Roosevelt and Landon Spar In National Campaign War of Words
In early campaign rhetoric Roosevelt lambasted minorities and warned against bankruptcies while Landon blasted the New Deal as failing to curb costs. Ickes accused Landon of state socialism and advocacy of public ownership as a tool to lower utility rates.
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New England
Roosevelt
Worcester
Mass
Los Angeles
Landon
Ickes
PWA
Washington
Kansas
Moving Day for Wally Simpson Amid Divorce News
Amid a divorce suit, headlines note moving day for Wally Simpson. The piece also details international efforts to aid Madrid as Fascist forces close in, with Britain planning a mercy mission and Soviet Russia pressing for arms to the Madrid government while Latin American states seek asylum for refugees.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
France
Madrid
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Leon Blum
Paris
Mexico
Argentina
Russia
Moscow
Illescas
State Prison Manager Robert Himes Dies at 67
Robert Lee Himes 67 longtime general manager of Louisiana State Penitentiary died after a heart attack at Our Lady of the Lake sanitarium Baton Rouge. A Pennsylvania native he served at LSU and the Louisiana Normal School before joining the state penitentiary management under Gov Huey P Long. Survived by widow Laura Black son Lee and daughter.
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Baton Rouge
Robert Lee Himes
Louisiana State Pententiary
Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium
Himes
Cane Growers’ Association
Lafayette
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Louisiana Normal School
Louisiana State University
Red Cross
Huey P. Long
Laura Black
Lee Himes
Cantor Delivers Anti Nazi Talk At Hollywood Rally
Eddie Cantor spoke at Shrine auditorium Los Angeles urging action against anti semitism. The Hollywood Anti Nazi League for Defense of American Democracy organized the event with Oscar Hammerstein II Gifford Cochran and Herbert Biberman among the speakers.
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Hollywood
Eddie Cantor
America
Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles
Oscar Hammerstein
Gifford Cochran
New York
Herbert Biberman
Orleans Plans Finish Battle with Pigeons
In New Orleans a prolonged clash between city officials and pigeons at City Hall pits roman candles and fiery balls against roosting birds. Dantagnan and aides plan further attacks tonight as Mayor Maestri orders a renewed effort to evict the birds from their nests.
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New Orleans
A. D. Dantagnan
City Hall
Stork Sighted Fanned Baby Race Fever in Toronto Home
In Toronto on October 21 1921 the home of Mr and Mrs Joseph Bagnato buzzed with the prospect of their 24th child under the $750000 Baby Race funded by Charles Vance Millar. Ten previous Bagnato babies died. a caller offered to act as a baby specialist to aid the mother.
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Toronto
Joseph Bagnato
Charles Vance Millar
Paul
Bagnato
Dating girl gets 5 years in Virginia manslaughter case
Kathleen Phelps, 18, was sentenced to five years after a Hopewell circuit court jury convicted her of voluntary manslaughter for shooting Howard Watkins, her brother in law, when he entered her room during an alleged drunken bet. Defense motions to set aside the verdict will be argued in December.
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Hopewell
Kathleen Phelps
Howard Watkins
Miss Phelps
Watkns
Shreveport Man Drowns While Fishing Cat Overturns
Tom Wiseman age 66 told parish coroner that his fishing companion Peter M Landers 36 drowned in Cross Lake when their small cat boat overturned during a morning of drinking. Wiseman barely escaped drowning and clung to the boat until rescuers arrived.
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Shreveport
Tom Wiseman
Willis P. Butler
Parish
Peter M. Landers
Cross Lake
Wiseman
85 Women Seek National or State Posts This Year
Washington report notes at least 85 women seeking national or state offices, fewer than 97 two years ago. Three aim for the senate joining retiring Hattie Caraway’s era, with runners such as Adah Hagler, Laetitia Conrad and Gertrude Wilson contesting seats on Prohibition, Socialist, and Union tickets. Elisabeth Gilman seeks a House seat, after a prior national race.
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Washington
Senate
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Rose McConnell Long
Louisiana
Elisabeth Gilman
Maryland
House
Adah N. Hagler
Ilinois
Laetitia M. Conrad
Iowa
Gertrude Wilson
Texas
Spinning Shows Good Increase in September Activity
The census bureau reports September 1934 cotton spinning used 125.8 percent of capacity on a single shift, up from 115.8 in August and 93.9 a year earlier. South Carolina led in active spindle hours at 2,008,556,051, the first time above two billion since 1933. Total spindles in place were 27,962,666 with 23,514,270 active during the month.
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Washington
Census Bureau
South Carolina
Leprosy Hospital Allows Anonymous Admissions and Secret Records
Dr H E Hasseltine described Carville Leprosarium in Louisiana where patients may enter under an assumed name and, if cured, leave with their real identity kept secret. The hospital maintains confidential records, no armed guards, and a fence to keep livestock out while some absconders return voluntarily.
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New Orleans
Carville la
American Public Health Association
H. E. Hasseltine
Carville
Seek to Show Young Widow Death Motive
In Oregon Illinois on May 19 Guy Tallmadge allegedly shot his wife to death. Prosecutors call a state hospital psychiatrist to argue love for a young widow, not mental unbalance, drove the crime. A second psychiatrist had earlier testified Tallmadge confessed the slaying in a conversation two weeks after the event.
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Oregon, Ill
State Hospital
Guy Tallmadge
W. S. Murray
Dixon
Charles C. Rowley
Tallmadge
Rowley
Mrs Simpson Guards Crown Home In London District
Police patrolled Cumberland terrace near No 16 Mrs Wallis Simpson home declaring the area crown property A sergeant and two constables warned loiterers away and noted lamp posts bearing G R while promising serious trouble for those lingering
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London
Cumberlang Terrace
Wallis Simpson
King Edward
No. 16
George Rex
Cumberland Terrace
G. R
Victim Seeks Flogging Inquiry in Kidnap Case
Joseph S. Gelders, southern representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, asks a Jefferson county grand jury to probe the kidnap flogging incident. Gelders saw two Alabama National Guard officers in a police lineup and urged Governor Graves to appoint a special prosecutor.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson County
Joseph S. Gelders
National Committee For the Defense of
Gelders
Alabama National Guard
Bibb Graves
Fire devastates Whitney store and Watts office block in San Diego
Fire swept a downtown business block in San Diego causing about 2 million dollars in damage. Firemen and volunteers fought flames that began shortly after midnight at the Whitney department store and spread to the Watts office building with thousands watching the lengthy effort.
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San Diego
Calif
Whitney
Watts
Hollywood Briefs: Sue Carol to Wed Again
Sue Carol ex-wife of Nick Stuart plans marriage to William H. Wilson after a license bureau encounter with Boris Petroff and Jane Mann. Brian Aherne, with 80 solo flight hours, to fly solo to New York amid aviator push. Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers part warmly as he boards a St Louis flight.
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Hollywood
Sue Carol
Nick Stuart
Miss Carol
William H. Wilson
Boris Petroff
Jane Mann
Jane Hauptmann
Brian Aherne
New York
Aherne
Mary Pickford
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
St. Louis
Rogers
Missouri City
Convicts Sentenced for Horse Stealing in Opelousas
Judge B H Pavy sentenced Joe Cheney and William Smith two African American men to one to five years in the state penitentiary after they pleaded guilty to horse stealing in Opelousas La on October 21. In Edgard La further reports say searching parties hunted Hugh Pierre a 28 year old Black man for the killing of Ignace Roussel a ward one constable in St John the Baptist parish last night.
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Opelqusas
B. H. Pavy
Joe Cheney
William Smith
State Penitentiary
Edgard
Hugh Pierre
Ignace Roussel
St. John the Baptist Parish
Truck Plunge Kills Two in Greenville Canal Crash
In Greenville Mississippi on October 21 a truck skidded into a canal while attempting to pass a car. Two negro cotton pickers, Tom Anderson aged 16 and Classie Buchanan aged 23, were killed. Thirteen others were injured and over twenty uninjured bystanders were reported.
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Greenville
Miss
Tom Anderson
Classie Buchanan
Ruptured Bayou Boeuf wreck found near Alexandria
rusting boilers and wheel frames with rotted timbers emerge as possible steamboat wreck. C C Burch of Alexandria spotted the debris while squirrel hunting about two and a half miles above the Bayou Boeuf bridge and ten miles from Alexandria on October 21.
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Alexandria
Bayou Boeuf
C. C. Burch
Bayou Boeuf Bridge
Nurse under guard after abortion syndicate testimony
A nurse Bernice Tieman, 25, testified against an alleged abortion syndicate and said she fears retaliation after revealing body disposal of two babies. Rankin, a defendant, allegedly threatened her as she fled from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Bernice Tieman
San Francisco
R. L. Rankin
Science Solves Railroad Problem in New Streamlined Cars
In Chicago on October 21, Albert Cotsworth Jr of the Burlington Railroad cites hermetically sealed double plate glass windows with dry nitrogen between panes to prevent frost. He notes no need to open windows as air conditioning maintains interior temperature.
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Chicago
Albert Cotsworth, Jr
Burlington Railroad
Union Party and Townsend Disown Smith in Split
In Chicago on October 21, Union party and Townsend recovery plan leaders denounced Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith as no part of their movements. Smith announced in New York a national anti Communism group, while Townsend and Union leaders said he has no connection or role in their organizations or with Rep. Willem Lemke. Smith claimed the new group would avoid political aims until after the election and denied fascist goals.
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Chicago
Union Party
Townsend Recovery Plan
Gerald L. K. Smith
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
New York
Francis EB. Townsend
Smith
Gerald Smith
Townsend
Willem Lemke
John Hystul
Mr. Lemke
Many Packages On Cars Stir New York Transit Row
New York alderman Morton Moses campaigns to remove freight from subways after a list of odd articles found in three IRT cars provoked anger. The items include a Lincoln picture a bathroom scale a small statue of liberty and an iron bedstead with mattress. Moses cites discomfort for passengers and recalls a coal bag incident on a train.
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New York
Morton Moses
Interborough Rapid
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
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Wally’ Simpson
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Wally” Simpson
Baltimore
King Edward of
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State Prison
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Orleans
Astir
Mrs
By Dale Harrison
ASA
By Howard W. Blakeslee
Mrs. Simpson
Crown House
Dayton
Ohio
Grand Jury
Joseph Gelders
Alameda
Pacific Ocean
B. B. Averill
Aberdeen
Wash
Manila
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