Roosevelt proposes yearlong youth service act
President Roosevelt said Congress may pass a act requiring one year of government service for the nations youth this winter. He did not rule out girls and noted the need to avoid multi year schedules. He criticized draft rejections for health reasons and discussed international peace potential.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Yey
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Henry A. Wallace
Harry Truman
Agriculture
Russians Break Through Main Budapest Defensive Ring
Soviet forces pierced the main German defense near Budapest advancing 10 miles east and seizing Gyomro rail station. Tanks and infantry moved toward Godollo and Hatvan while advancing toward Miskolc, Vamosgyork and Vamosgyork rail links.
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London
Budapest
Gyomro
Godollo
Hatvan
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Miskolc
Hungary
Austria
Vamosgyork
Jaszbereny
Moscow
Budapest Miskolc
Slovakia
Dany
Vamosgy
Berlin
Germany Restlessness Grows as Nazi Grip Feels Strain
Swiss reports relay German discontent under Nazi rule with industry stagnation from coal shortages and air alarm disruptions. Basler Arbeiter Zeitung notes Cologne hangings and rising student tensions amid rumors Hitler faces health issues and possible retirement with Sauerbruch named as attending surgeon.
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Bern
Germany
Switzerland
Gestapo
Reich
Basler Arbeiter Zeitung
Cologne
Bonded in Morals Case in Chattanooga
William E. Preston, chief of a news magazine crew, was placed under 1000 dollar bond by U S Commissioner H Arnold Morgan in Chattanooga Tennessee. The bond is returnable at the January term of court.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tenis
Florida
William E. Preston
Eens
Ee Ing Magazine
U. S
H. Arnold Morgan
Four suffocate in store fire in Memphis building
Four persons died from smoke in a Memphis furniture store fire that trapped residents on the second floor. Assistant Fire Marshal Charles Nunnery said the blaze confined to the lower floor blocked the stairway as a fifth person escaped. The victims were identified as Whitanaoe 45 owner of a tire company, his wife, Bob Clark father of Mrs Lohmar.
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Memphis
Charles Nunnery
Nunnery
Whitana Oe
Roland Wees
Bob Clark
Lohmar
Johnson grass chemurgy remark tops Texas A and M talk
At a farm industry conference in College Station Texas a speaker claimed Alabamians have stopped fighting Johnson grass and are using its roots to make sugar through chemurgy A Lamar County farmer urged saving some Johnson grass for chemurgy instead of overusing it.
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Liquor College Station
Tex
Texas A. & M
Lamar County
Japans conduct prompts protest over sailors sunk off Singapore
British and Australian officers of war were left to die from a sinking transport off Singapore in September after Japanese saved their own nationals. American submarine crews battled to rescue prisoners. 150 survivors reached England. War Secretary Sir James Grigg called for a protest through Switzerland and promised accountability.
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London
Singapore
James Grigg
House of Commons
England
Sir James
Siam
Burma
Switzerland
Waller Admits He Killed Two Women
In Los Angeles Otto Steve Wilson a 31 year old hospital janitor confessed to killing two women Virgie Lee Griffin 26 and Lillian Johnson 38. Police say he may have planned a third attack and he was held incommunicado while detectives questioned a bar companion about the case.
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Otto Steve Wilson
Los Angeles
Lillian Johnson
Virgie Lee Griffin
Lieut
R. F. McGarry
Wilson
Thadown
Navy
Mate
Boris Karloff
Eisenhower's drive to break the Rhine defenses analyzed
Wartime column previews General Eisenhower's plan to punch through the Rhenish line. It notes Allied air superiority, German fortifications, and the weather's impact on the German defense while predicting a difficult, costly route through the Rhine valley.
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Eisenhower
von Runstedt
Rhine
Ike
Rain slows American advance in Philippines and Mapia cleanups
Torrential rains slowed American infantry near Ormoc on Leyte as land fighting raged around the town. Elsewhere 900 miles south in Mapia Islands, forces cleaned up remnants with little resistance. Naval actions included ships sunk and barges destroyed, while air raids disrupted Manila Bay activity amid a broader Pacific theater push.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Philippines
Mapia
Ormoc
Leyte Island
Manila Bay
Chester W. Nimitz
Manila
Tokyo Radio
U. S
U. S. Naval
Japan
Bonin Islands
Tokyo
Nimitz
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Philippine
Borneo
MacArthur
Limon
Liuchow
Burma
Chin Hills
Kalewa
Amendment No 4 Defeated as Voters Extend Sheriff Term
Alabama citizens rejected Amendment No 4 on the November 7 ballot which would have extended sheriff terms from four to six years defeating the measure 80 112 to 78 843. Officials noted five other amendments were not yet tallied.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
General Wheeler Succeeds Stilwell in Southeast Asia Command
Colombo Ceylon November 17 Gen Raymond A Wheeler designated to succeed Gen Joseph W Stilwell as supreme allied commander Southeast Asia and will remain chief administrative officer under Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in the post announced today.
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Colombo
Ceylon
PTA
Raymond A. Wheeler
Joseph W. Stilwell A
Speete
Allied Southeast Asia Command
Lord Louis Mounthatlen
Grid Game For War Bonds Backed By Alabama Governor
Governor Chauncey Sparks approved a plan for high school football teams in each county to play an extra game to boost the sixth war loan drive. The proposal, backed by the state war bond committee, would charge E series bonds for admission and may see Huntsville versus Decatur Red Raiders offered as a test game.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chauncey Sparks
J. P. Creel
Sylacauga
Alabama High School Athletics Association
Sparks
State War Bond
Mark R. Clements
Birmingham
Huntsville
Decatur Red Raiders
Nazis Give Up Italian City Faenza After Surprise Withdrawal
Allied forces report that German troops abandoned Faenza nine miles south of the Bologna Rimini road junction after a week of heavy fighting. British and Indian troops found the town mined and booby trapped and moved in to secure it. In the Adriatic sector, eighth army units near the Montone river cleared Coccolia and hit a flooded area created by a German breach in the Fiumi Uniti banks.
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Rome
Bologna-Rimini
Faenza
Forl
Eighth Army
Montone River
Coccolia
San Pancrazio
Adriatic
Fiumi Uniti
Highway 16
Death claims Boake Carter radio commentator
Hollywood remembers Boake Carter a 46 year old radio commentator known for his provocative programs and the signature catchphrase Cheerio. He felt ill after his Mutual program and died following a stroke at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after being taken from his doctor's office.
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Hollywood
Boake Carter
Mutual Broadcasting System
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital
Cheerio
Rcan
South Baku
United Tes
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia
Chetnik Leader Mihailovic Flees In Underwear
Yugoslav government in exile says Gen Draja Mihailovic fled Valjevo in his underwear to escape Tito's Partisans as they entered the city. The claim notes Mihailovic was startled and had no time to dress before fleeing.
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London
Tito
Draja Mihailovic
Valjevo
Mihailovic
Troyan Gavrilovi
Blood transport begins for frontline soldiers
The first shipment of whole blood left by plane from San Francisco on November 17 to the Philippines to save lives. Eighty pints are packed in five boxes as part of a new blood service, enabled by rapid transit and transport devices.
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San Francisco
Massive Test Of Nazi Will To Fight Pushes Allied Advances
Allied forces press the Rhineland offensive as U S Army divisions reach toward Duren and surrounding towns. Ninth Army troops near Aachen capture areas while Patton’s Third Army moves east of Metz. British forces clear canals near Roermond and push toward the Maas with threats of a major follow-up attack.
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William H. Simpson
Ninth Army
Aachen
Erican
Thundersbolt
Zig Canal
Noord and
Wessem
Maas
Roermond
Holland
George S. Patton, Jr
Third Army
Thionville
Koenigsmacher
Metz
Verdun
Fort Infantry
Larry le
Julicirich
Rhine
U. S
Cologne
Siegfried Line
Julich
Cologne Plain
Second Army
Buggenum
Sgenbosch
Moerdijk
Maas River
Deszen
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Doris Frost
Larry Beaman
Hattie McAbee
Wayne
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Tulsa
Oklo
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the Baptist Memorial Hospital
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First Baptist Church
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Decatur General Hospital
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Sue E. Brown
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Decatur General
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Tual
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Hartselle 2
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Pars
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Montevallo College
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Lee Sparks
Camden, Tenn
James Howell
Tenth Avenue East
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Decatur Gene Hospital
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Athens
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Seventh Avenue South
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Sher Street
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Waller
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Mapia Islands
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