Senators Cite Havana Pact as Western Hemisphere Solidarity
Senator Pittman declares the Havana treaty ratification shows Western Hemisphere nations stand united to meet any aggression from the Axis. He says it minimizes Eastern Hemisphere solidarity and proves hemispheric readiness, as Berlin reports Japan aligning with Germany and Italy.
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U. S
Axis Americas
Pittman
Washington
D.-Nev
Havana
Japan
Senate
Berlin
Senate “Foreign Relations Committee
United Front
Germany
Saburo Kurusa
Italy
Asia
C.P
Hagerstown gets Fairchild publicity for Denver plant plan
The Denver Post run a double page spread praising Hagerstown Maryland and Fairchild Aviation Corp stating the town hosts a factory building military trainer ships for national defense. Nine photos show workers at the plant a trainer awaiting test flight Dick Henson beside a trainer and a class at Hagerstown High School.
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Denver Post
Hagerstown
Fairchild Aviation Corp
Denver
Dick Henson
Fairchild
Hagerstown High School
Weather Today and Labor Day Weekend Coast and Interior
Weather Bureau Maryland reports fair conditions inland with increasing cloudiness along the coast tonight and Sunday. Chesapeake Bay winds will be northeast to east, with moderate to fresh levels south. system predicts clear, cool weather today tonight and Sunday with slightly higher temperatures Sunday.
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Weather Bureau
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Weather Outlook for Middle Atlantic Sept 28 to Oct 2
Semi weekly forecast for the Middle Atlantic States. Generally fair early in the period with light to moderate showers expected around Wednesday. Temperatures rise gradually toward Saturday and Sunday, with cooler conditions in northern and central New York on Sunday and below normal temperatures Monday through Wednesday except near normal in northern New York.
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Middle Atlantic States
New York
Failure to give Russia a place in alliance may be axis undoing
DeWitt Mackenzie argues the Nazi Soviet pact excludes Russia from the triple alliance of Germany Italy and Japan. He warns Moscow may react with hostility triggering a broader clash with Germany and Japan, potentially shaping the European war’s outcome.
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Russia
Dewitt MacKenzie
Germany
Italy
Japan
Europe
Asia
Soviet
von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Tokyo
London
Moscow
Stalin
Democrats 10 Hold Rallies in Hagerstown Next Month
Two large rallies for the Roosevelt-Radcliffe-Byron ticket will be staged in Hagerstown next month. President Wm. Preston Lane announced dates and locations will be set at a future special session. Lane called Roosevelt a proven leader and bulwark of strength amid a broad discussion of campaign duties.
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Hagerstown
Democratic Organization Club
Wm. Preston Lane
Yght
Lane
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Radio Servicing Course Offered by High School
Ha gerstown High School will offer an evening course in radio servicing for employed workers. Registration starts 7 p m October 1. The two hour sessions run twice weekly for twelve weeks, taught by Kenneth E Maxham of the electrical trade department.
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Hagerstown High School
Kenneth E. Maxham
China Sees Benefit From Axis Alliance
Chinese observers in Chungking say China benefits from the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis as United States may be forced to confront Japan in a decisive Pacific war. Roosevelt embargo on scrap iron to Japan is welcomed by officials.
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Chungking
China
Tokyo
United States
Japan
Pacific
Roosevelt
Escaping Steam Fatal At Cedarhurst Plant
In Westminster Maryland two workers at the Congoleum Nairv plant were burned by a sudden steam release from a boiler. Herschel Ford died at University Hospital Baltimore shortly after the 1 am accident. Melvin Ritter survived with severe but stable burns. The boiler did not explode. the plant makes rug materials.
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Westminster
Congoleum-Nairv
Cedarhurst
Herschel Ford
Gamber
University Hospital
Baltimore
Melvin Ritter
Air Line Road Plan Abandoned in Maryland
Maryland officials abandon the plan to purchase the 43 mile right of way of the air line highway along the old Washington Baltimore and Annapolis electric railway. The State Roads Commission will take over seven miles adjacent to Washington and create an alternate entrance from the defense highway into the capital. If a new Baltimore Washington highway is built, it may be constructed largely on federal property including the Green Belt tract and the Agriculture Department experimental farm.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway
State Roads Commission
Commission
Ezra B. Whitman
State Law Department
Washington
Capital
Baltimore-Washington
Greenbelt
Department of Agriculture
Twin Births Make Sister Trio Mothers in One Day
In Penfield Illinois on September 28 Mrs Jerome O'Donnell welcomed twin sons becoming an aunt twice as her two sisters also had daughters. Mrs Jerome Clancy of East Chicago Indiana and Mrs Arthur Salmon of Herrick Illinois each received a baby girl the same day.
Speed trap trap speeds working in prefabricated house
John O'Hara was trapped in a basement when a section of flooring beneath him gave way during progress on a prefabricated house in Belleville. Other workers lifted the section to free him.
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Belleville
John O'Hara
O'Hara
Amnesia Case Baffles Police After Park Bench Start
A young man picked up at Police Headquarters near memory loss is believed to have genuine amnesia. He woke Monday on a Buffalo park bench and has since traveled to New York Philadelphia and Hagerstown with no recollection of his identity or past. Doctors and a chiropractor are treating him while officers seek his name and next of kin.
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H—L
Tye
Ilis
Tie
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Philadelphia
Hagerstown
Fairchild Is Big Favorite Among Cadets
Samuel Jacques, son of Mr and Mrs Lancelot Jacques Jr of Smithsburg, visits and says the Fairchild trainer is the top aircraft for cadets at Lynchburg Virginia. He trained at Maryland and plans to fly 40 more hours then head to Randolph Field or Pensacola for advanced military aviation training.
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Fairchild
Samuel Jacques
Lancelot Jacques, Jr
Smithsburg
Jacques
University of Maryland
Lynchburg
U. S. Army Air Corps
Randolph Field
Army West Point
Pensacola
Navy
Coincidence Aids Broadway Clean-Up Effort
Robert K. Christenberry, manager of the Hotel Astor, urged a vice clean-up on Broadway as Times Square committee chair. Twenty four hours later police raided a room in the hotel and arrested 11 men at a dice game. Christenberry called it coincidental.
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New York
Robert K. Christenberry
Hotel Astor
Broadway
Moscow Publicizes Tri-Party Pact Signing
Izvestia and Pravda announced the tri party military pact among Germany, Japan and Italy. The papers published the DNB account plus the treaty text and Hitler's reception of the signers.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Communist Party
Pravda
Germany
Japan
Italy
DNB
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
FDR Sees Two Party System Here to Stay
President Roosevelt, in a preelection rally message to young Democrats in Miami, declared that two parties will endure in American politics though their names may change. He outlined a struggle between liberalism and reaction, urging the Democratic party to stay true to liberal democratic principles.
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Miami
Fia
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Democratic
See Britain And U S More Closely Linked
London dispatch reports British press views that the German Italian Japanese alliance draws the United States closer to Britain. The Daily Mail notes Roosevelt and Lord Lothian met, signaling a near completed alliance between the British empire and the United States. Editorials suggest the three power pact targets the United States.
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London
United States
Britain
Daily Mail
Washington
Roosevelt
Lord Lothian
Schmeling Prepares for Parachute Camp on 35th Birthday
Berlin reports Max Schmeling, famed prize fighter, marked his 35th birthday by preparing to enter a training camp for parachuters. He began boxing in 1924 and now shifts toward aerial military training.
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Berlin
Max Schmeling
Long lived parents yield more and healthier boys
Baltimore report shows an age sex study finding that long lived parents have more male children and higher ratio of boys to girls. Dr. Lawrence of Johns Hopkins analyzed 11,269 children and 31,535 grandchildren, concluding long lived mothers influence the sex ratio and that long lived parents pass on a slight male bias to offspring.
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Baltimore
Phillip S. Lawrence
Raymond Pearl
Dr. Lawrence
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Pearl
Lawrence
U S British Deal Watched In World Front Pact Context
Berlin dispatch reports German speculation on a Rome Berlin Tokyo world front pact impacting any U S use of Britain's Singapore base and continued aid to Britain. Officials say arming Britain could or could not provoke the pact’s members, depending on whether it alters the war’s course. The pact opposes intervention and broader conflict though arms supplies may signal intervention.
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Berlin
Tokyo
United States
Britain
Singapore
Western Hemisphere
Europe
Africa
Huge Majority In Montgomery County Grows
The Montgomery County Board of Election Supervisors released figures showing the official Democrat hook majority at 17 011, up 3 264 from last year. Democrats total 27 208, Republicans 10 197, with 4 436 new Democrats and 1 172 new Republicans this fall and 348 unaffiliated.
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Montgomery County
Dickson City teen dies after football scrimmage
In Scranton Pennsylvania Alfred Alubo vitz a 17 year old Dickson City high school football player died in a hospital after a practice scrimmage injuries doctors said he suffered a broken vertebra at the base of the neck It marked Pennsylvania s first football fatality of the year
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Scranton
Alfred Alubovitz
Dickson City High School
Pennsylvania
Japanese blame US in Rome Berlin Tokyo pact view
Tokyo dispatch reports a Japanese official saying the United States forced Japan to side with the Rome Berlin Tokyo pact by opposing Japanese policies for nine years. He notes Japan’s friendship need not have been alienated and questions whether US scrap metal embargo qualifies as an attack under article three.
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United States
Associated” Press
Japan
America
Far East
Machiro Arita
Joseph ‘C. Grow
Yonai
Yakichiro
Suma
Foreign Office
Landscaping Of Rt. 40 Planned
A meeting of the Confederation of Western Maryland Communities discussed a definite landscaping program for the National Highway. James H. Gambrill Jr. Frederick, president, announced plans to have Mark Shoemaker, landscape architect from the University of Maryland, prepare the program. The group noted that the State Roads Commission had built one scenic area at Fairview Mountain and two more were under construction on Sideling Hill.
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Confederation of Western Maryland
James H. Gambrill, Jr
Frederick
Confederation
Mark Shoemaker
University of Maryland
Gambrill
State Roads Commission
Maryland
Fairview Mountain
Sideling Hill
Buck On Mossy Bed Falls To Hunter’s Single Shot
Sam Wasson returned from a fruitless deer tramp in Bishop California to find a big buck asleep on a mossy bed. He shot the animal once and it died where it lay, ready to be carried home.
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Bishop
Cal
Sam Wasson
Wasson
Kenmore Directory Shows Burney And Morgan Run In 1941
Kenmore’s 1941 directory lists Assemblyman Charles O Burney Jr as a state senator and Justin C Morgan as an assemblyman, with both candidates shown as Republicans in a solidly Republican district. Village Clerk Walter Ducker, editor, is confident in the prognostications despite the forthcoming election in November.
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Kenmore
N. Y
Chas. O. Burney, Jr
New York Senate
Justin C. Morgan
Walter Ducker
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Wm. P. Lane
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Max
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Montgomery
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