Westbrook Pegle argues against using term Labor Leader
The second segment critiques labeling workers as Labor. It notes unions can be controlled by Communists and that a 1940s strike in California was aligned with Moscow aims, not worker sentiment. It cites President Roosevelt deploying troops to end the Moscow influenced actions and frames Labor as a label misapplied to workers not to unions.
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California
Joseflin
Adolfo
United Tes
Moscow
Roosevelt
Monroe business rises in September survey
Monroe area reports stronger activity per a Chamber of Commerce release. A bureau of business research survey shows a 54.5 cent average gain for September, with substantial increases over August in freight, motor vehicle trips, and new employment applications amid defense program effects.
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Monroe
George D Hol
Chamber of Merce
Bureau of Business Research L
Sepber
Holland
Defense
IX Are Drowned After Tug Links The Great Lakes
Six men drowned when the Great Lakes Towing Company tug Amerca out of Toledo capsized while trying to free the steamer B. F. s aground on Windmill Point in Detroit river. Coast guard reports list Harry Lamb mate King cook a mate Pear and three firemen Nelson Win ie Ray Ball and William Eforms among the dead. survivors include Ian Amos Gamis and three engineers Herman Miller and Stillman and three firemen Hooker Buxar and Keeper. Full names and addresses were unavailable. Tarhark to Detroit to aid in rescue.
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East Guard
Great Lakes Towing Company
Amerca
Toledo
King
Windmill Point
Detroit River
Coast Guard
Harry Lamb
Cook
Pear
Nelson Winie
Ray Ball
William Eforms
Iain Amos Gamis
Med Herman
Miller
Stillman
Hooker
Buxar
Keeper
Tarhark
Detroit
Judge Upholds Selective Service Act in New Orleans
Federal Judge Adrian J. Caillouet upheld the constitutionality of the Selective Service and Training Act in a ruling here. He refused to dismiss an indictment charging Julian Harney Jr of Lacombe La with aiding the act, in a case marked by the legal challenge.
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New Orleans
Fedal
Adrian J. Caillouet
Julian Harney, Jr
Lacombe
Death awaits 50 Frenchmen on Nazi edict
Vichy France reports German ultimatum demanding 50 more Frenchmen be executed if the killers of Lt Col Paul Hotz are not handed over by midnight. Fifty already executed, with reprisals expanding as Nazi squads exact collective punishment across Nantes Bordeaux and surrounding districts.
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Vichy
France
Paul Friedrich Hotz
Nantes
Hotz
Bordeaux
Marsha Petain
Paris
Runaway Boat Honeymoon Is At Happy End
Police halted a planned elopement that started October 10 when 19 year old Daniel May and 16 year old Dorothy Masner were found in Greenville Mississippi. The couple had secretly prepared a modest outdoors honeymoon taking parts from their families and launched from the Arkansas river in an 18 foot boat. After securing a license at Pine Bluff they were returned home and described a quiet, planned escape ending in a safe reunion.
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Ark
Daniel
Dorothy Jean May
Dorothy Masner
W. B. Masner
Masners
D. M. May
Greenville
Miss
Father May
Arkansas River
Pine Bluff
Air Force to expand to four hundred thousand by June
Secretary Stimson announced wartime plans to raise the army air forces to 400,000 cadets and enlisted men by next June, nearly tripling current strength. The program envisions 14 groups of air units, with details still under study, and includes a threefold expansion of officer training at Fort Benning.
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Washington
Stimson
War Department
Army Air Forces
Congress
Infantry School
Fort Benning
Royal Air Force
Army Air Force
Scorched Earth Policy Harms Kiev Residents
German occupied Kiev faces a brutal winter as destruction from weeks of siege and a five day fire creates food and shelter shortages. Refugees total about 300,000. 50,000 homes were destroyed, while mines and sabotaged bridges complicate relief efforts amid Soviet retreat and Nazi control.
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Ernest G. Pischer
Associated Press
Kiev
Ickes says oil shortage erased optimistic outlook on Atlantic coast
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced that the feared oil shortage in the east has been virtually erased. Gasoline supplies are above last year and the Atlantic seaboard outlook is optimistic though no end date for rationing at filling stations was given. Enhanced supplies and warm weather reduced heating oil use, improving the situation.
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Washington
Ickes
Atlantic Seaboard
Axis ships sunk daily in the Mediterranean report
British naval and Royal Air Force officers said over the last two months at least one axis ship was sunk each day in the Mediterranean. They cited the slogan sink a ship a day and make the Nazis pay as a guiding aim for Allied operations.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Prison Mandate For Abe Shushan Issued
The World Today by Associated Press outlines a wartime dispatch noting a prison mandate issued for Abe Shushan amid wide scale combat reports. The item references clashes around Moscow with German advances, Allied air and ground actions, and political moves in Britain and Japan.
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Abe Shushan
Debate in Commons bids to knock Italy from war
London Oct 23 Attacks designed to knock Italy out of the war and night land raids on German held coasts were urged in a full dress war debate in the house of commons. Foreign Secretary Eden said the government would help Russia with every means and that Britain would supply munitions despite risks. Lord Beaverbrook reported promises to make up Russia's losses in tanks and planes.
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Nazi High Command
Moscow
London
Timoshenko
Crimea
Italy
Russia
Ukraine
Laborite M. P
Lord Beaverbrook
Rhineland
French Channel
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Great Yarmouth
Nantes
France
Tokyo Foreign Office
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Empire
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Red Army
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Dunkerque
Anthony Eden
Commons
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
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Shushan Must Start Federal Prison Term For Mail Fraud
In New Orleans a federal court mandate orders Abraham L. Shushan, once a Huey Long aide and leader of the Orleans Levee Board, to begin a 30 month prison term for mail fraud. He and four others were convicted in 1939 of fraudulent use of the mails to obtain a 496000 fee related to bonds refinancing. Shushan, a wholesale business man, refused to comment on future plans for his enterprises. The group was fined and the Fifth Circuit upheld the conviction after appeals were exhausted.
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Abraham L. Shushan
Huey P. Long
Shushan
Orleans
Louisiana
Federal
United States Supreme Court
United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Dying Recluse Dies After Long Vigil Over Bodies
Miss Gertrude Anhorn, 74, who with sister Minnie kept the bodies of their father and another sister in sealed caskets at Pinehurst, died after a prolonged vigil in St. Augustine Florida. The sisters recently brought her to a rest home after revelations of their morbid habits.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Gertrude Anhorn
Minnie
Pinehurst
William P. Bacheller
Newport
R. 1
Witness claims conspiracy by OPM and AFL in defense bids
Washington Oct 23 A C S O official told a Senate defense investigating committee that OPM was in an unlawful conspiracy with the AFL after Sidney Hillman defended a stabilization agreement with AFL building trades. Hillman said a Currier Lumber contract was not bona fide and adopted for ulterior purposes. A D Lewis charged Hillman’s office acted as AFL recruiting for defense projects and that OPM backed a closed shop for AFL on defense builds. Senator Brewster pressed for swift award despite Hillman’s warning of Detroit labor strife and questioned wage rates.
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C. SO
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
OPM
Sidney Hillman
Hillman
C. I
Currier Company
Detroit
Brewster
AFL
Mr. Currier
Hillman opposes Currier bid for Michigan defense housing
OPM Director Sidney Hillman explains why he personally recommended against awarding the Michigan defense housing contract to Patrick J. Currier, despite Currier being the lowest bidder. The explanation emphasizes decision criteria and concerns guiding the recommendation.
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OPM
Sidney Hillman
Michigan Defense
Patrick J. Currier
Currier
NEA
General Zhukov takes command for Moscow defense
General Gregory Zhukov replaces Semyon Timoshenko in the western Moscow defense. Pravda hails Zhukov as a fighting, experienced leader with 26 years in the Red Army. London sources note Timoshenko may move to another post. Stalin assigns Zhukov to defense and policing at Moscow approaches and Artemiev is named city garrison commander. Moscow remains heavily armed as German forces push toward the capital.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Kuibyshev
Russia
Gregory K. Zhukov
Semeon Timoshenko
Moscow
Zhukov
Pravda
Communist Party
Timoshenko
London
Stalin
Artemievy
Red Army
Grand jurors back in session in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita parish grand jury, adjourned since October 10, resumes Thursday morning before District Judge J. T. Sheil. It will be a short session and no specific charges are listed for investigation. Earlier, the jury empaneled by Judge D. J. Garrett on October 6 returned indictments against six persons after a four day session, having investigated 21 cases, finding six true bills, 13 no true bills, and two pretermitted.
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Ouachita Parish
J. T. Sheil
D. J. Garrett
Community Chest Receives Two Large Donations Today
The Twin City Community Chest records two of the day’s largest gifts totaling 800 dollars from United Gas Pipeline and Union Producing Company and their employer. With many smaller gifts, the drive reaches 24019.56 by Thursday noon toward a 27500 target to support nine civic agencies. donors urged to report contributions promptly.
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Twin City
United Gas Pipeline and Union Producing Company
Twin Cities
Pressure on Churchill to aid Russia in war debate
In a wartime Commons session Labour MP Noel-Baker urged strikes on Italy and night landings to bolster the Ukraine effort while Labour and Conservative members demanded harsher action. Lords heard Britain and the United States pledged more aid to Russia as Moscow faced renewed German pressure. German commands claimed progress toward Moscow as Soviet reports described fierce street fighting near Kalinin.
Twin Cities housing survey sparks defense area decision
A housing survey by OPM priorities division and the Federal Housing Administration awarded to Washington a report on designating the Twin Cities as a defense housing area to curb a growing housing shortage. Secretary George D. Holland cited 105 dwelling units built in Monroe in nine months and a sharp rise in permits last month.
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Twin Cities
George D. Holland
Chamber of Commerce
Priorities Division
OPM
Federal Houseing Administration
New Orleans
Washington
Holland
Monroe
Sam H. Avis
Home for Everyone Real Estate Ads prompt buyers
Classified notice promotes real estate listings from News-Star World, urging buyers to explore family friendly homes. Emphasizes inclusive pricing and quick results with concise ads aimed at matching reader needs. No explicit locations or prices provided in readable text.
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