O Dwyer Attacks LaGuardia Over Murder Inc Fight
District Attorney William O Dwyer charged Mayor LaGuardia with scuttling his Murder Inc investigation and widened his feud with budget director Kenneth Dayton. He criticized cost concerns and refused to disclose sources or open sealed files, saying the mayor hid facts with smoke screens.
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New York
INS
William O'Dwyer
Brooklyn
F. H. LaGuardia
Kenneth Dayton
Dayton
Inc
LaGuardia
O'Dwyer
Murder, Inc
Flier Student Leaps From Blazing Plane Over Miami
Edwin Petway a two year old aviation cadet from Nashville Tennessee told how he parachuted from his flaming Grumman Seahawk trainer at 7000 feet above Miami. He landed in a house yard while the plane crashed in an open field three blocks away. Police halted souvenir hunters who stripped the wreckage as it cooled.
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Miami
Fla
Edwin
Petway
Nashville
Que
Stimson Denounces Exposed War Plans As Unhelpful
Secretary of War Stimson blasted a Chicago Tribune report on a secret army navy study as disloyal and dangerous. He said the documents were unfinished production studies not an authorized government program and could aid enemies. A five million-strong expeditionary force was mentioned in the Tribune story.
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Washington
Stimson
Chicago Tribune
Milion Aef
Tribune
Europe
Africa
Germany
Roosevelt
War Secretary
Las
Army
Navy
Hitler
White House and War, Department
Jury's Verdict Errs and Doom Halted in Oklahoma
In Idabel Oklahoma William Pat Herren, 37, faced electrocution for murder after a poker dispute with Tarr Crutchfield of Wright City. The court clerk read a death verdict, but jurors protested and returned with a manslaughter verdict of 25 years, saying the foreman had signed the wrong paper.
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Idabel
Okla
Imnsi
William Pat Herren
Tarr Crutchfield
Wright City
Buel Grimage
U S Holds Ready to Reject Jap Non Aggression Claim
The United States signals it will judge Japan by actions in Indo China and beyond, not Tokyo’s words. Tokyo argues troop limits and warns of defense needs as Tokyo's envoy Namura and Kurusu press peace talks with Hull in Washington.
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Japan
Indo-China
U. S
Nippon
Dominatca
Vicky Colery
Thailand
British Malaya
Burma Road
Rongiest
Far
Roosevelt
Pacific
Tokyo
Hutl
Chi
Hull
Hutt
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Kichisaburo Namura
Saburo Kurusu
Nomura
Kurrus
State Department
Foam
Kurusu
Indo- China
Yunnan
Vichy
Washington
Saigon
Haiphong
Toxyn
Berlin
China
Far East
Hideki Tojo
Far Pacific
Brazil
Nks
Early shoppers win Gazette photo awards in Charleston
Christmas stocks thin at leading stores as shoppers flood in from Charlestonians and visitors. The Gazette teams with merchants to photograph a daily Christmas buyer each morning, rewarding winners with five dollars upon proper ID at the Gazette office on Hale Street. Friday’s winner was Mary Cobb of 1600 First Avenue.
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Mary Cobb
First Avenue
Charleston
Woman Walker Killed as Two Drivers Held in Kanawha County
Miss Ernestine Marshall 26 of Smithers died after being struck on the Midland trail at London by a speeding car. Two motorists, Willard Smith 31 of Shrewsbury and Francis Perdue, are held for arraignment on drunken driving and related charges.
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Ernestine Marshall
Smithers
London
Willard Smith
Shrewsbury
Francis Perdue
Glase
Tooners
Harry Adams
Kanawha
Jna
Seven Die as Auto Collides With Bus in Fog
A fog shrouded highway crash near Dawson killed seven people and injured 12 when a car struck a bus carrying 24 students after a night basketball game. Among the dead were five Fort Benning soldiers. the bus included Dorothy Casey and Union County players. Cincinnati Reds pitcher Fermer Riddle and Boston Red Sox’s Jane Newsom aided at the scene.
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Bill Taylor
Dawson
Fort Henning
Clifton H. Taylor
Rochelle
Roscoe Patrick
Tina
Adam Cormier
Church Point
Ernest M. McMullen
20Th Field Artillery
Moultrie
Leon Jones
Amaanie
Deer hunter uses gun to topple buck then gun goes off
In Elk County Pennsylvania Deputy Sheriff John Slavin fired at a 12 point buck, missing the shot and causing the deer to fall. The buck sprang up and knocked the gun from the hunter’s hands in a wily reversal. In Indiana Letha Sailors of Muncie reported her purse lost or stolen containing watches rings a lodge pin and various personal items.
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Pitts Bunnn
Wes
Elk County
Pennsylvania
John Slavin
Slavin
Ind
Letha Sailors
Muncie
Men's Lodge
Judge Bouchelle Bars AFL Pickets in Dairy Case
Judge Julian F. Bouchelle overruled the Teamsters bid to dissolve a temporary restraining order against picketing at Blossom Dairy in Charleston. He held peaceful picketing could target the Dairy Salesmen contract with an independent union, Dairy Salesmen Inc. The decision noted the picketing’s directed aim and found no clear evidence Dairy Salesmen Inc. was employer dominated. Bouchelle referenced peaceful past actions and a state supreme court remark, stressing the merits of the underlying contract dispute.
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The
Blossom Dairy Company of
Charleston
Teamsters Union 198
AFL
Kanawha
Julian FF. Bouchelle
Ibench
Bouchelle
Dairy Salesmen, Inc
Teamsters
Pichela
State Supreme Court of Appeals
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Pauline Higginbotham
Hugheston
B. C. Hooper Mortuary
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James Arbaugh
Edgar Frye
Buriss
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Handley
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Lottie Marshall
Willis Marshall
Keith Marshall
Fort Benning
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Logan
Junbar
Williamson
Belle Orig
Geile, Heckler
Madame Bank Gisted Lite Reader
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Webster County
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Company D
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Prince Albert
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