Roosevelt predicts US will be fighting in 1942
President Roosevelt at Warm Springs Georgia suggested it may be likely the United States will be fighting in 1942 as he reflected on a Thanksgiving mood. He spoke without notes about dangers at home and abroad and the resilience of American institutions during wartime. He noted many nations are at war and dictators control daily life in surrounding countries.
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Washington
United States
Nation Urges North Carolina Truck Inventory Returns
North Carolina truck and bus owners are urged by Commissioner T B Ward to complete a national defense inventory begun by Governor Broughton. The mail in state survey targets trucks busses and trailers to aid the War Department in planning defense transportation and materials movement nationwide.
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North Carolina
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
T. B. Ward
National Defense
Broughton
Highway Traffic Advisory Committee
War Department
Defense Industry
Federal Works Agency
Negro aviators finish primary flight training under Army
The War Department announces that the first six Black aviators to learn to fly under Army supervision have completed their primary instruction phase marking a milestone in military aviation training.
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War Department
Army
Guns Mounted On Cargo Ship
The West Nohno, a 5769 ton freighter, was fitted with deck guns and anti aircraft weapons at Hoboken as the Navy expands arming of American merchant vessels under the Neutrality Act. Other ships will follow with similar gun nests and reinforced protection while convoys continue. Navy plans call for 300 to 400 armed ships and a $120 million appropriation for armament pay.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
United States Maritime Commission
Hoboken
N. J
Tietjen & Lang Yards
Navy
North Atlantic
Red Sea
South Atlantic
Congress
Pardoned Author Jan Valtin Exits San Quentin Tale
Los Angeles November 30 Gov Culbert Olson grants unconditional pardon to Richard Krebs alias Jan Valtin the German born writer of Out of the Night for assaulting Maurice Goodstein a Jewish dry goods merchant. Krebs admitted joining the communist party in 1923 and says he quit in 1937. He had been sentenced to ten years at San Quentin and released after about three years and one month before deportation to Germany in 1929.
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Los Angeles
Richard Krebs
Jan Valtin
Culbert L. Olson
Gestapo
Germany
Waltin
Maurice L. Goodstein
San Quentin
Norfolk
Department of Justice
Communist Party
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