Greer Elected Baptist State Convention President
Dr I G Greer superintendent of the Baptist Orphanage in Thomasville was unanimously elected president of the Baptist State Convention for the coming year at the First Baptist Church session. Other candidates were eliminated after two ballots. vice presidents named were J Grice Leslie Campbell and J W Suttle. The convention sermon by Dr J Clyde Turner urged churches to preach the gospel in a world of uncertainty amid wartime tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. G. Greer
Thomasville
Wake Forest
Baptist State Convention
First Baptist Church
Richard Edwine
Hickory
Perry Moran
Ridgecrest
ET Norfleet Ardner
Henderson
ICE
J. . Grice
Asheville
Leslie Campbell
Campbell Colege
J. W. Suttle
Shelby
War Today interpretive column from Cairo details Africa’s reach
Dewitt MacKenzie resumes from Cairo with a daily interpretive column on Allied strategy. He notes French Equatorial Africa spans Chad to Gabon and comments on Mangin’s realization that holding Chad strengthens Africa, warning of a potential barrier if Vichy had controlled the region.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Cairo
England
North Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Chad
Uhangihari
Vichy
French West Africa
Nied
Hele
Equior
Mediterranean
Iself
Soviet Seizes Initiative On Three Fronts
Moscow reports say Soviet forces have extended their operation of tying down German troops and have taken the initiative in Stalingrad and the Caucasus as battles continue.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Caucasus
Soviet Red Army shifts to offensive in multiple fronts
The German high command announced a transition from defense to new attacks across the Caucasus Don area south of Leningrad and the Rybachi Peninsula. Berlin claimed these assaults were repulsed but warned they could signal a forthcoming Winter Soviet drive.
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New York
Red
Caucasus
Don
Leningrad
Rybachi
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Aerial assault threats loom over Axis bases
London reports that Germany Italy and occupied areas face multi directional air attacks in the coming months. Analysts estimate 5,000 German and 2,000 Italian frontline planes must cover fronts from the Caucasus to Leningrad to North Africa. The Mediterranean Sardinia Tunis Sicily region gains priority as Allied pressure rises.
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London
Germany
Italy
RAF
Axis
Caucasus
Leningrad
Russia
Africa
Sardinia-Tunis-Sicily
Mediterranean
Japs Fear Allied Drive To Retake Dutch East Indies
Admiral Takahashi warned the Japanese public that the United States plans to use the Solomon Islands as a springboard to retake the Dutch East Indies. He predicted heavy fighting in the Solomons and noted the U S fleet’s Solomon victory as a setback for Japan. Officials assess the three week timeline to regroup and reengage at Guadalcanal as U S forces plan Round 3 in the Solomons.
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Dutch East Indies
FHE
Associated Press
Japan
Sankichi Taskahashi
Washington
United States
Solomon Islands
Solomons
Takahashi
Laval Gains Power in Vichy France Under German Backing
The Associated Press reports Pierre Laval takes control from Marshal Petain with expanded powers from Paris. Laval’s authority allows him to write laws and issue decrees, while Petain calls Laval the head of government with full authority. Allies and observers see Laval’s rise as a step toward Axis alliance as France faces immediate wartime challenges.
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Pierre Laval
France
Aged Petain
Associated Press
London
Ane
Ianael Lek Utata
Uiscivscu
Marshal Petain
Swart
Paris
Laval
Marcel Dent
Vichy
Petain
Marshal
Jean Darlan
Africa
Axis
Food wins the war shaping global reconstruction plan
Ray Tucker argues that lavish edibles and cash aid in North Africa bind the United States to a major postwar reconstruction role. Claude Wickard asserts food powers win alliances and morale, with meat and wheat accompanying troops to Gibraltar and Casablanca and a policy likely extended to Italy, the Balkans, and France.
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United States
Congress
Claude R. Wickard
Agricul
Gibraltar
Cassablanca
Oran
Algiers
Italy
Balkans
France
French Fleet Plum Laval Holds As Bait
London reports fighting French sources forecast a potential alliance between Germany and Vichy France. The plan could allow the Anis to use 64 Toulon ships as Laval consolidates dictatorial powers. If it happens a peace treaty might free over a million French prisoners recalled to service.
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Plum Laval
London
Germany
Vichy
France
Anis
Toulon
Pierre Laval
Montgomery's Forces Drive Near Bengasi
British Eighth Army vanguards reach about 50 miles south of Bengasi and 15 miles from the Gulf of Sirte, advancing toward Antelat near the high water mark of Libya’s first westward push. U S heavy bombers hit Bengasi and Tunis airfields as transports move toward El Agheila, with Allied fighters pressuring road transport along the Gulf of Sirte.
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Stephen Barber
Cairo
Britain
Eighth Army
Bengasi
Gulf of Sirte
Agedabia
Rommel
United States
Antelat
Libya
Benga Si
Tripoli
Chavel
Tunis
el Agheila
Rimmel
Many Italian Divisions Destroyed in War Review
London reports a military commentator says sixty six Italian divisions totaling about 394000 men have been destroyed in Africa and Albania. He defines destroyed as formations so mauled they must be regrouped or reformed. The tally covers Albanian and East African campaigns with metropolitan and native African units, and notes further Italian divisions in Russia.
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London
Africa
Albania
Mussolini
Italy
Russia
Hitler
Ervin Rommel
House Group Moves To Give F.D.R. Power
Washington November 19 The House Ways and Means Committee moved to prepare compromise legislation authorizing the President to suspend certain tariff and immigration laws within limits while high officials urged a broader war power. The committee tabled the broader measure and ordered a subcommittee to draft substitutes as war officials argued that all-out war requires more than narrow rules. The final draft is expected to specify when the President may disregard existing laws governing international traffic.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
War Department
Biddle
Coughton
D-Nc
Congress
Pesident
Britain's Big Bombers Hit Fiat Works in Turin
London reports Britain’s heavy four motored bombers struck Turin Fiat works with clear skies aiding the raid. It was the fifth big Italian raid this month with no RAF losses, while Italian reports cite considerable civilian damage including 24 dead and 32 wounded in Turin. Swiss alarms and anti aircraft fire accompanied the operation.
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Associated Press
London
Britain
Alps
Italy
Fiat
Turin
Air Ministry
RAF
Bomber Command
Italian High Command
Royal Arsenal
Fiat Engine Works
Caproni Works
Genoa
Geneva
Lausanne
Switzerland
Oregon Hospital Egg Poisonings Kill 44 Inmates
Forty four inmates of the Oregon State Hospital died after eating eggs in a mass poisoning scare. Physicians fought to save more than 400 others as victims fell within minutes of the scrambled eggs. The toll rose through the night with victims mainly in four wards. Authorities noted a portion of the two ton egg shipment had not caused illness when served earlier.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon State Hospital
Itl
Evans
Clique Of German Military Leaders Planning To Establish Themselves When Hitler Falls
A foreign diplomatic source says a junta of aristocratic German generals plans to isolate Hitler and establish influence with the Allies if war turns. Names cited include Walther Von Brauchitsch, Fedor Von Bock, Franz Halder, Fritz Erich Von Manstein, K Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt, and Johannes Blaskkowitz. Disconnect over strategy and Nazification boosts defeateist sentiment. some seek to blame Hitler for Russia and Africa defeats.
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Hitler
Robert Bunnelle
London
Fuehrer
Freign
Walther von Brauchitsch
Moscow
Fedor von Bock
Stalingrad
Franz Halder
von Bock
Amies
Don
Fritz Erich von Mannestein
Kurl
Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Johannes Blaskkowitz
Germany
French Move From Chad To Hit Nazis In Tunisia
In a major North Africa push, French forces move up from Chad toward Tunisia to join Allied efforts. American and British parachutists seize key airfields as Lieut. Gen. Kenneth A. N. Anderson’s First Army advances from Algeria to trap Rommel’s forces near Tunis and Bizerte. Air power, bombers, and RAF support intensify the frontal assault to expel Axis and Italian troops from the region.
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E. C. Daniel
London
United Nations
Bizerte- Tripoli
North Africa
Asis
Lake ‘Chad
Lorraine Cross
France
Idrive
Tunisia
Kenneth A A. N. Anderson
First
Flanders
Algeria
Tunis
Bizerte
Anderson
United States Army Air Forces
RAF
Reuters
Morocco
Tobruk
Eighth Army
Japs Charting New Offensive Says Chungking
A Chinese army spokesman in Chungking reports Japanese plans to push into Yunnan from French Indo China coordinated with a Burma front. Japan has strengthened Yunnan with 12 000 more troops to total 30 000 and expanded air power. Landing craft are reported for Salween river crossing with aims to seize Kunming and disrupt India China air routes. Japanese rail and civilian traffic in Burma is said to be halted and maps purporting Chinese fortifications are being sought from Indo China authorities. Observers expect joint operations with American air support.
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Chungking
Yannan
China
Yanna
Burma
Salween River
Kunming
India
Indo-China
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Mid-Caucasus
Leningrad Front
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Knox
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