King Hopes Personal Hyde Park Visit With Roosevelt
Ottawa hopes Prime Minister Mackenzie King can take a purely personal weekend trip to Hyde Park New York to visit President and Mrs Roosevelt. He would travel with only a personal secretary and no officials and advisers. The trip recalls the Hyde Park declaration on North American defense and wartime cooperation. In Britain the Canadian parliamentary party moves from Birmingham to Liverpool to inspect the docks.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N.Y
United States
North America
Britain
Land mines drop by parachute devastate Coventry claims
Lieutenant Stanley E Jenner, an electrical expert, says Nazi Coventry damage came mainly from parachute land mines charged with hexinite, twice as powerful as TNT. He notes the mines blast outward but devastate within a half mile, with effects reaching three quarters of a mile. Jenner, on leave in the United States, has been cited for the George Award for heroism but awaits decoration.
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Coventry
Stanley E. Jenner
New York
British Information Services
Royal Navy
Volenteer
United States
Jenner
Hitler
Orient Deteriorates as British Evacuations Urged
The British embassy in China orders all British nationals in Japanese occupied territories to evacuate at once due to deteriorating political conditions. Those unable to depart should prepare to stay, as no further evacuation chances are likely. The government will fund travel for those without funds if they register with consulates between November 3 and 15. Reports from Hong Kong note Japanese sentries firing near Shumchun, wounding two Chinese farmers, with Britain preparing a protest. In Tokyo, Japan moves toward full wartime footing with industry control plans and education ministry shifts to speed military-ready training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SHANGHAI
China
Britain
Orient
London
HONG KONG
Shumchun
TOKYO
Domel
ministry of commerce and industry
iron, steel
iron and steel
Japan
education ministry
Hideko Tojo
Imperial Rule Aid Association
U S Senators Consider Repealing Neutrality Law
Senator Elbert Thomas leads a bipartisan push with three Republicans toward outright repeal of the neutrality act as the Senate debates revisions. The plan would remove arms embargo and belligerent port restrictions while preserving a exports control clause. Leaders expect a possible floor vote by next week though opposition warns the result will be close.
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WASHINGTON
Elbert Thomas
Utah
senate
Warren Austin
Vermont
Styks Bridges
New Hamashire
Chandler Gurney
South Dakota
senate foreign relations committee
Thomas
Wendell L. Willkie
David Walsh
Dem
Massachusetts
Walsh
Alben Barkley
Burton Wheeler
Montana
Shooting Snipes Becomes Major Industry in Paris
Paris today reports that cigarette smuggling has surged with black market packs selling for 1 to 1.25 dollars. Atypical tobacco king is an Arab boss employing 14 boys at 40 cents daily to collect stubs and operate two tolling machines, yielding about 40 packages daily.
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PARIS
Plane crash near Moorhead claims 14 lives
A Northwest Airlines airliner crashed in fog near the Fargo Moorhead area killing fourteen. Only survivor was Captain Clarence Bates, shaken but uninjured. The flight was en route from Chicago to Seattle, descending through freezing mist when it went down two miles from the Fargo airport.
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MOORHEAD
Minn
Northwest Airlines
ranity
Clarence Bates
Bates
St. Paul
Chicago
Seattle
St Unen
Fargo
Fat prairie
War Time Prices Board to Hire Locally for Posts
Ottawa reports that wartime prices and trade board staff will be drawn from home towns with regional and Dominion offices planned. Applications open for three official classes with salaries from 720 to 5,000 dollars, plus cost-of-living bonus and a five percent retirement deduction.
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OTTAWA
ICPJ
prices and trade board
prices control organization
Dominion
civil service commission
Claim Reds Forced To Give Ground
BERLIN Oct 30 4 The Nazi high command said Russians forced to yield more ground in Crimea and Donets basin as Axis troops pursue withdrawing Red army units on both fronts. Bulletin says upper Donets river broad front and Kharkov main city in upper Donets region. In Crimea rear guard resistance shattered several thousand prisoners and guns taken. Moscow bombed by night air raids Leningrad attacked. An audacious raid captured many prisoners from near lakes Ilmen and Ladoga. Continues on Page Three.
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BERLIN
Crimea
Donets
Hitler
Kharkov
Moscow
Leningrad
Tlmen
Ladoga
earler
Black Sea
peninuula
Sevastopol
Red navy
Strike ends for period in coal mines compromise
Washington Oct 30 The United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis announced the strike bound coal mines will reopen immediately for a period ending Saturday Nov 15 1941 in line with President Roosevelts mediation plan. Lewis later sent a letter confirming the unanimous UMWA vote to accept the period ending Nov 15 1941 and the arrangement set forth in the appeal.
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WASHINGTON
John L. Lewis
United States
Roosevelt
Lewis
steer mills
William H. Davis
United Mine Workers of America
Howe asked to retract on Arvida strike sabotage claim
Ottawa October 30 Minnltions Minister Howe received a letter from the National Syndicate of Catholic Workers asking him to retract his July statement that the Aluminum Company of Canada plant at Arvida Quebec was a suspected case of enemy sabotage.
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OTTAWA
Howe
National Syndicate of Catholic Workers
Aluminum Company of Canada
Arvida
Que
hig
Local Ace Wins Bar to Flying Cross
Squadron Leaders Andrew William Fletcher of Lethbridge Alberta and Robert Alexander Barton of Kamloops British Columbia, two Canadian aces in the Royal Air Force Mediterranean service, have been awarded bars to their Distinguished Flying Crosses. The dispatch also notes their promotion to squadron leader, previously announced dates being Fletcher October 21 1940 and Barton October 17 1940.
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Barton
Fletcher
Lethbridge
Penticton
B.C
Q for Quick Leads War Transport Campaign
London reports Britain adds another letter to its war publicity queue with Q for quick aligning with V for victory. The Q slogan will urge faster turn-around of vehicles carrying war supplies as the Ministry of War Transport plans billboard and newspaper ads to pierce public apathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
Britain
Russia Short Wheat Threat? Soviets Face Food Gap
Franklin Mullin reports from Chicago on wartime grain shifts as the Soviet Union, the world’s largest wheat producer, risks a shortfall due to losses in arable land and import dependency. Analysts note Canada wheat flows via Archangel or Vladivostok. long term impact hinges on import capacity.
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CHICAGO
Russia
Europe
Britain
Archangel
Vladivostok
Noel Coward Fined Overwave Time Finance Violations
London reports Noel Coward the playwright was fined £200 plus £20 costs for breaches of defence finance regulations. The charge details indicate this was the first of three counts, with two separate penalties not applied. Coward’s counsel commented on the case as it proceeded.
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LONDON
Noel Coward
Britain
Red army turns back Nazi drive toward Moscow
Soviet Tass reports counterattacks south of Moscow and west of Rostov restored footholds on the south bank of the Nara river guarding Moscow. Germans halted across the Nara by heavy artillery fire, while Russians crossed the river to entrench along the southern line under heavy fire.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Rostov
Tass
Serpukhov
Taganrog
Rostay
thraunsh
Remembrance Honor Rules Allow Poppy Headgear in Ottawa
An Ottawa report notes glowing red poppy headgear worn by Canadian forces to honor dead from the First Great War. Orders permit wearing poppies on military head dress from November 1 to 12, with naval and air force directives aligning.
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OTTAWA
Canada
fighting services
Low Sora
Canadian Legion
alr
naral
air force
Sausages From Grass Proteins Considered in Britain
London, Oct 30. In parliament Dr Edith Summerskill asked if British citizens will grow sausages in back gardens next year. Maj Gwilym Lloyd George said edible proteins from young grass are under research and not yet personally considered by him.
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LONDON
Great Britain
Edith Summerskill
house of commons
Gwiliym Lloyd George
ministry of food
Axis Ships Are Blasted by RAF in Norway Action
The air ministry said British planes carried out a devastating low level attack on Aaksand harbor in Norway last night, sinking or damaging seven ships. Four supply ships were sunk, one left in flames, a superstructure damaged, and an escort vessel of the corvette type severely damaged. Another supply ship was reported hit off Stade landet. Bombs also hit a fish art factory and docks at Bergen.
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LONDON
air ministry
RAF
Aaksand harbor
Norway
igh Ams
Stadelandet
peninania
Aalesund
fizh art
Bergen
Nor
Soviet farming kept in Ukrainian areas under occupation
Rumanians extend private property delay by preserving Soviet collective farming in occupied Ukrainian districts. Farmers to pay 1941 taxes in wheat if money lacking as regulation continues.
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Royal Army Medical
U.S
King
C.P. Cable
Birmingham
Liverpool
Vichy
Bader
Ottawa Journal
Donets Basin
FRANKLIN MULLIN
Associated P Star
Nara
ARIS
BUCHAREST
A.P
TULA
Turkey
Caucasus
Libya
Africa
HMS
Office of Production Management
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