Workers in Steel Office Furniture Face Jobless New Year
Representative Daniel Reed and about 30 colleagues met 11 representatives of the Steel Office Furniture Industry to discuss how priority curtailments will hit production. An OPM order retroactive to Sept 1, 1941 may force wholesale unemployment of 40 to 60 percent between Sept 1 and Jan 1 1942. In Jamestown New York 2000 workers faced possible unemployment if the order stands.
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Washington
Daniel Reed
Cren.yo
Reed
Mleace
Jamestown
N.Y
Paris Artists Win Extra Coal Rations in Winter
In Occupied France, Paris region governor Charles Magny approves extra coal for artists to keep models warm during winter studio work. The decision follows wartime shortages impacting the Latin Quarter and local arts scene.
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Paris
France
Charles Magny
There
German Deep Advance Reported Near Moscow and Rostov
Berlin claims deep German thrusts inside the Moscow arc of defenses and near Rostov on the Black Sea. Reports say Leningrad bases were attacked by air as Germans claim strikes on the Peybinsk factory area and rail lines near Tikhvin.
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Moscow
Ircae
Rostov
Black Sea
Taganrog
Leningrad
Peybinsk
Tikhvin
Laedoza
Real Jail Birds At Joliet to Be Given Freedom
Canaries kept by prison inmates at Joliet will be discharged as breeding and new acquisitions have swollen the canary population to several hundred. Warden F. E. M. Stubbefield says many birds must be weeded out to manage the collection.
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Joliet
Half Acre Corn Ends With Weeded Harvest Hustle
In Deport Texas Clyde Barham planted a half acre of corn that germinated amid weeds. He hired six men for half a day at fifty cents to chop weeds and soon harvested a half bushel of corn. In Missoula Montana Ray Hemingway narrowly escaped a fatal shooting when a store display deflected a .22 bullet.
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Clyde Barham
Missoula
Mont
Ray Hemingway
Hemingway
Petain Poised to Join New European Order
Special cable reports from London indicate Marshal Petain may attend the Vienna Congress to discuss a new European order. Goering and Darlan reportedly met with Petain to signal France's integration into the Nazi plan as Britain resists.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
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Jean Darlan
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Europe
Germany
Vichy
Petain
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France
Vienna
Danish Cabinet Backed Anti-Comintern Pact Plan
Reub's plan to bring Copenhagen government into the anti Comintern group was aired at a Danish cabinet meeting on Sunday, November 22. Two ministers favored the plan, with five others supporting a purely Guidistic compromise despite seven opposing. German Minister Renthe Finck delivered the ultimatum which the cabinet accepted in a session led by King Christian X, though Scavenius was bound to the pact's literal wording only.
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Reub
Copenhagen
Suneday
Eric Scavenius
Gunnar Larsen
Renthe Finck
Christian X
Scavenius
French Jews Face Stricter Control Under New Laws
Three anti Semitic measures published in the Official Journal tighten Jewish economic and residential rights in Vichy France. Jews lose most commerce permits, may only rent or own one home, and must join the Union des Israelites de France to oversee welfare, hospitals, and schools with dues based on means.
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Vichy
Today
Union Des Israelites de France
Union
City faces overhaul as experts urge new administration
Salt Lake City commissioners paid $2,500 to a firm of experts to study city government and propose reforms. The study recommends abolishing commissioner jobs in favor of a new administrative form.
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Salt Lake City
Count Reventlow Joins Free Denmark Movement
London December 2 Count Edward Reventlow Danish minister to London for four years publicly aligned with the Free Danish movement and criticized Denmark for joining the anti Comintern pact saying it risks British relations. He remains Danish minister to London though Denmark is occupied by Germany. About five hundred thousand tons of Danish shipping and some 4000 sailors work for Britain as Danes abroad join the Allied effort.
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London
Edward, Reventlow
Danial Poverment
Copenhagen
Free Denmark
Count Reventlow
Denmark
Great Britain
Reventlaw
Free Danish Movement
British Ships Sunk by Nazis Claimed in November
Berlin reports November sea war losses to Britain amounting to forty eight merchant ships totaling 231,870 tons and several naval craft sunk. German bombers reportedly hit waters around England, with further ships damaged and multiple heavy vessels declared lost or damaged.
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Berlin
High Command
Germany
Britain
England
RAF Bombs Docks at Kristiansund
British air raiders bombed docks at Kristiansund in German occupied Norway during the night. A direct hit struck a supply ship in the harbor and other bombs burst among ships moored at the piers. All raiders returned safely.
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London
Kristiansund
Norway
Air Ministry
Major Eddy resigns Hobart presidency to serve as naval aid
Geneva reports Maj Alfred Eddy president of Hobart and William Smith College since 1936 resigns to serve in the Navy. He will depart at end of scholastic year after a year’s leave and has acted as naval attaché at the Cairo American location with a Machine Corps commission. Prof. E. Lansing becomes acting president.
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Geneva
Alfred Eddy
Hobart
William Smith Collegea
Navy
Eddy
John
E. Lansing
Ail
Cairo
Fire destroys farmhouse. boy, 4, dies believed arson
Authorities investigated a farmhouse fire 12 miles west of Watkins Glen. A year old boy, Paul Misada Morrow, believed to have started the blaze while playing with matches. The ruins were searched for his body.
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Dee 2
Here
Paul Misada
Morrow
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