Axis air fleet hammers Allies in North Africa front
Allied and Axis forces clash across Tunisia and Libya as Axis air power mounts assaults to choke supplies and brace for a final showdown. Reports say Bitter fighting continues near Gabes and El Agheila while Rommel faces decisions on a stand or retreat toward Tripoli.
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Africa
London
North Africa
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Anthony Eden
House of Ons
This
Bizerte
Britain
Eighth Army
Libya
Vichy
Gables
Fax
Tunisia
Eden
Sardinia
Sicily
Iia
Tripoli
Gabes
Ataching
el Agheila
Agedabia
Erwin Rommel
Henri Giraud
Last Ditch Stand in Buna Gona Area Minesweepers Face Fierce Fight
Allied forces press a three sided siege of Japanese positions along a 12 mile Buna to Gona coastal strip in New Guinea. American and Australian units attack Buna airfield amid heavy artillery and machine gun fire as Allied air supremacy delivers more than 100 sorties.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Buna-Gona
Buna
Gona
Sanananda
Labor Chiefs Desire Unity After War
In New York AFL leader William Green and CIO head Philip Murray urged wartime unity translate to peacetime. Green told 3,000 labor delegates that labor should stay united after the war as it is that evening at a British relief dinner.
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New York
CIO
AFL
William Green
America
Philip Murray
Green
Act To Conserve on Nation's Milk Supply
The War Production Board bans dairy producers from distributing whipping cream to households retailers restaurants and institutions to conserve fluid milk for consumer use and dairy products. Coffee cream is unaffected and WPB dairy chief Clyde E Beardslee says the move eases a severe butter shortage and fluid milk shortages nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Clyde E. Beardslee
WPB
Miss Kate Miser Dies Suddenly at Home
Logan residents were shocked by the sudden death of Miss Kate Miser at 8 30 this morning. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Roberts Funeral Home as the community awaits further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Kate Miser
Roberts Funeral Home
Ohio Twins Enter Navy At Cleveland Station
Two sets of 19 year old twins are sworn into the Navy at Cleveland. Willis and William Gray of Leetonia Ohio match in blood pressure pulse chest expansion height and weight. Stanley and Eugene Ducatman of Cleveland also twins will follow in the same ceremony.
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Cleveland
Navy
Willis
William Gray
Leetonia
Grays
Stanley
Eugene Ducatman
Truckers to receive December gas rations after faulty certificates
Cleveland dispatch reports that truck operators with defective fuel certificates will get temporary gas rations for December. The move is announced by the Offices of Price Administration and Defense Transportation.
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Cleveland
Price Administration and
Defense Transportation
Six-Year Mark Of Anti Comintern Pact Amid War News
The sixth anniversary of the Anti Comintern Pact is marked as the Red Army resumes a winter offensive. Berlin celebrated a broadened alliance a year earlier with 13 members including Bulgaria Denmark Finland Croatia Romania Slovakia and Nanking China. Germany and Japan remain the core powers while Italy’s position weakens in Africa as Allies press from North Africa.
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Oscar Leiding
Red Army
Berlin
Joachim von Ribbentrop
East
Moscow
Germany
Japan
Ital
Hungary
Bulgaria
Denmark
Finland
Croatia
Rumania
Slovakia
Nanking- China
Italy
Egypt
Libya
North
Africa
War Workers Eat Thanksgiving Breakfast Across Ohio
Wartime bakers and factory workers will have turkey in lunch boxes and early meals as Ohio maintains top war production. Union churches in Cincinnati host 20000 needy youths and mothers at a large Thanksgiving feast while Cleveland bells ring and Toledo marks a war chest drive near Thanksgiving Eve. Five college games and many high school football battles fill the day as Ohioans honor soldiers and national ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Father
Ohio
Union
Cincinnati
Gods Bible College
Cleveland
Toledo
New Universal Ration Book Aim Finalized for War
Washington reports that all who lack War Ration Book No 1 must apply at local ration boards by December 15. Book No 1 becomes valid for coffee at midnight November 28. To obtain War Ration Book No 2 universal rationing, present Book No 1 to local boards by year start. Motorists should endorse gasoline coupons now. write car license and state on back of each coupon. Mileage rationing begins December 1.
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Washington
Office
OPA
Baby Taken From Buggy In Waukegan Kidnaping Probe
In Waukegan Illinois a four month old baby was reported abducted from a downtown buggy yesterday afternoon in a case police chief Bart Tyrrell calls crude and likely carried out by a fanatic woman. Despite a large search by police deputies and Civilian Defense forces no definite clues have emerged about the infant's whereabouts.
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Waukegan
Ill
Bart Tyrrell
Civilian Defense Organization
Tyrrell
Nine Hocking Countians Report to Army Post
Logan dispatch notes nine Hocking County men left Logan for Ft. Thomas Kentucky to begin active duty with the U S Army after induction at Ft. Hayes Columbus Ohio with a two week furlough to follow. The group led by Ralph Larimer includes Lawrence Ayers Walter G Smith James V Johnson Lawrence K Fickel William N Conner Bernard LaFollette Harold M Brown and Paul H Tignor.
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Logan
Hocking County
Ft. Thomas
U. S. Army
Ft. Hayes
Columbus
Ralph Larimer
Lawrence H. Ayers
Walter G. Smith
James V. Johnson
Lawrence K. Fickel
William N. Conner
Bernard LaFollette
Harold M. Brown
Paul H. Tignor
Ohio Post War Road Plan Ready for PRA Review
Ohio officials say the state needs 700 000 dollars to finance surveys for a large postwar road program awaiting Public Roads Administration approval. The project, estimated to run into several million dollars, will be submitted for PRA consent with survey and planning costs shared equally by the state and federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
State Highway Department
Ohio
Public Roads Administration
PRA
Japan to melt temple bells for armaments in wartime
In Bern Switzerland an Associated Press dispatch notes that temple bells in Japan will be melted down to forge weapons as wartime measures. The report cites German sources and mentions the imperial government directing the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Japan
Tdaitecha Alleg
Party Line Farmers To Be on Air Monday
The U S Agriculture Department announced a trans Atlantic radio exchange between Fay N Walcott of Fulton County and Stanley Ratcliff of Essex County England. Walcott described as an Average American Farmer says his wartime farm output rose about 25 percent in 1942 and expects a similar rise in 1943.
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Columbus
Fay N. Walcott
Fulton County
Stanley Ratcliff
Essex County
England
U. S. Agriculture Department
Wolcott
Ohio Still Has Enough Butter To Go Around
Columbus dairy official says Ohio can ration butter with substitutes in cooking and baking. Toledo reports short stocks as grocers run dry and eateries cut portions. OSU professor notes 40 percent frozen for armed services and increased domestic use lower butter in storage. State specialist cites shift of milk to fluid market. Agriculture Dept. spokesman notes Ohio creamery butter stocks 8,881,600 pounds on Oct 1 have declined.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio City
Toledo
Robert R. Stoltz
Ohio State University
Armed Services
Agriculture Department
Jap Air Bases Bombed by Americans in China
American bombers with the U S Air Forces in China and Navy escorts attacked two major Japanese air bases in South China. An airport on San Chu Island near Canton was struck in the morning and Tienho airfield near Canton was destroyed in the afternoon without enemy aircraft intercepting.
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China
Navy
Japan
Sanchu
Canton
Tienho
Mass Murder of Jews Revealed by Officials
Officials outline a Nazi plan to exterminate Jews in Europe by year end. The report, confirmed by the State Department and a Roosevelt representative, says over two million Jews have already been killed under a race extinction order.
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Washington
Europe
New York
State Department
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Columbus City Worker Will Be Tried Again
Former Columbus Parks chief Joseph E. Katona will be retried in January on a charge he embezzled 1111 by padding city payrolls. Prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett indicated the case will proceed in court with renewed efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus City
Columbus
Joseph E. Katona
City Parks Division
Ralph J. Bartlett Min
Maosakanaend
Ansehen
Jeffers Overrules Rationing Protests in Washington
AP dispatch reports Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers upholding nationwide gasoline rationing amid protests. He confirms December 1 as the effective date and argues rationing conserves rubber, stating driving needs vary little by region and cars burn similar rubber elsewhere. House Interstate subcommittee notes limited ability to avert the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William M. Jeffers
Johnson
Okla
Anderson
Oklahoma
Maine
FDR Defuses Battle Over War Production Command
President Roosevelt declared there is no single high command for war production. He said administrators must collaborate on production, material allocation, and scheduling, and if they disagree he will assemble them and force agreement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fire Damages Logan Poultry House
A fire caused by a defective flue damaged the Logan Poultry House on West Hunter Street. Fire Chief Roy Stallsmith estimates damage at 150 dollars. The building housed over 1600 chicks. one chick died. Ownership is listed as J. M. Stoody and Ed Barker of Logan.
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Logan
Roy Stallsmith
W. Hunter St
J. M. Stoody
Ed Barker
Huge German Troop Plane Is Shot Down
Reuters reports a Blohm and Voss 222 transport seaplane, capable of carrying eighty troops, was shot into the sea off Tunisia’s eastern coast. Three RAF fighters from Malta observed the unescorted craft returning toward Sicily after landing reinforcements. No survivors were seen. Later a JU-52 transport was also shot down in the same area with troops in the water.
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London
Reuters
Tunisia
Malta
Blohm and Voss
Atlantic
RAF
Sicily
Outstanding Farmers Will Receive Awards in Minnesota
Gov. Harold E. Stassen proposes a national style awards system for farmers in Minnesota. He outlines plans to agricultural leaders and media representatives. The scheme would resemble the Army Navy E pennants and would let outstanding farmers fly pennants over their farms.
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ST. Paul
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Germans Fail To Halt Many British Convoys
London AP reports the Admiralty confirms Britain sent 3,000 freighters in convoy through the Dover Strait over the last two years despite German bombers aircraft and coastal defenses on the French coast.
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London
Admiralty
Britain
Strait
Dover
Nation’s grocery stores report heavy food buying
Americans plan to celebrate Thanksgiving at some point during the day while continuing war production. Stores nationwide show jammed shelves as families buy turkeys, chickens, cranberries, vegetables, pastries, and other trimming. Officials warn shortages in meat, milk, and butter may persist despite strong demand.
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Washington
Nazi Escape Path Narrowed To Thirty Miles At Stalingrad
Soviet front dispatches report the German escape corridor from Stalingrad narrowed to 30 miles as Russian offensives push toward the Volga. Officials tallied 44,400 German dead in six days with thousands captured, while supply lines to the siege are cut and front lines advance 80 miles southwest and 65 miles northwest.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga
Great Don Bend
Stalingrad-Don Bend
London
Reuters
Don River
Kalach
Trekhostrovskaya
Stalingrad-Kamensk
Black Sea
Tuapse
Caucasus
Nalchik
Leningrad
Hitler
Ketskaya
Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Die Tat
Australian Casualties In Middle East Report
Army Minister Francis M. Forde announced 619 Australian soldiers killed fatally wounded or missing and 1 800 wounded in the British Eighth Army offensive to drive Axis forces from Egypt. General Sir Harold Alexander said total British casualties in the campaign reached about 15 600 up to mid November.
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Canberra
Australia
Francis M. Forde
Eighth Army
Egypt
Harold Alexander
Middle East
Water company buyer factions weigh city utilities
The City Water Company and a local system of the Ohio Northern Public Service Company have been purchasers. Details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowling Green
City Water Company
Ohio Northern Public Service Company
Purcli
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We Saksal
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