Fair Enough Westbrook Peglr Fights AFL Racketeers
A Seattle speech by William Keen denounces AFL leadership under criticism for ties to racketeers and gang-linked union figures. Keen pledges a firm stand at the impending 61st annual AFL convention against criminal exploitation of workers and guild leaders.
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American Federation of Labor
Green
Leavenworth
United States Department of Justice
George Scalise
Josephadway
Padway
Fire claims Igen Carter's wife at Camp Shelby
Brigadier General Eberbe W Carter's wife Nancy Pearson Carter died of suffocation in a fire that destroyed their home on the Camp Shelby military reservation. Carter reportedly tried to rescue her after discovering the blaze before escaping. An army board will investigate the fire's undetermined origin.
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Carter
Camp Shelby
Miss
Eberbe W. Carer
Nancy All Pearson
Orange County
Virria
Louiville
William W .White
Army
White
Walker Wright
63Rd Artillery Weld Brigade
General Carter
Former Justice Brandeis Dies After Long Court Career
Washington reports the death of Louis D Brandeis at age 4 after a heart illness. The first Jewish Supreme Court justice, he retired February 13 1939 following a severe home attack. Funeral plans are private with memorials to follow. Brandeis was known for labor support and opposition to high finance. He helped oppose a rail and shipping consolidation plan and faced Senate confirmation in 1916.
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Washington
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Wilson
Eastern Rail
Joey New Haven
Hartford Rail
Senate
Hitler to offer new peace to Britain and United States
Cairo dispatch says Hitler plans a new peace offer to Britain and the United States before the year ends. He aims to claim Russia is out of the war and shift focus to a continental order, while striking at Britain only in retaliation and channeling all power toward Russia. Diplomatic circles doubt acceptance and expect the war to continue.
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Russia
England
Germany
Rrussis
Soviet Union
Britain
Civic Music drive kicks off at Frances Hotel
Final arrangements for Monroe Civic Music association kickoff banquet were completed Monday at the Frances hotel roof. About 100 expected attendees as M. C. Heath opens local headquarters, with Sid A. Moss noting higher season ticket advance orders amid plans for a strong 1941 1942 campaign.
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Civic Music Association
Frances Hotel
W. J. Veazey
C. R. Pedigo
Lowery Jefferson
M. C. Heath
Civic Concert Service
Meridian
Miss
Heath
Hotel Frances
Sid A. Moss
Monroe Civic Music Association
Civic Music
Moss
Dallas Goss
C. C. Calvert
Cameron youth killed after falling asleep on tracks
Choudrant La October 6 A special report says Gearland Cameron 18 son of Mr and Mrs A J Cameron of Choudrant was instantly killed near Trementon when struck by an Illinois Central train while sitting on the tracks. He had worked all Friday night at a saw mill and went squirrel hunting Saturday morning with three companions.
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Choudrant
Gearland Cameron
A. J. Cameron
Tremont
Illinois Central Railroad
Cameron
Miss Hansen Inherits California Photo Business
Miss Virginia Hansen, 24, a Detroit social worker, inherits her father’s million dollar photographic business in California. She says she is unhappy, coping with a bad summer cold and little seems to matter at the moment.
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Virginia Hansen
California
Miss Hansen
Detroit
Oddball animal antics and oddities parade across towns
Gladwin Hill recites a string of zany incidents from across the United States. A duck cleaning by park staff after an oil spill in Kansas City, a horse sold with a French dictionary in Corinth, a floodboat feeding cattle in Alamogordo, and a draftee’s 1918 service notice mailed to New York. Other items include a Fort Monroe soldier’s laundry mixup, a live possum interrupting Charlotte court, Spanish signals by Chillicothe football, and a linoleum worker who swallowed 410 tacks in Weehawken. The reel of farcical events ends with reflectors for saddle horses in Colorado and two Wilson, N C residents arrested for tipsy baby carriage driving.
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Park Department
Corinth, N. Y
Alamogordo
New York
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Calif
Fort Monroe
Charlotte
N. C
Chillicothe
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N. J
Colorado
Laurinburg
Wilson, N. C
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Lord Haw Haw to Explain Banning
Berlin reports Haw Haw to broadcast his case in a talk titled Why I Was Banned From the Air at 8 30 p m Tuesday The broadcaster William Joyce born in New York and a former British subject joined Germany's wartime radio staff The Bonn Berlin notices sparked speculation it may be a publicity stunt for Americans CBS questioned the timing and authenticity of the bans
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Lord Haw Haw
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Haw Haw
United States
England
CBS
Haw Hawk
William Joyce
New York
Federal defense projects approved by Roosevelt
Washington October 6. Federal Works Administrator John M Carmody announced that President Roosevelt approved 42 defense public works projects with a total cost of 18 million 45 thousand 542 dollars.
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Federal Works
John M. Carmody
Roosevelt
Defense
Hitler Dangerously Presses Moscow War Goal in Russia
A vast German offensive on the western front signals Hitler’s aim to swiftly defeat Russia and offer peace to Britain and the United States before 1942. Cairo sources report a major push along the front, with diminished activity near Leningrad, while Berlin issued no decisive confirmation.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Germany
Russia
Britain
Cairo
Hitler
United States
Europe
Condon
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Accident Costs Bolding's Life in Oak Grove
In Oak Grove Louisiana Corporal Allen Bolding 24 died after an automobile crash in Portsmouth Virginia where he lay wounded following a long period of service with the United States Marine Corps. His parents B. H. and wife rushed to his bedside hoping for a homecoming.
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Oak Grove
China
Allen Bolding
United States Marine Corps
B. H. Bolding
Portsmouth
Young Bolding
Marines mm
World Today highlights major German gains and peace offer talks
The World Today reports Moscow as a focus of a revived German drive with Hitler alleged to offer peace to Britain and the United States if Russia can be knocked out by year’s end. German claims include 12,000 more prisoners in Ukraine and a Baltic island occupation, while Russians say the Red Army is stronger than at any point since the invasion begun June 22.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Hitler
Britain
United States
Russia
Ukraine
Estonia
Leningrad
Brazil
Singapore
Italy
Ark Royal
Parachutist Still Trapped On Devil's Tower Peak
A parachutist remains stranded on Devil's Tower at 1,280 feet as four veteran alpinists labor with snow and wind to rescue George Hopkins. The rescue effort, aided by park officials and pilots, faces delays from weather and ice while Hopkins, a publicity stunt participant, remains in good spirits.
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Wyo
Devil's Tower 1
George Honky
Hopkins
Anothr
National Park Service
Earl Stockelsby
Rapid City
S. D
George
San Antonio
Tex
Vertheles
Britain Offers Mutual Repatriation of Civilians in War Prisoner Exchange
Great Britain advised Germany of willingness to repatriate all British and German civilian internees aged 18 to 60 with the United States acting as intermediary to minimize delay. The exchange of wounded prisoners from Newhaven to Dieppe was set to begin, with hospital ships to depart October 7 and a pause in channel operations during the exchange.
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Great Britain
Germany
United States
English Channel
Newhaven
Dieppe
Britain
Rudolf Hess
Scotland
Calais
England
New Haven Harbor
France
War Office
Tomorry
Sharp payroll tax hike eyed in social security plan
Washington reports an administration overhaul of social security may include a sharp payroll tax rise. Senator George says Congress could be asked to double the 1 percent levy on employers and employees to curb inflation and fund bonds for the reserve. Senator Tydings calls postwar saving inevitable. Roosevelt seeks revisions to extend benefits to 40 million more and to adjust federal pension contributions amid long standing split in Congress.
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George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Treasury
Social Security Reserve Fund
Tydings
Maryland
Roosevelt
Senate
House
A F L Offers U S Defense Full Support At Convention
Seattle October 6 The American Federation of Labor opened its 61st convention pledging full defense support and urging local central labor unions to lead in maintaining local unions as agencies for human freedom and welfare. President William Green presided as about 3,500 gathered in the Senator auditorium with roughly 6,000 visitors. George Meany reported August balances of 1,007,396. The prior year brought receipts of 2,126,571.57 and expenditures of 1,853,975.43. organizing costs were noted.
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American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Lacal Central
Senator Auditorium
William Green
George Meary
Executioner of Four Wears Hood in Florida Chair
Four convicted murderers were executed in Florida's electric chair with the hooded executioner leading the way. Wilburn R. Crewe, convicted for killing his wife in 1938, was placed in the chair with little speech from the hooded official. Others executed include Dan J. Ormond for a 1937 killing in Marianna, Charles Henderson for a 1938 robbery-staying, and Frizell McLaren for 1937 police killing in Dade county.
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Raiford
Fla
Florida
Wilburn R. Crewe
Crews
Oly Mae Crews
Jacksonville
Dan J. Ormond
Henry M. Bradley
Marianna
Aluminum Company Freed of Charge in Anti Trust Case
Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey ruled that the government failed to prove monopoly charges against the Aluminum Company of America and 48 co defendants and that the government is entitled to no relief in its anti trust suit seeking dissolution.
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New York
Francis G. Caffey
Aluminum Company of America
Stray bullet from Texas officer kills toddler in Louisiana
Lake Charles La Oct 6 A stray pistol bullet fired by Orange Tex policeman Alex Cormier during a pursuit killed two year old Arthur Lee Guidry son of Mr and Mrs M P Guidry of Port Arthur Tex on highway 9 between Orange and Vinton La Coroner inquest exonerated Cormier finding he acted in line of duty, case to be reviewed by district attorney Two men were arrested near Orange for questioning but no charges filed
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Lake Charles
Orange
Tex
Arthur Lee Guidry
M. P. Guidry
Port Arthur
Vinton
Alex Cormier
Guidry
KE. L. Clement
Cormier
Sabine River
Texas
Yankees Clinch World Series With 4-1 Win Over Dodgers
At Ebbets Field Brooklyn, October 6 7 The New York Yankees won the world series four games to one by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers 3 to 1 in a tense contest marked by a near brawl in the fifth inning. Ernie Bonham started for Brooklyn with Whitlow Wyatt returning for a second turn against the Yanks as the Dodgers shuffled their batting order and faced a late surge in a pivotal game.
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Brooklyn
New York Yankees
Dodgers
Brooklyn Dodgers
Whitlow Wyatt
Yanks
Ernie Bonham
Dixie Walker
Pete Coscarart
Lew Riggs
Owen
150000 Back In School Today In Louisiana
Baton Rouge Louisiana October 6 nearly a quarter million grateful children return to long vacant school houses after the nations biggest war games. Many parishes and three state colleges reopen with delays to avoid accidents during troop maneuvers. Some buildings served as army headquarters and extra days are cut from Christmas and Easter to recover lost time. State Superintendent John E Coxe urged teachers to resume classes despite late openings.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Army
Southwestern
Lafayette
Norma
Natchitoches
Polyatechnic Institute
Ruston
Grambling
Maneuver
John E. Coxe
Monroe Man Dies of Rail Injuries
An Associated Press report from Houston states Jim Hinton, 36, of Monroe, died Saturday night in a Monroe hospital after being struck by a freight train which mangled his right arm and leg. Few details are available in Moines, but it is known his wife lived at 3011 Sevier Street and that Hinton had been in Texas with relatives.
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Houston
Tex
Newss Star
Jim Hinton
Monroe
Hinton
Avo Lable
Moines
Xas
Sevier Street
Texas
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