Bombs Sink Italian First Line Ships at Taranto
British air attacks at Taranto crippled six to seven Italian battleships and possibly more, marking a dramatic naval air victory. Federal authorities broaden sabotage probes into defense plants, with Rep Dies seeking 5 million dollars for continued investigations as multiple explosions and accidents disrupt war industries nationwide.
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United Press
Soviet Russia
South Pacific
Taranto
Admiralty
London
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Defense
Cairo
Tobruk
Libya
Brindisi
Bari
Rome High Command
Suez
Aboukir
Malta
Virginio Gayda
Gayda
Britain
Gelsenkirchen
Cologne
Ruhr
Royal Air Force
European
Flushing
Dunkirk
Britain and Axis clash widens naval scope in Med
British claims of sinking and damaging Italian and German ships spread across the Mediterranean as RAF raids hit Taranto Durazzo and Tobruk. Mussolini’s paper accuses U S envoy Steinhardt of trying to aid Britain, while Berlin and Moscow discuss military questions as Turkey faces pressure.
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Britain
Russia
UT Inc
Mediterranean
Royal Air Force
England
Greece
North Africa
L’orient
London
Winston Churchill
Taranto
British Isles
Pacific
South American
Syria
West Africa
Liberia
Madagascar
Rome
Mussolini
Il Popolo d'Italia
Laurence A. Steinhardt
United States
Moscow
Great Britain
Mario Appellius
Janina
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Viacheslav Molotov
Wilhelm Keitel
Keitel
Hitler
Turkey
Britain Warns Spain Tangier Unfortified in Neutral Zone
The British government told Spain that Tangier in the Straits of Gibraltar will remain unfortified to preserve the neutrality of the former international zone. Richard A. Butler said Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare conveyed this to Madrid and stressed the issue in the House of Commons.
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London
Tangier
Straits of Gibraltar
House of Commons
Richard A. Butler
House
Madrid
Samuel Hoare
Thanksgiving Day Proclaimed for Nov 21 in Texas
Governor W Lee O'Daniel designates Thursday Nov 21 as Thanksgiving Day aligning with Roosevelt's plan. Austin to observe both dates with parades and Texas Aggie game activities marked by a morning Cadet parade and a National Guard farewell march. UT will suspend classes Thursday through Saturday, with eight hour holiday observed.
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Austin
U.P
W Lee O'Daniel
Roosevelt
O’daniel
Texas- Aggie
Aggie
111Th Quartermaster Regiment
National Guard
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
University of Texas
Texas
United States
College Players Offer Comedy Again Tonight
The Amarillo College Players repeat Mary Coyle Chase's Sorority House in the college auditorium at 8 o clock tonight after a near capacity turnout in cold weather. Donald Clark heads the speech department and directs the production.
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Amarillo College Players
Mary Coyle Chase
Sorority House
Donald Clark
Great Lakes Storm Claims Dozens of Lives at Sea
Diminishing winds reveal a mounting toll from one of the Great Lakes fiercest storms. Eighteen dead, 51 missing and believed dead, with several ships and crews still unreported as rescuers press on.
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Great Lakes
Detrofp
U.P
FDR Expected to Urge Labor Peace Message
President Roosevelt to address the AFL convention in New Orleans urging renewed efforts for labor peace after a conference with AFL President William Green in Washington.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
AFL
New Orleans
Amarillo Missionary Released by Japanese
Rex Ray 55 of the American Southern Baptist Mission arrived in Canton after six days detained by Japanese gendarmes at Kongmoon while en route from Wuchow. He reported officials apologized and described rooming in a hotel at Japanese expense and prohibition on speaking with foreigners. Ray plans transport for his wife and four children in Hongkong.
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Hongkong
Navy
Rex Ray
American Southern Baptist Mission
U. S
Mindanao
Kongmoon
Wuchow
Ray
Amarillo
Texas
Canton
Kingmoon
United States
Rayburn Says Congress May Adjourn Next Tuesday
Speaker Rayburn announced that leaders from both houses plan to adjourn Congress next Tuesday November 19. He said House Democrats were urged to attend for an important vote on adjournment, telegraphed to all Democratic representatives just before a White House conference with President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Sam Rayburn
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Rayburn
House
McMasters Bus Line Extended to Forest Street
City commissioners ordered an extension of the McMasters bus line to Forest Street two blocks farther west. The route will run west on Third Avenue to Forest, south on Fourth, east to Prospect, and then to Sixth Avenue, altering service for downtown access.
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McMasters
Forest Street
H. R. Smith
M. S. Roop
Amarillo Traction Company
Third Avenue
Prospect
Fourth
Record Cold Persists Across Panhandle With Dips
The Panhandle remains in a deep cold spell with lows around 6 degrees at English Field and 11 in town. Forecaster Mr. Collman expects a high near 35 today before easing to 8 to 14 tonight and a gradual rise tomorrow. Williston North Dakota reported 17 below zero, Pueblo 11 below, Guymon near zero, and Dalhart similarly frigid.
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National and
Texas Weather
Collman
Panhandle
English Field
Williston
N. D
Pueblo
Col
Guymon
Dalhart
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The forecast calls for fair and continued cold weather tonight with Thursday fair and warmer. In West Texas, expect fair conditions tonight and Thursday with colder southern areas and a slowly rising temperature Thursday. New Mexico likewise sees fair skies tonight and Thursday with a gradual temperature increase. The 24 hour extremes were a maximum of 34 and a minimum of 5, with noon temperature at 29.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Steel Workers Walk Out On Defense Contracts
In Midland Pennsylvania nearly all 4500 workers at Crucible Steel local mills halted production as a strike for higher wages spreads. Workers had been kept on continuous armament orders for the U S and Great Britain, with walkouts starting Sunday night and a demanded increase of 1 24 cents per hour announced by the workers organizing committee.
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Midland
Crucible Steel Company
United States
Great Britain
A. L. Sonnhalter
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Late Judge A. B. Martin Honored by Supreme Court
Amarillo judge A. B. Martin is memorialized by resolutions spread on the minutes of the Texas Supreme Court. The measures were presented by the Amarillo Bar Association in Austin.
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Martin of
Amarillo
Austin
A. B. Martin
Supreme Court
Abandon Rescue Plan In Romanian City
Engineers who arrived with 100 coal miners to bore tunnels under the Carlton Apartment building decided the rescue attempt would be futile as only 80 bodies of 225 to 250 tenants were recovered. Five members of the building firms were under arrest as Bucharest counted over 300 dead and the nation neared 1,000.
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Bucharest
Petrosiani
Carlton
Russians Drive Germans Back From Dvina Front
Russians push German forces back from the Dvina line as French efforts silence batteries in Artois. References to Sheaffer Parker Eversharp pens and Russell Stationery Co appear in the description.
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Dvina
Artois
Sheaffer, Parker, Eversharp Pens
Russell Stationery Company
Bombsight Released to Britain for Experimental Use
The United States has handed Britain an outmoded but effective airplane bombsight for experimental testing by the Royal Air Force. If satisfactory, Britain may seek production approval. Officials stressed it is not the secret device now used by U S Army and Navy planes, though it incorporates features of the regular sight.
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Washington
Bremen is Sunk by British Torpedo in Kattegat
San Francisco reports the German liner Bremen is at the bottom of the Kattegat four miles off the Danish coast after a supposed British torpedo attack. Danish Norwegian press cited telegrams and a Danish letter noted excursions to the wreck and many bodies floating in the sound.
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San Francisco
Bremen
The
New York
Kattegat
Denmark
Bien
Oresund
Sweden
Japan Plans New South Asia Push From Indo China
Reports from Shanghai and Batavia say large Japanese troop concentrations near Hainan Haiphong and Kwangchowan await transports for Saigon with possible aim at the Dutch East Indies. Russian-Japanese rapprochement and Molotov Hitler talks are noted as context. Bangkok advices claim Thai forces on the Indo China frontier may cross by December 1 in concert with Saigon incursions. An oil import treaty raises Japan's yearly intake from the Netherlands East Indies to 1.8 million tons with Mitsui and other Japanese firms as importers.
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U.P
Hainan
Haiphong
Kwangchowan
Saigon
China
South Asia
Dutch East Indies
Wal Suuil
Berlin
Singapore
V. M. Molotov
Adolf Hitler
Japan
Bangkok
Thailand
Siam
Indo- China
East Indies
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
United States
Tadaharu Mukai
Mitsui
Standard Vacuum Oil Company
Rising Sun Petroleum Company
British Shell
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Seattle
Western Pipe and Steel Company
United States Maritime Commission
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Santa Quaranta
Steinhardt
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Bafia
Hungary
Germany
Stephen Csaky
Spain
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
FDR
Rex Rays
Prospect Street
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Sam Houston
Margaret Wills
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Ross Rogers
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