Rail Strike Fight Deepens as Recommendations Fall Short
Chicago report says leaders of five operating and 14 non operating railroad brotherhoods with 1 250 000 members plan a conference to map next moves after a federal board urged wage increases far below demands. The panel recommended 7 1 2 percent for 350 000 operating workers and 13 1 2 percent for 900 000 non operating workers. One week paid vacations were proposed for non operating workers.
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Chicago
Washington
Roosevelt
Railway Express Company
Liner Sails Homeward With Japanese Aboard
The Taiyo Maru sailed for Japan last night carrying 456 Japanese passengers returning home. The liner arrived in Honolulu from Japan on November 1 with 340 passengers returning to the United States, most of them second generation Japanese Americans.
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Honolulu
Japan
United States
Injured Boy Insists On Delivering Goods
Cleveland seven year old Dennis Ruby was struck by a car while hurrying home with groceries. He clung to the package and refused hospital first saying his mother needed the items for supper, then allowed transport after police. At Mt Sinai Hospital doctors found a fractured hip and possible internal injuries.
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Cleveland
Dennis Ruby
Paul Ruby
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Ohio Seeks 35000 Defense Workers by March First 1942
Ohio state employment officials urge all qualified workers to register for jobs in defense industries. By March 1 1942 about 35000 more workers are needed, with 12731 registered Oct 18 versus a projected 23580. Aircraft parts makers and metal trades will bear a large share of the demand.
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Columbus
Ohio State Employment Service
Herschel C. Atkinson
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Defense Industries
Ohio
State Employment Service
Democrats see Ohio mayor wins as rebuke of Bricker
In Columbus Democratic leaders call the Cleveland Akron and Steubenville mayoral victories a sign of support for Roosevelt policies and a stern rebuke to Gov. Bricker. Rep Stephen M Young says Ohio voters back domestic and foreign policies. State Chairman J Freer Bittinger echoes the rebuke to the Republican administration.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Akron
Steubenville
Roosevelt
John W. Bricker
Stephen M. Young
House of Representatives
Ohio
J. Freer Bittinger
Lady Halifax Booed By Cleveland Women
British ambassador Lord Halifax and his wife Lady Halifax faced a hostile reception in Cleveland as about twenty four women booed them at a Consumers League of Ohio event near Mrs Samuel Raymonds home. Anti British placards were shown during the visit.
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Cleveland
Lady Halifax
Lord Halifax
United States
Samuel Raymond
Consumers League of Ohio
May Change Russian Ambassador to U.S.
Maxim M Litvinoff, former Soviet foreign minister, was reported to be selected as Russian ambassador to Washington, succeeding Constantine Dumansky. Litvinoff helped secure U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933, restoring diplomatic relations after nearly 20 years.
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Washington
Maxim M Litvinoff
Constantine Dumansky
Litvinoff
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
Reverend Henry Gardner Dies After Ladder Fall
The 69 year old Rev Henry Gardner fell from a ladder while painting the interior of the Apostolic Gospel Church in Akron and sustained fatal injuries.
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Akron
Henry Gardner
New Apostolic Gospel
Kurusu Mission Hopes and War News as Japan Seeks Peace
The column notes Kurusu and family playing cards before the envoy leaves for the United States. It links the mission to peace efforts in the Pacific amid Japan's push for concessions. It mentions a Japanese steamer explosion blamed on a Russian mine and Japan's Siberian ambitions tied to German victories and losses.
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Saburo Kurusu
America
United States
Tokyo
Pacific
Kurusu
Japan
Siberian
Dutch East Indies
Athens County Tax Claim Highlights In Court
In Columbus the Athens County Prosecutor Harry A. Mettler accuses the county commissioners of failing to collect delinquent taxes to fund his office. County officials counter that the treasury lacks funds and that allocations reveal a $65,000 shortfall against the requested appropriations. The case, argued before the supreme court, is under advisement.
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Columbus
Athens County
Harry A. Mettler
Supreme Court
Atty
John J. Woolley
Woolley
Mettler
Common Pleas Court
Charge Russia With Sinking Kobi Maru
The Foreign Office lodged a protest with Soviet Russia over the sinking of the Japanese steamer Kobi Maru by a mine drifting from Soviet waters. Seventeen dead and ten seriously injured are reported among the 264 rescued from the Sea of Japan off the Korean coast. Domei later cited 342 passengers and most of 65 crew saved.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
Soviet
Russia
Sea of Japan
Domei
Senate votes Friday on neutrality revision
Washington report notes calm proponents of a sharp revision of the Neutrality Act expect to win passage by tomorrow night. Backers say the measure will authorize arming American merchant ships and permit sailing to belligerent ports, even as one anti revisionist concedes approval.
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Washington
van Nuys
D-Ind
Youth snaps 28 year political win streak in McKeesport
In McKeesport Pennsylvania J Frank Buchanan 39 year old school teacher basketball coach defeats 74 year old mayor George H Lysle ending Lysle s 28 year run. Lysle known as Old Man River of Western Pennsylvania politics faced a campaign focused on youth versus age.
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Mckeesport
George H. Lysle
Lysle
Pennsylvania
J. Frank Buchanan
Fire at massive Charleston carbide plant reported
A heavy explosion shook homes up to half a mile away and started a large fire at the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation plant in South Charleston, Charleston, West Virginia. Fire crews fought the blaze as conditions remained undetermined.
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Charleston
W. Va
Big Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Roosevelt vows unlimited commitment for a free world
President Franklin D Roosevelt declares the American people have made an unlimited commitment to a free world and calls on free nations to plan a postwar social and economic order. He criticizes industrial and labor leaders delaying defense output and urges use of mediation machinery. He speaks to 250 delegates from 33 nations at the International Labour Office Conference in the White House. He warns that Nazi slave labor and a Berlin plan threaten the Western Hemisphere and urges arming Britain Russia and China now. Soviet reports claim Hitler cannot capture Moscow or Leningrad this winter as Russian forces counterattack and German siege lines falter. Stalin says blitzkrieg is doomed and calls for a second front in Europe while Britain eyes invasion or Middle East routes to force a front. Japanese envoy Kurusu travels to Washington to seek peaceful settlement amid shifting Pacific relations.
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Roosevelt
United States
International Labor Office
White House
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Russia
China
Western Hemisphere
America
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Adolf Hitler
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Tne
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Ussr
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Moascow
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Stalin
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Germany
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Black Sea
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Pacific
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Saburo Kurusu
Tokyo
Japan Times
Robbery at Logan Grocery on W Hunter St
Two armed masked men robbed Fox grocery near nine pm Wednesday securing about 150 dollars from the cash register. Proprietor Leo Fox and three customers hid as the bandits forced Fox to operate the machine and fled through the rear door. Police canvassed the area soon after.
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Fox
Logan
Clown and Three Elephants Die, End Circus Run
ATLANTA reports Milt Taylor the clown aged 47 and three elephants died within hours of each other after a long running act. Taylor greeted children at the Barnum and Bailey Circus entrance before dying of heart disease in a hospital. Lizzie 35 Alice 25 and Puqua an elephant in the menagerie were also reported to have died with attendants noting possible poisoning.
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Atlanta
Milt Taylor
Taylor
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Lizzie
Alice
Puqua
Fatal electrocution fines highlight licensing lapse
Cleveland report notes a fatal electrocution near an electric conduit at a coal facility. G. J. Prymer was fined $25 for operating without a city electrician license, as Municipal Judge Joseph A. Artl ruled. Charles Sarantini, 23, died last month in the incident.
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Cleveland
G. J. Prymer
Charles Sarantini
Joseph A. Artl
Prymer
Turk Cargo Ship Sunk By Russian Submarine
ISTANBUL sources report a 125 ton Turkish cargo ship sailing to Burgas Bulgaria was sunk Monday by a Russian submarine in the Black Sea. The crew escaped in a lifeboat after a warning and the vessel was sunk by gunfire.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Burgas
Bulgaria
Germany
Black Sea
Harlan County Ballot Guard Murdered at Courthouse
Bill Lewis a 60 year old Verda resident and one of 15 ballot guards was shot five times in the abdomen and chest in the Harlan County Courthouse corridor. Deputy coroner John McKinney said Lewis died after the early morning ambush as he returned from a restaurant across the street around 1 40 am. The incident marks the first violence linked to Tuesdays general election in Kentucky.
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Harlan
Bill Lewis
Verda
Harlan County
John McKinney
Lewis
Issue Is U S Entry Into War Taft Says
Senator Robert A Taft argues the neutrality debate centers on whether the United States will go to war He warns that Senate action would grant Congress authority for undeclared war against Germany Italy and Japan across oceans and ports to which ships sail in broadfall speech prepared for broadcast
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Washington
United States
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Congress
Germany
Italy
Japan
Taft
Attendant at Lima State Hospital Slain
A 45 year old woman attendant at the Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane was found murdered on the grounds. The victim Mrs. Goldie Siler was last seen at midnight in a liquor tavern with her husband Ray, also a hospital attendant.
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Lima
Lima State Hospital
William V. Daley
Goldie Siler
Ray
Reclassifying Strikers Not Permitted by Draft Officials
PHILADELPHIA Brig Gen Lewis B Hershey national director of selective service says local draft boards cannot blanket reclassify strikers in defense industries. Each case must be dealt with separately. He notes only after National Defense Mediation Board ruling and threat to defense may the draft begin classification.
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Phuladelphia ‘Am
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Philadelphia
Navy West
National Defense Mediation Board
Gas fumes kill Cincinnati woman. fiancé mourns
Evelyn Cason, 24, was found dead in her apartment by fiancé Thomas Puckett, 29, after neighbors reported gas fumes. Police said an accidental death linked to a gas heater prompted officials to shut off the basement valve. investigators continue to probe.
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Cincinnati
Thomas Puckett
Evelyn Cason
Cason
Four Die in Monticello Hotel Fire in Alexandria
Fire swept the four story Monticello Hotel on King Street killing four men and trapping others. Firemen rescued twelve people from the flames as ten more fled into the night air.
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Alexandria
Virginia
Monticello
King Street
Red Cross Supplies Reach England Safely
Twenty nine ships brought American Red Cross relief supplies to Great Britain in October with no loss of a shipment, the American Red Cross committee reported today.
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London
Red Cross
Great Britain
American Red Cross Committee
Wallace Presses 100 Percent Parity Ceiling for Farm Commodities
Vice President Wallace advocates 100 percent parity as the ceiling for agricultural commodities in price control legislation. He seeks support from conservative farm state lawmakers to peg prices at the 1909 to 1914 parity level. The House bill would freeze farm prices at the higher of October 1 values or 1919–29 averages, while wage controls remain debated. Senate action likely after January 1.
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Wallace
House Banking Committee
Taft
Ohio
Gore
D., Tenn
House
Senate
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