Rickenbacker Rescued with Vital Companions Recovering
Colonel Hans C Adamson and Private John F Bartek were rescuers with Rickenbacker on the raft. Bartek remains in serious condition but is expected to recover from exposure. Sergeant Alexander Caczmarczyk died at sea days earlier. naval officers fly to examine and aid the three men found on the island.
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Rickenbacker Rescued After Sea Crash Near Atlanta
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, recovering from injuries suffered in a plane crash near Atlanta two years ago, was rescued at sea. A Catalina flying boat located the party on a raft and took them to a U.S. naval base. Details of the rescue were not immediately available as the search had intensified after a message on October 21 warned fuel would run out.
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Adamson
Bartek
Eddie Rickenbacker Rescued After Pacific Ordeal
Navy announces Eddie Rickenbacker, famed World War I ace, was rescued in good condition from a life raft in the Pacific about three weeks after his airplane radioed it was running out of fuel. He and two crewmen were picked up by a Navy Catalina 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other fliers from the same survey group were located on an island. one of Rickenbacker's crew died.
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Pacific
Rickenbacker
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Catalina
Samoa
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High Point
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Wive
Tunis
Hitler
New Pacific Sea Battle Widens With Heavy Losses
The Associated Press reports a fresh Pacific clash between American and Japanese forces ongoing since November 12 13. Both sides claim damage including sunk destroyers and a damaged battleship while heavy losses are suffered on both sides. The battle centers near the Solomons and Gadalcanal with a broader South Sea Archipelago engagement developing.
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Massive RAF Bombing Sets Genoa Ablaze in World War II
London reports massive RAF Lancaster and Stirling raids hit Genoa Italy, targeting the Ansaldo factory and docks. No RAF losses were listed as fires burned through the city, with authorities noting ten prior raids and mounting Allied air superiority in the Mediterranean.
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Switzerland
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Durham employer seeks blonde divorcee stenographers
Specialist RALEIGH November 14. Employment service officials report a Durham employer asked for blondes and blonde divorcees as stenographers. The Durham office is tracking down blonde divorcees. one is on the job and proving efficient, with more to come as degrees finalize.
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Durham
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Nazi Troops Gain Little At Stalingrad
Moscow reports that German forces gained ground in Stalingrad’s factory district in a new push but the advance is described as insignificant. Russian troops fought to regain positions as counterattacks were repelled. about 900 Germans killed and eight tanks destroyed in yesterday’s assaults. The Russian counter offensives extended to Nalchik in the Caucasus as German operations continued toward the Georgian military highway.
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Aussies Push Forward In New Guinea
Australian ground forces advanced two and a half miles in New Guinea to envelop another enemy position near Illinoi, after leaving units to count the bodies of about 700 to 800 Japanese slain at Oivi and Gorari. The pocket near Wairopi and the Kumasi River area were reported surrounded as the Allied advance continued to close in on Buna beachhead.
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Buna
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FDR Weighs Unified U S Manpower Authority Plan
President Roosevelt reportedly considers reorganizing the nation’s manpower system under a single directing head. An executive order may merge services, balancing needs with a unified program, potentially integrating selective service and naming a new head. Lawmakers caution over centralized control and policy gaps.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Gas Chislers Called Traitors By Henderson
Dallas report quotes Leon Henderson calling gasoline and rubber bootleggers dangerous to the country on the eve of nationwide gasoline rationing set for December 1. He warns the plan may yield wide mileage gaps and will favor essential workers while not rewarding nonessential drivers. He frames rationing as ensuring transport for ships, munitions plants, doctors, and farmers, not a burdensome gimmick.
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Dallas
Leon Henderson
San Francisco
New York
Henderson
Brazil Near Complete Split With Vichy
Brazil says its relations with Vichy France are interrupted as it withdraws its mission and seeks safety for Brazilian diplomats after Germany raided the Brazilian embassy in Vichy. Brazil remains at war with Germany but keeps a status of neutral territory while relations are interrupted.
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Brazil
France
Vichy
Germany
Two Million Youths On Verge Of Entering Service Promised School Aid After War
President Roosevelt pledged that over two million youths aged 18 and 19 called to service will be aided in resuming their education after the war. He outlined plans to train select young men in highly specialized duties and to use certain colleges for wartime training, regardless of current college status or ability to pay. Officials estimate about 2.4 million youths aged 18–20 are registered and around 2 million may enter service to help reach four and a half million total personnel by year's end 1943.
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Harold Oliver Washington
Roosevelt
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Suie Sau VU Psp
Leabae Ty
Ahd A Ae Dent
Stalin Praises North Africa Campaign and Shifts Favor to Allies
The Moscow letter from Joseph Stalin to AP chief Henry Cassidy commends the Allied North Africa operation as pivotal, notes it creates the prospect of a second front in Europe, and signals relief for the Soviet Union while foreseeing disintegration of the Axis bloc. Stalin hails Allied leadership as first rate organizers and pledges the Red Army will fulfill its wartime task with honor.
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Henry C. Cassidy
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North
Africa
Joseh Stalin
Europe
North Africa
Red Army
Soviet Union
Ocean
Casablanca
Ougie
Western
Desert
Civilian Goods To Be Trimmed By New Ruling
Washington Nov 14 A new Byrnes program to simplify and standardize civilian production cuts varieties and styles in shops to free capacity for war goods He seeks bedrock civilian needs while reviewing subsidies on wheat coal petroleum milk and more He also orders temporary wage ceilings lifted for agriculture and wages subject to review if price impacts arise
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James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Office of Civilian Supply
Budget Bureau
Rickenbacker’s Brother Happy Over Rescue
Capt Eddie Rickenbacker’s brother William, a Detroit garage owner, expressed elation at word of the aviator’s safety. He joked Eddie must have a rabbit’s foot and said it is marvelous they found him well. He feared for Eddie’s age and worried until news arrived.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Wiliam
Associated Press
Eddie
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