socks Flap From Mr Bertha Mount Bertha Expedition
Bradford Washburn and party reach Mount Bertha in Glacier Bay as a stick with two old socks marks the summit. Washburn explains the socks were a frugal substitute for a cairn to honor the ascent. The team, rich in supplies and huskies, ferries gear by air and overland from Hugh Miller Inlet to establish camp and push toward the peak.
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Mount Bertha
Glacier Bay
Bradford Washburn
Fairweather Range
Young Washburn
Washburn
Juneau
Kinky Bayers
Forester
Hugh Miller Inlet
Hugh Miller
Alex Holden
Brady
No Trouble At Anchorage On Air Base
Two foremen were discharged for insubordination after a fight at the Engineering Supervisor Camp headquarters on the new Army air base in Anchorage Alaska. Several other foremen threatened to quit but remained at work while 1700 acres have been cleared in two months. One thousand men are at work as nine temporary barracks and other structures near completion along with more than a mile of railroad track and half a mile of warehouses and unloading platforms.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Army Air Base
Edward George
Big Loans To Britain For War Effort Reported
Singapore dated dispatch says Straits Settlements government will raise twenty five million Straits dollars for a war loan. The Federation of Malay States adds twenty million dollars. Malay sums total five million pounds sterling to be presented to the British Imperial government as a gift for war prosecution. Special war taxation, likely income tax, will cover debt service and not be charged to Britain.
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Singapore
Straits Settlements
Federation of Malay States
Conn Pastor Fight Date Set to September 6
New date for the Conn-Pastor boxing match was announced as September 6 to avoid clashing with a night game between the Eastern College All Stars and the New York Panty professional football team.
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New York
Eastern College All Stars
New York Panty Profession
Grecian Cruiser Sunk Off Tinos Island Harbor
The Greek cruiser Helle, 2 115 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while at anchor near Tinos Island. One officer is missing, twenty nine men injured, and censorship was imposed after the loss amid tense Italo Greek relations. Built in 1912 in American yards, the Helle served as a minesweeper and was the second largest vessel in the Greek Navy.
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Athens
Tinos Island
British Liner Transylvania Sunk By German Submarine
The 16,923 ton armed merchant cruiser Transylvania, sailing from New York, was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic. Between 30 and 40 sailors are presumed lost after life boats capsized. More than 300 officers and men were saved, including Captain F. N. Miles, and the survivors were landed at a west coast port. This is the seventh large liner sunk in the war.
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London
Transylvania
West Indies
New York
Atlantic
Admiralty
F. N. Miles
Bridges Case Is Taken Up In Senate Debate
The Senate Immigration Committee voted 6 to 5 to approve a measure directing Attorney General Jackson to decide if Harry Bridges CIO leader on the Pacific Coast should be deported. The bill serves as a substitute for the House mandate calling for Bridges deportation to Australia.
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Washington
Senate Immigration Committee
Jackson
Harry Bridges
Pacific
Bridges
Australia
Legion leader calls surplus sale and home defense stance
Salem Oregon August 15 National American Legion Commander Raymond Kelly of Detroit justified the Legion program against subversive activities as the first step in home defense in troubled times. He said the Legion favors selling surplus war materials to Great Britain but opposes sending men overseas.
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Salem, Ore
National American Legion
Raymond Kelly
Detroit
Legion
Kelly
Great Britain
Bolters May Decide Election As Both Sides Bank On Floater Support
Political notes argue that both Democrats and Republicans count on splits within the opposition to gain victory. Analysts cite Willkie’s rift with the GOP Old Guard and bolting figures like Burke Cotton Ed Smith and Lewis Douglas as evidence. The piece predicts rising Democratic turnout among Republicans and notes a larger cross-party swing than ever before.
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Wasminglun
Old Guard
Willkie
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Burke
Cot
Wallace resigns from Cabinet to seek VP bid
Washington Aug 15 Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace resigned from the Cabinet at a luncheon conference with President Roosevelt. He said the resignation letter would be made public later and that he will devote his time to his candidacy for the Vice Presidency on the National Democratic ticket.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Roosevelt
Wallace
Laughing Sparks Alleged Brutality at Boys School Hearing
A former inmate Michael Barron testified before a committee investigating guards at Whistler State School for Boys. He said guards punished him for laughing, part of a probe prompted by two boys taking their own lives at the institution.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Whistler State School For Boys
Michael Barron
Young Barron
Sky Raiders Strike England in Largest Air Onslaught
Allied reports describe a massive Nazi air armada exceeding 1,000 aircraft storming the British Isles in a 30 mile wide formation. Britain says 55 raiders shot down and fleets clash from the Thames estuary to Lands End as Churchill warns invasion danger remains. A separate crisis grows in southeast Europe with Greek naval losses and Italian threats, while German claims of parachutists landing in England surface amid intensified raids.
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British Isles
Phines
Thames Estuary
Lands End
England
Europe
Helle
Greece
London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Hargesia
British Somaliland
Great Britain
Britain
Italy
Bulgaria
Moscow
Rome
Russia
Thrace
Aegean Sea
Folkestone
Lympne
Dover
Scotland
DNB
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Maygaret Jane
Cthe Ily Bsa
Oxford
Yale
Oxford University
New Haven, Conn
Yale University
Mr. Bertha
Mountaineer
Associated Press
Wendell L. Willkie
Wall Street
Will
SKY Raiders
Assalut
Berlin
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