British Pursue Axis Troops Across Libyan Border
Allied forces press Rommel’s retreat into Libya as British and U S troops tighten the cordon along the coast near Matruh and Casablanca raids target enemy supply lines. Air power bombs and disrupts fleeing columns. six Italian divisions reported captured. Rommel’s strength said reduced to around 20,000 men.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Rommel
Libya
Owi
Matruh
Dadaw
U. S
Vichy North Africa
Bridgets
Vichy
France
Heen
Conil
Casablanca
Genoa
Morocco
Oran
Algiers
Algeria
Mediterranean
Europe
Axis
Frank L. Marlin
Columbia
Mantin
el Alamein
Trento
Pavia
Bologna
Brescia
Folgore
Trieste
B. L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Martin
Americans Gain On Guadalcanal Advances Reported
American troops push eastward on Guadalcanal with limited Japanese opposition as air and torpedo attacks strike the Japanese fleet in the Solomon Islands. A shore advance by Army and Marine forces reaches Meta Po no River near Kili Point, with unclear contact with any main enemy force.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Aeriel
Solomons
Navy
Army
Jagrine Corps
Metapono River
Kili Point
Koli Point
House Debates Teen-Age Draft Bill Showdown
After a recess the House moved toward a clash over the Senate amendment requiring 12 months of pre combat training for 18 and 19 year old inductees. President Roosevelt's likely veto hangs on the House Senate conference as military leaders warn the change will weaken the army and prolong the war. Selective Service says 200,000 married men would be inducted later due to delays.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Robert P. Patterson
Rankin
D.-Miss
Martin R.mass
Conference Committee
Selective Service Headquarters
Lenawee Patriotic League War Chest Reaches 28558
The Lenawee Patriotic League war chest totals 28558 with Hudson reporting 2552 collected to date. Business and professional groups contributed 1160, industrial workers 998, residential canvass 380, and Hudson schools 114. George Haskins said fundraising continues and figures are current.
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Lenawee Patriotic League
City of
Hudson
George Haskins
Rent Registration Opens Tuesday in Lenawee County
Lenawee county will open a rent control office Tuesday in Adrian at the Masonic Temple building per James T. Bolan. Landlords and hoteliers must file rent registration certificates with the March 1 ceiling rentals due by December 15, with forms available in Adrian city hall and local post offices. Registration requires triplicate or duplicate copies, with tenant copies mailed after review.
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Lenawee County
Masonic Temple
James T. Bolan
Toledo
Superior Street
Gardner Building
Adrian
Blissfield
Hudson
Onsted
Morenci
Lenawee
Monroe
Michigan
Wood and Lucas
Ohio
Boland
Armistice Day Parade Planned in Adrian
Veterans and patriotic groups in Adrian prepare an Armistice Day parade on Wednesday honoring the armistice signing 24 years ago. Participants meet at the armory at 10 30 AM, march to Maumee Broad and Butler streets then Main Street to the court house where services occur. Rex E DuPark will speak at the boulder.
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Adrian
Armory
Col
John Benner
Maumee Street
Broad Street
Butler Street
Main Street
American Legion Boulder
Court House
Boulder
Rex E. DuPark
Clark Lake
American Legion
Adrian High School
Michigan State
Lenawee county draftees head to Detroit for induction
The first November group of Lenawee county registrants leaves Adrian for Detroit for final physicals and possible Army induction. Seventeen to twenty men board trains at 9:08 p.m. after roll call at the Annis-Fint American Legion post. additional draftees recently departed for Fort Custer aboard a box car train.
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RAFT
Detroit
Army
Lenawee County
Adrian
Canroll
William C. Starpost
West Mau J
American Legion
Annis-Fintmee Street
National
Asso
Inter
Wabash
Patriot League Detroit
Vickys
Red Cross
Boy Scouts
The
Ena Reights
Adrian Budd
Thisic School
Fort Custer
Ac-Men
U.S. Army Service
Hitler vows to strike back as war drags on
In Munich on the anniversary of the 1923 Putsch, Adolf Hitler pledged to retaliate against American forces in North Africa and promised not to flee Germany. He dismissed British gains in Egypt as minor, urged faith, and warned that the final word would come from Germany, not Roosevelt.
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London
Hitler
North
Africa
Germany
Munich
Egypt
Algeria
Morocco
Roosevelt
Netherlands
Airlifted troops spearhead Buna Gona push in New Guinea
In New Guinea on November 9 American jungle trained troops began a bold air move from Australia to the Buna Gona coast, marking the largest infantry air transfer in U S history. Michigan soldiers led the assault with Corp Edward Raile of Charlevoix among the first ashore, as officers J Shirley and DeBoer also landed and the force pressed inland through rugged terrain toward the Japanese positions.
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New Guinea
United States
Buna-Gona
Australia
Michigan
Coral Sea
Corp
Edward Raile
Charlevoix
Mich
J. Shirley
Grand Rapids
Lieut
DeBoer
Muskegon
John Mec Farland
Detroit
Nazi war machine dealt another blow
Allied air forces struck Germany's war machine in occupied France with strong raids on Lille locomotive works and Abbeville airfield. Flying Fortresses and Allied fighters faced heavy German opposition, with losses reported on both sides. RAF bombers also hit Genoa in a heavy night raid, while Brest submarine base endured further attacks. Canadian escort squadrons supported the operations over France.
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London
Germany
France
Lille
Abbeville
British
Air Ministry
U. S Air Force
Genoa
Italy
Brest
DNE
Netherlands
House blocks extra year training for teenage draftees
Washington notes that the House refused to record support for a Senate plan to require one year of training for drafted teens before combat. A Rankin amendment to lower the draft age from 20 to 18 was defeated in conferee instructions. In a separate item, the Supreme Court upheld a 48 cent per bushel penalty on wheat produced and sold above Agricultural Adjustment Administration quotas.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rankin
D-Miss
Suprema Court
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Red Tanks Break Up Nazi Attacks Near Nalchik
Soviet mid day communique says Russian tank crews repelled German assaults near the Nalchik region in harsh Caucasus weather. In three days of fighting a German infantry battalion was wiped out in one sector with 1,700 Nazi deaths reported overall. At Stalingrad area fighting remained small scale with artillery duels and German infantry losses around 200. A Soviet air raid at a German airdrome destroyed 20 planes, and five days on that front saw 670 German soldiers killed by snipers.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Caucasian
Nalchik
Stalingrad
Bryansk
Red Army
Tuapse
Black Sea
Japanese Radio Calls African Landing Illegal
Washington reports that Tokyo radio labeled Eisenhower's appeal to North African French as a most ungentlemanly act and earlier called the American landing in Africa illegal. The Office of War Information relayed the broadcast monitored by FCC.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North
Africa
Office of War Information
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Africa At A Glance Flatters Allies In North Africa Campaign
Algiers capitulates as U S forces close on bases in French North and West Africa by land sea and air. Vichy severs relations with Washington. Battleship Jean Bart and four subs hit by Allied bombers, two Allied destroyers sunk. De Gaulle and Giraud urge troops and colonists to join Americans. Rome says horizon dark for Italy, Hitler vows to strike back.
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Associated Press
Algiers
U. S
West Africa
Hitler
Vichy
Washington
Jean Bart
Morocco
de Gaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
Algerien
Vichy Rejects U S Explanation Of North Africa Move
Across war desks in Washington Boston and London, the day’s dispatches report Roosevelt signaling Tunis and France’s Vichy regime over North Africa cooperation. U S aims to pass through Tunisia to strike Axis troops retreating from Egypt while Paris calls the invasion liberation. France’s consul in Boston resigns citing U S actions as first step toward freeing France. Demonstrations in Paris flare as police clash with marchers, and Hull announces Vichy ships in American ports are under protective custody. Allied forces push toward Algiers and Oran as Casablanca falls and landings widen along the Atlantic coast.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tunis
North Africa
Tunisia
Egypt
White House
Sidi Moncet Pacha
France
United States
Boston
Francois Briere
French Consult
M. Briere
Hull
Henry Hay
French Africa
UPI
Vichy
Gaston Henry Haye
Coast Guard
New Orleans
Berlin
Petain
Algeria
Morocco
Vichy Radio
Atlantic
Algier
Casablanca
Mogador
French North Africa
Bulge
Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
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Rex DuPark
Safi
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Linehan
Mineher
Stier
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Linehan & Jainehan
Bulletins
Rome
Bac
U.S
J.S
Reuters
Paris
French People's Party
Jacques Doriet
Gritain
America
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Switzerland
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Maxime Weygand
Riviera
Pierre Laval
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