Army Guns Adequate Draft Bill Enters Senate Debate
Army Chief of Staff General Marshall said the War Department has plenty of material to train all men drafted as Senate debate on the compulsory training measure continued. Senator Barkley proposed a 1,200,000 man one year cap, while Lodge’s amendment would limit conscripts to 800,000 in training at any one time. He plans to seek a limited debate to finish the measure this week. House committee postponement noted.
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Washington
Army
Marshall
War Department
Senate
Senator Barkley
Senator Lodge
House Military Committee
Mystery of Nazi tactics solved by London observers
British and American airmen in England reveal Nazi raids used lead planes with navigation gear. Leaders navigate while followers fly blind if leader falls. Germans hastily built planes to save cost, affecting combat outcomes. Note compares German and American wartime fighting styles and a Pan Americanism figure.
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Washington
U.S
England
London
Berlin
Hitler
Military stumble shows unprepared guard unit in action
Washington dispatch details the 260th Coast Artillery's failed mobilization to Northumberland Pennsylvania. Trucks were short, trains not provided, and food and fuel scarce. Colonel Burns improvised by using private cars to move 80 soldiers, but two trucks failed and arrival was six hours late, with exhausted troops eating lukewarm chow.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
District of Columbia National Guard
260Th Coast Artillery
W. W. Burns
Northumberland
Burns
National Guard
Pennnsylvania Avenue
Adjutant General
260Th
Pennsylvania
Bombers Hit Terbuk and North Africa Targets
Royal Air Force reports night raids on Terbuk in Italian Libya and coastal oil storage tanks with direct hits causing large explosions. Attacks also struck Torbuk El Adem and other North African positions. Three Italian bombers were destroyed. all RAF planes returned safely. South African aircraft conducted reconnaissance over Italian Somaliland and dropped bombs on seaplane jetties piers and government buildings.
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Cairo
Royal Air Force
Egyptian Command
Terbuk
Italian Libya
Torbuk
el Adem
Italian North Africa
Union of South Africa
Italian Somaliland
Stock Quotations and Dow Averages Summary
New York closing stock prices list Alaska Juneau 4 percent, Anaconda 20 3/4, Bethlehem Steel 78 4, Commonwealth and Southern 14, Curtiss Wright 74, General Motors 47, International Harvester 45, Kennecott 27, New York Central 11, Northern Pacific 6 1/2, United States Steel 52 3/4. Dow Jones averages Industrials 126.46 Rails 27.09 Utilities 22.28. 1939 income of Iowa farmers from farm products was 626,748,000.
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Alaska
Juneau
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Commonwealth and Southern
Curtiss Wright
General Motors
International Harvester
Kendecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States
DOW, Jones
Towa
8 Man Crew to Run Big FCC Station in Juneau
Juneau's 24 hour FCC monitoring station to detect foreign radio agents may be built this fall. Chief Inspector W Ford Greaves says eight men will staff the site, with a temporary frame building first and Glacier Highway as likely location. Alaska will gain new primary and possible secondary monitoring stations, with eight to nine new personnel in six months. (Continued on Page Eight)
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Juneau
Federal Communications Commission
W. Ford Greaves
Greaves
FCC
Stacey Norman
Nome
Anchorage
Glacier Highway
Alaska
United States
Leon Trotsky dies in exile after assassination in Mexico
Leon Trotsky, organizer of the original Red Army and political exile, died last night after a knife strike believed linked to Soviet secret police OGPU. Jacques Mortan VanDemelscid, 35, a native of Tran Tretaky, was named by police as the attacker. Trotsky's death ends a tumultuous career from Bolshevik war minister to exile champion.
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Leon Trotsky
RED Army
Soviet Union
Mexico City
OGPU
Jacques Mortan VanDemelscid
Tran
Tretaky
Stal
Melvin E. Coleman
The
Associated Press
Lev Davydovich Bronstein
America
United States
Nikolai Lenin
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Asia
Mexico
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Russia
Siberia
Archangel
Warsaw
Napoleon
Lenin
Communist Party
Trotsky
Turkestan
Turkey
France
Sweden
Norway
Stalin
Germany Won't Guarantee Safe Conduct for Kids Shipst
Berlin August 22 Germany says it cannot guarantee safe passage for vessels carrying children out of the war zone in response to a US proposal to amend the Neutrality Law. The announcement was issued by DNB the official German news agency.
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Germany
Berlin
DNB
Ment
United States
Governor Gruening Sees Alaska Boost From Son's Wedding
In San Francisco Gov Ernest Gruening of Alaska expressed optimism over defense plans after his son Huntington, a steamship company employee, wed Elizabeth Tagalls of Boston at City Hall. He hinted at future New Zealand travel, praised rapid Army Navy progress, and predicted three major naval bases and two Army stations. He noted Alaska’s lack of prior defenses and urged consideration of the new program.
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Cal
New Zealand
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Huntington, Steamship Company
Hugh Smith
Elizabeth Tagalls
Boston
Gruening
Army
Navy
Gov. Gruening
Anchorage
Jaska
New Blows Struck by Mussolini in Mediterranean War
Associated Press reports Mussolini boasts sharp new blows against British naval forces in the Mediterranean. Claims include torpedoing two warships and bombing others, with a Fascist torpedo boat sinking a submarine and another undersea craft torpedoing a British destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean. In Cairo, Egypt reveals a mobile division ready to resist invasion from Libya as British and Allied leaders warn Hitler may pivot east if faced with England's defense.
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Europe
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Cairo
War Ministry
Libya
Archibald Wavell
Great Britain
Middle East
Hitler
England
Napoleon
Japan silent on U S bases reported on Pacific coast
Tokyo reports Yukichiro Suma declined to say if leasing by Britain or Pacific naval bases to the United States would breach the status set by Cordell Hull. Suma noted such leases would be important but said no confirmation exists of any planned transfer.
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Tokyo
Yukichiro Suma
Great Britain
United States
Cordell Hull
Suma
Mrs Warden Returns From Seattle Trip to Alaska
Mrs. Matt Warden and her sister in law Miss Virginia Warden of Beattie sailed for Juneau on the Mount McKinley. Mrs Warden had been visiting Seattle for six weeks and this is their first trip to Alaska.
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Matt, Warden
Virginia Warden
Beattie
Juneau
Mount McKinley
Warden
Seattle
Alaska
British Air Ministry reports raids on Germany and France
The British Royal Air Forces attacked oil refineries airports and rail hubs in Germany and France amid bad weather. One plane missing, a British convoy endured shelling from German shore batteries near Boulogne. Air raids continued with small scale assaults on England as German claims of widespread sorties persist.
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Germany
France
Colum KO
London
British Air Ministry
Royal Air
Associated Press
Strait of Dover
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Boulogne
Calais
England
English
Royal Air Force
Sir Oliver Lodge Dies In Wiltshire At 89
London Aug 22 Sir Oliver Lodge 89 renowned scientist and spiritualist died today at his Wiltshire home He had long told friends he was not afraid of death Curtis Here traveling man boarded the Northland guest at the Gastineau Hotel Thatcher Here popular traveling man from Ketchikan came in on the Northland He is at the Bar and on of
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Sir Oliver Lodge
Wiltshire
England
Oliver
Curtis
T. R. Curtis Cane
Northland
Gastineau Hotel
Thatcher
Earl Thatcher
Ketchikan
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Portsmouth
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Egypt
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Japan
U. S
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