U S Worried Over Amazon Air Service
Washington officials planned steps to bolster US air lines in Latin America to counter German competition amid the Condor and Snapp merger creating a Brazil to Colombia and Venezuela route via the Amazon. German pilots and AVIANCA links loom in the dispute, with jobs displaced and pressure rising on Brazilian authorities.
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Snapp Line
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Sedta
Ecuador
New Zealand
Scadia
Avianca Lines
Pan-American Airways
Amazon
Herd Rustlers Reported Busy Over Manitoba
Manitoba rustlers drive stolen cattle by truck at night striking at isolated farms. Provincial authorities may launch a law enforcement campaign and require branding of all cattle with a brand inspector appointed. In two years one district reports 200 cattle lost.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Bull Don Quixote windmill smash fascinates crowd
Figin, WL, Oct. 17 reports bull Ramims or Kramims drives into a windmill tilting structure. The 50-foot mill collapses in twisted metal as bull and hired man escape unharmed. City brief ends with note of investigation and local origin.
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Rupert Kramims
Don Quixote
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Krumme
State workers ordered to pledge allegiance in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg issued an order demanding about 20,000 state employees pledge allegiance to the state and nation and shun groups seeking to undermine government. Gov Arthur H. James said Attorney General Claude Reno advised he was within his rights. The rule does not apply to the Treasury, auditor general, or unemployment division employees.
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Arthur H. James
James
Claude T. Reno
State Treasury
Auditor General’s Department
Draft Enrollment Means 10 to 15 Years Obligation
Washington details the new draft registration system for up to 5 million men. After registering, individuals must carry proof, monitor serial and order numbers, return questionnaires within five days, stay in contact with local boards, report address changes, and may be called for service through 1945 with a long term reserve obligation lasting up to ten more years, totaling 15 years for some.
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Army
Burned Poll Books Stir Jersey City Probe in 1930s
Jersey City officials Bernard J. Rosengard and Joseph Fordford faced a U S Senate sub committee examining the destruction of 1936 and 1937 poll books. Republican William E Sewell said efforts to purge election lists were hindered by the loss, as the panel considered fraudulent signatures and voting irregularities amid Hague era politics. The hearing featured officials and citizens, with sharp remarks on proxy voting and broader election abuses.
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Frank Hagee
United States Senate
Bernard J. Rosengard
Joseph FE. Colford
William E. Sewell
Hague
Mary Brown
H. Ralph Burton
Adams
Sewell
Tobey
Bandits Hit Fort Wayne Jeweler for $60,000 in Gems
Sol Roseman a New York jewelry representative reports two youths robbed him of a satchel containing cut diamonds and rings valued from sixty thousand to eighty thousand dollars. One bandit beat him with a revolver butt while the other seized the satchel and fled in a waiting car. Roseman, treated for head wounds, said the injuries were not serious.
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Ind
Sol Roseman
New York City
Roseman
New York
Teachers Discuss Schools Role in National Defense
Albany October 27 teachers from eastern New York State held a two day session on the schools part in national defense. President Dr Arvie Eldred urged a united patriotic spirit and said there is no place for subversive activity among teachers. Topics included job placement, cultural relations between North and South America, and education for democracy.
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New York
Arvie Eldred
America
U S to Spend Million for Power Data
The President issued an executive order creating the St Lawrence Advisory Committee to plan and coordinate rapid power development with Canada. Members include Leland Olds, A A Berle, Brig Gen Thomas M Robins, and Gerald V Cruise. Survey results push fast work on the International Rapids section to meet defense power needs in northeastern war material centers.
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National Power Policy Committee
Army Captain Held For Selling Military Data in Manila
An officer of the Philippine Scouts, a United States Army division, was held incommunicado on charges of selling military information. Two accomplices were reportedly detained. The captain, a Fort McKinley Engineering Corps graduate of West Point, had been under surveillance amid heavy gambling. Also noted, the U.S. heavy cruiser Louisville arrived in Rio de Janeiro on an official South American visit.
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U.S
Louisville
United States
South American
Six Protestant Churches in Japan Unite Form New National Church
CP reports Tokyo October 17 delegates from the six largest Protestant churches formalized a plan to form a National Christian Church. The body includes Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Disciples, Baptists, Lutherans and Holiness groups, plus Greek Catholics, but excludes Roman Catholics and Episcopal bishops. The church will be Japanese-led, cease foreign funding, and oversee missions, schools, hospitals, and social work with a Japanese clergy and administration. A preparatory 85-member Japanese committee will elect the head, name, and creed.
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United Church of Canada
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Episcopal Church
Yoshimune Abe
Abe
Executed Catalonia Leader Luis Companys Reported
German wireless dispatch claims Luis Companys former president of Catalonia was executed in Barcelona on a sentence by a Spanish war tribunal. He had led Catalonia to declare independence on Oct 7 1934 before surrendering during the revolt and later served as president again until Franco’s Madrid government fell.
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Luis Companys
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
France and Belgium Face Infant Death Rise This Winter
Washington reports French and Belgian babies likely to die this winter due to a milk shortage. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor of the Red Cross warned the infant mortality rate will surge as undersupply and malnutrition bite, especially in occupied French towns far from supplies. He noted milk reserves near exhaustion, with only 100 tons from Switzerland reaching Paris, insufficient for the season, and described widespread devastation in Beauvais after invasion.
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Chatfield-Taylor
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Paris
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