Coal Dispute Deadlocked Amid Midnight Strike Deadline
Washington dispatch reports a nationwide soft coal dispute nearing a strike after midnight as operators and the United Mine Workers remain deadlocked over a union shop in captive mines. President Roosevelt, War Secretary Stimson, and army officers discuss possible government action while Illinois operators sign a contract aligning with the Appalachian agreement. A Monday start looms as last minute talks with steel company owners continue.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Stimson
Army
John L. Lewis
Sttck
Aieutenant
Ilinois
Illnois
Lewis
C.I.0
Montana Faces Draft Total Of 4169 Men For Selective Service
State draft board figures show Montana will have sent 4169 men to the army by December 3, including 1138 volunteers, with 10753 unclassified as of September 30. County tallies list men in service through December 5 across dozens of counties. Roosevelt and Wheatland have furnished none since their guard units were mobilized in September 1940.
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Montana
State Draft Board
Beaverhead
Big Horn
Blaine
Broadwater
Carbon
Cascade
Choutpau
Custer
Daniels
Dawson
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Fergus
Flathead
Gallatin
Garfield
Glacier
Golden Valley
Granite
Hill
Jefferson
Judith Basin
Lake
Liberty
Lincoln
Madison
McCone
Meagher
Mineral
Missoula
Musselshell
Park
Petroleum
Phillips
Pondera
Powder River
Powell
Prairie
Rayalls
Richland
Rosebud
Sanders
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Treasure
Valley
Wibaux
Yellowstone
Roosevelt
Wheatland
Ace Nazi U-Boat Captains Target Ark Royal Sinkings
London reports one sailor dead in the sinking of the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal after German U-boat captains allegedly were sent to the Mediterranean to destroy it. Quarters differ on whether Hans George Reschke and Friedrich Guggenberger commanded the subs, but experts note Gibraltar’s ten mile strait as a feasible approach, with Italian subs involved in Atlantic access and possible German use of Italian yards.
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London
Navy
Mediterranean
Hans George Reschke
Friedrich Guggenberger
Gibraltar
Atlantic
High School Girl Kills Big Buck Near Helena
Helena high school student Leonine Garnett, 17, killed a 250 pound five point buck with her first shot at about 75 yards near Spring Hill mine. She was accompanied by Mrs. Donald Kerr of Kenwood. the buck’s weight required help to bring it in. The hunt closures for deer and elk had just ended.
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Leonine Garnett
Helena
Esterday
Spring Hill
Dick Garnett
Donald Kerr
Kenwood
Miss Ga
House Postpones Consideration of Price Control Bill
Washington reports postponement of next weeks schedule for price control legislation to allow White House leaders to seek revisions. Administrations proposals include licensing, a ceiling on farm prices, and government power to buy or sell commodities to maintain price stability. The U S Chamber of Commerce urged straightforward control laws and a wage referendum.
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Washington
Pj— House
Banking Committee
Rayburn
McCormick
United States Chamber of Commerce
Neantime
Chamber
Yugoslavians Claim Most of Serbia Taken from Nazis
London reports say exiled Yugoslav spokesman cites 360000 guerrillas in relenting mountain warfare wresting most of Serbia from the Axis. He says three armies operate in Bosnia Montenegro Serbia and Herzegovina and actually control three fourths of Serbia. Premier Sinmovic claims 8100 executions in cities Belgrade Sabac Kragujevac and Kraljevo after clashes with German troops.
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London
Serbia
Bosnia
Montenegro
Heracegovina
Servia
Dusan Sinmo
Vic
Radio Tonight
Belgrade
Sabac
Kragujevac
Kraljevo
Old Indian Fighter Is Dead in New York
Captain William Henry Wheeler, 89, a retired U.S.A. officer who fought Indian campaigns in Texas and the southwest and against Sioux and Cheyenne in Montana and North Dakota, died today in Gardment New York. A Brecksville Ohio native, he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1874, his class marching at President Grant’s 1873 inauguration.
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Gardment
N. Y
William Henry Wheeler
U.S.A
Texas
Southwest Indian Territory
Montana
North Dakota
Brecksville
Ohio
United States Military Academy
Grant
Weather outlook for Monwan east of the Divide
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions with rain on the west and south, and snow in the north and east. Colder air settles in the east and south Sunday, with Monday turning cloudy and possibly snowy in the east. West areas see light rain and snow in the mountains Sunday into Sunday night, then partly cloudy Monday. Little overall temperature change expected.
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Monwan
Peratures
Nine Die After Bus Plunge in Rushville Indiana
A Cincinnati to Indianapolis Greyhound bus plunged from a 257 foot embankment on Indiana Route 44 near Rushville. Nine passengers and the driver died. ten others injured, some seriously. Names listed include Andrew Hansen, John Pavey, Mrs Tabula Avery and two children. Unidentified bodies found. baggage identified Buck McKinney of South Bend.
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Rushville
Ind
Indianapolis
Here
Indiana Road
Andrew Hansen
Cincinnati
Greenuk Green
Rush County
Hansen
John Pavey
Sabina
Ohio
Tabula Avery
Ciondinnatt
Nazis Claim More Gains In Sevastopol Area
Berlin reports hard fighting Nazi divisions gained more territory in the Kerch and Sevastopol sectors of Crimea as Sevastopol base fate nears. Russian counter attacks near Moscow repulsed with loss of 44 Soviet tanks. Luftwaffe then focused on Moscow and Leningrad with rail and airfield raids.
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Berlin
Kerch
Sevastopol
Crimea
Dn.b
Moscow
Leningrad
Baltic
Murimansk
Arctic Victory Report From Murmansk Front Rages
The Associated Press notes German troop transports were sunk during a failed landing along the Murmansk coast. Moscow radio announced Italian losses in the Donets basin and claimed Russian forces reached the coast after a seven to nine mile march, signaling a slowdown in the German advance on Leningrad and Moscow.
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Associated Press
Murmansk
Moscow
Donets
Arctic
Med
Rybachi
Barents Sea
Adolf Hitler
Leningrad
Tueve
Fucheer
Germans Desperate for Oil As War Rages Across Crimea
London dispatch says Germany is making a desperate eastward push toward the Caucasus to seize vital oil reserves. A foreign source claims Germans have dipped into reserves since June and may exhaust them by winter 1942. Russian defenses stiffen from Leningrad to Ukraine as weather and disorganization hinder German mobility. Russian air power disrupts rear lines while fighting remains stubborn in Crimea and northern front.
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London
Germany
Crimea
Caucasus
Trussia
Leningrad
Moscow
Ukraine
Sempling
Ceuter
Poland
France
Red Army
Crimean
Kerek
Sevastepii
Moscow Radio
Murmansk
South Dakota Youths End Crime Spree In Yellowstone Park
Three Mitchell youths Harold Bauer Fred Thompson and Dean Upton all 18 to 19 held up a Butte party and stole a 1941 Packard sedan. Rangers tracked them through three counties and park wilderness to a hideout in Crystal Springs Yellowstone. They were jailed at Mammoth awaiting WRAL agents.
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Yellowstone Park
Wye
Mitchell
S. D
Crystal Springs
Yellowstone National Park
Butte
Rifle Point
August Grunert
Montana Mining Association
Park
F.D. LaNoue
Harold Charles Bauer
Fred Thompson
Dean Upton
Thehree
Mammoth
WRAL
LaNoue
L. L Westlake
Boze Ian
Vast
Grunert
Bulta
Billings
William Thirloway
Thomas Gribble
Fack Bachis
J. B. Gribble
National Defense
Three Forks
Several Are Killed by Quake in Turkey
Erzincan district in eastern Turkey rocked by a second earthquake in three days. Rail traffic to Central Anatolia halted by tunnel cave-ins. Final shocks caused 10 deaths and about 100 injuries in the train canal area, echoing a deadly Christmas quake two years prior.
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Turkey
Tatanbul
Erzincan
Anatolia
Traincan
Conferences on Far East Crisis to Open
Saburo Kurusu, a special Japanese envoy, arrived in Washington to open talks aimed at easing tensions in the Orient. He said he had a fighting chance if there is U.S. sympathy, while Ambassador Nomura and American officials cautioned on the difficulty of negotiations as Japan presses seven demands, including ending U.S. aid to China.
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Washington
Saburo Kurusu
Orient
Pacific
Tokyo
Washington National
Kichisaburo Nomura
United States
Japan
Kurueu
America
Nomura
Weil 25 Kurusu
Canadian Force Arrives in Hong Kong to Bolster Defenses
Ottawa reports the arrival of a Canadian force in Hong Kong five days after Churchill warned Japan that war with the United States would bring a British declaration of war within the hour. Brigadier J. K. Lawson commands the force, part of a broader Commonwealth reinforcement of the Orient garrison as Japan’s Diet meets amid the Sino-Japanese conflict.
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Ottawa
Hongkong
W. L. Mackenzie King
Winston Churchill
Japan
United States
Britain
Singapore
Orient
J. K. Lawson
Inokyo
Army Bomber Fails To Show Hunts To Be Made
A Bangor based army officer said a search would start at dawn for a missing B 18 bomber overdue from Westover Field Chicopee Massachusetts. The plane had fuel to last until 7 18 p m last night and radio chatter indicated it was over Auguste Island with 15 minutes flying time remaining. In Montana, the 1942 Montana Restaurant Association meeting was set for Missoula February 17 and 18 with directors approving plans.
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Bangor
Ite
Army
Bangor Air Base
Westover Field
Chicopee
Mass
Auguste, Inc
Sea Bangor
Billings
Montana Restaurant Association
Missoula
Lethbridge Pastor Speaks on Good Will Exchange Program
The Rev. Gordon V. Crofoot of First Baptist Lethbridge Alberta will speak at three services today as part of a five year good will exchange with Helena pastors. He appears at 11 am at First Baptist, at 6:30 pm at First Christ Church, and at 8 pm at another service where Mayor Jack Haylin will introduce him. A noon joint meeting with Helena service clubs follows at the Placer Hotel.
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Lethbridge
Good Will
Gordon V. Crofoel
First Baptist Church
Alberta
M. J. McPike
Selease
Helena
Mr. Crofoot
First
Christ‘Wan
Qhareh
Anton
Servien
Jack Hayalin
Will
Helens
Plater Hotel
Crofoot
Braduate
Lewistown Girl Wounded in Accidental Shot Incident
In Lewistown on Nov 15 Marjorie McVeda a 14 year old high school sophomore was critically wounded by a 12 gauge shotgun discharged while viewing a buck shot by a teen friend Buster Barbee 16. The gun rested in Barbee's converted coupe when it fired, piercing her back.
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Lewistown
Marjorie MceVeda
Buster Barbee
Barbee
William McVeda
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Brookfield
Saburo Kurusi
Italy
U.S
Axis Indian
Subhas Chandra Bose
M. K. Sandhi
Avis
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