British Move Seizes Nazi Exports In Naval War Pressures
London reports a king signed an order to seizure all German exports as reprisal for mining British waters. The London Gazette will publish the blockade next day, with several ships sunk or captured, including the Spaarndam and Konsul Hendrik Fischer. Four Germans killed. crew saved from ships Royston Grange and others. Britain cites Germany’s mining as trigger and expects cash needs may drive the impact.
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Hugh Wagnon
London
Fo Council
George VI
Germany
London Gazette
Admiralty
Holland- Amerika
Thames
Langeland
Britain
Jonesboro Youth Fatally Injured in Bridge Crash
Elgin Brown 19 died after his car left the Arcadia highway near Hodge Louisiana, plunging 15 feet. His brother Joe and two other youths survived. Funeral held at Walnut Ridge church with Rev. Paul Hammons officiating. interment in church cemetery. Survived by his mother and father and four sisters.
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Jonesboro
Elgin Brown
M. T. Brown
Hodge
Arcadia Highway
Joe
Barnum and
Williams
Young Brown
Walnut Ridge Church
Paul Hammons
Annie Lee Lewter
Edna Harvey
Luree Brown
Ruth Nolley
Quitman
Two Women Die After Savannah House Explosion
Two women died when two water heater tanks embedded in a fireplace exploded ripping apart a frame house near Savannah. Mrs. John Kimker and Mrs. Alzeta Richardson perished. six others injured including 13 year old Mary Frances Cole and 2 year old John Kimker Jr. The blast occurred as guests stood by the fireplace.
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Savannah
John Kimker
Alzeta Richardson
Here
Kimker
Taft outlines Republican aims and peace stance in farm belt speeches
Senator Taft of Ohio travels the farm belt outlining GOP strategy for the next campaign. He emphasizes keeping the United States out of the European war as a core Republican position and criticizes Democratic record. He advocates less government lending, tax revision, and freer business with restrained farm price interventions.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Horn
Vandenberg
Michigan
Peace Party
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Wilson
Republican National Committee
Trial in Kuhn Larceny Case Deliberations Continue
New York November 27 With defense and prosecution finished Kuhn larceny trial due to reach the jury today or tomorrow Judge James G Wallace has dismissed five counts of ten Defense counsel claims insufficient evidence and political motive Kuhn is charged with stealing 717 dollars to cover moving expenses for Mrs Florence Camp the bond treasurer and 500 listed as payment to James D C Murray with Murray denying receipt of funds Judge Wallace notes Camp’s admission of giving 600 to Kuhn and may drop counts related to that item
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
James G. Wallace
Peter L. F. Sabbatino
Kuhn
Thomas E. Dewey
Bond
Florence Camp
James D. C. Murray
Murray
Wallace
Death of Monroe Hardware chief Atkins after hunting trip
P. M. Atkins 59 longtime Monroe Hardware company president died Sunday night of an internal hemorrhage. Funeral at his Riverside Drive home Tuesday at 10:30 am with Rev. Holloway officiating. He leaves a wife, four daughters, a son and siblings. his firm shaped Monroe and West Monroe as a wholesale center.
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P. M. Atkins
Monroe Hardware Company
South
Louisiana
Riverside Drive
Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Riverview Burial Park
J. T. Conger
W. C. Stevenson
J. G. Durrett
M. M DeLarot
W. G. Murphy
A. R. Graves
G. M. L. Key
Sam Ivy
Atkins
A. L. Atkins
Shreveport
Aldina
Mr. Atkins
Athens
Tower House
Louisiana governors candidates threaten prison terms before primaries
In New Orleans a gubernatorial candidate sparring over the January 16 primaries raised the stakes to penitentiary terms. Earl K Long vowed to resign if Morrison not jailed within a year, while Morrison vowed to exile Long in Angola. Noe called for confiscation of alleged embezzled assets when he becomes governor, and the People's League warned it will seek arrest for coercive fundraising by state employees.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Coushatta
Morrison
James H. Morrison
Hammond
Jimmy Morrison
Earl
Angola
James A. Noe
Mamou
Sam Jones
Lake Charles
Vincent Moseley
Opelousas
People’s League
Governor Long
League
Two Orleans jurors denied reinstatement in open court clash
The Louisiana state supreme court denied the plea to reinstate two Orleans parish grand jurors who were removed by Criminal Judge George P. Pratt for reading complaints about District Attorney Byrne and Justices ONeill and Odom in open court. Dissenting Justice ONeill argued the act was not legal cause. Six more jurors signed a petition charging Byrne with political corruption interference.
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New Orleans
State Supreme Court
Orleans Parish
George P. Pratt
Charles A. Byrne
Charles O'Neill
Fred M. Odom
Archie Higgins
O'Neill
Powell
DeArmas
Byrne
Sidney DeArmas
Edgar Powell
Hero of Squalus Sunk Sub Visit in New Orleans
Lieutenant Oliver F Naquin hero of the submarine Squalus sinking last May visits his brother Arthur Naquin in New Orleans with his wife and two children. He plans to visit his mother in Alexandria before driving to San Diego to report to the submarine forces commander. Naquin says the Squalus chapter is closed and he intends to remain in the submarine service as the last man to leave the craft.
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New Orleans
Oliver F. Naquin
Portsmouth
N. H
Arthur Naquin
Alexandria
San Diego
Calif
Naquin
Quints Offered Refuge From War
Hawthorne California residents propose to relocate the Dionne quintuplets from Callander Ontario to Hawthorne and provide complete care and protection for the duration of the war. The Democratic club No 197 asks President Roosevelt to take up the matter with King George VI and Canadian officials.
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Hawthorne
Calif
Canada
Democratic Club No. 197
Roosevelt
Callander
Ont
George VI
Man Kills 2 Self in Philadelphia Home Tragedy
A jealous husband, Stanley Krygier, shot and killed two women, wounded his wife and her father, then killed himself after entering his estranged wife’s home in Philadelphia. Police say the wife escaped by jumping to a roof while Krygier struck her and her relatives with a hammer. Investigators note prior marksmanship practice in the residence cellar.
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Philadelphia
Peter McCormick
Stanley Krygier
Josephine Nieckoski
Florence
Krygier
Regina
Felix Nieckoski
McCormick
Maverick Faces Trial On Poll Tax Receipts Charge
San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick goes on trial in Texas on a charge of illegal purchase of poll tax receipts. His defense calls no witnesses as attorney files a 77 page motion naming several potential witnesses including Rebecca Taylor and Richard Jeffrey. The indictment centers on a January purchase two months before his upset victory in the city’s mayoral race.
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San Antonio
Tex
Maury Maverick
Congress
Carl W. Johnson
Rebecca Taylor
Garment Workers’ Union
Richard Jeffrey
Maverick
George Glass
Miss Taylor
Texas
Cold Wave in Shanghai Leaves Dozens Dead and Homeless
About 60 Chinese froze to death in the streets and several score more war refugees required hospital care as a cold wave hit Shanghai. Relief groups launched a fund drive to buy cotton wadded clothes for the vast numbers left homeless.
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Shanghai
Roosevelt approves budget meeting amid defense growth
President Roosevelt arranged a conference on national budgetary problems during Thanksgiving in Warm Springs Georgia. Budget Director Harold D. Smith joined from Washington as the administration faces adding 500 million dollars to defense expenditures and trimming non defense items to avoid a larger deficit.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Harold D. Smith
Washington
Congress
European war does not boost U S wheat farmers
The agriculture department said wartime will not aid American wheat growers. Exports may total 525 million bushels this season, down from 580 million last year, due to abundant world supplies and higher imports. Corn farmers face a 12 percent cut in 1940 plantings across 599 counties in 10 states, with commercial-area acreage allotments funded by soil conservation and price premiums.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
United States
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Kansas
Kentucky
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
South Dakota
Noe Wins Ruling on Right to Photograph Poll Books
Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Senate candidate James A Noe right to photograph Orleans parish poll books by denying a writ of review. The decision sustains an appellate ruling that Noe was justified in seeking access in his gubernatorial campaign dispute.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Orleans Parish
Louisiana Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Noe
Hugh C. Cage
Flashes In The News Report Of Nighttime Thefts
In Indianapolis a gray dressed man robbed Ernest Lane's grocery at dinner time taking cash from the register. Three nights later he struck again and fled with money totaling 57.50. Lane filed a police report. In Gary Mrs. Peter Yesh confronted a burglar returning home to find the intruder ready to steal a sweater. He dropped the garment and fled after lecturing him on theft. In Helena Jacob Iverson visited an ill friend and later learned the friend died. Iverson then died of a heart attack ten minutes after leaving.
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Indianapolis
Ernest Lane
Lane
Gary
Ind
Peter Yesh
Helena
Mont
Jacob Iverson
Neil D. McKinnon
McKinnon
Iverson
Free fowl fare aids Jackson county relief clients
Ruth Flynn, county social welfare worker, said conservation officers turned over wood ducks costing the original owner $30 each to be distributed to relief clients in Jackson county Maquoreta Ia.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County
Ruth Flynn
Trial opens in Dillon embezzlement case
Testimony in the trial of Dr Harvey Dillon former superintendent of Louisiana Training Institute began after denied motions for continuance. Prosecutors say Dillon embezzled livestock building materials tools and farm supplies totaling about 1140.71 and used institute property for his Sabine parish farm and gifts to friends.
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Harvey Dillon
Louisiana Training Institute
Dillon
J. Lloyd Warren
Reformatory’s
Ouachita Parish
Warren
Dr. Dillon
George Lester
Reformatory
Lester
Sabine Parish
Institute
Nazi envoy warns Americans against bund activity
Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Adolf Hitler’s envoy, said German Americans should avoid ties with the Bund. He labeled the band as based on the Fuehrer Prinzip and risky for democracy. He declined to discuss neutrality, or the war’s duration, but hoped for peace and a longer San Francisco posting.
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Portland
Ore
Adolf Hitler
Fritz Wiedemann
Bund
Wiedemann
San Francisco
Seattle
America
Hitler
Rules He and Four Others Must Be Tried
New Orleans Federal District Judge Wayne Borah overruled continuance requests from A L Shushan and four co defendants on mail fraud charges connected to half a million dollar bond refunding scheme. Defense cites newspaper publicity prejudicing jurors and seeks abatement and quashing indictment. Arraignment set for tomorrow as prosecutors press ahead with trial preparations.
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New Orleans
Federal District
Wayne
Borah
A L. Shushan
Harold Rosen Earl Crouter
Alfred Teton
Ouster suit against Governor Long denied in Louisiana
Judge J D Womack in Baton Rouge dismissed the mandamus action seeking to force District Attorney Dewey J Sanchez to file ouster against Governor Earl K Long under a carpet bag law. He held the constitution provides the sole removal method via impeachment, and the suit by Robert L O Neal and Miss Julia Field fails.
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Baton Rouge
J. D. Womack
Nineteenth Judicial District Court
Dewey J. Sanchez
Earl K. Long
Long
David M. Ellison
Lessley P. Gardiner
Womack
Robert L. O’neal
Julia Field
Eleven die in German rail collision near Niederwoell Stadt
Berlin reports eleven people killed and five injured as freight and passenger trains collided near Niederwoell-Stadt on the Frankfurt Giessen line. It marks Germany’s fourth major rail accident since October, with at least 83 lives lost.
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Berlin
Niederwoell-Stadt
Frankforte Giessen
Germany
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Herbert W. Waguespack
Roberta Newman
Norvin Trent Harris, Jr
Henry J. Miller
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