Yanks Battle Bougainville Beachhead Squeeze
United States marines, tanks, artillery and planes fought to hold the Bougainville beachhead as Japanese forces pressed from multiple angles north of Empress Augusta Bay. More than 125 Japanese killed and 60 American casualties reported after dawn engagements, with Dauntless dive bombers targeting barges at the Laruma river mouth.
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Southwest Pacific
United States
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Solomons
Adm
William F. Halsey
Zakar
Buka
Cape Torokina
Atsunima Bay
Torokina
Admiral Halsey
Laruma River
Marine
Virgin Island Official To Stay On Job
Interior Secretary Ickes said Dr. Robert Morss Lovett will remain in his Virgin Islands post as executive assistant to the governor after November 15. Congress had withheld Lovett’s salary beyond that date and required a presidential nomination and Senate confirmation for any continuation.
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Washington
Robert Morss Lovett
Interior
Ickes
Lovett
Virgin Islands
Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Chinese Hold Japs In Battle For Rice Bowl
Chinese forces reported continued success along the Yangtze and toward Ichang as they recaptured Nanhsein near Tungting Lake and repelled Japanese units. A column advancing on a Chinese-held position was wiped out and enemy troops in plain clothes were encircled and killed.
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Chungking
Sone
Nanhsein
Tungting Lake
China
Sung
Communist Elected To New York City Council
Benjamin J. Davis Jr. Negro Communist won a seat on the new city council in New York. With tabulation of proportional representation ballots nearly complete a second Communist candidate appears likely. Davis joins four Manhattan members on the 17 member council while Peter V. Cacchione led in Brooklyn fields.
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New York
Benjamin J. Davis
New
Davis
Manhattan
Peter V. Cacchione
Brooklyn
Marigny Attorney Claims Fingerprint Used in Trial Is Fake
Nassau Bahamas November 10. Attorney Godfrey Higgs renewed the claim that a fingerprint used as evidence against Alfred De Marigny is fake. He urged acquittal in the murder case over Sir Harry Oakes's death, arguing prejudice should not influence the verdict. The case proceeds with summations and jury deliberation set to begin.
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Marigny
Nassau
Bahamas
Godfrey Higgs
Iece
Alfred de Marigny
Sir ‘An Oakes
Supreme Court
de Marigny
Eric Hallinan
Oscar Bedford Daly
Nancy
Harry
Higgs
Harry Oakes
Jalcony
Miami Police
Gette
British Subs Bay Seven Enemy Vessels Sunk
British submarines sank seven ships and probably sunk three more while damaging six others in recent Mediterranean and Aegean patrols. Two troop ships fell in the Aegean. convoys suffered casual ties from gunfire and torpedoes. Ferries supply ships lighters and a jetty were among those hit or damaged.
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London
Mediterranean
Aegean
Admiralty
Rapallo
Gulf of Genoa
Laval Tightens Guard Around Vichy Regime
Madrid reports travelers describe Vichy as a fortress around Pierre Laval with increased personal guards. Roads to Vichy crowded with pillboxes and anti tank barriers. police monitor travelers and only officials and diplomats may enter armed. Laval expands guards and seeks to foil potential guerrilla actions from the mountains.
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Madrid
France
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Henri Philippe Petain
Vich
Laval
Britain and United States discuss Franco message to puppet
London reports Britain in close consultation with Washington over how to respond to the Spanish government's congratulatory message to the Japanese puppet government in the Philippines. Minister Richard Law told the Commons Britain has not retested the message, noting the United States is mainly concerned and that Britain will align with U S wishes.
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London
Britain
Washington
Philippines
Richard K. Law
Commons
Law
United States
Soviets Press Forward Amid Heavy Snow Front
London reports Soviet forces make fresh advances near Kiev as heavy snows set in. Moscow says Ukrainian and Baltic sectors see German retreats while Berlin notes intense fighting around Voronezh and the Kerch area with casualties on both sides.
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Associated Press
London
Kiev
Ukraine
Nikolai Vatuin
Moscow
Korosten
Smolensk
Ing
Nevel
Crimea
Perekop Isthmus
Kerch
Berlin
Reuters
New York
Perekop
Lumbia Broadcasting
Perewaslav
Kiev Wees
Red Army
Depetrovsk
Krivoi
Dnieper
Wevel
B 24 Assembly Tied Up By Ford Strike
Ford Willow Run bomber plant curtails production in three press building departments due to a strike by setters numbering 1217. Final B 24 assembly not yet hit, but other departments face delays without settlement. Federal conciliators and CIO United Automobile Workers officials press for a return to work. Strike began yesterday over reclassification of workers as setters only.
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Detroit
Willow Run
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Raleigh to Add Women to Police Department
Raleigh announces six women will join traffic duty downtown to address manpower shortages. Candidates must be 25 to 30 years old, at least five feet four inches tall, weigh 130 to 150 pounds, and have a high school education. Uniforms provided. no pistol packing allowed.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Police Department
Greece to join Italian commission with Allied powers
Prime Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos announced Greece will participate in full equality with the Allied powers in the Italian commission. He said Greece will press issues on Italian affairs to safeguard its future security, in a Cairo interview.
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Cairo
Greece
Emmanuel Tsouderos
Chicago dairy market notes show steady butter and firm eggs
Chicago reports November 10 with butter receipts 236,692 and steady market. Eggs receipts 4,846 and firm prices noted.
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Chicago
Soldiers In Pacific Zone Send Back 50 Million In Bonds And Insurance
Allied and U S forces report soldiers in the Pacific have sent back nearly 50 million dollars in pay through war bonds government insurance deposits and allotments Col Maddox notes high insurance uptake averaging about 8500 per man More than 94 percent of soldiers are insured front line units receive timely pay and a finance task force ensures funds for combat missions
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Allied
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Louis W. Maddox
U. S. Army
Far East
United States
Maddox
Dream weapon from dream aids anti aircraft fire control
Summit New Jersey November 10 The U S Army says the M9 electrical anti aircraft gun director born from a Bell Labs dream in 1940 is a major advance in gun fire control Demonstrations at Murray Hill show the device helping guns destroy Nazi planes at a rate far better than in WWI Gen Campbell notes the new system averages one plane hit per 90 shots versus 17 000 in the last war
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Summit
N. J
U. S
David P. Parkinson
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Low Countries
Army Ordnance
Murray Hill
Here
L. H. Campbell
Army Ordnance Department
Mosquitos RAF Hit Western Germany and Moonlight Strikes France
The RAF Mosquitos bombed targets in western Germany for the sixth night in a row while intruder fighters attacked two French and Belgian airfields by moonlight. The action kept sirens active across western Germany.
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London
RAF
Germany
Reich
France
Belgium
Rail Strike Threat Draws Congressional Action
Congressional intervention appears likely to stop a proposed wage hike for 1.1 million railroad workers. Senate leaders push Vinson to justify rejecting an 8 cent per hour raise while unions await a strike vote set to conclude November 25.
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Washington
Senate
Fred M. Vinson
Senate House
Vinson
Johnson
D-Cole
Acute Liquor Shortage Strikes Nation Amid Rationing
The nation faces a severe liquor shortage with whiskey demand up to four times last year while supplies fall as much as 60 percent. About 30 states enforce rationing from one bottle daily to one per month as imports and brands grow scarce. Consumers complain stores favor trusted customers as officials foresee a bleak year ahead.
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Associated Press
America
Slav Guerrillas Capture Town In Serbian Attacks
Yugoslav partisans led by Gen. Josip Broz Tito announced broad Serbian operations with Stip seized from German forces 40 miles south of Skoplje. They claimed recapture of Andrijevica in Montenegro and heavy fighting near Zumberak Novo Mesto Kocevje Bros Delnice with German tank units. They also said Germans were driven from the mining town Izubiyasite and a train derailment in northwest Bosnia killed officers and men.
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London
Serbia
Stip
Skoplje
Josip Broz
Tito
Andrijevica
Montenegro
Brush fire stretches 160 miles from border to Ventura
A chain of brush fires extending 160 airline miles from the Mexican border to Ventura, Calif was brought under control or nearing control after ripping through thousands of acres of range land and watershed. The fires killed cattle razed dwellings and threatened an important oil field as of November 10.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Ventura
Allied Liberators Hit Italian Industries and Front Lines
Allied dispatch reports nine German counterattacks near Venafro repulsed as U S artillery and infantry push forward along the front in the upper Volturno region. Liberators bombed Villar Perosa ball bearing works southwest of Turin and Genoa docks and railways, while the Eighth Army holds ground and British units deter German counterattacks at Calabritto.
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Villar Perosa
Turin
Ansaldi
Genoa
Italy
Thenafro
Volturno
Eighth Army
Castiglione
Forli
Calabritto
Fifth Army
Venafro
Maun Rocks
Naples
Honor Marines By Raising Battle Flag
The article notes a battle flag from Guadale raised over the Capitol on the 168th birthday of the Marine Corps. President Roosevelt and Gen. Thomas Holcomb mark the occasion, praising Marines as they continue the campaign toward Tokyo and planning future displays of flags from U S victories.
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Washington
Capitol
United States
Roosevelt
Marine Corps
Tokyo
Thomas Holcomb
Burlington Man Will Run For U. S. Senate
Arthur Simmons a Burlington resident and Spanish American War veteran says he will run in the 1944 Democratic primary for the U. S. Senate. He wrote to Secretary Thad Eure requesting a filing form. Simmons notes three candidates are in the field Clyde Hoey Marvin Rithe and himself with Senator Reynolds set to seek renomination.
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Raleigh
Arthur Simmons
Burlington
U. S. Senate
Sia
Thad Eure
Simmons
Eure
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Marvin Rithe
Charlotte
R. R. Reynolds
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Borie
J.vinson
George M. Harrison
Harrison
Reed
Rans
Executive Branch
Johnson Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Bagota Vinson
Edward Kennedy
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