Willkie Attacks FC Alliance With Bosses in Milwaukee Speech
Wendell L. Willkie returned to the Chicago area for his second campaign appearance as Roosevelt planned visits to Wilmington Delaware and Camden New Jersey before addressing Philadelphia. In Milwaukee he accused the President of letting Chicago's Democratic machine and two others try to steal the election without rebuke.
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Roosevelt
Wilmington
Del
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Willkie
Democratic Organization
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Bronx
N. Y
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Logansport
Ind
LaGuardia
New York
Detroit
Wilkie
Joseph W. Martin
Fall River
Mass
United States
Lewis
Washington
John L. Lewis
CIO
Hagues
Flynns
Kelly Nashes
WPA
J. W. Wilson
Athens
William Cherrington
Gallipolis
Homer
Lewis to Demand Huge Radio Audience Friday Night
CIO leader John L. Lewis plans a nationwide radio address Friday night aimed at reaching at least 80 million listeners. The speech, costing an estimated 60 000 to 75 000 dollars, would air 9 to 9 30 pm on NBC CBS and mutual network stations.
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New York
John L Lewis
NBC
CBS
MBS
Lewis
Washington
British cruiser damaged in Red Sea battle injures several ships
Italian high command said an 8,000 ton Sydney type British cruiser was badly damaged by repeated hits in a midnight to dawn battle. Six merchant ships were sunk and one Italian torpedo boat was damaged in the action in the southern Red Sea yesterday.
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Rome
Red Sea
High Command
Negro Slain by Officer After Poolroom Brawl
Columbus report of shooting at a poolroom where Franklin Byrd 34 died from bullet wounds after resisting arrest. Patrolman Joey Alston said Byrd fired at a man earlier and that officers opened fire during the struggle. Both those involved are Black.
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Columbus
Franklin Byrd
Joey Alston
Byrd
Ken May and Itha Rowland Denham wed in IMA Arizona
In IMA Arizona Ken May a noted cowboy actor and circus star married Itha Rowland Denham ch rmer today. The ceremony links two performers known in Western entertainment circles as they begin married life together.
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Ima
Ariz
Ken May
Itha Rowland Denham
Chrmer
Ohio Miners to Receive Job Insurance Benefits
COLUMBUS Common Pleas Judge Charles Leach dissolved an injunction blocking $286000 in unemployment benefits for 6660 coal miners who lost work in the 1939 bituminous shutdown. Herschel G. Atkinson said payments would be issued as soon as checks are written after operators challenged the claim. The claim totals include 969 from Hocking County amounting to $41883.
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Common Pleas
Charles Leach
Herschel G. Atkinson
BUC
Atkinson
BUC Board of Review
Cleveland Common Pleas
Hocking County
Modern Guns Outclass 1917 Models in Steel Strength
Francis B. Foley, trustee of the American Society for Metals, said at the society’s annual meeting that modern American 16 inch guns carved from million pound steel blocks show far fewer flaws than 1917 designs. He added that the belief in superior foreign steel is a myth and that time is the key to meeting defense needs.
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Cleveland
American Society For Metals
Francis B. Foley
Foley
Idaho Reliefers To Get Oregon Potatoes
Thirty sacks of potatoes arrived in Aberdeen Idaho for distribution to relief clients. Aberdeen farmers grow Idaho potatoes but low prices have forced giving them away despite the crop being prized nationally.
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Aberdeen
Idaho
Oregon
John Blair 68 Dies at Syracuse Home
John Blair age 68 died Monday night at Syracuse home where he had lived two years. Funeral services set for Thursday at Syracuse Methodist Church. He leaves no close relatives, born in Syracuse, longtime Meigs County resident, worked for the Post Office in Washington, D. C., and later in insurance. He served as Meigs County recorder and was active in Masonic and other fraternal groups.
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John Blair
Meigs County
Kee Lisle
Syracuse
Syracuse Methodist Church
Blair
Post Office Department
Washington, D. C
Masonic Fraternity
Magistrate Strikes Down Blue Law Limitation on Sundays
Magistrate Michael A. Ford ruled that a Chinese laundry may operate on Sundays, asserting equal rights for workers and countering the idea that blue laws restrict Sunday business. The decision likens Sunday work to ordinary equal liberties.
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New York
Michael A. Ford
Best Good Girl Recipe Scrubbing and Cooking
In Cincinnati the National Prison Congress hears an old fashioned plan for keeping girls out of reformatories. Mrs. Marguerite Reilley of the Ohio Women's Reformatory argues home making and housekeeping education as key to rehabilitation, noting three beauty shops and free toiletries for well-behaved inmates to boost pride and self confidence.
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National Prison Congress
Marguerite Reilley
Ohio Women's Reformatory
Reilley
Marysville
Reformatory
Way‘ward
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Willkie Will Draw Thousands to Jackson Ohio Rally
Seventy five Republican district leaders in four southeastern Ohio districts met in Jackson to organize transportation and support for Wendell Willkie's Oct 29 address at a rural site outside the city. Plans name county chairmen and committees to move crowds, provide for attendees, and promote turnout, aiming for up to 100000 supporters.
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Ohio
Jackson
Wendell Willkie
Jackson County
Willkie
Louisville
Cincinnati
Hamden
Thomas A. Jenkins
Huntington
W. Va
Luther W. Jones
Fog Grounds Plane During Seattle Trip Cleared By Patrol
Fog forced Lee Eyler from Salem Ore and four passengers to land on a highway en route home from a Seattle football game. Highway patrolmen used foghorn-like signals to clear traffic as Eyler taxied ten miles along two highways before taking off from a golf course.
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Chehalis
Wash
Lee Eyler
Salem
Ore
Flyer
Seattle
Eyler
Report Shows Lowest Welfare Relief Expense in Two Years
The State Welfare Department reported September relief cost at 1,807,237 dollars, the lowest for the 1939-40 biennium, down 81,527 from August and below the June 1940 low of 1,836,575 dollars. The state's 750,000 dollar contribution accounts for 41.5 percent of the total.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
Earthquake Damages Bucharest Buildings and Oil Sites
A violent 90 second quake rocked Bucharest injuring and damaging commercial properties and homes while affecting oil field works in Northern Romania.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Ex-Governor Conley Dies in Charleston WV
William G. Conley 74 former West Virginia governor from 1929 to 1933 died last night in Charleston. The Republican leader served during the early Depression era and shaped state policy through his term.
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Charleston
W. Va
William G. Conley
West Virginia
Change to 40 Hour Work Week Takes Effect
Washington AP reports a 40-hour maximum work week for workers under wage hour laws, with time and a half overtime. The change, effective Thursday, lowers the prior 42-hour standard for interstate commerce workers and follows a gradual 44 42 40 easing since 1938. Labor economists say effects will be small except in distributive trades.
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Washington
Labor Econos
Labor Department
Defense
Walsh-Healy
First Draft Numbers Drawn Next Tuesday
The United States will begin drawing selective service numbers next Tuesday at noon. 800000 draftees are expected to be called by next June, with millions more over four years, as 16 654 000 registrants learn their order of call in the peacetime draft.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Stimson
Bullitt Warns of Axis Plan to Attack U.S.
Ambassador William C. Bullitt told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations that Germany Japan and Italy pose a clear warning of a future assault on the United States. He urged rapid rearmament and a stronger air force while stating the U.S. has given France and England no pledge to join the war. He cited unpublished correspondence to show France knew U.S. intent to stay out.
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Chicago
William Co. Bullitt
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China
United States
France
Chicago Council On Foreign Relations
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Germany
Italy
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Algiers
Dakar
French West Africa
Alexandria
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Great Britain
Berlin
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Vichy
Price Lifting Investigated in Defense Materials
Senator Wheeler announced a Senate interstate commerce subcommittee will probe alleged price chisel ing in defense construction materials. The inquiry will study recent lumber price increases and potential bottlenecks from monopolies or patent agreements with foreign firms, with the National Defense Commission and Justice Department aiding.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce
National Defense Commission
Department of Justice
Mrs. Ella May Hager Dies in Meigs County
Mrs. Ella May Hager aged 64 died Monday night at her Naylors Run home after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 PM at Bradford Church with burial at Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery. She is survived by her husband Charles Hager and six children.
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Ella May Hager
Naylors Run
Bradford
Cheshire Gravel Hill
Aged Indiana Man Victim in Good Turn Scam
In Rochester Indiana a 94 year old man Henry N Pownall was given a ride by a man and woman claiming to be evangelists They praised his fitness and prompted him to attend a night service They then took $30 from his pockets after securing his promise to attend the service.
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Rochester
Ind
Henry N. Pownall
New Barracks Planned at Camp Perry for 125 Men
Three new barracks each 29 by 96 feet will be built at Camp Perry to house 125 men, disclosed yesterday.
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Camp Perry
Students Indicted for Refusing to Register
Eight Union Theological Seminary students and two Young Peoples Socialist League members were indicted by a federal grand jury for refusing to register under the selective training and service act. They pleaded guilty in court and were released on their own recognizance pending sentencing November 6.
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New York
Union Theological Seminary
Young Peoples Socialist League
135th Field Artillery Moves Out of Columbus
About 300 army trucks carried 1 500 soldiers of the 135th Field Artillery from Columbus. They camped overnight on the State Fairgrounds before moving out early today.
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135Th Field Artillery
Columbus
Mexico Rejects Japanese Bids For Iron Oil
Mexican officials announced that Mexico will cancel a large oil concession granted to Japanese interests and rejected a $400,000 offer for scrap iron. The actions aim to bolster Western Hemisphere solidarity amid Japanese American Pacific tensions and show cooperation with the United States and other American republics.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Cardenas
Pacific
United States
Western Hemisphere
Incompetent Surgeons Hit at Chicago Conference
Dr. Harold L. Foss, surgeon in chief at Geisinger Memorial Hospital, charged that hundreds of unnecessary operations are performed daily, especially in small unregulated hospitals. He said for every well trained surgeon there are about 20 who are incompetent and unprepared for major procedures.
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Chicago
American College of Surgeons
Harold L. Foss
Geisinger Memorial Hospital
Danville
Churchill firesides appeal boosts Britain amid French war doubts
Berlin reports Churchill's radio address to France frames a turning moment in the war. The Premier brands the enemy as Bocie and Hun, signaling confidence and a resolve to resist invasion. The dispatch notes this display aims to force French reconsideration and bolster British morale.
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France
Dewitt MacKenzie
Churchill
Berlin
England
Mans “Bocie
Bombers Hit Hamburg Shipyards in Major Allied Raid
British RAF airstrikes hit Hamburg shipyards under construction and a Nazi convoy in the channel. Fires engulfed docks as the convoy was damaged. Churchill urged France to join in the fight, while Axis efforts to pull Paris into the war continued amid fog and raids.
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London Air Ministry
Hamburg
Air Ministry
Winston Churchill
Britain
Federal Board OKs Ohio BUC Cooperation
Washington report states that the Social Security Board confirms the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation is cooperating satisfactorily to meet federal administrative requirements.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Ohio
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