Gurney backs arms embargo repeal amid neutrality debate
Senator Gurney Republican South Dakota urged immediate repeal of the arms embargo and cash and carry arms sales to belligerents to keep the United States out of war. He said nations armed in peace should not be favored and urged Congress to stay in session to support the president while maintaining preparedness. He contrasted this with Roosevelt’s wartime emergency powers and criticized Johnson and the administration’s push to lift the ban See NEUTRALITY-Page Two.
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Louis Johnson
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Army recruiting station to open in Huron Minnesota
The U S Army opens a recruiting sub station in Huron along with multiple Minnesota and South Dakota sites to enlist men for the third infantry. Recruits may be assigned to Fort Lewis Fort Meade Fort Lincoln and other posts with stations at Fairmont Willmar Winona Grand Rapids Virginia and Oxings. The third infantry will train at Camp Jackson in South Carolina for several months before returning to Fort Snelling next spring.
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Dick Tason
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Mitchell
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Studih Carolina
Gallogly Behind Bars In Dallas
Richard Gallogly, a 29 year old Georgia life term inmate, surrendered to Dallas authorities claiming faith in Texas justice. He escaped five days earlier with his wife while being transferred and said he would not be extradited to continue serving a murder sentence. Gallogly, from a prominent Georgia family, dislodged a guard with a wood fragment during the escape, and he was recaptured in Dallas where he said real men would understand his case.
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Texas
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Smoot Schnud
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School Board Discusses Including Parochial School in Athletics
The board of education met in October with Supt. A. J. Lang reporting routine business. Debate covered adding St. Teresa parochial school to the city system's elementary athletic program but no action was taken.
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158 000 Tommies Now In Service On French Soil
War Secretary Hore-Belisha said Britain sent an expeditionary force of 158 000 men to France in the first five weeks of the war. Churchill announced Britain’s merchant shipping balance in its favor, with 17 806 tons net gained and 50 000 tons of new ships added. A drive to quiet defeatist propaganda followed, while Daladier’s radio speech drew praise for pledging to fight on. Chamberlain to speak tomorrow, with talks with Poland’s new foreign minister. German feeler attacks repulsed near Saarlouis area, with heavy fighting noted east of the Moselle.
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David Lloyd George
Council For Peace and Reconstruction
Mrs Roosevelt Celebrates 55th Birthday Quietly
Washington in 1911: Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt marked her fifty fifth birthday with a small private cake. Her two sons James and Elliott were in town on business, and she cut a cake with twenty one candles. Otherwise celebrations were minimal as the busy first lady continued her day’s duties.
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Death takes well known Huron man W C Botkin dies
William C. Botkin 55 longtime South Dakota Detail Credit Association secretary died in a Sioux City hospital after an operation and heart illness. Survived by widow Blanche Botkin three sisters and a brother, with services Friday at Welter Chapel Wolsey and burial at Artesian. Masonic rites at the grave.
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William C. Botkin
South Dakota Detail Credit Association
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Gatwin
Blanche Botkin
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Walter Stark
Clarence Parish
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R. E. McCall
Hereford
Tex
Mary E. Botkin
Cole
Wolsey
Welter Chapel
Artesian
Britain and Russia Reach Timber Rubber Tin Trade Pact
London officials said Britain and the Soviet Union concluded a commercial agreement trading Russian timber for British rubber and tin. No quantities were disclosed, but the pact aims to smooth wartime exchange before White Sea ports freeze. Timber ships face German patrols seeking to curb contraband.
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Russia
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Ministry of Supply
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England
October Rains Spur Fall Plowing and Seeding
South Dakota crop and weather summary credits recent moisture with encouraging more plowing and seeding. Federal meteorologist B R Laskowski notes two good rains boosted stock water in the west river area and temperatures were reasonable. Little farming activity occurred last week as rye and winter wheat showed slow germination, with some rye fields greening. See CROP REPORT, Page Eight.
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Germans See No Conflict In Aims Given By French
Berlin dispatch reports authorized German sources say Germany sees no clash between Daladier’s aims for security and European peace and Hitler’s terms. They note France’s alliance with Britain complicates a unified stance and that domestic politics may shape both leaders’ positions. See BERLIN, Page Eight.
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Daladier
France
Hitler
Britain
Europe
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Caamvenain
House of Commons
Reichstag
Poland
Russia
Iroquois liner arrival kept secret by navy
Protected by two U.S. naval escorts the liner Iroquois with 544 passengers from Europe was due late today. Exact arrival time kept secret as destroyers coast guard cutters and sea and air search for an alien submarine intensified off the Maine coast amid German warnings of sinking plans. An amphibian plane joined patrols from Salem Massachusetts to aid the hunt.
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Europe
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Salem
Mass
Great Britain
France
Finland Masses Troops On Border As Diplomats Travel Toward Moscow
Finland tightens border readiness as Finnish delegation led by Juha Kusti Paasikivi reaches Moscow for talks on Soviet demands. Helsinki urges civilians to evacuate and brace for possible sovereignty issues amid Soviet Baltic alliances that return Vilnius to Lithuania and expand Moscow’s regional influence.
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Helsink
Urho Kekkonen
Kekkonen
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Wilna
Palish
Purge Death Toll Cited By Krivitsky At DC Hearing
General Walter G Krivitsky testified before the Dies Committee that the 1936 37 Soviet purge killed about 35000 Red Army officers and that Stalin sent 300000 to 400000 people to imprisonment or exile while millions more were in concentration camps He said he split from Stalin over the purge and noted his 17 years in Soviet military intelligence.
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Washington
Walter G. Krivitsky
Dies Committee
Russia
Red Army
Krivitsky
House Committee
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Rhei Whitley
Germany
Farmers Flock In To Get Insurance On Wheat Crops
The federal crop insurance program projects over 300000 wheat farmers will buy policies for next year, up from about 170000 this year. By Oct 5 more than 272000 farmers had paid premiums on 1940 policies, totaling 5902000 bushels of grain, with insured production listed by state including Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Montana and others. Indemnities will be paid for losses caused by weather or other qualifying risks.
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Washington
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Insurance Corporation
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Brontana
FDR Peace Message Read At CIO Convention
A message from President Roosevelt urging world peace was read at the CIO convention in San Francisco. The message called for practicing peace and goodwill in daily life and aligned with a similar note sent to the AFL, urging the joint committee to pursue an accord.
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American Federation of Labor
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