Voter letter questions La Guardia and New Deal stance
An unsigned New York resident criticizes Fio rrello La Guardia and the New Deal, defending William O'Dwyer as mayoral candidate while condemning Roosevelt era tone. The writer, a self described reactionary, opposes both New Deal and New Order, attacks political rhetoric, and notes media alignment with La Guardia.
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World-Telegram
Roosevelt
Patterson
Daily News
la Guardia
Siliest
FIGHT RESCUED AFTER BOMBER BREAKS IN AIR
Eight army airmen jumped from a mid air bomber over the Sierra Nevada near Reno California on November 2 the crew rode parachutes to safety. Pilot remains missing while Corporal Sterling Som Private Milton H Stookey and six others were rescued. Mosely reported seriously injured.
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Georgetown
Calif
Sierra Nevada
Reno
New
Sacramento
L. H. M. Walker
Sterlingsom
Hurricane
Utah
Milton H. Stookey
Corning
Telis Peak
Ebout
J. R. Mode
Fort Worth
Tex
Eugene M. Clemens
Chamberlain
S. D
Walter B Clant
Harold Salisbury
Bangor
Fred E. Pekuri
Portland
Ore
Robert V. Mosely
Columbus
Neb
Mosely
Ison
Outlook Stormy For Price Control Bill
Washington reports a price control bill for commodities and defense material moves to the House calendar amid stormy outlooks. Administration opposition centers on farming price ceilings and a White House push to overturn a banking committee decision. Expect debate postponed until next week with possible action after official holidays. price administrator power would set ceilings and housing rents in defense areas using specified base dates.
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Washington
White House
Steagall
Alabama
House
Gurney Urges Full Repeal of Neutrality Act
Senator Gurney Republican of South Dakota argued in the Senate for complete repeal of the Neutrality Act rather than a partial revision. He criticized both the administration plan to lift arms embargoes and labor policy, calling isolationists those who value political power over defense and urging decisive action against the act.
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Washington
Navy
Gurney
South Dakota
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
New York Will Elect Tuesday in Close Mayor Race
New York voters prepared for a close Tuesday mayoral election between incumbent Fiorello La Guardia and Brooklyn District Attorney William O Dwyer. La Guardia had Roosevelt and party leaders backing a predicted plurality, while O Dwyer carried Lehman, Fairey and Tammany Hall support for a larger predicted margin. Analysts warned the contest could be the tightest since 1905, with last minute speeches boosting turnout expectations.
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New York
F. H. la Guardia
Brooklyn
William O'Dwyer
Roosevelt
Republican
American Labor
City Fusion
United City
William M. Chadbourne
O'Dwyer
King’s County
Herbert H. Lehman
James A. Fairey
Tammany Hall
Edward J. Flynn
George B. McClellan
William Randolph Hearst
Fair buildings in Arkansas burned at exposition grounds
North Little Rock Ark Nov 3 Fire of undetermined origin swept the Arkansas Livestock Show association exposition grounds hours after the fourth annual state exposition closed Preliminary estimates put the loss at 250000 The fire started in an 80000 main arena and spread to tents Several score head of exhibition livestock and animals used in the rodeo were destroyed A youth sleeping in a stock tent helped save many cattle by awakening and releasing animals and opening gates ahead of the flames.
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North Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Livestock Show Association
Hope Ebbs For 10 Missing On Reuben James
Washington reports slow hope for the unreported crew of the U S S Reuben James as a large number of sailors remain unaccounted for after the destroyer was sunk. Navy officials say 44 sailors were saved and total crew strength is withheld, with unofficial counts around 76 missing. If all lost, the casualty list would be the largest on a regular combat ship since the Maine disaster of 1898. Continued on second page.
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Washington
Reuben James
Maine
Naval Communications Nerve Center
Navy
Havana Harbor
Zachary pensioned operator ends 30 year switchboard era
In Zachary Louisiana on November 3 a white haired operator Mrs. T. L. Barnett closes the Barnett telephone exchange she ran since 1910 serving eight families day and night. She recalls helping deliver a baby via board and assisting during a 1933 cyclone while four daughters learned the trade. Now retired at 71 she misses the intimate contact with subscribers though enjoys garden time.
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Zachary
T. L. Barnett
Barnett Telephone Exchange
Mrs. Brown
Irs Smith
Mrs. Barnett
U. S. Warns Finland To Stop Aggression
Secretary of State Hull disclosed Washington’s warning to Finland to halt offensive operations against Soviet Russia to maintain U S friendship. He said the United States had repeatedly pressed Finland over its course and noted the friendly relations with Finland.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Soviet Russia
Hull
London
Britain
Who's Who in Monopoly Suit Opens Pullman Case
In Philadelphia on November 3 the government launched anti trust action against the Pullman companies. A list of 31 defendants includes figures like George the Pullman porter and financiers Morgan Whitney Vanderbilt and Mellon. The suit alleges monopolistic control of railroad sleeping car business since 1909 through required leasing or purchase of Pullman equipment.
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Philadelphia
George
Pullman Porter
Morgan, Whitney, Vanderbilt
Mellon
Pullman
Pullman Company
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
John Roosevelt's Home Under Guard Reported
The secret service placed a guard at John Roosevelt home in Coronado Los Angeles where his wife and 16 month old boy live. Two men arrested while trying to peer into the Roosevelt home. Officials in Washington say guarding the president family is routine and no threats known.
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Los Angeles
Secret Service
Aperonado
John Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Naval Air Station
Coronado
Arthur N. Grube
Secret Service Bureau
Washington
Double takes from a week of quirky headlines
Gladwin Hill reports a week of oddities from across the nation. Highlights include Minnesota’s “Healthiest girl” in hospital with flu, a speeding sound track theft in Oconomowee, four husbands and wives running for office in Yatesville, a political wife buying radio time in New York, a lawnmower fire in Kansas City, a monkey revived by Des Moines firefighters, misadventures with a dislocated shoulder in San Francisco and a hula injury in Hollywood, plus strange pairings in Hugo and Stillwater marriages and a divorce puzzle from South Bend.
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Minnesota
Oconomowee
Yatesville
New York
Kansas City
Des Moines
San Francisco
Hollywood
Uncle Tom's Cabin” Company
Joplin
Eliza
Hugo
Okia
Stillwater
South Bend
Ind
Coast Guard Joins U S Navy in Surprise Move
The coast guard was placed under the Navy by executive order, transferring 200 ships, 50 planes, 1,700 officers, and 20,000 enlisted men from the treasury to Navy command. President Roosevelt cited a 1915 statute allowing wartime or directive incorporation into the fleet. Hyde Park, N Y, was the release site for the order.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Navy
Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Navy
Hyde Park
N. Y
Sackett Quits as Head of New York FBI Office
Brad Win Sackett, 39, special agent in charge of the New York FBI field office, announced his resignation effective November 13. In a formal statement he praised the FBI as the greatest organization of its kind and said he yielded to family obligations long ignored to enter civilian life.
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Sackett
F. B
New York
Bradwin Sackett
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New Orleans
Langer bribery claim ties judge's son to payments
James Mulloy testified at Senate hearings that Senator Langer paid about 1700 to 1800 dollars to two men to influence a federal judge involved in Langer's 1935 case. One payment was to the judge's son Gale Wyman, via C N Leedom, with Mulloy delivering five hundreds to Leedom for Gale.
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Washington
James Mulloy
North Dakota
Langer
Mulloy
North Dakota Industrial and Securities Commission
Senate Elections Committee
Edward Burke
Nebraska
C. N. Leedom
United States
South Dakota
Gale Wyman
Lee Wyman
Wyman
Congress
Leedom
Deadwood
S. D
Settlement effort to resolve mine dispute across seven steel firms
The defense mediation board meets again to settle a coal mine dispute involving 33,000 miners from seven steel companies. John L. Lewis and 16 steel executives attend as a union shop issue looms, with a possible board decision by week’s end.
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Associated Press
Defense Mediation Board
William A. Davis
John L. Lewis
C. IL. O
United Mine Workers
Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Pittsburgh
A. F. of L
Masters, Mates and Pilot Association
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Fayette County
Monongahela River
West Coast
Labor Board
United Aircraft Welders of America
King George of Greece Plans U S Visit
King George of Greece plans a U S visit with a sizable entourage within weeks. A large Greek population in the United States is cited as a key reason. King George arrived in London on September 22 from Egypt.
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London
King George
Greece
United States
George
Egypt
Germans report Russian retreat and German raids in Crimea
Germans say Russians flee toward a double Dunkerque as air force blasts troop transports and exit ports of Sevastopol, Kerch, and the Red fleet base after Simferopol capture. Britain weighs war on Romania Hungary and Finland while weather grounds RAF raids and Germany claims ship losses in northern France. Roosevelt meets Mackenzie King at Hyde Park.
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Associated Press
Crimea
France
Germany
United States
Reich
Japan
Britain
Far East
Singapore
Roosevelt
W. L. MacKenzie King
Hyde Park
British Stage Attacks Upon Axis Shipping
British coastal command bombed a Norwegian fish oil factory and hit a tanker and supply ship in low level strikes against Axis shipping off Norway and the Netherlands. The RAF also bombed a wireless station a warehouse and a small supply ship as weather hampered operations. German raids were light with isolated damage to Scotland and east England.
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London
Coastal Command
Norwegian
Norway
Netherlands
Air Ministry
Germany
Kiel
France
Reuters
DNB
Alderney
Channel Islands
East Scotland
East Anglia
Pene
Arkansas River at Crest of 37.3 Feet
Flood threats shift to north central Arkansas as the Arkansas River crested at 37.3 feet in Fort Smith, with dike breaks easing downstream pressure. Evacuations covered 1500 people as engineers and WPA crews monitor levees between Russellville and Little Rock for a tight battle to hold them.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Paris
J. R. Crume
Little Rock
United States
Russellville
Works Projects Administration
Webbers Falls
Okla
Weather Bureau
Max Tyler
Mississippi River Commission
Vicksburg
Pine Bluff
Britain urged to spark war on three nations
Associated Press reports German claims of crushing Russian forces in Crimea with air and sea power. Kursk captured in the Donets basin. Kalinin reported recaptured by Red Army as Moscow siege deepens. Britain considers Russia asking to declare war on Hungary, Romania and Finland. U.S. informed. Finnish involvement near Murmansk emphasized.
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Associated Press
Germany
Crimea
Peninsular
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Kerch
Crimean Front
Donets
Kursk
Kharkov
Orel
Tula
Moscow
Red Army
Kalinin
Crimean
Russia
Red Fleet
London
Britain
Hungary
Rumania
Fineland
United States
Finland
Stockholm
Muremansk
Russian
Murmansk-Leningrad
Milam to Lead E A Conway Memorial Hospital
Dr DeWitt T Milam assumed charge as superintendent of the E A Conway Memorial hospital in Monroe on November 1 succeeding acting superintendent Dr Melville W Hunter Milam had been named superintendent by Governor Sam H Jones before the hospital opened last July He was serving in the army as a lieutenant colonel after 16 years in the national guard He was called to Army service on November 25 1940 and stationed at Camp Blanding Fla as acegimental surgeon of the 156th infantry He fell ill and underwent a major operation at Walter Reed hospital in Washington DC and was discharged from Army service
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DeWitt T. Milam
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Monroe
Melville W. Hunter
Milam
Army
Sam H. Jones
National Guard
Camp Blanding
Fla
1S6th Infantry
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
President's aide leaves hospital after neuritis treatment
Ming Margaret Lehand, long time personal secretary to President Roosevelt, has left the hospital where she was treated four months for neuritis. Officials would not disclose her destination but sources say she will recuperate in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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Washington
Ming Margaret Lehand
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Railway guards foil new German sabotage attempt in occupied France
Paris press reports railway guards thwarted a sabotage bid in the German-occupied zone. Three guards supposedly received rewards from Lieutenant-General Ernst von Schaumberg, the German military commander in Paris.
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Miic
France
Paris
Gereman-occupied
Ernst von Schaumberg
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