Armour Reaches Employee Peak at Huron Plant
L O Hoffman general manager of Armour and Company in Huron announced a new high in total employees since 1933 with 410 workers after adding 10. He noted livestock slaughter and farm income rising, citing 1026 cattle killed last week and a 1937 low of 33 head, with last January’s peak of 9400 lambs and 6300 hogs and plans to expand lamb facilities.
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South Dakota
L. O. Hoffman
Armour and Company
Huron
Hoffman
Turkey Shoot At St William's Church Near Yale
The annual fall festival and turkey shoot are set at St William's Catholic Church five and a half miles north and a mile east of Yale. The event is Sunday November 9 with the turkey shoot at 11 in the morning and a chicken dinner starting at 5 p.m.
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Yale
St. William’s Catholic Church
Four Die in Monticello Hotel Fire in Alexandria
A blaze ripped through the Monticello Hotel on King Street in Alexandria early today. Four men were burned to death while 12 people were rescued and 20 fled in night attire. several others treated for burns, cuts, and smoke inhalation at local hospitals.
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Alexandria
Monticello
King Street
Army Air Base Site Selections Narrowed to 11 Locations
Washington, Nov. 6. War department officials expect to have full information within ten days on selecting an army air base site from 11 locations surveyed by Air Corps Engineers. Potential sites include Sioux Falls, Watertown, and Rapid City, with others in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, and Colorado. Final choice to be forwarded for approval. base cost around two million dollars with 300 officers and 4,000 enlisted.
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Washington
War Department
Army Air Base
Air Corps Engineers
Robertson
North Dakota
Republican
Seventh Corps Army Area
Bismarck
Minot
N. D
Missoula
Great Falls
Mont
Casper
Wyo
Sioux Falls
Watertown
Rapid City
Salina
Emporia
Kan
Pueblo Cola
Frank M. Kennedy
Army Air Corps
Secretary of War
Litvinoff May Be U.S. Ambassador
Washington reports Maxim Litvinoff, longtime advocate of Soviet Western cooperation, chosen to be Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Former foreign affairs commissar, he would succeed Dumanovsky, who is in Russia, amid signs of renewed Soviet collaboration with anti Axis powers.
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Washington
Maxim M. Litvinoff
United States
Litvinoff
Peoples’ Commissar
Constantine Dumansky
Russia
Roosevelt
Germany
Geneva
League of Nations
Far East
Mussolini
East Africa
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Sovi
Stalin
Poland
Japan eyes Siberia as path to Pacific victory
The piece discusses Japan's strategic hopes tied to Russia's war with Germany and Moscow's resistance, noting how American, British, and Dutch actions shape Japan's moves toward Siberia. It highlights Hitler's claim of attacking the United States and implications for Axis aid, warning Japan may be pressed to engage U.S. naval power.
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Moscow
Tadig
Donets
Rostov-on-Don
Caucasus
Voroshilovgrad
Stalino
Rostov
Tula
Red Army
Caucasia
Germany
Russia
Siberia
Aarge Messure
European
Konoye
Washington
United States
Foreign Office
Adolf Hitler
Japan
Pacific
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