Deportation debate over Bridges linked to political shifts
A reflective anti deportation column argues that Harry Bridges would not be deported by the United States government due to political considerations. It links past actions to current New Deal era tensions, noting cynicism in immigration measures and the political manipulation around Communist associations and wartime loyalties.
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Harry Bridges
West Coast
United States
Bridges
Robert Jackson
Supreme Court
Earl Browder
Browder
Roosevelt to Host Conference on Neutrality Act
President Roosevelt announced a bipartisan White House conference on revising the Neutrality Act to be held next Tuesday with Senate leaders. He said no thought to altering combat zone delineations by proclamation and noted arms for merchant ships remain prohibited by law.
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Senate
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Rent or Sell It Before School Opens
Fall housing surge drives demand as vacations end and readers search for homes and apartments. Create urgency with want ad to reach over 116,000 daily readers. economical plan available via News-Star-World Classifieds, phone 4806.
Roosevelt urges Russia to allow free religion
President Roosevelt disclosed he instructed Harriman to press Moscow on religious freedom in Russia. He noted prior discussions via Steinhardt, and withheld specifics pending reports. The White House had signaled hope for an opening toward complete religious liberty in Russia amid questions about constitutional guarantees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
W. Avert! Harriman
America
Russia
Moscow
Lawrence Steinhardt
United States
Harriman
Edmund A. Walsh
Georgetown University
Explosion wrecks three buildings in Cumberland Maryland
An blast shattered three two story buildings in Cumberland Maryland injuring 23 people with two in critical condition. Theodore Hershberger of Cresaptown entombed in flames for nearly an hour and Dr John Christ were among those injured along with patients in Allegany and Memorial hospitals.
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Cumberland
Maryland
Theodore Hershberger
Cresaptown
John Christ
Hershberger
Christ
Allegany and Memorial Hospitals
Japan protests Iran action over diplomatic privileges
Domei reports Tokyo condemned Iran for suspending the Japanese legation's diplomatic privileges and accused Britain and Russia of responsibility. Protests were lodged in London and Moscow as Japan warned of possible decisive action if replies remain unsatisfactory. Iran is portrayed as hostile toward Japan and likened to earlier measures in Iraq, India, and Egypt.
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Tokyo
Domei
Iran
Britain
Russia
London
Moscow
Japan
Iraq
India
Egypt
Grand Mufti
Jerusalem
War in harbor halted for prisoner swap in NEWHAVEN
In NEWHAVEN England on October 3 wartime halt began as 1 500 wounded German prisoners were to be exchanged for Britons. Two hospital ships with red Cross markings prepared to ferry prisoners across the channel while the harbor lit for the first time since the war began.
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Newhaven
England
Germany
Dieppe
France
Third Tilt of World Series Postponed by Rain at Ebbets Field
The third World Series game between the Yankees and Dodgers at Ebbets Field was postponed by Commissioner Landis after heavy rain made the field unplayable. He cited no sun and ongoing showers, delaying the contest to tomorrow. a similar postponement had not occurred in this series since 1936.
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Brooklyn
Yankees
Dodgers
Landis
Weather Bureau
Aireport
Lardis
Joe McCarthy
Leo Durocher
Giants
Polo Grounds
Athletics
Lindbergh to Get Police Protection in Fort Wayne
Charles A. Lindbergh will speak tonight under police protection at Gospel Temple in Fort Wayne with 4008 seats. The event, broadcast by NBC Blue, starts at 7:50 p.m. CST. Senator D Worth Clark also speaks. Vera Sessler says admission is by ticket only. police will be on duty. Lindbergh was escorted from the airport by a detective and two officers. C M Grabner condemns the invitation and Mayor Baals to introduce Lindbergh.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Charles A. Lindbergh
America First Committee
Gospel Temple
NBC Blue
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Vera Sessler
Lindbergh
Harry W. Baals
Retired Justice Brandeis Reported Seriously Ill
Washington Oct 3. Justice Louis D Brandeis of the Supreme Court was reported seriously ill today after a heart attack Wednesday He is now 84 years old retired from active service February 13 1939 appointed by President Wilson and served 23 years on the tribunal retiring voluntarily under the court pension act
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Washington
Louis D. Brandeis
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Wilson
Shipwrights vote to work at Mobile yards in dispute
Shipwrights at Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding in Mobile voted to return to work while the national mediation board weighs their dispute. About 2,500 absent per union estimates, far fewer per the company. The main demand cited is a maintenance clause requiring dues payment to avoid job loss. A.F.L. workers at Plum Brook ordnance plant also voted to return after mediation talks on overtime pay.
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Associated Press
Mobile
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
National Mediation Board
John Green
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Plum Brook
OPM
Slayer Sneers At Death Edict In Chicago Trial
Bernard Sawicki was sentenced to electrocution for murder in a spree that killed four people in 72 hours last June. He sneered at the judge and declared he could take it. The execution date is January 17, 1942. Victims include Policeman Charles Speaker and three others. He confessed to the killings.
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Chicago
Bernard
Knifey
Sawicki
John Sbarbaro
Charles Speaker
Massachusets Impeaches Old State Official
Massachusetts executive councillor Daniel H. Coakley ends a stormy career after the state senate bans him from future office. He is convicted on ten of 14 impeachment charges over misconduct and help to criminals seeking pardons in a two year inquiry into prison releases. His son acknowledged a $1000 fee linked to a pardon petition.
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Alex Singleton
Boston
Daniel H. Coakley
Massachusetts
State Senate
Bay State
Coakley
Rhode Island
McNutt Reports Worker Shortages
Washington October 3 federal security administrator Paul V McNutt warns shortages in 126 of 514 defense essential occupations and predicts scarcities in 38 more by November 1. Aircraft shipbuilding and machine shop trades face deficits with many metal trades, while 149 occupations show adequate registered workers.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
McNutt
Redstell of Big Successes at Leningrad
Adolf Hitler, back in Berlin, hailed a gigantic new development in the Russian campaign. Soviet reports claim a 30 mile German setback east of Leningrad with gains near the city and across the River V, while Ukraine fronts show Germans pushing toward Sevastopol. Across Europe, executions rise as right wing terror sparks reprisals. Prague and Holland report killings tied to resistance.
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Associated Press
Hitler
Berlin
Leningrad
Ukraine
Perekop
Crimea
Ruses
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Europe
Paris
Prague
Otokar Klapka
German People's Court
Slovakia
Brno
Bohemia-Moravia
Czecho-Slovakia
Gestapo
London
Holland
GM plan to shield loaned workers amid wartime shift
Detroit October 3 General Motors announced a program to protect seniority of workers idle due to non defense cutbacks and to ease migration between plants while absorbing them into armament jobs. The plan, drafted with the United Automobile Workers and the Office of Production Management, covers transferring skilled labor while preserving seniority and aiding recall to original employers for defense work.
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Associated Press
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Office of Production Management
General Motors
C. E. Wilson
Big loan planned to cover defense costs next week
The treasury announced on October 3 that it expects to borrow between 1.0 and 1.25 billion dollars next week to finance current defense expenditures.
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Washington
The
Treasury
World Today: Soviet Resistance Upsets Nazi Plans
Reports say German siege on Leningrad pushed back 30 miles with up to 1,700 Nazis killed or wounded. Berlin claims gains near Leningrad as Nazi plans may shift toward Moscow. Anti Nazi uprisings spread in occupied Europe. Slovakia and Prague crack down. Australia’s government resigns after censure. Japan worries over Dutch Indies shipments to Soviet Russia.
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Hitler
Russia
Fuehrer
Leningrad
Berlin
London
Moscow
Vichy
Soviet
Crimea
Brest
St. Nazaire
Europe
Slovakia
Prague
Bohemia-Moravia
Holland
Paris
Czechoslovakia
Japan
Netherlands East Indies
Soviet Russia
Daredevil atop mountain peak at Devil's Tower
George Hopkins from Rapid City remains atop Devil's Tower in Sundance Wyoming with official orders not to descend until expert alpinists reach him. He spent a second night on a narrow ledge with tent blankets and provisions dropped by Clyde Ice who delivered 13 packages and bulls-eyes from a plane. Ranger Ernest Field and guide Warren Gorreil expected to reach the rock spire soon.
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Sundance
Wyo
George Hopkins
Rapid City
S. D
Wyoming
Clyde Ice
Spearfish
Ice
Rocky Mountain National Park
Ernest Field
Warren Gorreil
Denver
Wyoming Rock
Hundreds rescued from Wichita Falls flood waters
Rescue workers in boats evacuated lowland residents as the Wichita Falls flood, worsened by heavy rainfall and rising river and creek waters, drove hundreds from their homes. The disaster impacted Burkburnett and Iowa Park as four days of rain swelled waters, threatening 50 city blocks.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Wichita River
Here
Burkburnett
Iowa Park
Hitler's Berlin speech vows Soviet rise blocked and fate of war
Adolf Hitler returns from the Russian front to announce a new winter relief drive and declares the Soviet Union will never rise again. He cites a "gigantic new development" on the front, says Britain sought war, and claims Russia betrayed non aggression pacts. He asserts a plan for the next 100 years and details Molotov discussions. The address lasted 65 minutes.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Launcn
Germany
Russia
Fuehrer
Britain
Churchill
Reich
Avugust
Hitler
Vyacheslav Molotov
Rumania
Finland
Dardanelles
Petain Intervenes To Save Paul Colette From Death
In Vichy on October 3 Marshal Petain commuted Paul Colette’s death sentence for the attempted assassination of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat to life imprisonment after appeal for clemency by Laval and Deat themselves. The incident occurred August 24 at a public ceremony. A Prague mayor was condemned to death by the people’s court for plotting rebellion.
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Vichy
Marshal Petain
Paul Colette
Pierre Laval
Marcel Deat
Norman
Colette
Paris
Laval
Deat
Berlin
Prague
Otakar Klapka
People's Court
Bohemia-Moc
Ievia
Alois Eling
Dienst Aus Deutschland
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