Daladier Shifts France Senate Polls Toward Right
In Paris on October 24, right wing gains of ten seats raised their total to 34 of 97 in the French senate elections. Daladier’s coalition benefited as Radical Socialists split from Blum followers, signaling a move away from the left and toward a tempered center as the four party balance shifts.
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France
Daladier
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Radical Socialist
People’s Front
Leon Blum
Socialist Party
Chamber of Deputies
Roosevelt to Return for Budget Talks After Hopkins Visit
President Roosevelt planned to fly to Washington for budget conferences after WPA head Harry Hopkins, his guest for a week in Hyde Park, predicted relief funding would be pared next year. Hopkins said relief rolls should decline as employment and production rise, despite political opposition. He declined to discuss new relief appropriations.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Chicago
Hopkins
Baby chimpanzee Cozette dies at Audubon Zoo New Orleans
Cozette, the infant chimpanzee born September 28 at the Audubon zoo, died of bronchial pneumonia after being nourished by orange juice and milk. Park Superintendent Frank Neelis said burial or stuffing for display remained undecided.
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New Orleans
Cozette
Audubon Zoo
Suzette
Pete
Frank FE. Neelis
Neelis
Eight States May Hold Answers To Election Returns
Washington notes examine eight states including New York Pennsylvania Massachusetts Ohio Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and California as key centers shaping November results. Roosevelt campaigns intensify in New York alongside Dewey Lehman rivalry and a pivotal political landscape emerges.
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Washington
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio
Iowa
Middle West
Wisconsin
Minnesota
California
Pacific Coast
Roosevelt
Farley
Thomas E. Dewey
Mystery surrounds slaying of Mrs. De Vuono in Chicago
In Chicago a shot through a living room window adds mystery to the slaying of Mrs. Mary De Vuono. Police seek ballistics comparison while husband Rosario, 33, and suspect Joseph Dardrea, 24, are questioned. The victim, a brunette 28, was found fatally wounded on a divan.
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Chicago
Mary de Vuono
Florence Foerstner
de Vuono
Rosario
Joseph Dardrea
John Horan
Labor struggles shadow Homer Martin in Detroit
Detroit reports speculate on Homer Martins fate as United Automobile Workers president with a looming U A W board meeting in November and a first C I O convention in Pittsburgh. Observers note factionalism persists within the union and consider potential crises tied to Martins leadership and possible impeachment talks.
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Detroit
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
Martin
Ford Motor Company
Committee For Industrial Organization Union
U. A. W. International Executive Board
Washington
Pittsburgh
Executive Board
C. I O
C. I
Battery firm man defies wage law in York
Fred C. Perkins, owner of a York battery firm, defies the new federal wage hour law saying he cannot afford to comply. He vows to test enforcement by public opinion in every hamlet. Perkins had earlier been jailed briefly in 1933 for NRA violations and was convicted by a Harrisburg federal court jury before appealing.
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York
Fred C. Perkins
Gazette and Daily
America
Perkins
Hugh S. Johnson
Harrisburg
United States Supreme Court
Labor Standards Act Goes Into Effect Nationwide
The wage hour law covers about 11 million workers in interstate commerce and sets wage floors and hour ceilings. Administrator Elmer F. Andrews seeks state cooperation to enforce records and compliance and plans a November 14 conference for state officials. Governors Alabama Iowa Mississippi Texas Louisiana Utah Nevada pledge support. AFL central bodies in 500 cities to aid enforcement.
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Donald A. Young
Associated Press
Washington
Elmer F. Andrews
Andrews
Alabama
Iowa
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Utah
Nevada
American Federation of Labor
NRA
Nazis Ignore Innitzer Note Denies Inciting Terms
Berlin reports Nazi officials ignored Cardinal Innitzer's note to Vienna Catholics denying he spoke against Hitler or the state. A propaganda ministry spokesman claimed no knowledge of the message read from diocese pulpits. The press and state radio also gave no comment as the cardinal defended his October 7 sermon amid attacks on churches.
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Berlin
Theodore Cardinal Innitzer
Vienna
Hitler
Cardinal Innitzer
Sermcen
Fuehrer
Reich
Arabs Order Not to Fight British in Palestine Standstill
Reports from Jerusalem say Abdul Rahim commander of Arab insurgents ordered followers to refrain from engaging British troops except in self defense. British forces expand operations aiming to clear rebel groups and push toward Jaffa as American interests in Palestine receive protection talks with US consul officials.
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Jerusalem
Abdul Rahim
Holy Land
Palestine
Wallace Murray
United States
Washington
George Wadsworth
Murray
Haifa
Jaffa
Mediterranean
Pep Meeting Marks Start Of Civic Chest Drive
On Cherokee terrace at Hotel Frances a pep meeting gathers 45 team captains and big gifts leaders to begin solicitation for the Twin City Community Chest. Mrs. Fagan Cox is named general chairwoman of women’s work to lead a house-to-house campaign.
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Twin City
Fagan Cox
Young Women’s Christian Association
Indicted in Large Tax Fraud Probe Ties Liquor Ring to Five Cities
Forty-four men and one woman were indicted by a federal grand jury on schemes to defraud the government of at least 15 million dollars in taxes via an illicit liquor operation spanning five U S cities and Canada. Assistant U S Attorney Raymond P Whearty called the case one of the largest the alcohol tax unit has pursued. The indictment was returned before Federal Judge William Bondy. Conservative estimates come from treasury agents' investigation.
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New York
United States
Canada
Raymond P. Whearty
William Bondy
Treasury
Investiga
Logger Killed by Automobile Near Bear Lake
Isaac T. Lee, a logging camp worker for J. M. Bullock near Bear Lake, was struck by a hit and run driver at 3 a.m. Sunday near Sondheimer, 18 miles south of Lake Providence. He died instantly from a broken hip and neck. identification was by insurance papers. The funeral was held in Boyce, and he is survived by his wife Alice Ball Lee, a daughter Joy Mae, and his mother Anna Dillion Lee.
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Lake Providence
Isaac T. Lee
J. M. Bullock
Bear Lake
Sondheimer
William Hamley
Lee
Bernice
Boyce
Alice Ball Lee
Joy Mae
Anna Dillion Lee
Broadened Farm Program Planned To Include Cotton Insurance
Administration intends to seek congressional broadened farm coverage by offering crop insurance to about 2.5 million cotton growers while wheat insurance already protects against drought flood storms hail insects and other hazards. Officials say premium rates and data are being prepared and 1949 crop insurance could be offered if Congress agrees. Consideration of insurance for corn growers also depends on rate calculations.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Young hunter killed in Bogalusa accident
Winston Pope a 16 year old from Angie near Bogalusa died from an accidental rifle discharge by a hunting companion as they walked behind him. The incident occurred yesterday in Bogalusa Louisiana.
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Bogalusa
Winston Pope
Angie
Here
Kidnapper Returns Child to Floral Park Home
Three year old Dean Tripp, son of Wilbur D. Tripp, was returned to his Floral Park home by George O Connell, ex marine, who had aided in the child’s disappearance after a shopping trip to New York City. O Connell was arrested at Floral Park station as the boy was handed to his mother. Federal agents assisted and police questioned him. the exact charge was not immediately learned.
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Floral Park
N. Y
Dean Tripp
Wilbur D. Tripp
George O'Connell
New York City
O'Connell
Flora Park
Long Island Railroad
O’connell
Tripp
Dean
James Humphreys
Humphreys
George
Marina
Marine Corps
Tripps
Snow and gales lash middle west with early winter
Snow and freezing temperatures sweep parts of Minnesota Wisconsin and upper Michigan as wind storms disrupt power and lines. Snow plows clear highways near the Wisconsin border while factories in Red Wing Minnesota endure a 12 hour outage.
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Chicago
Middle West
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan Peninsula
Ishpeming
Mich
Wisconsin- Michigan
Red Wing
Minn
Phillipe
Wis
Michigan
Superior
Straits of Machine
Bismarck
N. D
Yellowstone Pars
Wichita
Kans
Sioux City
Oklahoma City
Canton Inferno as Fire Threatens City After Japanese Attack
Oct 4 Canton battles a massive blaze fed by dynamite squads as Japanese forces advance toward Hankow and threaten rail and port targets. Firefighters rely on dynamite to curb flames when reservoirs are cut, while thousands flee and foreign properties endure damage.
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Canton
Hankow
Changshe
Bsandpiper
Shanghai
South China
Shameer Island
Death of Sidney Pettit Aged 21 In Washington DC
Relatives here were informed of the death at Washington DC on Saturday of Sidney Pettit 21 whose body was found in his lodgings after a gas jet was left open. Pettit formerly lived with his parents in Monroe and later moved to Baton Rouge. He left notes to his brother Corporal W W Pettit and to his parents and a note to whom it may concern. He studied radio engineering at Bell Aircraft? No at Barksdale Field during army service and aimed to obtain a federal government position in Washington. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Washington, D. C
Sidney Pettit
Young Pettit
W. M. Pettit
Baton Rouge
Barkedele Field
W W. Pettit
Barksdale Field
Washington
L. B.iit
R. J. Wills
Monroe
Czech Vets Return World War Medals in Chicago
In Chicago 75 World War I Czech veterans living there returned medals once pinned by Italy Great Britain and France. They threw the medals from a platform before about 10 000 Czechs and Slovaks at the international amphitheater after speakers condemned European democracies for their Munich conduct. The gathering marked the twentieth anniversary of a commemorative event.
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Chicago
Italy
Great Brita
France
International Amphitheater
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Child Hangs Self in Lancaster Home After Reprimand
Ten year old John Giladfelter hanged himself in the attic of his Lancaster home yesterday after a reprimand for not eating. Coroner A V Walter said it was the youngest death by own action recorded in Lancaster county.
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Lancaster
John Giladfelter
A. V. Walter
Lancaster County
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Blaze
China
Monroyan
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