Germany and Japan Advance Near Moscow and Search for Missing Plane
Axis forces push toward Moscow with panzers and Stuka dive bombers threatening Kalinin and Tula sectors as Hitler’s spearheads drive closer to the Soviet capital. Meanwhile a large search by U S and Mexican troops and bombers is under way for a missing Army plane and its three crew members on the Mexican border region near El Paso.
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Red Army
Moscow
Japan
Berlin
London
Far East
Tokyo
Tohokai
United States
Pacific
House of Representatives
East Asia
Kalinin
Tula
EL Paso
U.P
Vyazma
Bryansk
Husband’s love triangle ends in murder in Fort Worth
Mrs Lalita Castello 19 shot Antonio Hernandez 24 after he canceled marriage plans. Inquest verdict names murder. She posted $2,500 bond as she awaits further legal action.
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Fort Worth
Lalita Castello
Antonio Hernandez
Antonio
Weather Outlook: Colder, Showers Likely Across Regions
Forecast calls for further cold and fuzzy hours with a high near 50 and low around 40. Occasional showers expected today with warmer conditions tomorrow. Reports show varied rainfall across Oklahoma and Texas with Lubbock and Amarillo recording notable totals while harvest delays persist due to wet fields and worker shortages.
Modify Selective Service Procedure Improves Army Exams
The State Director J Watt Page announced an immediate modification requiring selectees to undergo army board physical examinations at government expense within 30 days before a call. After examinations, they return home at government expense. Induction follows 20 to 30 days after the exam with at least 10 days notice. Exam centers include Houston Dallas Fort Sam Houston San Antonio Fort Bliss El Paso and Lubbock.
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Army
J. Watt Page
General Page
Houston
Dallas
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Lubbock
Union calls off Hillsdale steel strike after mediation
R J Thomas president of the United Automobile Workers said the strike at Hillsdale Steel Products Co ended at the defense mediation board request. The stoppage had halted about seventy percent of army tank production. Walter Hillyard in St Joseph recounts a tale of a man who thought life was full until a fire alarm and a double overheated fire place led to a home incident.
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R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
CTO
Hillsdale Steel Products Co
Defense Mediation Board
ST. Joseph
Walter Hillyard
Fire Department
Hillyard
Prowl Shot Wounds Bettendorf Man in Home Incident
Mrs Calvin Strauch suspected a prowler and summoned her husband and neighbors. He went to the yard to surprise the intruder and was hit by buckshot, after which doctors removed twenty two pellets from his left shoulder. Separately, the War Department notes tanks output rose sharply in September, with medium tanks nearly doubling August figures and light tanks increasing as well.
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Bettendorf
Calvin Strauch
Strauch
Washington
War Department
Navy ready to arm merchant ships with crews
Secretary Knox announced the navy is prepared to place guns aboard U S merchant vessels and provide trained crews once Congress authorizes. House committees approved repeal of Section 6 of the neutrality law to allow arming, with debate set for tomorrow and final passage expected Friday.
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U.P
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Navy
Congress
Knox
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Rules Committee
Senate
Germany
High Seas
Arias In Jail After Panama Return
Former Panamanian president Arnulfo Arias was captured in the Canal Zone and jailed in Panama City after surrendering to police. Crowds and a motorcade accompanied his arrival as deposed leader fled to exile, while a new government pledged US defense cooperation.
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Arnulfo Arias
Canal Zone
Dr. Arias
Cristobal
Arnulfo
Arias
Cuba
Havana
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia
United States
de la Guardia
Costa Rica
Cardinal Canali Named Grand Penitentiary by Pope
Vatican City reports Pope Pius XII appointed Nicolo Cardinal Canali as grand penitentiary to succeed the late Lorenzo Lauri. The cardinal penitentiary administers supreme absolution when the Pope dies and heads the apostolic penitentiary which determines penances for lay and clerical members.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Nicolo Cardinal Canali
Lorenzo Lauri
Penitenzieria Apostolica
Mae West to seek divorce from actor Frank Wallace
Mae West plans to ask a divorce from Frank Wallace whom she married in Milwaukee in 1911. Wallace seeks $1000 monthly separate maintenance in a suit shifted to Los Angeles County. West's attorney Kenneth Chantry says she will file a cross-complaint for divorce.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Mae West
Frank Wallace
Milwaukee
Wallace
Los Angeles County
Miss West
Kenneth Chantry
Mrs A F Wood Wins News Tip Contest
Mrs A F Wood of 613 West 15th Avenue won first prize in the week’s news tip contest for reporting two mischievous girls who disrupted an Amarillo apartment building by turning on water, uncapping milk, and causing disorder. Frances Munn earned second prize for tipping about radio system installation at the helium plant for national defense. Jack Roberson won third for reporting a car ramming a tourist camp cabin.
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A. F. Wood
West
15Th Avenue
Amarillo
Frances Munn
West 19Th Avenue
Jack Roberson
North East Eighth Avenue
Oomphy Girl Skirmishes Over Harvard Princeton Feud
Hollywood writer Annie Sheridan becomes embroiled in a literary feud between Harvard Advocate and Princeton Nassau Lit. A Harvard editor offer draws her under fire from Princeton, prompting a retort poem about rivalry and reputations. The exchange involves taunts about prestige and editorial roles.
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Ann
Sheridan
Harvard Advocate
Miss Sheridan
Marvin G. Barrett
Lampoon
University
Advocate
Princeton
N. J
Harvard
Peter Prouse
Nassau Lit
Annie
Cambridge
Harvard’s
Warner Brothers
Denison, Tex
Princeton Lit
Half of Nazi Planes Face British Attacks on Western Front
British sources report more than half of Germany's fighter planes on the western front to counter RAF raids, easing pressure on Russia. Air ministry notes four losses in night operations and one in daylight as British bombers hit southern Germany for a fifth straight night.
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RAF
Germany
Russia
Air Ministry
500 Strikers Return to Work in Houston Yard
The 500 workers who refused to cross union picket lines at the Houston ship building yard returned to work. The strike against Brown & Root Construction Co over bargaining rights by three AFL unions continues at the $9,000,000 defense project.
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Houston
Houston Shipbuilding Corporation
Brown & Root Construction Company
American Federation of Labor Unions
Jackie Coogan and Bride Expectant Parents
Jackie Coogan confirms he and his bride Mrs Flower Coogan are expectant parents. The former child star now serves as a soldier with an army motor unit in Stockton California and Mrs Coogan lives nearby.
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Cal
Jackie Coogan
Flower Coogan
Coogan
Parking Dilemma Sparks Improvised Hitching Post in Elk Hart
Elkhart Indiana police faced a rustic parking problem when a countryman asked where to park his horse and buggy. A makeshift hitching post was created at the city parking lot near the police headquarters by Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance.
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Elkhart
Ind
Margaret Mitchell Honored By Confederate Veterans in Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, was named sweetheart of the Confederate veterans at their Atlanta reunion. The 96-year-old Gen Robert P. Scott was elected honorary commander in chief, declaring the Confederacy must not die as long as veterans live.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Miss Mitchell
Dixie
Simon Phillips
Robert Gwynne
Birmingham
Ala
Phillips
Gwynne
5Th Tennessee
Joe Wheeler
51St Cavalry
VU. S. V
Julius Howell
John M. Claypool
St. Louis
Claypool
Howell
Robert P. Scott
Dallas
Texas
West Texas-New Mexico League ends season with Pioneers
Tom Miller league statistician and helpers published official averages for the season. The Globe presents Miller’s league-wide results and top performers, detailing hits and fielding totals after the playoff conclusion. In France, German authorities report the 78th firing squad victim in occupied Paris as of Oct 15.
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Clovis Pioneers
Tom Miller
Miller
Globe
Stove League
Bill
Will Woody
Paris
France
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity expect mostly cloudy skies this afternoon and tonight with occasional showers. Warmer Thursday with low around 40. West Texas mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with rain in central and southeast parts, cooler southeast, warmer Thursday. New Mexico cloudy east of central mountains this afternoon, clearing Thursday. Rio Grande Valley fair and rising temperatures Thursday. Temperature extremes 24 hours ending 6 30 A M: low 44 high 56. Noon reading 46. precipitation 0.53 inch.
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Panhans
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Central Mountains
Rio Grande Valley
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