RAF Hammers Turin with Heavy Bomb Raid
London AP reports a powerful RAF bombing of Turin causing great damage to the Italian industrial city. Italian high command says damage was extensive with many buildings hit and fires started. casualties listed as 75 killed and 112 wounded. RAF thunders over the Po amid anti airfire and Swiss protests.
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London
Royal Air Force
Turin
RAF
Rin
Royal Arsenal
Iran
Italy
Union Order Is Disputed by Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward challenges the War Labor Board authority to require a maintenance of union membership clause. Sewell Avery leads the case against the board, which supporters say balances individual liberty with union security. Roosevelt backs the board. Opponents argue it infringes personal freedoms.
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Washington
Montgomery Ward & Co
War Labor Board
Sewell Avery
Roosevelt
Montgomery Ward
Use of New Sulfa Is Saving Lives in War
Doctors in field hospitals on this front report that sulfa drugs save wounded soldiers who would previously have died. Capt. Philip North of Fort Worth, Texas, brought back the account from New Guinea, noting most injuries now treated successfully with the drug.
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New Guinea
Philip North
Fort Worth
Tex
North
British Bomber Seals French Train in Tunnel
A mosquito bomber attacked a railroad tunnel 40 miles northwest of Paris at dusk. The air ministry said the craft placed a bomb at a tunnel mouth and then struck the opposite entrance as a train entered, effectively sealing the train inside.
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London
Paris
Air Ministry
Filer
Officers Denied Right To See Driver's Permit
Columbus report notes Ohio Supreme Court ruling that a motorist may refuse to show a license, but failing to comply is prima facie evidence of operating without a license. The only defense is to produce the license.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Solons Swing Toward Farm Bloc
Washington reports Senator Aiken signals administration price fixers are approaching the Farm Bloc with temperate gestures as a possible appeasement for a farmers congress. He notes a growing farm revolt and predicts two thirds of the next Senate will back farmers. executive agencies may adjust to election results.
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Washington
Senator Aiken
R-Vt
Congress
Aiken
Senate Farm Group
Senate
Americans Still Fighting In Philippines Reported
A Tokyo dateline via the Vichy broadcast says Americans still hold parts of the Philippine Islands and Japanese Marines have landed to end resistance. Berlin radio says fierce fighting continues as Americans gradually surrender, with Tokyo last week noting ongoing resistance after Bataan and Corregidor.
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New York
Vichy
Tokyo
Philippine Islands
Berlin
London
Bataan and
Corregidor
Butter and Egg Price Regulations Unchanged
The Office of Price Administration says prices on butter eggs cheese and other foods fixed during a 60 day freeze ending Dec 3 remain the same under a permanent regulation. It covers retail wholesale and processor levels plus condensed milk flour cake mixes canned citrus juices corn meal hominy poultry and retail fresh citrus fruits.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Allied Forces Drive Japanese From Gona District
Allied forces led by General Douglas MacArthur announce the complete occupation of the Gona area in New Guinea. The fall pins down Japanese forces to a narrow Buna coastal strip, following heavy fighting that has already seen substantial Japanese casualties and halted their Port Moresby approach.
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Gona
New Guinea
Melbourne
Douglas MacArthur
Papua
John Curtin
House of Representatives
Canberra
Buna
Gona-Buna
Owen Stanley
Port Moresby
Japs Silent on U S Captives and Last Civil War Vet Dies
Washington report shows Maj. Gen. Benedict stated Japan will not provide a full list of about 18 600 American captives from Bataan and Java hindering morale efforts. Senate and House committees back a bill to extend cash allowance deadlines for families of missing men. In Chillicothe Nelson J Dunlap, 9% Ross County's last Civil War veteran, died at his Kingston home. he was Renick W Dunlap's father.
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Washington
Japan
Bataan
Java
Jay L. Benedict
War Department
Dependency Board
House Naval Committee
Benedict
Navy
Senate Naval Committee
Chillicothe
Nelson J. Dunlap
Ross County
Kingston
Renick W. Dunlap
Farm Boys On Level With Soldiers Postwar Pensions Debate
Columbus leaders discussed a proposal to grant military recognition to farm youth who stay on the farm to ensure they are not disadvantaged after the war. A 10 point program urged full small-farm production, repurposing workers, adjusting schooling for farm children, using city women on farms, allowing pensioners to work, harmonizing farm and industry wages, and forming county farm committees.
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Columbus
Ohio
Wade Hammond
War Manpower Commission
First Gas Hijacking Reported in Indiana
SEYMOUR Ind four day four The first gasoline hijacking since rationing became effective in Indiana was reported to state police yesterday. William B Spies of Columbus said three youths in a small truck with New York plates crowded his car and siphoned gasoline into an extra tank on the Muck.
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Seymour
Ind
Indiana
William B. Spies
Columbus
New York
Here
Armed Cargo Ship Sinks Axis Raider in Atlantic Clash
A medium American merchant vessel fought off two Axis surface raiders in the South Atlantic, sinking one raider and badly damaging the other before it went down with only 10 of 41 crew surviving. Five Navy gunners also survived the battle, which ended with the ship sinking while still flying its colors.
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Washington
South Atlantic
Navy
U. S
FDR Denied Added War Powers By House Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee pigeonholed Roosevelt's wartime authority bill to suspend tariff laws. Members said no realistic chance of passage before the 77th Congress ends January 3, and noted quorum and Senate considerations would block action.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Rayburn
D-Tex
Doughton
D-Nc
Senate
P-38 Fighter Claim Exceeds German Defenses in North Africa
Navy Lieut Carl Williams of South Gate California says the twin engine P-38 is too good for the Germans and it is improving daily after Williams bagged a Messerschmitt 109 over Tunis. A far off severe earthquake was recorded by Fordham University seismograph 4000 miles from New York in an undetermined direction.
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12Th Air Force Base
North Africa
Navy
United State
Army
Carl Williams
South Gate
Calif
Williams
Tunis
New York
Fordham University
Welfare Bureau Seeks $21.4 Million Increase in Ohio
Ohio Welfare Department plans a $21.4 million appropriation request to the General Assembly to fund 22 institutions in the next biennium. Director Charles L. Sherwood notes the rise covers costs for food fuel and clothing and reflects current wage schedules with no room for potential raises.
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Columbus
Ohio Welfare Department
General Assembly
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Newark Publisher Charles H Spencer dies in auto truck collision
Funeral services for Charles H Spencer editor of The Newark Advocate will be held Saturday at the Second Presbyterian Church with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery. He was 72 and died yesterday in a collision between his car and a truck near Newcomerstown.
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Newark
Charles H. Spencer
Newark Advocate
Second Presbyterian Church
Cedar Hill
Spencer
Newcomerstown
Allied and Axis Clash as Tebourba Front Heats Up
Allied forces resume offensive in the Tebourba-Mateur sector near Bizerte and Tunis as German counter-attacks on Tunisian front are weathered. Russian onslaught west of Moscow drives Germans back while Stalingrad struggle continues. Cairo says Libyan front quiet but air reinforcements arrive. two Allied fighter formations attack German transport planes between Sicily and Tunisia. Tebourba thrust repulsed per Italian high command.
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Reuters
Morocco
Tebourba-Mateur
Bizerte
Tunis
Red Army
Moscow
Velekie Luki
Rzhevy
Stalingrad
Tunisia
North Africa
Cairo
el Agheila
Sicily
Malta
Tebourba
Tunisian
Tanks Sink 39 Axis Planes in North Africa Raid
Akron technician recalls 17 American light tanks surprising a German airport near Tebourba. Grounded planes were shot up, and the air counterattack left one officer and three sergeants wounded after crew safety lapses. The battle lasted about an hour as planes fired on the tanks with 20 mm and machine guns.
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North Africa
Akron
Ohio
Tebourba
Tobacco Prices Can Exceed Average Peak
Washington officials of the Office of Price Administration said today that better grades of tobacco could average much higher than the theoretical average maximum of 38 per 100 pounds for burley. A separate ceiling price was set for each of 68 basic grades, and the 38 figure is based on past sales and not used directly in determining the maximums.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Registration of 18-Year-Olds for Draft Starts Friday
Washington reports 18 year olds who turned 18 since last June 30 must register for induction with three weekly birth date groups. Selective Service estimates over half a million eligible, though many have already enlisted.
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Washington
Selective Service
Shake-up in Nazi Command Reported by Berlin Radio
Berlin broadcasts say Infantry General Zeitzler is chief of the general staff of the Army, a change seen as the first public confirmation. The post was previously held by General Frango Halder, who is among leaders rumored to have fallen under Hitler’s displeasure and faced a purge.
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Berlin
Transocean
Zeitzler
Frangx Halder
Hitler
German and Russian Moves Reported on Front North of Moscow
Axis accounts claim intensified patrols southwest of Tebov orba and German counterattacks pushing Russians back in parts of the Don Bend. Berlin reports a Russian breakout was wiped out with 104 tanks destroyed in four days and a Kalinin offensive continuing on the Toropets flank toward Velikiye Luki northwest of Moscow.
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Teboverba
Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Berlin
Don Bend
Kalinein Toropets
Red Army
Veleki Luki
Moscow
Government Takes Half of Canned Goods
The War Production Board ordered about half of the 1943 pack of canned fruits vegetables and juices set aside for the armed forces lend lease and government agencies reducing civilian supply. Officials say civilian per capita intake could fall to about 33 pounds in 1944 from prewar 46 pounds. The order also covers frozen dried dehydrated pickled and other nonperishable products.
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Washington
War Production Board
Armed Forces
Lend Lease
WPB
Miami Professor Is State Grange Master
The Ohio State Grange elected Prof. Joseph W. Fichter of Miami University as master at its convention. Fichter, former assistant state education director, succeeds Paul McNish of Chardon. R. Bruce Tom, an Ohio State University professor, was chosen lecturer, a post he previously held, and Guy Johnson of Clark County was named assistant steward.
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Columbus
Ohio State Grange
Joseph W. Fichter
Miami University
Fichter
Paul McNish
Chardon
R. Bruce Tom
Ohio State University
Guy Johnson
Clark County
Ohioan Flies P 38 After Crash in Enemy Territory
Lieut. Charles E. Earnhart of Lebanon Ohio crash landed in enemy territory after damaging four German aircraft. He reportedly shot the Nazi planes before his P 38 was hit and strafed, then escaped as Allied forces reported the action from North Africa.
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North Africa
Charles E. Earnhart
Lebanon
Twelfth
U. S. Air Force
Prices Hit New High At Chicago Stockyards
Bulls were bul ish at the Chicago Stockyards yesterday as prices rose to 13 dollars per hundred pounds the highest on record dating to Civil War days. Demand for bulls supplying canned meat for lend lease agencies spurred cattle trading with prices up 10 to 15 cents.
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Chicago
Akron War Plants Employ 30,000 Women
Akron is listed by the War Manpower Commission as the nation’s second largest female employment area. The commission reports 30,000 women work in Akron war plants, representing 25 percent of the payrolls across 53 plants.
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Akron
The
War Manpower Commission
WMC
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