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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1941
Page
1
President Roosevelt spends Thanksgiving day in Washington attending to state duties amid coal strike concerns. Sixteen states observe earlier turkey day while the President plans a second Thanksgiving at Warm Springs if possible. He vows a full turkey dinner with Mrs. Roosevelt and James Roosevelt as most offices close.
London reports British submarines torpedoed an Italian tanker Tampico of 4,938 tons and a medium size German supply ship in the Mediterranean. The naval communique says both ships were heavily laden southbound with escorts and nearly sunk, while a likely escort was hit and a petrol schooner was set ablaze by gunfire.
The Inter-Allied Information Committee states over 100000 killed and thousands imprisoned as hostage terror spreads through nine axis-occupied European countries. It cites Italian origin in Albania 1939, German refinement and Bulgarian mass reprisals in six Greek villages. It notes 12000 killed in two years of German actions, 30 of 2060 Polish ammo workers shot to break a strike, and over 3000 executed in Yugoslavia amid 100-for-1 retribution. Affected areas include Greek villages and Yugoslav towns with mass killings and village burnings.
Moscow reports Soviet Information Bureau communique on November 20 stating Russian forces annihilated more than 20,000 Germans in the Kerch battle and described an orderly withdrawal from the eastern Crimean fort to better positions. The communique also claimed destruction of 130 tanks, over 200 guns, 1,100 ammunition trucks, and 40 planes.
The United States declared a full restudy of relations with France amid renewed signs of closer Vichy collaboration with Germany. Undersecretary Sumner Welles told French ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye that severing diplomatic relations remained a possibility. The warning came as British forces pressed an offensive in Italian Libya near French North Africa. American officials fear Weygand's ousting could push Vichy toward stronger Reich alliance, impacting control of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia.
Washington reports hopes for a settlement fading as John L Lewis refuses compromise while President Roosevelt presses a peace plan. Violence flares in Fayette County Pennsylvania and a mine near Gary West Virginia injures a UMW member. Labor and government officials debate intervention, with Congress urged to prepare broad anti strike legislation. Roosevelt's plan calls for deferring the closed shop or submitting it to arbitration to restore mine production.
British Imperial Army of 750000, aided by RAF and Royal Navy, drives deep into Libya in a three-pronged offensive to eliminate Axis forces in North Africa, divert Russian efforts, and knock Italy out of the war. The assault began secretly at dawn on a ten mile front from the sea to the Ghadames oasis, pushing German and Italian armies back.
German forces press a renewed offensive toward Moscow and seek a triumph at Rostov as fighting rages at Volokolamsk Kalinin and Rostov. Moscow radio reports 15 000 assault troops and 80 Nazi tanks in the push while the Red Army repels a Tula attack. Additional notes suggest pressure on Moscow and Leningrad with details continued on page 2.
Ralph Ingersoll describes the Mediterranean as a blue sea running east to west with a narrow desert shore. He paints the Cairo Tel Aviv patch, the Crusader ruins, and a British outpost near Suez and Alexandria, framing a triangular land from the Nile to the Mediterranean. The piece blends travel observations with desert and sea imagery and hints at continuation on Page 3-B.
Berlin says offensive operations on the Eastern Front progress with success. German air forces bomb Soviet air bases on the northern Black Sea shore and along the Don. Rail lines east of the Volga reportedly bombed, Moscow targeted by daylight bombs. Eight Russian planes were shot down near Leningrad.
In a four day old mine workers strike over a union shop, a dawn clash between pickets and strikers at the Eudenborn mine area near Uniontown left three men wounded. Ernest Metaner, 29, of California, Pa, was shot through the left shoulder and hospitalized in Brownsville. Two others suffered grazing wounds to the face and leg. their identities were not released. Moments later James Maher, a Mine Engineer, was shot at but unhurt while driving through the picket line. his car was bullet damaged.
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain’s Libyan offensive, sprung from the Egyptian dawn, has yielded marked advantages and that the major test cannot be long delayed. He said the campaign aims to destroy German and Italian armies in Libya through a massive, mechanized battle, with swift armored warfare and air power.
In Vichy reports say Marshal Maxime Weygand left for southern France amid claims he resigned as pro-consul and North Africa military commander after three days of talks with Petain. The Paris paper Neuveaux Temps urged defense of Africa against a British American push and favored German collaboration within armistice terms. Fernand de Brinon then traveled to Vichy. purpose unclear.
Rome reports a 30 mile Marmarica front battle as British and Italian forces clash in North Africa. Ariete divisions claim to have encircled and destroyed part of the enemy tanks while others withdrew, with continuing fighting and air raids on Naples Brindisi Messina and Malta. A British advance claim is labeled illusory and propaganda by Italian sources.
Harvey Ruth alias Clifford or Tip Ruth, a paroled convict, was bound over to Randolph Superior Court on manslaughter charges. He allegedly drove a motorcycle in a collision that killed Private John Francis Ripley of the army, near Asuboro, after a wreck with a Gastonia driver. Ruth had been paroled from a ten year term for breaking and entering.
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