Hitler Nervous Attacks Highlight Caucasus Oil Drive
The article explains Hitler cannot halt his attack cadence as German forces press along the Leningrad Moscow front. It notes the focus shifts to the Caucasus oil fields, crucial for Germany and a key strategic objective beyond oil, impacting oil supplies for both war and industry. It cites General Sewell on Germany’s need to strike, and stresses the oil’s global strategic weight.
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India
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National Geographic Society of Washington
Soviet Union
United States
Fuehrer
Federal action discussed to clean Bragg vice scene
Governor Broughton said Fort Bragg could request federal aid to wipe out prostitution and other vice if local efforts fail. Brigadier General Parker urged a meeting of Bragg officers and nearby counties to consider invoking the May Act, with a conference set for November 19 in Raleigh. Counties invited include Harnett Moore Stanly Anson Scotland Robeson Sampson Wake Durham Bladen Lee Montgomery Union Richmond Hoke Cumberland Johnston Randolph and Columbus.
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Roosevelt Won't Force Coal Workers Into Unions
President Roosevelt urged CIO United Mine Workers and steel firms to keep negotiating to forestall a strike in captive coal mines. He stated the government will not compel minority non union workers to join and opposed a closed shop. A progress report on an agreement was requested for Monday.
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Roosevelt
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United States
Congress
Japs Strengthen War Effort Ahead of Parliament Session
Tokyo moved to widen military mobilization on the eve of a special Diet session. The cabinet approved an extraordinary 3.8 billion yen war fund and the war office announced a sweeping revision of conscription rules. Doei and other Japanese circles warned that changes to the Neutrality Law would worsen the Pacific crisis. Saburo Kurusu, the Japanese envoy, pressed for talks in Washington as major diet speeches were postponed for his report.
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War Office
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Atlantic
Pacific
Washington
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Kurusu
Germans Driven From Tula In Two Front Setbacks
Soviet Tass and Moscow radio report Germans driven from the southern outskirts of Tula after a two week battle. They claim 15 tank assaults failed, mains forces smashed, and that Germans were pushed back on both wings toward Moscow as Red Star notes losses and terrain gains for the Soviets.
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Tass
Tula
Redezresny
Soviet Flows
Red Star
Maloyaroslavets
Ingersoll Series Returns to England War Spots
Ralph Ingersoll continues his Penetrating articles on the world at war. The Enterprise features the first of a series on his return to England and other war spots after a year of renewed conflict. He previously reported Russia and now visits Britain during intensified air raids.
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Russia
England
Ingersoll
Britain
Russia rejects Japanese demands on liner sinking
Russia replied to Japan's protest over the Kehi Maru sinking in the Sea of Japan. Moscow rejected major Japanese claims as Ambassador Simetanin delivered the note to Foreign Minister Togo. Japan said 126 were dead or missing. FBI to give civilian defense courses across several cities in coming months.
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Russia
Japan
Sea of Japan
Constantin Simetanin
Shigenori Toga
Foreign Office
Return to England by Ralph Ing ersoll Copsticht
A travel vignette recounts a return to London after a round the world voyage, with vivid observations from a Catalina flying boat over Gibraltar and the English Channel. The narrator describes convoy ships, balloons, Hurricanes, and the Scilly Isles as the moving backdrop to late morning skies and sea.
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England
Gibraltar
Scilly Isles
Los Angeles Quake Triggers Fires and Cracked Buildings
A powerful early morning quake rattled the Los Angeles area, the third in five months and the strongest since 1933, shaking structures from Long Beach to Torrance. A 12 story apartment crack, a transformer blast with blue flames, and oil tanks splitting near Wilmington were reported, with fire crews quickly guarding scenes as alarms triggered across the city.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles Shipyards
Wilmington
Harbor
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Gardena Fire Department
Vermont Avenue
Sea Freedom for U S Ships Voted by House
The House passed the ship arming measure ending Neutrality Act limits on U S merchantmen. The vote was 212 to 194, lifting prohibitions since 1939 and granting authority to mount guns if attacked. Speaker Rayburn signed as Vice President Wallace awaited Senate concurrence.
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Roosevelt
Senate
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R. Ore
U S Marines Withdrawn From Shanghai and China
President Roosevelt announced the United States would withdraw American marines from Shanghai Tientsin and Peiping China about 750 troops stationed in three cities. He wouldn’t discuss links to Japan diplomacy or plans to meet Japan’s envoy Saburo Kurusu and expressed hope war could be avoided in the Pacific.
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Roosevelt
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Tientsin
Peiping
China
Japan
Saburo Kuru
Pacific
Ark Royal Sunk After Torpedo Hit Near Gibraltar
The four year old Ark Royal, a 22,000 ton carrier with about 1,600 crew, was torpedoed late yesterday east of Gibraltar likely by an Italian submarine and sank early today while in tow. Many crew were rescued. casualties described as not heavy. The fallen ship is Britain’s third aircraft carrier loss of the war, leaving seven carriers in commission and two more planned for 1942. The fate of Captain L E H Maund and his wife remained unclear. Continued reporting noted the Mediterranean as her last theatre of operation.
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Bismarck
Greenland
Iceland
Jane’s Fighting Ships
Revision Angers Axis and Britain Over U S Neutrality Act
Bitter reaction spread from Berlin to Rome and Tokyo as nations condemned U S Congress for revising the neutrality act. Germans warned of dangerous paths, Rome warned of attacks on ships, while London papers hailed the move as boosting Allied will. Ottawa’s Mackenzie King called it doom for the axis powers.
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London Daily Express
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Pacific
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Hull
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London Evening News
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Canada
W. L. MacKenzie King
Missing Ambassadors Plane Sought by Iran Reports
Teheran November 15 The Soviet embassy said no news of the missing plane carrying U S Ambassador Laurence A Stein hardt and Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff along with other officials with a note that a number of passengers including an American woman journalist Alice Moats and writer Quentin Reynolds were aboard The British legation said the interior of Iran delays hindered communications and a mistaken report of a landing at Pahlevi was clarified The embassy urged calm while the search continued.
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Iran
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Maxim Litvinoff
Deen
Kuibyshev
Russia
Alice Moats
Quentin Reynolds
Pahlevi
Baku
Survivors report 13 ships sunk in convoy of 53
Fifteen survivors of the torpedoed Bold Venture dock in Boston and say 13 vessels in their 53 ship convoy were sunk the night of Oct 16 in the north Atlantic. They note Groothers lost earlier and Kearny was torpedoed that night. The missing crew were all in the Bold Venture’s after section. none of the missing were Americans.
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t-Pi
Bold Venture
North Atlantic
Groothers
Kearny
Alssunn
Panama
United States
Iceland
Ciel
Karl Clausen
North Carolina Methodists reaffirm antiwar stance
Durham November 15. The North Carolina Methodist conference reaffirmed opposition to war and deplored measures toward full participation. The commission on world peace adopted a report supporting the president and leaders while recalling solemn assurances not to be led into war.
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North Carolina Methodist Conference
Commission On World Peace
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