Allied forces press Buna assault and Guadalcanal sea actions
Allied aircraft and ground units pressured Buna as jungle fighting neared the town. Pacific naval reports said Japanese efforts to recapture Guadalcanal area positions continued. A Japanese convoy off New Georgia Island and attacks on Rabaul harbor and Malaguina docks were noted with multiple explosions observed.
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Washington
Buna
Guinea
Navy
Guadalal-Tulagi
Solo Islands
Solians
Guadaland
Hile
Tokyo
Melbourne
Jalia
Doug MacArthur
Tock
Tomatore Hori
New Georgia Island
Guadalcanal
Henderson Airfield
Rabaul
New Britain
Malaguina
Six Firemen Die in Boston Armory Hall Blaze
In Maverick Square East Boston a four story Armory Hall blaze killed six firemen and injured two score others when a street wall collapsed trapping and crushing the crew. Fire Chief Pope said grease on a restaurant stove started the fire and damage was about 45000 with a crushed 20000 ladder truck.
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Boston
Old Armory Hall
Maverick Square
Samuel J. Pope
Federal homes taxation becomes issue in Ohio
Ten Ohio cities may lose their equities in 60 million dollars of federal low rent housing if the state insists on taxing the enterprises. The board refused to exempt the Columbus Housing Authority from taxation because its developments were not public property and the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the board.
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Columbus
Ohio
Columbus Housing Authority
Ohio Supreme Court
Montgomery Says He Is 100 Percent Fit
Gen B L Montgomery told Prime Minister Churchill before his appointment that he does not smoke or drink and is 100 per cent fit. Military circles note Churchill disagreed saying he smokes and drinks yet remains fit. Montgomery turns 55 tomorrow and Churchill is set to turn 68 on November 30.
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Gen. Montgomery
London
B.L. Montgomery
Bri
Eighth
Africa
Churchill
Earthquakes Reported in Bucharest Linked to Turkey Quake
Berlin dispatch says three earthquakes, centered in western Turkey, were recorded in Bucharest last night. Details on magnitude or damage were not immediately available.
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Berlin
DNB
Turkey
Bucharest
First Photos From Africa Yank Landing Near Oran
Photo captions describe 850 United Nations ships transporting occupation forces toward Oran Algeria. A U S Ranger watches a landing operation as American commandos prepare their weapons aboard a boat nearing a village on the Algerian coast near Oran.
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Mediterranean
United Nations
North Africa
Oran
Algeria
U. S
Japanese Claim Eight U S Ships Sunk in Pacific
Japanese Imperial headquarters revised the Oct. 26 Solomons battle tally claiming one battleship two U S aircraft carriers including Enterprise and Hornet a third large carrier three cruisers and one destroyer sunk. U S reports had said Porter sunk one carrier damaged and others lightly damaged. Japanese also claimed three unidentified warships and three destroyers heavily damaged.
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New York
Solomons
Enterprise
U. S. Navy
United States
Porter
U. S
Guadalcanal
Navy
OPA Sends 300 Investigators to Check Gas Stations
The Office of Price Administration will deploy over 300 investigators to patrol filling stations across Ohio West Virginia Kentucky Indiana and Michigan as rationing starts December 1. Their first task is to verify tank capacities and gasoline supplies as of 12 01 a m December 1 to prevent concealing bootlegged fuel.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Michigan
Birkett L. Williams
Former Film Actress Barbara Bennett Missing Since Friday
Beverly Hills police widened the search for Barbara Bennett 32, the former film actress who disappeared after preparing to attend a party at friends’ home last Friday night. Her husband Addison Randall says she had been despondent since a Connecticut custody ruling awarding her five children to her first husband Morton Downey, who divorced her in June.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Barbara Bennett
Friends
Addison Randall
Bridgeport
Gasoline Rationing Not To Be Postponed Again
Regional Price Administration officials said postponement is over and all forms have arrived to enforce driving restrictions in Ohio Kentucky Michigan and Indiana starting December 1. The earlier November 22 date was abandoned due to a shortage of basic A books.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
Indiana
Early Shoppers Will Fare Best This Year
Chicago merchants urge shoppers to start Christmas buying early this year and warn last minute shopping will bring wear and nerve strain. Distributors report ample supplies of most goods, making early buying a patriotic duty.
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Chicago
Training for Self Rule After War
President Roosevelt on the seventh anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth urged self rule as essential to stability of independence for small nations freed after the war. He called U S policy toward the islands a core part of United Nations philosophy and expressed grim determination that the Japanese army would be driven from the Philippines to the last man.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Commonwealth of the Philippines
United States
Islands
United Nations
Philippines
Allied Fleet Reported Heading for War Zone
Vichy radio from La Linea Spain reports two Allied battleships two aircraft carriers four cruisers and nine destroyers sailed from Gibraltar into the Mediterranean this morning. In port at Gibraltar remain 26 merchant ships five transports and two hospital ships protected by a battleship and several destroyers.
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VICHY
la Linea
Spain
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Britain's October air raid toll rises to 229 dead 370 injured
London reports 229 killed or missing and 370 injured in October air raids. Compared with October last year 242 dead and 361 injured, while October 1940 saw 6,335 dead and 8,690 injured during the battle of Britain.
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Britain
London
Six Convicted Of Treason In Chicago Court
Six Chicago couples were found guilty of treason for aiding and comforting Nazi saboteur Herbert Haupt. Federal Judge William J Campbell scheduled sentencing for next Friday, with penalties ranging from five years in prison to fines up to ten thousand dollars.
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Chicago
United States
William J. Campbell
Herbert Haupt
Hans Haupt
Walter Froehling
Young Haupt
Otto Wergin
Haupt
Clark County Deputies Dismissed by Sheriff
SPRINGFIELD Sheriff Niles E. Young dismissed deputies William Cookus Ralph E. Estell and William H. Robinson after a Clark County grand jury investigated reports that a woman prisoner in county jail had been taken on wild parties.
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Springfield
Niles E. Young
William Cookus
Ralph E. Estell
William H. Robinson
Clark County
Fleeing Nazi Army Nears El Agheila
Allied forces report Rommel's defeated Africa Corps retreating toward El Agheila as Bengasi and Tunis air raids pound Axis positions. Churchill cites 75,000 Axis casualties. British Eighth Army skis along the Libyan coast while aerial forces strafe survivors.
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Cairo
Rommel
el Agheila
Bengali
Martaba
Bengasi
Tripoli
Africa Corps
Libya
Malta
Eighth Army
Tunis
Teera
el Aghelia
Egypt
London
Churchill
Red Army
Volkhov
Stalingrad
30 000 Asking Pay Increase
The Ohio Civil Service Employee Association votes to petition the 95th General Assembly for a pay raise of not less than 15 percent on the first 2 000 of all salaries. About 30 000 state workers would be affected: 25 000 in classified service and 5 000 provisional or at the pleasure of appointing officials.
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Columbus
Ohio Civil Service Employee Association
Nelson Watkins
Watkins
95Th General Assembly
October Lend Lease Total Establishes a New Record
President Roosevelt announced a new monthly lend lease record of more than 915 million dollars for October, up from 643 million in September, stating the Axis miscalculated and the aid would not decline. He cited arming and transporting forces in North Africa and noted 2.713 billion dollars transferred to Allies over the four months.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
Turnisnea
Axis
North
Africa
Casualty total updated for armed forces in wartime
Washington reports 48 956 total casualties in the armed services since the outbreak of war. The Office of War Information lists killed wounded missing and prisoners across the Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard and Philippine Scouts, excluding African campaign losses.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Philippine Scouts
Eisenhower Says He Wants More Frontline Action
Allied Africa commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander in North Africa, complains he rarely sees front line war, spending sixteen hours daily at his desk while directing decisions, logistics, and political matters for a vast Allied force. A recent flying trip to Algiers nearly ended in disaster due to weather and fuel limits.
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Allied
North Africa
Dwight ‘D
Ike
Eisenhower
Admiral Cunnningham
Algiers
A. E. Renchacker
Gen
Greaty Corporation
Navy Silent on Rickenbacker Recovery
The Navy offered no details on Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and six companions rescued after three weeks missing in the Pacific. A spokesman said a statement from Rickenbacker was expected soon, with previous notices noting his good condition. Earlier reports said a Navy flying boat rescued Rickenbacker and two others from a rubber raft while three others were found on a nearby island. Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarcsyk died on the raft and was buried at sea.
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Washington
Navy
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pacific
Rickenbacker
Alexander Kaczmarcsyk
Steel Workers of Ohio Get $10 Monthly Pay Increase
The United Steelworkers of America announced a new contract for National Tube Company plants in Lorain Ohio Ellwood City Pennsylvania and McKeesport Pennsylvania. Salaried employees receive a $10 monthly raise retroactive to February 15 with maintenance of union membership dues checkoff and equal pay for women and men for similar work.
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Pittsburgh
National Tube Company
U. S. Steel
Lorain
Ellwood City
McKeesport
United Steelworkers of America
Lancaster Man Shoots Former Wife Then Kills Self
Coroner J. D. Dupler said Walter K. Wallace 48 a glass worker fatally wounded his former wife Mrs C C Graham 47 and then killed himself with a revolver. Mrs Graham's daughter in law Mrs Robert Graham was wounded. No motive was given for the shooting which occurred while the slain woman's husband was absent.
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Lancaster
J. D. Dupler
Walter K. Wallace
C. C. Graham
Axis Forces Enter Tunisia As Allies Move In
Axis admitted German and Italian troops landed in Tunisia amid French resistance at Bizerte and Tunis. Allied forces from eastern Algeria crossed the border to press the attack, aiming to seize Bizerte and Tunis and press Rommel in the Central Mediterranean.
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Carthage
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Sicily
Algeria
Axis
Hitler
Mussolini
Dunkerque
Bone
Reuters
Morocco
United States
Doughboys
Meuse
Argonne
Lieut. K. A. N. Anderson
East
Rommel
Eighth Army
Egypt
North Africa
Mediterranean
General Anderson
Vichy
Jean Darlan
French North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AEF
Darlan
Henri Giraud
North
Africa
Vichy Radio
Marshal Petain
Toulon
France
Ajaccio
Corsica
Moscow
Ikdam
Crete
Sardinia
Europe
RAF
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Mahares
Chott
Djerib
Sobriye
eSaadana
Zersin
Douz
el Oglae
el Merhotto
Cheba
Mellomeche Jehellame
Vu Pantelleria
Sfax
Vel Nodour
Gulf of Gobes
Gabes
Idjerba
Zorzis
Rome
B. C
Alabama
Dehibat
Tiarete
Sunaun Pervinquiere
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