Fifth Canadian Armored Division Lands in Britain
The fifth Canadian armored division arrived in Britain as part of the empire’s largest troop convoy to reach the country. Thousands of Canadians in battle dress disembarked and headed to training camps in southern England, with trains carrying units from the interior and graduates of the Empire Air Training Scheme aboard.
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Britain
England
Ottawa
Department of National Defense
Atlantic
United States Army Air Corps
Gunboats Withdrawn From Yangtze Patrol
The Navy said it is withdrawing a number of U S gunboats from the Yangtze patrol in China. A Navy spokesman declined to specify which vessels or their new assignments.
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Washington
Navy
U. S
Yangtze River
China
Yangtze
United Press
U.S
Panay
Luzon
Wake
Mindanao
Monocacy
Oahu
Tutuila
Commodore Perry
Orient
Japan
Roosevelt to press defense labor curb law next week
President Roosevelt invites congressional leaders to the White House to discuss labor legislation. Speaker Sam Rayburn says the House will consider defense labor measures next week as a three man arbitration board moves toward final terms in the captive mine dispute. Observers weigh whether the UMWA chief will accept arbitration or resist, amid anti strike pressure.
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U.P
Sam Rayburn
House
Rayburn
Roosevelt
Congress
House Labor Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Arbitration
UMWA
Lewis
Gambut Taken In Drive Along Coast Of Sea
British forces smash westward along the Libyan Mediterranean coast capturing Gambut a key Axis supply center midway to Tobruk. Unofficial reports say 15000 Axis prisoners. the battle features heavy tank clashes at Sidi Rezegh with Allied forces advancing from east and south.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
Mediterranean
Gambut
Tobruk
Middle East
Libya
Bardia
Erwin Rommel
Empire
Sidi Rezegh
Threat To Moscow Is Grave As Spearheads Near Capital
Axis forces mass for a major assault on Moscow with 600000 troops and up to 200 tanks driving toward the capital. Klin sector pressure grows to 51 miles from Moscow, prompting Red Army retreats and multiple counteroffensives on Leningrad Novgorod Kursk and Donets fronts. Radio Moscow reports a separate Donets battle yields heavy German losses and Russian gains.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
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Kalinin
Berlin
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Leningrad
Novogorod
Kursk
Radio Moscow
Donets
Rostov-on-Don
49Th Mounted Corps
Viking
16Th Tank Division
Powers To Meet On Japanese Question
Secretary of State Hull summoned representatives of Great Britain China the Netherlands and Australia to meet at the State Department at 4 p m today The talks aim to advance Far Eastern discussions possibly leading to another meeting with Japanese negotiators Saburo Kurusu and Kichisaburo Nomura to continue the crisis talks.
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Washington
Hull
Great Britain
China
Netherlands
Australia
State Department
Saburo Kurusu
Kichisaburo Nomura
Anti-Comintern Pact to Be Extended in Berlin Ceremony
Berlin authorities said the anti-Comintern pact of 1936 would be extended for five years tomorrow in a state ceremony at the chancellery. Germany Italy Spain and Hungary will sign the extension with Japan on Manchukuo ambassadors present. several foreign ministers from Finland Denmark Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia and Romania will attend. It was unclear if Adolf Hitler would attend.
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U.P
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Italy
Japan
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Spain
Hungary
Manchukuo
Rolf Johan Witting
Finland
Scavenius
Denmark
Ivan Popoff
Bulgaria
Mladen Lorcovic
Croatia
Bela Tuka
Slovakia
Mihai Antonescu
Romania
Adolf Hitler
Washington
Harriman
First Lady Would Form Farmerettes
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the Office of Civilian Defense plans to organize a women's land army to aid next year's harvests. She said a farmerette program is needed due to farm labor shortages from migration to industry and urged immediate study of training and fitness requirements.
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Washington
WUP
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
Women’s Land Army
Roosevelt
House
Middle-West
United States
Japanese Foreign Office Sends New Washington Message
Tokyo reports the Japanese foreign office has issued a new communication to its Washington mission as talks with the United States proceed. Domei cautions optimism is unwarranted while noting the message is considered urgent and a new development is expected very shortly.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
United States
Washington
Domei
6000 Axis Troops Lost in Sinking
Reports from Ankara say 6,000 Axis soldiers, mostly Germans, were lost in the sinking of an Italian convoy. The air defense failure led to the Italian air chief’s resignation. General Francesco Piccolo was replaced by General Rino Coro Sougier.
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Francesco Piccolo
Rino Coro Sougier
Gulf of Taranto
Alexandria
North Africa
Fred Sutter Dies Famed Bisbee Lawyer
Fred A. Sutter 67 of Bisbee, prominent Democratic political leader and tax authority, dies at St. Marys hospital. Funeral 3:30 p m tomorrow at the Elks home Bisbee with burial in Evergreen. He served as Bisbee city attorney and Cochise County superior court judge and ran for governor in 1918 and 1932, losing to Hunt and Moeur. Pallbearers include A W Liddell W A Hart I F Burgess M J Cunningham James Caretto James P Gentry.
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Sutter
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W. A. Hart
I. F. Burgess
M. J. Cunningham
James Caretto
James P. Gentry
Fred A. Sutter
St. Mary’s Hospital
Sutter, Gentry and Sutter
George P. Hunt
B. B. Moeur
State Senate
Nebraska
Shattuck Military School
Fairibault
Minn
University of Nebraska
Arizona
Harriman's Berlin Parley Affects Allied War Aims
Dewitt Mackenzie notes Harriman's London broadcast praising naval actions against German forces may spur non Axis powers against Hitler’s peace bid. He discusses the Berlin conference of anti Comintern allies and possible Vichy cooperation, amid Nazi moves with Finland Denmark Bulgaria Croatia Romania Slovakia and Japan.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
W. Averell Harriman
Frank
London
White House
Germany
Hitler
Vichy
Mexico Signals Improved Trade Balance After Washington Accord
Mexican officials say U S Mexico economic agreements signed in Washington will correct a red ink gap of over 100 million pesos built during the crisis period. A 40 million dollar stabilization fund will bolster the peso while the overall economy improves, as imports and exports narrow the deficit.
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Mexico City
Washington
Mexico
Republic
Brazil Announces US Military Aid for Surinam Bauxite Mines
Brazil reports the United States will send a military force to Dutch Guiana to aid in joint preservation of the Surinam bauxite mines. The Dutch government invited Brazil to participate with the United States to safeguard bauxite vital to the aluminum industry.
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White House
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Paramaribo
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Rio DE Janeiro
U.P
Foreign Office
Holland
Continent
U. S
Fire destroys half Seward business district in Alaska blaze
Seward Alaska, Nov 24. Fire raged through the city destroying half the business section and causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Soldiers from Fort Raymond aided the volunteers as the blaze spread from a midnight start along Fourth Avenue between Washington and Adams streets. The new hydrants were pressed into service and the fire remained out of control hours after it began.
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Alaska
U.P
Fort Raymond
Fourth Avenue
Washington
Adams Streets
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