Union Boss Plans to Subsidize Curley for Congress
Westbrook Pegler reports on Boston teamsters leader Brother Sullivan proposing to fund private debts of James Curley, candidate for Congress in Massachusetts eleventh district. The plan flags the tax issue as it could make Curley the first openly subsidized congressman, drawing 7,000 supporters and a formal honorary committee led by AFL president William Green and including Dan Tobin and Senator Walsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother John M. Sullivan
Boston
Brother Sullivan
New Deal
Congress
Massachusetts
James M. Curley
Mr. Curley
Labor
Curley
The
Statesman
William Green
A. F. of L
Dan Tobin
Teamsters
David I. Walsh
John W. McCormack
House
United States Congress
Byrnes backs deferment of farm youths amid price debate
Senate debate centers on whether Roosevelt order tying benefit payments to farm price ceilings is valid. Aiken and others argue act bars ceilings below parity, while Byrnes defends executive interpretation and warns of resignation if order flawed. Congressional move to keep farm workers on farms and out of the army reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator Aiken
Vermont
James F. Byrnes
Brown
Michigan
Byrnes
Senate Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Aiken
Reed
Kansas
Wheeler
Montana
Congress
Bombers Hit Hongkong and Canton in Fresh Allied Raids
American air forces struck Hongkong again early today and targeted the White Cloud airdrome near Canton. Lt Gen Stilwell announced the north point power station at Hongkong was destroyed with fires set, while Canton saw multiple fires and a major blast near the airfield. Both missions completed without loss of a plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Reilly O'Sullivan
United States
China
Hongkong
White Cloud
Canton
Joseph W. Stilwell
North Point
Chungking
Kaisan
Tientsin
Japan
Disputed boxes to be counted in open court
Judge David J. Garrett ordered all disputed boxes from the second congressional primary recount in Catahoula Richland Jackson and Ouachita parishes brought to Monroe for open court counting. The ruling sustained McKenzie motion to vacate Mills petition challenges to action/rights to sue and timeliness. The court took no action on other pleas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J. Garrett
United States Congress
Monroe
Catahoula
Richland
Jackson
Ouachita
Charles B. McKenzie
McKenzie
Navy Day observed in Monroe wartime program announced
Ed Seymour announced the complete Monroe Navy Day program to include talks at Neville High and Ouachita Parish High, radio broadcasts from KMLB, a band concert at DeSiard and Walnut, and a Navy information booth. The event emphasizes enlistments as ships are completed daily and needs rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Ed Seymour
DeSiard
Walnut Streets
KMLB
Ouachita Parish High School
Sparks
Oliver
Northeast Junior College
R. D. Tarbuck
Morris B. Brown
Allen
DeSiard and
Neville High School
KMLBA
Walnut
Seymour
Navy
Registration date set for gasoline rationing in Louisiana
Shreveport Louisiana October 26 registration for gasoline rationing will be held November 12 and 13 announced U S Goodman state OPA administrator. In some states registration will begin November 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Louisiana
U. S. Goodman
OPA
Japanese Reinforce Guadalcanal Amid Fierce Naval Fire
United States bombers raid Rabaul harbor for the third night as Japanese ships suffer damage. Reported by Oct 25. crews endure heavy antiaircraft fire and strong searchlight defenses. Japanese reinforcements reportedly reach Guadalcanal despite naval pounding.
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New Guinea
United States
Rabaul Harbor
Solomons
New Britain
Washington
Guadalcanal
Recount Suits in Shreveport Mayor and Commission Dropped
In Shreveport Louisiana on October 2, recount suits filed by Dolph Frantz for mayor and E. E. Norvell for public safety commissioners were dismissed. Caldwell and Barney remain uncontested for the November 3 general election after early trial and partial vote counting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Mayor and Public Service Commission
Caddo District Court
Dolph Frantz
Sam S. Caldwell
E. E. Norvell
Commissioner of Public Safety
L. K. Barney
Caldwell
Barney
W. M. Phillips
Barneys
Frantz
Robert G. Chandler
Russians Hold Fast in Stalingrad After Nine Weeks
Soviet dispatches report the Red army contesting a German assault in Stalingrad with hand to hand fighting near a factory area. The mid day communique notes tanks, blockhouses and trenches being seized from Germans as Soviet reserves enter to support a push toward the German held ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Mozdok
Caucasus
Grozny
Two Die From Heart Attacks In Ouachita Parish
Ouachita parish coroner reports two sudden deaths over the weekend due to heart disease. Peter J. Herter, 54, architect at the A A F Navigation school, lived with his wife in a trailer camp near Edgewater Gardens and died after late night illness. Bertram T. Bailey, 49, guard at the Sterlington locks and dam, was found dead at his post Sunday at 8 am. Herter’s body will be sent to Rome Georgia by train Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Peter J. Herter
A. A. F. Navigation School
Edgewater Gardens
Bertram T. Bailey
Ste
Scorpions in Egypt Down Five Nazi Planes
An American fighter squadron in the Egyptian desert shot down four enemy planes and damaged three more, bringing their total to five Axis planes destroyed. The unit, calling itself the Black Scorpions, fought over El Daba from 16,000 to 1,400 feet, with shared and probable destroys contributing to the day's tally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Desert
United States
el Daba
Clermont Be, Wheeler
San
Monroe Gunner Receives Silver Star For Burma Mission
Sergeant Harold E. Cummings of Monroe Louisiana one of four Army aviators awarded the Silver Star for gallantry. The B 17 crewman carried out a solo Burma attack shot down four Japanese fighters before being disabled. Wounded he and a crewman walked 74 miles to a British controlled village after a forced landing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harold £. Cummings
Monroe
Burma
Cummings
W. Cummings
The
Ouachita
Francis J. Teehan
Footeville
Wis
Frank D. Sharp
Salem
Ore
Herbert E. Wunderlich
Williston
N. Y
Coffee Rationing To Begin November 28
The office of price administration announced that coffee will be rationed starting midnight November 28 at a rate of one pound every five weeks per person over 15. Retail sales halt at midnight and the first ration will be bought with the last sugar stamp No. 28. Subsequent rations go backward through stamps 28 to 19 as the program starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Trial of six for treason begins in Chicago
Six men and women, relatives of Herbert Hans Haupt, stand trial in federal court for treason. Prosecutors charge they aided the German Reich by concealing Haupt and funds he brought, in a case described as Illinois first treason trial. Witness Ernest Burger is a key government witness.
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Chicago
Herbert Hans Haupt
Washington
German Reich
Haupt
Germany
William J. Campbell
Illinois
Hans Max
Erna Emma Haupt
Walter
Lucille Froehling
Otto Richard Wergin
Kate
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ernest Peter Burger
Gas Rationing Tightens Eligibility for C Rations
The Office of Price Administration announced tighter rules for C ration eligibility as a nationwide mileage plan begins November 22. Salesmen are excluded from preferred mileage and only workers essential to the war effort may qualify for maintenance and repair roles. Ride sharing becomes a prerequisite for occupational driving, with limited exceptions where adequate urban transit exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Arickaree Slides Down Ways In Gulf Shipyards
The 21,670 ton tanker Arickaree slid down the ways at Mobile Alabama marking the first of several tankers to be built by the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company for the maritime commission. L. R. Sanford of New Orleans praised shipyards ability to meet Roosevelt’s 8,000,000 ton target. The yard received the maritime M pennant and labor merit badges for Liberty ship production. D. R. Dunlap and J. M. Griser pledged ships in production line fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Gulf Coast
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Maritime Commission
L. R. Sanford
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Maritime
M” Pennant
D. R. Dunlap
J. M. Griser
British Army Attacks at Alamein Push Toward Rommel
news from Cairo reports the British eighth army breaking past Axis minefields and advancing toward Rommel's main defense lines in the 40 mile Alamein belt. Air cover dominates the fight as US and British air forces combine to contest German and Italian opposition. Prisoners reach 1,450 as new French units join the Nile conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Whitehead
Cairo
Britain
Romemel
Qattara
Eighth Army
Lonedon
Desert
el Alamein
de Larminat
Brigae
Supplies sent to canal defenders aboard destroyer leader
A U.S. Navy task force escorts a convoy to Panama with more supplies and equipment, noting no ships lost in months of escort duty. Axis submarines shifted to the Caribbean, where five ships were sunk before convoy protection improved, and subs avoided the protected convoy waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Panama Canal
United States Navy
United States
Caribbean
Atlantic
United Nations
Soldier Drowns in Whisky Chitto Creek Near Sugartown
Third Army headquarters announced the death by drowning of Private John French of Lebanon Indiana. He was found in Whisky Chitto Creek near Sugartown. His father, Charles French, lives on Route 5 in Lebanon.
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Leesville
Third Army
John
French
Lebanon
Ind
Whisky Chitto Creek
Sugartown
Charles French
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Edna Sibilski
Bottom
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B. T. Bailey
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