Soldiers to Return Next Summer in Louisiana Maneuvers
Evacuation of Selman Field begins as Louisiana prepares for large scale war games. Officials expect more than a million troops may participate in next summer's maneuvers unless conflict arises. Rail move details and unit timings are mapped through Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central lines.
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Louisiana
Twin Cities
Selman Field
Savannah
Marine Air
Quanticoé
Illinois Central Railroad
21St Infantry
Fourth Corp
James L. Frink
Marion L. Bovardt
Frink
Missouri Pacific
Sixty-seventh Armored Regiment
World Series Memories and Prohibition Era Echoes
The passage recalls a bygone World Series era marked by social excess and media hype. It notes Philadelphia celebrations under strain from Prohibition and public dismay at figures like Herbert Hoover, describing tense crowds, police restraint, and the subdued public mood amid private revelries in New York and Philadelphia.
Moscow opens IREE-POWER conference on aid to USSR
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov presides as the IREE power conference in Moscow begins. British and American delegates receive a warm welcome amid emphasis on detailing Russian needs and planning future aid. Talks expected to last a week with discussions on supplies including planes and fuel.
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United States
Fisk
Soviet Union
Germany
Vyacheslav Klotey
Kremlin
Ph Salin
Bion
Lord Beaverbrook andAverell Harrimanks
Iriman
America
Russia
Id Beaverbrook
Britain
Moscow
Jin
New Witness Emerges in Ney Trunk Murder Case
New Orleans reports a fresh witness offering valuable information in the case of Charles Napoleon Ney 55 a pensioned Alabama mail carrier charged with killing his wife Edith Ney 60 of Boston. The body found in a trunk after owner suspicion and a passing cab driver provided details while a blooded hammer and Ney’s past mental hospital stays are noted.
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Orleans
Charles Napoleon Ney
Alabam
Edithne
Boston
Mass
Ney
Fred Williams
Jeve
Nye supports profit limit in debate on corporate earnings
Washington reports Senator Nye of North Dakota backs Secretary Morgentau's plan to cap corporate profits at six percent. He says a six percent limit alone may not satisfy taxpayers and calls for safeguards on wages and production costs. Democrat George criticizes the plan as risking hardship to business and defense production.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Nye
North Dakota
Senate
North Dakotan
Congressional
George
U S Announces Massive Power Expansion Plan
The Federal Power Commission disclosed plans for what it calls the largest electric power expansion in U S history. The project aims to surpass the combined generating capacity of Germany Italy and axis-occupied nations with an estimated expenditure exceeding 1.5 billion dollars over five years from private and public funds.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
United States
Germany
Italy
Birmingham steel strike ends as mills resume output
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company’s Birmingham plants reopened after C. S. O. steel workers ended a brief strike. Wage talks at the Ensley plant will be negotiated with retroactive pay to September 1. Mediation efforts span defense industries with 80,000 workers involved in coal, shipping, and aircraft disputes.
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Associated Press
Birmingham Steel Mills
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
C. S. O. Steel
Birmingham
Alabama
Ensley
National Defense Mediation Board
Lincoln Mills
Huntsville
Ala
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
United Mine Workers
Senator Bridges
Republican
New Hampshire
William H. Davis
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Bridges
Lewis
Taylor relays views from Pope to London meetings
In London Myron C. Taylor Roosevelt envoy discusses Pope Pius XI views with Prime Minister Churchill and key diplomats including John G. Winant Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr and David Gray. Taylor met Churchill and Winant and planned talks with Foreign Secretary Eden on refugee issues before traveling to Washington.
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London
Pius XI
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
Churchill
United States
John G. Winant
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
David Gray
Dublin
Taylor
Winant
Anthony Eden
State Department
Gray
Washington
British warplanes spare Rome in record assault on Italy
The report says British planes attack nine Fascist cities with 66 killed and wounded. Italian torpedo planes sink three British cruisers and three merchant ships in a nine hour strike on the Mediterranean convoy. London reports the convoy reach goal with one ship sunk and minor damage to a warship.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
High Command
Mediterranean
London
Ukraine
Central
Leningrad
Soviet
Crimea
Berlin
Paris
Bohemia-Moravia
Uolchefit
Ethiopia
Twin Cities Seek Special Ruling to Ease Ammonia Plant Construction
The Chamber of Commerce asks Donald M. Nelson to designate the Twin Cities as a special defense area to secure priority on metal and electrical equipment for the Sterlington ammonia plant. With 800 workers to be housed during a 15 month build, real estate dealers report no vacancies as employment could reach 1500 during peak construction.
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Chamber
Twin Cities
Sterlington
The
Chamber of Commerce
Donald M. Nelson
Office of Production Management
George D. Holland
Holland
Two Paris Men Executed for Forbidden Weapons
The Paris executions were carried out Saturday for possessing forbidden weapons. Eugene Devigne and Mohamed Moali were sentenced the day before by General Otto von Stuelpnagel the military commander for occupied France. Berlin published the notice announcing the double execution.
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Berlin
Paris
Otto von Stuelpnagel
France
Eugene Devigne
Mohamed Moali
von Stuelpnagel
Germany moves to end revolt among Czechs in Bohemia Moravia
Berlin reports General Alois Elias is held on premeditated high treason charges as Nazi authorities curb Czech resistance. Reinhard Heydrich imposes a six district state of emergency in Bohemia Moravia within 24 hours after Baron von Neuhrath steps down. curfews theaters closures and harsh measures expected. Heydrich cites hostile actions by enemies of Europe and warns of further enforcement with cooperation from President Hacha.
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Berlin
Alois Elias
Bohemia-Moravia
Reinhard Heydrich
Adolf Hitler
British Broadcasting Corporation
Bela Tuka
Slovakia
Legation
Tuka
Pritish
Little Republic of
Heydrich
Emi Hacha
Europe
Reich
Germany
Hacha
Legless airman tries to escape from Berlin
Wing Commander Douglas Bader, legless British ace and German prisoner, allegedly attempted an escape hours after RAF delivered a new artificial limb by parachute with German approval. A Nazi spokesman said German fliers routinely entertain captured pilots and reported Bader vanished from a French air drome after a dinner, then was found in a barn.
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Berlin
Douglas Bader
Bader
France
Maneuvers in Louisiana End as Troops Relax
Louisiana began returning to normal after two weeks of field maneuvers involving 400 000 troops. From Shreveport to Lake Charles soldiers were ordered to stay in tents until march orders. The end of the 36 hour 160 mile drive was marked by the Second Armored division and Second Infantry division ceasing actions.
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Lake Charles
Louisiana
Shreveport
Atlantic
Texas
War Department
Third Army
Walter Krueger
Second Armored
Second Infantry
Second Army
Doxey Takes Senate Oath in Mississippi Special
P Wall Doxey was sworn in as Mississippi senator succeeding the late Pat Harrison after defeating Ross Collins in a close special election. Secretary of State Walker Wood certified the win as 59,556 to 58,738, with Collins conceding. Governor Johnson set a special election for Tuesday, November.
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Washington
P-Wall Doxey
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Doxey
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Ross Collins
Connally
Texas
Bilbo
Wallace
Walker Wood
Meridian
Collins
Secretary of State
Covernor Johnson
Six Soldiers Dead in Shreveport Traffic Accidents
In Shreveport Louisiana on September 29 six soldiers killed in traffic accidents near the close of Louisiana war games were taken to a funeral home. Two died from electrocution when a live wire fell on them after a truck struck a guy wire. The unofficial death toll from the maneuvers, which began September 15, rises to 26 with 62 deaths during a month of preliminary maneuvers.
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Shreveport
Mother Of Miley Wounding Shocks Lexington Golf Club
In Lexington Kentucky police questioned club employees and others as they pursued gunmen who killed Marion Miley the 27 year old golfer and critically wounded her mother Elsa Ego Miley 30 in their club apartment. A money bag with about 60 dollars was found in a locked closet as investigators seek two men who demanded receipts from a club dance.
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Lexington
Lexington Country Club
Marion Miley
Elsa Ego Miley
Austin B. Price
Miley
Deportation recommended for Bridges over Communist ties
Washington reports that Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, faces recommended deportation to Australia. Special immigration inspector Charles B. Sears found Bridges joined the Communist party and Marine Workers Industrial Union, both tied to advocating overthrow of the U S government.
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Washington
Australia
Harry Bridges
West Coast
Biddle
Bridges
Communist Party
United States
Charles B. Sears
Buffalo
Special Immigration Service
San Francisco
Sears
New York
The
Marine Workers Industrial Union
Communist Party of the
Britain and Italy clash in nine city air and sea attack
Great Britain and Italy exchanged heavy blows as RAF bombers hit nine Fascist cities overnight in the war's heaviest raids. Italian high command boasted a nine hour strike on a British convoy in the Mediterranean. Sunk ships include three British cruisers and three merchant vessels per Rome, though London disputed the tally. British reports cited one merchant ship sunk and warship damaged. Concurrently British dispatches suggested possible troop movements toward Russia and outlined cooperation across the anti Axis front from Syria through Iran.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
Italy
Mussolini
High Command
Mediterranean
Rome
Britain
London
Berlin
Baghdad
Russia
Caucasus
Africa
Asia
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Middle East
Bar Association Urges Neutrality Act Repeal At Meeting
The American Bar Association opened its 64th annual convention with a committee report urging repeal of the neutrality act. The group says the president should be free to exercise rights under treaties and international law. President Jacob M. Lashly of St. Louis emphasized the bar’s duty to defend the nation.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Bar Association
Association For
Jacob M. Lashly
St. Louis
Association
America
Kemp Granted Order Against Supersecure
Kemp wins a temporary restraining order blocking Attorney General Stanley from superseding him in a Tangipahoa parish grand jury probe. The order, granted by District Judge Ellis, limits the AG under act 24 of the 1934 extra legislative session as the grand jury investigates alleged slander, destruction of public records, embezzlement charges against Sheriff Edwards, and funds misappropriation.
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Baton Rouge
Bolivar E. Kemp
Tangipahoa Parish
Eugene Stanley
Tangipahoa
Kemp
Robert S. Ellis, Jr
Jerome A. Hayes
Frank M. Edwards
Edwards
Stanley
Hayes
Ellis
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Williams
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Ath Pas
U. S
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