National voters set to shape 1936 indicators in six states
Six states vote tomorrow in key elections seen as 1936 indicators. Kentucky’s governor race pits Democrat Chandler against Republican Swope amid intra party feuding. New York City congressional contests and Philadelphia mayoralty race draw attention for potential national impact.
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Washington
Kentucky
New Yok City
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
New York
Pennsylvania
White House
A. B. Chandler
King Swope
Border State
Laffoon
Swope
Ruby Laffoon
Chandler
Fame
Queens County
William F. Brunner
New York City
Anthony J. Griffin
Griffin
Melvin C. Eaton
Assembly
Roose
Mississippian And Wife Killed By Automobile
James Carter and his wife, both of Brookhaven, were fatally struck by a car while walking on a highway near their home two miles north of Brookhaven. The driver, Morris Allred of Hazelhurst, reported he did not see them until it was too late. They are survived by son David Carter, 17.
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Brookhaven
Miss
James Carter
Here
Morris Allred
Hazelhurst
Young Man Killed By Train Near Zachary
In Zachary Louisiana a white man was killed when crushed by a freight train. His body lay beside two cards bearing the name William Lavis. One card listed 481 Forty-ninth Street Brooklyn and the other the Help amg Hand institute Kansas City. Officials believe he was attempting to jump from the train.
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Baton Rouge
William Lavis
Zachary
Here
Forty-ninth Street
Brooklyn
Helpamg Hand Institute
Kansas City
Roosevelt Receives Fire Department Membership Badge
President Roosevelt is awarded a badge marking 25 years in the Hyde Park volunteer fire department though he only attended one blaze, arriving after it had been extinguished. He told the group of firemen and families that he aided after the fire.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Unsettled South Carolina Highway Crisis Deepens
Governor Johnston’s militia seized state highway control a week ago and faces no immediate showdown before the November 11 supreme court hearing. Process servers report service to six road managers except one, with four served at home after blocked access to the highway administration building.
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Columbia
S. G
Olin D. Johnston
Supreme Court
Johnston
Highway Administration
D. W. Robinson
Consid
Helena Earthquake Refugees Begin Cleanup Amid Hope
Helena Montana, Nov 4. Refugees from the quake faced with loss and danger receive warm shelter clothes food and medical care as federal official James H Rowe orders the demolition of unsafe structures. A two man crew to remove dangerous walls starts the clearing effort. Death toll from shocks since Oct 12 stands at seven.
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Helena
Mont
James H. Rowe
Orleans Man Succumbs After Fist Fight
New Orleans, Nov. 4. Cornelius Schammer, 31, died in hospital from a fractured skull after a Sunday afternoon punch knocked him to the pavement in front of a St Charles avenue beer parlor and delicatessen. Investigators say Tilden Normand, 33, owner of the shop, struck Schammer after accusing him of taking several cans of coffee. The case is being investigated by Rudolph Becker, assistant district attorney.
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New Orleans
Cornelius Schammer
St. Charles Avenue
Tilden Normand
Schamzner
Rudolph Becker
King George II returned to throne after Greek plebiscite
Greece declares royalist victory as 98 percent favor reinstatement of King George II in a June 4 plebiscite. Official counts from 17 districts show 911,700 royalist ballots to 16,295 for the republicans with 1,500 rejected. Crowds celebrate while London awaits royalist news.
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Athens
George II
George
London
George Kondylis
Kent
M. Petralias
Universal draft plans progress in Washington
Washington reports movement on universal draft and wartime capital conscription ahead of Congress. The American Legion will renew its 14 year push for universal draft mandating non profit wartime service for all classes. The Veterans of Foreign Wars backs capital and industry conscription on the same basis as armed forces and supports neutrality and munitions regulation.
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Washington
Congress
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disqualification Upheld for 15 Parish Candidates
District Judge James D. Simon upheld the St. Martin parish Democratic executive committee ruling disqualifying 15 anti administration candidates for parish offices in the January primary. The committee barred them for alleged improper completing of qualification papers.
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ST. Martinville
James D. Simon
St. Martin Parish
Democratic Executive Committee
Trio of Royal Flushes Split Pot in Poker Feat
Chicago on November 4 reports Joseph Kaemerer from the far south side tallies three royal flushes dealt in one hand. Oscar Gullans had the same in diamonds and William Clifford in clubs. with a two cent limit the pot reached 11.70 before dealer Joseph Kennelly ruled a three way split.
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Chicago
Joseph Kaemerer
Far South Side
Kaemerer
Oscar Gullans
William Clifford
Joseph Kennelly
Red haired public enemy No 1 shot dead in Kansas City
Vivian Chase a noted public enemy with ties to gangsters is found fatally shot in a car near St Luke's hospital. Police renew hunt for bank robber John Langan after a chain of gunfire linked to the case and a September deputy shooting.
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Kansas City
Vivian Chase
John Langan
St. Luke’s Hospital
Country Club
Langan
Kansas
New York Election Day Declared General Holiday
Election day will be observed as a general holiday throughout the financial district with all financial and commodity exchanges closed. The Chicago and Northwest grain exchanges remain open along with the New Orleans cotton exchange, Savannah naval stores, Boston wool, and regional livestock markets.
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New York
Financial District
Chicago
Northwest
New Orleans
Savannah
Boston
Grand Jury to probe death of Union miner at White's Chapel
A St. Clair county grand jury convened in Pen City to probe the shooting death of Virgil Thomas and wounding of six others as strikers moved toward the Acmar mine. Nine Acmar mine employees including F R Bell and Charley Shepherd were arrested on murder warrants with bonds set at 5000 each.
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Pen City
Ala
St. Clair County
White’s Chapel
Acmar
Alto V. Lee
Virgil Thomas
White's Chapel
Grand
F. R. Bell
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Charley Shepherd
H. C. Jinright
John Rich
Garfield Hammock
Louis Hawkins
James Copeland
Bob Ferguson
C. C. Copeland
C. D
Memphis Man Brenton Root Shot by Wife After Party
Brenton Root a 32 year old Memphis businessman was killed following a nightclub party. His wife Daisy Root 30 is jailed on murder charges. Root's father Reverend Benjamin Franklin Root rector of St Simon's Chicago reacted with deep grief. Daisy faced county jail after being informed in Chicago of her son's death.
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Memphis
Tenn
Brenton Root
Daisy Root
Benjamin Franklin Root
St. Simon's Protestant Episcopal Church
Chicago
Lady Elsie Baron and Arthur Tritton Marry in London Registry
Lady Elsie Baron daughter of Bruno Richter of New York and Arthur Robert Tritton wed at Cadton Hall registry. Baron, widow of Sir Louis Bernhard Baron a tobacco magnate who died in 1934 leaving about 3.25 million dollars.
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London
Elsie Baron
Bruno Richter
New York
Arthur Robert Tritton
Caxton Hall
Baron
Louis Bernhard Baron
Peace hopes dim as negotiations are deadlocked
Mussolini pledged victory in Ethiopia as peace talks failed and 120000 fascists renewed the Makale offensive. Italian advances moved along a 100 mile front from Aksum to Adigrat with forces entering Hauzien as Danakil troops pressed. The anniversary of Selassie’s coronation was observed amid wartime rallying.
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Adigrat
Makale
Ethiopia
Battlefront
Associated Press
Joseph Caneva
New York
R. H. Hippelheuser
Mussolini
Italy
Aduwa-Adigrat
East Africa
Il Duce
Austria-Hungary
Palazzo Venezia
Aksum
Hauzien
Aduwa
Yeggs Blow Open Post Office Safe at Gilbert
Burglars blown open the Gilbert post office safe about 4 am Monday. One intruder wounded by a nearby citizen, outer door destroyed, inner compartment door shattered but locked. Small change stolen. three burglars fled in a late model Plymouth with Texas plates.
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Gilbert
Texas
QO. B. Richardson
Methodist Episcopal Ministers Appointed
Port Arthur Texas Nov 4 Appointments for the coming year were announced by the southern annual conference at the end of its 63rd session. Lake Charles district appointees include Superintendent A A Lei Feste and ministers for Bayou Chene Indian Village DeQuincy Bethel Hopewell Deadwood Ebeneezer and other listed charges.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Southern Annual Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lake Charles
A. A. Lei Feste
Bayou Chene-Indian Village
T. J. Parsons
DeQuincy
R. T. Pynes
Bethel Hopewell
W. C. Mann
Deadwood
C. H. Lagrone
Ebeneezer
Raymond Clarence Krumnow
Hughes Spring Circuit
Towa-Sweet Lake
Edward Haug
Jefferson-Atlanta
Jennings
W. R. Wendt
Johnson Chapel
Delos H. Cassell
Kinder-Elton
J. J. Davis
C. W. Rodgers
Loranger
Everett
Bomb Terrorist Dies in Explosion Ending Milwaukee Plot
Milwaukee police said a bomb terror spree ended with the blast that killed Hugh Frank Rutkowski, 21, whose garage explosion also killed Patricia Mlynarek and seriously injured her mother and brother. Ten others were hurt. detectives search for missing companion Paul Chavanek.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Hugh Frank Rutkowski
Patricia Mlynarek
J. G. Laubenheimer
Paul Chavanek
Rutkowski
Five Men Lynched Tennessee Negro Near White Bluff
In White Bluff Tennessee on November 4 a 35 year old Black man Baxter Bell was shot to death by five white men who said he insulted a white woman alighting from a bus. The assailants surrendered at the county jail shortly after the killing.
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White Bluff
Tenn
Baxter Bell
Kingston Springs
Clyde Petty
Ex Claims Commissioner Louis Bryant Dies in Jeanerette
Louis Paul Bryant aged 77, former member of the American Mexican claims commission during the Coolidge era, died at his home near Jeanerette Louisiana. He previously served as surveyor of customs in New York and New Orleans and practiced law in Laredo Texas and New Orleans. Funeral services were held locally.
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Jeanerette
Louis Paul Bryant
Freak Hurricane Aims At Palm Beach Area Coast
A severe hurricane is forecast to hit coastal towns including Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. Officials warn residents to prepare as the storm tracks toward the Florida coast with potential strong winds and heavy rain.
Florida coast braces as hurricane nears with evacuations
Residents board up windows and schools ordered to close at noon in Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale as a hurricane moves toward South Florida. Relief workers evacuate the Florida Keys after lasting devastation from Labor Day hurricane, with warnings of high tides and possible 50 mph winds across Palm Beach to Naples.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Coast Guard
Saeland
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Miami
Florida Keys
Palm Beach
William H. Green
Coral Islands
Snake Creek
Lower Matecumbe
Miami News
Naples
Fort Myers
West Palm Beach-Miami
Palm Beach In Path Of Sudden Florida Hurricane
South Florida residents braced as a hurricane shifted toward the coast between Miami and Palm Beach. At 9 30 a m EST the Jacksonville weather bureau reported the storm 85 miles east northeast of Miami moving west southwest, with warnings issued for extreme southern Florida.
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Miami
Fla
South Florida
Delray
Palm Beach
Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Florida
Shrimp Strike Ends. Coast Industry Reels Back to Work
Biloxi Mississippi reports the 2000 boatmen strike ending with a 50 cent per barrel price rise to seven dollars and fifty cents. Alabama and Mississippi factories resume operations after about two weeks shutdown.
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Biloxi
Miss
Alabama
Mississippi
Postmasters Named Washington Nov 4
Postmaster General Farley announced the appointment of acting postmasters including Mabel Croak of Oberlin Louisiana and Maggie B. E. Jones of Ringgold, Le.
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Washington
Farley
Mabel Croak
Oberlin
Maggie BE. Jones
Ringgold
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Greece
Arthur Tritton
Selassie
Yeggs
Methodist Episcopal
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Wang Ching-Wei
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West Palm Beach
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Bahamas
Lake Okeechobee
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