Weiss absent as Seybold testifies on overcharged New Orleans project
Oscar Seybold testified that Leon C. Weiss often missed meetings while cost lists for two Charity Hospital projects were inflated by extras added by Monte Hart and others. Payments were made by LSU from certificates issued by Weiss's office, though Weiss was not present for these actions.
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Leon C. Weiss
New Orleans
Louisiana State University
Weiss
Oscar Seybold
Hugh Wilkinson
Seybold
Summa Caldwell
Caldwell Brothers and Hart
Monte Hart
Caldwells
Wilkinson
Hart
Technicians to Aid State Draft Units
Alexandria dispatch reports Phil Charlet state employment security director said Washington authorized supplying technicians to state draft boards to classify positions for national defense. He will assign experienced technicians to advise boards on indispensability and deferral decisions.
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Alexandria
Phil Charlet
State
Washington
Charlet
Draft lottery prepares nationwide for upcoming call
Washington reports 4 percent of ten pages of clerical instructions were issued to 6 500 local draft boards to ensure absolute accuracy in the national draft lottery next Tuesday. The manual details shuffling and numbering of 17 000 000 registration cards and warns against any error. Health statistics will accompany the process with blood tests for syphilis and notes on major and secondary defects to form a national disease picture.
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Washington
National Selective Headquarters
National Headquarters
Army
Little Chicago Candidate Found Shackled In Shack
Gus Kokinos, candidate for mayor of Little Chicago, was found bound to a chair in a shack near West Monroe after a reported kidnaping. He accused Mayor Simmie Wood and Jay Salley’s faction of abducting him for ransom, then released him when he refused to betray allies. Judge Salley also announced Ritter and Angell backed the Wood Salley ticket.
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Chicago
Gus Kokinos
Jack Allen
Kokinos
Little Chicago
West Monroe
Allen
Simmie Wood
Jay ‘Bird’ Salley
Simmie Wood Gang
Pop-Corn Skinner
Allen ‘Bolt-Nut’ Ritter
Jack ‘Turkey-head' Angell
Wood- Salley
Allen Ritter
Nearly Fifty Million Will Vote November 5
A 1940 Associated Press report notes heavy registrations nationwide suggesting a potential popular vote near 50 million in the November 5 election. It contrasts 1936 and 1932 totals, details eligible voters and state and city registration gains including New York City reaching over 3.38 million registrants.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Census Bureau
District of Columbia
New York
California
New York City
Vandals Strike Our Lady Star of the Sea School
Classes for 410 pupils at Our Lady Star of the Sea School in New Orleans were suspended after vandalism wrecked interior furnishings. Police hunted the culprits as Sister Seraphine blamed impulse driven mischief. A chalk swastika with "I am 35013" was found on the main hall floor.
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New Orleans
Our Lady Star of the Sea
Seraphine
Missouri Pacific Boosters Plan Friday Meeting at Clubhouse
The Missouri Pacific Boosters announce a regular monthly meeting at 7 30 p m Friday in the club house on Ouachita Avenue. A fine program will be presented and refreshments served. All members are urged to attend.
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Missouri Pacific Boosters
Ouachita Avenue
Suitor shoots girl's parents in Pittsburgh home
In Squirrel Hill, Eve Lyn Hartstein's parents, Mrs. Sigmund Hartstein and her husband, were shot by a suitor who later claimed Hartstein wrested a revolver from him. Mrs. Hartstein died, the husband was critically wounded, and the suspect was arrested two hours after the crime. The couple's daughter, Eve Lyn, was 22. The suitor had previously been forbidden to visit. In Mississippi, Governor Paul B. Johnson announced a three week rest cure in Hot Springs after returning to Jackson from a three week absence.
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Pittsburgh
Sigmund Hartstein
Evelyn
Jerry Deasy
Allegheny County
Hartstein
Deasy
Hartsteins
Squirrel Hill
Florence
Jackson
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Capitol
Hot Springs
Ark
Hitler Aims to Shift War To Mediterranean Trade Routes
Allied press report says Hitler plans a two fold winter strategy to attack Britain's lifeline in the South Atlantic and seize Gibraltar while pressuring trade with South America and India. Secret Franco German talks reportedly offer use of African and Atlantic bases in exchange for concessions and release of French prisoners.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Britain
South
Atlantic
England
Germanfuehrer
Italy
Spain
Gibraltar
Germany
South America
India
Cape of Good Hope
Canary Islands
Hitler
Pierre Laval
Vichy
France
Africa
Syria
Dakar
French West Africa
Toulon
Casablanca
French
Morocco
Bizerte
Tunisia
Madrid
Europe
Japan
China
San Francisco
Kensuke Horinouchi
Delay Ordered in Scandals Prosecutions in Alexandria
Special Assistant Attorney General J. W. Hawthorn said Attorney General Eugene Stanley ordered postponement of scandal cases to allow fuller investigation. Hawthorn received a letter directing not to assign cases for trial at the term beginning November 4. Three batches of indictments totaling 276 against 75 persons remain pending.
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Alexandria
J. W. Hawthorn
Eugene Stanley
Stanley
Hawthorn
Exiled Romanian King Seeks U S Aid Amid Plight
In Lisbon a representative of former King Carol of Romania met with U S charge d affaires M Wilson, fueling belief the ex monarch sought American help. Carol with Mme Magda Lupescu and Ernst Urdareas were placed under virtual arrest in Seville as Spain weighs the case. London reports a Red Cross gift of 24 utility wagons to aid bombed areas accepted by Queen Elizabeth for the women's services. Tokyo dispatch quotes a Moscow embassy secretary saying Soviet Russia favors closer ties with Japan.
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Lisbon
Carol of
Romania
Warden M. Wilson
United States
Carol
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Ernst Urdareanu
Bucharest
Seville
Spain
London
American Red Cross
Queen Elizabeth
Women’s Voluntary Services
Daniel Grant
American Red Cross Committee
England
Buckingham Palace
Tokyo
Domei
Today
Masaomi Yoshitomi
Moscow
Japan
Chest Campaign Underway In Twin City
The Twin City Community Chest and Council launched its third annual drive to reach a $27,700 goal by November 7. Volunteers organized into divisions and teams, contacting individuals and firms to fund agencies connected with the Chest. Progress boards line Ouachita Bank Central Bank Alvis Hotel and Hatchells in West Monroe as Mayor Benoit urges cooperation. Ed Seymour, Chest president, urges workers to contact every resident.
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Twin City
Ouachita Bank
Central Bank
Alvis Hotel
Hatchells
West Monroe
H. H. Benoit
Ed Seymour
Chest
Twin Cities
Fox Hounds and Horses Destroyed in Stockyards Fire
A blaze at the Nelson county stockyards in Bardstown Kentucky killed 120 fox hounds and 19 saddle horses and halted the Kentucky State Fox Hunters Association annual meeting. Losses were not estimated but many members lost multiple hounds and the fire’s cause was not determined.
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Bardstown
Nelson County
Kentucky State Fox Hunters Association
Seported Army Training Camp Built for 32nd Division
Major General Campbell B. Hodges says the United States must rely less on oceans for security as the emergency training program expands in Louisiana and Mississippi. Wisconsin and Michigan guardsmen total about 7 500 at Camp Beauregard and Camp Shelby with 32nd Division strength growing to near 7 500 and engineers from Fort Benning moving to Beau regard to complete temporary quarters at Tioga.
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Alexandria
Campbell B. Hodges
Louisiana
Mississippi
Atlantic
Pacific
The
State University
West Point
Hodges
Wisconsin
Fifth Tactical Corps
General Hodges
War Department
Camp Beauregard
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
Miss
32Nd Division
Michigan
20Th Engineers
R. F. Fowler
Fort Benning
Beauregard
Camp Tioga
Fowler
Army air corps reorganization doubles combat groups
The War Department announced a four district reorganization to create a highly mobile fighting force for the western hemisphere. The plan expands four wings to 17 and combat groups to 54 by 1942, with 12,800 airplanes for active use and training and the remainder held in reserve.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Western Hemisphere
War Department
Air Corps
United States
Department
General Headquarters Air Force
GHQ Air Force
Delos C. Emmons
Langley Field
Bolling Field
Washington, D. C
Southeast Air District
Tampa
Fla
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Floreida
Tennessee
Alabama
Louisiana
Arkansas
Army awards for hospital supplies and housing contracts
The army announced contracts totaling 3 576 810 for chemical warfare service and quartermaster corps. Hospital supplies valued at 1 585 940 were ordered including bandages drugs and other items. A 203 000 temporary housing project at Barksdale Field Louisiana went to Eckert Fair Construction Company Dallas Texas.
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Washington
Army
Chemical Warfare Service
Quartermaster Corps
Army Posts
Barksdale Field
Louisiana
Eckert Fair Construction Company
Dallas
Tex
Supreme Court rules on offices in national guard call up
The state supreme court held that an officeholder who is also an officer of the national guard does not vacate his state office when the guard is called into federal service. The ruling preserves the continuity of the office during national emergency mobilization.
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Austin
Tex
State Supreme Court
National Guard
United States
Scream Bombs Of Germans Designed To Strike Nerves
Leonard Milliman reports from San Francisco on German nerve warfare via scream bombs used to terrorize London. Industrial psychologist Wesley Edward explains how high noise disrupts the nervous system and reduces efficiency, comparing wartime sound to everyday American noise in offices and streets.
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Leonard Milliman
San Francisco
London
Wesley Edward
Europe
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