Sinking Of Two Merchantmen Brings New Charges Of Piracy
Allied reports warn of renewed piracy charges as two merchant vessels are sunk. The Moscow front is described as bogged down by winter snows with Germany unable to break Soviet defenses near Mozhaisk and Leningrad. British and neutral sources note heavy fighting, stalled offensives, and intensified air raids on Naples.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Leningrad
London
Witdler
Mozhaisk
Hitler
Smolensk
Joseph Stalin
Kremlin
Red Tilnder
Tass
Semeon Timoshenko
Red
Sig
Donets River
Ukraine
Bryansk
High Command
Naples
Italy
Mary
Fremier Mussolini
RAF
Red Army
Moscow Radio
Maloyaroslavets
Kalinin
Fedor von. Bock
Raslavl
Kuibyshev
Paae
Important Homecoming Pow Wow Ceremonial At Huron College
The Huron College Pow Wow homecoming ceremony highlights the Indian ceremonial Friday at 8 15 p m in the college auditorium. Principal figures include Lester Ketzback Pierpont Chief Warrior Everett Bates Huron Big Chief and Velma Clemens Huron Princess. The public is invited to attend.
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Everett
Huron College
College
Lester Ketzback
Pierpont
Everett Bates
Huron
Velma Clemens
50 Frenchmen Slain In German Retaliation
Vichy unoccupied France Oct 22 Philippe Petain chief of staff announced that 50 Frenchmen were shot by German occupation authorities as retaliation for the assassination of German officers. A second German officer was killed in Bordeaux yesterday. Petain warned 50 more would die if the culprits were not captured by midnight tomorrow. The report notes the first 50 were shot at Nantes and cites continued German reprisals.
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Vichy
France
Phillipe Petain
Bordeaux
Jean Darlan
Nantes
Paul Friederich Hots
Jones Petain
Army of Occupation
Boulevard St. Georges
Germany
Lost Girl From Forest Stranded Eight Days In New Hampshire
Five year old Pamela Hollingworth of Lowell Massachusetts was found after eight days lost in the Mt. Chocora wilderness. Doctors say she will not walk for two weeks due to frost bite and limited circulation in her legs. She stood briefly with help yesterday but experienced pain and fatigue and was told she would be allowed to walk today.
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Lowell
Mass
Pamela Hollingworth
New Hampshire
Mt. Chocora
Ralph E. Cole
Fam
War Today Japan’s Economic Position and War Prospects
Dewitt Mackenzie argues in The War Today that Japan’s weak economic footing would lead to defeat in a war with the United States. The Japan Times and Advertiser has urged Thailand against anti-Japanese elements, highlighting Siam’s strategic location near Singapore and potential to provoke Britain and the United States into conflict.
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Japan
U.S
Dewitt MacKenzie
Japan Times and Advertiser
Foreign Office
Thailand
Siam
Malaya
Singapore
London
Nippon
Times and Advertiser
MacKenzie
Germans Defiant Over Ship Sinking Says Bold Venture
Berlin reports quote German officials denying any threat to the American continent as they respond to Hull’s testimony on arming American merchantmen. They insist one ship flies a Panama flag and claim facts remain unclear about the Bold Venture and Lehigh incidents.
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America
Berlin
Lehigh
Panama
United States
Cordell Hull
House
Hull
Social Security Tax Boost Talked
Washington reports Treasury sources say the administration may ask Congress to raise the employee share of social security taxes from 1 to 6 percent. Employers would pay 2 percent for old age pensions and 3 percent for unemployment insurance, totaling 5 percent. The plan aims to federalize unemployment programs and expand coverage to farm laborers, domestic workers, government staff, self employed, and educators. Officials estimate federal revenue could rise from 700 million to about 5 billion annually.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Federal Security
Agency
Quarnberg Named GSDA Head as 1942 Program Shaped
C A Quarnberg of Rapid City was elected GSDA president at the annual board meeting succeeding J M Foster of Sioux Falls. George A Starling of Huron re elected executive VP and treasurer. New directors were chosen and the Sanborn County Bank at Woonsocket was named depository for 1942. The board amended by laws to drop October committee meetings and to hold meetings after Sept 30. The 1942 program stresses cooperation with agencies, promotion of South Dakota, agriculture improvements, and boosting tourism with sorghum crop emphasis. Local committees urged to study county acreages and guide crops.
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Greater South Dakota Association
C. A. Quarnberg
Rapid City
GSDA
J. M. Foster
Sioux Falls
George A. Starling
Huron
C. B. Coon
Pierre
District No.3
J. Foster
Starring
Board of Directors
South Dakota
Committee On Agriculture
Convoy Escort Ships Funded In New Lend-Lease Bill
The 5.985 billion second Lend-Lease bill advances to the Senate with unpublished testimony revealing 325 million is earmarked for 50 convoy escort ships. Testimony notes possible diversion of funds to aid Russia and that food purchases for Great Britain may exhaust by month’s end. The bill faces quick debate and likely passage as Admiral Stark urges escort ships.
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Senate
Washington
Appropriations Committee
Russia
Great Britain
Adams
Colorado
Roosevelt
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Lehigh and Bold Venture Sink in Atlantic Seaway
Two more torpedoings push US merchantmen toll to ten as Lehigh sinks off Africa near the equator flying the American flag and Bold Venture, Panamanian registry, goes down off Iceland. All 39 crew of Lehigh reported rescued. search for survivors continues in the South and North Atlantic. President Roosevelt calls the Lehigh sinking piracy and urges arming American ships. Hull condemns piracy and supports anti piracy policy. White House signals possible neutrality act revision to let armed ships enter belligerent ports. Senate debate intensifies after six American vessels sunk in six weeks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Lehigh
Africa
Bold Venture
Iceland
United States Lines
South
North Atlantic
Bilbao
Spain
Gold Coast
Equator
South America
Seven Seas
Hull
Administration
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Wasi
Atlantic
White House
Stephen Early
Senate
Early
Secretary of State
Youthful Slayer Sentenced To Die
Cambridge dispatch reports 16 year old Raymond L Woodward of Reading pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the mutilation death of 15 year old Concord Shipp. He is sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of January 25 1942. Governor Saltonstall and the executive council may consider clemency on appeal.
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Cambridge
Mass
Raymond L. Woodward
Reading
Constance Shipp
Massachusetts
Young Woodward
Leverett Saltonstall
High Executive Council
Harold P. Williams
Shipp
Woodward
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Lester Ketzbacek
Petain
Princeton
N. J
Sven Rosseland
Princeton University
Hosseland
Rosseland
Norway
Siberia
Quarnberg
Senata Foreign Relations Committee
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
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