Roosevelt Calls Pan-Atlantic Conference a Great Success
President Roosevelt announced the conference has been a great success and is in the final phase with drafts of agreement. He urged a senate declaration supporting future cooperation to avert war and praised the talks among Roosevelt, Rosse, and British and American foreign ministers for guiding peaceful collaboration. The press conference noted progress toward concrete measures and a spirit of peace as pivotal outcomes.
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Washington
Presidenit Roosevelt
Roocevell
Senate
Rosaie
Roosevelt
Russia
Alweva
Westbrook Pegler on New Deal agencies shaping education
Pegler argues the New Deal creates agencies like the labor board and Office of War that nationalize public schooling. He warns political currents align with communism, citing J. B. Matthews and Benjamin Gitlow as proof of ideological contagion.
Jimmie Davis Chooses Verret as Running Mate in Louisiana Race
Incumbent Governor Jimmie Davis endorses J Emile Verret for Lieutenant Governor in the January Democratic primary. Verret, a 54 year old New Iberia insurance man, touts independence and civil service support and cites his public service record with Iberia parish schools and state organizations. He stresses a government freely cooperative with all the people of Louisiana and an education focus.
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New Orleans
Jimme H. Sova
J Emile Verret
Verret
New
Boria
Davis
Nave
Louwana
Public Actuol
Louisiana
Rotary Club
The
Elks Ehih
New Iberia
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Asian Prisoners Trusted to Work Outside Under Policy Change
Washington reports a policy shift allowing trained Asian prisoners with six months in custody and good demeanor to work outside the prison without guards. They must sign a pledge, wear ID, and abide by rules, with Italian prisoners similarly bound, while military authorities monitor for violations and pledges.
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Ashington
Stullwer
War Department
Rntary
Simc
Italy
Pedals 215 Miles to Visit Father
A boy named Robert S. Gray pedaled 215 miles from Des Moines to Kansas City to reach his father Archie Gray who came to take a war job. The youth, tired but persistent, asked police for help and then rode with his father to their home after a long journey.
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Kansas City
Robert S. Gray
Des Moines
Bai
Hime
Archie Gray
Robert
Jams and jellies hit ration point values
The Office of Price Administration announced Sunday that jams jellies and fruit spreads will be four to six points per pound depending on item, with broader changes to canned fruits vegetables and meats affecting point costs and rationing rules nationwide.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Wheeler Criticizes Postwar Policy Promises
Senator Wheeler of Montana denounces the Connally peace resolution as likely to invite Russian demands for Poland and the Bosphorus. He warns the United States must not bind itself to postwar global authority and cautions against premature commitments amid Soviet and British alignment.
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Wheeler
Montana
Senate
Russia
Poland
Bosphorus
Balkans
Baltec
Hitler
Germany
Montanan
Stalin
Churchill
United States
Colonel Edgar Todd Dies in Monroe Field Hospital
Colonel Edgar R. Todd commander at Stuttgart Army Air Field died in the post hospital at Selman Field Monroe Louisiana. Army officials announced the cause of death was not disclosed. Todd had commanded Stuttgart Field since its 1942 establishment and was age 41.
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Ark
Edgar R. Todd
Stuttgart Army Air Field
Selman Field
Monroe
Army
Todd
Stuttgart Field
Allied Forces Pound Minturno Rear Of Mt Massico In Italy
Allied forces under General Clark pounded the Minturno area rear of Mt Massico as American cruisers and destroyers shell Rommel line of communications. The Fifth and Eighth Armies pushed three miles in sparingly rain through rivulets and mountains toward Teano and the Regia Canal. British units moved on the Volturno front with gains in Raviscarina region as Germans withdrew to new mountain positions.
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Algiers
Erwin Rommel
Minturno
Mt. Massico
Mark W. Clark
Sparanise
Teano
Mt. Massion
Rome
Fifth Army
Regia Canal
Volturne
Tts
Mondragone
Raviscarina
Volturno
Verafro
Charges Filed In Plaquemines Parish Conspiracy Case
New Orleans on October 4 4 Leander H Perez district attorney announced counter charges of conspiracy to murder against Governor Jones Attorney General Eugene Stanley and others tied to the fight over the parish sheriff’s office Perez said information was filed at Pointe a la Hache naming Judge Albert Estopinal Jr Brigadier General Thomas F Porter Colonel J Perry Cole Major Warren Jefferson and 31 others. The case involves alleged assault on acting Sheriff Dr Slater and martial law in Plaquemines parish as the state guards occupy the parish.
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New Orleans
Leander HH. Perez
Plaquemines Parish
Tudes
Cotepiracy T c Enuit
Jones
Walter J. Blaite
Perez
Slater
State Guard
Stanley
Thomas F. Porter
Supreme Court
Estopinal
Flier admits killing wife in Beekman Hill apartment
Wayne Lonergan, 25, a Royal Canadian Air Force cadet, confessed to police to killing Patricia Lonergan with two brass candlesticks and strangling her over their infant son. He appeared in homicide court amid details of a lengthy questioning and fingerprints on the weapons.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
Beekman Hill
Wayne
Edward Dillon
Royal Canadian Air Force
Dillon
Lonergan
Frank Hogan
Hogan
East River
Wayne William Lonergan
Maurice “Murray
Worcester
Bridgeport
Student's war record broadens with multiple theaters
Private First Class Kenneth Bostick, an aerial gunnery student at Buckingham Army Air Field, earned fame beyond ribbons. He served as an RAF bomber pilot in France, Dunkirk, Britain, Norway, Greece, Crete, and Pearl Harbor, Alaska campaigns, with two brothers killed and father Rear Admiral E H Bostick reported missing.
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Fla
Kenneth Bostick
Buckingham Army Air Field
France
Dunkirk
Britain
Norway
Greece
Crete
National Guard Coast Artillery
Pearl Harbor
Alaska Command
E. H. Bostick
Navy Department
Kenneth
David
Kerry
Drive Fund Surpasses Forty Thousand for Twin City Chest
The Twin City Community Chest and United War Fund report over 46 000 raised as of Friday noon at chest headquarters in the Virginia Hotel. An earlier tally lists 40 629 dollars with 8 cents. donors include Rembrandt Studio Aaron Drug Store Hearn Piston Ring Sales and numerous local businesses and employees.
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United War Fund
Chest
Virginia Hotel
Rembrandt
Hearn Piston Ring Sales
Aaron Drug Store
Xavia Holt
Roselyn B. Simmons Beauty Shop
the Palace
Mra
Phil Smith
Peps Cus CA
Schnee Jnsharp
Lennon Motor Co
Weaks Supply Co
Ouachita Cigar & Tabaco Co
Lowuisiana
McCain-Richards
Standard Office Supply
Holloway's Pharmacy
Sora Ec
Keene Shoe Store
Sunburned hairs questioned in De Marigny murder trial
In Nassau Bahamas on October 3 4 defense counsel suggested sunburn may explain singed hairs on yachtsman Alfred De Marigny found after Sir Harry Oakes death. Miami detective Barker testified burns were likely on the attacker and noted absence of sunburn on De Marigny.
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Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
de Marigny
Bahamas Supreme Court
Godfrey S. Higgs
James QO. Barker
Miami Police
Barker
Sir Harry
Westbourne
Oakes
Higgs
Get s on back after 18 years in Oceanside reunion
In Oceanside California on October 29 a mother from Tulsa Oklahoma, Mrs Jewel Peters, reunites with her son Private Harry Hensley Jr 20 of the Marine Corps after 18 years apart. Peters had sought aid since 1938 when a Tulsa divorce left the two separated. A long search involving a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, the adjutant general and the veterans department culminated in a missing persons bureau locating Hensley in Blythe California. The first meeting ended with emotional embraces.
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Calif
Jewel Peters
Tulsa
Oklo
Harry Hensley, Jr
Marine Corps
Peters
Franklin D Roosevelt
Goebbels Claims Allied Armistice Day Collapse Rhetoric
German Propaganda chief Goebbels said Allies set Armistice Day for Germany’s collapse but warned no signs appeared. Berlin radio quoted him denying domestic opposition to the war and claiming rifts between party and armed forces exist only in enemies’ imagination.
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London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Berlin Radio
Goebbels
Das Reich
Associated Press
Russians Launch Major Tank Drive Toward Krivoi Rog and Crimea
Moscow dispatches report a second day of Red Army attacks on Krivoi Rog, with German high command claiming 115 tanks destroyed. Russian forces push 12 to 18 miles daily toward Perekop, seize Nizhnes Saragozhy west of Melitopol, and capture Marianovka and other targets while advancing on Krivoi Rog and preparing to strike at Crimea.
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London
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
High Command
Dnieper Loop
Red Army
Ukraine
Perekop
Moscow
Nizhnes Saragozhy
Melitopol
Marianovka
Snasmenka-Nikolaev
Bug River
Wer
Balk
Nikospol
Gereman
Feodor Tolbuchin
Desert Army
Alcamnovka
Russia
Nogaisk
Madrid
Byrd Supported for President by Southern Draft Drive
A regional movement to draft Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia for president has launched in New Orleans with a Byrd for president committee opening offices. John A. Barr acts as temporary chairman and treasurer, with the aim to secure Southern backing and to instruct all fifteen southern delegations to vote for Byrd at the Democratic national convention. The circular notes Byrd has not been asked to run and would only accept if substantial Southern support is shown.
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New Orleans
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
United States
John A. Barr
Federal
Byrd
Shelp
Ex convict questioned in Hunt slaying case in Texas
An unnamed 40 year old ex convict was questioned for two hours in connection with the double slaying of Dr Roy Hunt and Mrs Hunt at Littlefield last Tuesday. Ranger Captain Manny Gault said no complaint would be forthcoming immediately. The man was arrested in Galveston last night as a parole violator.
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Tex
Roy Hunt
Littlefield
Manny Gault
Galveston
Gault
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