Roosevelt forecasts defense funding and tax plan at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt at Warm Springs discusses a possible half billion dollar defense add on the next budget and a new national defense tax to finance emergency spending. He notes pay as you go may be required and mentions disbanding the war resources board created last August to aid industrial mobilization.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Prine
Arm Springs
Army
Navy Munitions Board
Dies Forecasts Wave of Strikes If Communism Not Exposed
Chairman Dies of the house committee on un American activities warned of a series of strikes and sabotage unless Communist activity in the United States is exposed quickly. He charged the Communist party is an agent of Moscow and urged severing relations with Russia unless it adheres to the 1933 pact and stops interfering in U S internal affairs.
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United States
Washington
Dies
Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
Communist Party
Moscow
Russia
Brokby
Porter Learns He's In Debt 2 500 000 Surprised
New York reporting on a trial of the New York Title Mortgage company and four former executives. A clerk named Willie signed documents for mortgages totaling 720000 dollars in 1933 without reviewing them. The case involved mail fraud and a bond covering a Park Avenue property.
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Porter
New York
New York Title & Mortgage Company
Willie
Park Avenue
Counts Against Kuhn Dismissed In New York Trial
Five of ten counts against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed, leaving him charged with misappropriating 1217 dollars from a bond rather than 5641. Judge James G Wallace signaled further reductions possible, noting he might alter rulings by Monday. The last major witness was Florence Camp, a blonde divorcee who testified as Kuhn’s accuser.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
James G. Wallace
Kuhn
Golden Angel
Florence Camp
Huntington Chief Revamps Vice Squad
Huntington West Virginia police chief Lon H Whitten restructured the vice squad after deputies raided a news outlet proprietor over obscene magazines. Officers Farris and Kessick met with the chief as eight officers who previously raided liquor establishments off duty without notification remain unsettled. City ministerial office department pledged a city clean up within 24 hours as police conducted further raids targeting potions and potential vices.
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Huntington
W. Va
Lon H. Whitten
Whitten
Harry Farris
Cecil Kessick
Farris
Kessick
Ministerial
Ours
Pet
War Nears End of Third Month Aims at Toll 5
As the war nears the end of its third month, Allied and neutral shipping losses exceed half a million tons and more than 2,000 lives. The clash between Franco British naval power and German submarines and air forces continues with heavy casualties to crews and planes. The article notes Nazi mine plans and torpedo aircraft and suggests the outcome hinges on sea power while hinting at impending naval developments.
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Europe
Royal Oak Prise
MPS TAKE PROVINCE CAPITAL CITY IN THRUST AT CHINA LIFELINE
Japanese forces seize Nanning in Kwangsi as China warns the lifeline to Yunnan and Indo China may be disrupted. Chinese officials insist they will improvise a new loop road and resist a broader push toward Yunnan.
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China
Hongkong
Kwangsi
Nanning
Kwangsi Province
Yunnan
Far Cont
Burma
Indo-China
British Belfast torpedoed. 20 injured amid rising losses
London reports the cruiser Belfast damaged by torpedo or mine with twenty injured as shipping losses mount to nearly thirty in just over a week. Berlin claims heavy damage to Belfast and vows retaliation against British blockade plans. Paris notes a German raid repulsed with few prisoners. Romanian political shifts form a coalition cabinet in Tatarescu era.
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Associated Press
London
Belfast
Berlin
High Command
Paris
Tatarescu
Rumania
Roosevelt Hints On Third Term Question At Warm Springs
The president spoke at a WPA funded community center dedication in Warm Springs Georgia. He sidestepped outright talk of a third term amid questions from reporters and locals noting he has little time left in his current term ending January 20 1941.
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WPA
W. G. Harry
Women's Civic Club of
Warm
Harry
Park
N. Y
Warm Springs
Vest
Gu Fy
Navy secrecy editor blames failures on suppression of information
The Army and Navy Journal editorializes that Navy secrecy caused defects in twelve destroyers and eroded public trust. It cites suppression of details to mislead Congress and notes inquiries led by Wheeler and a request to the president to address the issue. The piece also mentions damage to the battleship Arizona.
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Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Navy
Congressi
Navy Department
Vandenberg
R. Mich
Wheeler
D Mont
Arizona
Mussolini Looms as Peace Move Leader Says Senator King
Senator King of Utah warned Mussolini could lead a peace movement to halt the European war. He said Mussolini might form a bloc including the Balkans, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands to end the conflict, noting Germany's Russia ties give Italy a possible pretext. He cited Mussolini as the strongest nonbelligerent leader capable of guiding negotiations.
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King
Mussolini
Washington
Utah
Benito Mussolini
Balkan States
Netherlands
Germany
Russia
Disorder Flares at Dodge Plant in Detroit Clash
In Detroit, bricks and stones wounded eight people and 22 arrests marked the first mass violence during a 50 day UAW CIO dispute at Chrysler’s Dodge plant. Seventy seven workers crossed a CIO picket line to enter the closed facility as mediation talks paused until Monday.
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Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Dodger
Chrysler Corporatn
Uam-Cio
Raab
Sane Oe Mediation Board
Germans claim new submarine success against British navy
Berlin reports a second raid on a base in the Firth of Forth damaging the cruiser Belfast of 10 000 tons launched March 17 1938. Nazi officials threaten retaliatory actions and claim air mastery over France and Britain amid four days of aerial activity.
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Berlin
High Command
Belfast
Firth of Perth
France
Britain
Tenkirchen
High Marine
Firth of Forth
County Officers Stage Vice Raids In Huntington
Cabell county Sheriff O M Phinett led raids in Huntington seizing magazines from a newsstand under a warrant after a complaint by Rev Mary H Ellis private investigator for several groups. The operation followed outside officers' inspections amid a crackdown on alleged vice activity including liquor gambling and illicit literature.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabell County
O. M. Phi
Today
Chareer
Phipps
Mary H. Ellis
the Ministeriaal Association
Good Government Association
Goorgs Seamonds
Abeny
British Free American Liner Detained 27 Days
The American liner Scanpenn was held 27 days by British authorities in a contraband search and freed at Leith Scotland. The ship with 11 passengers left New York for Oslo Gothenburg and Copenhagen when stopped by naval vessels, taken to Kirkwall then Leith, before sale to Brazil and final voyage as an American vessel.
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New York
Bri
Leith
Scotland
Norgen
Oslo
Gothenburg
Copen
Fish Naval
Kirkwall
Erican Scantic Line
Dutch cabinet debates blockade as war probes deepen
The Hague holds a special cabinet session to address wartime strain on the neutral Netherlands amid Dutch Britain tensions. News reports say Lieut. Kolp was killed near Venloo on Nov 9 and a German chauffeur abducted after Germans seized two British officers. The 133 ton tanker Sliedrecht was sunk in the Atlantic, with London attributing the loss to German action.
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Hague
Netherlands
Britain
Net Vork
Amsterdam
Lieut. Kolp
Netherarmy
Venloo
Deutch
J. Lemmens
Telegraaf
Gestapo
Berlin
Atlantic
Pers
London
Germany warns Netherlands over spy seizures on border
Berlin cites seizure of two alleged British spies on the Netherlands German border on November 9 and portrays neutral states as safest places where England can prepare to threaten or undermine German security in a guarded foreign office commentary.
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Berlin
Deutsche Diplomatische Politische Korrespondenz
Netherlands
Foreign Office
England
Germany
Hollywood Producers Reject Union Demands
Hollywood producers rejected union demands for a 10 percent wage increase and warned 35,000 technicians would strike if not granted by tomorrow. William Bioff, AFL Western representative, said the union would press for the raise amid industry readjustment while noting unions recently secured a 10 percent rise for thousand studio workers.
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Hollywood
William Bioff
AFL
Sunions
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Entena
Belfast damaged by torpedo or mine at Firth of Forth
London reports the admiralty disclosed a torpedo or mine damaged the Belfast, a 10 000 ton cruiser, last Tuesday at the Firth of Forth naval base injuring twenty men. The loss of ships in the sea lanes grows as neutral complaints rise amid German submarine activity and mine warfare prompts Britain to seek scientific and fisherman aid for countermeasures.
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Oakdale
N. Y
Royal Fraternity of
Master Metaphysicians
Schafer Poe
Schafer
Jean
Vanderbilt
London
Admiralty
Belfast
Firth of Forth
High Command
Sears Oearl
Corpeanes
Sliedrecht
Britain's import curb halts US goods purchases
Washington reports that Britain's wave of time import restrictions has suspended purchases of nearly twenty American products under the trade treaty. Estimated 1936 U S value around 21.22 million dollars, including apples, pears, cars and luxury items. France tightens all imports and blocks tobacco to colonies. Exports to Britain paused, affecting colonial products. Officials weigh possible shifts in war supply needs as embargo effects unfold.
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Washington
United Kingdom
France
United States
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