Stevens Linked to British Sabotage Plot Against Axis Ships
London based captain Richard Henry Stevens, named by the Gestapo as chief of British intelligence for Western Europe, confessed to aiding a sabotage campaign against German Italian and Japanese ships. The Gestapo cited Stevens as directing plots from a London office and using emigrant Waldemar Poetzsch to wreck vessels including the Norderney Hestia Feronia and Force. Poetzsch was later arrested and released before being jailed in Copenhagen for espionage.
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Berlin
Richard Henry Stevens
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Stevens
Gestapo
Europe
Waldemar Poetsch
Secret
London
Norderney
Hestia
Feronia
Poetzsch
Copenhagen
England
Special Defense Revenue Planned Consideration
President revealed that a special tax to finance national defense expenditures may be considered and could rise by 500000 dollars in the next fiscal year. The proposal centers on funding defense needs for the upcoming period.
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Warm Springs
Elt
Congress
Roosevelt
Vance Dies Former Presbyterian Leader At 78 In Blow ing Rock
Dr James Isaac Vance longtime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States died at his home in Blowing Rock at age 78 after a long illness. He served as moderator of the 1917 General Assembly and later led the churchs foreign mission executive committee. He resigned the Nashville pastorate in 1936 after 32 years. Born Arcadia Tennessee on September 25 1862 he earned degrees from King College and Union Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1886.
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Blowing Rock
James Isaac Vance
Presbyrian Church
United States
Dr. Vance
General Assembly
Protestant Relief
Europe
First Presbyterian Church of
Nashville
Tenn
Arcadia
King College
Bristol
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Tom the Cat Killer Strikes in Twilight Hollow
In Charleroi Pennsylvania on November 24 a feline killer strikes again. Two housecat victims are found shot and suspended from barbed wire with a chilling sign reading Death to them all Tom the Cat Killer. Residents suspect a hunter with a vendetta against cats repeating a six year pattern.
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Charleroi
Tom
Twilight Hollow
Tom the Cat
Golden Angel Testimony Undercuts Kuhn Love Claims
New York November 24 Fritz Kuhn's Golden Angel Florence Camp rebutted Kuhn's testimony in his grand larceny trial. Camp testified Kuhn urged divorce and moving furniture to New York for their marriage and said she never contributed to the Bund. She identified a diamond ring Kuhn had given her and said Kuhn claimed the letter was written in fun. Camp said she had never heard of the Bund before meeting Kuhn aboard the Westernland and denied knowing Bund officials
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New York
Florence Camp
Golden Angel
Fritz Kuhn
Bundesfuehrer
Kuhn
Los Angeles
Herman J. McCarthy
Camp
Bund
Semsman
G. W. Kunze
Nordland
Andover
N. J. Kunze
Mrs. Camp
McCarthy
Herman Schwind
The
Schwind
Dutch Officer Killed in Venloo Border Incident
The Netherlands reports that Lieut. Klop an intelligence officer was killed during the Venloo border incident on November 9. British prisoners Sigismund Best and Capt. Richard Stevens were seized with the Britons claiming undercover peace work. Eight Germans carried the group into Germany amid conflicting accounts of where the incident occurred.
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Hague
Amsterdam
Het Volk
Netherlands Army
Lieut
Klop
Netherlands
Lieut. Klop
J. Lemmens
Sigismund Payne Best
Richard Henry Stevens
Munich
Adolf Hitler
Venloo
Nethelands
Germany
Allies Shoot Down 20 Nazi Planes In Battle
Paris reports Allied air superiority on the western front with French and American aircraft downing eleven German planes in three days and British fliers destroying nine more over two days. Berlin contested the totals while the French also claimed sinking a German submarine Admiral Mouchez in the English Channel.
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Germany
Berlin
France
RAF
Royal Air Force
Mouchez
English Channel
Jap Troops Occupy Nanning Capital in South China Drive
Japanese forces on a South China offensive seized Nanning the provincial capital of Kwangsi. Domei said the occupation finished at 2 10 p m local time. Nanning lies 80 miles north of the coast landing aimed to sever Chungking backdoor lifelines to French Indo China and British Burma.
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Tokyo
Domei
South China
Chungking
Nanning
Kwangsi
Indo-China
Burma
China
Great Britain
Thanksgiving Mishaps Claim 84 Lives Nationwide
A Thanksgiving toll reports at least 84 people killed across 25 stores and states, most from highway crashes. Notable incidents include a 69 year old Cleveland grandmother dying of a heart attack upon seeing a boy hit, and multiple traffic and hunting fatalities across Ohio New York Maryland Wisconsin and other states.
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Cleveland
Ida O'Laughlin
Roger Krull
Wisconsin
Maryland
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Mississippi
Utah
Illinois
West Virginia
Indiana
Connecticut
Virginia
California
Iowa
Massachusetts
Vermont
Texas
Georgia
Oregon
North Carolina
New Jersey
Missouri
Rhode Island
Montana
Nazis Forfeit Olympic Games
Berlin reports the winter Olympic Games at Garmisch Partenkirchen are canceled by Hans von Tschammer Ostten and the German Olympic Committee due to the IOC ruling that a belligerent nation cannot host. Japan had already withdrawn both games as World War II continued with English and French rejection of Germany’s peace proposals. Construction work on the new artificial ice rink and bath continues.
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Berlin
Garmisch- Partenkirchen
Hans von Tschammer Osten
Organization Committee
International Olympic Committee
Japan
Germany
Bath
Dies urges severing ties with Soviet Russia over treaty breaches
Representative Dies of Texas, head of the House Un American Activities Committee, calls for breaking relations with the Soviet Union unless Moscow pledges to end actions violating the 1933 recognition treaty. He cites evidence of conspiracy to dodge passport laws and steal industrial and military secrets, and says administration aid is needed to continue the inquiry.
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Washington
Dies
Dtex
House Committee On un-American Activities
United States
Soviet Russia
Russia
Communist Party
Moscow
Holiday buck shatters Latrobe shop window
A five point buck wandered from the mountains into Latrobe Pennsylvania. It crashed through the Miller and Bigg furniture store plate glass window and then into a department store display. Druggist Thomas Miller shot the animal ending the incident and providing a venison dinner.
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Latrobe
Miller and Bigg
Thomas Miller
Latrobe Hospital
Negro Killer Put To Death In North Carolina
Raymond Williams, 20, a Negro murderer, was executed by gas at State's Prison Raleigh on November 24. His confession saved his brother Nathan Reif's life after the Thanksgiving Day slaying in Sampson County. Henry Williams was commuted to life imprisonment. Lee Simpson serves 30 years.
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Raleigh
Raymond Williams
State's
Nathan Reif
Sampson County
Raymond
Henry Williams
Lee Simpson
Hoey
Henry
Simpson
H. H. Wilson
German high command corroborates Belfast damage claim
Berlin reports corroboration from a submarine that the 10,000 ton British cruiser Belfast sustained heavy damage in the Firth of Forth. The notice also says German forces shot down three enemy aircraft and kept air reconnaissance over France amid ongoing clashes near Verdun and Saarbrucken.
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Berlin
High Command
Belfast
Firth of Forth
New York Times
New York
Associated Press
Ish
France
Verdun
Saarbruecken
Zweibrucken
Germans Use Parachute Mines Hit English Shipping
British shipping losses mounted as the 8836 ton Mangalore went down off England's east coast and the Sliedrecht tanker was sunk by a submarine. German planes over Shetland caused air raid warnings as the admiralty kept silent on reports of British submarine and mine activity.
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London
England
Mangalore
Shetland Islands
Scotland
Netherlands
Sliedrecht
Admiralty
Belfast
Firth of Forth
British Press Association
Britain
Germany
Thames
British Claim Peace Motives Behind Seized Britons
British authorities say Capt Richard Stevens and Sigismund Best were attempting to verify a German peace offer when seized by the Gestapo on the Dutch border. A Netherlands observer accompanied them. the British government says all they learned was relayed home.
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London
Richard Henry Stevens
Sigismund Payne Best
Stevens
Best
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Gestapo
Munich
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berlin
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