Britons Clamor For Action As Nazis Drive Closer To Moscow
Washington reports a push to widen the neutrality act revision to arm merchant ships and allow them to sail into war zones. Senate leaders weigh expanding limits while supporters argue for quick, joined action on armed ships and freedom of the seas amid rising war pressure.
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Moscow
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
John Cudahy
Belgium
Cudahy
Poland
Ireland
Davies Finerty
New York
Stephen T. Early
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Texas
Morrell Workers Seek $200,000 Back Pay and Penalties
Six employees aided by the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee and the local Packers Union sue John Morrell & Company in federal court in Sioux Falls. They allege violations of the Wage and Hour Act, with more than $100,000 unpaid and up to $160,000 in doubled penalties for overtime under regulations.
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Sioux Falls
John Morrell & Company
six_employes
Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee
Local Packers Union
CIO
Gurney Calls For Full Repeal Of Neutrality Act
Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota told President Roosevelt that half measures are over and urged outright repeal of the Neutrality Act of 1939. He joined Senators Austin of Vermont and Bridges of New Hampshire in seeking repeal, warning that the nation faces disaster if Hitler wins and that compromise has reached its limit.
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Washington, D. C
Hitler
United States
Chan Gurney
South Dakota
Roosevelt
Austin
Vermont
Bridges
New Hampshire
Senator Gurney
Sea Gurney
Woman Survives Gruelling Ordeal in Alaskan Forest
FAIRBANKS Alaska Oct 23 Miss Lucille Wright a veteran nurse with the U S Indian Bureau in Alaska was rescued after spending 48 hours in a freezing blizzard. She became lost in a snowstorm Monday while driving a dog team between Tetlin and Moose Creek about 200 miles east of Fairbanks. With no matches to make a fire she hid in the forest and was found by an Indian from Tetlin. A radio message reported she was unharmed aside from frost bitten toes and exhaustion.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Lucille Wright
U. S. Indian Bureau
Wright
Minneapolis
Tetlin
Moose Creek
Albert Declares Candidacy for State Treasurer in 1942
Canton reports Alvin L. Albert Linco County auditor announced his run for state treasurer on the Republican ticket. Albert GOP county chairman and two term auditor, previously a local businessman, broke the ice in 1942 campaigns with the public declaration.
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Canton
Alvin L. Albert
Linco County
South Dakota
Albert
GOP
Iceland coalition cabinet resigns over price policy dispute
In Reykjavik Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson and his four member coalition cabinet resigned after a parliamentary crisis stirred by the Progressive Party's bid to regulate prices amid war boosted living costs from British and U.S. occupation. Regent Sveinn Bjornsson urged continuation until a new cabinet is formed. Separately in Washington Ickes said East petroleum shortage fears were largely erased.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Hermann Jonasson
England
Progressive Party
United States
Sveinn Bjoérnsson
Eysteinn Johnsson
Jonasson
Crowning Of Tiger King And Queen Tonight At Huron High
Huron High School prepares Tiger Day homecoming events with 7 30 pm crowning of Tiger Queen Alice Mae Bond and Tiger King Reedy Berg in the school auditorium. Bond is active in band Glee Club chorus and theatre. Berg is a junior year sports editor and tennis participant.
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Huron High School
Alice Mae Bond
Reedy Berg
LaVila Brenner
Robert Klar
Alice Mae
S. J. Bond
Utah Avenue
Huron
Willow Lake
Pi Alpha Jota
Old Vienna
A. M. Berg
Utah Avenue Southeast
Reedy
Brookings
20 000 Miners Idle and Threat of Coal Strikes
The CIO United Mine Workers called a strike in captive coal mines affecting 20 000 Alabama miners and about 21 000 in western Pennsylvania. Mines are run by H. C. Frick Coke Company Youngstown Sheet and Tube Bethlehem Weirton Wheeling Crucible Republic Steel. Mediation board to issue recommendation by Saturday. Other regions report CIO rebellion in Detroit and a Pittsburgh AFL mediation near a walkout over building trades. See STRIKES Page Two.
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Alabama
CIO United Mine Workers
National Defense Mediation Board
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehem, Weirton, Wheeling, Crucible and Republic Steel Companies
William H. Davis
Mediation Board
CIO
United Mine Workers
Office of Production Management
Detroit
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Orval Kincaid
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Pittsburgh
AFL
Pittsburg
AFL Central Labor Union
Building Trades Council
Duquesne Light Company
San Diego
Calif
Ryan Aeronautical Company
United Aircraft Welders of America
Chicago
Roosevelt
Investigat
Fees Give Up On Lend-Lease Bill
Washington observers note opposition has resigned to defeat and focused on record debate as the Senate begins action on the 5.985 billion lend-lease measure. Senator Nye questions the cost and risk, urging curbs to keep the policy within reason while considering which nations may receive aid.
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Washington
Senate
Nye
North Dakota
Republican
Britain
Utebs
pBcesia
Pew
Japan Times proposes Japan as last chance mediator
The Japan Times editorial envisions Japan as the sole vehicle for world harmony offering a last chance for anti Axis powers to seek mediation in the European war. It stresses Japan’s paramount pacifier role while warning it will defend its interests even at great cost, including war with the United States.
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Japan
Tokyo
Japan Times and
Foreign Office
Germany
Far East
United States
Pacific Ocean
England Ready to Take Grave Risks for Russia War Debate
In a full-dress wartime debate Laborite Noel-Haker declares the people of England ready to take grave risks to aid the USSR. Churchill calls for British attacks on Italy and night landings, while Beaverbrook says US and Britain pledged to cover Russia's losses in tanks and planes as Moscow battles continue. Strong German advances and Soviet defense surround Kalinin near Moscow with Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian troops aiding the Donets basin fighting.
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Britain
Winston Churchill
Italy
Russia
Ukraine
Philip J. Noel-Haker
House of Lords
United States
Joseph Stalin
Lesses
Ussr
Moscow
Anon
Verdun
Tokraine
Adolf Hitler
Kalinin
Donets River
Red
Tass
More Frenchmen Destined To Die
In Vichy an ominous ultimatum forces France to surrender the two killers of Lieut. Col. Paul Hotz. German authorities threaten 50 additional French deaths if the assassins are not handed over by midnight. Nantes is sealed, curfews and disruption escalate as Marshal Petain appeals for calm to spare further bloodshed.
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Vichy
Paul Friedrich Hotz
Nantes
Hotz
Bordeaux
France
Marshal Petain
Britain to ask United States for expeditionary force soon
DEWIT MACKENZIE argues that Britain will seek an Allied front in the Caucasus and an American engineering push to bolster Middle East defense. He asserts Hitler will target Caucasus oil, and Britain’s push for U S help may come despite U S neutrality claims, noting Wendell Willkie’s stance.
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Dewit
MACKENZIE _ Phere
Rotarn
Eden
Iran
Ersia
Caucasus
Germany
Hitler
Middle East
Persia
Turkey
Britain
United States
Wendell L. Willkie
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