Auto Labor Strikes Idle 20,000 as Talks Continue
Production resumes at a Dodge division plant in Detroit after an agreement with CIO United Automobile Workers ends a strike. About 20,000 Briggs Body Co and Plymouth division workers remain idle over Briggs frame department disputes. Hotels in Pittsburgh face a large strike with 2,000 service workers demanding raises. Union leaders meet in Washington as coal miners press for terms. Government officials in Seattle warn about closed shops while other plants face pending walkouts.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Dodge
Chrysler Corporation
C.I.C. United Automobile
Mack Avenue
Briggs Body Company
Chrysler
Plymouth
Briggs
Frame
Door Assembly Department
Pittsburgh
Washington
D. C
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
C.I.O. United Mine Workers
Seattle
A. F. of L. Metal Trades Department
American Federation of Labors
Daniel W. Tracy
A. F. of L. Metal Workers
Ralph Bard
the Navy
Hitler
Irving Air Chute Company
Buffalo
Ci.o
George Hill
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers
Mussolini reviews new Fascist Blackshirt units near Rome
Premier Mussolini and Gen Enno von Rintelen reviewed four newly formed Fascist Blackshirt battalions on Rome outskirts. The elite units bearing M insignia march past as veterans of Ethiopia, Spain, and Greece campaigns receive further training to boost deployment prospects.
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Il Duce
von Rintelen
Rome
Musgolini
Enno von Rintelen
Italy
Greece
Missing Girl Search Turns To Suspect
A large search for five year old Pamela Hollingworth shifted focus to a 33 year old North Conway man with prior sex offenses. An eight state alert described a brown 1929 sedan and urged New Hampshire New England New Jersey officials to locate the kidnapping suspect. Police questioned the man in Lowell and on Mt Washington related crimes. a vast force of 400 posse members plus 150 soldiers sought the child in White Ledge National Forest as rain drenched the area.
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New Hampshire
Carroll County
Burnham Davis
Lowell
Mass
Davis
Picnic
Hunt
Mt. Washington
Joseph E. Hollingworth
Pratt & Forrest Lumber Co
Fort Devens
Forts
Preble
Williams
Maine
Herbert Taylor
Rattlers Shared Tree Haven With Flood Survivor
In Silver City New Mexico on October 1 Mrs Chase McReynolds marooned by the Gila River shared a tree shelter for 12 hours with three rattlesnakes. She knocked two from the branch into the river and was later rescued by her husband. Federal agents in St Paul on October 1 uncovered a bootlegging racket arresting two men and seizing 13 gallons of whisky.
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Silver City
N. M
Chase McReynolds
Nooding
Gila River
St. Paul
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Hoaigalion
Salt Lake City
Nelda Ann Holmes
P. W. Johnson
Nelda Ann
Policeman
Wives and daughter vanish during car ride home
Springfield reporter recalls H. Clay Gatt driving from St Louis with his wife and daughter in the car. He stops at a filling station and leaves the vehicle, later realizing his wife and daughter are missing from the back seat.
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Springfield
H. Clay Gatt
St. Louis
Gott
Penn Co-eds Protest Ticket Policy at University Game
Philadelphia reports co-eds protest football ticket rules, objecting to early cut rate sales for male students while the Daily Pennsylvanian quips that women will struggle to persuade skeptical male supporters that a game is run by men for men.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Pennsylvanian
Mmost
Books Passed Hand to Hand for Library Move
In Davidson North Carolina on Oct 16 the 700 students at a college formed a line like an old fire brigade to move about 60 000 books from the old library to the new one creating a holiday for students and a coordinated effort.
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Davidson
N. C
Pee College
Famed Aquarium Closes Its Doors in New York
The 133 year old Battery Park aquarium, a landmark with 84 million visitors since 188? to 39 years, closes to make way for a Manhattan-Brooklyn automobile tunnel. Thousands of fish go to Boston Philadelphia Washington zoos and the Bronx Zoo. remaining stock dumped into the Atlantic.
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Famed Aquarium
New York
lAquarium
Mecca
Battery Park
Manhattan-Brooklyn
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Bronx Zoological Park
Atlantic Ocean
Derailment at Maskinonge Kills One and Wounds Forty-One
A Montreal-Quebec Express Viger derailment near Maskinonge left one railroad brakeman dead and 41 injured, including Maurice Dupré, Justice A R Hall, Judge Gregor Barclay, and Judge Garon Pratte. The eight-car train reportedly hit a split rail at about 75 mph, with half the cars leaving the tracks and the diner tipping into the Maskinonge River bed.
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Maskinonge
Que
Viger
Canada
J. A. Couture
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Royal
Quebec
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Three Rivers
Maurice Du‘pre
A. R. ‘Hall
Gregor Barclay
Court of King's Bench
Garon Pratte
Quebec Superior Court
Dupre
Herbert Holt
Governor James Weds Mrs. Emily Radcliffe Case in Quiet Ceremony
Doylestown saw 50 state troopers guard Gov. Arthur H. James during his noon wedding to 48 year old widow Mrs. Emily Radcliffe Case. About 150 guests were admitted by cards. 1200 public school children enjoyed a half hour recess to glimpse the wedding at the Presbyterian Church. Officiant Dr. William E. Steckel, a family friend, had married her before to Dr. Claude Case who died in 1935 from X-ray burns.
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Pennsylvania
Doylestown
Arthur H. James
Emily Radcliffe Case
Doylestown Presbyterian Church
William E. Steckel
New Ipswich
N. H
Claude Case
Clifton Springs
N. Y
James
Buckingham Palace Fences To Be Melted For War Scrap
Buckingham Palace fences and gates totaling about 20 tons will be removed Friday and melted into scrap for tank and weapon production. King George approved the plan as part of a national war effort, per the Ministry of Works and Buildings.
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Buckingham
London
Buckingham Palace
Ministry of Works and Buildings
George
Britain Votes War Credit as Daily Expenditure Climbs
London reports the House of Commons approved a new war credit of 1 billion pounds to meet rising war costs. Chancellor Kingsley Wood said daily British war spending now nears 11 million pounds, about 44 million dollars, with inflation risks acknowledged and revenue measures continuing. Expenditures over two years total about 7.018 billion pounds, 28.072 billion dollars, and current revenue covers 40 percent of the war spend. Wood warned against inflation and high interest, stressing restraint on future spending.
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London
House of Commons
Kingsley Wood
Kingsley
Britain
Siv
Steuben County Offered 700000 Loan for Rural Power
Steuben Electric Association will seek a federal loan of 700000 to build 717 miles of power lines serving about 1850 rural subscribers across Steuben County. A certificate of necessity from the New York Public Service Commission is required before work starts.
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Steuben County
Bath
Steuben Electric Association, Inc
New York Public Service Commission
Rural Electrification Authority
Speed Mark Set in Soviet Arms Parley
Moscow reports a three power conference moving into its final phase with six committees finishing work in two days. Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook meet Stalin three times as Anglo American Soviet ties deepen and more missiles and materials are pledged for long term war needs.
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A. T. Steele
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Moscow
Army
Navy
Aviation
Ransport
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Beaverbrook
Russia
Harriman
Kremlin
Josef V. Stalin
Roosevelt-Churchill
Stalin
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Maxim MM. Litvinov
Hitler
America
England
Britain
Leningrad
Ukraine
Prudential Policyholders Meet For Board Elections
Notice to policyholders of The Prudential addresses a meeting at its home office in New York on January 9 at twelve noon. Eligible members age 21 plus with in force policies for at least one year may vote in person or by proxy for directors at the annual election. Franklin D Olier, President.
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FS Pole Vnolder
Entia Insurance Company OF America
Peeeh G Iven
Prudential Insurance Company OF America
Newar
Franklin D'Olier
Japs Admit Withdrawal From Changsha Campaign
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese military HQ in Hunan announces withdrawal from Changsha after claiming campaign success. Chinese reports note reinforcements and paratroops at Chuchow and Changsha, with Japan returning northward toward Yochow. Changsha remains a key rice hub and strategic rail link to Kankow Canton.
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Shanghai
Hunan
Changsha
Chuchow
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yochow
Tungting ‘Lake
China
Shangshai
Kankow- Canton
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Conway
N. IL
Pamela
New Rockefeller
David Rockefeller
Regional Defense Office
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
F. H
Carstairs
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co., Inc
Baltimore
Yee
Amy Aoe
Blonde Trouble
Syracuse Coal Merchants
Commons
Parliey
Lowville
Oct
St. Peter’s Church
Francis J. Monaghan
Ogdensburg
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Syracuse
Christian Science
Thomas E. Hurley, C
Louieville, Kentucky
Record of the Mother Church
The
First Church of
Chilat, Scientist
Lincoln Auditorium
of Central High School
Stroock
Freemoor
Shetland
Freeman
Buelo Trater
Frutre Unt
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