Finland and Russia in Baltic Showdown Eyed
Helsinki urges immediate civilian evacuation around Helsinki and Viipuri as a Finnish mission heads to Moscow for talks with the Soviet government. Estonia Latvia and Lithuania push for broad concessions while Finland seeks defense and economic assurances amid rising Baltic tensions.
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Helsinki
Viipuri
Urho Kekkonen
Moscow
Russia
Baltic States
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Baltic
North Seas
Juho Kusti Passikivi
Stockholm
Kremlin
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Paasikivi
Jury Deliberation Delays Indictments in LSU Probe
East Baton Rouge parish grand jury withholds new indictments at federal request and adjourns to November 6. Witnesses were called in the LSU investigation tied to former President James M Smith. District Attorney Dewey J. Sanchez cites no dissension and says delays aim to study each bill thoroughly before voting.
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Baton Rouge, la
East Baton Rouge Parish
Garoned
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Tom Lucy
James M Smith
Steele Borden
Burden
Grand Jury
Dewey J. Sanchez
Apple a Day Backfires In Cleveland Car Crash
Mrs. Murray T. Morgan of Cleveland choked on fate after finishing an apple and tossing the core from a moving car. The vehicle skidded into a ditch and rolled over leaving her with slight injuries treated by a physician. In Columbia, a youth declares his walking is not drunkenness and receives a ten day sentence after court instruction. In Chicago, a mother in law dispute over money troubles surfaces as a major nagging problem.
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Kendallville
Ind
Murray T. Morgan
Cleveland
Death claims five states' executioner Robert G Elliott
Robert G Elliott the official executioner for five eastern states died at 65 in Richmond Hill Queens after a period of illness. His career spanned 13 years and included Hauptmann Sacco and Vanzetti Snyder Gray and Two Gun Crowley. He was openly against capital punishment.
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New York
Robert G. Elliott
Richmond Hill
Queens
Robert G. Elliott, Jr
Elliott
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Sacco
Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Ruth Snyder
Judd Gray
Crowley
Robbery by Unknown Negro Strikes Two Planters in Louisiana
In Oak Grove Louisiana on October 16 an unidentified African American hitchhiker robbed white planters Jack Thames and Ed Lester of more than $100 after pulling a gun and tying them to a tree with rope. Authorities from East and West Carroll parishes searched the area to locate the suspect.
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Oak Grove
Jack Thames
Ed Lester
Here
Lake Providence
Woodrow Robertson
East
West Carroll
Thames
Lester
Ceepy
Mrs L C Keltner Dies In Local Hospital
Mrs L C Keltner wife of a Missouri Pacific locomotive engineer died in a local hospital shortly before noon Tuesday. She had lived at 2112 Gordon Avenue and was known to many friends in Monroe. Funeral arrangements by Mulhearn Funeral Home. She is survived by her husband and a son D Keltner who works for the city water and light plant.
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L. C. Keltner
Missouri Pacific
Gordon Avenue
Mulhearn
Keltner
D. Keltner
Monroe
Nazis Issue 21 Minute Speech on War Will Endure
Berlin October 10 Adolf Hitler declared Germany will fight to the bitter end if needed and urged winter relief goals to prove unity. He said readiness for peace exists but would continue if refused by the western allies. Paris reports say French troops repelled German assaults near Saarbruecken with grenades and rifle fire and German raids failed to gain prisoners or positions.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reichsfuhrer
Reich
Paris
Saarbruecken
Senator Austin Defends Neutrality Bill as Self-Defense
Senator Austin of Vermont labels the administration neutrality bill an act of self defense to aid Britain and France. He argues the measure would allow weapons sales to warring nations for cash or 5 day credits and require transport on foreign ships. The Senate moves to split the bill for quick action on danger-zone provisions.
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Washington
Austin
Vermont
Great Britain
France
Senate
Chamber
Tobey
Republican
New Hampshire
New Orleans Candidates Announce for Legislature
Three New Orleans hopefuls enter the race for state offices. FE J Hanrahan seeks state representative on the Noe ticket. Dr Anthony Russo runs for state senate from the 12th and 13th wards. Peter Gentile campaigns for the house from the First ward. Russo backs a free port. Hanrahan cites union station defeat. Gentile calls for sales tax repeal.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
FE. J. Hanrahan
Noe
Anthony Russo
State Senate
Peter Gentile
Large Orleans tax evasion case targets slot operators
A federal indictment charges six men linked to New Orleans slot machine operations for income tax evasion totaling 529 456.34. The case ranks as the second largest in U S history behind Moses Annenberg. Included are Frank Costello Philip Kastel Dudley Geiger man Harold Geiger man James Moran and Jacob Altman with various roles described. The operation grossed 2 592 575 70 in 1936 37 with net profits of 1 041 995 07 and evaded taxes of 958 187 64. Bond set at 75 000 for Costello Kastel. Moran Altman Geiger man arrested with Moran freed on 25 000 bond.
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New Orleans
United States
Rene Viesca
Moses L. Annenberg
Philadelphia
Frank Costello
New York City
Philip Kastel
Stamford
Kastel
Altman
Geigermans
Moran
Huey P. Long
Seymour Weiss
Costello
New York
Harold Geigerman
Louisiana
Germans Begin Flocking Back to Fatherland
Berlin reports two new Nazi reservist classes 1911 and 1912 ordered to report for service with October 15 deadline for Ersatzreserve and Landwehr Zwei. Repatriation plan asks up to two million outside the Reich to choose homes in greater Germany, seen as a vast resettlement effort amid wartime tensions.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Germany
Ersatzreserve Zwei
Landwehr Zwei
Miracle Drug May End Influenza Says Public Health Service
Public Health Service reports sulfapyridine may prevent influenza as a new use for the pneumonia drug. Miss Margaret Pittman notes a treated infant rapidly recovered after early administration. Mouse studies show the drug protected against infection but did not stop bloodstream entry, with survival linked to dosage.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Margaret Pittman
National Institute of Health
Miss Pittman
War Draft Dodger Again Is Father
Mrs Bertha Bergdoll wife of Grover Bergdoll World war draft dodger gave birth today to a girl her sixth child. Bergdoll was found guilty of desertion and draft dodging by a New York court martial. She visited Governors Island prison with her 84 year old mother in law during the sentencing.
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Philadelphia
Bertha Bergdoll
Grover Bergdoll
Bergdoll
New York
United States Army
Emma Bergdoll
Governors Island, N. Y
A F L Denies Endorsement to New Deal
The American Federation of Labor convention voted non concurrence with endorsing Roosevelt and the New Deal. The body upheld a resolutions committee finding that the federation could not give the blanket endorsement proposed by the Connecticut State Federation of Labor.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Connecticut
Labor Convention Debates Roosevelt Endorsement
At the Cincinnati convention the American Federation of Labor weighs endorsing Roosevelt and the New Deal as a labor issue. The Connecticut federation proposes backing Roosevelt while opposing conservative parties. A noisy pro Roosevelt demonstration follows Joseph N. Weber's repudiation of critics.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
Resolutions Committee
Connecticut State Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Joseph N. Weber
Musicians’ Union
Crit
Leche and Others to Be Arraigned in Louisiana Case
District Attorney Truett L. Scarborough announced that former Governor Richard W. Leche and associates Monte E. Hart Solis Seiferth Julius Dreyfous and Leon C. Weiss would be arraigned in Ruston Louisiana on charges tied to construction work at Louisiana Tech They face counts of obtaining state funds by a confidence game and funds under false pretenses with others also charged with knowingly receiving such funds Scarborough aims for an early trial date
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Ruston
Truett L. Scarborough
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana Tech
Leche
Monte E. Hart
Solis Seiferth
Julius Dreyfous
Leon C. Weiss
Prisoners of War to be Treated Under Geneva Rules
Washington reports Great Britain Germany and France have pledged to follow the 1929 Geneva convention for POWs. The state department will inspect German camps holding British or French prisoners to ensure they are treated according to the rules forbidding confiscation of money and mistreatment.
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Washington
Great Britain
Germany
France
United States
State Department
Reich
Chamber of Commerce trip heads to towns south of Monroe
With 32 reservations as of Tuesday noon, 50 to 60 businessmen will take the goodwill trip Thursday. Three luxury buses with 40 seats each will carry the group from Hotel Virginia at 7 30 a m to Winnfield where they will join Rotary club and officials. Ouachita Parish High School band will play during the outing.
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Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Ouachita Parish High School
Hotel Virginia
Winnfield
Rotary Club
Max Moses
J. D. Petty
E. M. Steen
Joe Mickel
Vernon Atkins
John Breard
J. F. Cox
C. C. Calvert
H. R. Hodges
X. Holt
R. C. Stokes
J. W. Warren
E. R. Whitaker
Tom Hicks
A. B. Clarkson
H. B. Cannon
Bob Burns
J. L. Ewing
Herbert Fink
W. R. Hubner
H. M. James
Bernard Levi
P. E. Massey
J. B. Lindsey
L. P. Milner
L. E. Mathis
Benny Bicknell
J. C. Dollar
Fred Tranchina
Joe Durrett
R. Trainer
H. L. Patterson
Poisoned at Charity Hospital in New Orleans
Coroner C. Grenes Cole reports Edlu Jackson, ten, died after receiving poison by mistake at Charity hospital in New Orleans on October 10.
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New Orleans
C. Grenes Cole
Edlu Jackson
Charity Hospital
Ellison Fails to Appear at Hold Hearing on Byrne Recall
In New Orleans a court postponed a hearing on charges by seven Orleans parish grand jurors against District Attorney Charles A. Byrne after a mass rally of 5,000 demanded his recall. T. Hale Boggs of the People’s League filed petitions urging Governor Earl Long to call an election to remove Byrne.
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New Orleans
Charles A. Byrne
George P. Platt
Byrne
F. T. Echezabal
William J. O'Hara
People’s League
Platt
Conrad Meyer, Jr
Citizens Volentary Committee
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
T. Hale Boggs
Long
Boggs
Conrad Meyer
David M. Ellison
Retired manufacturer found dead at home in Bright
Roggen Strobridge, 85, once a novelty work operator, was found slumped in a chair at his Bright home after 10 days dead. Police removed his wife to a hospital after she said he sat there refusing to speak. Coroner said natural causes caused the death. A lodge member visiting found the house dark and the door locked.
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New Brighton
R. C. McCarter
Roggen Strobridge
Strobridge
Noe backs Stanley for state attorney general
New Orleans report states 4 State Senator James A. Noe, a gubernatorial candidate, endorsed Eugene Stanley for state attorney general. Stanley had earlier received endorsements from Sam Jones and another gubernatorial hopeful.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Eugene Stanley
Stanley
Sam Jones
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