British Push Forward in North Africa
British armored units advance toward Tobruk within ten miles as siege lines tighten. Reports say Axis forces may be caught between fires around the besieged garrison while Allied bombers and tanks press the offensive. Separate dispatches describe Soviet defense near Moscow and Axis gains in Ukraine as the wider war continues.
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Britain
Tobruk
North Africa
Cairo
Winston Churchill
Fort Capuzzo
Bir el Gobi
Sierra Leone
French West Africa
Pakar
Moscow
Volokolamsk
Red Army
Wula
Adolf Hitler
Central Front
Ponets River
Ukraine
Five Payless Years Bring Job Reward
David Warner, who spent five payless years in the Supreme Court attic gathering data on Ohio water supply, is named a state water consultant. Warner, a member of the State Conservation Board since 1931, continued work after the board’s funds were cut in 1935 and his pay stopped. Frank Raschig, director of public works, appointed him this week.
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Columbus
David Carner
Supreme Court
Ohio
State Conservation Board
Warner
Martin L. Davey
Frank L. Raschig
Public Works
Bids to Open for Berlin Dam Project in Mahoning Portage OH
Col. D. Lee Hooper, army district engineer, announced that bids will be opened in Pittsburgh on December 18 for the Berlin Dam construction on the Mahoning River spanning Mahoning and Portage Counties in Ohio.
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Pittsburgh
D. Lee Hooper
Army District
Berlin
Mahoning River
Mahoning
Portage Counties
Ohio
Sailor Marries Quickcourtship After Chance Park Meeting
Sailor Bill Langford wed 19 year old Josephine Phillips after meeting in Central Park two months earlier and a string of romantic evenings. The couple, who recently danced to Benny Goodman in Manhattan, plan Philadelphia living with Langford on leave until Monday.
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New York
Bill Langford
Manhattan
Josephine Phillips
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Bill
Hawaii
New Yorker
Benny Goodman
Benny
You
Josephine
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Garfield
N. J
Grange Adopts Grass Roots Foreign Policy
The National Grange, with delegates from 37 states, approved a grass roots foreign policy urging the administration to protect democracy worldwide. It calls for supplying goods to nations opposing aggression, defense zones beyond the western Hemisphere, preserving Pacific status quo for economic security, upholding the Monroe Doctrine and good neighbor policy while not harming American agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
National Grange
Farm Organization
Pacific
Indian Viceroy Receives First U S Diplomat
In New Delhi the Viceroy Lord Linithgow welcomed Thomas Murray Wilson of Memphis Tennessee the first U S representative to present credentials to India in a ceremonial durbar hall event marking a new diplomatic milestone.
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New Delhi
India
United States
Government of India
Lord Linithgow
Durbar Hall
Thomas Murray Wilson
Memphis
Tenn
Actor Not Admiral Draws Crowds in Reykjavik
In Reykjavik a lieutenant and film star Douglas Fairbanks drew autograph seekers while an admiral joined them ashore. Locals, used to visiting Hollywood figures, treated Fairbanks as a standout attraction in the Icelandic town.
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Iceland
Reykjavik
Douglas Fairbanks
Mrs Beckert Hurt in Sunnyside Watt St Crash
Mrs R F Beckert of 292 East State Street sustained a shoulder injury when her car collided with a truck driven by Walter Shook 30 of 42 Second Street at the Sunnyside Drive Watt Street intersection. The Beckert car was a total wreck and Shook’s truck front end was demolished. Their 2 1/2 year old daughter was uninjured.
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R. F. Beckert
E. State St
Ohio University
Walter Shook
Second St
Sunnyside Drive
Watt St
Joseph McBride
Shook
Sunnyside
Beckett
British Get Half Billion In Lend-Lease Goods
Washington reports half a billion dollars in lend-lease goods to Britain since April 29. About $300 million shipped in the last six weeks, announced by Roy F. Hendrickson administrator of the surplus marketing administration.
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Washington
Roy F. Hendrickson
Surplus Marketing Administration
Ohio honors 1941 champion hybrid cory grower
De Kalb Illinois reports H Morton of Camden Ohio named Ohio's champion hybrid cory grower for 1941.
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DE Kalb
Ill
A H. Morton
Camden, O
Ohio
Infant dies after hot oatmeal spill in kitchen accident
Canton reports a one year old Patricia von Gunten fatally burned when a pan overturned spilling hot oatmeal. The incident details a deadly kitchen burn involving a child in an apparent accident.
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Canton
Patricia von Gunten
Roosevelt Seeks Mine Strike End Amid Union Stand
President Roosevelt indicates no federal action on the captive coal mine dispute until a reply from John L. Lewis and the UMW policy committee. CIO calls for stopping training of strikebreakers. Pelosi? No. Camp Forrest reports troops possibly moving in on Pennsylvania coal sectors amid sympathy strikes in multiple states.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Policy Committee
Roonsevelt
War Patterson
Senate Judiciary
Patterson
Senator Connally
D.-Tex
Connally
Judiciary Subcommittee
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Pennsylvania
UMW
Ohio
West Virginia
Alabama
Kentucky
Illinois
Vichy Attacks Jap Activities In Indo China
In Indo China tensions rise as France protests Japan's expanding bases under the Yoshizawa mission. Paris argues Tokyo oversteps accords while French officials note limited Japanese strength for large operations.
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Vichy
Indo-China
London
Tokyo
Japan
France
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Indo- China
China
Thailand
Coal Shortage Forces More Blast Furnace Shutdowns
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. under United States Steel today closed five more blast furnaces due to coal shortages. Two at Clairton Works in Clairton Pennsylvania, one at Ohio Works in Youngstown Ohio, one at Carrie Furnaces in Rankin Pennsylvania, and one at Duquesne Furnaces in Duquesne Pennsylvania halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corp
United States Steel Corp
Clairton Works
Clairton
Ohio Works
Youngstown
Ohio
Carrie
Rankin
Duquesne
Clairton Byproducts Co
Ohio hunting season toll rises to fourteen
WAUSEON AP news records the 1941 hunting season death toll reaching fourteen with the death of 14 year old John Peebles. He was accidentally shot while hunting yesterday with his father near Delta in Fulton County Ohio.
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Wauseon
Ohio
John Peebles
Peebles
Delta
Fulton County
Cold Wave to Hit Midwest Saturday
The first real cold snap of the season for the central west and eastern half of the nation is forecast from Canada. Temperatures were already dropping in Montana and western North Dakota as storm warnings were posted for Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron tonight. The cold front was expected to reach near Chicago by tomorrow morning and spread to the northeast states Saturday night and Sunday, ending Thanksgiving week mild weather.
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Chicago
Central West
Canada
United States Weather Bureau
Montana
North Dakota
Lakes Superior
Michigan
Huron
CIO Convention Plans Reelection of Murray
Delegates at the CIO annual convention moved toward reelecting President Philip Murray. Murray, backed by the big three unions John L. Lewis United Mine Workers, United Automobile Workers, and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, has guided the session through turbulent issues.
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Detroit
CIO
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
United Mine Worker
United Automobile Workers of America
The
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Murray
Mine Workers
Churchill Plans Libyan Offensive To Shorten War
Dewitt Mackenzie outlines Prime Minister Churchill's claim that the Allied push in Libya could shorten the war and preserve Britain's Mediterranean dominance. He notes objectives to lift pressure on Russia, block Nazi expansion in North Africa, and prevent a coordinated German assault toward Egypt and the Caucasus.
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Hitler
Russia
General Winter
Caucasus
Dewitt MacKenzie
Churchill
Libya
Britain
Mediterranean
England
Africa
France
North
North Africa
Middle East
Egypt
10 Wounded in Rioting in Pennsylvania Coal Fields
Gunfire erupted during a five day United Mine Workers strike at the H. C. Frick Coke Edenborn Mine area in Fayette County. At least 10 workers were wounded as pickets and non union men clashed along a valley road. victims were treated in Uniontown and Brownsville hospitals.
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Pittsburgh
Fayette County
United Mine Workers
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Edenborn
Uniontown
Uniontown Hospital
Brownsville
John Stepanik
Coal Center
Washington County
Stepanik
Edward Mason
Giant Indiana Takes to Sea
NEWPORT NEWS Va The 35000 ton battleship Indiana slid from her building ways at Newport News six months early Naval officials and several congressmen watched as the $70000000 vessel gleamed and steamed into the James River Knox praised industry and labor uniting to achieve the early launch describing the ship as a symbol of the nations will to survive in a world at war.
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Newport News
Indiana
Knox
James River
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Convicts Escape From London Prison Farm Camp
Two inmates fled from the London Prison Farm honor camp at Lebanon. Identified are Larry James 36 of Jefferson County jailed 1936 for shooting to kill and Frank Brown 35 of Jackson County jailed for auto theft and housebreaking.
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London
Lebanon
W. F. Amrine
Larry James
Jefferson County
Frank Brown
Jackson County
Mrs. Kate Hill Dies At Home of Daughter
Mrs. Kate Hill aged 88 died today at the home of her daughter Mrs. Oliver Clark on Athens Pomeroy Road. Funeral services will be held at Finsterwald Funeral Home in Pomeroy at 10 o clock Sunday morning with interment in Midkiff Cemetery. She is survived by the daughter three grandchildren five great grandchildren and two sisters.
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Pomeroy
Kate Hill
Oliver Clark
Athens-Pomeroy Road
Finsterwald
Midkiff
Death sentence for San Quentin gang leader Spinelli
Evelita Juanita Spinelli, described as a directing genius of crimes, faced execution by gas chamber at San Quentin. She would be the first woman in California to be executed under state laws, with last minute legal maneuvers possible to delay the death.
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San Quentin
Calif
Evelita Juanita Spinelli
Moros kill seventeen in attack on Camp Romandier
In Sulu Province a clash at Camp Romandier leads to seventeen Moros killed by the constabulary. No soldiers are reported injured.
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Manila
Constabulary
Romandier
Sulu
Not Fit for Living: 13 Percent of Cuya hoga County Homes
A WPA survey reports that thirteen percent of housing units in Cuya hoga County are not fit for human habitation, highlighting deteriorating living conditions in the area.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Point Pleasant Youth Dies After Self Inflicted Gunshot
Gallia county reports Frank Harmon 23 a Point Pleasant resident died at Holzer Hospital from a self inflicted pistol shot. The cause of the shooting remains unknown. Harmon was single.
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Gallipolis
Frank Harmon
Point Pleasant
Holzer Hospital
Harmon
Thanksgiving Rain Contributes to Ohio Highway Fatalities
Thanksgiving Day showers across Ohio contributed to at least two of the eight holiday highway fatalities. Mrs. Isabelle H. Campbell, 60, was killed and two others were critically injured in a head on collision four miles south of Galion during a heavy rainstorm.
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Columbus
Ohio
Isabelle H. Campbell
Galion
Ohio Bankers' Assoc Sees $30 to $32 Million Christmas Funds
Belford Atkinson assistant secretary of the Ohio Bankers' Association estimated today that Ohioans will have 30 to 32 million dollars in Christmas funds this year.
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Columbus
Belford Atkinson
Ohio Bankers’ Association
Three Idle Workers Walk Out In Hocking District Mine Action
About 900 miners at Kimberly Mine and two other mines walked out in sympathy over the captive mine controversy. No official union order blamed. locals acted independently to press for a settlement. Leaders said the movement could spread by week’s end with trucks and rail mines also affected.
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Hocking
Kimberly Mine
Hocking Valley Mining Co
Ohio Collieries Co
Coonville
Coonville Coal Co
Drydock
Oral Daugherty
United Mine Workers
Mediation Board
Columbus
G. W. Savage
District 6
Kimberly
C. E. Hoskins
John L. Lewis
Hoskins
Roosevelt
National House
Senate
Hitler Ousted Weygand Hull in Vichy France
The French government awaits confirmation of Hulls declaration blaming German intervention for Weygands removal as pro consul in North Africa. The U S State Department says Weygand was removed at Hitler’s express demand and notes that U S economic assistance to French North Africa has been abandoned.
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Vichy
France
Hull
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
U. S. State Department
Weygand
Hitler
United States
French North Africa
Willebee Boy Dies Of Rabbit Fever
John Finn Jr aged 13 of Willobee died in a Cleveland hospital from rabbit fever contracted while helping a friend clean rabbits last Saturday.
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Cleveland
John Finn, Jr
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