Allied Offensive Opens on Pacific Front and Stalingrad Struggle
Allied reports claim Semeon Timoshenko widened the Stalingrad counterattack along a 40 mile northern flank between the Don and Volga as German tanks threaten the city. Churchill discourages second front talk while Allied planners contemplate future landings in France amid intensifying street fighting inside Stalingrad.
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Semeon Timoshenko
Stalingrad
Don
Volga
London
Adolf Hitler
Fedor von Bock
Wilhelm Ritter von Leek
Leningrad
Siegmund List
Balkan
von Bock
List
Hitler
Berlin
Interriver
Churchill
Central
Moscow
Rzhev
Mozdok
Central Caucasus
Grozey
Red Star
Train Hits Truck Near Plain City Kills Two
A passenger train struck a truck near Plain City last night killing Dwight E. Gagie 37 of Celina and Wilbur Vance 40 of Plain City. Ida Thompson 37 of Plain City and Marie Kime 34 of New California were critically injured. State highway patrol identified the victims.
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Marysville
Plain City
Dwight E. Gagie
Celina
Wilbur Vance
Ida Thompson
Marie Kime
New California
State Highway Patrol
Wanted To Buy Ad Sparks Attention In Shortage Era
A local Want Ad signals buyers seek used items as families face shortages. The notice explains how a Wanted To Buy plea reaches thousands, prompting readers with surplus goods to respond.
Labor Allocating Bill Could Solve U S Manpower Issue
Washington AP reports a national service act for compulsory job placement emerged as the administration response to wartime manpower shortages. McNutt outlined potential legislation to Congress, noting England’s early wartime use and the possibility of freezing labor if other options fail. Maj. Gen. Hershey proposed draft-age men in shift to city jobs or farm work to halt labor movement. Ohio State University opened autumn classes with 10,007 students, down 466 from last year.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
England
McNutt
Agriculture
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Columbus
Ohio State University
Gore Pomeroy Boys Missing In Sea Action
Washington AP reports five Ohioans listed dead and 23 missing in the Navy Department’s first merchant marine casualty list of the war. The missing include Donald L. Lambert and Hubert W. Lambert of Gore and Ted J. Blazewicz the radio operator.
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Washington
Navy Department
Gore
Donald L. Lambert
Hubert W. Lambert
Wiper
William Dixon
Gore R.D. 1
Pomeroy
Ted J. Blazewicz
Blazewicz
Fuel Oil Rationing System Is Explained
Washington reports the oil heating season will be divided into five periods to meet unusually cold spell needs. Furnace tenders may pour a little more fuel on the fire if temperatures drop. In Youngstown, forest and grass fire protection will begin Thursday in the Meander Lake district, source of the Youngstown Niles domestic water supply.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Youngstown
Meander Lake District
Youngstown-Niles
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie returns to Europe after long USA stay
The noted Wide World war analyst Dewitt Mackenzie arrived in England today after a transatlantic flight from New York. He plans to send a stream of special articles from abroad starting Wednesday as he resumes travel through England Ireland Scotland the Middle East and other war zones.
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London
Wide World
England
New York
Dewitt Mackenzie
Rockefeller Center
Europe
Egyptian
India
Poland
Ireland
Scotland
Middle East
Mackenzie
United States
Associated Press Foreign Service
Chamberlain
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Hungary
Balkan States
France
Italy
Farmers Must Meet Goals To Get AAA Funds
Des Moines report shows 1943 Agricultural Adjustment Administration payments tied to war production goals. M Clifford Townsend says deductions apply if farmers miss targets and predicts expansion to all crops next year. He notes general farm price ceilings are favored by most farmers.
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Des Moines
M. Clifford Townsend
National Farm Program
Townsend
Congress
McSweeney Campaign Seeks Public Donations in Ohio Race
Democratic state chairman Darrell S. Jones accused Gov Bricker of avoiding discussion of Ohio's problems on the same platform as Democratic candidate John McSweeney. McSweeney urged citizens to contribute $1 to his campaign fund saying farmers, laborers and employers should have a stake in the state’s success.
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Columbus
Darrell S. Jones
John W. Bricker
Ohio
John McSweeney
Jones
McSweeney
Ohio Soldiers To Vote Regular State Ballot
Columbus A ruling by Secretary of State John E. Sweeney allows Ohio troops to vote the regular state ballot. Election boards must provide absent voter forms to all qualified soldiers, whether or not previously registered, listing candidates for Congress, state, and local offices.
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Columbus
John E. Sweeney
Armed mobs steal ration tickets in Vichy towns
In German occupied zone towns during October distribution, armed bands raid town halls to seize ration cards. The raids target food tickets as the ration system is manipulated by the bands preserving their plunder amid occupation.
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Vichy
Seek Speedy Senate Action on Inflation Fight
Senate session called early by Democratic Leader Barkley to rush final action on the administration anti inflation bill now in its seventh day. Senator Brown backs an amendment moving to administrative price ceilings for farm costs, while farm bloc members seek a broader provision to cover all production costs.
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Washington
Barkley
Senate
Chamber
Brown
D-Mich
Farm Bloc
Roosevelt
Michigan
Montana
Watertown Citizens Chase Scrap Metal Across 400 Farms
Watertown Minnesota mobilized all 770 residents in a scrap metal drive. Thirty teams fanned out from the schoolhouse to search 400 area farms, closing every business and school in 12 districts. A noon picnic marked a brief halt with a 6 pm end time.
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Watertown
Minn
69 Service Men Killed In Ohio Traffic Mishaps
Columbus report says 69 service men were killed or injured in about six months. Highway Director Hal G Sours called for reducing a real menace to the national war effort as many victims were war plant workers. Nine military vehicles were damaged in 63 accidents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hal G Sours
Victory
Columbus Industrialist Found Shot To Death
Robert K. Jeffrey a 40 year old Columbus industrialist and vice president of Jeffrey Manufacturing Co was found shot to death at his suburban Bexley home. A revolver lay beside the body and coroner Edward E. Smith planned further investigation before ruling on the death. Jeffrey's father Robert H. Jeffrey serves as company president.
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Columbus
Robert K. Jeffrey
Bexley
R. A. Antle
Edward E. Smith
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co
Jeffrey
Robert H. Jeffrey
Sect Objects to High School Jailed for Bond Refusal
Three former members of a religious sect were jailed in Wooster after refusing to post bond for their children to attend high school beyond the eighth grade. Ezra Chupp Noah Swartzentruber and Andrew Hershberger declined school attendance orders. Other sect members sought work certificates for their children.
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Wooster
Ezra Chupp
Noah Swartzentruber
Andrew Hershberger
Ralph Hathaway
Ohio leaders back Hershey plan to curb farm exodus
Ohio draft officials and farm leaders tacitly support Maj. Gen. Hershey's call to induct draft-age farm workers who leave for city jobs. State head Col. Gable notes war industries draw workers from farms amid labor shortages while Paul McNish cites high wages in war work as keeping labor on farms. Hershey urged immediate induction to deter farm migrations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Hershey
C. W. Gable
Buckeye
Armed Services
Paul McNish
McNish
House Agricultural Committee
Navy lists 2 301 Merchant Marines dead or missing
The Navy reports more than 2301 officers and men from the American Merchant Marine dead or missing due to enemy actions in the war at sea. The tally includes 410 confirmed dead and 1891 missing, with about six ship captains among the missing. No wounded are listed. The count covers casualties known up to Aug 1, 1942 and will be updated in later releases. London notes a German raid killed at least ten boys and two teachers at a coastal town school.
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Washington
Navy
London
U.S
Tonoei Harbor
Shetland Island
Guadalcanal
Marine
Aleutians
Dutch Harbor
Pacific
New Sum for Navy Air Arm Sought by KD
President Roosevelt asked Congress for an additional appropriation of almost three billion dollars to strengthen the Navy air arm with thousands of fighter planes. Sources say a request for two to three billion dollars is on its way to Congress, supplementing earlier funding for carriers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
House Appropriations Committee
Fire kills three children in Caldwell home blaze
A frame house at Summerfield, 13 miles east of Caldwell, burned last night claiming the lives of three children. Their mother had left to fetch milk when the fire started.
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Caldwell
Summerfield
Here
Diary of Vern Haugland Reveals Jungle Survival Struggle
The diary of Associated Press war correspondent Vern Haugland covers 32 days after parachuting into New Guinea. Entries from Aug 8 to Sept 9 document hunger, fever, delirium, and the search for civilization in the Owen Stanley Mountains before signs of habitation appeared. He later met former AP colleague Larry Lehrbas, now a colonel aiding General MacArthur, and asked to tell his mother he is sick but all right.
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Melbourne
Australia
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
New Guinea
Haugland
Owen Stanley
James A. Michael
Temple
Okla
Michael
Larry Lehrbas
MacArthur
Allied offensive presses back Japanese in Pacific
A determined Allied drive in the Pacific began reducing Japanese forces in New Guinea and inflicting heavy losses on enemy planes and troops in the Solomons and Aleutians as Japanese planes took mounting casualties.
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Washington
New Guinea
Solomon and
Aleutian Islands
British deny tale of convoy losses in Atlantic claim
London reports the British ministry of information dismissing German claims of sinking American troop transports. Allied air and ground forces push in the Pacific with MacArthur’s troops advancing near Port Moresby and renewed raids across Guadalcanal and the Aleutians.
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London
Ministry of Information
Atlantic
United States
England
Cars Carrying Students and Teachers Declared Essential
The Office of Price Administration ruled that cars transporting students and teachers to school are entitled to preferred mileage. This places school vehicles in the essential category for rationing purposes.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
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Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
Gona
Marine Corps
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