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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1941
Page
2
The Associated Press reports that the question of Russia striking Japan remains unanswered. President Roosevelt and Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinov discussed coordinated Allied effort, stressing sympathy and aid while noting the shared trial against aggression and the need for timely, coordinated action to defeat the Axis.
The province of Quebec produced 608 145 ounces of silver in the first half of 1940, up from 545 878 ounces in the same period of the previous year.
Charles West former Ohio congressman and Roosevelt aide has agreed in federal court to an examination before trial in his suit against Empire Ordnance for 687000 dollars. Lincoln Epworth said West would be examined by Empire Ordnance lawyers. a date to be set later. West alleges the firm employed him in 1940 as an agent to obtain war contracts and to be paid one percent of gross profit.
United Press reports British Columbia placer gold mining is set for a boom after duties on dragline dredges were removed in the United States. Engineers are mapping ground and operators plan spring work as ground thaws. Dredges already sit in the Atlin and Cariboo districts. Equipment mirrors California and Oregon methods.
Holmes County commissioners contracted 2,700 cubic yards of bank run gravel from Killbuck Sand & Gravel Co for county road No 51. A road scraper was bought for 100 dollars. The board also decided to gravel road No 32 in Washington two at a cost of 50 dollars.
The Repository circulation department planned a defense savings stamp program with newspaper boys selling 10 cent stamps. E M Grimes announced today. The plan mirrors a statewide Ohio Circulation Managers association program chaired by Joseph Aylward of the Akron Beacon Journal. Participants may buy one or more stamps weekly.
Lake Ladoga, scene of Russian Finnish fighting in 1940, is Europe's largest lake by area. It spans nearly the size of Wales with a mean depth of about 300 feet, shaping strategic defense and supply routes on the frontier.
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