Tojo Statement Ends Vacation For Executive
President Roosevelt rushes back to Washington from Warm Springs after Japanese Premier Tojo vows vengeance against Britain and America. Roosevelt boards a special train at Nenenn, Ga, aiming to reach the capital by noon to face Pacific war threats amid warnings from officials and briefings from Secretary of State.
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Hideki Tojo
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Pacific
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State Hall
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Steph T. Early
Ing
Roosevelt Sevelt
Encote
McRetary
Alate
Yanks Put on Alert Over Thailand Evacuation Warning
U S. consular authorities urged all American citizens in Thailand to be ready to evacuate at any moment amid Far Eastern tensions. The advisory was reported from Bangkok on November 30.
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Negotiations Breakdown Seen Near in Tokyo
Reports from Tokyo on December 1 indicate mounting evidence that Japanese American talks will collapse. Foreign Minister Togo warned the U S may reject Hull's principles as Tojo urged unity with Manchukuo and China to back Japan's new order. An army spokesman hinted Dutch East Indies actions could follow, signaling a decisive move.
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Misaburo Ando
Dutch East Indies
Railroad Pact Near Expected After Emergency Board Talks
Washington December 1 a presidential emergency board met with railroad carriers and operating unions who have threatened a December 7 strike. After separate talks Saturday and Sunday the groups joined in a single session while non operating unions waited nearby. Wayne L Morse chairman said progress was made and a settlement may be reported to President Roosevelt later today with details held back until a formal report is filed.
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Roosevelt
Wayne L. Morse
Morse
American Air Unit Defends Burma Road for China
In Manila on December 1, an all American air unit will defend the Burma road to China from Japanese air attack. The force flies under the Chinese flag and is officially part of the Chinese air force. Most members are former U S army and navy, with over 100 veteran pilots. Officers and enlisted men may leave U S forces to fight in China without losing ranks, and will keep regular pay.
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Army
Tokyo Reply To U S Policy Note Stressed Here
Washington reports show a Sunday Hull Halifax exchange and Roosevelt rush back to the capital as Pacific crisis gravity deepens. Japan’s cabinet is said to have drafted a reply to Washington’s note while Hull anticipated a Tokyo transmission and a second talk with Kichisa Buto Nor and envoy Sabie Urusu.
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Sabie Urusu
Tokyo
Lepke Faces Death in Brooklyn Electric Chair Verdict
In a Brooklyn courtroom Louis Buchalter known as Lepke and his confederates Louis Capone and Emanuel Weiss were found guilty of first degree murder in the 1938 killing of Joseph Hoss. All three were sentenced to death after a 11 week trial. The jury rejected mercy after four and a half hours of deliberation. The government charged Lepke ordered the hit and the trio awaits formal sentencing.
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Mendy) Weiss
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Several Proposals Await Consideration
Washington November 30. Congressional leaders signaled passage this week of separate anti strike measures as House and Senate move toward action. The House planned free for all debate on a cooling off bill backed by labor, with a Smith VA measure to freeze open or closed shop in defense plants and ban mass picketing. If defeated, the labor committee’s bill would be the alternative, mandating compulsory arbitration. The Senate slated Thursday to consider a Connally TX bill allowing seizure of struck plants and freezing a union or open shop status, with plans to merge it with Ball MN proposal awaiting approval by the labor committee.
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Vinson D. Ga
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D., Tex
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Senate Habor Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
U S retail sales set a record this year
Washington reports that defense driven expansion of purchasing power may push total retail sales to 54.235 billion dollars in the year, with exports forecast at 19 billion more than last year and nearly 6 billion above the 1929 peak. October sales reached 4.85 billion, while durable goods slipped and jewelry saw a sharp drop after a tax deadline.
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Department
Coal Arbitrators Meet To Decide Union Shop Dispute
NEW YORK Nov 30 The three man board appointed by President Roosevelt to arbitrate the coal mine union shop dispute met for five and a half hours today and recessed until 11 30 a m tomorrow without issuing any statement on its deliberations involving captive coal mines.
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New York
Roosevelt
Wave on Wave Mowed Down Berlin Asserts
Berlin dispatches report massive Russian efforts to defend Rostov and the Donets river area as fighting rages to safeguard Caucasus oil. Germans claim waves of Russian troops are dying under heavy German fire from Rostov to the Donets basin. Russian stores are set afire south of Rostov and Kerch, with war materiel abandoned along the shore and in wrecked vehicles and tanks in the water.
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Neely Criticized By UMW Local In West Virginia
Longacre Nov 30. United Mine Workers local No. 711 denounced Gov Neely saying he betrayed West Virginia miners in the captive coal mine strike and praised former Gov Homer Holt for a cleaner deal. The resolution also demanded the discharge of State Police Supt Bosworth and condemned police beatings of peaceful pickets during the Gary shutdown.
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John W Bosworth
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Holt
Democratic Party
Appalachian
Allied Forces Press Final Blow Against Axis Tanks in Libya
Cairo reports British Imperial forces drive to crush remaining Axis tank strength in Libya with a decisive Sidi Rezegh battle. Tobruk area fighting narrows escape routes as Rommel’s formations are targeted. Patrols reach Gulf of Sirte coast. El Agheila push aims to trap Axis troops in Cyrenaica.
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Gialo) Oasis
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Erwin Rommel
Point Pleasant Gets TNT Plant
The War Department announced tentative selection of a site near Point Pleasant for a new TNT manufacturing plant named the West Virginia Ordnance Works. It will cover a 8,000 acre tract and be built and run by private firms under U S Army supervision. A land office will open to start land acquisition with a gross appraisal to estimate the purchase cost. A field project manager from Edinburgh Indiana will supervise the process. The department gave no figure on potential employment.
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B. F. Vandervoort
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Quartermaster
M. J. O'Byrne
Petain Heads Toward Meeting With Hitler in France
Reports from reliable sources say Petain left Vichy by car for Orleans to meet Adolf Hitler, a development seen as possible for a new phase of French German collaboration. No confirmation yet from Vichy or Berlin, with prior hitches over Axis membership and shifting wartime pressures cited as influencing the move.
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Pardon Granted for Jan Valtin by Olson in Los Angeles
California Governor Culbert Olson pardoned Jan Valtin, author of Out of the Night, freeing him from deportation risk after his 1926 felony conviction in Los Angeles. Valtin, born Richard Krebs in Germany, had served three years at San Quentin for beating Maurice Goodstein with an unloaded revolver. His book alleged police methods of both Soviet and German secret services and became a bestseller.
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Culbert L. Olson
Jan Valtin
Waltin
Richard Krebs
Germany
San Quentin
Maurice Goodstein
Valtin
Ruesiat
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Gestapo
Britain rushes ships and troops to reinforce Far East
British warships are being rushed to the Far East and more troops dispatched to the Malaya fortress. First Lord of the Admiralty A V Alexander said Washington negotiations with Japan give Britain an opportunity to strengthen forces in Singapore waters.
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Malaya
Alexander
Nazi Retreat Along Azov Is Reported
Soviet high command announced a panic-stricken German retreat of about 100 miles from Rostov after Red troops recaptured the area. Moscow reports claimed new Soviet gains on all fronts with counterattacks and that Luftwaffe bombing of Moscow was halted in part as defenders recaptured villages approaching the city. The Timoshenko offensive stretched to the Sea of Azov coast, driving German divisions toward Mariupol while noting disintegration of several elite units.
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