Battle lines shift as Stalingrad clash nears peak
The article portrays a tense moment in the Stalingrad struggle with Field Marshal von Bock advancing a million-strong German force toward the city and Red Army resistance stiffening. It also notes Soviet counterattacks at Novorossiysk and Churchill's cautious briefing in Parliament about potential winter frontline shifts and Allied strategic aims in the Caucasus and Middle East.
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Moscow
von Bock
Hitler
Reds
Novorossisk
Fkto
Bolshevists
Asus
W. Averell Harriman
Roosevelt
Bhill
York
Othsayer
Stalingrad
Novyorossistk
Cnavus
Churchill
Rport
House of Commons
Lesday
Persia
Chill
Middle East
Assians
Lathern
Caucasus
Ginner Price Rules For 1942 Base Period Regulations
The article explains ginners must pick one pricing method for all transactions and establishes base period max prices. It details per hundredweight rates for ginning, bagging and ties, seed cotton charges, and the need to file with the OPA in Dallas by November 19. It notes relief rules for price wars and required information in the filing.
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Pinnet
Eseason
OPA Reg
Dallas
New Synthetic Rubber Figure Promises Million Ton Year by 1944
Buffalo reports figures from Dr. Albert L. Elder showing butadiene production near a million tons annually by end of 1944. Experts note a possible slight shrinkage loss when combined with styrene, but expect no impact on the overall output. The rapid manufacturing time and expansion of other synthetic rubber types are highlighted as pivotal to meeting wartime needs, though civilian tire supply remains uncertain.
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Buffalo
American Chemical Society
Albert L. Elder
War Production Board
United States
America
China Believes Japs Await Stalingrad Fate
A Chinese commentator said Japan’s next move may hinge on Stalingrad’s outcome. He warned Berlin’s fate could push Japan toward Siberia or restraint, with Burma divisions more likely to target China than India. A Hupeh clash was reported, with Japanese forces repelled near the Yangtze toward Kuanyingchow.
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Chungking
Japan
Russia
Stalingrad
Siberia
Burma
China
India
Hupeh
Yangtze River
Kuanyingchow
Metal stripped for scrap at MacArthur park in Little Rock
Little Rock soldiers removed Civil and Spanish American War cannon Howitzers and mortars from MacArthur park for a scrap metal drive. The Howitzer near the old arsenal building, birthplace of Gen Douglas MacArthur, was taken from its pedestal and hauled away.
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Little Rock
MacArthur Park
Douglas MacArthur
Camp Robinson
Arsenal
MacArthur
Restriction on Continued from Page One
Restriction on produce 30,000 tons of bunas to be placed near the center of grain production and construction to be started six months hence. Erection immediately of plants to produce 100,000,000 gallons of alcohol yearly by use of recently developed apparatus near grain producing areas and water transportation available.
Soviet Alpine Troops Trap German Force in Valley
Cold rains shift front lines as two Soviet Alpine companies trap a German force in a valley and mow them down. Soviet aircraft keep pressure on eastern Germany and Budapest while RAF reports a convoy strike off the Dutch coast. British mobile columns clash with Axis tanks near El Alamein as both desert armies rest from heavy fighting.
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Terek
Grozny
Red Star
Europe
Germany
Budapest
Reuters
Stocksholm
Berlin
RAF
British
Air Ministry
G.H.Q
el Alamein
Alexandria
Regulation Applies to All Ginning Operators
The text notes that any person, corporation, partnership or association including farms or cooperatives operating a ginning establishment and every handler is subject to provisions of the regulation.
Market Report St Louis Livestock and New York Stocks
Market notes from St Louis show hogs mostly 25 lower with 180 to 240 lb at 14.30 to 14.40, sow prices down, cattle trading uneven with steers 13.75 to 15.00 and cows up to 31.00. sheep limited. New York stocks drift lower amid profit taking and tax hints as analysts watch inflation and revenue policy.
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ST. Louis
U. S
New York
Wall Street
Baruch Rubber Committee
Chicago
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
New Orleans
Mch
Navy Flier Describes Japanese Bravery in Pacific Skirmish
Lieut. John Paul Adams of White Cloud Kansas recounts a Tulagi clash where a single American flier in his squadron fought three Japanese seaplanes. Leonard and an allied pilot each shot down one enemy plane. a third enemy pilot fled by water as Adams and others claimed a destroyer with strafing and fuel-fire. Adams, back from South Pacific duty, noted his squadron totals 34 Lap planes and cited engagements across the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Salamaua Lae Tulagi Midway and the Coral Sea.
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Los Angeles
John Paul Adams
White Cloud
Kas
Adams
Bill Leonard
Atlle
Tulagi
Solomons
Leonard
Pontawon
White Ag
South Pacific
NBC
Gilbert and Marshall Islands
Salamaua
Lae
Midway Island
Coral Sea
Ed Bassett
Scarsdale
Doc” McCuskey
Arkansas
Minor Clashes in Battle for Egypt
Cairo reports limited fighting as British columns and artillery engage small Axis tanks in the southern Egyptian desert west of El Himeimat. Patrols and artillery exchanges occur in the north and center while air activity remains reduced. British light bombers hit the Sidi Barrani Matruh road and long range fighters claim several Axis aircraft downed.
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Cairo
el ‘Himeimat
Pene
Sidi Barrani-Matruh
Mediterranean
Malta
Sicily
Churchill Presses India Policy Amid Cripps Plan Backdrop
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons the Cripps mission principles reflect Britain’s settled policy for India. He said Gandhi and Congress do not represent all India, urged measures to protect lives, and noted large reinforcements and white troops in India as Japanese danger looms. He cited fewer than 500 deaths since unrest began.
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India
House of Commons
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Congress Party
Cripps
Mohandas Gandhi
Churchill
All- India Congress
L. S. Amery
Commons
Gandhi
Congress
Willkie Tours Ankara Meets Turkish Leaders For Peace Talk
Wendell L. Willkie, flanked by an honorary police guard, laid a wreath on Kamal Ataturk’s tomb in Ankara and met Turkish leaders including Foreign Minister Numan Menemenioglu. He described U.S. and Turkey ties as high and discussed Allied postwar plans and Turkey’s role with Russia. A Berlin dispatch says Premier Sukru Saracoglu met Willkie in Istanbul after his return from east Anatolia.
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Ankara
Turkey
Wendell L. Willkie
Kamal Ataturk
Willkie
U.S
Laurence A. Stelhardt
Wilkie
Numan Menemenioglu
United States
Russia
Menementoglu
Berlin
DNB
Istanbul
Sukru Saracoglu
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Saracoghi
Anatolia
China Loses 6 Million in Five Years of War
London reports Chinese information ministry director Dr. George ch estimates China has suffered about 6,000,000 killed or wounded in five years of war with Japan, while Chinese army strength stands near 18,000,000. He notes a 20 percent larger harvest since 1941 avoided a food shortage and cites 5,580 engagements fought up to last June.
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London
China
Japan
George ¥Ch
Chinese Information Ministry
Shostakovich Seventh Symphony Brought by Microfilm Flight
The Seventh Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich was reduced to 231 pages and sent on microfilm from Kuibyshev to Tehran Cairo and New York for its first Western Hemisphere performance, broadcast by NBC Symphony Orchestra July 18 under Arturo Toscanini. The score’s length and wartime routes illustrate wartime logistics and a major cultural broadcast.
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ILM
New York
Dmitri Shostakovich
Kuibyshev
Russia
Teheran
Iran
Cairo
NBC Sympany Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
Shostakovich
Flere
Leningrad
Churchill attacks political organization backed by interests
He described it as a political organization built around a party machine and sustained by manufacturing and financial interests. He noted communications from Indian forces defending Bengal and the Assam frontier had been especially attacked.
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Churchill
Bengal
Assam
Tremors Reported Across Hays and Plainville
Earth tremors woke residents in Hays and Plainville after 4 am on September 10. Fearth Stockton and Plainville experienced severe shaking, with reports of others disturbed by the tremors. Nearby Hiwassee Dam is noted as the highest overflow dam in the eastern United States near Murphy, South Carolina.
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Hays
Kas
Stockton
Plainville
Hiwassee Dam
United States
Murphy
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