Roosevelt outlines lease and lend aid to Britain
President Roosevelt presses a rapid armament program and explains a plan to aid Britain without heavy cash gifts. He proposes taking over British orders in the United States and leasing or selling them, with repayment in kind or future munitions, while Navy contracts expand destroyer production and ship facilities.
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United States
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Bhut
Roseevelt
Britain
Mr. Roosevelt
Arrow
British Empire
Knox
Coed Wins Wings at Dickinson College Carlisle
Aliee Abbott of Philadelphia becomes the first coed to win a C A A student pilot training program wing at Dickinson College Carlisle Pa. Abbott previously broke tradition last spring by earning a varsity letter on the men's team.
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Dickinson College
Carlisle
C.A.A
Aliee Abbott
Philadelphia
C.P
President Foresees Need for Production to Strengthen Defense
The speaker warned that war costs hinge on finance and production. He recalled 1914 talks of Britain aid and neutral acts debates. He argued the United States must expand productive facilities to bolster defense and meet British orders without urging direct aid.
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Europe
Britain
United States
Fatal blast in Cincinnati building kills whole families
Investigators probe a deadly downtown tenement blast that shattered bricks and killed fifteen people including a baby born in wreckage. Ground floor tenants Joseph Koebbe and Elmer Campbell perished. debris hid Koebbe as rescuers freed him. Officials consider explosive contents or gas as possible causes.
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Cincinnati
Lillian Schuetzer
Joseph Feldman
Hasamen
A. C. Moorhaus
Joseph P. Koebbe
Koehbe
Elmer “Tack” Campbell
Dward Shearwood
Moebbe
Campbell
Koebben
Iremen
Raymond Roy
Feldman
Koebbe
Roy
Swmelent
Maryland Governor declines on Fifth Regiment veteran home guard plan
Gov O Connor avoids comment on a proposal by Fifth Regiment Veterans Corps to invoke a 1922 law and set up a Maryland home guard immediately. Brig Gen Bowls supports mobilizing veterans now while lawmakers would act in 1941. Veterans fear loss of guard authority if federal service begins.
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Baltimore
Govenor O'Conor
Fifth Regiment Veterans Corps
Maryland Home Guard
O'Conor
Veterans Corps
Old Guard
Washington Bowls
National Guard
Veterans
20 Draftees to Get Call in Maryland Draft
Maryland faces a second draft call approaching 1 1 2 hundred men with the state quota at 716. Local boards will supply about ten men each, using a 20 percent outlay for questionnaires. Induction will be centralized at Baltimore Fifth Regiment Armory to handle the larger intake.
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Maryland
Army
Fourth Corps
North
South Carolina
Third Corps
O’conor
Pennsylvania
Virginia
District of Columbia
Baltimore
Fifth Regiment
Goose Grief Over Hunter After Geese Strike
In Maxwell California a hunter named L L Barrett was struck on the head by a goose fallen from the sky after a shot from his gun. Two doctors in the hunting party revived Barrett after he was knocked unconscious.
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Maxwell
Calif
Dec
L. L. Barrett
Barrett
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Vocalian
Columbia Records
Dad
Silvertone
Star Performance
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Scooter
Dial Typewriter
SEARS
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Potomac ST
Hagerstown, MD
Hagerstown Gas Co
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Washington Street
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