Congressional bloc faces choice on rationing fight
Leaders of the opposition weigh halting or pursuing floor action on gasoline rationing extending from 90 days to six months as a Senate investigative panel questions Harold L. Ickes William Jeffers Leon Henderson and Joseph Eastman. President Roosevelt urges early start Dec 1 and defends mileage rationing to aid fighting forces amid pressure from oil states to drop nationwide rationing.
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Leon Henderson
Joseph Eastman
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Henderson
Padh
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Robert Patterson
Claude A. Jones
Stimson On Tunisia Libya Solomons And Coffee Notes
Stimson discussed British General Anderson's push to clear Axis forces from Tunisia and large scale supply movements across Algeria. He noted weather hindering Rommel’s pursuit in Libya near Agheila and air interdiction limits. He cited Halsey's Solomon Islands victory and ongoing struggle to expel Japan from Guadalcanal, with broader Solomons stakes. He also mentioned Michigan coffee rotators supplying mixing demand amid regional peculiarity.
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Algeria
Sicily
Sardinia
8Th Army
Rommel
Libya
Agheila
Solomon Islands
Stimson
Halsey
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Iff
War spectacle amid desert retreat and air power losses
The piece recounts a pilgrim of war reporting over the Cairo front, noting Rommel's retreat from El Alamein and detailing bombed desert wreckage, hastened Axis flight, and captured supplies. It contrasts a great victory with a collapse while observing the march of war machines and the toll on matériel.
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U S Bombers Reassigned to New Operations
Berlin radio dispatch reports German fighters and bombers attacked British motorized columns and troops along the coastal region of Cienaiva behind the westward marching vanguards from Agedabia. Nazi airmen allegedly damaged many vehicles and shot down two Allied planes.
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Russians tighten grip as Stalingrad siege unfolds
Soviet forces push southwest from Stalingrad and threaten the Nazi rail network. The Red Army drives toward a triangulated front from Millerovo to Tikhoretsk and Stalin grad, while claims of new German weapons are dismissed as propaganda. total captured reaches 63,000 with thousands killed or wounded, and vast losses accrue on both sides amid brutal winter conditions.
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Hitler declares absolute Nazi rule over France in 1942
The message notes Hitler’s order demobilizing all French forces in territory under his control and asserts France loses sovereignty as Axis forces seize Toulon. It claims much of the French fleet may have been scuttled and that Marshal Von Rundstedt will oversee actions in French lands. An administratrix notice for C. E. Holton’s estate follows.
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Lexingtonian Nominee for National Education Association Director
Miss Ethel Perkins of Lexington City School faculty is nominated for a three year term as director of the National Education Association. The Lexington unit of the North Carolina Education Association, with 100 percent NEA membership, nominates her as Dr. Elmer Hi Garinger of Charlotte steps down after two terms. Election is scheduled for March.
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Lexington City School
National Education Association
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North Carolina Education Association
Elmer Hi. Garinger
Charlotte
Miss Perkins
George Peabody College For Teachers
Toulon Fleet Scuttled as German Takeover Tightens
The Toulon fleet was scuttled by French crews to deny Germany the ships after German threats and the collapse of the armistice line. Explosions and fires followed as battleships Strasbourg Dunkerque and Provence and other vessels sank or burned. Prisoners were marched away by German lorries while Toulon limited night movements as the city mourned the loss of its naval force.
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Fights Last Night In Philadelphia and New Jersey
Report of boxing results from Philadelphia and nearby towns. Vicky Harkins knocked out Kid Robinson in Germantown, with other bouts listing Freddie Yela-Vich and Harry Didneck in Rochelle Park and Brooklyn. Competition framed as a sequence of decisive knockouts and points.
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Allied forces press toward Tunis as Africa campaign advances
Allied forces push northeast toward the Bizerte Tunis axis front as Mejez El Bab falls and lines tighten near Tunis. Reports from London and Rabat note 20,000 German troops in northern Tunisia with thousands more moving from Sicily and Libya to shore up defenses against British French and American units. Allied air power claims several enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground and in the air, while Axis forces report their own successes amid weather and long-range activity.
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Weather Update For Carolinas And Georgia Tonight
Colder conditions prevail across North Carolina and South Carolina with near freezing air reaching the coast tonight. Georgia sees slightly colder temperatures with the potential for heavy icing and below freezing temperatures overnight.
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Kiwanis Luncheon Featured Dr Humphreys Speaker
Dr G T Humphreys president of High Point College spoke at a Kiwanis luncheon at the Elwood Hotel on Thanksgiving and war aims. He urged self survey of life and nation and lamented unpreparedness for war while noting the human cost. Miss Dot Lewis offered accordion selections and the program was led by Joe G Doggett. An Empty Stocking Fund was launched for underprivileged children. Also noted were Allied transport losses off French North Africa and Morocco pilots being equipped with United States pursuit planes at Casablanca.
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