Axis Partners Seek Peace In Balkans Areas
Vienna talks among Hungarian and Romanian delegates with German and Italian ministers push toward a Transylvanian settlement. Axis reps caution no four power table yet and emphasize aims of quiet peace order and lasting stability amid ongoing conflict.
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Edwin Shanke
Vienna
Old
Austria
Rome
Berlin
Pal Teleky
Istvan Csaky
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Czecho- Slovak Republic
Carpatho- Ukraine
Ruthenia
Ciano
von Ribbentrop
Old Belvedere Palace
Germany
Balkans
Baseball Finals American League First Game Result
Detroit and Washington split a doubleheader with Detroit winning 3 to 1 in the first game and Washington taking the second 29 to 10. The second matchup featured New York overpowering St Louis 10 to 3. Auker and Swift led New York while Knott Rigney and Tresh powered Boston’s win.
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Detroit
Washington
Rowe
Tebbetts
Chase
Early
St. Louis
New York
Kennedy
Mills, Bildilli
Coffman
Swift
Russo
Dickey
Auker
Sandra
Murphy
Rosar
National League score summaries with mixed results
A collection of box score lines shows Philadelphia defeating Pittsburgh 9 to 1 in nine innings, Chicago overpowering Pittsburgh 15 to 1 in a nine inning game, New York blanking St Louis 5 to 0, Brooklyn edging Cincinnati 7 to 11 with multiple pitchers listed, and other line scores featuring Schumacher Dean Danning and Lombardi among the players.
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New York
St. Louis
Schumacher
Dean and
Danning
McGee and Padgett
House Committee Approves Draft Bill Extending Ages
The House Military Committee approved the Burke Wadsworth conscription bill setting a draft for men 21 to 44, aiming for floor action next week. Senate amendments included industrial mobilization powers and a 900000 to 1000000 conscript cap and a 60 day delay proposal.
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House
Washington
Arizona
Senate
Ashurst
Hayden
House Military Committee
House Committee
May
Senate Military Committee
Cardenas Set To Address Congress On Three National Problems
Mexico City report says President Cardenas will outline three major challenges in his inauguration address for the new congress. They include the unresolved Almazan- Avila Camacho presidential contest, reorganization of the oil industry, and reform of the National Railways.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Cardenas
Juan
Andreu Almazan
Manuel Avila Camacho
Emilio Madero
Almazan
Madero
National Palace
Alamazan
Italy Claims Suez Canal Hit By Bombs
Rome reports Italian air formations bombed the Suez Canal heavily with long flights from Port Said to Ismailia. Bombs struck the northern entrance and the connecting railway. Italy also claimed attacks on Alexandria and said Dubai forces advanced near Polignac as British forces faced threats in North Africa.
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Italy
Suez Canal
Rome
U.P
Port Said
Mediterranean
Ismailia
Gulf of Suez
Egypt
Palestine
Cairo
Canal
North Africa
Mid East
Kenya
Ethiopia
Dubai
Polignac
Lake Rudolph
Alexandria
United Agrees To Build U S Plane Engines
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced United Aircraft Corp will manufacture 17 000 Pratt & Whitney engines for the army and navy at 160 million dollars. The deal hinges on congress funding a 4.9 billion supplemental defense measure and includes plant expansion in Hartford Connecticut financed by United and tool purchases by the navy.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
Frank Knox
United Aircraft Corp
Pratt & Whitney
Army
Congress
Knox
Navy Boys Tools
United Aircraft
Hartford
Conn
John H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
National Deace Commission
Eal
South Dakota Wreck Death Toll Now Two
The Milwaukee Railroad passenger train wreck near Marvin South Dakota raised the fatality toll to two with the death of transient Roscoe Lecount a 22 year old from Ligonier Indiana. Dane Miller aged 20 of Mishawaka Indiana had died the day before. About 50 passengers were aboard when the train left the rails while taking a detour around a derailed freight. Eight others were injured.
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Milbank
S. D
Milwaukee Railroad
Marvin
Roscoe Lecount
Ligonier
Ind
Dane Miller
Mishawaka
Mathews to Speak in Prescott Tonight
Tucson publisher and Democratic congress candidate William R. Mathews will speak in Prescott tonight. His remarks will be broadcast over KYCA radio station of the Arizona Broadcasting Company.
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Prescott
The
Daily Citizen
William R. Mathews
Tucson
Congress
KYCA
New
Arizona Broadcasting Company
Almazan En Route to Baltimore in U S Tour
Gen Juan Andreu Almazan arrived in Baltimore with his family for a U S vacation. He spoke of marking time until Mexico's congress announces election results and repeated his claim of an overwhelming victory and Dec 1 presidency, while remaining mum on politics.
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Baltimore
Juan Andreu Almazan
Mexico
U.S
Manuel Camacho
Almazan
Congress
Nazi Thrust Warning From Rutherford in Radio Address
Col. Charles H. Rutherford warned that the United States must quickly bolster defenses to counter a Nazi push in the western hemisphere. He stressed Britain’s fleet as the main shield, warned of Nazi aims for world domination, and cited Nazi agents operating in Central and South America seeking to destabilize regimes and gain influence. He argued current American naval power cannot guard both Atlantic and Pacific shores simultaneously.
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Phoenix
Charles H. Rutherford
Henry L. Stimson
United States
Rutherford
Adolf Hitler
Col. Rutherford
Western Hemisphere
Central
South America
America
Atlantic
Pacific
French Colonies Side With Britain In War Rift
Three French colonies Chad Cameroons and New Caledonia annul their commissioners to the Vichy regime and accept British protection in a move aligning with General De Gaulle's Free French government amid accusations of secession plots by Britain.
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Vichy
U.P
France
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
Chad
Cameroons
New Caledonia
de Gaulle
Equatorial Africa
Germany
Italy
Bordeaux
Berlin Bombed by British In Real Attack
British bombers attacked Berlin and Leuna gas works while the Nazi air force bombarded British west coast ports including Liverpool Cardiff and Bristol. The German high command said 38 British planes were shot down and 12 German planes lost with raids described as effective.
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Berlin
Leuna
Reich
High Command
Britain
Liverpool
Birklehead
Cardiff
Bristol
East Church
Southend
Thames Estuary
Bognor Regis
England
Portsmouth
Brighton
Middlesborough
Sheffield
Norwich
Wales
Air Ministry
Germany
Holland
France
London
Coun
Chatham
Admiralty
Solon Charges Business Pact With Germans
Representative Patman told the Dies committee he believed big business groups were pushing an appeasement program toward Hitler and aiding Nazi propaganda in the United States. He urged an investigation into an alleged alliance, naming Carl Byoir as a Nazi propagandist. Byoir denied the charges.
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Washington
Patman
D-Tex
Dies
Hitler
Carl Bycir
New York
Balkans Threat Shapes Battle of Britain Era
DeWitt MacKenzie notes two key issues shaping World War II strategy as Britain braces for air raids. Hitler and Mussolini seek Balkan peace to secure war material and to restrain Soviet influence, while Franco British friction grows.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
England
Germany
Britain
von Ribbentrop
Count Ciano
Vienna
Romania
Hungary
Transylvania
Hitler
Mussolini
Balkans
Russia
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Balkan
Messrs
British Fliers Beat Off 200 Raiding Nazis
London Aug 29 Nearly 200 German planes were turned back from London by British fighters and fled to the sea in the southeast without dropping bombs. This followed Germanys greatest night raid, which caused widespread destruction, death, and injury across England and Wales.
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Associated Press
London
England
Wales
Rumanian Border Strengthened Amid Axis Peace Talks
Rumania ordered stronger border defenses and war time air force alert in Transylvania as Vienna talks on the Hungarian Romanian Transylvanian dispute continued. No new frontier incidents were reported while Romanian work battalions hastened fortifications along the Bessarabian frontier.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Transylvania
Hungary
Russia
Bessarabian
Vienna
House Passes Excess Profit Tax Measure
Washington August 29 Excess profits tax legislation won swift House approval on a voice vote and moves to the Senate. The bill sets a 20 to 50 percent levy with a five year amortization for defense plant costs and suspends profit limitations on warship and aircraft contractors to spur armament contracts.
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Washington
House
Senate
Aids Defense
Defense Commission
Military Departments
Ways and Means Committee
Mrs Hoyle to Aid in GOP Campaign
Mrs Wilma D Hoyal said she would leave soon to take an important position with the Republican national committee as assistant to Mrs Paul Fitzsimmons, vice chairman, with headquarters in New York City. She did similar work in 1936.
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Douglas
Wilma D. Hoyal
Republican National Committee
Joseph W. Martin
Paul Fitzsimmons
New York City
Hoval
Republican
CCC May Be Made Defense School
Rep. James G. Scrugham says the administration studies converting the Civilian Conservation Corps into a training pool for airplane and defense industry mechanics. The plan would expand CCC enrollment by about 50 percent but not militarize the corps, aiming to supply trained personnel for repair, maintenance, and support of regular fighting forces.
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Washington
James G. Scrugham
Nev
Civilian Conservation Corps
Scruegham
CCC
Scrugham
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Newsom and Sullivan
Hudson and Ferrell
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Tresh
Wilson and Foxx
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Freye
Warren
Millies
Brown
MacFayden
Davis
Dinobe
Chicago
Posedel
Berres
Motty and Collins
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Wyatt
Grissom
Phelps
Dersinger
Lombardi
Reynolds Packard
United
U. S
South Dakota
Mathews
Arizonians
Secretary of War
Solon
Byoir
Dies Com
Axis
Mrs. Hoyle
Defense
Tucson Daily Citizen
R. J. Krabbenhoeft
East Mabel
State Theater
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