Yugoslav Partisans claim some gains against German attacks
Yugo loyal Partisans report offensive successes including the capture of a coal mine feeding Belgrade war factories and power plants. German breakthroughs acknowledged in eastern Bosnia. fighting continues near Posusje and in the Centina river valley. More than 200 Nazis killed at Klist of Split. 319 German dead reported.
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London
Belgrade
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
Bosnia
Dalmatia
Cratia
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Doboj
Tuzla
Posusje
Centina River
Split
Klist
Pork Ration Points Cut Ahead of Market Surge
Washington reports pork ration points will drop by two per pound at the butcher starting Friday as hogs flood markets. The war food administration and the office of price administration coordinate via a guaranteed support price of 13.75 dollars for standard 200 to 270 pound hogs in Chicago, with other markets to adopt a price one dollar per 100 pounds below the OPA starting November 29.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Office of Price Administration
OPA
VFA
Chicago
Draft quotas for state to be reduced
Raleigh reports a large cut in North Carolina draft calls expected in January as replacements for killed or wounded soldiers. National quota is 75,000 monthly. NC share estimated 2,500 to 3,000. Current NC quota around 19,000 with 11,000 white registrants and 8,000 Negroes. Most new draftees would be 18 year olds, about 1,800 per month. Gen Metts notes unknown impact of congressional compromise on fathers’ draft status.
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Raleigh
Nota
J. van B. Metts
Selective Service
Washington
Acnion
Stimson
North Carolina
Metts
Congress
Tojo Declares Japan Fights War For East Asia
Premier General Hideki Tojo, in a Tokyo address, said Japan wages the war to emancipate East Asia from British and American greed for world hegemony. He spoke at a luncheon for East Asian newspaper representatives and urged a great Asia built on moral justice for co prospering free from Western colonization.
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Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Japan
East Asia
Tojo
Greater East Asia
Asia
OWI Bans Political Broadcasts to Troops Overseas
The Office of War Information will not broadcast or send any political content to troops overseas. Senator Lucas says the shortwave should stay free of politics in foreign battle zones. Robert Sherwood, OWI overseas director, outlined that ads will only note the fact of campaigning and the free election to support democracy during wartime.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Lucas
D-Ill
OW1
Special Services Division
Robert Sherwood
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Meet Saturday
Albert W. Cox organizer for the AFL United Textile Workers said a meeting is called for Saturday at 4 PM for full fashioned hosiery workers. The meeting will be at the AFL hall on East Washington Street.
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Albert W. Cox
AFL United Textile Workers
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Weather Outlook for Carolina Areas
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions this afternoon across North and South Carolina. Tonight will be fair but not as cold. Friday should be fair to partly cloudy with continued warming.
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South Carolina
Funeral Rites for Linda Sue Lloyd and Emma Lewallen Held
Funeral services were held for Linda Sue Lloyd two months old and Emma E. Lewallen sixty at First Evangelical Reformed and Crews Methodist churches respectively. Linda Lloyd was buried in Oakwood cemetery after services led by Rev. Hoy L. Fesperman with M F Crooks singing. Lewallen’s service, led by Rev. E A Lamb and Rev. Harold Hadley, followed a morning service at Crews Methodist with pallbearers and church choir, burial in the church cemetery.
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Sild Church
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Funeral rites for G. T. Bennett at Mechanicsville Baptist
Funeral services for G. T. Bennett, 34, who died in a local hospital after an automobile accident, were held at Mechanicsville Baptist Church with Elder Fi Mn officiating. Pallbearers Ray Abbott Clyde Bolling Howard Young M W Mabe C E Abbott Reuben Harris. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
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Mechanicsville Baptist Church
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Ray Abbott
Clyde Bolling
Howard Young
M. W. Mabe
C. E. Abbott
Reuben Harris
Conference notes no secret terms but outlines postwar cooperation
Hull describes the wartime conference as producing important agreements without secret clauses. He says the focus is that victory nations and like minded states will continue to cooperate after the war to tackle future problems and sustain mutual interests.
Hitler hopes to keep Balkans intact before retreat to Poland
The article notes Hitler fears Balkan collapse as he withdraws to Poland and blocks the Aegean and Dardanelles to prevent Allied aid to Russia. It cites Turkish permission, potential Turkish air bases, and recapture of Leros as strategic concerns influencing Ankara’s choices. It also mentions the legend of nine suns and early Chinese conscription.
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Poland
Balkan Peninsula
Aegean
Dardanelles
Russia
Black Sea
Turkey
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