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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1941
Page
1
Insurance policies totaling seventy thousand dollars are at issue in a case involving John Warzik listed as a disappearance. The article notes ongoing search efforts and the attempt to establish a death and will.
Grace Reed, mother of ten, may collect up to seventy thousand dollars from two life insurance policies taken out by John Warzik who befriended her as a child. Warzik disappeared and is believed dead, with policy records labeled disappearance. An insurer searches across seas for his status while Reed remains his potential beneficiary.
Susanville California November 21 Sheriff Olin S Johnson said C Alexander 24 of Cleo Springs Oklahoma admitted wrecking the Southern Pacific City of San Francisco near Harney Nevada August 12 1939 killing 24 and injuring 108 He was arrested on a minor charge last night near Doyle No charges filed yet He said he wrecked to rob passengers but fled after hearing screams He obtained tools at Wells Nevada The Interstate Commerce Commission noted angle bars removed from a rail joint near Humboldt River The case involves a wreck that toppled a baggage car and damaged a bridge leaving six cars piled in a deafening crash
Cairo November 22 British imperial army encircled large German panzer forces in the Libyan desert near Tobruk. German losses reached about three times those of the British after two Thursday battles. Rommel reportedly lost tanks in action. The main clash occurred west of Fort Capuzzo on the Egyptian Libyan border as British columns moved toward Tobruk and El Adem.
British armored legions and Nazi panzer forces clash in Libya as time pressures drive rapid action. The struggle aims to crush German units, collapse Italian resistance, and free forces to reinforce the Caucasus and Iran gateways.
Rapidly dropping temperatures sweep the northern plains as Montana and the Dakotas brace for a cold snap. Forecaster R E Gumpf says a frigid air mass from Canada will push east and south reaching Chicago by Saturday with 10 to 20 degree readings in northern Illinois and Indiana. Snow was reported in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan.
Christmas Savings club checks totaling $97,000 will be mailed to members in the Bluefield area on Saturday November 29. The three banks First National Commercial and Flat Top report a 20 percent rise from last year with about 2,335 members receiving checks averaging over $40. Individual deposits at the banks totaled $40,000 $35,000 and $22,000 with bank memberships 1 150 625 and unknown total for the third bank.
On November 21 President Roosevelt directed the Federal Works Administration to take possession and operate the Grand River dam in Oklahoma. The $25 million project, financed by PWA loans and grants, was placed under federal control under the Federal Water Power Act of 1935 to safeguard national defense and avoid financial or managerial disruption. This marked the first use of the president's emergency possession authority.
Washington reports rail and union representatives adjourned after a five minute final session to prepare a report for President Roosevelt on averting a nationwide railroad strike set for December 7. A three member delegation will present findings to Roosevelt.
Moscow fronts report serious situation as Red Army mobilizes to meet encirclement threat in Tula area. Heavy fighting along roads to Moscow and around Tula continues, with Russians retaking villages and claiming German losses. NATO and Soviet officials urge alliance cooperation amid the crisis.
Miners at Gary's U S Coal and Coke works returned to full operations while a nearby strike continued with peaceful picketing. About 600 workers at Asco and Krillitz mines remained idle. several miners arrested earlier were released on bond. Mercer and Buchanan fields reported extensive closings affecting about 2,000 men.
Berlin reports a night of crucial actions in Russia as German armies supported by supply planes press the front. Allied estimates place Red Army losses at ten million wounded or captured by the end of the fifth month, with stubborn Soviet resistance acknowledged amid ongoing warfare.
Pocahontas Operators Association cables UMWA leaders John L. Lewis and Van A. Bittner that nine commercial mines in the district began striking under the influence of outsiders posing as UMWA representatives. The message cites McDowell and Mercer county mines and urges correction of impressions to avoid job losses and penalties.
Pittsburgh reports a fresh outburst during the United Mine Workers strike at the H C Frick coal mine 18 miles north of Uniontown where 10 pickets were wounded. An eleventh was hit near the Republic Clyde mine as Sheriff Frocx sought state police aid from Governor James. Carnegie Illinois docked 10 riverboats handling coal barges.
Tony Zinvalatti of Upland, a miner for Crozier Coal and Coke, is hospitalized at Bluefield sanitarium with head injuries from a mine accident yesterday morning. His condition is not believed critical.
Evileta Juanita Spinelli known as The Duchess, leader of a San Francisco holdup gang, was executed in California’s gas chamber after the murder of 19 year old Robert Sherrard. Sixty witnesses watched as she faced death with a prayer and a photograph of her family. Upcoming executions include two gang members next Friday.
Government seeks settlement in the captive coal mine strike after ten pickets were wounded and steel production slowed. William H. Davis asks commercial mine operators to pledge to honor existing contracts while the UMW agrees to an open shop with captive mines. John L. Lewis argues contracts risk closure if union shop is not excluded. Roosevelt awaits the union response to a peace formula, with arbitration as an option, to be decided by a policy committee meeting tomorrow.
Philip Murray won a second term as CIO president at its annual convention in Detroit. He urged government and business to cooperate with labor, warned against legislative shackles, and pressed Roosevelt to give labor a stronger role in national defense programs.
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