Gas Ration To Drop To Three Gallons On Atlantic Coast
The Office of Price Administration tentatively approves cutting basic gasoline rations from four to three gallons for 17 eastern seaboard states amid fuel shortages. The move, not affecting the nationwide four gallon baseline after December 1, aims to save oil daily while preserving heating rations. Officials warn that reducing A cards may disrupt B and C ration proportions and threaten essential drivers' supplies.
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Seaboard
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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Harold L. Ickes
Navy says Guadalcanal battle boosts US naval supremacy
Secretary Knox said the Solomons clash marks a major victory with heavy Japanese losses but stops short of a decisive win. He noted American forces hold Guadalcanal and Tulagi, while attrition harms Japan more than the US. He warned Japanese return remains possible.
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Germany at crossroads as winter of war bites home front
London dispatch analyzes factors shaping Nazi strength as Germany faces tight rationing and shrinking harvests. Despite attempts to conserve, 70 percent of normal yield, with France and Italy strained. Europe’s rest suffers from famine risks, drought, and war weariness.
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Poland
Belgium
Norway
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Eleanor's Back Returns From War Time England
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives in Washington after a trip to England where she stayed with King George and Queen Elizabeth. She will hold a press conference at 11 00 a m Eastern War Time and described her visit as an arduous inspection of military and civilian activities.
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Patrolmen Seek Army Unit Status in North Carolina
Raleigh November 17. Troop A of the State Highway Patrol based in Greenville has petitioned to join the Army as a unit. The move, signed by nearly all 48 troopers, argues they are not draft dodgers and should serve openly. Local officials note many patrolmen are already overworked and essential to war efforts with vacancies rising as many enlist.
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State High Way Patrol
Greenville
W. H. Rogers
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T. Bodide Ward
North Carolina
Army
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Office of Defense Transportation
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Armed Services
Colwell Named Associate Professor of Agronomy at N.C. State
Dr. William E. Colwell, a Nebraska native, was appointed associate professor of agronomy at North Carolina State College. The announcement came from Dean I. O. Schaub of the agriculture school.
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Raleigh
William E. Colwell
N.C. State College
I. O. Schaub
Darlans Place Questioned by Commons Over Darlan Deal
In London the House of Commons debated Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral Jean Darlan relations in North Africa. Sir Percy Harris pressed for a fuller explanation of United States and Allied arrangements with the former Vichy defender, now aiding the AEF, claiming the presence of Darlan on the scene casts a sinister light on the operation.
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jean Darlan
House of Commons
Admiral Darlan
Laborite
Percy Harris
France
DeeGaulle
Clement Attlee
House
Vichy Defense
AEF
North Africa
Harris
War Contracts Vanish Threatening Firms With Bankruptcy
Slashes in Army Navy contract orders prompt widespread complaints to House and Senate Military Affairs committees and Truman investigators. Firms note prior pledges to buy war tools and munitions, funded expansions with Reconstruction Finance Corporation aid, or by surpluses, now facing abrupt government non purchase without compensation. Many plants built for war now idle. Congress urged to pass bills allowing suit.
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Senate
Truman
Capitol Hill
Washington
Nance Corporation
Congress
Jungle-Toughened Allies Near Buna in Major Papua Fight
General MacArthur leads jungle hardened American and Australian troops within cannon shot of Buna as Australian patrols reach Awala and push from the west and south. Allied air and sea strikes target Japanese forces retreating along the Kumusi river, with Buna as the last coastal hold in Papua.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Australia
Buna
Southwest Pacific
Sir Thomas Blamey
George C. Kenney
Awala
Papua
New Guinea
Lae
Salamaua
Bataan
Port Moresby
Owen Stankey Mountain Range
Ioribaiwa
United Nations React to Solomons Victory Tone Cautious
United Nations celebrate the US Navy victory in the Solomons while urging restraint. In Chungking newsboys trumpet the triumph but a government spokesman cautions that victory comes in installments. Australian Prime Minister Curtin thanks US forces and says the battle is not over. London papers hail it as the greatest sea battle of the war.
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United Nations
United States Navy
Solomons
Chungking
Melbourne
John Curtin
United States
Norman J. M. Makin
Australia
Western Pacific
London
Daily Express
Nc Railroad Segments May Be Curtailed Under War Plan
The War Production Board asked the Office of Defense Transportation to verify 35 railroad segments as essential to wartime transport. If non-essentials are requisitioned for armed services, protest periods follow Jewell’s line-by-line review. Notable lines include Southern Railway Camden to Kingville 38.7 miles and Norfolk and Western Honaker to Blackford 53 miles.
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War Production Board
Office of Defense Transportation
WPB
Armed Services
Josph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation Director
Ralph H. Jewell
Jewell
Southern Railway
Camden
Kingville
S. C
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Kona
Burns Ville
Midville
Bowditch
N. C
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Southport
Navasse
Norfolk ‘and
President Roosevelt to Address Nation Tonight at 10 30
President Roosevelt will address the nation at 10 30 PM Eastern War Time in a broadcast linked to the New York Herald Tribune annual forum. The talk will note recent American victories in the Pacific and the Mediterranean and discuss the creed of the United Nations for a free world.
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Roosevelt
New York Herald Tribune
Pacific
Mediterranean
United Nations
Earthquake Report From Peshawar
Reports from Peshawar India describe a strong earthquake shaking the town clearly today with no word yet on damage. In Raleigh the State Board of Elections plans to meet November 24 to canvass returns from the November 3 general election in Watauga County.
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London
India
Raleigh
iState Board of Elections
Watauga County
British American forces push Axis back in Tunisia clash
London dispatch reports British American advance forces driving back Axis forward units in the first battle encounter for Tunisia. German reports hint at an enveloping Allied movement aimed at severing Bizerte and Tunis and pushing toward Tripoli.
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Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Tripoli
Allies may spearhead two drives into Tunisia
By E C Daniel in London reports Germany said British and American mobile columns advanced toward the southern Tunisian border, with one force striking along the coast toward Bizerte and Tunis and another driving through desert and mountains toward Tripoli to trap Axis troops. German broadcasts claimed Nazi planes bombed these coastal and border areas as Allied forces closed on Tunisia's front.
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London
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Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Tripoli
Axies
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Africa
Algeria
Roemmeel
Gener Montgomery
Berlin
Paris
British Eighth Army advances on Libyan coast
Cairo dispatch reports British troops seize Derna and Mekili, 150 miles from Benghazi, as Eighth Army units sweep along the Libyan coast to press the retreating forces of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Cairo
Derna
Bengasi
Mekili
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
South Tunisia movements and Rommel retreat noted
A report recalls American forces moving from Algeria toward lower Tunisia and a path to Tripoli while Libyan desert air activity is reduced by bad weather. British and Berlin sources discuss Rommel’s delayed pursuit, new Nazi panzer airborne divisions, and Axis claims of joint Tunisian entry.
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Bou-Saada
Tunisia
Tripoli
Lake Chad
French Equatorial Africa
United States
Cairo
Rommel
Eighth Army
Cire“naica
Resolutions Seek Wake Forest Compromise on Coed Admission
Dr. I G Greer opened the Baptist State Convention with three resolutions aimed at a compromise on admitting women to Wake Forest College. The measures back junior senior entry, support Meredith College as a four year women’s college, and approve an education commission to study Baptist higher education in North Carolina.
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I. G. Greer
Baptist
Thomasville
Baptist State Convention
First Baptist Church
Wake Forest Board of Trustees
Wake Forest College
Meredith College
General Board
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Mars R. N. Simms
Robert ‘. Simms
Raleigh
Russians Kill 3 000 Nazis In New Front Fight
Moscow reports the Red Army killed more than 3,000 Germans in fresh fighting along the front. Germans suffered heavy losses near Volkhov and Stalingrad as Soviet forces pressed the initiative. Minor gains were noted southeast of Nalchik in the Caucasus.
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Red Army
Volkhov
Leningrad
Initial Prison Service Board Set Up In Pa
A Federal prison in Lewisburg Pennsylvania established the first Selective Service Board to evaluate prisoners for possible armed forces service. Prisoners with a single nonmajor conviction may be classified 1-A after parole review, with broader boards anticipated at other federal institutions.
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Selective Service Board
Lewisburg
James V. Bennett
Long
Secretary of War
Parole Board
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