Final Drive Of Campaign Sets Stage For Final Votes
Roosevelt and Landon race to win key eastern electoral votes as campaigns push toward end of the race. Roosevelt writes speeches in the White House for Pennsylvania New York and nearby states while Landon travels through Washington toward Baltimore Philadelphia Pittsburgh New Jersey and New York. Landon denounces the New Deals evasions of issues in a Baltimore prepared speech. Roosevelt schedules a non political dedication at Howard University and a Liberty Island birthday event as the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty nears.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Landon
East
White House
Pennsylvania
New York
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Howard University
Bayonne
N. J
Bedloe's Island
New York Harbor
Plaza Hotel tragedy Eludes crowd as double suicide shocks San Antonio
In San Antonio at the Plaza hotel J C McPherson a Chicago advertising man and his 12 year old daughter Joan leapt to their deaths from the twelfth floor. Police linked a disappearance of a motor car to McPherson and notes showed a planned itinerary across several states.
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San Antonio
Tex
Plaza Hotel
J. C. McPherson
Chicago
Joan
John J. McCarthy
St. Louis
McPherson
Roosevelt
Justice of the Peace
Bat Corrigan
Corrigan
East Gate
Blue Lodge of Masons
Covert Lodge
Covert, Mich
Chicago Association of Detective Sergeants
International Association For Criminal Identifications
Lord
Supreme Court to Rule on Two Wagner Cases
The Supreme Court added two Wagner Act challenges to its list of New Deal cases. Associated Press suit and a case from Washington Virginia and Maryland Coach Co challenged labor relations provisions. Lower courts upheld the act which creates a national labor relations board and guarantees collective bargaining. The court also declined to accelerate a ruling on a petition to place Communist candidates on the November ballot, adjourned to November 9 to draft opinions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Associated Press
Washington, Virginia
Maryland
National Labor Relations Board
Illinois
Barksdale Planes Set for Two Week War Maneuvers
At Barksdale Field in Shreveport Louisiana Brigadier General Gerald C Brant leads seventy five fighting planes and about five hundred officers and enlisted men toward New Orleans to begin a two week war maneuver with pursuit and attack squadrons clashing near the city. A train with over three hundred troops moves to Shushan airport to establish a base for the flying echelon.
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Shreveport
Army
Barksdale Field
New Orleans
Shushan
Gerald C. Brant
Last Minute Briefs From Raleigh to Biscayne Bay
William Henry Bagley 59 former newspaper publisher in NC Texas and Massachusetts died at his sister Mrs Josephus Daniels home death from heart malady. Twelve Russian cargo steamers passed the Bosphorus in two weeks heading to Cartagena and Aliante Spain. The body of Jack Cummings 18 year old Bon Aire Ga was found in Biscayne Bay after a sailboat accident near where he drowned yesterday.
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Raleigh
N. C
William Henry Bagley
North Carolina
Texas
Massachusetts
Josephus Daniels
Mexico
Istanbul
Bosphorus
Cartagena
Alicante
Spain
Miami, Fla
Jack Cummings
Bonaire
Biscayne Bay
Miami
Coast Guard
Death Probe Grows in Cameron Fatality Near Richmond
State and local authorities pushed an investigation into the death of Hervey E. Cameron 49 former Byrd secretary. He was found fatally injured in the Chickahominy Swamp about ten feet from a highway near Richmond yesterday.
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Richmond
Hervey E. Cameron
Harry F. Byrd
Cameron
Chicke Ahominy
Here
Rice Growers Hope AAA Supports Surplus Rice Purchase
Homer L. Brinkley, manager of the American Rice Growers association, said after returning from Washington that the AAA gave favorable reception to a petition by rice growers for the Surplus Commodity corporation to buy surplus rice for distribution to the needy in stricken areas.
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Lake Charles
Homer L. Brinkley
American Rice Growers’ Association
Washington
AAA
Surplus Commodity Corporation
McMahon Denied Appeal in Revolver Case
London dispatch reports George Andrew McMahon denied permission to appeal his conviction for producing a revolver with intent to alarm during King Edward's Constitution bill parade last July. He was sentenced to one year at hard labor.
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London
George Andrew McMahon
King Edward's
Puerto Rican official shot while addressing crowd in Mayaguez
Santiago Iglesias the resident commissioner to Washington was shot and wounded slightly while speaking to a crowd in the plaza at Mayaguez Puerto Rico last night.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Santiago Iglesias
Washington
Mayaguez
Peace moves in Labor's family quarrel delayed past election
Reports from informed labor sources indicate further peace efforts within the American Federation of Labor will be postponed until after the election.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Stormy Weather Forecast For Election Day
Forecaster Selby Maxwell predicts rain and storms will grip the middle west and eastern states on November 3, affecting turnout. The outlook covers Chicago and surrounding areas with unsettled conditions expected to persist through Election Day.
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Chicago
Middle West
Selby Maxwell
FBI probes $3,000 extortion plot involving social heiress relative
In Trenton on October 26 the FBI, after arresting one suspect, pressed the investigation into a $3,000 extortion scheme targeting Mrs. Thomas Middleton, aunt of Countess Barbara Hutton Hauzwitz-Reventlow.
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Trenton
N. J
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Thomas Middleton
Barbara Hutton Hauzwitz-Reventlow
Snow blanketed Rochester as temperature tumbled
Mid morning shoppers in Rochester New York faced a heavy fall of large snow flakes as the temperature dropped to 32 degrees. The day contrasted with a bright Sunday when the mercury rose to 63 at 4 p.m.
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Rochester
N. Y
Doughboy Returns Stolen Chocolate Payment
An unidentified World War I veteran sends a $2 money order to the treasury conscience fund for chocolate bars taken from a truck at Verneuil France. The fund, started in 1811, has collected about $624,113.70 to date.
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Washington
Treasury
Verneuil
France
Poor Visibility Blamed in Two Fliers Deaths
In Shreveport Louisiana on October 26 two Langley Field officers died when their big army bomber, during a rain storm with lightning, plunged into the ground near Bryan's Mill Texas. Captain Charles Howard and Corporal Edward Gibson were identified as victims. Civilians testified that the pilots dipped through a hole in the clouds while trying to regain bearings and struck trees at full speed. The aircraft exploded and burned as a board of officers opened a crash investigation.
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Shreveport
Barksdale
Langley Field
Army
Bryan's Mill
Tex
Army Post
Charles Howard
Army Mercy
Edward Gibson
Leon Johnson
Manning Tillery
Election Oddities Prompt Laughs Across Aisles
Edward J. Neil notes quirky voting facts as ballots could bear names like Roosevelt in towns such as Roosevelt, Ark and Roosevelt, Minn while real Roosevelt lacks a U S city name in London. He mentions places Demo crat in Arkansas Kentucky and North Carolina and Republican City in Nebraska. First ballots may begin in New Ashford Massachusetts at 5 45 am.
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Landon
Roosevelt, Ariz
Roosevelt, Ark
Roosevelt, Minn
Roosevelt, Mo
Roosevelt, N. Y
Roosevelt, Okla
Roosevelt, Tex
Roosevelt, Utah
Roosevelt, Wash
Roosevelt, Wis
Roosevelt Beach
Ore
Roosevelt Road
Roosevelt Park
Roosevelt Square
Mich
Roosevelt
London
United States
Ark
Arkansas
Kentucky
North Carolina
Nebraska
Virginia
New Ashford
Mass
Berkshire Mount
One Arrested In Effort To Burn Bridge
New Orleans police detained Paul Graham, 40, a former L and A conductor, for questioning after an early today bridge arson attempt on the Louisiana and Arkansas railway near LaPlace. Police expect more arrests in a wave of similar incidents tied to a strike by transportation workers. Graham denied involvement.
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New Orleans
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
LaPlace
Paul Graham
L. and A
Graham
Vladimir Slide
Portugal accuses Russia of plan to Sovietize Iberia
In a 21 page note to the non intervention committee Portugal blames Russia for inciting the Spanish civil war and plotting revolt in Portugal. Lisbon alleges 55 army officers were sent to Barcelona in September and cites secret agents and Russian arms shipments.
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London
Iberian Peninsula
Spain
Portugal
Russia
Barcelona
Armindo Monteiro
Lisbon
Thirty five Louisiana constitutional amendments outlined
A Louisiana voter guide lists 35 proposed amendments for November 3. Items include extending homestead and tax exemptions, creating revenue and fund offices, funding road and school projects, holidays, bonds, and governance changes in New Orleans and parishes, plus changes to judgeships and tax processes.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
New Orleans
Proposed constitutional amendments in Louisiana measures
The article lists multiple proposed amendments including extending homestead exemptions to widows, authorizing immediate effect acts after adjournment in emergencies, preserving the New Orleans Vieux Carre, widening bail for non capital felonies, and amending the anti trust article to expand coverage. Page 3 notes these measures under See 35 PROPOSED.
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New Orleans
Two Deaths and Several Injuries in Weekend Accidents
Five people were injured or killed in weekend crashes in Monroe Baucomville and Bosco. Alma Browder 18 of Baucomville died Sunday after a car struck her Saturday night. Rance Davis 51 was found dead on Missouri Pacific tracks in Bosco. Lula Barrow of West Monroe was hospitalized with 11 broken ribs and shock. John Thrasher 25 of West Monroe suffered a severe head injury after a truck hit him. the driver, Fred Becton 17, fled the scene. Authorities indicate the Browder car was driven by J T Willbanks of Baucomville.
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Monroe
Baucomville
Bosco
Alma Browder
E. W. Browder
Rance Davis
Negro
Missouri Pacific
Illinois Central
North Fourth Street
Lula Barrow
Wood Street
West Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Brownville
John Thrasher
Fred Becton
Cruel Side Of Tot Race Given By Millar Bequest
Toronto report describes harsh effects of Charles Vance Millar's child blessing prank. Grace Bagnato, once a leading candidate for a $500000 bequest, faces setback as two of her nine claimed births in ten years lack registration. She says births were recorded and cites illness after a 1923 birth.
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Toronto
Charles Vance Millar
Grace Bagnato
Governor Promises to Fill Road Gaps on Old Spanish Trail
Governor Richard W. Leche told south Louisiana officials and citizens that gaps in the Old Spanish Trail highway to New Orleans would be filled as finances permit. Up to 12 million dollars from a 30 million highway bond issue would be used to complete concrete roads statewide, and unfinished sections along the trail would be considered. We will do the best we can.
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New Orleans-Hammond Lakeshore
Pontchartrain Bridge
Huey P. Long
New Orleans
Richard W. Leche
Baton Rouge
South Louisiana
Rebels Pave New Path in Madrid Push
Rebels surged toward Madrid as Portugal accused Soviet Russia of stirring the civil war. Fascist forces overwhelmed government defenses north of Aranjuez, a key communications area about 20 miles south of Madrid. Lisbon charged Moscow with aiding the rebels and sowing revolt in Portugal as 20 000 Russian volunteers were reported en route to support Catalan defenses.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Portugal
Russia
Iberian
Aranjuez
Moscow
Lisbon
Spain
Barcelona
Catalonia
Baldwin evidence termed perfect in Huntington murder case
In Huntington West Virginia on October 26 police prepared to question Charles Buffington Baldwin a 41 year old lawyer and former mayoral candidate in connection with the murder of his 63 year old mother Mrs Juliette Buffington Authorities say she was found beaten and strangled at the Huntington home and Baldwin faces a murder warrant issued by a justice of the peace Detective Lesfield Swann indicated the suspect would be questioned today while he sits in the 27 room house where the victim lived.
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Jesse Owen Gifford
Henry
Et Reno
Nev
Jesse
Pittsburgh
Tenn
Reno
Susanville
Cal
Charles
William
Gifford
Huntington
W. Va
Charles Buffington Baldwin
Lesfield
Swann
Baldwin
Juliette Buffington
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