Chamberlain Returns to London Seek Peace Over Czechoslovakia
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrives in London after a Scottish vacation to steer a new European peace framework. He faces demands of rearmament, Arab-Jewish tensions in Palestine, and the Holy Land crisis amid a 20 000 troop deployment and possible unified mandate plans for Palestine.
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Neville Chamberlain
Czechoslovakia
Scotland
10 Downing Street
Munich
Iit
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Italy
Palane
Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain
Alfred Duff Cooper
Admiralty
Holy Land
Britain
Malcolm MacDonald
Palestine
Roosevelt Lehman Agree on New York Campaign Form
President Roosevelt and Governor Herbert Lehman appear aligned on the Democratic campaign structure in New York state. Lehman declines to say if he will endorse the New Deal, promising to address many issues as the race unfolds. Observers believe peace with Roosevelt is likely, with a possible Roosevelt radio speech backing the ticket on November 4.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
New York State
Lehman
Albany
White House
Pay and Hour Law In Effect Monday
Washington reports that employers have four days to prepare for the new federal wage hour law which applies to 11,900,000 wage earners in interstate commerce. The statute becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. next Monday and many small employers must decide how to comply.
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Washington
Britain moves to quell Arab rebellion in Jerusalem siege
British Coldstream guards entered Jerusalem's old city as martial law expanded across Palestine to back 20 000 soldiers in crushing an uprising by about 10 000 tribesmen. In the Arab quarter rebels continued sniping while Haj Amin al Husseini demanded measures before peace.
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Palestine
Karnayel
Syria
Haj Amin Effendi al Husseini
Muffa
Holy Land
England
Germany presses Romania to join its economic sphere
Romanian officials report Germany is pushing hard to bring Romania into its southeastern economic bloc. Romania resists full political dependence, maintaining a cautious policy. In September Germany led imports to Romania in oil and coal, with exports totaling 600,000,900 lei. Other buyers included Britain, France, and the United States.
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Germany
Rumania
United States
Romania
Sheriff Puts Prisoner Out Of His Jail
Madison Ga October 19 Sheriff George Saye of Morgan County released Reverend Ashton B Jones an itinerant peace speaker from jail after ten days on a nuisance charge tied to an open air peace lecture in Madison city square He refused to drop the charge unless Jones left town and Jones stayed jailed on a 100 bond until the March 1939 grand jury term He began his journey to depart the county yesterday after announcing his plans
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George Saye
Morgan County
Ashton B. Jones
World Peace
Saye
Jones
Series of Cow Thefts Solved
A man calling himself Albert Johnson 26 native of Jackson Mississippi was arrested near Holly Ridge Richland parish. He possessed a Monroe stolen cow and the hide of another Monroe theft and admitted selling cows for butchering in Rayville. Authorities say the case ties together Monroe and Ouachita parish thefts and will be investigated further.
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Jackson, Miss
Ouachita
Richland Parishes
Monroe
Quachita Parish
Richland Parish
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Johnson
Rayville
Germany gains world aviation records in new air force
Washington reports the National Aeronautic Association notes Germany’s big military air force boosts its world records tally from fifth place on October 1, 1937 to third on October 1, 1938. The United States drops from first to fourth, while France leads with 49 records.
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Germany
National Aeronautic Association
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France
Japanese advance across Canton area accelerates in Oct offensives
Japanese columns push toward Canton from northeast and east aided by heavy air bombardment. One detachment reaches Shekiung on the Canton Kowloon railway. others near Tsungfa and the Bocca Tigris forts. Reports vary on Waichow Poklo recapture and a Wai chow Canton highway column advancing through hills.
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Tsungfa
Bocca Tigris
Waichow
Poklo
Sheklung
Waichow-Canton
Tsengshing
Orders for munitions show increase in six weeks
Washington reports war department orders for munitions totaling 19 million dollars in six weeks as the army speeds up rearmament ahead of new defense proposals. Private industry will supply most of the next round, with major contracts to E. I. duPont for smokeless powder and Colt for Browning machine guns.
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Roosevelt
Congress
E. J. duPont de Nemours and Company
Wilmington
Del
Browning
Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
Hartford
Conn
Mercy Slayer Gains Freedom After Grand Jury Declines Indictment
Harry C. Johnson, 65, freed after Nassau County grand jury declines to indict for self confessed mercy killing of his cancer stricken wife. He claims she begged him to end her suffering as he admitted piping gas into the room on October 1. The bedridden oyster dealer remains hospitalized with a heart ailment under police guard.
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Harry C. Johnson
Nassau County Grand Jury
Edward J. Neary
Johnson
Renee
Churchman At Orleans Flays Materialism In Youth Speech
Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil told New Orleans youths that materialism fuels world evils at the eighth National Eucharistic Congress. He warned of disillusionment, war’s danger, and a fragile faith amid economic and political upheaval during the city park stadium mass.
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Bernard J. Sheil
Chicago
City Park
George Cardinal Mundelein
Congress
Sheil
Gray
No Indictments in Lynch Probe in Ruston
Ruston La Oct 19 The special grand jury investigating the lynching of W C Williams negro reported to Judge E L Walker it lacked sufficient evidence to return indictments after examining 55 witnesses The jury did find Williams guilty of fracturing the skull of J W Breedlove raping his companion and beating to death Robert N Blair in parked cars near Ruston Blair left a widow and several children The mob hanged Williams after Blair’s murder and riddled his body with bullets Judge Walker praised the jury for a thorough investigation
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Mills Re elected in Fifth Louisiana District Runoff
Congressmen Mills wins reelection over Will Harvey Todd in the Fifth Louisiana district runoff held Tuesday. Mills total 21 846 votes to 21 139 for Todd with a 707 vote majority amid rain and threatening weather. Thousands cast votes, one Franklin parish reporting place not altering outcome. Todd may seek a recount per late-night reports.
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Surgeons Call for Arts Aid to Celebrate Pioneers
The American College of Surgeons will send six medical paintings to schools and centers to highlight seven American medical pioneers. The first canvas by Dean Cornwell features Beaumont and St. Martin, with Beaumont renowned for stomach digestion studies and St. Martin noted as a frontier trapper.
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American College of Surgeons
Dean Cornwell
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St. Martin
William Beaumont
Pasa
Ese Martin
Loyola Students to Wear Gowns in Classrooms
Loyola University juniors and seniors will wear flowing academic gowns as campus attire. The student council aims to emulate European universities and urges faculty members to wear gowns in classrooms.
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Plan to forge Roosevelt signature to gain navy plans
Federal court heard Guenther Gustav Rumrich describe a plot to forge President Roosevelt's autograph on White House stationery to obtain U S Navy information. Rumrich testified against Erich Glaser, Johanna Hofmann and Otto Hermann Voss as others in a spy ring linked to the German navy and aircraft carrier plans.
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Erich Glaser
Mitchel
Johanna Hofmann
Otto Hermann Voss
Karl Schlueter
Bronx
Fraulein Hofmann
Schlueter
Enterprise
Yorktown
Strange Maronite Mass in New Orleans Reveals Aramaic Rite
A Mass in Aramaic of the Maronite rite drew priests and Episcopate watchers in New Orleans on Oct 19. Rev. Elias Nagerm of San Antonio led the service at a downtown church for Syrians and Palestinians, while a local choir and worshippers observed the historic ceremony.
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Congress
Pilot Dave Hissong Sacrifices Plane to Save 11 Passengers
In Montgomery a burning Eastern Airlines two engine plane landed safely after engine trouble. Pilot Dave Hissong kept control as flames lapped around him and passengers escaped unharmed. Notable travelers aboard included J. Connolly of Hearst and E. Rivers Jr. governor’s son.
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Hearst Newspapers
D. Rivers
Georgia
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J. H. Bonck
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J. T. Mix
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C. R. Russell
Frank Gibbs
George Stewart
Atlanta
W. ©. Foote
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New Orleans Eastern Airlines
Connolly
Young Rivers
Foote
Montgomery Field
King Seeks State Board Relief Plan for Relief Funds
Senator King urges Congress to shift administration of relief funds to non partisans state boards after governors certify states cannot handle the relief load. He vows to oppose further WPA appropriations and proposes funds allocated by need. The move follows industry chatter on private employment easing federal relief costs. The last Congress appropriated 1.455 billion dollars.
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Tax investigator stabbed in Mississippi incident
In Vicksburg Mississippi on October 19 federal alcohol tax investigator C. J. Powell, 36, was stabbed by a prisoner. Powell sustained chest and neck-area wounds and was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. The assailant, a prisoner, was captured nearby and questioned by city and federal officers.
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