British LULL IN FIGHT SEEN AS FOES CALL FOR TIME PLAN
British and Axis forces in the Libyan desert appear to be rearming for new operations. A British communique notes continued pressure on isolated enemy centers along the Libyan Egyptian frontier while Rommel’s forces are described as weakened. British officers expect an extended campaign as both sides prepare for future offenses from Tobruk toward Rezegh.
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Cairo
Egypt
Middle East
Tobruk
Sidi Azeiz
el Gobi
Rezegh
Erwin Rommel
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Rommel
Deer Season Ends in State
Charleston December 4 The conservation department began tallying today the kills of a three day deer season which may exceed all others in recent years Early reports show game protectors following hunters from the wood lands The count will take several days to complete Officials forecast the total will top the 1940 figure of 1 115 deer killed in the state noted on page six.
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Charleston
Conservation Department
The Gratton-Sentisiel Invite for Navy Blue and Gold
Mrs Vivian Canin of 230 West Washington Street is invited to tonight's Strand theater showing Navy Blue and Gold and to the Dixie theater for Scatter Good Meets Broadway and The Big Stampede, current attractions. Identification may be required for admission to either venue.
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Strand
Gratton-Sentisiel
Vivian Canin
West
Washington Street
Strand Theater
Raymond Kenny Announces Bureau for the Blind Plan
Public Assistance Director Raymond Kenny announced a plan to form a bureau of services to the blind under a 1939 act. The state director will develop services for prevention of blindness conservation of vision and vocational and social adjustment. The bureau should start functioning about January 1.
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Charleston
Raymond Kenny
Serbs Fight Guerrilla War in Morava Valley
Exiled Serbs report Gen Draja Mihailovic forces resisting a broader Axis offensive in the western Morava valley backed by tanks and aircraft as three Axis divisions and guerrillas clash.
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Cairo
Egypt
Draja Mihailovic
Morava
Senb
Barbour County Second In Mine Law Violations
Charleston reports November saw fifty-one mining law convictions, a new monthly high. Break-throughs at 80 foot intervals to improve air flow were the leading cited violation, with faulty timbering and carrying matches in mines also charged. McDowell led counties with 13 convictions. Barbour followed with 10. Fayette seven, Kanawha six.
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Charleston
State Mines Department
McDowell County
Churchill's plan wins broad Commons backing
In London the House of Commons approved Churchill's maximum mobilization bill by 326 to 10 after rejecting a Labor amendment that would nationalize industries. The bill targets extending national service to women and raising draft age to include men up to 51 while trimming exemptions. Bevin defended the scope against Labor charge of narrow reach.
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London
House of Commons
Churchil
Independent Labor Party
Churchill
Ernest Bevin
House Okes Hard-Boiled Strike Curbs
Washington dispatch reports the House advancing a hard boiled strike curb bill by a 252 to 136 vote. The measure would create a 30 to 90 day cooling off period under the defense mediation board to avert strikes in vital plants and would ban certain strikes while freezing open and closed shop agreements during the defense emergency. A Senate review is expected with possible modifications by a conference committee.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Smith
National Defense Mediation’ Board
OKEHS
Church votes to discipline dissenting 7 members at meeting
In Huntington on December 4 under police watch the Jefferson Avenue Baptist Church adopted a resolution to place 7 demanding resignations on the inactive list and deny church rights until attitudes change. The measure passed 110 to 92 amid jeers and claims of vote miscount as 67 ineligible voters skewed totals. Police intervened as the dissenters were accused of causing an unlawful meeting on November 25 to declare the pulpit vacant.
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Huntington
Jefferson Avenue
Leslie E. Gould
Slickers From Farm Show Up City Yokels at Stock Show
Chicago dispatch reports farm youths at an International Live Stock exposition exposing city visitors to plain ignorance. Questions at cattle stalls reveal misperceptions about steers and cattle, with farmhands in overalls responding that a steer is a desexed bull and is fattened for beef.
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Chicago
Driverless car chase ends with teen navigator in custody
Philadelphia police pursued a supposedly driverless trolley wire car before finding 19 year old Nicholas Reimer slumped under the windshield. He said he had been using the trolley wires to steer.
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Philadelphia
Nicholas Reimer
Peasoup Fog Blankets Eastern U S in Dense Weather Outbreak
Dense pea soup fog blanketed the eastern United States from Maine to Mississippi, with visibility near 10 yards in New York Harbor and delays across air, land, and sea travel. By morning the worst eased, while factories and cities reported smoke from defense plants and vehicles moving erratically along major highways.
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Associated Press
Deep South
Ohio Valley
U. S. Weather Bureau
Maine
Mississippi
Steere
New York City
la Guardia
Great Harbor
Coast Guard
Narrows
St. Louis
Detroit
Louisville
Kansas City
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Lincoln Highway
West Virginia Airports May Get Defense Funds
Representative Johnson of West Virginia announced that federal aid for airport construction could be approved if the airports prove defense importance. Hearings on the third supplemental defense bill revealed the civil aeronautics administration’s reluctance to include West Virginia in its airport improvement program, despite support for a Huntington site. Colonel L D Clay, secretary of the state airport approval board, said the CAA values the need for more civil airports in West Virginia.
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Washington
Rep
Johnson
D-W. Va
West Virginia
Civil Aeronautics Administration
L. D. Clay
CAA
Huntington
Pledge lease aid to Turkey expands under lend lease pact
The United States began furnishing Turkey with military supplies six months ago to support their pledge to Britain to defend Turkey and the Dardanelles. Roosevelt adds Turkey to lend lease eligibility, with plans for about 100 million dollars in planes tanks trucks anti tank guns and ammunition to meet Turkish army needs. Readership notes say supplies have been routed via Great Britain.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Britain
Dardanelles
Roosevelt
White House
Great Britain
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
Launch Mine Safety Drive Begins Inspections
Pittsburgh December 4 a new federal mine inspection program starts with trained safety diplomats conducting first official inspections to cut fatalities in the nation’s 14 000 coal pits. The inspectors aim to gain cooperation from state mine departments operators and miners, launching a coordinated safety push.
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Pittsburgh
State ‘Departments of Mines
Grafton Sentinel Invites Clara Casteel to Opera House Show
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. Clara L. Casteel of 447 West Wilford Street to attend tonight's double feature at the Opera House theater titled Badman From Deadwood and Dynamite Canyon.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Clara L. Casteel
Wilford Street
Badman
Deadwood
Opera House Theater
Got Road Anyway Even If Deer Did Win Fight
In Corvallis Oregon an incident reports Bill Craft ignoring a deer on the road. Craft left his car and tried to move the animal by its horns but the deer bolted and threw him into a ditch before escaping.
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Corvallis
Oré
Bill Craft
Craft
Nippon Press Seethes Over Encirclement
The Japanese press vents over an alleged encirclement by the ABCD group Americans British Chinese and Dutch East Indies. Chinese forces report 40 Japanese warships near Cam Ranh Bay with an aircraft carrier and 45 planes. Japan is said to be expanding bases in Indo China with 5000 workers.
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Associated Press
Japan
ABCD
America
Britain
China
Dutch East Indies
Chunoking
Camranh Bay
Indo-China
Singapore
Philippines
Secret Service
Gulf of Siam
Thailand
Manila
Far East
Burma
Long Road
United States
Cordell Hull
Pacific
Tokyo
Has 18th Child, Will Call Halt in Lock Haven
James Roy Hill, 45, and his wife celebrate their 18th child but say the family is complete. Fourteen children survive, nine at home, three with relatives, two with their husbands, and the parents face the daily task of caring for a large brood.
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Lock Haven
James Roy Hill
Germans flee rout continues as Red Army pushes south front
Soviet dispatches describe a reduced German presence beyond Taganrog as Red Army forces drive toward Mariupol in a southern counteroffensive. Bitter cold and deep snow hinder movement while Moscow front fighting relaxes amid a see-saw clash near Klin Mozhaisk.
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London
Taganrog
Rostov
Kuibyshev
Mariupol
Sea of Azov
Moscow
Moscow Front
Pravda
Thi Klin
Moahinish
Ess
Volokolmost Mozhaisk
Lenine Grad
Bomb blasts Detroit lumber head's home
An explosion blasted the front door and shattered windows at the Detroit home of hot in rer Currier, president of Currier Lumber, while he was in New York with his wife. Currier blamed the American Federation of Labor, noting a recent government contract rejection for a Wayne, Michigan prefabricated housing project. His two daughters were at home.
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Detroit
Hot
Rer
B ‘Ed Currier Lumber Comigany
Currier
New York
Amiterican Federation of Labor
Fense
Wayne,Mich
Outrier
Cotlette
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