Second Active Campaign Will Help Russians
War bulletin reports RAF bombers and fighters inflicting major damage as British forces advance in Libya. Auchinleck leads a rising offensive with American gear aiding the Middle East push while Soviet and German fronts see shifting gains and losses across Rostov Sevastopol and Leningrad. Ohio defense councils rise to 209 under Bricker.
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Cairo
Middle East
Libya
Claude Auchinleck
Auchinleck
Allen Cunningham
Hitler
Baltic
Black Sea
Africa
Archibald P. Wavell
Wavell
Greece
U. S
Russia
Mediterranean
Red
Ewald von Kleist
Rostov
Caucasus
Crimea
Sevastopol
Berlin
Leningrad
Moscow
Rose Mary Treat Suffers Minor Injuries After Fall
Lima report states 19 year old Rose Mary Treat escaped with minor cuts and bruises after a three story fall from a hotel window last evening. No further details provided.
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Lima
Rose Mary Treat
Wheat Test Penalty Challenged by Stark County Growers
Six Stark County wheat growers seek injunction and recovery of penalties totaling 1149.09 plus interest from the National Market Quota Protest Association. William Lemke, former North Dakota congressman, represents the farmers in a test case challenging 49 cents per bushel penalties for wheat sold over quota in the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
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Canton
Common Pleas
George N. Graham
Stark County
William Lemke
North Dakota
National Market Quota Protest Association
Lemke
Union County
CIO Leaders Clash in Detroit Hotel Fight
In Detroit a physical altercation erupted late yesterday between August Scholle Michigan CIO president and a man identifying with John L. Lewis's union. Scholle sustained a neck wound behind the ear and a cut lip. He described severely injuring his unidentified opponent.
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Detroit
August Scholle
Michigan Cio
A. D. Lewis
United Construction Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
John L. Lewis
Scholle
Lewis’ Union
Stricken Woman Finds Hope After Six Days Without Food
A 72 year old widow, Mrs Augustine Gerlach, lay ill without food or water for six days before a friend and the apartment custodian found her in her Cleveland apartment late yesterday. She told of suffering a stroke and lying there since last Thursday.
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Cleveland
Augustine Gerlach
Elsie Schmidt
Five Die Unsheltered in Hasson Tunnel Fire
Five persons including the train engineer and two firemen were suffocated in a 7,000 foot Hasson Tunnel near Chatsworth California after 11 hours of smoke and fumes. A 96 car freight train remained ablaze and two unidentified men lay beside the tracks as rescuers worked.
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van Nuys
Calif
Hasson
Chatsworth
Bridge Toll Proposal Aimed at Easing Cincinnati Traffic
Cincinnati city council reviewed introducing a toll at the L and N bridge to raise funds for relieving a traffic bottleneck. Officials noted the city lacks money after a street improvement bond defeat to build an overpass or other relief.
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Cincinnati
L.&n. Bridge
Defense Plant Site Sought in Gallipolis Area
Officials of the Barium Reduction Corporation from Charleston WV sought a site near Gallipolis for a unit of its defense plant. The firm has defense contracts for millions in war materiel and will report its decision to the Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce Friday. Earlier, a huge defense plant was announced for Lawrence County along the Ohio River.
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Gallipolis
Barium Reduction Corporation
Charleston
W. Va
Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence County
Ohio River
Parachutists Sought In Fifth Corps Area
The Fifth Corps Area headquarters issued its first call for parachutists. Recruiting officers said enlistments will be limited and last three years. Recruits will receive 50 dollars per month in addition to regular army pay. Columbus report.
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Columbus
Fifth Corps
Rail Strike Parley Set For Friday
Washington talks inch toward averting a looming rail strike as representatives of railroads and unions agree to Friday discussions at the request of President Roosevelt. An interim wage deal for 45,000 Pennsylvanian railroad shop workers was signed, while other groups rejected the board’s recommendations and threaten December action.
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Eastman
Harrison
Mr. Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad Shop Crafts of America
Railroad
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Altoona
Columbus
Ohio
Wilmington
Del
Federal Rent Strike Looms
Tenants of Westlawn Homes government housing project threaten a rent strike if a proposed rent revision takes effect December 4. Manager Robert M. Kelly said current rents average about 20 percent of monthly salaries, while the new plan would set rents between 27.50 and 35 dollars. A large majority of tenants are said to favor the strike, though Kelly has not been contacted by tenant leaders.
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Warren
Westlawn Homes
Robert M. Kelly
Kelly
Pre Game Show at Ohio U Stadium Before Bobcats Flyers
Ohio University will host a Thanksgiving Day pre game show at Ohio University Stadium starting 1 30 pm featuring patriotic ceremonies by the university band. The Bobcats meet the Dayton Flyers at 2 00 pm with a band led Musical Cavalcade halftime pageant and a 1 45 pm salute to service men by Dr Herman G James.
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Ohio U
Ohio University Stadium
Don Peden
Bobcats
Dayton Flyers
Ohio University Band
Ohio University
Herman G. James
Bobcat
Showers Threaten To Mar Thanksgiving Day in Ohio
Thanksgiving in Ohio unfolds amid a late autumn heat wave with possible showers across parts of the state. The day features Case and Western Reserve in Cleveland, plus Ohio University vs Miami and Dayton vs Cincinnati games. Federal and state offices close. mail service limited. soldiers at Camp Shelby set for turkey and a primed holiday.
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Ohio
Case
Western Reserve
Cleveland
University of Dayton
Ohio University
Miami
University of Cincinnati
Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio State University
Michigan
Ohio State Penitentiary
Mexico Reaches Oil Settlement and Financing Deal
Mexican Finance Minister Eduardo Suarez announced agreements with the United States to settle the oil dispute and sign silver and money stabilization and highway financing accords. A notes exchange will outline compensation for former American oil property owners expropriated in 1938, followed by a $30 million Ex-Im Bank credit for highway improvements issued over three years.
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Washington
Eduardo Suarez
United States
Suarez
Treasury
State Department
Mexico
Export-Import Bank
Mail Robbery Charges Against Karpis Dropped
Federal records show Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell had mail robbery charges dismissed rather than being brought to Cleveland for trial. Both men remain incarcerated at Alcatraz serving life terms for kidnapping.
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Cleveland
Alvin Karpis
Harry Campbell
Alcatraz
Federal District Court
Karpis
California Coast
Campbell
Ohio Coal Firm Hit By New Code Ruling
The Bituminous Coal Division announced that Peterson Coal Company of Deerfield Ohio had its code membership revoked for violations selling coal at delivered prices below the minimum prices plus transportation charges.
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Ohio
Washington
Bituminous
Peterson Coal Company
Deerfield, C
Ohio relief load drops to 42188 cases in October
Columbus report shows Ohio's relief demand fell to 42,188 cases in October the lowest since 1933 while total costs rose to 1,777,860 dollars up 1,888. Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood cites higher fuel and clothing needs with colder weather. For the first ten months costs reach 14,395,349 dollars, down 6,253,049 from 1940.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles L. Sherwood
CIO seeks control of strike closed Diamond Match plant
Cleveland report says the CIO United Mine Workers asked for a collective bargaining election at the Diamond Match Co. plant in Barberton. The plant has been closed for nearly three weeks due to an AFL strike.
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Cleveland
Diamond Match Co
Barberton
CIO United Mine Workers
AFL
Union Leader Sees Many East Coal Miners Quitting Soon
Foster Day of the United Mine Workers, amid Washington talks, predicts a mass idle period by next Monday as miners in the eastern fields protest mediation board rulings. He warns open shop fears could spread, though no general walkout is expected, and cites contract promises and captive mines affecting wages and hours. Day plans further policy meet in Washington.
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Hocking
East
Foster Day
Kimberly Miner
United Mine Workers
National Policy Committee
Washington
Mississippi River
Day
Harlan (Ky
Hocking Valley
Steel Company
Lewis
General Weygand Leaves Vichy Command in North Africa
General Maxime Weygand, once a military enigma of France, reportedly parted ways with the Vichy regime and resigned as army commander in North Africa. He is believed ousted by pro Nazi sympathizers in France.
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Maxime Weygand
France
North Africa
Hoover Opposes Sending U S Troops to Europe
Former President Hoover told the Union League Club that sending American troops would be a futile waste of American life and would threaten economic freedom at home. He urged halting propaganda driving a war drift and warned of artificial national mind conditioning.
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Chicago
Hoover
Europe
Union League Club
Persia
Egypt
Hitler
United States
Africa
Congress
Hostage Fear Grips Nine Occupied European Nations
The Inter Allied Information Committee reports a terror campaign in nine Axis-occupied European countries has killed over 100,000 and displaced or imprisoned countless others. Britain and Russia are part of the committee. the report says no occupied country is free of the hostage terror and that thousands live daily under the shadow of death.
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London
Europe
Inter- Allied Information Committee
Britain
Russia
Senators Cool Toward New British Treaty
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave a cool reception to a reciprocal treaty with Great Britain waiving taxes on defense supplies under British cost plus contracts. Chairman Connally said he would need persuasion to support waiving taxes on British owned equipment here for similar British waivers on American property in Britain. The War Department authorized a hangar at Patterson Field Ohio for servicing airplanes.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Tex
Great Britain
Britain
Roosevelt Proposes End to Captive Mine Strike
President Roosevelt suggests a choice between postponing the strike dispute or submitting it to arbitration while United States Steel agrees to the plan. John L. Lewis rejects any outcome short of a union shop despite sympathy strikes and looming furnace shutdowns.
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UMW
Mr. Roosevelt
Lewis
Portsmouth Truck Driver Dies In Kentucky Crash
Raymond Ray, 28, of Portsmouth, was burned to death yesterday when his truck crashed between Vanceburg and Maysville, Kentucky.
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Portsmouth
Raymond Ray
Vanceburg
Maysville
Miner Fatally Electrocuted At Dunglen Mine
Edward Levenski aged 28 died when he was electrocuted while operating a loading machine at the Dunglen Mine near Adena yesterday. The accident occurred as he worked in the mine and his death is being investigated.
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Martins Ferry
Adena
Edward Levenski
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John W. Bricker
NAVY
U. S. Navy
Omaha
South Atlantic
California
White House
Joseph B. Eastman
Interstate Commerce Commission
George Harrison
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
War Department
Patterson Field
United States Steel Corporation
Stephen Early
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