British Warships Rush to Far East Amid Burma Invasion Fears
Britain deploys the 35,000-ton battle ship Prince of Wales with reinforcements to Singapore as tension grows over a potential invasion from Thailand. Japan presses for a new Asia order while U S officials press Tokyo over moves into Indo China and Thailand. The British control of shipping to Hongkong and Washington's firm stance reflect an escalating crisis in the Pacific.
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Associated Press
Britain
Prince of Wales
Singapore
Thailand
Far East
Washington
Roosevelt
Indo - China
Japan
State Department
Saburo
Hongkong
United States
Asia
Pacific
Nazi air attack sinks Lehigh after circling freighter
Norman Loeser of Huntington, a cadet engineer aboard the American freighter Lehigh, recounts that a German airplane circled the ship before it was torpedoed and sunk off the West Coast. He and crew spent two days in a lifeboat before rescue by a British motor launch. The explosion buckled the boiler room and flooded the engine room.
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Huntington
Norman Loeser
Loeser
Theatre ticket present for Rosemary Shaffer tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Rosemary Shaffer of 344 East Main Street to attend tonight's screenings. She may be admitted to either the Strand theatre showing Weekend in Havana or the Dixie theatre current attraction Great Guns. Identification may be required.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Rosemary Shaffer
East Main Street
Havana
Strand Theatre
Dixie Theatre
Australian Cruiser Sinks Steiermark After Desperate Battle
London reports the 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney sunk the German Raider Steiermark off Australia near the Cocos Islands. The official notice says Sydney and 645 sailors perished, while Steiermark left no survivors. The action ends months of raider threat, with Steiermark credited for sinking nine ships previously.
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London
Sydney
Germany
Australia
Cocos Islands
Steiermark
Kormoran
Churchill urges wider conscription in wartime Britain
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons Britain faces a manpower crisis in 1942. He proposed lowering the conscription age to 18 and raising it to 60, with draft of unmarried women 20 to 30 into uniformed service though only volunteers would be assigned to combat or lethal duties. He cited five drain sources: new factories staffing, forces in the East, aiding Russia, expanding air force, and navy growth, plus invasion and air raid risks.
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London
Churchill
Parliment Today
Britain
House of Commons
United States
Russia
Draft Evader Family Guilty Facing Sentence
Willie Lawrence Hicks and his parents William and Mrs Hicks were convicted by a jury in Charleston West Virginia for conspiring to evade the Selective Service. They face sentencing tomorrow before Federal Judge Ben Moore in district court. The case marked a first in West Virginia. The defendant claimed a 1920 birth date while the government asserted 1918.
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Charleston
Willie Lawrence Hicks
William Hicks
Ben Moore
Selec
Laney
West Virginia
Hicks
Notice: St Pauls Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society Dinner Postponed
The covered dish dinner scheduled for today December 2 by the St Pauls Lutheran church Women’s Missionary Society is postponed to Saturday December 6 at 6 p.m. Dr Burger will be guest speaker.
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Women's Missionary Society of the
False Teeth Save Man During Rifle Accident
MISSOULA Mont. Dec 2 The metal lowers of Ray Hemingway's store teeth probably saved his life They deflected a bullet accidentally fired by a .22 caliber rifle Hemingway escaped serious injury
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Missoula
Mont
Ray Hemingway
Hemingway
Threat of Rail Strike Ends After Parley
Washington reports a settlement of the threatened railroad strike strengthens support for moderate defense industry labor legislation. The House debates a 60 day cooling off period and a national mediation board with possible government seizure of facilities. Alternatives include compulsory arbitration and freezing union status in defense industries.
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Washington
House
House Labor Committee
National Mediation Board
Stri
Naval Committee
Mediation Board
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Defense
Welders End Week Strike at Morgantown Ordnance Works
Sixty seven welders at Morgantown Ordnance Works will return to work on an open shop basis after a week-long strike. Union vice president M A Brown said the end of the walkout followed a looming deadline for AFL Steamfitters Local 449 of Pittsburgh to supply welders to the contractor.
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Morgantown
Morgantown Ordnance Works
M. A. Brown
United Brotherhood of Welders
AFL
Pittsburgh
Pottsville Adds Third Turkey Day In Nation Mood
Pottsville, Pennsylvania marks a third turkey day as a compromise amid Thanksgiving date debates. The town follows a last Thursday and presidential date, adding another local holiday to boost the coal region’s home economy and celebrate local blessings. The piece notes ongoing state and national confusion over Thanksgiving timing.
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Pottsville
Germans Join Panzer Units Regain Rezegh in Libya
Cairo reports Germans merge their 16th and 21st panzer divisions to cut a corridor to Tobruk in the Libyan desert. British lines at Rezegh and Bir el Hamdal were reported breached as Rommel’s forces drive westward while both sides reform. The move potentially opens an escape route for those encircled east of Tobruk.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Rezegh
Bir el Ham
Erwin Rommel
London
British East Fleet Lands in Singapore with Prince of Wales
Britain ships the 35000 ton Prince of Wales into Singapore as head of a new Eastern fleet. Admiral Tom Phillips commands the flotilla with other fleet units following. The move expands Britain’s Far East naval presence amid growing Japanese tensions and follows Churchill’s note of favorable Atlantic and Mediterranean conditions enabling reinforcements to the Orient.
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Singapore
Britain
Royal Navy
Prince of Wales
Tom Phillips
China
Far East
Pacific
Capetown
Churchill
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Orient
Invitation to Mrs Marguerite K Thayer at Opera House
A notice invites Mrs Marguerite K Thayer of 318 Walnut Street South of Tahiti to attend a performance now playing at the Opera House theater.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Marguerite K. Thayer
Walnut Street
Tahiti
Opera House
Four Wheeling Subsidiaries Named in U S Grand Jury Indictment
The Fidelity Investment association and four Wheeling West Virginia subsidiaries plus 13 individuals were named in a federal grand jury indictment charging violations of the securities and exchange act and mail fraud. The 12 count indictment alleges misleading statements in selling contracts and real estate asset overstatements. named defendants include Carmi A. Thompson and Howard Sutherland among others.
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Four Wheeling
Fidelity
Detroit
Fidelity Investment Association
Wheeling
W. Va
Securities and Exchange Act
Fidelity Assurance Association
the Investment Association
the Assurance Association
Charg
Grand Jury
Carmi A. Thompson
Cleveland
United State
Taft
Interior
Howard Sutherland
United ‘States
West Virginia
House of Representatives
Socialists Face Up To Ten Year Term In Federal Case
Minneapolis December 2 A possible federal prison term up to ten years loomed for 18 persons linked to the Socialist Workers party after a jury found them guilty of conspiracy to disrupt armed forces. Attorney Albert Goldman said all legal steps would be exhausted on appeal and planned to file soon in U S district court as Judge M M Joyce set Monday for sentencing following a raid on party offices and seizure of literature.
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Minneapolis
Socialist Workers Party
Albert Goldman
New York
M. M. Joyce
Joyce
St. Paul
Lake Lynn Miner Gives 15th Free Blood Transfusion
Uniontown report says 55 year old coal miner Henry Sailor G Doyle of Lake Lynn provided his 15th free blood transfusion at Uniontown hospital for a Frostburg Maryland woman. Doyle, a 16 year veteran of Army and Navy, has rare A2 blood used for streptococcal throat infection cases and expresses willingness to help others.
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Uniontown
Frostburg
Henry
Sailor
G. Doyle
Lake Lynn
Uniontown Hospital
Doyle
Fire Claims Two Lafferty Children in Mullens Residence
Ernest Lee Lafferty six and Laura Jane Lafferty seven died in a house fire in Mullens while four siblings escaped injury. A 16 year old son woke to barking dogs and carried the others from the burning home as the roof collapsed. Parents were away at the time.
British sergeant recalls Rommel talk and desert bombardment
In New York, a British staff sergeant recounts a Libya interview with Gen Erwin Rommel via an interpreter. He describes a British bombardment from the receiving end and a visiting German official who shouted insults at Hitler, before noticing the soldiers. The exchange ends with the car departing as the story shifts to page 5.
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New York
Libya
Erwin Rommel
North
Africa
Hitler
Champ Steer Awaits Crown In Big Livestock Exposition
In Chicago on December 2 1930 youth 15 year old T Richard Lacy from Kansas Til competes with 23 veteran contenders for the Grand Champion Steer title at the International Live Stock Exposition. The final day pits youth energy against experience as Lacy seeks the prize shared by 4 H club members nationwide and the industry.
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Chicago
Youthland Energy
America
T. Richard Lacy
Kansas
Nazis Routed at Rostov as Booty Seized
Soviet reports say German forces were driven from Rostov amid heavy snow and wind. Red Army cavalry and guerrillas aided the rout in the Donets basin and southwest, with Barabanovo recaptured and Germans abandoning weapons. Pravda and Izvestia cited German setbacks near Klin and Volokolamsk and the Rostov rout ending claims of invincibility.
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Moscow
Rostov
Red Army
Donets
Stalinogorst
Izvestia
Vilees
Barabanovo
Pravda
Klin
Volokolamsk
Voldkolamsk
Kutbyshev
Russia
Reds Present Ol To Turks
Soviet forces have delivered under convoy at Istanbul Turkey a significant shipment or signal affecting the Allied line. The move comes amid sensational fronts in the American Japanese crisis the Rostov Nazi raid and the Libyan desert drive. The report notes the development has been blacked out by other news.
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Rostov
Libyan
Istanbul
Turkey
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