Assailants in France Kill Nazi General
In Occupied France General Holtz, a German gendarmerie commander in the Nantes region, was shot to death by two assailants along Cours Saint Pierre near Saint Pierre Church. He died after early morning firing that disrupted the quiet, as French and German police formed a cordon. German authorities in Paris warned of consequences.
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Vichy
France
Holtz
Nantes
Occupied
Cours Saint Pierre
Saint Pierre
Paris
D Alessandro Remembered By Hod Carriers In Boston
The North American Hod Carriers Union recalls its late president Menico D Alessandro of Boston in a memorial noting his rise from a Boston carrier to national leadership. The piece criticizes the More l report and highlights D Alessandro as a significant padrone figure who fought old Boston padrone systems while earning Italian honors in his lifetime.
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Sae
Hod-Carlers’ Union
Menico D'Alessandro
Boston
Ihey
Louis
Joseph Victor Morel
al Capone
Moreschi
E Hon
St.uis
Men of Stone
Broth D'Alessandro
Alough
Alessandro
Brother D'Alessandro
Ve Pedrones
Urse
Sam Gompers
A. F. IL
Victor Emvel
Italy
Marquis di Bruno
D Alessandro
Order of the Crown
Tomaso Dergast
Kansas City
The
Himtif
United States
Ammunition stocks in U S urged for expansion
Rep Thomas of New Jersey warned that U S ammunition on hand equals only about two percent of a year’s defense needs. He cited labor disputes slow production and said sabotage and strikes hinder supply while the War Department underestimates time required to expand anti aircraft defenses.
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War Department
Boy Pleads Guilty to Capital Charge in Reading Murder
Cambridge Mass Oct 20 Sixteen year old Raymond L Wood ward Jr pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree in the mutilation slaying of his 15 year old roommate and neighbor Constance Jon in Reading a Boston suburb July 1 The youth passed his 16th birthday in jail awaiting trial as one of the youngest Massachusetts defendants to face such an indictment Conviction carries the electric chair and the plea came as a jury was about to be chosen from a special panel of 80 men.
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Cambridge
Mass
Raymond L. Woodward, Jr
Doolmate
Constance Jon
Reading
Boston
Massachusetts
Tension Rises in Far East Amid Global War Threats
Avrostated Brees reports sharp tension in the Far East with Gesienr and Russia facing grave risk while the US Germany torpedoing of the destroyer Kearny amplifies war threats. Japan's new premier General Eiki Tojo calls for iron unity to confront encirclement.
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Avrostated
Brees
Far East
Gesienr
Russia
United States
Germany
Kearny
World News
Japan
Eiki Tojo
Ouachita Parish Cattlemen’s Show Opens At West Monroe
Premium list announced for the free livestock show at West Monroe Fair grounds this week. Entries due by 12 noon Wednesday with judging Thursday afternoon by Harry Gayden and C W Davis. Jersey cattle prizes include five dollars for first, three for second, two for third, with rib bons as awarded. categories cover registered heifers and cows.
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Ouachita Parish
Jersey
Dies Lists 1124 Federal Employees Connected to Moscow
Washington October 1 Chairman Dies Democrat Texas of the house committee to investigate un American activities has given Attorney General Biddle the names of 1124 federal employes who he says have strong leanings toward Moscow The list covers 37 departments including 267 in agriculture 145 in the federal security agency 72 in the federal works agency 45 in the war department 9 in the executive office of the president and others The names were not made public Dies transmitted the list in response to a Biddle request for information on subversive organizations or advocacy of overthrow of the government Also listed are figures showing that several named hold high salaries with five earning 10000 or more and many others earning 9000 8000 7000 and 6000 dollars annually
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Washington
Dies
Texas
House Committee
Biddle
Moscow
Agriculture
Federal Security Agency
Federal Works Agency
War Department
Navy Department
Justice Department
Louisiana Plea To Sue Shushan Denied by Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court denied Louisiana leave to sue in a case seeking to recover over 1 million dollars from Abraham L Shushan and others over alleged fraud tied to a New Orleans airport project. The ruling held jurisdiction lacking since a defendant was a Louisiana citizen.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Abraham L. Shushan
Huey P. Long
New Orleans
Eugene Stanley
Stanley
Board of Levee Commissioners
Orleans Levee
Shushan
Orleans Dredging Company
Lake Pontchartrain
Orleans
Standard Dredging Corporation
The
Dredging Realization Corporation
Claude Cummins
Clarence R. Birch
New York
Two Prisoners Slain In Nashville Break Attempt
In Nashville Tennessee on October 20 two long term murder convicts tried to force the last cell door to freedom. Warden Tom Gore faced threats as James Glidewell shot and killed both inmates William O Day and James E Charleson who stood with a pistol and ice pick. O Day moved to fire before Glidewell struck delivering a fatal heart shot. The incident happened in a trap doorway inside the penitentiary after the alarms and guards reacted.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tom Gore
James Glidewell
William O'Day
James E. Charleson
Hamilton County
Chattanooga
O’day
British labor urges second trent aid to Russia
London reports a war production conference where 1,000 factory stewards from 300 workshops representing 500,000 workers demand an immediate reopening of aid to Russia. Walter Swanson condemns delays and calls for shared sacrifice as tensions rise amid government opposition.
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London
Russia
Churchill
National Council of Engieering and Allied Trades
Premier Tojo Calls Japan Unite For Survival At Crossroads
Tokyo dispatch reports Premier General Eiki Tojo urging iron unity among all fighting arms and the people to withstand encirclement by foreign powers. He warns sacrifice may be needed to surmount a crucial hour in Japan’s history and sets to reform civil and military administrations under centralized control.
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Tokyo
Japan
Eiki Tojo
Tojo
War Office
Kyoto
War
Japan Times and Advertiser
Domei
Times and Advertiser
China
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
United States
the Times and Advertiser
Prince Konoye
Roosevelt
Looting of Trousdale Wright safe nets $107 in Monroe
Monroe police investigated the Sunday night looting of a safe at Trousdale and Wright Inc. on 1 South Grand Street. Entry was gained by prying the rear window and the lock was cut with a cold chisel. $107 was reported missing. Acting Chief Brantley Captain Pettit and Sergeant Meek led the preliminary inquiry. Raymond Spence, an employee, reported the robbery Monday morning.
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Monroe
Trousdale and Wright, Inc., Insurance Company
South Grand Street
B. L. Brantley
F. S. Pettit
L. S. Meek
Police Department
Raymond Spence
North Third Street
West Monroe
Insurance Company
Community Chest Surpasses $20,000 inpledged support
The Twin City Community Chest opened the week with over $20,000 pledged toward a $27,500 budget for nine sponsored agencies. Campaign Director Walter W Kellogg said the goal will be reached soon, praising small donations from individuals and urging firms to offer employee payroll deductions to reach 100 percent participation.
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Twin City
Walter W Kellogg
Chest
New Japanese premier calls for irionymity to foil encirclement
The Associated Press reports Japan’s new premier urges anonymity in facing foreign powers as the nation confronts perceived encirclement. Allied forces in the Far East outline a front of United States Britain Dutch and Chinese units. The Navy lists 11 Kearny crew missing and 10 injured after a German submarine torpedoing the ship. Premier Stalin declares a siege in Moscow amid heavy fighting within 60 miles of the city as Soviet defenses face pressure on the central front. German reports claim Soviet counterattacks are repulsed after piercings in several sectors. The Nazis announce capture of Taganrog placing their flags 30 miles from Rostov toward the Caucasus oil fields. British workers call for a second front opening. Weather slows air operations over the English Channel. Afghanistan moves to expel axis nationals as Britain strengthens a southwestern Asia front.
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Associated Press
Japan
United States
Far East
Navy Department
Kearny
Stalin
Moscow
Taganrog
Hitler
Rostov
Caucasus
Britain
English
Afghanistan
Asia
Capital Jolted By News Of 21 Casualties In Nazi U-Boat Attack
Secretary Hull denounced the torpedoing of the U S destroyer Kearny as part of Hitler s drive to seize sea and continent control He warned nations to stay out of a large North Atlantic area or face sinking The navy said 10 crew injured and 11 missing in the attack attributed to a submarine, reportedly German The report marks first Atlantic fleet personnel losses in the incident
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Washington
Hull
United States
Kearny
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
North Atlantic
Secretary of State
Senators push repeal of neutrality act in open bid
Washington Oct 20 A group of Republican senators led by Wendell Willkie prepared to demand outright repeal of the neutrality act. Democrats Glass Pepper and others voiced support for a bipartisan drive to wipe the act, signaling a broad coalition to overturn the policy amid the ship arming bill debate. The Senate committee voted 12 to 9 to hold closed hearings on the House approved measure with Secretary Hull expected as first witness.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Texas
Hull
la Follette
Wisconsin
Clark
Missouri
Senator Glass
Democrat
Virginia
Wendell L. Willkie
Glass
Pepper
Florida
U S Likely Take Over Third Defense Plant
The defense mediation board failed to resolve a dispute between the United Automobile Workers and Air Associates Inc. at Bendix New Jersey. President Roosevelt may be asked to seize the plant after two prior government takes. The C I O alleges workers were locked out amid a wage dispute and the company planned to reinstate strikers immediately.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
C. I. O. Union
Air Associates, Inc
Defense Mediation Board
United Automobile Workers
Bendix
N. J
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
Army
Navy
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kearny
Air Associates
Union
Railroads Accept Arbitration Offer in Wage Dispute
Chicago Oct 20 Railroad management accepted President Roosevelts five man fact finding board offer to arbitrate the wage dispute between the carriers and 126000 organized employees The board had proposed arbitration if both sides agreed and to accept the board guidance after a later recommendation J Carter Fort chief counsel for the railroads opened the hearing with acceptance and the panel moved to finish cross examination as oral arguments were set to begin later today
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Forts
Russia may rely on U S for wheat during war shortage
Washington reports agriculture officials say Soviet Russia may seek food from the United States, especially wheat, due to loss of rich Ukraine grain areas. Importing grain from the U S to Vladivostok could free Siberian grain for western shipment. No official govn response of seeking aid. censorship limits data. Officials warn Soviet farming effects uncertain. past reports show smaller export surplus than 1914.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Ukraine
Agriculture Department
Vladivostok
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Reds claim enemy losses reach terrific levels on eastern front
Pravda and Moscow reports say German casualties near 4,000,000 killed and wounded, with Soviet blasts destroying trucks, tanks, and cannons in Bryansk and Kalinin sectors. Stalin proclaims Moscow under siege as German advance stalls near the capital, with heavy fighting reported in Morzhaisk and Maloyaroslavets sectors.
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London
Pravda
Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Bryansk
Kalinin
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Morzhaisk
Maloyaroslavets
Vzyama
Kaluga
Napoleon
Mosecow
Smolensk
Murderer Petrillo Pleads At Rockview Execution
At Rockview prison in Bellefonte, Herman Petrillo begged for mercy as the electric chair was used after his murder-for-insurance ring confessedly planned drownings. He cried to see the governor and prove innocence before the switch delivered death in about two minutes.
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Bellefonte
Archduke
Philadelphia
Commonwealth
Rockview Prison
Herman Petrillo
James Lee Wilson
Rafaelo Caruso
Petrillo
Herman
Paul
Louisiana man on Kearny missing after torpedoed destroyer
Sidney Gerald Larriviere 25, fireman first class aboard the Kearny, is missing after the destroyer was torpedoed. Relatives gathered at his widowed mother’s home in a rural area between Lafayette and Youngsville after word of his loss. He had Navy service with the Asiatic fleet and reenlisted in 1940. Survivors include his mother, a sister, Mrs. Curtis, and three half brothers in Rayne Lafayette and Sunset.
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Lafayette
Sidney Gerald Larriviere
Kearny
Norbert. Larriviere
Youngsville
Young Larriviere
Navy
Here
Curtis
Laurent
Rayne
Bers Nard
Alexis
Sunset
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Amalgamated Engineering Union Executive Council
Walter Swanson
Halifaxes
Moore-Brabazons
Marges
Community Chest
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