Draft rules require board approval to shift essential farm work
Washington November 18 The Selective Service Director Lewis B Hershey said men deferred as essential farm workers must obtain draft board approval to leave their jobs or risk immediate military service This applies to married men with children and all others and takes effect immediately
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Hershey
Associatea Presa
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Roosevelt
Howe
Roosevelt Sets Split Draft Registration Periods
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation establishing three separate draft registration periods for youths turning 18 in 1940. The schedules cover those who became 18 in July and August register December 11 through December 17, those turning 18 in September and October register the following week, and those who became 18 in November and December register the week starting December 26. Continuous registration on birthdays for those 18 on or after January 18 is also provided, with rules if birthdays fall on Sundays or holidays.
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FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
Scrap Drive Nets $843 for Red Cross and Air Defense Funds
Corry’s scrap metal campaign raised 843.72, split between the Red Cross and the Air Raid Defense Fund. The drive, led by Frank M. Loveland, reported detailed receipts from A. Zalmeck & Son and Ajax Iron Works, with checks for 421.46 issued to each organization and praised for aiding war efforts.
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Corry
Red Cross
Frank M. Loveland
A. Zalmeck & Son
A. Zalzneck && Son
House Debates Roosevelt War Power Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee and top officials discuss Roosevelt's wartime power bill to suspend tariffs and immigration rules for war effort. Republicans push to block action amid fears the measure could erode tariff and immigration laws and edge toward totalitarianism.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
House Ways and Means
United States
Doughton
D-Ng
Tarif
Jawa
Berkeley Company Moves to Danville
The Berkeley company plans to relocate from What avenue after December 1 to Danville Til. Several employees will follow the move to continue their work in the area.
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Secedey Sugsierae Company
Danville
Til
Inovaig
Sparta Boy Dies in Hunting Accident and Draft News
A Sparta district fatal hunting accident claims the life of Edward Davison grandson of Mr and Mrs Frank Davison of Spartansburg. He died at Titusville General Hospital after a shotgun discharge wound. Meanwhile fifty teenage registrants in Local Board No 4 receive questionnaires as Pennsylvania braces for new induction rules.
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Sparta
OV Sengsens
EdWard Davison
Frank Davison
R. D
Spartansburg
Titusville
General Hospital
Davison
Jeff
Richard Davison
Enilil
Wy HL Earnest
Spurvansbure
Titusville Hospital
Titusvile | Institution
Buell
Allied shipping gains and war updates across fronts
The Allied entry into North Africa yields between 200000 and 200000 tons of merchant shipping. In Pittsburgh a fuel rations protest against OSO decisions. Washington warns dairymen cannot meet next year’s needs prompting limits on dairy consumption. In Moscow the siege of Stalingrad shows little advance with heavy losses. London reports Germany recalling eastern front troops and disrupted passenger rail with Genoa and Sicily as possible embarkation routes.
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Associated Pres
London
Ministry of Economic Warfare
North Africa
Washington
Wickard
War Production Board
Reuters
Morocco
Hungary
Croatia
Génoa
Sicily
James demands report on auditor general funds shortage
Governor James asks Auditor General P C Ross for a report on whether funds are acutely short and may trigger a wart and a special session. The open letter cites plans to preserve proper auditing of state financial transactions and notes pre auditing work being scrapped due to insufficient funds.
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Nsymen Fress
Harrisburg
P. Clair Ross
James
General Assembly
Ross
Auiditor
Auditor General
Corry Christmas Seal Campaign Drums Up Support
J Kenneth Winter of the Erie TB Association spoke at the Corry dinner meeting at the Concord Community House ahead of the Christmas Seal Campaign opening November 24. He urged industrial worker surveys, highlighted TB progress, and noted plans to examine Corry area industries next year. Mrs. Mary Jourdet will head the Seal bond drive.
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J.kenneth Winter
Erie Courity Headly and Tuberculosis Association
Corry
Concord Community House
Winter
Glmon
Coby
Ciilinas
Eva Kepler
Mary Jourdet
Seal Bond
R. 8. Dewey
Olin W. Bracken
Concord
Vichy Staff Settle in Million Dollar Hershey Hotel
Members of the Vichy French embassy staff arrive in Hershey Pennsylvania and settle in the palatial Hershey hotel amid a wide guard. They will be guests of Unwin Gam while arrangements are made for a diplomatic exchange.
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Vichy
Hershey
Associated Press
Unwin Gam
Tokyo admits sea losses after Solomon Islands battle
Imperial Tokyo for the first time acknowledged heavy naval losses after the November Solomon Islands clash. It listed one cruiser and three destroyers sunk or damaged, plus a damaged battleship and seven transports, with 41 planes destroyed or missing. The U S Navy tally contrasted with eight cruisers and five destroyers sunk, and multiple transports damaged.
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Associated Press
Imperial Tokyo
Japan
Solomon Islands
Emperor Hirohito
Tokyo
U. S. Navy
Wet
Navy
Simple inauguration urged in Harrisburg
Harrisburg reports Edward Martin urges a simple dignified inauguration avoiding parade pomp. The effort aims to conserve energy for the war and reflect frugal, war focused priorities.
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Harrisburg
Ciaveraore
Edward Martin
Explosion Destroys Canton Post Office. One Teacher Dead
A Canton Pennsylvania building housing the post office and borough records collapsed in a fire and explosion. A 27 year old high school teacher, Mrs Kenneth Farmer, was crushed by debris and killed. Another woman, Mrs Gordon Lloyd, 30, was critically hurt. Fire crews from Elmira and nearby towns battled the blaze for over seven hours.
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Associated Press
Canton
Pennsylvania
Arthur Field
Kenneth Farmer
Gordon Lloyd
Roderick Brull
Piel Sid
Bowie Alley
John Keltz
Field
Elmira
Troy
Rationing of Gallons Ordered by U S Officials
Washington November 18 Uncle Sam will reduce gasoline per coupon in the eastern war zones to three gallons from four beginning November 22. The Office of Price Administration says the change aims to save about 20 000 barrels a day in the east, despite noting the cut will hurt. Also reported today a small blaze at 23 North Center Street damaged a Davenport apartment over the Loblaw grocery. A bedframe removed. fire under control in about ten minutes.
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Pittsburgh
Lewis W. McIntyre
Vicw
Pittsburgh Motor Club
Office of Rice Administration
der Witte
Tenn Sylvania
Washington
Sam
Africx
Price Administration
Loblaw Groceteria
North Center Street
Robert Smith
Davenport
Spain and Dakar Seen as Key to Allied North Africa Move
Dispatches from Monrovia and London discuss Spain's partial mobilization and shifting stance toward the Axis, with Franco's actions and Gibraltar near the scene. Dakar remains a potential Allied target as Vichy reports and Clark signals hint at a coordinated push to expel Axis forces from North Africa.
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Monrovia
Ilberia
Dakar
French West Africa
Vichy
Daker
North Africa
London
South America
United States
Traffic Deaths Drop in Pennsylvania in 1942 Nine Months
Pennsylvania reports 1970 fatalities in first nine months of 1942, a 17.4 percent drop from 1941, but still below the national 24 percent decline. State safety director cites defense workers and urban centers as factors. rural highway fatalities fall 22 percent as police shift to defense work.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Traffe
Pennsylvania
Transcan
Lynn G. Adams
Great Jap Pacific Concentration Fails To Block American Offensive Plans
Pearl Harbor November reports that Japanese air and sea power failed to halt American offensives in the South Pacific. General Douglas MacArthur has secured New Guinea for a growing land push, while Admiral Chester Nimitz notes the possible advantage of choosing the time and place of future actions.
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Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Guadalcanal
South Pacific
Greater Asia
Doulas MacArthur
New Guinea
Solomons
Rommel Directs Axis Defenses as Allied Drive Surges
Allied reporting says Rommel orders defense of last Axis bases in North Africa as air and sea reinforcements seek to stem the advance. British forces push across Libyan desert toward Bengasi while Rommel reportedly redeploys to El Agheily area and Tunisian fronts.
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Spain
wayYow Gibralter
Francis Pranca
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Crete
Sardinia
Sicily
North Africa
India
Mediterranean
Alony
Algeria
Americar
Sky Irpony
Tunisia
Wieler
Dent
Hillabeys UK
Middle East
Burri Fineers
Tynisty
Burnard L. Moitzemeery
Bengasi
Gulf of
Sirte
Erwin Rommel
Libya
Harold Alexander
Litef
Newamen
Egypt
Rommel
el Agheily
Alexander
B Aghelia
Baoleng Tong
Tuniaia
Alsiers Sall
Ury
Bizertey
Pre Skifraisn
Potts
Axia Orees
Reuters
Paws Agency
Fomiel
Axis
Orees
Tilsis
Besepssey
E. Biverte
Tunis
Reulere
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New Cumberland
Moscow
Sislingrad
U.S
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Marc W. Clark
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Europe
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