Armistice signs shift Italian Austrian front terms
Paris reports Austria capitulates with an armistice signed, to take effect at 3 p.m. Monday. Italian forces push toward Trent from the north as Vienna warns of German fears of new fronts. Rome notes land and sea landings at Triest. Bavarian frontier fortifications rise as Austro-Hungarian troops retreat.
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Paris
Associated’ Press
Austria
Associated Press
Rome
Triest
Austria-Hungary
Adriatic
Talian War Office
Copenhagen
Vienna
The
Politiken
Losing Poker Player Uses Gun to Crush Rivals in Sucre
A poker game in Sucre ends in chaos when George Calling, angered at losing, uses a revolver and ammunition to terrorize players. Police arrest Calling and four others. gun and cartridges seized as evidence. Earlier war news from Europe reports Italian cavalry at Spilimbergo and French progress on the Aisne front.
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Gun
Sucre
London
Valenciennes
George Ing
K. Calling
St. Laulve
War Office
Haig
Eda
iHe
Bates
Wei
Paris
Aisne
Givry
la Croix
Bond
Rsecovar
Cedar Street
Jared
Charles Werlaufer
Beckwith
No Afternoon Tea In St. Louis
St. Louis on November 3 reports that afternoon teas at city hotels and restaurants are banned by the food administrator who deems lunches and teas a fourth meal unnecessary and unpatriotic.
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St. Louis
Rule Food Head
Food Administration
Brave call from night operator saves farmer in Delaware fire
In Seaford Delaware on November 3 Ava Fleetwood a telephone exchange operator spotted flames at George White’s Reliance farm. She rang the line repeatedly waking White and prompting neighbors to pull him from bed. The roof soon collapsed and most of the home and contents valued at about $2,000 were lost though some insurance covered part. Fire traced to a defective flue.
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Seaford
Del
George White
Reliance
Ava Fleetwood
Flue
Hawaiian Volcano Renews Flow Buries Rest House
Honolulu reports Kilauea erupted with earthquakes on Friday night. New lava fissures spouted geysers up to a hundred feet and completely buried the old rest house as lava flows continued in multiple directions near the crater.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Kilauea
Island of Hawaii
Hohenzollern Baggage Heads to Swiss Town
Dozens of trunks bearing the Hohenzollern monograms arrive at the chateau Bueneas on Lake Geneva flying the German flag. Baron von Kleist owns the property. In Verdun area, Pershing reports progress with German retreat slowing and American forces advancing with prisoners and matériel increasing.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Verdun
Pershing
Anniversary of first Towan war deaths in France
A year after the first American deaths in France, Corporal J B Gresham of Evansville Indiana and Privates Thomas B Enright of Pittsburgh and Arlie Hay of Glidden Virginia are honored. A monument is planned in Bethemont France with a replica in Nancy. Postwar memorials await victory. Iowa may place memoriam in the statehouse and Hay’s name tablet may be set in the state historical building.
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France
Gresham
Enright
Hays
Creation Army
Corp
J. B. Gresham
Evansville
Ind
Pris
Thomas B. Enright
Pittsburgh
Aferle| Hay
Glidden
Bethemont
Associated Press
Paris
Nancy
War Industries Board
Towa
Hay
Harvester Company Ordered to Sell Its Lines to Maker
In St Paul Minnesota on November 2 the district court finalized a decree to break up the International Harvester monopoly. It requires the company to dispose of three harvesting machine lines to three different manufacturers by December 31, 1939 and prohibits maintaining more than one agent per ality in the United States. The aim is to restore competitive conditions and end the monopoly in agricultural implements.
Miller Lands In Waterloo From Omaha In 3 Hours 45 Minutes
Lieut. Miller, aviation instructor at Kelly Field Texas, landed at Byrnes park Waterloo at 2 45 p m today in a Curtis army plane after a 1350 mile flight from Omaha. The trip, made against headwinds, covered about 15 hours with fuel stops at Fort Worth Oklahoma City Abilene and Omaha. Miller’s father welcomed him and the family hosted his brief home visit, marking the second Waterloo air furlough in recent years.
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Mila. Miller
Army Training Grounds
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Byrnes Park
Curtis Army
Hermann Miller
Washington Street
Third Avenue
Fort. Worth
Oklahoma ‘City
Okla
Abi
Jene
Kan
Omaha
Miller
Associated Press
Brynes Park
Okishawa City
Fort Worth
Abilene
State House
Oklahoma City
Max Miller
Waterloo
Tieut. Miller
Farl Blair
Rantoul le
Res
Italians claim 100000 Austro-Hungarians captured
Italian and Allied forces in Northern Italy have captured about 100,000 Austro-Hungarians, according to an official Italian war office announcement. More than 2,200 guns were seized as the drive continued.
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Italy
Austria
Associated Press
Rome
War Office
135 Men Nabbed In Slacker Raids Under New Draft
Waterloo police chief F. A. Sporle and Sheriff D. B. Henderson led a state agent raid arresting 125 men aged 18 to 45 who could not show registration cards. Stores and public places were searched for emblems of compliance. Some detainees face vagrancy or bootlegging charges. Those with blue cards or 1A classifications were designated for immediate essential work and some will depart for the Nitro ammunition plant in West Virginia.
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War Department
Waterloo
F. A. Sporle
D. B. Henderson
Nitro
W. Va
Aviator Lieut Miller’s 800 Mile Air Route Flight
Lieut Milo H Miller aviation instructor at Kelly Field San Antonio completed an 800 mile flight from San Antonio to Waterloo stopping at Caruther Field Fort Worth Oklahoma City and Abilene Kan to refuel He landed near the baseball diamond at Byrnes park in Waterloo after a 10 hour flight and plans to return Tuesday along the same route visiting his parents in Waterloo en route.
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Miller
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Byrnes Park
Omaha
Neb
San Antonio
Tex
Milo H. Miller
Kelly Field
Fort Crook
War Department
Caruther Field
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Abilene
Kan
George T. Wright
Paxton-Gallghker Company
Pro-German Gets Ten Years In Federal Prison
Chicago judge Landis sentenced Aug ust Weissensal an American with a German heart to ten years in Leavenworth for sedition under the espionage act after a raid on a South Morfan street barber shop used as a Polish recruiting station. The court cited his disloyalty and threats, while commenting on a safeblower in France.
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Chicago
August Weissensal
Landis
Leavenworth
Kaw
Tittle
Edward Balsewicz
South Mor Fan Street
Julia Bapr
France
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Bage Door
Col. House
Wilson
Rorreto
Trent
Tagliamento
Spilimbergo
Nenison
Union Depot
Culling
Supreme Command
Hohenzollern
Towan
Lieut
Milo Miller
Soldier
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