Italy Warns It Will Invade Greece If Britain Seizes Islands
In Rome a high Fascist source warned Italy will invade Greece if Britain occupies Crete and Corfu. Britain plans to honor its Greek independence guarantee, while air and naval combat intensifies from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean with attacks on Alexandria and ships off Libya.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Greece
Britain
Crete
Corfu
John Metaxas
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
Alexandria
Egypt
Bomba
Libyan
Willkie May Visit Arizona Cities On September Campaign Run
U.S. presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie plans a 3 800 mile campaign through 18 states next month and may stop in Winslow Flagstaff and Phoenix if his daylight train passes. Tentative legs start Sept 14 from Rushville Indiana to Coffeyville Kansas.
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Arizona
Winslow
Flagstaff
Phoenix
Wendell L. Willkie
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Far West
Willkie
Rushville
Ind
Coffeyville
Kan
RAF Bombs Big Nazi Guns On Channel Coast
RAF bombed German gun emplacements along the French coast between Calais and Boulogne for hours and attacked 22 air bases as part of a heavy offensive. Four German planes were shot down, while bombs also hit targets in Germany including Bottrop oil plant and an aircraft factory near Frankfurt.
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Wallace Carroll
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Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
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Boulogne
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Dover
Germany
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Frankfurt
Knapsack
Cologne
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Baseball Finals recap from American and National Leagues
In the American League Cleveland defeats New York after a late surge by the Yankees. St Louis tops Philadelphia as Kennedy earns the win. Chicago and Washington square off in a pitching duel. In the National League Chicago edges Brooklyn while Philadelphia, St Louis, New York and Pittsburgh post different scores and pitching lines.
Willkie Will Take Campaign Into Arizona
Willkie announces a western tour plan as he expands the campaign into the western half of the United States. He cites alleged Roosevelt relief roll packing and urges Attorney General Jackson to review potential Hatch Act violations.
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Willkie
Arizona
New York
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Jackson
Theodore F. Koop
Wendell L. Willkie
John W. Hanes
Treasury
Lewis Douglas
New Deal
Alan Valentine
University of Rochester
Free Willkie
Prescott to Host 1941 Arizona Legion Convention
Prescott will entertain the 1941 Arizona department American Legion session after voters chose the city over Winslow for the 22nd annual state convention. Cordova post Williams and Nogales also bid for 1942. Commander William R. Bourdon praised Legion efforts and national preparedness during his address at the high school auditorium.
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Bisbee
Prescott
Arizona Department
American Legion
Williams
Winslow
Cordova
Legion
Arizona
America
Nine Killed In Crash Of Army Bomber
Denver, Aug 23. A bomb laden two motor B-18 bomber from the air corps technical school crashed during a routine flight in a hail and electrical storm. Two officers and seven enlisted men were killed. Wreckage found about 45 miles east of Denver. occupants blown to bits. Cause undetermined. investigators cite the storm as likely.
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Denver
Air Corps Technical School
Air Corps
Douglas Units Sweep Legion Musical Honors
In Bisbee on August 23 the Fred T. Hilburn post of Douglas swept three top prizes at the state American Legion convention contests. Douglas won the drum and bugle championship for the third straight year with Prescott second and Phoenix third. The Douglas sons of the Legion won the junior competition, and Margot Lamarcelli of Douglas won the drum majorette baton twirling title with Ruby MacCartney of Tombstone finishing second.
U S Canada Defense Group to Organize in Ottawa
President Roosevelt said the U S Canadian defense board would organize in Ottawa Monday with six Americans and five Canadians meeting to start talks. The group includes Lt Gen Stanley Embick Capt Harry Hill Commander Forrest Sherman and Lt Col plus Mayor Fiorello La Guardia joining defense officials from the army navy and state department.
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Roosevelt
U. S.canadian Defense Board
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Britain
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Bermuda
Trindad
White House
MacKenzie King
Fiorello H. la Guardia
New York
Army
Navy
State Department
la Guardia
United States Conference of Mayors
Stanley D. Embick
Fourth Corps
Atlanta
Harry W. Hill
War Plans Division
Forrest P. Sherman
Italy Bombs Big English Convoy in Eastern Med
Rome reports Italian planes heavily bombed a British merchant convoy escorted by two destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean. Italian sources say air attacks also hit Alexandria Egypt while Britain claims RAF bombers hit Italian positions in Libya Somaliland and Eritrea. Submarine losses are claimed by both sides amid increasingly dangerous Mediterranean air attacks.
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Mediterranean
High Command
Alexandria
Egypt
Libya
Italian Somaliland
Eritrea
Bomba
Britain must not underestimate Nazi power in calm hours
DeWitt MacKenzie argues the lull in English skies should not breed overconfidence. He warns Hitler still holds untapped aerial power and could unleash a lightning strike, despite Britain’s seeming air superiority and claims of outproducing Germany.
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England
Hitler
Britain
English Channel
Napoleon
Herr Hitler
Royal Air Force
Sinclair
Guard Divisions to Be Mobilized Next Month in First Call
Four National Guard divisions the thirtieth forty first forty fourth and forty fifth plus 22 smaller units are slated for active duty in September under mobilization plans submitted to the White House. The plan would bring 55 426 enlisted men 3 930 officers and 53 warrant officers into the first call with training at Fort Sill Oklahoma for the Forty fifth division drawn from Oklahoma Arizona New Mexico and Colorado.
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National Guard
White House
Congress
George C. Marshall
Army
Senate Military Affairs Committee
War Department
Marshall
Forty
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
Fort Sill
Okla
National Guard and Army Reserve Mobilization Bill Details
The measure authorizes President Roosevelt to call the national guard and army reserves to active duty for twelve months with pay equal to the regular army. It covers guardsmen, reserve officers and enlisted, and retired personnel with provisions on resignations for dependents, automatic discharges for under 18, medical exams, and re employment rights. It includes district attorney support for suits to force reinstatement and limited relief benefits through mid 1942.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
National Guard
Army
Regular Army
Officers Reserve Corps
Hemisphere
Philippine Islands
United States District Attorneys
Moore Favors U S Probe of Red Complaint
Secretary of State Harry Moore welcomed a U S attorney general inquiry into the Arizona Communist ballot challenge. He argued the move to remove Communists from the primary ballot was right and said courts will uphold his office. The Communists seek a writ of mandate to restore their ballot status.
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Phoenix
U.P
Harry Moore
U. S
Communist Party
Moore
Communist Party of Arizona
Robert Jackson
Roosevelt mobilizes 395000 guardsmen for one year training
President Roosevelt asks rapid passage of the Burke Wadsworth conscription bill and outlines plans to mobilize 395000 national guardsmen and reservists for a year of training. The White House intends to deploy 55 000 troops in four waves starting Sept. 15 with further mobilizations through December.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
U. S
Senate
National Guard
War Department
Henry L. Stimson
First Army
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Conway Seeks Intervention Against Communists in Arizona Ballot Battle
Phoenix August 23 Atty Gen Joe Conway asks to intervene as a citizen in the Communist party effort to force state officials to place it on primary and general election ballots Superior Judge Arthur T LaPrade will hear the petition next Monday Secretary of State Harry M Moore denied the ballot to the Communists on Conway's advice that the group seeks overthrow of government by force and assassination of public officials The Communists previously failed in federal court at Prescott and now push to compel Moore to certify them to the state ballots
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Joe Conway
Communist Party
Arthur T. LaPrade
Harry M. Moore
Conway
Prescott
Maricopa County
Moore
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