Americans Press Advance On Guadalcanal Front
J Norman Jesus Guadalonnal dispatch reports U S land forces delaying return to Kokumbana village and Poh river mouth while Marines push toward Point Cruz. Army units aided by Marine intel close on entrenched Japanese positions amid jungle terrain and heavy shelling with minimal American casualties to date.
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J. Norman Jesus Guadalonnal
Solomon Islands
Dapaticse Naval Wiask
United States
Kokurmbana
Poh River
Cwol
Otis Whitney
Concord
Mass
Pointeb
Point Cruz
Matanilau
Nence
Army A
Whitney
Americas
Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor
Arthur Flays Sulzberger notes in Ottawa on November 23 that an international police force is needed and national sovereignty must yield to global unity He cites past mistakes and urges stronger world cooperation to prevent another war as Americans give thanks in 1942.
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Arthur Flays Sulzberger
The
New York Times
Ottawa
Canada
Beth
Penne
Agin
Berlin
Europe
Allied
America
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Wilson
Loward
AAA Leans Toward Regimentation in Farm Program
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation condemns administration by administrative order and urges farmer control of the AAA program. Resolution calls for reduced administrative costs, unpaid community committees, streamlined forms, and removal procedures. R. E. Short reelected president. Charles R. Coleman named VP. delegates to national convention named.
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Little Rock
AAA
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Bureau
Jess
Department of Agriculture
CAAA
R. E. Short
Brinkley
Joe Hardin
Gordy
Charles R. Coleman
Osceola
J. H. Snapp
Fitzhugh
Hardin
Jones
Madison
WPA
Thanksgiving Union Service at First Pentecostal Church
The annual Union Thanksgiving Service will be held at the First Pentecostal Church at Fourth and Ferguson streets at 9 30 a m. The Rev W B Graves pastor announced The Rev Millard W Badgett pastor of the First Christian Church will deliver the sermon Local pastors will take part on the program including several musical selections.
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Union
First Pentecostal Church
Fourth and
Ferguson Streets
J G Barber Dies Suddenly at 58
J G Barber 58, an employee of the Frisco Railroad for many years, died in his sleep Tuesday night apparently from a heart attack. Funeral plans are incomplete but likely here tomorrow. He is survived by his widow two sons Sydney of Pine Bluff Johnny Barber of Fort Knox and a daughter Mrs War Fisher of Texas.
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A. G. Barber
Frisco
Sydney
Pine Bluff
Johnny Barber
Fi. Knox
Warl Fisher
Texas
Clinton Taylor Promoted to Corporal at Hunters Field
Clinton Taylor son of Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor and former employee has been promoted to corporal. He serves as crew chief of a ground crew of A Engineers at Hunters Field Georgia. Records show more people borrow books on Mondays than any other day.
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Clttlan Taylor
Mary Ann Taylor
Empoyee
Cpl Taylor
Hunters Field
Georgia
Thanksgiving to Be Observed by Star
The Star will observe Thanksgiving as a holiday with no publication and closed offices all day. Publication resumes Friday. The paper suspends three holidays annually: Fourth of July Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Epicr
The
Star
Americans to work through Thanksgiving amid war production
Washington report notes many Americans will work on Thanksgiving to keep war production running while families plan a festive meal later in the day. Grocery demand is at record levels with rationing and shortages in meat poultry milk eggs and some vegetables. Coffee sales are forbidden as officials freeze stocks ahead of next week’s rationing.
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Ovid
A. Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Natal
Gas Rationing Protested But Order Stands
Washington Nevada reports protests against nationwide gasoline rationing while officials assert the program remains. President Truman and lawmakers weigh the need, with officials preparing to brief Friday on the rationing case. Temporary gasoline allocations will be granted to essential transport operators upon correcting errors in filings.
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Washington
Nev
William M. Jeffers
Johnson
Oklat
Anderson
D-N.m
Jeffers
Touse
Privilly
Jeters
Truman
Harald L. Ickes
Defense ‘Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
Oklahoma
Maine
Little Rock
Efferg
Office of Defense Transportation Headquarters
ODT
Hitler Increases Airpower in Tunisia Indicating Axis Foothold
Axis air attacks in North Africa, cited by authorities, show Hitler boosting air power to hold Tunisia and defend the Mediterranean shore. Allied forces clash across Tunisia as long-range P 38 fighters seek targets, with Rommel’s forces potentially massing near El Agheila.
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Hitler
Tunisia
Axis
Bloody Struggle for Buna Gona Reaches Climax
General MacArthur reports brutal close quarter fighting on the Buna Gona beach head in northeastern New Guinea as American and Australian troops close in. Heavy bombardment and air attacks pound the area from Buna to Gona, with 100 Japanese reported dead at Buna and more wreckage along the beach.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Buna - Gona
Bormbers
Buna
Gona
Butte
Sananada
Wis
All Persons Must Have No 1 Rationing Book
Washington announces War Ration Book No 1 required for coffee and sugar purchases. December 1 deadline to apply. Book 1 needed for future Book 2 universal ration. OPA warns close scrutiny to prevent multiple copies and fraud. Gasoline rationing write-in rule adds license data. plan for nationwide December 1 rollout. Page Two continues.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
East
House
Flashes of Life and Odd News From Niagara Falls N Y
Several items from the era report stray stamped and unstamped envelopes found in a Falls Street mailbox with a postmaster unsure of donor intent. A boxing instructor Williams was treated after a nose bleed. a soldier attempted snowshoeing to his camp. Santa Claus arrives early in Springfield with 18,000 electric customers receiving $100,001 in dividends in war savings stamps and bonds.
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Associated Press
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Falls Street
Thomas J Gray
Early
Springfield
Santa Claus
Municipal Light and Power Company
Aussies Lose 619 in Push Against Rommel
Canberra diary reports Army Minister Francis M. Forde announcing 619 Australians killed, wounded or missing in the British Eighth Army drive toward Egypt. An additional 1806 Australians were wounded in the offensive against the Axis forces.
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Rommel
Canberra
Australia
y—Army
Francis M. Forde
Eighth Army
Egypt
Eden Says North Africa Battle Is In Critical Phase
London reports Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons the North Africa fight is in an extremely critical phase. He declined to discuss arrangements with General Eisenhower and local French authorities, noting it would be time to review measures after victory. Eden defended pause on De Gaulle broadcast and praised Allied forces as the first British army advances eastward with strong US support.
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Associated Press
London
North
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
North Africa
Anthony Eden
House Oil Commons
Tunis
Bizerte
Britain
Eighth Army
Libya
Vichy
Gubes
Sfax
Tunisia
Afrhe
Hitler
Russia
Algiers
John Jarvie
Stalingrad
Eden
Luneisin
Critleau
Sardinia
Sicily
Asis
Algeria
Bone
Phillippeville
Merghantmaal
Anuther
Algies
United States
House of Commons
Dwight
D. Hisen
Spoksmen
North Afria
Eisenhower
Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Stafford Cipps
Unitedstates
de Gaulle
Sweetheart of Toni Jo Caught at Beaumont
State police said Beaumont officers captured Claude Cowboy Henry, a convicted slayer who escaped from a Texas prison farm Monday. His wife Annie Beatrice Henry faces execution in Louisiana Saturday for killing J P Calloway of Houston after a robbery with Horace Finon Burks. Louisiana officers had warned of a possible attempt by Henry to reach his wife. Beaumont officers detained Henry at 7 15 a m in a hotel bed and he surrendered without resistance. Henry told them You fellows seem mighty nervous I am not going to cause you any trouble. Mrs Henry confessed firing the shots that killed Calloway after she and Burks robbed him. A clemency plea for Burks, also under death sentence, is being prepared. The Dieppe raid reference is noted.
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Austin
Tex
Beaumont
Claude
Cowboy
Henry
George White
J.P. Calloway
Houston
Horace Finon Burks
Burks
100000 Nazis Killed Captured Near Stalingrad
Moscow Nov 25 A Russian counter offensive around Stalingrad pushed the German escape corridor to within about 30 miles. Soviet dispatches said 100000 Nazis killed or captured as the Don Bend area and Kalach fell, with heavy German losses and continued pressure along the Volga. The front line indicated further Nazi retreats and intensified fighting as the siege tightened.
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Eddy
Gilmore
Moscow
Coridor
Stalingrad
Volga
Garison
Don Bendye
Stalingrad - Dond Hen
Communiailc
Don
Ellhostovskaya
Kalach
Ingrad - Kamensk
Skaya
Chernyshevskaya
Don Bend
Magin Moscow-to
Rostov
Kotelnovski
Kotelnikoyski
Kalmyck
Tekhostroys
Hind
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Russia
Gro. Stlingrad
Rzhe
Mascow
Berlin
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Clinton Taylor
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Kalac
Ariver
Salik
Toavsay Kotmhovkoski
Astrakhat
Gpozny
Caucasus
Taflis
Turkey
Inea Telemap
Nalchik
Africa
Tripoli
Gabes
Tunstia
Gasea
el Agheila
Agedabia
Bewir
Hettleneck
el Aeheila
Continu
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A. D. Trotter
Williams
Ala
Troter
Toni Jo
Dieppe
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