Daladier labor strike campaigns widen divides in France
Paris reports the Daladier government facing a 24 hour strike call from the General Confederation of Labor. Government promises public services will stay open amid union opposition, with warnings to avoid dangerous action. The deadlock centers on labor policies affecting factory workers miners and public services including rail transit.
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Daladier
Paris
Henry C. Cassidy
Charles Maret
General Confederation of Labor
Tanker Sylvia Bursts Into Flames Near Norfolk
The Texas Oil tanker Sylvia carrying 10,000 tons of gasoline from Norfolk to Newport News burst into flames in the Elizabeth River at Pinners Point after a collision with the tug Apollo of Merchants and Miners. Captain Pete Hamilton and another crewman jumped overboard. both were rescued uninjured.
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Texas Oil Company
Sylvia
Norfolk
Newporters
Nes
Elizabeth River
Pinners’ Point
Apollo
Merchants and Miners Eamship Company
Ker
Pete Hamilton
Insurgents Renew Valencia Drive At Dawn
Insurgent troops launched a dawn assault in the Nules sector renewing their push toward Valencia on the eastern seaboard. Government reports say the attack broke through barbed wire defenses but were repelled in close fighting, ending a five month pause as forces shifted from the Ebro front.
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Hendaye
France
Nules
Valencia
Ebro
Roosevelt hosts German Italian envoys at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt meets with German ambassador Hugh Wilson and Italian envoy William Ps at the Pine Mountain compound in Warm Springs to discuss oppression of Jews Catholics and Protestants in Europe. The leaders plan further talks to shape US policy on refugees and democracy cooperation.
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D. Harold Oliver
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
Pine Mountain
Europe
Hugh R. Wilson
Berlin
Paris
Rome
William P ‘Ps
White House
Will Moore
New York
State Department
Expensive airship Calpurnia wrecked near Iraq coast
Imperial Airways announced the Calpurnia flying boat worth 200000 was found wrecked in Lake Ramadi Iraq. One crew member died and three missing two injured. Radio Officer B B Rees was recovered while Steward D E Anderson and Stationed Harrison received aid. Pilot E H Attwood First Officer A N Spottiswoode and Flight Clerk F G Abee remained missing. A RAF rescue party relayed news to Lake Habbaniyah base. The plane lay smashed in eight feet of water after departing Southampton November 25 en route to India.
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Imperial Airways Today
Calpurnia
Lake Ramadi
Iraq
B. B. Rees
D. E. Anderson
Harrison
E. H. Attwood
A. N. Spottiswoode
F. G. Abee
Royal Air Force
Lake Habbaniyah
Southampton
India
Tiberius
Sea of Galilee
Pope Pius III S condition stable after heart attack
Vatican reports Pope Pius as improving after a Friday heart attack. He spent a quiet night and promised a week without audiences due to weakness while doctors stay close for signs of relapse. He spoke briefly to 400 Hungarian pilgrims and joined cardinals at spiritual exercises before bed.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Arminto Milani
Papal
Justiana George Cardinal Seredi
Strigonia
Swope backs incentive tax to spur employment
Washington reports Gerard Swope president of General Electric urged a Senate committee to adopt incentive taxation to push industry to stabilize payrolls through yearly wages. He noted GE paid about 100 million dollars in shared profits to 60 thousand workers over 22 years and said profit sharing should rise and fall with profits. He also quipped about labor troubles, saying Not yet.
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Washington
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Senate
Swope
Senator Herring
D-Iown
Hanford MacNider
Canada
Rescuers Fight Way To Snow Bound Hunters and CCC Boys
Rescuers from three sides pushed through heavy drifts to reach about 100 hunters and CCC youths stranded in northern Maine. State police, guards, and wardens used tractors trucks and a charity airlift to supply Mo pang and Eagle lake camps as snowfall thinned routes. Names of several marooned include H R Greenless and two Portsmouth Navy officers. others from Manchester Conn. joined a guide to fetch supplies. Governor Barrows ordered the rescue as blizzards trapped campers Thanksgiving week.
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Maine
CCC
Mopang Lake
Beddington
Eagle Lake
Mopang
Bangor
Don Mason
Arthur Ashmore
M. O. Hodgins
F. E. Reynolds
Herbert Kenney
Manchester
Conn
Lewis O. Barrows
Further Steps Taken To Keep Europe Peace
London reports that Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax will visit Italy in January to confer with Mussolini to advance European appeasement. He hopes for a broad accord among Britain Germany Italy and France, and notes prior agreements on Mediterranean and Near East issues.
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London
Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Italy
Mussolini
Britain
Germany
France
Mediterranean
Africa
Near East
House of Commons
Percy Harris
Paris
Harris
Franco
Rome
Daladier
Doctor Berry Convicted in Torture Kidnapping Case
In Olympia Washington on November 28 the jury recommended life imprisonment for Dr Kent W Berry and co defendants William McAloon James Reddick and Albert Smith after finding them guilty of first degree kidnaping and torture in the Irving Baker case Baker denied assaulting Mrs Berry and Berry cried foul claiming a frame up and said he will appeal along with co defendants.
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Olympia
Wash
Kent W. Berry
Irving Baker
Baker
Coast Guard
Berry
Superior Court
William K. McAloon
James Reddick
Albert H. Smith
WANTS U. S. TO WAR WITH JAPAN, SO THROWS BRICK
Washington police arrested a 52 year old man who said he hoped to provoke war with Japan by smashing a window at the Japanese embassy with a brick. An attache quoted the man saying he carried the brick two miles to start his plan.
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U. S
Japan
Washington
United States
Crash Kills Four in Australian Air Force Plane Crash
Four people died when a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft crashed near Al Partie Ferry about 30 miles from Brisbane on November 28. Local authorities investigated the crash site and identified the victims.
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Brisbane
Australia
Royal Australian Airforce
Alpartie Ferry
Brisane
Mobilization Conference Set By War Department
The War Department called about 180 officers to a two day conference in Washington on industrial mobilization for possible war. Officials said the event, the first of its kind, will align Army Navy and Marine Corps procurement planning with plans for 10 000 plants and M Day procurement forms to prevent delays. Secretary Woodring pushed impregnable Panama Canal defenses and Sen Clark warned against broad armament expansion in the new Congress.
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War Department
Woodring
Panama Canal
Clark
D-Mo
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Representative heads red body in Marcantonio case
Dies committee testimony identifies Vito Marcantonio as presiding head of the International Labor Defense a group labeled a Communist front. Sam Baron described an ILD meeting in Jersey City with planned speeches by O Connell and Bernard as protest against civil rights moves. Marcantonio won election November 8 on Republican and American Labor tickets.
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House
Vito Marcantonio
New York
International Labor Defense
Sam Baron
Dies Committee
Baron
ILD
Jersey City
N. J
O'Connell
D-Mont
Bernard
Dies
D-Tex
Marcantonio
Congress
American Labor Party
Lanzeta
War With Soviet Russia Inevitable, Tokyo Says
Tokyo declares the Soviet Japanese conflict apparently inevitable and urges rapid expansion of armaments. Lt. Gen. Eiki Tojo warns munitions workers to boost production and laments U S neutrality while criticizing Britain as adversarial. He cites expanded government control under mobilization laws.
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Tokyo
United States
Far East
Eiki Tojo
Tojo
Seishior Itagaki
AFL Fails To Break Stockyards Strike In Chicago
Chicago stockyards stay shut as AFL workers miss 6 am start amid CIO picket lines. No stock moved, receipts at about one tenth normal. CIO and police expand presence as management refuses to negotiate without a written agreement.
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Chicago
American Federation of Labor Workers
CIO
Thomas Devere
AFL Livestock Handlers Union
Orvis T. Henkle
Union Stock Yard and Transit Company
AFL
William Hunter
van A. Bittner
Packing House Workers Org
Plan to Train 100000 Pilots and 125000 Mechanics
Army air corps and the Civil Aeronautics Authority agree on a five year plan to train 100000 civilian pilots and 125000 mechanics at government expense to bolster national air defense. The program would run 20000 pilots and 25000 mechanics per year at approved schools and feed a reservist air corps.
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Devon Frances
Associated
Ny Aviation
New York
National Air Defense
Army Air Corps
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Germany
Louis Johnson
Navy
Army
CAA
Grace Killingsworth Dies After Spartanburg Gaffney Crash
Miss Grace Killingsworth of Charlotte died at Cherokee county hospital after a four car and truck collision on the Spartanburg Gaffney highway near Thickety Creek. Two Charlotte men, Charles Burnette and his brother, were treated for injuries described as uncomfortable but not serious. The crash occurred about 10 30 p m and involved a motor convoy truck, a rear strike on the truck, and several subsequent collisions at the scene.
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N. C
Grace Killingsworth
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Gaffney Highway
Cherokee County
Charles Burnette
Chlotte
Thickety Creek
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