British Russians Start Secret Resistance Drive
British and Soviet officials push a coordinated resistance campaign in occupied Europe. Executions in Czechoslovakia rise toward 130 as authorities crack down and plan sabotage focused actions to weaken Axis control.
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United Press
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Italy
Europe
London
Moscow
Kladno
Moravska Ostrava
Zlin
Walter Monckton
Ministry of Information
Britain
Russia
Key Actors In Czechs Battle For Liberty
A chaotic report from wartime Europe details Edouard Benes leading the Czech National Committee amid arrests of Gen Alois Elias and Haydrich’s control over the protectorate. It cites rising unrest in Bohemia Moravia, Gestapo terror, executions, mass arrests, and government in exile appeals to avoid premature strikes. The piece also notes Jugoslav and Norwegian wartime measures and a Canberra currency drive.
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Édouard Benes
Czech National Committee
Alois Elias
Reinhard Haydrich
Bohemia - Moravia
Dr. Benes
France
London
Czechoslovakia
Brussels Zeitung
Radio Berlin
New York
United Press Listening Post
Gestapo
Berlin
Edouard Benes
Jan Masaryk
French youth Colette sentenced to death for Laval Deat attack
Paul Colette, a French youth who wounded Laval and Marcel Deat at Versailles on August 27, was sentenced to death by a Vichy state tribunal in Paris. He shot Laval, former Vichy vice premier, and Deat, editor of Oceuvre, during a Legion parade allied with Germany against the Russians.
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Milan Nedic
Jugoslav
Milan Atschimovitch
Budapest
Belgrade
Banat
Jugoslavia
Racio
Lausanne
United Press Listening Post
New York
Nish
Berlin
Norway
Trondheim
Vichy
France
Paul Colette
Pierre Laval
Marcel Deat
Versailles
Paris
Colette
Laval
Deat
Oceuvre
Legion
Nazi state of emergency in Bohemia and Moravia extended
Reports describe mass displacement with thousands fleeing homes and wandering rooftops or hills as an appalling number of suicides are noted. Courts-martial established by Reinhard Heydrich under the emergency rule now cover nearly all Bohemia and Moravia, composed of Nazi elite guard veterans.
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Reinhard Heydrich
Bohemia and
Moravia
Miley Killing Suspect Held
In Lexington Kentucky police say a 17 year old suspect was arrested at Shelbyville for the slaying of Marion Miley the golf star and the wounding of her mother Elsa Miley at their Lexington apartment. Mrs Miley died from abdominal wounds yesterday after funeral services for Marion. Authorities report two masked intruders demanded receipts from a Saturday night dance.
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Lexington
Dudley McCloy
Shelbyville
Marion Miley
Elsa Miley
Roy 8. Jones
Miley
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lexington Country Club
Marion
Insurance Campaign Encourages Defense Bonds Support
Cen tral American Life Insurance Company agents across 25 states join a October production drive led by Dam Thomsen to back the national defense program. Fifty nine general agencies compete for top honors with awards paid in United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.
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Amarillo
Central American Life Insurance Company
Dam Thomsen
Thomsen
United States Defense
General American Life
Congress Looks to Expand Neutrality Revisions
Senators Hill and Bridges suggest Congress may broaden the neutrality act beyond Roosevelt's expected plan. They note possible end to shipping restrictions and ports’ combat zones, while House support for full repeal remains uncertain.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Hill
Alabama
Bridges
New Hampshire
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
House
Soldier breaks neck while swimming at Chester
Sergeant John H. Sanford of Palestine Texas, with the 26th Field Artillery battalion at Fort Bragg, broke his neck while swimming yesterday and was reported today resting fairly comfortably in Chester Hospital.
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Chester
S. C
U.P
John H. Sanford
Palestine
Tex
26Th Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
N. C
Chester Hospital
Lend Chief Back to U S
John D. Biggers, American lease lead in London, is returning to the United States to report to President Roosevelt. He will outline Britain needs and what can be spared as the United States remains the world’s greatest dairy nation.
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United States
Army
Navy
London
John D. Biggers
Roosevelt
Biggers
Britain
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Subotica
Yugoslavia
Dolecal
Svatek
Eerlin
United Press New York Listening Post
New Battle For Liberty
Masaryk
United Press London
Corrals
Canberra
Australia
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First National Bank of
Fisk
Yale
Prestone
Ren Pet
Raa A2
Anti-Freeze
National Carbon Company, Inc
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
Eveready
Globe-News
U. S
Za Ea
Amarillo Garage & Storage
3Rd & Polk
3Rd
Tyler
Tolzien
Aa Lek
Wurlitzer
WM. Knabe Gulbransen
Mason-Hamlin
Lincoln
Lincoln Motor
Ford Motor Company
Geert Coton
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