Global pact signals hard times for Japan in Far East
President Roosevelt announced a three nation accord among the United States Great Britain and China on new Far East operations reached at Chungking with Generals Stilwell Chennault Somervell Mountbatten and Chiang Kai-Shek. The plan focuses on continental campaign methods and supply issues. Somervell has returned to the United States.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
China
Chungking
Stilwell
Chennault
Somervell
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Chiang Kai-Shek
Far East
Westbrook Pegler on coal strike and government power
The columnist argues the coal strike endgame and a president ordered action reveal a pattern of labor control by federal power. He rails against government authority, calling it an era that rejects honesty and crushes owners into obedience, warning of repeated use without public sanction.
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Aleuch Dewlingn
Amer
Ywldfor
Dome Agai
Russian advance across Ukraine drives Germans from Dnieper line
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet forces controlling east side of the Dnieper from Gomel to Zaporozhye with heavy losses claimed for Germany. Stalin’s tally cites 9,000 German dead and 98,000 captured in four months, with renewed drives toward Kiev and the Latvian border as red armies push west and south.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Dnieper
Khersan
Ukraine
Gomel
Stalin
Russia
Kherson
Poseawion
Zauierhe
Zaporiche
Crimea
Nikopol
Ayuth
Koversen
Berlin
Leningrad
Progrem
Dnepropetrovak
Dimer
White Ructia
Armistice Day Program Outlines Service Plan
Commander F W Alision of the L. B. Faulk post announces Armistice Day observances. There will be no parade as war veterans proceed to First Presbyterian church for a service on November 1 at 11 am. Rev. R. T. Watson will preach and a memorial service will honor fallen soldiers. Participating groups include United Spanish War Camp, American Legion posts of Sterlington West Monroe and Monroe, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars post of Monroe.
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F W Alison
L. B
United Spanish War
American Legion
Sterlington
West Monroe
Monroe
Veterans of Foreign Wary
Mind reading dog Bozo dies after 13 year tour
Bozo the mind reading dog, famed for feats before 40 million people across 13 years in the United States Mexico and other venues, is dead. Owner Captain EC Lower held a $16,000 policy on him buried Bozo in a silk lined casket at the Humane Society cemetery and plans a monument with the dog's glass portrait. Bozo earned over $100,000 and received eight honorary university degrees.
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Tampa
Fla
Bozo
United States
Mexico
EC. Lower
Humane Society
Captain Lower
Lee Appointed To Court Of Appeals
President Roosevelt nominated Elmo Pearce Lee Sr of Louisiana for the Fifth circuit court of appeals covering Texas Louisiana and other southern states The White House disclosed a prior nomination of former Governor James V Allred was blocked by a senate tie vote and later redirected in a letter to Allred The post became vacant by the death of Judge Rufus E B Foster and the notice quotes the president urging public service over partisan controversy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Elmo Pearce Lee
Louisiana
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Texas
Lee
Shreveport
Cook, Lee, Clarke
Egan Lee
James V. Allred
Allreds
Senate Judiciary Committee
White House
Allred
Rufus EB Foster
Jimmy
Senate
Early Christmas Mailing Urged to Prevent Postal Delays
The Postal Department urges Christmas mailings to occur in November to avoid a nationwide delivery crisis. With 31,000 army deployed workers and far above normal mail volumes, officials warn deliveries will be impossible if parcels rush in late. They advise marking parcels do not open until Christmas and mailing small items by December 10 only if November is overlooked.
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Post Office
Washgton Hea
Postal Department
Army
Nurses Still Aid in Philippines
Dozens of army nurses left behind in the Philippines after the Japanese occupation have been administering to the ills of interned American civilians and repatriates who arrived here aboard the exchange liner Gripsholm. Named nurses include Inez McDonald Tupilo Edith Wimberly Jean Kennedy Sallie Durrett and Anne Gladys Mealer.
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Mormugao
Portuguese India
Philippines
Gripsholm
Inez McDonald
Tupilo
Miss
Edith Wimberly
Campti
Jean Kennedy
Philadelphia
Sallie Durrett
Louisville
Anne Gladys Mealer
Gorgas
Ala
Americans And Allies Hit Western Germany In Heavy Bombardment
American Flying Fortresses Liberators and Thunderbolts accompanied by Lightnings attacked western Germany while Marauder bombers targeted northern France. The raid followed RAF Mosquito strikes and involved 4000 tons of bombs on Wilhelmshaven and Düsseldorf in 24 hours. Pathfinders illuminated targets with night flares to guide the main force.
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London
Germany
France
United States Air Force
The
Reich
Berlin
Channel
Mosquito
Duesseldorf
Wilhelmshoven
R.A. FL
Mast Anglia
Hamburg
Daily Mail
Eighth Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
De Marigny Grilled In Bahamas Murder Trial
Alfred De Marigny faced a relentless cross examination by crown attorneys accusing him of murdering Sir Harry Oakes. He denied beating and burning his father in law last July and claimed an alibi of being at home in bed at the time. The courtroom filled with onlookers as Chief Justice Sir Oscar Daly urged guards to control the crowd.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Oscar Bedford Daly
de Marigny
Harry
Sidney
de Marigny de Marigny
Arkansas legislator calls for constitutional ban on federal aid
Lake Village Arkansas state representative Lee Baker proposes a constitutional amendment to bar four states from accepting federal aid except for narrow purposes He argues it would curb federal bureaucratic encroachment and limit aid to interstate projects national defense needs and essential development He speaks at a council of state governments conference with a continued discussion noted on the seventh page.
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New Orleans
Arkansas
Lee Baker
Lake Village
Interstate Cooperation Committee
Arkansas House
Council of State Governments
Drive fund short of quota in Ouachita parish drive
The Combined Community Chest and United War Fund closed with 63 839 95 of a 75 000 goal for Ouachita parish. Campaign will continue a week to raise the remaining 12 000 as donors and solicitors are urged to complete gifts and contact those not yet reached.
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Community Chest
United War Fund
Ouachita Parish
Virginia
Roger White
Parish United War Fund
Chest
Shotwell and Brown
Clyde Brown
T. M.greer
Nelrose Boykin
Landa Ae
Hope Producing Company
Ws Sen Las
Bec Eine Pari Dak
Whatite Coe Ees
Cecil Shultz
Hep Ino
Ale Dntsk
Seme
Andy Conaway
Kathleen Mize
Roxie Temple
Carbon Consolidated
Carbon Consoli TD
Reppand Eeeeccrex
Allies In Italy Drive Forward In Central Front
Allied Fifth and Eighth armies press into central Italy, reaching near Venafro and Garigliano river after storming through German positions around Isernia. Montgomery’s forces secure San Salvo as Americans push toward Volturno and Sam Agapito while RAF and US bombers disrupt west coast rail links.
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Algiers
Italy
Massico- Trigno
Venafro
BBC
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Isernia
Garigliano River
Rome
Tyrrhenian
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
San Salvo
Queensborough
Raider
Montemutro
Adriatic
Montgomery
Trigno
Iserma
Volturno
Sam Agapito
Carpinone
15Th United States Air Force
12Th
Leghorn
Civitavecchia
Willis Will Be Kentucky's Sixth Republican Governor Next Month
Ashland attorney Symeon Willis, 63, former state appeals court judge, will become Kentucky's sixth Republican governor next month. Republicans also won lieutenant governor and multiple cabinet posts. Democrat J L Donaldson trails by about 8,000 votes with 270,168 to 278,230. Republicans gain in Jefferson County and in state offices but Democrats likely retain both state chambers. Willis comments on victory while Donaldson and Mrs Willis react with surprise.
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Louisville
Symeon
Willis
Ashland
State Court of Appeals
Kentucky
J. Luter Donaldson
Carrollton
Donaldson
Kenneth H. Tuggle
Barbourville
William H. May
Prestonburg
Senate
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Jefferson County
Lousville
California to bid Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for 1936 DNC
Democratic state chairman Alfred W. Robertson says California will invite the Democratic national convention to meet in Los Angeles at the Memorial Coliseum site of the 1932 Olympics. The bid will be presented to the Democratic national committee in January. the Coliseum seats over 100,000.
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Los Angeles
California
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Alfred W. Robertson
Democratic National Committee
Coal Output Recovers Slowly After Miner Strike
The War Labor Board is poised to approve the wage agreement between John L. Lewis and Harold Ickes, with a possible refinement of the earnings formula for pieceworkers. Production lags, and back-to-work talks vary by region as mines plan returns.
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Labor Board
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
Government Fuels
Harold Ickes
Hundreds Killed in Nazi Prisons
Melbourne a Melbourne merchant marine engineer Keith Godridge described Russian men women and children killed in German prison camps. He said prisoners were deloused with steam and water then pushed into snow where hundreds died. He witnessed Russians being fed scraps through the wire and found many dead after dispersal.
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Melbourne
Australia
Keith Godridge
Hamburg
World War II: Allied Navy and Chinese Fronts Intensify
Allied forces report sunk or damaged Japanese ships off Bougainville and in the Solomons while Chinese troops push along a 9 mile front in the Yangtze valley. Burma China and India theaters see intensified bombing and jungle fighting as puppet governments convene in Tokyo for peace talks.
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Associated Press
Japan
Tokyo
Burma
Manchukuo
China
Philippine “Republic
Thailand
South Pacific
Yangtze Valley
Kanagan
Nanfesien
Shansi
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Jass
Bougainville
Botte Eainville
Choiseul Islands
Meno
Treasury
India
Hebert Introduces Perez's Statement on Plaquemines Conflict
Washington November 5. District Attorney Leander H Perez's revised speech criticizing Governor Jones martial law in Plaquemines Parish La was inserted in the congressional record by Rep Hebert. Hebert said the address would clarify impressions in Congress and carry background on the sheriff office dispute amid state and federal actions and military equipment used in the tense period.
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Washington
Leander H. Perez
Plaquemines Parch
Perez
Jones
Hebert
Louisiana
Ben R. Slater
Mines Parish
Walter Blaize
Congressional
Peres
Congress
Sheriffs
Plaquemines Parish
United States Army
Parish
Injury Bill Okayed For Independence Woman
The Senate Claims Committee approved a bill for $5 177 to Mrs Mary Vulio of Independence La for injuries from an August 1941 accident when her car was struck by a United States army truck on Route 51 near Hammond La.
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Washington
Senate
Mary Vulio
Independence
United States Army
Hammond
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