Netherlands and Belgium Brace for Crisis Amid War Tensions
Dutch and Belgian leaders boosted defenses and prepared for possible conflict as mobilization neared peak. Belgium backs border closures if Germany acts, while the Netherlands floods defense canals and reports indicate a German border incident. US advises Americans in the Netherlands to depart. Correspondents warned to limit coverage to Netherlands papers.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
United States
Hague
Bensium
Nethernds
Sheriff Dies After Frightful Escape Attempt
Wisconsin Rapids top police chief Roland S Payne age 51 dies of heart disease after two youths break free in a stolen sheriff car. Nelson Pasha 14 Mossy Wisconsin and Robert Noel 17 Dearborn Mich chargefully arrested in Plymouth Ind with Payne and Undersheriff Clift Bluett.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Roland S
Ted) Payne
Y Payne
Clift Luett
Plymouth
Ind
Harvey Killips
Nelson Pasha
Mossee
Robert Noel
Dearborn
Mich
Adams
Payne
Ff Payne
Bluett
Frank Holman
Adams County
East
Ray Brayck
Hitler Attends Munich Funeral for Bombing Victims
Adolf Hitler attended funeral rites in Munich for seven victims of a bombing at the Bürgerbräu beer hall. Rudolf Hess led the eulogy praising Hitler and vowing German victory, while a state funeral and half mast marked the day of sorrow. A military communiqué noted minor west front activity and a captured French balloon downed.
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Munich
Adolf Hitler
Buergerbrau Hall
Hitler
Buerbergbrau Hall
Fuehrer
Buerberbrau
Germany
Rudolf Hess
Nazi Party
Hess
Buergerbrau
High Command
Kolmar
Hedy Lamarr barred from stage role by court order
Hollywood reports actress Hedy Lamarr faces a temporary barrier to her stage career. A Superior Court judge issued a restraining order preventing her from taking the title role in Salome for at least a week, after Loew's, Inc. alleged she accepted the role without permission under her exclusive contract dating from Sept. 30, 1937. Lamarr must show cause on Nov. 20 why the injunction should not stand.
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Hollywood
Hedy Lamarr
Salome
Loew's, Inc
Loew's
Emmet H. Wilson
Miss Lamarr
America
Austria
Weather Threat Grips Middleburg Fall Hunt Meet
Middleburg Va November 11 weather threatened the six race fall meeting of the Middleburg Hunt entries. The Penn Smith Challenge Plate over timber features Escape 3d favored to win as the three and a half mile race. Blackcock the favorite in the Glenwove National Steeplechase over brush. First race slated for 1 30 p m.
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Middleburg
R. K. Mellon
Escape 3d
Brush
Blackcock
Louis Stoddard, Jr
Big Black
Good Deed Backfires in Fatal Home Incident
In Memphis on November 11 a neighborly aid ended fatally for 10 year old Lonzo Dodson. The boy helped a stranger blow into a house pipe. the car backfired and set his clothing ablaze. He died from burns yesterday.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lonzo Dodson
Lonzo
Elizabeth Banks
Belgian Border Closes First Time Along German Frontier
The German Belgian frontier from Aachen to Eupen was closed today for the first time since the war began. Belgians who commuted daily to work in Germany found they could not enter. Aachen and Eupen lie near the junction of Belgium the Netherlands and Germany.
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Brussels
Aachen
Eupen
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Fire destroys Ritz Theater and car company in Union
A fire on Main Street Union South Carolina destroyed the Ritz Theater and the City Motor Car Co. building and slightly damaged a nearby Union Dry Cleaning and Steam Laundry. Loss was estimated at 45000 dollars. The blaze is said to have started in the theater control room.
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Union, S. C
Main Street
Ritz Theater
City Motor Car Co
Union Dry Cleaning and Steam Laundry
CIO0 Appeals Unemployment Ruling in Chrysler Case
Attorneys for the CIO United Automobile Workers prepare an appeal after the Michigan unemployment commission denied benefits to over 50 000 Chrysler workers idle for a month in a labor dispute. The appeal progresses from a commission referee to a special board and potentially to the circuit court and Michigan Supreme Court. Meanwhile federal mediators continue negotiations with the union and Chrysler as compensation losses approach 750 000 dollars.
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Detrorit
CIO
United Automobile Workers Today
Michigan Unemployment Commission
Chrysler Corporation
Atorney
Ernest Goodman
Commission
Loren D. Dickinson
Circuit Court
Michigan Supreme Court
James F. Dewey
Arthur E. Raab
State Labor Mediation Board
Dodge
Wife Traders Appeal From Bigamy Convictions
In Russellville Alabama four people convicted in a rural wife swap deal await appeals to the state Supreme Court. Will D. Johnson 36 receives three to three and a half years, Mrs Dalla Brand 29 gets two to two and a half, Odell Brand 32 gets two to two and a half, Annie Fay Johnson 29 pleaded guilty and will be sentenced after others. The scheme involved exchanges of wives land children and livestock with divorces finalized in Fulton Mississippi. Alabama law bars remarriage 60 days after a final decree.
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Russellville
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Will D. Johnson
Dalla Brand
Odell Brand
Annie Fay Johnson
FDR Calls for Peace as Nation Remembers War End
President Roosevelt, addressing Virginia Military Institute on its 100th anniversary, urged a new and better peace while noting wartime arms buildup continues. He spoke from the White House after wreathing the Unknown Soldier tomb at Arlington as Guardsmen drill and parades unfold nationwide.
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Europe
Roosevelt
White House
Virginia Military Institute
Arlington National Cemetery
America
Potomac
War and Navy
Pottsville Man Attacks Family With Hammer and Razor
In Port Carbon, 32 year old junk yard worker beat his wife Rachael Ebert and children Shirley and Charles Jr with a machinist hammer then slashed their throats with a razor. All three rushed to Pottsville Hospital in serious condition. he was jailed on aggravated assault with intent to kill. The wife escaped crying out for help as police found him barefoot and not resisting.
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Pottsville
C. O. Alexander
Junk Yard
Port Carbon
Rachael Ebert
Shirley
Charles, Jr
Pottsville Hospital
Alexander
Ebert
Pope Calls for Christian Peace in Capital Labor Rift
Pope Pius XII issued a lengthy encyclical urging the United States bishops to apply Christian ethics to the capital and labor conflict. He urged fair wages, fuller employment, and charitable redress of wealth duties, warning against modern evils and the neglect of religious education in schools.
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United States
Vatican City
Pius XII
Pope Pius
Missing Hunter Found in Adirondacks After Five Days
Ronald Terry, 80, of Elmira New York, a deer hunter, was found three miles from his entry point in the Adirondack woods after five days. Exhausted and in fair condition he is at a forest ranger’s headquarters at West Canada Lake awaiting recovery in the harsh sub freezing conditions.
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N. Y
Adirondack
Ronald Terry
Elmira
Terry
Forest Ranger
West Canada Lake
Aid Sought For American Tarf
Washington reports government agencies work on easing unemployment of ships and sailors under the neutrality act. The Maritime Commission delays action on transferring eight US liner ships to Panamanian registry, a plan supported by National Maritime Union president Joseph Curran despite State Department opposition. Curran and others, including Joseph P. Ryan and Matthew Dushane, attended the White House conference. Relief proposals include absorbing unemployed seamen into coast guard training, though schools are described as fairly full and expansion would be easy.
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Roosevelt
Vv. M. I
Pennsylvania National
Louisville
Fort Knox
Holland
Belgium
Britain
United States
Marquess of Lothian
Adolf Hitler
Washington
Maritime Commission
United States Lines
Panama
Hull
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
CIU
Ryan
Joseph P. Ryan
International Longshoremen’s Association
AFL
Matthew Dushane
International Seafares Union
Curran
Maritime Commission Coast Guard
World Still Reading News Of 21 Years Ago
A compact recapitulation of armistice memories and postwar tensions. Reports cite quotes from Wilson and Roosevelt about peace, plus dispatches from Warsaw and Amsterdam noting street fighting and German garrison tensions along the Dutch frontier. The piece blends historical memory with ongoing conflict reporting.
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United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warsaw
Poland
Amsterdam
Tass Reports Finland Refuses to Concede in Moscow Talks
Tass, the Soviet news agency, says Finland stiffened its stance in Moscow negotiations and increased forces on the border. It denies an English press report of Stalin rejecting Finland’s concessions and notes Finnish forces around Leningrad rising from two to seven divisions.
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Moscow
Russia
Tass
Kremlin
Daily Express
Exchange Telegraph
Helsinki
Stalin
Finland
Soviet Union
Karelian
Russian
Leningrad
Baltic
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Gulf of Finland
Gulf
Arctic
Karelia
Germans Raid Northern France. Paris Warned
German reconnaissance planes swarmed over Northern France and Belgium with Paris under a 70 minute air raid warning from 4 45 am to 5 55 am. The attack followed a German artillery barrage on mile long fronts and infantry actions in two western sectors, though the French general staff reported reduced activity overnight.
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Paris
France
Belgium
German authorities execute ex mayor in Polish town
German forces court martialed and shot Leon Barclszewski, ex mayor of Bromberg, for alleged killings of German residents before the army arrived and theft of municipal funds. The action follows the town’s occupation and is reported from Bydgoszcz.
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Bromberg
Bydgoszcz
Poland
Leon. Barclszewski
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U.S
Pope Pius XI
Eddy Gilmore
Woodrow Wilson
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