Roosevelt Says Coalition Opposition Likely Not Develop
President Roosevelt and House Leader Rayburn said Tuesday’s election gives no reason for coalition opposition to the New Deal. The chamber of commerce warned of closer study and more opposition to hastily drawn bills, predicting continued anti coercive action and stronger business activity in November.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Congress
Rayburn
Hes
Chamber of Commerce
Auto Union authorizes Hudson plant strike in Detroit
The United Automobile Workers executive board authorized a strike at Hudson Motor Car Co in Detroit and recessed till after the CIO convention. Homer Martin flew to Detroit to confer on wages and contract renewal with Hudson local leaders amid deadlocked talks. The union already has strikes at Budd Wheel and discusses a boycott to aid a broader membership campaign, with Ford a possible focus. The CIO convention opens next Monday and may run two weeks.
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Pittsburgh
United Automobile Workers
Hudson Motor Car Company
Detroit
CIO
Homer Martin
Auto Workers Union
Hudson
Budd Wheel Company
Ford Motor Company
Car of Tomorrow Amazes Crowds At Auto Show
York reports on the national auto show at Grand Central Palace where new 1939 models by Nash Packard Studebaker Chrysler and Graham display futuristic design. Highlights include chrome finishes bold snouts shift gear dashboards floorless brakes and interior rumble seats with a Nash standard full length bed behind the front.
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York
Grand Central Palace
Nash
Graham
Packard
Studebaker
Chrys
Chambers appeal hinges on station attendant testimony
In Williamson West Virginia on November 11 attorneys for Paul Chambers urged acquittal citing a statement by a 21 year old filling station attendant that Jetty Emma Farley jumped from a car to her death. Farley an 18 year old from McCar r Kentucky working in Matewan died from a fractured skull after being found along Pigeon Creek road July 22. The state claims she was beaten during Chambers attempted advances. The defense presented new stories and argued original statements were made under narcotic influence. Evidence included tire marks and blood on shoes with hair fibers. Page 3.
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Williamson
W. Va
Paul Chambers
Emma Farley
McCarr
Matewan
Pigeon Creek
Chambers
H. H. Davis
H. C. Jackson
Miss Farley
Young Chambers
Dan Chambers
George Crawford
Crawford
Conley Ryan
Mingo County
Eow Creek
Germany Tightens Anti Jew Campaign as Jews Arrested
Berlin reports a nationwide anti Semite crackdown with secret police raids on upper class Jews. Goebbels warns Jews abroad their conduct shapes German policy while mass seizures push toward a ghetto like reestablishment and Aryanization of Jewish businesses.
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Goebbels
Melvin K. Whiteleather
Berlin
Germany
Nazi Reich
United States
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Voelkischer Beobachter
North America
Goebbls
Gorge
Ewan Property
Legation
Paris
Poune Tele
Munich
America
Veterans Groups Lead Armistice Observance
Bluefield events marked Armistice twentieth anniversary with a post banquet at the West Virginian hotel. G T Leslie as toastmaster. N Clarence Smith gave a speech. taps by junior buglers. Mayor Snyder offered greetings. Overseas veterans relived World War days in a full day program ending with a dinner at Jimmy's restaurant. A parade on Bland street preceded a memorial service at First Christian church.
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Homer Holt
Fred Ray
McDowell County
Welch
Holt
Pocahontas Theatre
Governor Holt
Carl Stafford
Bluefield Post
No. 9
American Legion
West Virginian Hotel
G. T. Leslie
John C. Hall
Oen
N. Clarence Smith
Bluefield
William C. Snyder
Mr. Leslie
America
Southern Pioneer Post No
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Asetian Church
Jimmy
Bland Street
First Christian Church
Beaver High School
150Th Infantry
Windsors Reinstated in Royal Circle After Gloucester Meeting
Paris dispatch reports a cordial gathering with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester that restored the Duke of Windsor to the royal family circle and accepted his American wife socially.
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Duke
Duchess of Gloucester
Paris
England
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
Duke of Windsor
Windsors Meet Gloucesters in Armistice Day Reunion
Edward VIII and the Windsors spent Armistice Day with the Gloucesters in Paris as crowds cheered the royal party. The two duchesses exchanged light remarks about the surprise visit while plans for future royal reunions and a possible Christmas gathering in London were noted.
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Edward VIII
Duchess of Windsor
Duchess of Gloucester
Edward
England
London
King George
Hotel
Maurice
Armistice Day Observed Amid Global Tensions and War Debt
Armistice Day 20th anniversary marked by wreaths and prayers from Arlington to Whitehall. President Roosevelt laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier tomb as Legion leader Chadwick urged universal service law. Churchill’s Britain faced anti Semitism and German terror campaigns, with riots and bans in Paris and Belfast signaling uneasy peace.
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National Commander of Legion
United States
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Roosevelt
Vas
Soler
American Legion
Stephen P. Chadwick
America
Army
Navy
Congress
John J. Pershing
Arlington
Eng- Munich
Czechoslovakia
London
Whitehall
Britain
Paris
Chamberlain
Colorful Career Of Politician Is Closed
John J. Bathhouse Coughlin longtime Chicago city council member and political boss died of pneumonia ending a 46 year career. The flamboyant alderman known as Big Jawn rose from steam room patron to ruler of a wealthy Loop ward and poet laureate of City Hall. He partnered with Hinky Dink in a Damon and Pythias style Democratic team shaping Chicago politics after the fire.
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Chicago
John J
Coughlin
Big Jawn
Loop
Ee “Hinky
Damon and
Pythias
Welch pair held for murder in Ontario mining town
Arthur Wilford a 33 year old miner died from a skull injury days after an assault near War Ontario. Simon Maguran and Carl Cardwell were re-arrested on murder charges and jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing. Maguran bonded at 10000 dollars while Cardwell remains jailed. Witnesses say Wilford was attacked at Simon's Tavern and struck with a pistol by Maguran and Cardwell, with Cardwell allegedly punching and Maguran discharging the pistol. Wilford died after several days unconscious. He was born May 2 1906 in Amherst Ohio and survived by his widow Dorothy Bernice and several siblings. The body was sent to Judson Indiana for burial in Knox Indiana next Tuesday.
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Welch Bureau
Daily Telegraph
Arthur Wilford
Welch
Simon Maguran
Carl Cardwell
Maguran
W. M. Liddle
Cardwell
War
Wilford
Hosital
Big Creek
Amherst
Thomas Wilford
Helen Grygracy
Dorothy Bernice
Chicago
Ill
Fred
Cleveland
Pearl Callingwood
Birmingham
Cora Slagle
Judson
Ind
Knox
Thorpe Warns U S Moving Toward Fascism Under FDR
Akron Ohio November 11 American under the Roosevelt administration is three-fourths down the road to Fascism, Merle Thorpe editor of Nations Business told the Ohio chamber during a two day meeting. He charged Washington controls working capital, fixes wages, hours and prices across 250 lines of business and moves toward state capitalism seen in totalitarian Europe.
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Akron
Roosevelt
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Merle Thorpe
Nation's Business
Chamber
Washington
Europe
Sdidate
Labor Peace Fragments as CIO Unions Split
The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union with 250,000 members left the CIO to form an independent union. CIO Chairman John L. Lewis plans a Pittsburgh convention to unite labor, while LGWU seeks reconciliation with AFL. The move marks a key moment in the three year labor conflict and Democratic Party losses.
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Washington
CIO
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
U.G.W.U
John L. Lewis
Pittsburgh
AFL
Cio-Afl
Labor
Garment Workers
L. G. W. U. Pene
Dubinsky
Lewis
Arment Union
Sennttsburgh
Industrial Union Movement
Bomb threats target German consulates in Boston and New York
Boston acting German consul Kurt Bohme received two telephone threats promising a bombing at 10 45 am. Police detailed special officers to the Belmont home and the consulate. In New York, police guard German Consul General Hans Borchers after multiple calls warned of bombing. bomb squad found no explosives.
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Boston
Kurt Bohme
Bohme
Belmont
Consula
New York
Hans Borchers
Borchers
Germany
Cbactennas
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