Coal Miners Strike Threat Looms Over Steel Mills
Leaders of the United Mine Workers order a 33 000 miner strike at midnight affecting captive mines supplying defense plants in Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky and Alabama. Roosevelt asked John Lewis to cancel. No reply reported. Mediation officials see slim chance for a settlement before the threat to production and plant shutdowns.
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United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh
John
Y House
Defense Mediation Board
Roosevelt
Lewis
Mediation Board
Bendix, NJ
of Air Associates, Inc
Mussolini cleans guild leadership in major shake up
Rome October 25 premier Mussolini reshuffled officers across 19 of Italy's 22 guilds controlling economic production. The purge targeted Fascist run guilds with hotel centers and glass guilds spared. Mussolini holds presidency while deputies and courtiers from the fascist party and industry carry out the changes.
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RAF Batters At Rhineland
London reports RAF night raids against the German Rhineland and Nazi port of Brest along with Axis shipping off Norway. Air ministry said weather hindered but raids continued. German fliers hit Wales and Southwest England with some casualties. Coastal command ships ignited a large supply vessel as bombers ranged from Norway to Frisian Islands. Observers on the south coast saw flames near Cap Fr Nez after British raids. Heavy anti aircraft fire near Folkestone accompanied the operations.
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Rhineland
Brest
Air Ministry
Continent
Wales
England
Coastal Command
Norway
North Sea
Netherlands
Cap Frig Nez
Folkestone
Five Army Warplanes Missing Over Rockies
Five Army pursuit planes vanished offshore in fog and storm over California and Nevada with three hour fuel. Lieut. J. H. Pease parachuted to safety in the Tehachapi Mountains. Other planes landed at Smith, Nevada, Tulare, and McClellan Field, while crews searched the Tehachapi region.
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Calif
Amy
California
Nevada
Army
J. H. Pease
Tehachapi Mountains
March Field
McClellan Field
Tehachapi
Lhick
Separ
McClean Field
Tulare
McClellan
C. E. Hughes
Peter Mcl Goldrick
Smith, Nev
Reno
Sierra Nevada
L. C. Lydon
J. C. West
W. L. Birrell
Kharkov Falls to Nazis In Donets Basin
German spearheads push toward Moscow as Kharkov and Belgorod fall in a broad Donets basin advance. Soviet reports claim no major breakthrough near Moscow, while Pravda cites large Nazi casualties in the early weeks of the drive. Officers note German rail gains and possible northern flanking moves.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Kharkov
Russia
Pittsburgh
Donets River
London
Ukraine
Dopetsk
Mostov-on-Don
Belgorod
Churchill Links Nazi Atrocities to War Aims
London reports Prime Minister Churchill states Nazi butcheries in France and occupied countries presage harsher retribution and become a principal aim of the war. He cites Poland Yugoslavia Norway Holland Belgium and Russia as grim examples of Hitler’s brutality and a warning to Britain and the United States.
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Churchill
Rosevelt
Europe
Hitler
United States
France
Poland
Yugoslavia
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Russia
Secretary To Rep Fish Accused Of Working With Foreign Agents
Washington Oct 25. George Hill longtime aide to Rep Fish was indicted for perjury before a grand jury probing foreign agents. Hill denied knowledge of German agent Viereck while investigators pursue how franked envelopes and congress speeches were paid for and distributed. The case centers on who financed and authored anti interventionist reprints and speeches.
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U. S
Awashington
George UC
Tury
Representative Fish
House Foreign Affairs Committee
New York
George Hill
Willian Power Maloney
Washington
Congress
George Sylvester Viereck
Viereck
State Department
Hidwell
Grand Jury
Hill
Prescott Dermett
Dennett
Fill
Vichy Represses Action Against Germans Amid Reprisals
Vichy government enacts heavy measures to curb attacks on German soldiers and appeals to halt reprisal executions of French hostages. In Nantes the German commandant was buried in a military ceremony as fifty more potential executions awaited in a second reprisal for Lieut. Col. Paul Friedrich Hotz, the Nazi commander killed last week. The cabinet reported pressing appeals to occupation authorities and outlined initial reprieve steps from the Reich leader.
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Associated Press
Vichy
France
Petain
Wantes
Paul Friedrich Hotz
Nantes
Darlan
Enemy Planes Inactive In Carolinas Georgia Maneuvers
Third Interceptor Command pilots expect a light day as intelligence reports note only one extra enemy transport reached Bermuda and no new planes arrived at the Bahamas. After 40 bombing missions yesterday, 35 were shot down or driven off before targets. Brig. Gen. Frank cautions enemy air reserves remain strong.
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Bermuda
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N. C
Atlantic
Walter II. Frank
White House Assails Nazi Executions
President Roosevelt declared that the real end of American foreign policy is the destruction of the Hitler menace and that the United States will not shrink from sacrifices. He assailed Nazi reprisals in Europe and urged the nation to judge facts for itself, defending peace and American interests.
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Manchester
England
Anthony Eden
Britain
Russia
Hitler
Eden
United States
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
Foreign Policy Association
White House
Europe
FPA
Walforf-Astoria
Lne
Noaone
Rooseveltt
Hitler Meets Ciano At Eastern Front Talks
Berlin Oct 25 Adolf Hitler received Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian foreign minister at his headquarters on the eastern front. A communique said the conference was conducted in the spirit of traditional friendship and proven comradeship in arms. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop attended the talks.
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Ciano
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Galeazzo Ciano
Eastern Front
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Pepper Calls for Immediate Blockade on Japan
Sen. Pepper proposes an immediate American blockade to halt Japan's expansion plans. He argues cutting exports to Japan, closing the Panama Canal to Japanese-bound ships, and patrolling Pacific sea lanes to starve Japan of war materiel. Knox warned that if Japan continues its course a collision in the Far East is inevitable.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Japan
Senator Pepper
D-Fla
Tokyo
Pepper
Panama Canal
Janese
Pacific
Knox
Hitler
Russia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
la Follette
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Committee Okays Open Sea For U S
The House armed ship bill moved to allow American merchant vessels to sail anywhere on the high seas after a 13 to 10 committee vote. Barkley backed the broadened revision, while Reynolds, Van Nuys, and others opposed. Senate consideration shifted to Monday as debate looms over keeping neutrality provisions and flags on foreign ships.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Barkley
Connally
D‘tex
Reynolds
George
Wagner
Murray
Thomas
Utah
Pepper
Green
Guffey
Glass
Lee
Tunnel
White
van Nuys
Clark
Missouri
Gillette
Johnson
California
Capper
Vandenberg
Shipstead
United States
Kidnaped Baby Found Alive In Wisconsin Town
FITCHSBURG, Wis. Oct. 25 A two month old boy Kenneth A. McLean Jr was kidnaped yesterday from his Main Street carriage and found alive today near Wilhelom Park a summer resort He was described as in good shape by Police Chief Thomas Godley and reunited with his father at police headquarters The infant was found at a camp on Lake Shore outskirts of the city The couple there were brought to headquarters for questioning The distraught mother collapsed upon hearing he had been found The baby wore the same clothes as when he vanished yesterday
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Blass
Kenneth A. McLean, Jr
Main Street
Thomas Godley
Wihalom Park
Godley
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