Japanese envoy opens fateful talks with Roosevelt at White House
Saburo Kurusu special Japanese envoy met President Roosevelt with Secretary Hull and Ambassador Nomura to begin a series of pivotal talks. The White House said the session would be brief and cursory with formal deliberations to follow. Both envoys declined to discuss pending relations while awaiting entry to Hull's office.
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Kingsbury Smith International News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
Saburo Ikx Kurusu
Hull
Ee Nomura
White House
Kurusu
Nomura
State Department
Japan
Coal Mine Strike Hits Western Pennsylvania Steel Mills
Virtually all 26,000 miners in Western Pennsylvania obeyed John L. Lewis no contract no work order as 53,000 miners nationwide participate in the strike. No violence reported though in West Virginia a brief clash occurred at a U S Steel mine in Gary before workers entered the pit.
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John L. Lewis
West Virginia
U. S. Steel
Gary
Captive Mines Strike Resumed As Parley Fails
John L. Lewis sent a formal strike notice to the White House and delivered a speech to the United Mine Workers policy committee accusing Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel of blocking negotiations for a union shop contract in mines owned by major steel companies.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
White House
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Detour Removal Planned on Route 388 December 1
Detour signs are fading on the Pennsylvania highway detour bulletin with several small detours still active in the local district. The remaining detour in Lawrence County on Route 388 between State Routes 108 and 168 is set for removal December 1. Weather this fall has been favorable for road work with no freezing conditions yet.
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Pennsylvania Highway Department
Lawrence County
Daily Weather Figures and River Levels Reported
United States weather statistics show a 24 hour period ending 8 a m with a maximum 54 and minimum 23 degrees and heavy frost. River stage stands at 4 4 feet. A separate period ending 9 a m Sunday records a max 66 min 34 with no precipitation and a river stage of 44 feet.
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United States
Japan's Policy Reaffirmed By Tojo and Togo
Premier Hideki Tojo and Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo reaffirmed Japan's determination to create a prosperity sphere in the Far East and to limit its conciliatory stance toward America. They urged the United States to understand Japan's needs as Kurusu prepares to meet Hull in Washington. The three diplomatic aims include avoiding obstruction of Japan's China campaign, preventing external military threats, and limiting spread of European War to the Far East.
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Percy Whiteing
International
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Shigenori Togo
Nippon
Far East
Japan
America
Saburo Kurusu
O’ State
Cordell Hull
Washington
Togo
United States
Diet
China
Start Training Of Bus Drivers Here Tuesday Morning
Training of operators in new buses will begin here Tuesday with several buses arriving today. The buses will not carry passengers at first and will operate on street car routes so operators can acquaint themselves with bus operations and stops. Regular bus service may begin by December 11.
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Shenango Valley Transportation Company
Rotary Club Dines At Hotel Tonight
The New Castle Rotary Club hosts a dinner at The Castleton to mark the end of a lively attendance drive. Charles A. Leedy, humorist and Youngstown columnist, will speak. the club skipped its usual luncheon today.
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Rotary Club
New Castle
Castleton
Charles A. Leedy
Youngstown
Demands Mount For Legislation To Curb Strikes
Washington faces explosive debate as Senate and House push anti strike legislation after a coal mine walkout involving 53 000 workers. White House approval awaited while militant groups press to bypass the Labor Committee and steer a broad anti strike bill to the Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Senate Labor Committee
Judiciary Committee
Rescue posse seeks wrecked bomber in Maine woods
A Bangor crew led by forest guides and volunteers began trekking through Oak Mountain bogs to reach a B 18A bomber wreckage after it crashed in fog Saturday night. Four crew members were aboard the Langley Field bound flight. witnesses reported wing lights and a brief circling before the fire.
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Bangor
Oak Mountain
Coast Guard
Springfield
Langley Field
P. W. Beckman
Houston
Tex
Wyman P. Thompson
Underwood
N. D
Corp. J
Transfer Youth Fatally Injured in Railroad Yard Accident
The coroner ruled no inquest for Henry Gladitz an 18 year old of Transfer Pa killed when a heavy steel roll pinned his head against a railroad car during a switching operation in the Erie yards. Donald Mizner 19 of Sharpsville rode the freight with him en route to New York.
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International News Service
Erie
Henry Gladitz
Transfer
Gladitz
Donald Mizner
Sharpsville
Wheatland
New York
Russian claim four battalions wiped out on Volokolamsk front
Moscow radio announced annihilation of four German infantry battalions on the Volokolamsk sector of the Moscow front. Officials said new German assaults around Kalinin were repulsed in bloody fighting, and on the Leningrad front Nazis were digging in after heavy losses.
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International
Kuibyshev
U.S.5. R
Volokolaimsk
Moscow Front
Moscow Radio Today
Kalinen
Leningrad
High Command
Yugoslav Steamer Olgatopic Report Sunk Near Galapagos
Rear Admiral F H Sadler announced efforts to confirm reports the Yugoslav steamer Olgatopic was sunk by an unidentified raider near the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador. A Greek steamer reported picking up the Olgatopic SOS after it left Panama for Peru on November 13. A dragnet for the raider is in operation and the raider is said to be out of service.
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International News Service
Balboa
C. Z
F. H. Sadler
15Th Naval Station
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
Canal Zone
Panama
Peru
Sadler
Woman Hurt When Struck By Auto on Wampum Highway
Mrs. Mary Carran aged 58 of Mahoningtown suffered probable left leg fracture facial cuts and body bruises after being hit by an automobile on the Wampum New Castle highway Sunday at 5 30 pm. She is confined to New Castle hospital. Edwin H Blatchford Niles Ohio is named as the car operator by state motor police.
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Mary Carran
Rabbit Street
Mahoningtown
Wampum
New Castle
New Castle Hospital
Edwin H. Blatchford
Niles, O
Workman Killed in Steel Flask Accident in Erie
James E. Altomari, 46, of Erie, was crushed when a steel moulding flask weighing about a half ton toppled in a National Erie company shop on Saturday. An inquest will be held later, per the coroner's office report.
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International News Service
Erie
James E. Altomari
National Erie Company
Kerch Taken as 100000 Soviets Captured in Crimean Drive
German high command reports Kerch falls and Crimea now holds 100000 Soviet prisoners. It says the eastern Crimean peninsula is under German control while Soviet attempts to break the Leningrad siege were repulsed with heavy losses. Luftwaffe raids hit Moscow Leningrad and central front targets.
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International News Service
Berlin
Kerch
Crimean
Caucasus
Crimea
Crimean Peninsula
Leningrad
Russia
Moscow
Will Fight To Have Bill Passed To Halt Strikes
Rep Cox of Georgia, acting Chairman of the House Rules Committee, says he will bottle up all administration legislation until a fair bill halting these strikes is passed. Rep Dies of Texas backs the move, calling it the only recourse to meet the situation.
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International News Service
Washington
Cox
House Rules Committee
Dies
Texas
Lewis Blames Grace For Strike
John L. Lewis told the United Mine Workers Policy Committee that Eugene Grace head of Bethlehem Steel blocked a union shop contract in mines owned by UMW, as he prepared to report to President Roosevelt on three days of fruitless negotiations with steel executives including Benjamin Fairless of U S Steel and Frank Parnell of Youngstown Sheet and Tube.
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Grace
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel
Frank Parnell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Lewis
Deaths reported in Monday record of November 17 1941
D Floyd Book age 70 of 1105 East Washington street. Miss Mary Edna Young age 56 of Big Beaver township. Edward Vandegrift age 70 of 421 Sumner avenue. Mrs Johnston Fisher age 411 Blaine street. Mrs John Nicklass age 72 of Evans City.
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D. Floyd Book
East
Washington Street
Mary Edna Young
Big Beaver Township
Edward Vandegrift
Sumner Avenue
Johnston Fisher
Blaine Street
John Nicklass
Evans City
Axis Owned Ship Flew U S Flag Captured In Atlantic Waters
U S Navy reports an axis owned merchant ship flying the American flag in Equatorial Atlantic waters. Crew attempted to scuttle the vessel and abandoned ship after two blasts. The patrol cruiser boarded, stopped leaks, started engines, and steered the ship toward a U S port for legal jurisdiction.
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Washington
U. S
Equatorial
Atlantic
Navy Department
United States
Philadelphia
Truck Burns Near Edenburg in Ammonia Cargo Blaze
A tractor-trailer carrying chemicals including about 3500 pounds of ammonia nitrate overturned on Route 224 near the Edenburg viaduct Sunday morning. The driver Charles Venturella of Oak Street was pulled to safety by a passerby. Firemen could not extinguish the blaze as ammonia bottles ruptured and traffic was diverted for eight hours.
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Edenburg
Charles Venturella
Oak Street
Cleveland
New York
New Castle
Airman Dies In Park City Plane Crash
PARK CITY UTAH Nov 17 An army bomber crashed and burned in a blizzard sweeping Iron Mountain in the Wasatch range four miles southeast of Park City. One airman died and six parachuted to safety while another remained missing. Maj R E Pirtle and Sgt G D Anderson were unaccounted for as officials reported the crew at Miner's hospital with injuries.
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International News Service
Park City
Utah
Iron Mountain
Wasdtch Range
Fifth Air Base
Salt Lake City
R. E. Pirtle
88Th
G. D. Anderson
Miner's Hospital
FE. Basye
M. Simmons
C A. Smith
E. V. Bynum
B. L. Torgerson
Ideut
L M Zaumeyer
Firemen respond to bonfire alarm near Jefferson Maitland
Firemen were called to the area around Jefferson and Maitland streets at 6 50 Sunday evening after boys started a bonfire in a vacant lot and someone triggered box 85. There was no actual fire.
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Jefferson and
Maitland Streets
Serbians Wipe Out Nazi Column Near Nish
In Yugoslavia a Serbian battalion of sharp shooters and guerillas reported to have annihilated a German expeditionary column of 320 soldiers. The attack happened around Sbane south of Nish during the weekend as guerilla bands unite under Colonel Mihailovitch for a broad offensive against enemy garrisons.
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International
Jerusalem
Yugoslavia
Sbane
Nish
Mihailovitch
CIO Convention Opens in Detroit With Strike Backers
Detroit November 17 With its executive council pledged to support the strike in captive coal mines the CIO opened its national convention with about 500 delegates slated for Moose Temple at 10 a m The decision to back the coal mine dispute could affect the national defense if prolonged while delegates appear to back President Roosevelt's foreign policy.
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International News Service
Detroit
CIO
Moose Temple
Roosevelt
Striking miners defy Roosevelt as pact talks break down
A three month strike by workers at company owned mines of large steel firms goes into effect in defiance of President Roosevelt after peace talks between John L. Lewis and steel executives collapse. Roosevelt awaits orders before any army action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
One Suffering From Gastric Illness Remains In Hospital
After a luncheon at The Cathedral Friday noon, only J Johnston Fisher of the city remained in Jameson Memorial Hospital this morning. John Gray of Mercer was released after a night in the hospital. All others have recovered from the gastric disturbance and are about today. The cause and source of the food are still under state health authorities review. Local doctors and Jameson Memorial hospital staff treated victims promptly, preventing a more serious outcome.
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Cathedral
Jameson Memorial Hospital
J. Johnston Fisher
John Gray
Mercer
Slippery Rock Pool Delayed Swim Plans Note Weather
A reflective note recalls the long gap since swimming at Slippery Rock pool. The writer mentions cool weather and upcoming Saturdays when a bath by a limpid creek may occur, acknowledging frequent cancellations but hopeful for a return to outdoor swims. Weather is cited as fifty eight.
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