Stalin Defends Second Front Need and Aid to USSR
Premier Stalin blamed lack of a western front for Red Army setbacks and praised Allied aid while vowing to crush Hitler. He argued Britain and the United States must open a second front to ease Germany’s pressure and pledged the fight would continue to defeat Nazi forces.
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Red Army
Hitler
London
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Great Britain
United States
Moscow
Greatritain
Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Labor Leaders Convicted In Film Industry Probe
A federal court jury found labor leaders George E. Browne and William Bioff guilty of extorting at least $550,000 from major film producers including Warner Brothers Paramount Pictures Twentieth Century Fox and Lowe's Inc Browne head of the AFL union and Bioff his Hollywood representative faced charges with possible penalties up to $90,000 per count The verdict followed a two hour deliberation in New York City on November 6.
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New York
George E. Browne
William Bioff
Browne
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
AFL
Bioff
Hollywood
Warner Brothers
Paramount Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox Films
Lowe's Inc
John C. Knox
Finland says military operations drawing to a close
Finnish radio announced that military operations are drawing to a close for Finland. The announcer said frontiers cannot be finally determined until the coming peace conference. Finland has reconquered much of the territory lost to Russia in the 1939-40 winter war.
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Finland
Russia
U. S
Hull
Hjalmar J. Procope
United States
Germany
Sanomat
Murmansk
BBC
Vaino Tanner
Moscow
Red Army
Europe
Great Britain
State Department
Two Die in Canavite Plant Blast in South Charleston
South Charleston West Virginia November six two workers killed five hurt in a major explosion and fire at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals corporation the company said the toll includes Forrest Norton Leavitt 32 and Horace Marshall Kelley 60 both of South Charleston with H K Fox 30 of Spring Hill severely burned. Fire hindered entry to the tank farm storage area for vinylite production as investigators verify the disaster details.
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Kanawha Valley
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
G. H. Sears
Forrest Norton Leavitt
Horace Marshall Kelley
H. K. Fox
Spring Hill
Leavitt
Kelley
Fox
Sears
Hillman condemns welders strike as outlaw and defense threat
Sidney Hillman denounced the independent United Aviation Welders strike at Lockheed Vega and Consolidated plants in California as outlaw and a threat to national defense. He urged internal workers to stay loyal while AFL metal trades meet November 17 to discuss the United Welders status and potential sympathy actions across major defense plants.
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Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
California
Lockheed
Vega
Burbank
Calif
Consolidated
San Diego
Hillman
United Aviation Welders
United Aircraft Welders
Douglas
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Ryan
Solar
AFL Metal Trades International
OPM
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America
Uses Sound
Renee Ee Not
Satan
Blast Victims Tell Stories Of Explosion
Charleston witnesses describe near fatal injuries from a double blast at the Carbide and Carbon Chemical plant in South Charleston. H K Fox of Spring Hill recalls being knocked from a storage tank while H M Kelley of South Charleston was blown toward the river. Fox remains in critical condition and may not survive.
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Charleston
W. Va
H. K
Kippie) Fox
Spring Hill
Margaret Fox
H. M. Kelley
South Charleston
Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation
Kelley
Cornwell warns against labor organizing public workers
West Virginia figure John J. Cornwell told state editors that labor has no right to organize public servants and questioned if state government and the CIO are being merged. He condemned strikes against government as revolutionary and urged public officials not to tolerate unionization of public employees. He spoke at a dinner that started the state newspaper councils 50 year club event.
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W. Va
John J. Cornwell
CIO
Road Commission
West Virginia
Cornwell
James A. Johnson
Saeger
George Werkheiser
Lewisburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Hampshire Review
Romney
Roosevelt vows free world fight against Nazi threat at labor conference
President Roosevelt told the International Labor Office gathering at the White House that no misled industrialist or labor leader will prevail against defense production and the unlimited commitment to a free world. He warned of sacrifices now to defeat Hitler and cited Berlin as a slave market with 2,000,000 foreign workers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
United States
Hitler
International Labor Office
White House
League of Nations
Berlin
Germany
Neutrality vote expected today in Senate
Senate bloc opponents of neutrality revision met and abandoned filibuster plans. Wheeler La Follette Nye Clark Bilbo said final vote could occur by nightfall tomorrow as administration leaders claimed 53 sure votes with absentees paired. Nye signaled a possible lengthy talk before any agreement.
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Senate Bloc
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Wheeler
Mont
la Follette
Wis
Nye
N. D
Clark
Bilbo
Miss
Barkley
Reuben James Casualty List Grows With Neely Included
Washington Nov 6 Navy reports a further West Virginian seaman Kenneth Cecil Neely from Fayette County is added to the casualty list aboard the torpedoed destroyer Reuben James. The navy also notes 100 officers and men lost as records are checked.
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Mountain State
Navy Department
Kenneth Cecil Neely
Cunard
Fayette County
Waco
Neely
Navy
Reuben James
Union Chiefs Defer Decision On Setting Strike Date
Chicago news reports that rail labor chiefs postponed deciding when to set a nationwide strike for 1,250,000 workers. Leaders will study Roosevelt’s call to stay on the job while war goods are produced and delivered and await the fact finding board’s recommendations.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Washington
United States
Mediation Unit Uses Unusual Step in Mine Dispute
Washington reports the defense mediation board paused its usual process on the captive coal mine dispute. Three public representatives briefly withdrew to allow an eight member joint labor and industry meeting. Chairman William H. Davis withheld comment on the maneuver as executives proceed with sessions on United Mine Workers union issues.
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Washington
Defense Mediation Board
William H. Davis
United Mine Workers
Labor
Davis
Raiders Attack Southeast England In Broad Night Raids
German raiders attacked East Anglia and southeast England in strong numbers after British air forces hit German barges and gun positions near the Dunkerque area. Casualties were few and damage slight with raids ending before midnight.
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East Anglia
England
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Dunkerque
RAF
Air Ministry
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Cairo
Middle East Command
Bardia
Bengasi
Libya
Noted Churchman William Lawrence Dies at 91
Rt Rev William Lawrence emeritus bishop of Massachusetts dies suddenly at his Readalle home after a heart attack. He served as bishop of Massachusetts for 32 years. News also reports the election of his son Rt Rev William Appleton Lawrence to Mount Holyoke College trustees.
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Boston
William Lawrence
Massachusetts
Readalle
William Appleton Lawrence
Springfield
Western Massachusetts
Mount Holpose College
Hitler withdraws air power from Moscow and Leningrad fronts
London sources report Hitler stripped many planes from the Moscow and Leningrad theaters for winter, signaling a failure to seize key aims. Soviet dispatches claim German lines were breached near Moscow with German forces retreating as Stalin touted Nazi losses at 4.5 million dead and missing against Soviet 1.9 million.
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London
Hitler
Moscow
Leningrad
Sevastopol
Crimea
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Japan says army may strike at the Burma road
Tokyo reports that Japan declares its patience exhausted and may launch a direct march on the Burma road to cut American supplies to China unless the United States accepts terms with envoy S a bur o Kurusu. The editorial notes the mission as a last chance to avert conflict while indicating readiness for any eventuality.
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Japan
Burma Road
China
United States
Saburo Kurusu
Foreign Office
Japan Times and Advertiser
Burma
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Times and
Indo-China
Roosevelt Extends Billion Dollar Interest Free Loan to Russia
The United States announced a $1 billion loan to the Soviet Union without interest to buy weapons against Hitler. President Roosevelt and the State Department cited support after the Moscow conference and noted Soviet gratitude from Joseph Stalin. Litvinov was named ambassador to the United States as part of a broader aid push.
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United States
Russia
Rudolf Hess
Scotland
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Oldavia
Lithuania
Latvia
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APY
Roosevelt
Hitler
State Department
Joseph Stalin
Maxim Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Great Britain
Europe
Litvinoff Named U S Envoy Amid Shifting Soviet Posts
Maxim Litvinoff is appointed ambassador to the United States as Konstantin Dumansky moves to Tass. The wartime capital Kulbyskey announced the change, signaling Moscow’s realignment as Stalin distances Britain and France.
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Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
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Russia
United States
Litvinoff
Kulbyskey
Constantine Oumansky
Tass
Joseph Stalin
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France
Hitler
Rus Sa
Constantine Dumansky
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