Honolulu wartime discipline in 1941 bold steps against shipyard shirking
The Honolulu Advertiser notes Captain John F. Wick's harsh rulings on absenteeism among 13 men, with two days to two months jail and fines up to 154. The piece links these actions to Pearl Harbor era martial authority and compares them to other wartime measures in combat zones. It mentions mixed reactions and ties to local residents of Japanese and Filipino descent amid broader labor tensions.
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Id Advertiser
Honolulu
South Pacific
Allied Bombing Strikes Norway and Athens Fields
American bombers attacked targets in Norway and Athens airfields as part of a coordinated assault. U boats and warships in Norwegian deep fords were noted. Yugoslav air force units flew Liberators with Fifteenth Air Force to bomb Kalami air field near Athens.
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London
Hitler
Norway
Athens
Algiers
Mediterranean
Fifteenth Air Force
Klevins Die Field
United States
Medina
Italy
Kalameki
Fingerprints Sought to Solve Murder Case
Ridian Mississippi November 16 officers aim to identify two uniformed men by fingerprints lifted from a locked death car linked to Boykin’s death. Detectives say some palm prints were taken and additional prints from nearby sites may aid in locating suspects. Police expand investigations to Mobile and New Orleans as they interview witnesses and trace the men’s movements.
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Ridian
Miss
Thomas S N
Oyer Harbou
Cridian
W. M. Little
Hattiesburg
McLain
Eene
Uling Company
Quit
Boykin
Proposes limited session to fund teachers and state agencies
E R Hester of Arcadia urged a social and limited legislative session to obtain funds for teachers salaries and state agency relief tied to litigation with the state liquidation board. He criticized the New Orleans research bureau and said lawmakers should not reconvene for other purposes while seeking $90 per person for repairs and maintenance. Clawson joined in pressing the request amid Governor Jones’s response.
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Baton Rouge
E. R. Hester
Arcadia
Louisiana Teachers Assertion
State Board of Liquidation
Meade
LP. Clawson
Shreveport
State Potie Diurers Association
Sacn Jones Clawson
Erquest
Hester
New Orleans
Teachers Association
Uhem
Rangers
Mass Execution Report From Domodosso Battle
From Brigue dispatches La Suisse reports German troops killed Italian prisoners after a days battle near Domodossi. The fight around Villadossola and Luino included air and artillery fire, with heavy casualties on both sides and Italian railway workers among the dead.
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Bern
Switzerland
Domodossi
Brigue
la Suisse
Villadossola
Luino
Thhey
Nancy Oakes to consult mother amid Bahamas murder case
Nancy Oakes De Marigny plans to fly to the United States to consult her mother Lady Eunice Oakes in Palm Beach after her husband Alfred De Marigny was acquitted of the murder of her father Sir Harry Oakes. She will depart on an afternoon Pan American clipper to Miami then Florida.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Nancy Oakes de Marigny
United States
Miami
Eunice Oakes
Palm Beach
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Nancy
Father Bonaventure
de Marigny
Neney
Bonaventure
Prinade
How
OWI Urged to Ban Politics From Wartime Balloting
Senator Lucas pressures the Office of War Information to keep wartime radio and messaging free of political content, until after elections. Republicans fear Roosevelt’s term aims may sway troops. bill to create a four person bipartisan commission to supervise armed forces and related voting was approved 12 to 2.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Lucas
Roosevelt
Lascan
Elections Committee
Merchant Marine
Gov
Unwittingly Box Surrenders to FBI in Draft Custody
In New Orleans on November 16, FBI agent R A Guerin said Troy Franklin Box of Tunica Mississippi surrendered himself to federal custody while awaiting action on a draft charge. Box had a two year sentence in Clarksdale Mississippi for failing to report for induction but it was suspended on a promise to report to Camp Shelby. He disappeared after leaving with draftees for camp. Guerin noted a similar call about a man claiming to speak for “Harvey Knox” and identified the caller as someone arrested in Lake Charles. Maurice B. Depass, longtime New Orleans city architect since 1930, died today after years of ill health.
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New Orleans
R A. Guerin
FBI
Troy Franklin Box
Tunica
Hattiesburg, Miss
Box
Harvey Knox
Orleans
Maurice B. Depass
Costs Of Rome Drive Outweigh Tunisia And Sicily
Don Whitehead reports with the Fifth Army in Italy that the march toward Rome is proving costlier in blood than previous campaigns. Harsh weather, rugged terrain, and a well entrenched German defense impede advances, with mud slowed roads and destroyed bridges forcing continual improvised fixes as troops endure worsening conditions.
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FIFTH
Italy
Rome
Mediterranean
Tunisia
Sicily
Maly
Gertiars
Nomination of Lee Approved by Senate Subcommittee
A Senate judiciary subcommittee recommended confirmation of Elmo Pearce Lee Sr. to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a brief hearing. The vote was unanimous to report favorably to the full committee as Lee faced one telegram opposition from TF G. Roberts of Shreveport.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary
Roosevelt
Elmo Pearce Lee
Shreveport
Fifth Circuit Court of
Shreveport Businesman
Lee
Hatch
Democrat
New Mexico
Rufus E. Foster
New Orleans
Florida
Georgis
Alabime
Mississippi
Louniane
Texas
James V. Allred
Senate
Roberts
Nomin Heaton
McLee
Overton
Former Monroe Resident Charles C. Thompson Dies
Charles C. Thompson, once of Monroe and a member of Holloway and Thompson, died suddenly of a heart attack in Baton Rouge. He leaves a wife and children including Lt. Charles Thompson overseas, Mrs. Vincent Hazelton of Alexandria, and Mrs. Edward Johnson of Washington, D. C. Funeral details were unavailable Tuesday noon. Thompson had since held a state job.
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Charles C. Thompson
Monroe
Holloway and Thompson
Baton Rouge
Me Thompson
Charles (Perwee) Thompson
Naval Reserve
Vincent Hazelton
Alexandria
Edward Johnson
Washington, D. C
My. Thompson
Few Italians in France Surrender
Madrid reports indicate the deadline set by German authorities for surrender of Italian forces in the southern France mountains expired with only a few hundred laying down arms. The German offer of amnesty applied to those who surrendered before the deadline.
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Madrid
France
Two Men Killed In New Orleans Accidents
New Orleans on November 16 reports two fatalities. Joseph P. Davi, 30, was run over by a tram and his body severed. Sidney J. Poirier Jr., 20, a shipyard employee, was crushed when heavy skids fell from a crane after a rope broke.
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New Orleans
Joseph P. Davi
Sidney J. Poirier, Jr
Bombers Sink and Damage Japanese Warships in Solomons Drive
Allied air and naval actions in the northern Solomons offensive claim heavy damage to Japanese warships. Since October 12 raids near Rabaul and Kavieng have sunk or damaged cruisers and destroyers, with at least three cruisers and ten destroyers lost or crippled, and additional ships damaged or probably hit. A Catalina mission also struck a Japanese cruiser near Rabaul, while a merchant ship received a midsection hit. General MacArthur's spokesman commented on the implications for Japan's naval capabilities.
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Southwest Pacific
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Rataul
Kavieng
New Ireland
Navy
Knox
Japan
Bougainville
Ten jurors chosen in death trial of Towns and Milam
Five more jurors joined five previously accepted, forming a ten member jury for the murder trial of A W Towns and J D Milam. The defendants, ex prison officials, face charges tied to Willie Hopkins a 17 year old inmate who died last July at Ouachita parish prison.
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Sesson
A. W. Towns
J. D. Milam
Bob Burns
Elmore Holloway
J. C. Dollar
Douglas M.les
R. E. Lucky
Talesmen
Norman Rawls
WC. Stevenson
Tom Palmer
Oliver McQueen
J. E Dean
Towns
Milam
Perish
Louisiana Tops Nation in Food Production Classes Enrollment
State Education Superintendent John E. Coxe announced that Louisiana led the nation in active net enrollment for the summer food production war training program with 32,844 students, 148 percent of the national total. Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina followed.
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Baton Rouge
John E. Coxe
United States Education Office
Louisiana
State Department of Education
Texas
Mississippi
Georgia
South Carolina
Coxe
German women allowed to buy stockings under rationing
The German press reports that German women may now purchase a pair of stockings each. Clothing ration cards for adults for all apparel types have been useless for months until the announcement made yesterday, effective immediately.
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Stockholm
Russia claims new frontiers in expanded Soviet borders
The article outlines Soviet gains and new boundaries following wartime conquests, detailing annexed territories including Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Bessarabia along with the Carpathians and Prut river region. It notes German advances toward Moscow and debates on why the expansion occurred. It also covers U S Senate and House discussions on OPA subsidies and price rollbacks affecting meat prices and fiscal policy.
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Germany
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Bessarabia
Bucoyoina
Rumania
Finland
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Soviet Union
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Moscow
Leningrad
Minsk
Pripet Marshes
Hotin
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Sokel
Jaroslaw
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Prut
Dniester
Karelian
Viipuri
Gir
Killer Captured After 19 Day Mobile Escape
Otto George, Mobile killer, was captured in Mobile after evading authorities for 19 days following an escape from Kilby prison in Ment. He was taken into custody as he left a downtown theater, ending the manhunt.
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Mobile
Ala
Otto George
Kilby
Ment
Navy provides free memorial flag to next of kin
New Orleans November 16 report that the navy says next of kin of anyone who dies in U S Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard service receive a free memorial flag. The flag is normally issued to the designated next of kin but may be given to another person or organization. If the body is returned home for burial a flag accompanies it with authorization from the commanding officer.
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New Orleans
iPi
United States Navy
Red Army drives north and cuts Gomel Kalinkovichi rail line
Moscow reports a major northern push along the Pripets and the Gomel corridor. Red forces sever communications west of Gomel, isolating the city as they push toward Kalinkovichi and Korosten with gains near Rechitsa and Cherkassy.
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London
Berlin
Transocean Agency
Dniee Per
Dneproperovsk
Krivoi Rog
Cherkassy
Zhitomir
Kiev
Rechitss
Gomel
Smolensk
Orsha
Transocean
Dnepropetrovak
Trensocean
Cherkess
Moscow
Red
Pripet Marshes
White Russia
Kalinkovichi
Dnieper
Hull to address Senate and House on Moscow pact
Secretary Cordell Hull will address both chambers from Capitol Hill in a joint session outlining a unified U S foreign policy after the Moscow talks. He urges an Allied commission to govern liberated nations until plebiscites establish rulers and supports free elections including Baltic states Estonia Latvia Lithuania.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Moscow
State Department
Capitol Hill Hall
Congress
House
Senate
Hull
Baltic
Balkan
Estonia
Thet
Lithuania
California
Soviet Union
Germany
Russia
Roosevelt Receives Silver Stars in Algiers
In Algiers on November 16 Lieutenant Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and five other naval officers and enlisted men were awarded silver stars by Vice Admiral Hewitt for valor. The ceremony honored their actions in the war zone.
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Roosevelt
Algiers
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
HL Kent Hewitt
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