Warold Black's Team Wins Bee Contest at Club Meeting
The regular High Point Exchange Club meeting at the Sheraton Hotel featured a spelling bee. Team A led by Harold Black defeated team B led by Cecil Willcox for a prize from Brownie Wagner. Pvt. Dick King, a former member now at Camp Wheeler, attended as a guest. Frank Lee won the attendance prize and the club voted to back the High Point Nursery Schools.
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High Point Exchange Club
Sheraton Hotel
Bill Robinette
Brownie Wagner
Harold Black
Cecil Willcox
Dick King
High Point I Exchange Club
Camp Wheeler
Frank Lee
High Point Nursery Schools
Weather summary for Southeastern states and cities
Rain and drizzle or light rain in the western portion this afternoon and tonight with little temperature change in North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. Official weather records show Charlotte 57 12 with 2.7 inches rainfall in 24 hours ending 7 30 a m. Other readings include Birmingham 75 39 Charlotte 57 12 Atlanta 65 56 Memphis 81 54 New Orleans 83 66 Tampa 84 63 and more for several cities.
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R'fall
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Richmond
Savannah TV
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Wilmington
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Call for Allied Second Front in Western Europe
A wartime column argues that opening a western Allied front could divert about 50 German divisions from the eastern front, hastening the war. The writer states such a move is for information, urges civilian patience, and reiterates confidence in Allied high command to decide front placements, promising second fronts when feasible.
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Caucasus
Hitler
Europe
Allied forces press late 1942 Pacific raids and island clashes
United States forces report continued offensives across Guadalcanal and the Aleutians with Marine and Army air support countering Japanese reinforcements. Bombers strike Raoul and Buka bases as Australian and New Guinea action advances. Several enemy aircraft and ships are damaged while American losses remain modest.
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Burlington Plant Job Examinations Continue Thursday
The local civil service office will remain open in room 212 C at the post office building this Thursday for Burlington Plane plant applicants. Skilled cabinet makers, lay out workers, and machinists are sought, with potential earnings up to $2600 yearly plus overtime. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Panamanian Ship Sunk by Submarines Sees 33 Dead or Missing
Report of August sinking of a Panamanian vessel lists 33 casualties among 71 crew with 9 dead from an American ship. Survivors spent days at sea before rescue. one crewman shared a life belt sacrifice. An unidentified AP tally notes 489 western Atlantic losses since U.S. entry into the War.
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Caribbean
Navy
Associated Press
America
RAF raids hit Kiel amid Baltic theater air blitz
RAF losses reached ten planes as night raids targeted Kiel and Hamburg linked by water via the Wiel Canal. Beaufighters downed two Junkers 88s and a flying boat over the Bay of Biscay with no losses. Coastal command and Army cooperation planes attacked northern France. Proceedings included Royal Canadian Air Force bombers and a French unit. The Berlin radio minimized the attack as terror raids.
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Germany
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Stimson backs 12 months training for young inductees
Stimson urged that men drafted at 18 and 19 receive 12 months of training before combat. He allowed school deferments during academic years but opposed blanket deferment for all college students. He warned 1943 air force targets and projected ground forces totals, with hearings set to speed draft age changes.
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New Warplanes Under Test For Superior Capabilities
Production seeks new and improved fighters bombers and support aircraft to outpace current service models. Over twenty airframes, including heavy and medium bombers dive bombers patrol planes and scout planes, undergo tests to fly higher travel faster spray heavier loads and deliver greater destruction.
Struggles at Stalin Grad in siege as winter nears
Soviet forces recaptured positions in the northwestern quarter of the city amid heavy artillery and mortar duels. In the Mozdok region, Red Army troops repelled a German assault with tanks and planes aiding two infantry battalions, killing about 300 Germans and seizing supplies. A separate action north of Moscow saw Red Army forces repulse Nazi attacks with about 400 German casualties and large booty reported.
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Axis tensions widen as Rome allows Taylors plane landing
The report notes that Italian permission for Myron C Taylor to land in Rome while Roosevelt's envoy heads to Vatican conferences deepens tensions. It cites Biddle's Oct 19 policy change easing enemy alien restrictions on Italians in the United States and mentions broader Axis maneuvering in Yugoslavia and Croatia.
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Erwin Mack
London
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Mediterranean
Two Thirds of Italy Merchant Ships Disabled
New York report details wartime losses of Italy's merchant fleet through 1941. About two thirds of prewar tonnage, 3.5 million tons, were knocked out via destruction, damage, or seizure. British and Allied actions, fuel shortages, and seizures by the United States reduced Italian shipping, with 27 ships seized in 1941 and others in 1940. Known losses totaled multiple categories including scuttling, mining, bombing, surface-ship attacks, and submarine sinks.
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Jaycee Selectee Party Set for Tomorrow Night
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will host a party for newly inducted selectees Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Junior High School Edgar Snider Jaycees president announced. State American Legion commander Henry Ingram of Asheboro will be the principal speaker. all selectees home on two weeks furlough are invited.
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Edgar Snider
The
Jaycees
Henry Ingram
Asheboro
American Legion
Divorce Suit Filed in Guilford County Court
John H. Nicholson of High Point sues Mabel Gertruda Nicholson for divorce on grounds of two years separation in Guilford County Superior Court. They married June 9, 1918 and signed a separation agreement on September 1, 1942.
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the Enterprise
Greensboro
Guilford County Superior Court
John H. Nicholson
Mabel Gertruda Nicholson
High Point
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