Allied air and sea forces push in on New Guinea fronts
Allied air crews and ground troops press toward Buna and Gona as Japanese strongholds in New Guinea are squeezed. U S and Australian forces report sinking a cruiser and a destroyer, damaging another, and targeting landing barges while Guadalcanal losses also cited. Curtin warns Timor must be defended with a battle anticipated nearby.
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Japan
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Buna
Gona
United Nations
Buna-Gona
MacArthur
Lae
Salamaua
Rabaul
New Britain
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
U. S
Australia
John Curtin
Timor
Curtin
Halsey
Southwest Pacific
Bert Horn Dies at Home in Mt. Pleasant
Logan staff report Bert Horn age 62 died suddenly at his Mt. Pleasant area home from a heart attack after a two week illness. He was a long time carpenter. Funeral services are planned for Sunday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church with Rev. H. E. Elsin officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Survivors include widow Fannie, sons Carl and Charles, daughter Ruth Liles, brother Deve Horn, and sisters Art Zimmerman and A D Bell.
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Logan
Bert Horn
Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
H. E. Elsin
Fannie
Carl
Charles
Seattle
Washington
Ruth Liles
Columbus
Deve Horn
Pleasant
Art Zimmerman
A. D. Bell
Tipp City
U. S. Pilot Dies To Save Dwellings In Rabat
Morocco radio reports an American pilot in distress over Rabat sacrificed himself to crash on cleared ground rather than risk lives below. In Baltimore, Major General John A. Lejeune former USMC commandant died at Union Memorial Hospital this morning.
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U. S
London
Morocco
Rabat
Baltimore
John A. LeJeune
U. S. Marine Corps
Union Memorial Hospital
Warplane Production Will Be Doubled Within Year
Washington AP report on doubled Allied warplane output plans within a year. Charles E. Wilson named administrator of the large program under the War Production Board. Nelson announced the plan, aiming at a $30 billion yearly output and faster production of stronger combat planes.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
Nelson
Pay Increase Disapproved at National Malleable plant
Production of Army parts and lend lease materials at National Malleable and Steel Castings Co. halted after War Labor Board referee W. W. Dawson recommended against cost of living pay raises. Over 1,000 AFL United Automobile Workers members walked out, unions warning a serious strike if operations do not resume.
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Cleveland
National Malleable & Steel Castings Co
War Labor Board
AFL
United Automobile Workers Union
W. W. Dawson
WLB
Rufus Seals
Missing Air Force cadets reported after FP flight
Sacramento report states Lieut. Gamber 23 of Fayette and Cadet E G Munn 23 of St. Clairsville Ohio are missing after an air force training plane departed from Mather Field. Authorities search for the two aircrew.
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Sacramento
Calif
Air Force
Mather Field
Lieut. Gamber
Fayette
E. G. Munn
St. Clairsville
Economy Campaign Pledged by Sen Byrd
Senator Byrd of Virginia pledged a broad effort to prune government expenses from the White House to local agencies after noting federal payrolls had nearly doubled in a year. The joint economy committee estimated about 5,982,000 government employees and suggested transferring many into war enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrd
D-Va
White House
Japan presses in Pacific war a new thrust signals expected
The article notes Japan suffers costly defeats in the Solomons and near New Guinea as General MacArthur reports the Puan Peninsula drive nears an inglorious end. It reports Japan may add four battleships since 1937 and warns Japan will likely launch a fresh offensive in Southeast Asia to lift sagging morale.
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Solomons
New Guinea
MacArthur
Puan
Port Moresby
Australia
Pacific
Ital
Japan
High Command
Burma
Asia
Reds Gain in Grozny Oil Field Area
Moscow reports Red Army forces pressed forward after routing a large German force in the Caucasus near Grozny and Ordzhonikidze. Front reports list 5,000 German dead with heavy wounded and substantial booty including 140 tanks, 70 guns, 95 mortars, 84 machine guns, trucks, and supplies.
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Grozny
Moscow
Red Army
Caucasus
Caspian Sea
Trans- Caucasus
Ordzhonikidze
Volkhovy
Leningrad
Stalingrad
Tuapse
Black Sea
Two Men Classed as Delinquent in Draft
Hocking County Selective Service Board classified Carl Jefferson Paxton of Laurelville Route 2 as delinquent for failing to report in Logan for a 44 registrant contingent heading to Columbus for army type physicals at Fort Hayes. Truman Eugene Pittman, formerly of Logan Route 2, also delinquent for not notifying the board of a change of address. last known address was Main Street, Lancaster.
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Logan
Hocking County
Henderson Says OPA Holds Down Living Cost
Boston report shows Leon Henderson, Federal Price Administrator, claiming living costs rose little more than 1 percent since May due to OPA price management. He cites sugar at 27 cents per pound in World War I versus seven cents today.
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Boston
Leon Henderson
OPA
Citizens
Unseasonable 72 Degree High Stuns Ohio Weather
Temperatures climbed to 72 degrees in Columbus, matching a 12 year record. The weather bureau warned mercury could rise further today before a expected sharp drop returns temps to normal tonight.
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Mercury
Ohio
Columbus
Weather Bureau
Cowboy film star Williams Hart Recovers From Eye Operation
Hollywood reports Williams Hart, well known cowboy film hero, is recovering from a delicate eye operation. His physician said today the prospects look favorable and a successful outcome is expected.
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Hollywood
Williams&. Hart
U S Studies Ways To Meet War Expenses
Washington reports the United States moving to finance wartime costs. The Treasury aims to borrow about 9 billion dollars in December, the largest monthly total in history, and reexamine a new tax program possibly including compulsory savings. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau outlines new war bonds, savings notes, and three new security types to broaden investor access and payroll savings to an additional 7 million income earners.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Congress
Morgenthau
WLB Delay Rapped by CIO Leaders at Timken Plant
CIO leaders claim Timken Roller Bearing Co workers fled Canton plant in large numbers due to War Labor Board inaction on a 5 percent hourly raise. Stark County Industrial Union Council head says about 3,000 employees left in months amid turnover. Company official cites selective service and rival plants paying slightly more per hour as factors.
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Canton
CIO
Timken Roller Bearing Co
War Labor Board
I. W. Abel
Stark County Industrial Union Council
E. E. Greene
Coffee Rationing Begins in Army Camps Nationswide
Coffee rationing has reached training camps with soldiers allowed 40 cups per month. Emergency battlefield rations provide one cup for three meals. Army butter rations are cut sharply and tea supplies are stretched by longer brewing.
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Kansas City
Women Workers Are Discharged by Mine
Algoma Coal and Coke Co. in Alcoma West Virginia discharged five women hired as tipple workers to resolve a manpower shortage following a district 29 union ultimatum. In Ohio Columbus State U planned to train farmers brought to the state to relieve agricultural labor shortages.
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Alcoma
W. Va
Union
Utimatum
United Mine Workers District 29
Beckley
William Beary
Algoma Coal and Coke Company
Columbus
Ohio State University
Poison Death Toll Rises At Oregon Asylum
Gov. Sprague orders state police to pursue homicide leads after 47 asylum inmates in Salem died and hundreds more fell ill from what officials say was sodium fluoride poison mixed into scrambled eggs. Hospital officials note eggs appeared tainted during preparation, possibly via roach powder left in the kitchen area.
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Salem
Ore
Charles A. Sprague
Evans
Prompt Termination of FD's Powers Demanded
In the final hours of its 76th annual convention the National Grange urged Congress to terminate presidential emergency wartime powers promptly after the war ends. It also called for removal of production restraints, a price structure to cover rising costs, a farm labor policy, and support for family sized farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
Wash
National Grange
Congress
Ohio to mobilize 200000 civilian defense workers
Ohio marks Pearl Harbor anniversary with a statewide air raid defense drill on December 7 at 12 25 pm. Air raid wardens fire watchers and demolition crews respond while 860 councils report results to identify weaknesses before an upcoming blackout. Regular workers remain on jobs.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pearl Harbor
Ralph H. Stone
Stone
Defense Corps
Federal Workers Fired for Subversive Membership
Attorney General Biddle told Congress that since August 22 six federal employees were discharged and one disciplined for membership in subversive organizations. This brings the total to 56 workers subjected to investigation since the House Un American Activities Committee began inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Biddle
Congress
Thas
House Committee On
Boise Returns After Sinking Six Japanese Ships
The US light cruiser Boise, believed lost, arrived in Philadelphia after a night battle near Guadalcanal where it helped sink six Japanese warships in 27 minutes. Eleven officers and men received decorations for heroism. three officers and 104 sailors were killed in the action.
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Boise
Philadelphia
Solomon Islands
Fourth Naval District
Guadalcanal
U. S
Pack
Ers
Milo B. Evarts
Minneapolis
Navy
Butler Poole
Clinton
Miss
Edward C. Kenney
Bucyrus
E. J
Mike) Moran
First Severe Battles Now Are Raging
Allied headquarters said American and British troops halted German thrusts from new lines around Tunis and Bizerte. Pro Allied French forces reportedly captured small Nazi units in Eastern Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Adolf Hitler
Libya
North Africa
Tripoli
United Nations
France
Marshal Petain
Gulf of Gabes
War workers to remain on jobs in munitions plants
President Roosevelt announced a manpower program to draft defer essential workers in munitions plants and ordered War and Navy Secretaries to halt new enlistments and commissions for governmental employees. Allied forces push toward Bizerte and Tunis as Axis positions collapse in Tunisia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War and Navy Secretaries
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