Swiss Target Of New Nazi Nerves War
Swiss authorities face a intensified Nazi nerves campaign as Voelkische Beobachter claims Switzerland is a platform for Jewish agitation. The article accuses Swiss authorities of letting Jews flood in and use Switzerland for espionage while refugees are kept in guarded camps. Germany hints RAF violations could justify transit for troops. Axis plans rely on Switzerland to shorten routes to the Mediterranean.
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Bern
Switzerland
Hiller
Voelkische Beobachter
Europa
Europe
Beich
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Wilhelmstrasse
Royal Air Force
Germany
Mediterranean
Brenner’ Pass
Rhone Valley
Holiday Rest Is Proposed For Congress
Washington leaders in both parties weigh adjourning Congress on December 15 for a brief holiday before the new session opens January 4. Rayburn and Barkley likely to retain top posts. reorganization expected, with possible change in sergeant at arms. Bills on immigration and tariff suspension, federal education aid, overtime pay, and rent controls face delays.
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Washington
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
House
Alben Barkley
D-Ky
Senate
Barkley
Sergeant At
Chesley W. Jurney
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Democratic Steering Committee
U S Bombers Strike Japanese Bases in China Night Raid
American airmen opened a night dive bombing attack in central China hitting Hankow's Yangtze docks, a gunboat, and a river steamer. Bombers then pounded Yochow and Sienning, targets near Hankow on the Hupeh Hunan border, with heavy anti aircraft fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Reilly O'Sullivan
China
Yangtze
Hankow
Yochow
Sieniing
Hupeh-Hunan
Haiphong
Indo-China
Sienning
Changsha
Poyang Lake
Canton- Hankow
Herbert Morgan
Freedom
Robert L. Scott
Macon
John Alison
Gainsville
Fla
Albert Baumler
Trenton
N. J
China Air Task Force
Merian C. Cooper
Jacksonville
Sampson Training Station Barracks Damaged by Fire
Officials at the U. S. Naval Training Station investigated a morning fire that caused 3000 dollars damage to an unoccupied barracks. Fire crews confined the blaze to one end of the new wooden building not yet turned over to the Government. A similar building at the station burned on November 13.
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Samson
U. S. Naval Training Station
Harry A. Badt
Society of Jesus Leader Gravely Ill in Madrid
Reports from Rome say Rev Wladimir Ledochowski general of the Society of Jesus is gravely ill and moved from a clinic to his residence where last rites were given Pope Pius expressed deep concern over his condition Ledochowski has led the order since February 2 1915
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Society of Jesus
Madrid
Rome
Wladimir Ledochowski
Pope Pius
German Forces Driven From Don Eibow and Leningrad Front Losses
Soviet forces repelled German troops southwest of Don Eibow near a factory area used as winter shelter. Communiques claim 20 blockhouses cleared and buildings captured. Soviet artillery and scouts killed about 1,000 attackers near Leningrad, and Russians seized a key height near Tuapse.
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Stalinerad
Volga-Don
Rzhev
Moscow
Latvia
Hitler
Leningrad
Tuapse
Black Sea
Doom of Port But Seen at Session Today
Washington reports a conference of congressional leaders may end hopes for Roosevelt wartime authority to suspend tariff and immigration rules this year. Doughton doubts passage. Senate steering withholds controversial bills. Speaker Rayburn and McCormack discuss temporary measures until next year. Minority Leader Martin says Congress could stay in session for emergencies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Doughton
D-N. C
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Congress
Rayburn
D-Tex
McCormack
Ways and Means Committee
Martin
R-Mass
Two Bloomingdale’s Employees Arrested in Heist
New York police booked Daniel Smith and Anthony Leone, both 27, on grand larceny charges for alleged theft of 250000 dollars worth of merchandise over four years. Detectives report 18 cases of whisky found in their car after a closing time chase. Missing items include furniture refrigerators washing machines dishes and assorted articles.
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New York
Bloomingdale
Thomas Nason
Joseph Reynolds
Daniel Smith
Anthony Leone
Smith
Dewey and Mrs Dewey Plan Albany Luncheon Today
Governor elect Thomas E. Dewey and his wife were to lunch in Albany with Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman sealing the cordial meeting.
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Dewey
Lewman
QUEST
Albany
INS
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
lGov
Herbert Lehmaty
Japs Lose 32 Planes U S 4 In Island Raid
Guadalcanal November reports a raid on the harbor waters between Guadalcanal and Little Florida Island. Japanese losses totaled 16 torpedo planes and 5 Zeros plus 11 engaged by anti air and ships. American losses were four planes and one pilot saved.
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U.S
Guadalcanal
Loje
Little
Florida Island
Henderson Field
Channel
Narya
Guadal‘canal
Annie Beatrice Henry to Die by Electric Chair in Louisiana Case
Lake Charles La Nov 28 Mrs Annie Beatrice Toni Jo Henry 26 wife of Claude Henry awaits execution for a 1940 Valentine Day murder in Texas. She planned to aid her husband by robbing a bank and used Joseph Galloway as a casualty after flagging him in Orange Texas. Henry twice won new trials and after her final conviction the U S Supreme Court upheld electrocution law.
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Lake Charles
Annie Beatrice
Toni Jo) Henry
Claude
Cowboy
Texas
Tom Jo
Joseph P. Galloway
Houston
Galloway
Henry
Orange
State Supreme ‘Court
Louisiana
United States Supreme Court
Lake ‘Charles
Tonito
Gas Rationing Fees Aimed at Henderson
Washington reports House Democrats press a campaign to remove Price Administrator Leon Henderson by cutting OPA funds. They demand a nationwide gasoline rationing plan be extended, while Henderson defends a common sense allotment system. The fight includes calls for abolishing OPA and transferring duties to James Byrnes.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Federal
Boren
D-Okla
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Administration
OPA
Henderson
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Taber
New York
Johnson
D‘okla
James Byrnes
House
Cox
D-Ga
Herbert
D.la
Senate War Committee
Truman
D-Mo
Defense Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
Harold Ickes
William M. Jeffers
Kansas City
Blaze Sweeps Five Story Hotel Packer In Perth Amboy
A spectacular fire at the 250 year old Hotel Packer in Perth Amboy N J sent about 200 guests to the streets after ladders and nets were used as guests jumped or were carried to safety from up to four stories. No fatalities were reported immediately. The five story brick and frame hotel housed about 150 rooms and the blaze started in the rear with cause undetermined.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Packer
Middlesex County
Eugene Mullen
State scrutinizes income tax records back to 1920
Albany reports the State Tax Department has collected over 2.68 million dollars in back income taxes in a two year delinquent drive. Records are being combed back to 1937 and will be checked to New York's 1920 income tax enactment. Officials note time does not erase such debts.
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Albany
State Tax Department
New York
Department
Poletti to Become Governor Wednesday
Lieut Governor Charles Poletti will be sworn in as governor next Wednesday in Albany. The ceremony is set for 4 P.M. in the executive chamber as he serves for one month until Thomas E. Dewey assumes office as governor.
Bargain Bait Is Lined Up By Germans
Nazi leaders order transfer of former French leaders Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel from Portalet to Bordeaux after Gestapo raid. Reynaud and Mandel are guarded by French and German troops amid claims this is for postwar bargaining. Blum ill in custody, Daladier and Gamelin deemed less important.
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Paul Ghali
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Bern
Paul Reynaud
Georges Mandel
Portalet Fortress
Pyrenees
Bordeaux
Leon Blum
Gustave Gamelin
Edouard Daladier
Portalet
Reynaud
Mandel
Heinrich ‘Himmler
Hermann Goering
Gestapo
Blum
Daladier
Gamelin
Albany jeweler facing federal injunction over nylon hose prices
The Office of Price Administration seeks a federal court injunction against Albany jeweler Samuel Kolker for price control violations in nylon hose sales. An affidavit notes no ceiling prices or price tags, with hose priced up to 3.50 though OPA limits range from 1.65 to 2.50. Judge Brennan set a hearing for December 7.
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Albany
Office of Price Administrator
Samuel Kolker
Albany Jeweler
New York
Federal District
Jane R. Laferme
Kolker
James F. Carroll
OPA
Nazi interior lines undermine war effort sabotage urged
London reports Adolf Hitlers interior communications falter as war risks grow. Philip Noel-Baker, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of War Transport, calls Axis transport workers to sabotage all failing railway cars tanks radiators and misread orders to aid freedom in a BBC broadcast.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Philip Noel- Baker
Ministry of War Transport
BBC
Two Die in Night Traffic Crashes in Niagara Falls
In Niagara Falls on a cold night, Mrs. Hazel B. Metzgar aged 51 from Youngstown and Nick Hall aged 55, a railroad laborer, were fatally injured in separate pedestrian accidents.
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Niagara Fall
Hazel B. Metzgar
Youngstown
Nick Hall
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