Rubber plant blaze roils Fall River. $13 million loss feared
A massive Firestone Rubber and Latex plant blaze in Fall River Massachusetts caused extensive damage across five structures and three more, with winds and explosions fueling the fire. About 1,600 workers were left idle, and officials expect possible government aid as the company plans to rebuild. Firefighters from multiple cities battled the eight hour fire, with eleven injured. Federal investigators opened a probe into the defense industry fire.
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Fall River
Mass
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Firestone Rubber and Latex Corporation
Roger Firestone
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edward Trainer
Washington
United States
Martin
Firestone
World Today: German Moscow offensive stalls near capital
The World Today reports Germany's drive toward Moscow stalling as Russian counterattacks push back near Bryansk. German columns reportedly within 100 miles of Moscow halt. British raids hit Baria and the Rhineland. German casualties acknowledged but no major objectives hit. Unidentified plane kills three as LondonPress calls for Britain and America to aid Russia with troops and supplies.
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Associated Press
Germany
Moscow
Bryansk
Baaria
Rhineland
London
America
Ussia
Lord Eaverbrook
Russia
Blast casualties at Sitka naval air station Alaska
An explosion of 43 900 pounds of dynamite at Sitka naval air station in Alaska on October 13 killed five soldiers and a Navy Marine, with at least 15 others injured. The blast shattered windows three miles away and wounded civilians. a fire fighting crew was killed as it fought a blaze near an underground magazine. A naval board of inquiry was convened to investigate the incident and its cause.
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Itka
Alaska
Sitka Naval Air Station
Terday
Sitke
Ranof Island
Navy
Naval Board of Inquiry
Frances Alien
Cvost
Kentfield
Ralph EB Kirkbridge
Gator
Calif
Frank Bayton
Millerville
Pacific
Sitka
Army
Civil Service
Siems-Drake Puget
Arrival of Seized Radio Ship Aboard in U S Port
The United States indicated it would view the captured Nazi radio expedition ship safety in a U S port before disclosing further details. Intercepted off Greenland during September, the 60 ton vessel prompted naval vigilance against German sponsored expeditions to the western hemisphere.
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Washington
United States
Greenad
North Atlantic
Western
Greenland
Europe
Atlantic
Luftwaffe
Britain
Grand jury empaneled Tuesday in district court
Judge Ben Dawkins postponed the grand jury empaneling in the Fifth United States district court until Tuesday in observance of Columbus Day. The court disposed of probation set during Monday morning and heard motions in civil cases.
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Grand Jury
Fifth
United States District
Ben. Dawkins
Mass Defense Output Grows Across New Government Factories
Washington reports mass production under way in a broad network of government-owned munitions plants. Production now covers major ammunition categories and some weapons for full-scale war. The program aims to supply 4,000,000 troops with rifle and machine gun ammo, mortar shells, and TNT. The Lake City Ordnance plant in Independence, Missouri, was accepted four months early.
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Washington
War Department
Lake City
Independence
Ex Judge Manton Freed From Prison After Sentence
Lewisburg Pa October 13 Martin T Manton 61 year old former senior judge of the United States circuit court of appeals at New York was released from the northeastern federal penitentiary after serving a minimum two year sentence for selling justice He began serving March 7 1940 and has spent a year seven months and six days behind bars with a total sentence of two years.
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Lewisburg
Martin T. Manton
Onntime
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Northeastern
Federal Penitentiary
Manton
Supreme Court
Highest Court Denies Review In Leche Case
Morgenthau called farm enemy No. 1 Senator Bankhead of Alabama said farm state congressmen would oppose strict price ceilings on agriculture. He argued inflation cannot rise while surplus crops like cotton and wheat exist and criticized Morgenthau for urging market sales of loaned agricultural stocks. Bankhead, chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, labeled Morgenthau a public enemy to farmers and urged price ceilings tied to wage and living costs. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma pushed parity price increases to raise farmer purchasing power, with mandatory loans at 6 1/2 percent under current parity rules.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Bankhead
Alabama
Treasury
Senate
Thomas
Oklahoma
Congress
Wounded Soldier Dies in Louisiana Shooting Case
Private Donald Arnold of Logan D. Logan Died in a Monroe hospital after an argument in which Deputy Isaac Grant allegedly shot him at Eros in Jackson parish. Arnold, stationed near Fort Knox, was pronounced paralyzed with a bullet that entered his neck and pierced the spinal cord. Deputy Grant is jailed in Jonesboro awaiting coroners inquest and potential grand jury action with a March 1942 deadline.
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Donald Arnold
Logan
Monroe
Isaac Grant
Eros
Jackson Parish
Louisiana
Fort Knox
Monroe Hospital
Arnold
Neil Thomas
Grant
Jonesboro
Thomas
Southern Funeral Home
Janesboro
Ruston
Representative Fish ordered to two weeks active duty in Carolina games
Representative Fish Republican New York was ordered by the war department today to two weeks active duty in the Carolina war games as a specialist reserve colonel. He was ordered to report to First army headquarters Monroe North Carolina November 6. Fish saw field service earlier this year at Fort Bragg North Carolina.
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Washington
Representative Fish
Republican
New York
War Department
First Army
Monroe
N. C
Fish
Fort Bragg
Former Louisiana Governor Leche Declines Comment On Defrauding Case
Former Louisiana governor Richard W. Leche failed to win Supreme Court review of his conviction for using the mail in a scheme to defraud the Louisiana highway commission. The case centers on purchases of 233 trucks for the commission at high prices between 1937 and 1938, with Abernathy and George Younger pleading guilty and facing fines. The government notes discounts to government buyers and implicates payments funneled to Leche via a sales agent.
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Washington
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Louisiana Highway Commission
Leche
Fifth Federal Circuit Court
Western Louisiana Federal District Court
L. P. Abernathy
State Highway Commission
George Younger
Justice Department
Highway Commission
Younger
James Thomas
Thomas
Believe 7 Dead in Plane Crash at March Field California
An army B 23 bomber crashed on San Gorgonio pass near Beaumont three miles from March Field after leaving Palm Springs in fog and rain. Seven men were killed and five bodies were visible with two more believed aboard. The 13 ton two engine craft returned from a flight to Albuquerque New Mexico.
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March Field
Calif
Ninth Pursuit Wing
Albuquerque
N. M
Palm Springs
San Gorgonio Pass
San Bernardino Mountains
Beaumont
London Press Seeks Military Aid to Russia
London papers urge Britain and the United States to aid Russia with military action and supplies after Lord Beaverbrook calls for production of 30,000 tanks. Daily Sketch urges American, British unity in the war effort. L S Amery argues for taking risks to help Russia before time runs out. Beaverbrook, head of the British delegation, comments in a Sunday broadcast.
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London
Britain
United States
Russia
London Press Today
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Sketch
The
Sunday Chronicle
L. S. Amery
India
America
Green Urges Civil Service Pay Raises at AFL Meet
Seattle Oct 13 The American Federation of Labor convention backed several resolutions demanding a $240 yearly pay rise for government workers while President William Green warned that civil service employees would not strike against the government. He pledged AFL support to postal clerks and urged Congress to approve wage increases, declaring members who oppose them will face consequences.
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Seattle
American Federation of Labor Convention
William Green
Green
National Federation of Postoffice Clerks
Civil Service
Community Chest Drive Opens In Monroe Monday
Monroe kicks off the Twin City Community Chest campaign for 1941 1942 headed by Campaign Director Walter Kellogg with strong early support. Advance gifts were reported including a $40 large donation from F Strauss and Son and many smaller contributions from local residents as the goal of 27500 is pursued in three days of solicitation.
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Twin City
Community Chest
Walter W. Kellogg
Morning World
Kellogg
Coca-Cola
F. Strauss
Sen
Miley Murders Solved By Confession
Kentucky slaying of golf star Marion Miley and her mother appears solved as Tom C. Penney confesses involvement in the Lexington holdup shooting. Penney names co defendant Robert H. Anderson, who is jailed on a murder charge. Police tie the case to a stolen sedan and shell recovered, with other suspects' statements aiding the case.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Kentucky
Marion Miley
Tom C. Penney
Mileys
Lexington
Robert H. Anderson
Louisville
Penney
Hendricks Brown
Ernest Thompson
A. B. Price
Anderson
Homer Cramer
Thompson
Cramer
Tommy Lunsford
Bud Tomlinson
Lexngton
Miley
Swank Country Club
Neutrality Act revision urged by Hull in Congress
Secretary Hull urged prompt changes to the Neutrality Act to allow arming American merchant ships and modify combat zone restrictions. He warned the Nazi campaign threatens world conquest and criticized Germany for sinking noncombatant vessels, urging repeal or adjustment of the arming ban.
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Washington
Hull
Congress
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hitler
Biggers to report to Roosevelt from Lisbon flight
United States embassy says John D. Biggers American lend lease representative in Britain left for Lisbon en route to Washington to brief President Roosevelt. He plans proposing immediate action on a joint American British war production coordination plan. Unclear if he will return or if the core consolidation goal will be finished.
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London
United States
John D. Biggers
Britain
Lisbon
Washington
Roosevelt
Biggers
Daugherty of Teapot Dome Scandal Dies at 81
Harry M. Daugherty once Washington courthouse clerk and “president maker” dies in Belfast at 81 from congestive heart failure. Former U.S. attorney general linked to Teapot Dome and Harding era politics. Survived by daughter Emily Rarey of Columbus and brother Mal S. Daugherty. wife died in 1924.
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Columbus
Harry M. Daugherty
Washington
Belfast
United States
Warren G. Harding
Marion, O
Harding
Daugherty
Teapot Dome
East Indies Army Chief Berenschot Killed in Crash
General G J Berenschot, 54, commander in chief of the Netherlands East Indies army, died when a Lockheed Lodestar crashed near Batavia after a conference with Britain's Far East commander. Four other occupants and five native children perished as the plane burned on a native hut.
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Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
G. J. Berenschot
Britain
Far East
Berenschot
Kenajoran
Robert Brooke-Popham
Orient
Singapore
Australia
Knapp
Watkins
Netherlands Indies
Engle
Brooke-Popham
H. Ter Poorten
East Indies Army
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Philippines
Bandoeng
Java
Delta seeks route extensions and extra stop
Washington October 13 Delta Air corporation applied for permission to extend its Shreveport Savannah route to Jacksonville Fla via Brunswick Ga and for authority to make a stop at Louisville on its Knoxville Cincinnati route announced by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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Washington
Delta Air Corporation
Shreveport-Savannah
Jacksonville Pla
Brunswick, Ga
Louisville
Knoxville-Cincinnati
Civil Aeronautics Board
Russian Front Holds As German Drive Near Moscow Slows
As winter nears, Russian dispatches report German attacks slowed from the early surge toward Moscow. Counterattacks recapture towns near Bryansk and Vyazma while Russian prisoners mount past 350,000. Allies say momentum wanes, with winter blanketing plains and fears Germany may fail to reach Moscow.
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Associated Press
Germany
Moscow
Red Army
London
Adolf Hiteler
Vyazma
Bryansk
Orel
Hiteler
Pragveda
One Man Dead in Lake Providence Shooting Case
Rufus Fite a Grove plantation sharecropper died from a fractured skull after a fight with Melvin Bolding in Lake Providence. Bolding was jailed on a manslaughter charge after Fite died at Charity Hospital Monroe. Sheriff Long said the dispute followed a drinking bout and cashing a payment.
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Lake Providence
Rufus Fite
Chority Hospital
Monroe
Melvin Pelding
Fite
Carrie Gunter
Grove
Gunter
Lake Provdence
Boldin
Martin Long
East Carroll Parish
Bolding
St Charity Hospital
Boiding
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