Death Toll Rises In Great Lakes Storm
Diminishing winds aided rescue efforts as 92 known dead were reported from the vast winter storm across the Midwest. Freighters William B. Davock and Anna C. Minch foundered in Lake Michigan with all hands. 16 bodies washed ashore at Ludington. 26 duck hunters drowned while storms and freezing weather crippled the region.
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Churchill Says Taranto Blow Shifts Mediterranean Balance
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons Britain’s strike on the Italian fleet at Taranto decisively shifts Mediterranean power and affects global naval balance. He praised Admiral Cunningham and the fleet air arm, and lauded the Jervilee crew for escorting the convoy.
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Admiralty
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Commons
House
Mediterranean
British Press Association
Outmoded U S Bomb Sight Released For British Use
Washington reports the United States released an outdated U S bombsight to Britain for experimental use with potential production if successful. The device is not the secret U S model but includes many features of the standard sight. London notes heavy British naval actions in the Mediterranean with several Italian ships sunk or damaged near Taranto and in the Straits of Otranto.
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Mediterranean
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Soviet Premier Molotoff Talks With Hitler In Berlin Parley
Soviet Premier Vyacheslaff Molotoff and Adolf Hitler held a four hour conference in Berlin as part of ongoing discussions described as aiming at a long range Soviet Nazi collaboration. Officials present included Ribbentrop and Goering with other aides. details remained undisclosed.
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V. G. Dekanosoff
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Wilhelm Keitel
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Hermann Goering
Robert Ley
Labor Front
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg
Moscow
Engineers Give Up Rumania Rescue Try
In Bucharest on November 13 engineers who arrived with 100 coal miners from Petrosiani to bore tunnels under the cellar of the earthquake collapsed Carlton apartment building abandoned the rescue attempt as futile. Only 80 bodies of the 225 to 250 tenants had been recovered. Five members of firms that built the building were under arrest. Bucharest’s death toll from Sunday’s quake rose past 300 with the national toll nearing 1,000. Banlock Goodrich Tire reported four factory buildings demolished and damage at $100,000.
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Bremen sunk with 15,000 aboard, reports say
News despatched from San Francisco says the German liner Bremen, once a symbol of the Reichs merchant fleet, is believed sunk in the Kattegat off northern Denmark after a British torpedo attack. Reports claim 15,000 troops were aboard and bodies were seen in the Oresund, despite public tours of the wreckage.
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Japs Agree On Effort To End China Affair
Tokyo notes a complete agreement on a new Japanese effort to settle the China affair. The imperial conference was led by Prince Fushimi and included Konoe Su GI Yam a Matsuoka Tojo Oikawa Kawada Hoshino and Hara. The gathering followed reports of troop withdrawals from south and central China ahead of possible expansion toward Indo China.
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Prince Fumimaro Konoue
Gen Sugiyama
Yosuke Matsuoka
Eiki Tojo
Navy
Koshiro Oikawa
Isao Kawada
Japan Forces Mass for South Hainan Haiphong Hwangchowan
Reports from Shanghai state large concentrations of Japanese troops are stationed at Hainan Haiphong and Kwangchowan awaiting orders to board transports for a southern operation likely against French targets.
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Recognition of Camacho Is Hit At Border
Nogales Arizona November 13 The United States recognition of General Manuel Avila Camacho as Mexico president elect is called premature by Don Manuel Mascarenas a former rebel and backer of Almazan. He says Camacho has not yet taken office and doubts Almazan support is dead. Nogales residents on both sides of the border react as publishers prepare statements and speculation runs high.
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Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexico
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Camacho
Don Manuel Mascarenas
Chihuahua
Juan Almazan
Mascarenas
Jesus Siqueiros
Sonora
Jervis Bay Heroic Action Saves Convoy of 29 Ships
Sixty five seamen most wounded arrive in an Eastern Canadian port after the armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay sacrificed to shield a 38‑ship convoy in a mid Atlantic battle. Captain Fegen perished aboard the burning ship as the destroyer repelled a German raider. The admiralty credited the Jervis Bay with saving three fourths of the convoy.
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Sven Olander
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Luetzow
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United States
England
Dies May Hold Public Hearings On Agents Actions
Secretary Cordell Hull told House committee chairman Martin Dies to decide whether to hold public hearings on the activities of German consular agents in the United States. The State Department released the telegram exchange with Dies at his Orange Texas home and Hull away on a 10 day Augusta Georgia vacation.
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Martin Dies
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Italians Pour Over Lines To Give Up Arms
Sofia reports Italian forces have been driven from all territory in Greece invaded early in the Italo Greek hostilities. Athens confirms British air attacks from Greece hit Albania ports and Italian bases and munitions dumps behind Greek Italian fighting lines.
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Greek Front Quiet as Italians Suffer Wounded and Prisoners
Greek high command reports a steady flow of Italian wounded and prisoners being sent to camps as Greek forces advance through villages abandoned by retreating Fascists. General Soddu is believed to be reorganizing Italian troops in Albania.
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Congress Set To Vote On Adjourning Next Tuesday
White House said President Roosevelt sees no new legislation warranting submission to this Congress and is not pushing measures. Speaker Rayburn announced a Tuesday vote on adjournment with Democrats urging attendance and Republicans aiming to keep Congress in session due to the international situation.
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Unity Pledge by FDR Amid Calls for National Unity
President Roosevelt issued a pledge to work for national unity in his third term stating unity strengthens the nation. He noted receiving tens of thousands of congratulatory messages from voters of both Willkie and Roosevelt, as White House Secretary Early released the statement after Willkie’s post election address.
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America
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
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Forty B-17 Bombers Headed to Britain Before Christmas
Washington reports forty of America's four motor bombing aircraft will be sent to Britain by Christmas under Roosevelt policy. The Boeing plant will supply eighty B-17 bombers with Britain receiving half, and experts note the planes' long range could enable direct transatlantic flights to England.
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Britain
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England
Axis Planes Reach London In Third Try
German and Italian airplanes failed twice to bomb London but broke through defenses on the third raid. New raids targeted Wales and the midlands while Londoners heard gunfire and bombs. At least three Axis aircraft were downed, including one Italian plane that burned over Sussex.
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Wales
Midlands
Sussex
British Gain Advantage In Near East
British planes strike at Italy's main naval forces in Tarranto, blocking three Italian battleships and damaging two cruisers and two smaller ships. The raid strengthens British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, with Turkey as a key ally and Moscow as a growing influence as Britain seeks to keep sea power in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Fred Vanderschmidt
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Pima Seeks Federal Aid for Ajo Airport Expansion
Pima County supervisors formally requested federal funds to upgrade the Ajo airport, citing defense needs. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials deem the current facility inadequate for national defense, with potential aid from a $40 million fund. City council also sought funds to finish a runway expansion begun by the WPA.
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