Japan seeks revamp of US policies in the Orient
The World Today reports Tokyo officials press for a broad reversal of United States policy in Asia. Tokyo asserts patience has run out and pledges a free hand in the Pacific as Chinese bridges and roads are targeted, with possible attacks from Indo Chinese routes and US naval involvement near Shanghai. German forces claim Kerch seizure, tightening grip on Crimea as counterattacks push Nazis back near Kalinin and Tikhvin. US war vessels are countering Axis freight masked as American ships in the Atlantic.
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Associated Press
Japan
United States
Ajor
Orient
Tokyo
Pacific
Hinese
Indo-China
Arma Road
United States Mets
Shanghai
Russian
Crimea
Caucasus
Kalinin
Miners Refuse Open Shop in Captive Mines, Orgy of Defiance
John L. Lewis informed President Roosevelt that United Mine Workers reject an open shop accord in captive coal mines as it would invalidate existing collective bargaining. He said union officers lack authority to approve such an agreement, risking members’ assets. The policy committee met after Lewis spoke. no action to call out 330,000 workers in commercial mines. Lewis planned to stay in Washington amid looming developments rather than attend Detroit convention.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Lewis
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
U. M. W. Policy Committee
Detroit
D. S
American Held in Mexico for Bride's Death
Terre y Mexico November 17 Arthur Torrance, held in Merrey Penitentiary on murder charges in the death of his wealthy 67 year old wife Ada Love id of Kalamazoo Michigan. Police believe she was killed with a vacuum bottle. Torrance denies the charges while awaiting exhumation and police examine for hypodermic marks and possible drugs.
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Terrey
Mexico
Arteur Torrance
Merrey Penitentiary
Ada Loveid
Kalamazoo
Mich
Bpiate
Ernesto Balli
Torrance
Exico
I. Torrance
Mrs
Arrance
Carmen Mar- Alvarado
Mex
Evaristo Dorcia
Rela
Santa Catarina
State boosts funds for Louisiana schools for 1941-42
Baton Rouge officials announce a total school fund distribution of 14,956,198.08 to parish systems for 1941-42, up 494,286.08 from 1940-41 and 1,527,287.08 from 1939-40. The per educable share rises to 18.16 from 17.51, with severance and tobacco tax revenues cited as main drivers of the increase. Three fourths go to per educable allotments, one fourth to equalization.
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Baton Rouge
John E. Coxe
Coxe
Tyre
WM Ee
Churchill cigar box brings $2.16 for aid to Russia
London auction proceeds from a box of cigars presented by Prime Minister Churchill raised 2.16 for Mrs. Churchill's aid to Russia fund. The sale supported Red Cross relief efforts with the donation noted in the report.
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London
Red Cross
Churchill
Suspended sentence given after brief jury deliberation
Frank K. Warner, former Monroe district director of commodity distribution for the state department of public welfare, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. A district court jury recommended a suspended sentence, and Judge J. T. Shell imposed a term of three to nine years on good behavior. Warner testified he had fully restituted the department for the embezzled salvage-container sales. The indictment dates back to October 23.
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Frank K. Warner
Monroe
State Department of Public Welfare
J. T. Shell
Warner
Department of Public Welfare
Wheeler claims U S Navy fighting in two oceans
Senator Wheeler of Montana released a letter from a seaman aboard the cruiser St Louis claiming orders to escort a convoy to Vladivostok and then search for a German raider in the South Pacific. He charged the Navy with aggressive actions alongside Britain, while Connally said cooperation with the British navy is permissible and Mercant ships may sail armed to belligerent ports.
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Washington
Wheeler
Montana
United States Navy
Pacific
Atlantic
United States
St. Louis
Tennessee
Honolulu
Vladivostok
Russia
Siberian
South Pacific
Singapore
Bombay
Byrdstown
Senate
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
High Court Denies Leche Plea in Mail Fraud Case
The U S Supreme Court refused to review Richard W Leche ex Louisiana governor in a mail fraud scheme conviction tied to overpriced truck purchases for the Louisiana highway commission. Leche, sentenced to 10 years, had already had the verdict upheld by the Fifth Circuit.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
Louisiana Highway Commission
Leche
Western Louisiana Federal District Court
Fifth Federal Circuit Court
New Orleans
Richard W. Lewhe
Covington
United States Supreme Court
Fatal Greyhound bus crash investigated in Rushville
Rushville Ind Nov 17 James Cooper Rush county prosecutor prepared evidence for a special grand jury to probe a Saturday night bus wreck that killed nine and injured ten. Paul T Connell 39 held for drunkenness and DUI after a drunkometer showed 173 percent alcohol in his blood. The crash occurred four miles east as the bus hit a culvert abutment, plunged 25 feet, and burst into flames.
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Rushville
Ind
James Cooper
Rush County
Paul T. Connell
Connell
Don Stiver
Here
Detectives Hint Breakthrough In Elephant Deaths Case
St Petersburg Florida November 17 Chief of Detectives John S Siers says the mystery of the elephant killings connected to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey may be solved soon as circus officials Georgia police and FBI conclude a sweeping probe from Virginia to Florida. local officials joined the investigation after the circus arrived yesterday.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
John S. Siers
Georgia
Virginia
Florida
Siers
Congress Abandons Plans For Series Of Three Day Recesses
Congress faced probing allusions to defense policy as President Roosevelt sought 6.687 billion dollars for the army with most funds earmarked for ordnance. Speaker Rayburn promised quick House action on defense strike legislation, noting it would await proper consideration and might take time.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Rayburn
House
House Rules Committee
Representative Cox
Georgia
Local pastors kept in Twin City churches for coming year
At the Shreveport annual conference, Twin City Methodist churches announced pastors remain in place for the year. Dr. W. L. Doss Jr. moves to Baton Rouge district, while Rev. H. M. Johnson succeeds him in Monroe. Listing details follow for Monroe district pastors and associated officials.
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Twin City
Shreveport
W. L. Doss
Baton Rouge
H. M Johnson
Carrollton Avenue
New Orleans
Monroe
Doss
Twin Cities
First Methodist Church
A. M. Freeman
Gordon Avenue
W. A. Cross
Stone Avenue
Ira Yeager
West Monroe
C. Karlos Smith
W. R. Wendt
Home of the Good Samaritan
J. R. Downs
Newellton
S. J. McClean
Oak Grove
M. D. Fulkerson
Oak Ridge
J. F. Dring
Pioneer
J. C. Price
Rayville
William J. Reid
Sterlington
J. W. Lee
Sunrise
I A. Patton
Tallulah
H. A. Rickey
Wateroof
C. M. Hughes
Winnsboro
O. L. Er
Wisner
J. M. Alford
Student Held On Extortion Charge At UCLA
Los Angeles November 17. Alfred Arndt Stere 17 a UCLA student was arrested after taking a $5 000 extortion payment from a coeds parents under threat of disfiguring the girl with acid The FBI said Stere claimed he wanted only to study victim reactions Betty Berch 17 was to be used in a psychological survey Both families are wealthy The envelope containing the money was left in a Wilshire boulevard mailbox and Stere was arrested as he started to leave He faces a charge of using the mails for extortion and was to be arraigned today
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Los Angeles
Alfred Arndt Stere
University of California At
Richard Hood
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stere
Hood
Betty Berch
Miss Berch
Steve
Samuel H. Berch
Betty
Wilshire Boulevard
Axis Merchant Ship Taken By U S Cruiser
A badly damaged Axis cargo ship seized in the South Atlantic masquerading as an American vessel arrived at San Juan under U S guard. The Odenwald, reportedly 5,098 tons and linked to Hamburg American Line, was en route to Germany from Japan with rubber and war metals cargo.
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AXIS
U. S
San Juan
Puerto Rico
South Atlantic
United States Navy
United States
Tommer
Hamburg-American Line
Germany
Japan
Equatorial
Navy Department
Navy
1941 Roll Call Progress in Red Cross Enrollment
Roll Call Chairman Harry Frazer reports 1941 Red Cross enrollment progressing well in Monroe and West Monroe. Downtown firms are enrolling staff, with efforts aimed at 100 percent membership. Eleanor Faulk heads house-to-house canvassing with about 100 workers. list of 100 percent firms to be published in News-Star starting Tuesday.
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Red Cross
Roll Call
Harry Frazer
Monroe
West Monroe
News-Star
Eleanor Faulk
Old Savings Bank
Ends Her Life on Spouse's Birthday in Delhi
Mrs. Martin Eskew, about 45, died at 2 p.m. Sunday after taking poison, following a birthday dinner she prepared for her husband in Richland parish. Funeral services were held in Delhi with interment at Masonic cemetery. She is survived by two sons Melvin Hudgens and Marion Hudgens and one daughter Mrs. Margaret Walker of Sherman, Texas.
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Delhi
Martin Eskew
F. B. Sayre
Richland Parish
Delhi Masonic Cemetery
Melvin Hudgens
Marion Hudgens
Margaret Walker
Tof Sherman
Tex
Pacific navy orders patrols after unconfirmed attack report
Balboa Panama, Nov 17 The U S 15th naval district ordered patrols on the alert after unconfirmed reports a British operated Yugoslav ship was attacked in the Pacific by an axis raider The vessel Olga Topic a 4375 ton ship was said to have sent an SOS Then Rear Admiral Frank Sadler said the dragnet is out and the naval attache in Lima is alerted.
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Balboa
C. Z
United States
15Th Naval District
Pacific
Olga
South America
Iquique
Chile
Frank Sadler
Naval District
Arca
Lima
Peru
Chiang Kai-shek calls for timely strike to curb Japan
In Chungking Chiang Kai-shek said the vital moment has arrived for a reckoning with Japan as he urged Britain and the United States to crush Japan without delay. Quo Tai-chi hinted at a four power alliance against axis in the orient and noted signs pointing to an ABCD coalition of American Britain China and the Dutch East Indies. Chinese forces prepare for possible Japanese offensive from French Indo-China and reinforcements move into key border regions around the Burma Road. United States military officers travel to Kunming as Beijing aligns with Allied efforts in the Pacific.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Japan
Quo Tai-Chi
Orient
Quo
Britain
Dutch East Indies
Chiang
People's Political Council
Far East
United States
Indo- China
Kwangsi
Yunnan
Burma Road
John Magruder
Kunming
Europe
Russia
Pacific
Roosevelt
Nicaragua Ready to Fight Hitler says Somoza kin
Dr. Luis Manuel DeBayle, surgeon general of the Nicaraguan army and brother in law of President Somoza, declares Nicaragua could not be used as a base by Hitler to attack the United States. He cites a 10,000 strong army and a trained reserve of 60,000, and pledges Nicaragua to join when America engages the Axis in war. He plans to fly to Nicaragua via Brownsville, Texas.
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New Orleans
Luis Manuel DeBayie
Anastasio Somoza
Hitler
Nicaragua
United States
DeBayle
America
Brownsville
Tex
C I O meets amid defense push and miners’ aid pledge
Detroit November 11 The C I O annual convention opened with a split aim as leaders push for full defense production while pledging support to United Mine Workers miners halted in defense vital captive pits. Philip Murray praised Roosevelt policy and union shop as core future bargaining, while criticizing defense program handling.
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Detroit
Moose Temple
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
C. I. QO
Philip Murray
Roosevelt
Nazi Germany
Murray
Resolutions Committee
Committee On
Executive Board
Washington
National Defense Program
Industry Council
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
China
Defense Mediation Board
United Mine
Teachers Meeting in Orleans Opens Convention
The Louisiana Teachers association opened its annual convention in New Orleans with a business session for reports on auditing legislation citizenship hospitalization publicity research teachers leaves and retirement. W J Dodd presided and Miss Susan Pardue led vesper services. Memorials were read and speakers were scheduled today including Dr Harry Barnes and John E Coxe.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Teachers Association
W. J. Dodd
Oakdale
Susan Pardue
Winnsboro
Girault Jones
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
J. A. Manning
Morganza
E. A. Lee
Natchitoches Parish
War of Nerves With Orientals In Progress
President Roosevelt held a formal White House talk with Japan's envoy Saburo Kurusu and Ambassador Nomura over the Far Eastern crisis. After meetings with Secretary Hull, both sides avoided details, with Kurusu declining to discuss concessions or troop withdrawals in China.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Saburo Xurusu
Far Eastern
Pacific
Kurusu
White House
Saburo
Nomura
Mr. Roosevelt
Hull
State Department
Bomber Burns Five Are Safe
Five men parachuted to safety last night from an army bomber that burned on a mountain ridge southwest of Park City. Two crew members remained unaccounted for as search parties from Park City and Fort Douglas pursued them. Pilot First Lieutenant W. E. Baysie, returning from Salt Lake to Denver, said the order to abandon ship came as blizzard conditions hit. Baysie, four miles from crash, was helped to Park City by farmers. Hospitalized crew members included Baysie and Second Lieutenants M. Simmons and C. A. Smith. one man reportedly suffered a broken ankle.
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Salt Lake City
Park City
Here
Fort Douglas
R. E. L. Pirtle
J. D. Anderson
Pirtle
8Th Reconnaisance Squadron
W. E. Baysie
Salt Lake
Denver
Baysie
M. Simmons
C. A. Smith
Work begins on Kenner air field named for Moisant
New Orleans Nov 17 Work started on John B Moisant Field at Kenner the third major air field for the area The 800 acre port will have three runways 11000 9200 and 7500 feet to serve all current and anticipated aircraft Mayor Meestri notes the field will be sizable and the federal government has 780008 for Kenner work The field is named for aviator John B Moisant who died in a 1910 crash while competing for the Michelin Cup
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New Orleans
John B. Moisant
Kenner
Robert S. Meestri
Alvin Callender
Belle Chasse
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Tate
High Court
Methodist Conference
Chiang Kai-Shek
Orleans
Keach
Kenner Air Field
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