Vichy Adopts Iron Fisted Measures To Halt Attacks
The Petain government in Vichy announces stronger measures to suppress attacks on German occupying forces as hostages face execution. A cabinet communique pledges heightened precaution and repression following two killings that have already led to mass French fatalities and impending executions in Nantes and Bordeaux.
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Vichy
France
Petain
Refrsal
Nantes
Bordeaux
Uung
Wade
Paul Friedrich Hotz
T Admiral Darian
F D R Delivers Navy Day Speech on Foreign Policy
Washington Oct 25 President Roosevelt forgoes routine calls to draft a Navy Day address focusing on foreign policy. The speech due Monday night will mark his first since the September 11 radio address in which he rejected firing on sight orders. Officials anticipate recommendations on how the United States should respond as tensions with Japan rise and the Orient becomes the focal point of international strategy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Knox
Japan
Washn
War toll tops 2000 ships sunk in Allied war
The war has seen 2004 vessels lost since Saturday across 31 nations, including 875 British ships, with 19,108 lives lost and 9,318 missing. Submarines, planes, and warships account for 1975 sinkings. mines 252. other causes 677. Only four American ships have been sunk.
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New York
Associated Press
Britain
Otway
Greece
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Sweden Has Been the Hardest-Hit Atrval
United Gates-owned
Panagia
Moscow Faces Bold German Offensive As War Intensifies
German forces push toward Moscow in a fresh assault with new reinforcements. Reports place Nazi spearheads within 20 miles of the capital. Kharkov captured. southern Russian front near collapse. Hitler and Ciano confer as Italian envoy tours. Vichy acts to halt hostages. De Gaulle leads anti-execution protest. Roosevelt and Churchill condemn killings.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Kharkov
Britain
Middle East
Caucasus
State renews bid to sue for over one million dollars
Louisiana seeks direct Supreme Court action to recover more than 1 million dollars, alleging bribery in a 1931 airport site contract. The petition names Standard Dredging, Orleans Dredging, Dredging Realization, and officers Claude Cumming and Clarence Birch, with Huey Long ally Abraham Shushan removed from the list.
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Abraham L. Shushan
Huey Long
Louisiana
Supreme Court
New York
New Orleans
Shushan
High Tribunal
Louana
James J. Morrison
Eugene Stanley
Levee Commissioners
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Orleans Dredging Company
Lake Pontchartrain
Levee Board
Stanley
Orleans
Standard Dredging Corporation
The
Dredging Realization Corporation
Claude Cumming
Clarence R Birch
Orleans Company
Roosevelt Condemns German Hostage Executions Worldwide
President Roosevelt denounces the German execution of hostages as a ghastly warning to Hitler collaborators. Churchill joins in condemning the butcheries in France and pledges British support. The White House statement, translated for Europe, underscores horror and calls for retribution as WWII rages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
Hitler
London
Churchill
France
United States
White House
Atlantic
One airplane wreckage found near Fresno in fog bound search
An unidentified army pilot died in the wreckage of his P-40 pursuit ship found in the Sierra Nevada north of Fresno. Four squadron mates remained missing after vanishing in fog Friday as bombers searched the area. Civilian Claude Williams first spotted the wreckage at Gray's Peak, prompting a ground party to confirm the craft was destroyed.
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Los Angeles
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Claude Williams
Gray's Peak
Sierra National Forest
Fresno
Community Chest Campaign Falls Short of Goal in Twin City
Campaign manager Walter W Kellogg disclosed the Twin City Community Chest has only raised 25201.26 toward a 27500 goal, urging renewed donations from those who pledged. A house-to-house drive was dropped this year but volunteers will visit homes to collect pledges or accept mailed cards. several local residents contributed small amounts as listings show.
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Twin City
Walter W. Kellogg
Mr. Kellogg
Kellogg
Minnesota Takes Big Hop Toward U S Grid Honors
Minnesota’s Gophers, ranked No 1, defeated Michigan 7 to 0 at Ann Arbor in a pivotal battle. Halfback Herman Frickey scored a second period touchdown as Minnesota extended its 13 game win streak and stayed atop the national contenders list.
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U. S
Wolverines
Ann Arbor
Herman Frickey
Gophers
Texas
Longhorns
Duke
Notre Dame
Penn
Texas A
Army
Fordham
Temple
Vanderbilt
Michigan
Ohio State
Georgia
Santa Clara
Rutgers
Navy
Harvard
Rice
Texas Aggies
Baylor
Steve Lach
Pitt
Panthers
Missing King couple prompt three-state search
Fort Worth dispatch says police chief Karl Howard announced efforts of three states to locate Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. King of Cleveland Ohio. The couple checked into a Fort Worth hotel briefly and left. Their abandoned car from August was found in Bogalusa Louisiana with no plates. Police trace showed cash purchase and no local contact.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Edward J. King
Cleveland
Karl Howard
Bogalusa
Howard
King
Ohio
Louisiana
Committee votes to let vessels go to every harbor
The senate foreign relations committee approved a bill by 13 to 10 to arm American merchant ships and allow them to sail to any world port. The measure, a substitute for a house bill limited to arming, advances after a 12 to 11 in lieu vote. Democratic Leader Barkley set Monday for Senate debate amid expected speechmaking.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pepper
Florida
Lee
Oklahoma
Green
Rhode Island
White
Maine
Barkley
Senate
Nye
North Dakota
Y "Ueen
Michigan
Kidnapped Baby Found Unharmed In Massachusetts
In Fitchburg Massachusetts two month old Kenneth A McLean Jr was kidnaped from a carriage yesterday. He was found unharmed today in the camp of Mr and Mrs Bedard Wolsiewick in Whalom Park Providence Rhode Island. The couple were charged with kidnapping and held in twenty thousand dollars bail for Monday's hearing.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Kenneth A. McLean, Jr
Thomas Godley
Whalom Park
Bedard Wolsiewick
Wolsiewick
Providence
R. 1
Wolsiewicks
McLean
Morgenthau urges public to start saving for 1942 taxes
Secretary Morgenthau warned that federal income taxes will be stiff next year and urged immediate saving. He announced distributing pamphlets via banks showing tax amounts for incomes from 750 to 25,000 and how much to save monthly. The 1942 tax based on 1941 earnings will be paid in four installments set for March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Big Mine Strike Call Issued by United Mine Workers
Miners in captive collieries supplying steel mills went on strike at midnight after John L. Lewis rejected President Roosevelt’s request to wait for further negotiations. He blasted the mediation board as casual and evasive, saying its report dumps responsibility onto the president. About 53,000 miners in four states are affected, with captive mines owned by steel firms. Additional notes mention unrest at Bell Aircraft plants in Buffalo.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Lewis
C. S.united Mine Workers
Defense Mediation Board
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Alabama
Col Hienes
United Automobile Workers
Mediathon Board
Buffalo, N. Y
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Russians Say They Can Last Years In War Of Attrition
Interpreting wartime dispatches by Kirke L. Simpson notes Nazi efforts around Leningrad Moscow and Rostov while Soviet resolve to endure long battles persists. Casualty estimates clash with reality as both sides claim heavy losses, yet Russia emphasizes manpower superiority and willingness to fight for years.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Leningrad
Moscow
Rostov
Hitler
Donets
Caucasus
Russia
Germany
Stalin
Kharkov Falls as German offensive advances toward Moscow
German forces seized Kharkov, a major war production center 400 miles south of Moscow, and Belgorod on the main line to the capital. Soviet reports allege 300,000 German deaths on the central front as fighting rages in the Mozhaysk and Maloyaroslavets directions.
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Associated Presa
Russia
Moscow
Ukraine
Semeon Timoshenko
Adolf Hitler
Pittsburgh
Kharkov
Donets River
Kiev
Soviet Union
Belgorod
Mozhaisk
Maloyaroslavets
Soldier benefits kept in wartime unemployment plan
Governor Sam Jones faces a push from Rep. Dayton C. McCann to convene a special session and amend the unemployment compensation law so armed forces members retain eligibility. McCann notes that a year in military service ends wage credits and can deny benefits, urging action while on air corps leave from Morrison Field.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Dayton C. McCann
Avoyelles Parish
Army Air Corps
McCann
Air Corps
Morrison Field
West Palm Beach
Fla
Jones
Child Injured Here When Struck By Car
Five year old Josephine Ladart daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Ted art of 2401 Breard street was injured in front of her home yesterday when she stepped from behind a parked car and was struck by a car driven by Louis Tucker a negro Loop road Acting Chief of Police B L Brantley reported The child was taken to Vaughan Wright Bendel clinic where the attending physician treated her for severe abdominal brush burns and lacerations of the race Police said a charge of driving with out brakes and doing personal was brought against Tucker who traveling west on Breard street hit the child when she ran into the street.
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Josephine Ladart
Louis Teddart
Breard Street
Louis Tucker
Loop Road
B. L. Brantley
Vaughan Wright-Bendel Clinic
Tucker
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