Roosevelt meets Kurusu in Washington on Pacific talks
President Roosevelt and Japan special envoy Saburo Kurusu held a prolonged White House conference with Ambassador Nomura and Secretary Hull to discuss the far eastern crisis. Both sides avoided specifics while signaling cautious willingness to seek peace, with Tojo and Togo stressing limits to concessions and hope for amicable outcome if both nations seek real peace.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Saburo Kurusu
Pacific
Kurusu
White House
Kichisaburo Nomura
Hull
Nomura
China
U S Diplomats plane lands safely after five day disappearance
The aircraft carrying Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff and U S Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt landed in Teheran at noon after a five day drift from Kuibyshev Russia through a snowstorm. Also aboard were Sir Walter Monckton British information service officer and two American journalists Quentin Reynolds and Alice Moats.
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Teheran
Iran
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
U. S
Laurence Steinhardt
Kuibyshev
Russia
Walter Monckton
Information Service
Quentin Reynolds
Colliers Magazine
Alice Moats
Congress To Stay in Session Over Labor Crisis
Washington administration leaders decide to keep Congress in session due to an acute labor situation. They abandon plans for a three day Thanksgiving recess as officials state they will stay on the job to consider needed legislation.
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Congress
Labor
Washington
Ohio Farmers Receive 11.6 Million in Conservation Payments
The Agriculture Department reported Ohio residents collected 11,571,902 for last year’s conservation program. In Ohio counties payments included Athens 46,708.88 and Hocking 33,434.78. TIFFIN Clinton Township schools closed indefinitely due to scarlet fever outbreak.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Tiffin
Clinton Township
Congress ready to consider legislation against strikes
Speaker Rayburn announced the house will have an opportunity to pass defense strike legislation at the earliest appropriate date. Representative Cox urged swift action to curb defense strikes, criticizing the President’s ongoing talking stage and calling for Congress to proceed regardless of the Roosevelt-Lewis dispute.
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Congress
Washington
Rayburn
House
Roosevelt
Cox
John L. Lewis
Time for Reckoning With Japan at Hand
Chiang Kai-shek declared the vital moment for a reckoning with Japan as Quo Tai-chi signaled a potential ABCD alliance of America Britain China and the Dutch East Indies. He urged Britain and the United States to smash Japan or withdraw. Chinese forces prepared for a possible attack from French Indo-China and reinforced the Burma road defense.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Japan
Quo Tai-Chi
America
Britain
Dutch East Indies
Chiang
People’s Political Council
Far East
United States
Kwangsi
Yunnan
Burma Road
People's Political Council
Hunters Face Mixed Opening Day In Ohio Season
On opening day hunters faced both plentiful game and hazards as wardens warned gun safety. Seven deaths and nine injuries occurred during the half day of pheasant rabbit and partridge hunting with expectations of a record bag this year. State officials predicted about 800000 pheasants to be bagged as reports of heavy hunting continued across regions. A Northwestern Ohio poultry firm dressed 425 cock birds by 11 pm Saturday, signaling strong activity and a pheasant belt expansion from the northwest into other parts of the state. Cooperatives also showed positive pheasant yields in historically lighter counties.
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Ohio
Don Waters
State Conservation Commission
Northwestern Ohio
Prisoner Denies Guilt In Woman's Slaying
James Vernon Maloney 28 pleaded innocent in Municipal Court to first degree murder in the silk stocking death of 46-year-old Mrs Goldie Pearl Siler found at Lima State Hospital grounds after being taken from a night club. Sheriff Daley said Maloney admitted striking her but denied killing, noting she was choked with her own stocking.
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Lima
James Vernon Maloney
Goldie Pearl Siler
Lima State Hospital
W. V. Daley
Maloney
Veteran test pilot killed near Dayton in Air Corps test
Danish born Eiler C. Sandorph age 46 of Cleveland was killed when his P 39 Aircobra crashed just after takeoff from Patterson Field during a test flight for the Army Air Corps. He served in the RAF in World War I and survived a 1937 Bendix Derby mishap.
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Dayton
Eiler C. Sandorph
Cleveland
RAF
Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Sandorph
Patterson Field
Praises Plane Engine Output for National Defense
Brig. Gen. George C. Kenney lauded American aircraft engine makers for expanding facilities and applying new production methods to meet the Air Corps demand. He spoke at a one day conference of engine and propeller manufacturers called by the Office of Production Management and Air Corps production experts.
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Dayton
George C. Kenney
Air Corps
General Kenney
Office of Production Management
Kenney
Portsmouth Gridders Fell by Gas Fumes
The Portsmouth Central Catholic High School football squad of 28 players was ordered to stay in bed for at least two days after inhaling gas fumes in a dressing room. Doctors recommended confinement to prevent pneumonia as 16 players received oxygen on the field after collapsing in the third period against Ironton St. Joseph.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Central Catholic High School
Ironton St. Joseph
Woman Dead After Fall From Car near Barnesville
Mrs. Steve Romyak aged 48 died when she fell from an automobile driven by her husband last night. The crash occurred near Barnesville and authorities investigated the fatal mishap.
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Barnesville
Steve Romyak
War Today: Censorship Reflects German Tension
Dewitt Mackenzie notes Berlin bans three American broadcasters over complaints, signaling nervous tension in Germany. He cautions it may indicate either setbacks or new Allied pressures, with months likely to swing the war pendulum amid no new wire or telephone news limits.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Berlin
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting System
Reich Broadcasting Company
Germany
Herr Hitler
Fuehrer
Aims of CIO Leaders Differ At Convention
In Detroit the CIO convention opened with a split among leaders. Delegates considered a resolution backing John L. Lewis and UMW for a union shop in captive mines, while Philip Murray endorsed aiding foes of Nazi Germany and the union shop as a core bargaining pattern amid defense program criticisms.
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Detroit
CIO
Moose Temple
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Philip Murray
Roosevelt
Nazi Germany
Launch Attack In Army Game in Carolina War Games
At dawn today the army launched its strongest training assault in a two week field exercise. Two armored divisions and an air support command moved to spearhead across the Pee Dee River on the southeast edge of the maneuver area. The first army managed only small forces crossing at two northern points near Charlotte, N C as the drill begins. The exercise runs under army general headquarters and concludes November 30.
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First Army
Pee Dee
Charlotte
N. C
Army General Headquarters
Nazis Hint American Occupation of Ireland
A German spokesman warned that the United States might exploit revisions to neutrality law to allow soldiers and officers dressed as civilians to seize control in Northern Ireland and possibly the west coast of Ireland if Britain weakens. He claimed the US already has bases in Northern Ireland with civilians arriving from the United States in growing numbers.
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Berlin
Germany
U. S
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Britain
America
United States
Vichy Leaders Confer on African Situation
General Maxime Weygand met with Vichy government leaders in conferences on the future of French North Africa. He dined with Chief of State Petain, conferred with him, then visited Admiral Jean Darlan as Otto Abetz arrived in Paris.
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Vichy
France
Maxime Weygand
French North Africa
Otto Abetz
Paris
Weygand
Petain
Jean Darlan
Suspect Foul Play in Death of Ohio Woman
Coroner Joe W. Lowe said authorities investigate a possible murder of Anne M. Darden of Cincinnati. The 43 year old woman's mangled body was found on railroad tracks at Numa near Bowling Green Kentucky.
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Ohio
Bowling Green
Joe W. Lowe
Anne M. Darden
Cincinnati
Numa
Here
Nazis Report Advances in Crimea Area
The Associated Press notes Germany and Romania captured Kerch in the Crimean region, moving toward the Caucasus. Russian forces counterattacked in Kalinin and Tikhvin as harsh winter battles unfold along the Leningrad to Moscow rail corridor.
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Crimea
Germany
Kerch
Caucasus
Alfred Rosenberg
Adolf Hitler
Kalinin
Tikhvin
Kuibyshev
Leningrad
Archangel
Moscow
Order Mass Induction For Ohio's Selectees
State selective service headquarters announces draft calls 32 and 33 for 2 028 whites and 85 Negroes. A total of 50 716 Ohioans had been inducted by Nov 1. Inductions use a streamlined system with whites reporting at Camp Perry Fort Hayes Columbus and Fort Thomas Ky between Nov 27 and Dec 10. Negroes report Dec 8 at Camp Perry Fort Hayes and Fort Thomas.
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Columbus
Washington Man Elected National Grange Master
Albert S. Goss of Washington DC, former federal land bank commissioner and former Washington State Grange master, was elected national master at the Grange convention in Worcester Massachusetts. He succeeds Louis J. Taber of Ohio, who had held the post for 18 years.
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Worcester
Mass
Albert S. Goss
Washington, D. C
Federal Land Bank
Washington State Grange
Grange
Louis J. Taber
Ohio
Gamblers End Prison Terms in Columbus
In Columbus 30 men were released from Franklin County jail after completing 10 day sentences for gambling. Nine others are set for release later in the week. Sentences covered horse race bookmaking slot machine operations and numbers writing.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Suspect Incendiary in Gallipolis Store Fire
Gallipolis police report an attempted incendiarism in an early morning fire that damaged the J. E. Caldwell grocery store. No arrests had been made and the investigation continued.
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Gallipolis
J. E. Caldwell
Hold Motorist in Probe of Bus Crash That Killed Nine
Rushville Ind AP James Cooper Rush County prosecuting attorney prepared evidence today for a special grand jury summoned to investigate a Greyhound bus wreck Saturday night in which nine persons were killed and 10 injured. The prosecutor ordered Paul T Connell 89 year old farmer whose automobile was involved in the accident held in the county jail pending the grand jury's report. Connell was arrested on charges of drunkenness and driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The bus and Connell's car collided four miles east of here. The bus climbed a concrete abutment of a culvert plunged about 25 feet into a shallow stream and burst into flames. Driver Andrew Henson age 26 Cincinnati and 10 other persons climbed or were pulled through windows and gaping holes in the bus but Henson died later in a Greenburg hospital. Police and Rushville firemen pulled seven bodies from the flaming wreckage with hooked poles and a child's body was found after the twisted metal cooled. The charred condition of eight of the bodies hindered identification and three names still were only tentative today. LIMA MAN KILLED Lima P Harold J Mullett 64 died today victim of an auto train collision at Columbus Grove.
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Rushville
Ind
James Cooper
Rush County
Paul T. Connell
Connell
Here
Andrew Henson
Cincinnati
Henson
Greenburg
One killed in Bomber Crash near Park City
Five men parachuted to safety after an army bomber crashed and burned on a mountain ridge southeast of Park City. One crewman died in the wreck and a seventh was unaccounted for. First Lieut. W E Baysie said the abandon ship order came as blizzard conditions hit during a Salt Lake to Denver flight.
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Salt Lake City
Park City
Here
Tom Archer
W. E. Baysie
Salt Lake
Denver
Odenwald Seized in South Atlantic Arrives for Escort
The German motorship Odenwald, seized in the south Atlantic, arrived at a U S port under American escort. The ship, damaged and unseaworthy, was taken after a swift salvage by bluejackets. crew fate to be handled by the justice department.
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Washington
South Atlantic
San Juan
Puerto Rico
U. S. Navy
Navy
United States
Justice Department
Troops May Be Sent to Coal Fields
The United Mine Workers threaten a forced shutdown of major steel mills as 54,000 miners stay out under orders from Johnny Lewis. Lewis accuses Bethlehem Steel and U S Steel leaders of blocking a union shop while warning the President that the army could seize captive mines.
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Johnny Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Roosevelt
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Monongalia County
West Virginia
UMW
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Benjamin Fairless
United States Steel Company
Frank Purnell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Grace
Congress
Connally
Texas
Cox
Georgia
Smith
Virginia
Wardman Park
Fairless
Parnell
United States Steel Corporation
Youngstown
National Defense Mediation Board
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Ideki Tojo
Shigenori Togo
Tojo
Europe
Togo
Athens
Hocking
Hunter’s
THE
Associated Press
Cenfer
East Asia
Singapore
Malaya
John Curtin
Australia
National Grange
Mediterranean
Artiglier
York
Harold J. Mullett
Columbus Grove
Axis
U.S
Navy Department
Stimson
War Department
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