Fronts See German Retreat As Romeki War Expands
Russian reports claim German forces were pushed back 12 to 24 miles on the Moscow front while in Ukraine the Red Army claimed the enemy was in flight from Rostov. A London broadcast tied Hitler to Brauchitsch in the Ukraine as Guderian’s panzer units stalled.
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Rostov-on- Don
London
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Walther von Brauchitsch
Heinz Guderian
Adolf Hitler
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Gerd von Rundstedt
Mariupol
Proposal for Jan Mayen Arctic Air Base
Washington proposes establishing a new United States air base on Jan Mayen island in the far North Atlantic to counter German base plans on Greenland's east coast. The idea was outlined in the U S Naval Institute Proceedings highlighting strategic value and defensive benefits.
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United States
Arctic
Jan Mayen
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Greenland
U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings
U S Buys More Land At Point Pleasant
Gallia County reports the government will acquire 8 000 acres near Point Pleasant for an explosives plant and an additional 2 000 acres for a chemical industry. Land will front the Ohio River opposite Addison.
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Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Ohio River
Addison
Gallia County
Woman barely escapes death on railroad trestle
Evansville Indiana Mrs Minnie Herron 59 walking on a Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad trestle near Pigeon Creek saw an oncoming train. She laid flat on the ties and was dragged under two sleeper wheels by the air brakes but emerged unhurt aside from scratches.
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Ind
Minnie Herron
Pigeon Crek
Dyer Named Columbus Manager Succeeding Shotton
Eddie Dyer, former Houston Club manager in the St. Louis Cardinal farm system, named to helm Columbus in the American Association to replace Burt Shotton who moved to the Cleveland Indians as coach. Shotton reportedly earned about $15,000 with Columbus, double his prior pay. Dyer, 41, had just won three pennants for Houston and was replaced there by Pat Ankenman.
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Cleveland Indians
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Dyer
Pat Ankenman
Wright Plant Contract Affects 7 000 Workers
Cincinnati reports a contract covering 7 000 workers at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation engine plant in Lockland has been signed with the Aeronautical Employer Association. Association president William Schradin states the agreement provides wage adjustments aligned with changes in the cost of living.
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Wright Aeronautical Corporation
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Aeronautical Employer Association
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House Appropriations Panel Approves Eight Billion for Defense
The House Appropriations Committee endorsed an additional eight billion dollars for defense amid the wartime push. William S. Knudsen urged industrialists at the Waldorf Astoria to end strikes and union shop demands during the national emergency. Donald M. Nelson urged labor harmony and unity to align with national needs.
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Poison Ivy Warning From Army Camp Scene
Camp Blanding Florida AP report shows a private presenting poison ivy saying he would not eat it. Sergeant Conner Stokes warns the danger as the incident highlights the plant's harmful effects and need for caution among troops.
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1000 Workers Walk Out at Ravenna Shell-Loading Plant
Four unions called a strike at the government shell-loading plant near Ravenna. About 1000 to 1500 production, transportation, and maintenance workers stopped work after Atlas Powder Co refused to sign a contract. Hankin-Conkey Construction crews not covered. two load lines operate. production rate not disclosed.
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Hankin-Conkey Construction Co
Taxes Won’t Be Lost Says Welfare Director
Columbus welfare director Charles L. Sherwood called as inaccurate a claim that 3 million dollars yearly would vanish from political sub divisions after December 31 as beer and admissions tax revenues revert to the state for relief bond retirement. He said less than a sixth of that total would be lost by sub divisions not issuing such bonds. Ferguson and other Democratic leaders project year end surpluses above 25 million, while Republicans warn the figure could be much lower.
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Charles L. Sherwood
Joseph T. Ferguson
Sherwood
Ferguson
German Raider Hits Sydney Then Burns It in Battle
Melbourne reports the German surface raider Steiermark scored a direct hit on the Australian cruiser Sydney on November 19. The Sydney then set the raider ablaze with a broadside as the sinking warship burned. German survivors say 320 from Steiermark were rescued, with some wounded. no Sydney survivors reported.
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Australia
Steiermark
Sydney
Police Seek Owner of Confiscated Marijuana
Cleveland police seek the owner of a marijuana supply worth about $10 000 found in an Olmstead Falls attic. Lorain County Sheriff Carl R Finegan said the cannabis was grown in a field behind the cottage.
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Olmstead Falls
Lorain County
Carl R. Finegan
To Effect Savings by Using New Gas Pipeline
The Ohio Fuel Gas Company will save more than $400,000 during the next year by using a new pipeline being built by Anchor Hocking Glass between New Era West Virginia and Gravel Bank Ohio, according to the Federal Power Commission report.
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Ohio Fuel Gas Company
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Hocking Glass Corporation
New Era
W. Va
Gravel Bank
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Grange Head Advises Youth to Stay on Farm
Louis J. Taber of Columbus, retired master of the National Grange, urged rural youth to remain on the farm amid industrial expansion. He told 1,500 listeners at a National Farm Youth Foundation conference that higher wages in industry are temporary and postwar jobs will be farm‑related. He warned against youth movements that separate youths as a class, citing dangers seen in totalitarian Europe.
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Louis J. Taher
National Grange
National Farm Youth Foundation
Taber
Europe
Engineer Dies Saving Train on Submerged Bridge
Jack O'Connor of Garrett Indiana died saving a passenger train when he reversed the locomotive to stop derailed coaches from plunging into the Indiana Harbor ship canal after a bridge opened. A. E. McCurdy and Rush B. Moody escaped. six coaches remained upright.
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Ind
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
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Garrett
A. E. McCurdy
Pittsburgh
Rush B. Moody
McCurdy
Increased Aid for Allies Is Also Included
The House Appropriations Committee approved a new defense package totaling $8.24 billion, largely for defense and lend-lease to Britain and Russia. The plan would lift defense outlays since July 1, 1940 to about $68 billion, fund tank and gun production, expand lend-lease with $1.56 billion more, and empower transfer of up to $500 million of extra equipment if needed. It also allocates navy funds, 2,020 aircraft, air mount upgrades, and merchant ship arming, plus Army manpower and air field expansion.
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House Appropriations Committee
War Department
George C. Marshall
Army
Lend Lease
Navy
Air Corps
Congress
Walker Is Believed Killed in Levee Fall
Coroner W. W. Lynch reported that Robert Walker, 34, apparently was killed in a fall from the Ohio River Levee at Ironton.
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Ironton
W. W. Lynch
Robert Walker
Ohio River
War outlook thinly optimistic as leaders hint peace near
New York Mayor LaGuardia told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee a year may see the European war end if production goals are met and supplies reach fronts. President Roosevelt spoke of a hopeful Thanksgiving prayer for peace, while Germany remains pressured by Allied aid and setbacks along the Sea of Azov as its drive toward the Caucasus falters.
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New Rivetless Tanks to be Built at Lima Factory
After next August the U S will produce rivetless tanks, three-fourths welded and the rest cast steel. The M-4 30-ton medium tank will be built at Lima Locomotive Works and shipped to England, replacing the M-3 as Britain and the U S order 5 000 to 6 000 M-3s. Welded tanks reduce rivet hazards and free machine tools for defense work.
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Cleveland
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Lima (O
D. J. Crawford
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England
Crawford
Britain
See Increasing Defense Needs See Increasing Defense Needs
Senators discussed special treatment for small business as the Victory Program tightens the supply of steel copper zinc and other critical materials. Blackwell Smith of the Office of Production Management opposed a new division for small business priorities while OPM noted few small firms had shut down and about 10 000 letters weekly allege material shortages with 500 plants threatening closure.
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Blackwell Smith
Office of Production Management
OPM
Charge Manslaughter in Zanesville Boy's Death
Prosecutor J. Donald Kincaid says David Hadwin of Assumption Illinois has been charged with second degree manslaughter in the death of 10 year old Richard Law yer. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs F H Sawyer, was killed by a car as he was leaving a school bus near Hopewell.
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J. Donald Kincaid
David Hadwin
Assumption
Ill
Richard Lawyer
F. H. Sawyer
Hopewell
Second Man of Party Dies of Tularemia
Elwood J. Siburt age 29 of North Olmsted is the second member of a five man Thanksgiving rabbit hunting party to die from tularemia. His brother Harold 33 died Sunday. Two other members remain under observation.
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Elwood J. Siburt
North Olmsted
Harold
State to have surplus over ten millions
Ohio Finance Director H D Defenbacher said the state’s year end surplus would be between 10 and 11 million dollars, against forecasts of 18 to 40 million. He noted December revenues and expenditures were estimated and Nov 30 surplus stood at 7 068389, with 6 266000 still owed on the school foundation deficit after a 3 million appropriation for 1942.
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H. D. Defenbacher
Ohio County Auditor's Association Today
Defenbacher
Mason-Aid School at Ironton Faces Possible Closure
Ironton residents who defeated nine bond issues to fund a new building now face the threat of closing the Mason-Aid school. The district must secure a bond within six weeks or the school will shut down, according to the school board.
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Probable world record corn yield claimed near Fort Branch
Herman Barrett a 53 year old Southern Indiana farmer formerly of a steel mill is hailed as producer of a probable world record corn yield at 190.1 bushels per acre on his 568 acre Gibson county farm near Fort Branch Indiana.
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Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Herman Barrett
Fort Branch
Gibson
Ironton Seeks Defense Area Status Over Ammonia Plant
Ironton officials seek designation as a defense area to obtain federal supervision of health and housing conditions amid plans for a $20 million ammonia plant at nearby South Point.
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Ironton
South Point
Martins Ferry Priest Charles Mulhearn Dies at 80
The Rev. Charles A. Mulhearn, 80, pastor of St. Marys Catholic Church in Martins Ferry since 1898, died last night. He served the parish for decades and was a prominent local religious leader.
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Martins Ferry
Charles A. Mulhearn
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Reasons for Indo China Grab Sought
President Roosevelt asks Japan four questions that could speed a Pacific showdown or spark an armed truce to spare Thailand from becoming a far eastern battlefield. Diplomats expect the crisis to peak within the week if a direct explanation of Japan’s intentions is given.
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Roosevelt
Japan
Pacific
Thailand
Living Costs To Rise 20 Percent By Next Spring
Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson warned at an Economic Club meeting that living costs will be about 20 percent higher by next spring than at the start of the national emergency. He said costs have risen 11 percent already and are expected to climb another 11 to 12 percent per month.
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New York
Leon Henderson
Economic Club
Roosevelt asks Tokyo what are Japan's aims in French Indo China
Tokyo is asked to explain Japan's purpose for expanding armed forces in French Indo China amid tensions in the Pacific. Reports from Washington say Japan may answer in one of three ways, with observers noting a large troop presence and a naval force in Indo China.
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Marshal Petain
Reichsmarshal Goering
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Hull
United States
Asia
Britain
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Open Trial of Sixty Italian Revolutionists
Rome AP reports a vast revolutionary plot including a prewar assassination attempt on Premier Mussolini is charged to 60 persons on trial before a Fascist court at Tieste. The 60 are declared members of an anti Italian terrorist band of 71, while 11 defendants are missing, presumed fugitives abroad.
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