Coal Miners Back on Job End to Week-Long Strike
Pittsburgh reports coal miners returned to work ending a strike that halted steel production. 53,000 captive miners and 150,000 in commercial mines joined the action, delaying 11 Carnegie-Illinois blast furnaces and risking vast steel losses while unions submitted the shop demand to arbitration.
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United Mine Workers (Cio
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Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Carnegie-Illinois
Seven Nations to Join Anti Comintern Pact Signers
Berlin announced that Finland Denmark Bulgaria Croatia Romania Slovakia and Nanking government will join the anti Comintern pact tomorrow. The ceremony marks the pact’s fifth anniversary with Italy and Germany to renew their signatures and France Turkey remain undecided.
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Denmark
Bulgaria
Croatia
Rumania
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Italy
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Manchukuo
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Mihail Antonescu
Joseph Tiso
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Joachim Ribbentrop
Walter Funk
Dino Alfieri
Ciane
Bellevue Palace
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
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Belgium
Netherlands
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Lazlo de Bardossy
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Fire damages Seward business district
Seward Alaska reports a major blaze destroyed half the city’s business section causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Soldiers from Fort Raymond assisted the fire department in fighting the flames.
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Alaska
U.P
Fort Raymond
Canadians land largest convoy to Britain in WWII
The 5th Canadian armored division has landed safely in Britain in the largest troop convoy to reach the country. Thousands of Canadians in battle dress disembarked and boarded trains to training camps in southern England. In Panama, eleven people linked to Vice President Anibal Rios were arrested as he prepared to return from Peru.
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Navy
Britain
England
Panama
Anibal Rios
Peru
U S Troops Sent To Dutch Guiana
The White House announced that a contingent of the U S army has been sent to Dutch Guiana on the northeast coast of South America to cooperate with Netherlands forces in protecting the bauxite mines in that territory.
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Washington
White House
U. S. Army
Dutch Guiana
South America
U S Navy Withdraws Yangtze Gunboats
The U S Navy announced it is withdrawing a number of gunboats from the Yangtze River patrol in China, reported from Washington on November 24.
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Washington
Navy
U. S
Yangtze River
China
Alaskan Movies Shown in Texas Town Amid Free Screenings
In Amarillo a crowd of more than 1,500 attended the first color film from Alaska by Jack Lamb presented with Gulf Oil support. The travelogue covered hunting fishing scenes from Old Tack’s Northland trip with no admission charged and multiple showings scheduled today and tomorrow.
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Gulf Oil Corporation
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Amarillo
Amarillo Weather Outlook Warns Of Freezing Tonight
The forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for clear and warm conditions today tonight and Tuesday with continued freezing temperatures overnight. Highs around 52 and a low near 26. West Texas areas stay fair with increasing clouds and persistent freezing temps except Del Rio and Eagle Pass. New Mexico remains fair then clouding along the southern border with warmer readings east of the central mountains.
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Pecos River
del Rio
Eagle Pass
New Mexico
Central Mountains
John Maynard Lbr, Co
Moscow in Dire Peril African Struggle Rages
Reported British and Axis actions in North Africa describe Gambut’s capture and heavy fighting in the Sidi Rezegh sector as New Zealanders, South Africans, and Polish units join Tobruk forces. Concurrent Russian front updates detail a German push toward Moscow, with multiple sectors falling back and a Donets counteroffensive killing thousands of Germans. Military officials warn the capital’s defense remains perilous amid shifting front lines.
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Semyon Timoshen
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A. Yermakov
America
U. S
Okies Upheld Okies Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled California's anti migrant law unconstitutional affecting similar statutes in 27 states. The law targeted bringing indigent nonresidents into the state. The case centered on Fred F Edwards of Marysville who drove his jobless brother in law from Spur Texas to Marysville in December 1939.
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Washington
Supreme Court
California
Central Plains
Fred F. Edwards
Marysville
Calif
Police Nab Man Behind Series of False Alarms in Weymouth
Police traced a string of alarms to a single culprit in Weymouth Massachusetts. After locating the suspect at an alarm box they arrested him and he confessed to three fires and thirty five prior false alarms over two years. Two more false alarms followed during the arrest.
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Weymouth
Mass
Bomb hits U S consulate in Saigon no staff harmed
The state department reported the United States consulate at Saigon was wrecked by a bomb last night with no injuries among staff. Named were Sidney H. Browne consul Kingsley W. Hamilton vice consul and clerk Miss Carolyn C Jacobs.
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U.P
State Department
United States
Saigon
Department
Sidney H. Browne
Kingsley W. Hamilton
Carolyn C. Jacobs
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